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A search for axions at a power reactor
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A search has been conducted for the axion at the Bugey reactor which is owned and operated by Electricite de France. The axion production should be proportional to the magnetic transition of np capture, and be detectable by its decay into 2 #betta# rays. No signal was observed in this measurement. Also no axion signal was seen from a single proton magnetic transition of 97Nb. Using those two results, the axion can be excluded with a mass up to 1 MeV in the Peccei-Quinn formalism
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 13 p.
- Report number
- LAPP-EXP--82-05
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 14774641
- Subject category
- S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; BUGEY-1 REACTOR; CAPTURE; COUPLING CONSTANTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GAMMA RADIATION; M4-TRANSITIONS; NAI DETECTORS; NEUTRON REACTIONS; NIOBIUM 97; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PROTONS
- Descriptors DEC
- BARYON REACTIONS; BARYONS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BOSONS; CATIONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; DATA; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FERMIONS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GCR TYPE REACTORS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; HADRON REACTIONS; HADRONS; HYDROGEN IONS; HYDROGEN IONS 1 PLUS; INFORMATION; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IONS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; MULTIPOLE TRANSITIONS; NATURAL URANIUM REACTORS; NIOBIUM ISOTOPES; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; NUCLEON REACTIONS; NUCLEONS; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; POSTULATED PARTICLES; POWER REACTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; RADIOISOTOPES; REACTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; THERMAL REACTORS
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- ISN--82-46.