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The CERN axion solar telescope (CAST): status and prospects

The CAST experiment is being mounted at CERN. It will make use of a decommissioned LHC test magnet to look for solar axions through its conversion into photons inside the magnetic field. The magnet has a field of 9.6 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it ±8°...

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Published in:Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement Proceedings supplement, 2003-02, Vol.114, p.75-80
Main Authors: Irastorza, I.G., Andriamonje, S., Arik, E., Autiero, D., Avignone, F., Barth, K., Brauninger, H., Brodzinski, R., Carmona, J., Cebrian, S., Cetin, S., Collar, J., Creswick, R., De Oliveira, R., Delbart, A., Di Lella, L., Eleftheriadis, C., Fanourskis, G., Farach, H., Fischer, H., Formenti, F., Geralis, T., Giomataris, I., Gninenko, S., Goloubev, N., Hartmann, R., Hasinoff, M., Hoffmann, D., Jacoby, J., Kang, D., Konigsmann, K., Kotthaus, R., Krcmar, M., Kuster, M., Lakic, B., Liolios, A., Ljubicic, A., Lutz, G., Luzon, G., Miley, H., Morales, A., Morales, J., Mutterer, M., Nikolaidis, A., Ortiz, A., Papaevangelou, T., Placci, A., Raffelt, G., Riege, H., Sarsa, M., Savvidis, I., Spano, C., Villar, J., Vullierme, B., Walckiers, L., Zachariadou, K., Zioutas, K.
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Summary:The CAST experiment is being mounted at CERN. It will make use of a decommissioned LHC test magnet to look for solar axions through its conversion into photons inside the magnetic field. The magnet has a field of 9.6 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it ±8° vertically and ±40° horizontally. According to these numbers we expect a sensitivity in axion-photon coupling g αγγ ⪅ 5 × 10 −11 GeV −1 for m a ⪅ 0.02 eV, and with a gas filled tube g aγγ ⪅ 10 −10
ISSN:0920-5632
1873-3832
DOI:10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01894-7