The next generation of axion helioscopes: The international axion observatory (IAXO)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- CEA Irfu, Centre de Saclay, Gif-sur-yvette (France)
- Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (United States)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneve (Switzerland)
- eIPHT, Centre d’E´tudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Sezione di Trieste and Univ. di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
- Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Dogus Univ., Istanbul (Turkey)
- Univ. of Haifa, Haifa (Israel)
- Technical Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby (Denmark)
- St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Physikalisches Institut der Univ. Bonn, Bonn (Germany)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
- Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki (Greece)
- National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens (Greece)
- Univ. de Valencia, Valencia (Spain)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation)
- Ben Gurion Univ. Beer Sheva (Israel)
- Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
- Kyoto Univ. (Japan)
- Technische Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt (Germany)
- Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany)
- Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, Bellaterra (Spain)
- Univ. Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
- Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb (Croatia)
- Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
- Univ. of Rijeka (Croatia)
- CEA Irfu, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
- Kyoto Univ., Kyoto (Japan)
- Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munich (Germany)
- Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Tokyo (Japan)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
- Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spain)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Univ. of Patras, Patras (Greece)
The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a proposed 4th-generation axion helioscope with the primary physics research goal to search for solar axions via their Primakoff conversion into photons of 1 – 10 keV energies in a strong magnetic field. IAXO will achieve a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling gaγ down to a few ×10⁻¹² GeV⁻¹ for a wide range of axion masses up to ~ 0.25 eV. This is an improvement over the currently best (3rd generation) axion helioscope, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST), of about 5 orders of magnitude in signal strength, corresponding to a factor ~ 20 in the axion photon coupling. IAXO’s sensitivity relies on the construction of a large superconducting 8-coil toroidal magnet of 20 m length optimized for axion research. Each of the eight 60 cm diameter magnet bores is equipped with x-ray optics focusing the signal photons into ~ 0.2 cm² spots that are imaged by very low background x-ray detectors. The magnet will be built into a structure with elevation and azimuth drives that will allow solar tracking for 12 hours each day. This contribution is a summary of our papers [1, 2, 3] and we refer to these for further details.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344
- OSTI ID:
- 1196904
- Journal Information:
- Physics Procedia, Vol. 61, Issue C; ISSN 1875-3892
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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