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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 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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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 |
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ISSN: | 0920-5632 1873-3832 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01894-7 |