Future axion searches with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
Creators
- 1. Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Altas Energías, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
- 2. Physics Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
- 3. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Trieste and Università di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
- 4. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Genève (Switzerland)
- 5. Dogus University, Istanbul (Turkey)
- 6. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space Kgs. Lyngby (Denmark)
- 7. IRFU, Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- 8. St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St.Petersburg (Russian Federation)
- 9. Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn (Germany)
- 10. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
- 11. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greece)
- 12. National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens (Greece)
Description
The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of gaγ ∼> few × 10−12 GeV−1, i.e. 1–1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one achieved by CAST, currently the most sensitive axion helioscope. The main elements of IAXO are an increased magnetic field volume together with extensive use of x-ray focusing optics and low background detectors, innovations already successfully tested in CAST. Additional physics cases of IAXO could include the detection of electron-coupled axions invoked to explain the white dwarf cooling, relic axions, and a large variety of more generic axion-like particles (ALPs) and other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/460/1/012002Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 460
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [5 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-6596
Conference
- Title
- 6. symposium on large TPCs for low energy rare event detection
- Dates
- 17-19 Dec 2012
- Place
- Paris (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46002100
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- AXIONS; COUPLING; ELECTRONS; EXCITATION; GEV RANGE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY; WHITE DWARF STARS; X-RAY DETECTION
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; DETECTION; DWARF STARS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FERMIONS; GOLDSTONE BOSONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATION DETECTION; STARS