CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling

Barth, K.; Davenport, M.; Lella, L. Di; Belov, A.; Beltran, B.; Carmona, J. M.; Dafni, T.; Galan, J.; García, J. A.; Braeuninger, H.; Englhauser, J.; Friedrich, P.; Collar, J. I.; Eleftheriadis, C.; Fanourakis, G.; Geralis, T.; Ferrer-Ribas, E.; Giomataris, I.; Fischer, H.; others, and

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/010

Title: CAST constraints on the axion-electron coupling

Journal Article · Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/010· OSTI ID:22282862

Barth, K.; Davenport, M.; Lella, L. Di ^[1]; Belov, A. ^[2]; Beltran, B.; Carmona, J. M.; Dafni, T.; Galan, J.; García, J. A. ^[3]; Braeuninger, H.; Englhauser, J.; Friedrich, P. ^[4]; Collar, J. I. ^[5]; Eleftheriadis, C. ^[6]; Fanourakis, G.; Geralis, T. ^[7]; Ferrer-Ribas, E.; Giomataris, I. ^[8]; Fischer, H.; others, and

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneve (Switzerland)
Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Laboratorio de Fisica Nuclear y Altas Energias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
Enrico Fermi Institute and KICP, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki (Greece)
National Center for Scientific Research ''Demokritos'', Athens (Greece)
IRFU, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)

In non-hadronic axion models, which have a tree-level axion-electron interaction, the Sun produces a strong axion flux by bremsstrahlung, Compton scattering, and axio-recombination, the ''BCA processes.'' Based on a new calculation of this flux, including for the first time axio-recombination, we derive limits on the axion-electron Yukawa coupling g{sub ae} and axion-photon interaction strength g{sub aγ} using the CAST phase-I data (vacuum phase). For m{sub a}∼<10 meV/c{sup 2} we find g{sub aγ} g{sub ae} < 8.1 × 10{sup −23} GeV{sup −1} at 95% CL. We stress that a next-generation axion helioscope such as the proposed IAXO could push this sensitivity into a range beyond stellar energy-loss limits and test the hypothesis that white-dwarf cooling is dominated by axion emission.

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Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 05; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516

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