Axion searches with the EDELWEISS-II experiment

Journal Article · Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/067· OSTI ID:22369892

Armengaud, E.; Boissière, T. de ^[1]; Arnaud, Q.; Augier, C.; Benoit, A.; Cazes, A.; Censier, B.; Charlieux, F.; Jesus, M. De ^[2]; Benoit, A.; Camus, P. ^[3]; Bergé, L.; Broniatowski, A.; Chapellier, M.; Couëdo, F. ^[4]; Bergmann, T. ^[5]; Blümer, J.; Cox, G. A. ^[6]; Brudanin, V. ^[7]; others, and

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1. CEA, Centre d'Etudes Saclay, IRFU, 91191 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex (France)
2. IPNL, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, 4 rue E. Fermi 69622 Villeurbanne cedex (France)
3. CNRS-Néel, 25 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble cedex 9 (France)
4. CSNSM, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3-CNRS, bat 108, 91405 Orsay (France)
5. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
6. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, 76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
7. Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, JINR, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980 Dubna, Moscow region (Russian Federation)

We present new constraints on the couplings of axions and more generic axion-like particles using data from the EDELWEISS-II experiment. The EDELWEISS experiment, located at the Underground Laboratory of Modane, primarily aims at the direct detection of WIMPs using germanium bolometers. It is also sensitive to the low-energy electron recoils that would be induced by solar or dark matter axions. Using a total exposure of up to 448 kg.d, we searched for axion-induced electron recoils down to 2.5 keV within four scenarios involving different hypotheses on the origin and couplings of axions. We set a 95 % CL limit on the coupling to photons g{sub Aγ} < 2.15 × 10{sup −9} GeV{sup −1} in a mass range not fully covered by axion helioscopes. We also constrain the coupling to electrons, g{sub Ae} < 2.59 × 10{sup −11}, similar to the more indirect solar neutrino bound. Finally we place a limit on g{sub Ae} × g{sub AN}{sup eff} < 4.82 × 10{sup −17}, where g{sub AN}{sup eff} is the effective axion-nucleon coupling for {sup 57}Fe. Combining these results we fully exclude the mass range 0.92 eV < m{sub A} < 80 keV for DFSZ axions and 5.78 eV < m{sub A} < 40 keV for KSVZ axions.

• OSTI ID: 22369892
• Journal Information: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 11; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
AXIONS
ELECTRONS
EV RANGE
IRON 57
KEV RANGE 01-10
MASS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
NUCLEONS
PHOTONS
RADIATION DETECTION
SOLAR NEUTRINOS
UNDERGROUND
WIMPS