A Decommissioned LHC Model Magnet as an Axion Telescope

Details A Decommissioned LHC Model Magnet as an Axion Telescope A Decommissioned LHC Model Magnet as an Axion Telescope

1998-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801176v2

Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A425 (1999) 480-489

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Final version, accepted for publication in Nucl. Instr. Meth. A. More information can be found at http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/~coll

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0168-9002(98)01442-9

The 8.4 Tesla, 10 m long transverse magnetic field of a twin aperture LHC bending magnet can be utilized as a macroscopic coherent solar axion-to-photon converter. Numerical calculations show that the integrated time of alignment with the Sun would be 33 days per year with the magnet on a tracking table capable of $\pm 5^o$ in the vertical direction and $\pm 40^o$ in the horizontal direction. The existing lower bound on the axion-to-photon coupling constant can be improved by a factor between 50 and 100 in 3 years, i.e., $g_{a\gamma\gamma} \lesssim 9\cdot 10^{-11} GeV^{-1}$ for axion masses $\lesssim$ 1 eV. This value falls within the existing open axion mass window. The same set-up can simultaneously search for low- and high-energy celestial axions, or axion-like particles, scanning the sky as the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun.

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