First results from the CAST experiment

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006jphcs..39..117d&link_type=abstract

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 39, Issue 1, pp. 117-119 (2006).

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The CAST Experiment commenced its first phase of solar axion-searching in 2003, and ran successfully for two years. In the transverse field of a decommissioned Large Hadron Collider (LHC) test magnet (9.26m, 9T), the CERN Axion Solar Telescope intends to transform axions -that would be produced in the sun- into X-rays with energies of a few keV. The first results from the analysis of the data taken in 2003 show no signature of axions, implying an upper limit to the axion-photon coupling gaγ <= 1.16 × 10-10 GeV-1 at 95% C.L. for ma < 0.02 eV, already a factor 100 better than previous searches. In Phase I the twin bores of the magnet were kept in vacuum. In Phase II (due to start in November 2005) the bores of the magnet will be filled with a buffer gas, which will allow CAST to explore the region of higher axion masses.

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