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Experimental Search for Solar Axions

A. O. Gattone, D. Abriola, F. T. Avignone, R. L. Brodzinski, J. I. Collar, R. J. Creswick, D. E. Di Gregorio, H. A. Farach, C. K. Guérard, F. Hasenbalg, H. Huck, H. S. Miley, A. Morales, J. Morales, S. Nussinov, A. Ortiz de Solórzano, J. H. Reeves, J. A. Villar, K. Zioutas

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9712308

Abstract

A new technique has been used to search for solar axions using a single crystal germanium detector. It exploits the coherent conversion of axions into photons when their angle of incidence satisfies a Bragg condition with a crystalline plane. The analysis of approximately 1.94 kg.yr of data from the 1-kg DEMOS detector in Sierra Grande, Argentina, yields a new laboratory bound on axion-photon coupling of ga,γγ<2.7× 10-9 GeV-1 independent of axion mass up to 1 keV.

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