Search for Sub-eV Mass Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with {sup 3}He Buffer Gas

Arik, M; Cetin, S A; Ezer, C; Yildiz, S C; Aune, S; Ferrer-Ribas, E; Giomataris, I; Papaevangelou, T; Barth, K; Borghi, S; Davenport, M; Elias, N; Haug, F; Laurent, J M; Niinikoski, T; Silva, P S; Stewart, L; Belov, A; Gninenko, S; Braeuninger, H

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.107.261302

Title: Search for Sub-eV Mass Solar Axions by the CERN Axion Solar Telescope with {sup 3}He Buffer Gas

Journal Article · Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2011 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.107.261302· OSTI ID:21612571

Arik, M; Cetin, S A; Ezer, C; Yildiz, S C ^[1]; Aune, S; Ferrer-Ribas, E; Giomataris, I; Papaevangelou, T ^[2]; Barth, K; Borghi, S; Davenport, M; Elias, N; Haug, F; Laurent, J M; Niinikoski, T; Silva, P S; Stewart, L ^[3]; Belov, A; Gninenko, S ^[4]; Braeuninger, H ^[5]

Dogus University, Istanbul (Turkey)
IRFU, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneve (Switzerland)
Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) has extended its search for solar axions by using {sup 3}He as a buffer gas. At T=1.8 K this allows for larger pressure settings and hence sensitivity to higher axion masses than our previous measurements with {sup 4}He. With about 1 h of data taking at each of 252 different pressure settings we have scanned the axion mass range 0.39 eV < or approx. m{sub a} < or approx. 0.64 eV. From the absence of excess x rays when the magnet was pointing to the Sun we set a typical upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g{sub a}{gamma} < or approx. 2.3x10{sup -10} GeV{sup -1} at 95% C.L., the exact value depending on the pressure setting. Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov axions are excluded at the upper end of our mass range, the first time ever for any solar axion search. In the future we will extend our search to m{sub a} < or approx. 1.15 eV, comfortably overlapping with cosmological hot dark matter bounds.

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Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 26; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.261302; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007

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