The x-ray mirror telescope and the pn-CCD detector of CAST

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Sep 2004

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Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors. Edited by Hough, James; Sanders, Gary H. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volum

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Cern Axion Solar Telescope - CAST - uses a prototype 9 Tesla LHC superconducting dipole magnet to search for a hypothetical pseudoscalar particle, the axion, which was proposed by theory in the 1980s to solve the strong CP problem and which could be a dark matter candidate. In CAST a strong magnetic field is used to convert the solar axions to detectable photons via inverse Primakoff effect. The resulting X-rays are thermally distributed in the energy range of 1-7 keV and can be observed with conventional X-ray detectors. The most sensitive detector system of CAST is a pn-CCD detector originally developed for XMM-Newton combined with a Wolter I type X-ray mirror system. The combination of a focusing X-ray optics and a state of the art pn-CCD detector which combines high quantum efficiency, good spacial and energy resolution, and low background improves the sensitivity of the CAST experiment such that for the first time the axion photon coupling constant can be probed beyond the best astrophysical constraints. In this paper we report on the performance and status of the X-ray telescope and pn-CCD detector of CAST.

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