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Axion overview and the U.S. RF cavity axion search

Conference ·
OSTI ID:572566
 [1];
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States)

The axion, a hypothetical elementary particle, originally emerged from a solution to the strong CP problem in QCD. Later, axions were recognized as good dark matter candidates. Dark matter axions have only feeble couplings to matter and radiation, so their detection offers considerable challenge. Nonetheless, a new generation of exquisitely sensitive searches is underway. One such effort, in the United States, has already achieved sensitivity to plausible halo dark matter axion to photon couplings.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
572566
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC--129345; CONF-9611224--; ON: DE98052210; BR: YN0100000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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