IAXO - The International Axion Observatory
/ Authors
J. Vogel, J. Isern, A. Liolios, S. Russenschuck, C. Hailey, K. Saikawa, S. C. Yıldız, A. Derbin, S. Gninenko, Hector Gomez
and 54 more authors
F. Christensen, K. Bibber, J. Jaeckel, J. A. Garćıa, T. Geralis, G. Raffelt, I. Savvidis, T. Dafni, I. Irastorza, M. Pivovaroff, A. Lindner, B. Gimeno, M. Kawasaki, J. Galán, J. Carmona, G. Fanourakis, M. Davenport, T. Hiramatsu, P. Védrine, H. Kate, A. Diago, K. Desch, E. Ferrer-Ribas, I. Ortega, J. Villar, A. Tomás, J. G. Garza, M. Krčmar, S. Cetin, A. Dael, G. Cantatore, K. Zioutas, T. Papaevangelou, C. Krieger, K. Jakovčić, G. Luzón, A. Dudarev, F. Avignone, S. Caspi, C. Eleftheriadis, H. Silva, F. Iguaz, L. Walckiers, I. Shilon, J. Ruz, W. Wester, T. Sekiguchi, S. Troitsky, A. Ringwald, B. Lakić, J. Kaminski, I. Giomataris, J. Redondo, D. Hoffmann
/ Abstract
, i.e. 1-1.5 orders ofmagnitude beyond sensitivities achieved by the currently most sensitive axion helioscope,the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). Crucial factors in improving the sensitivityfor IAXO are the increase of the magnetic field volume together with the extensive useof x-ray focusing optics and low background detectors, innovations already successfullytested at CAST. Electron-coupled axions invoked to explain the white dwarf cooling, relicaxions, and a large variety of more generic axion-like particles (ALPs) along with othernovel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics could provideadditional physics motivation for IAXO.
Journal: arXiv: Instrumentation and Detectors