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Report number	hep-ph/9708210
Title	Theory for the Direct Detection of Solar Axions by Coherent Primakoff Conversion in Germanium Detectors
Author(s)	Creswick, R.J. (South Carolina U.) ; Avignone, F.T., III (South Carolina U.) ; Farach, H.A. (South Carolina U.) ; Collar, J.I. (CERN) ; Gattone, A.O. (CNEA, Buenos Aires) ; Nussinov, S. (Tel Aviv U.) ; Zioutas, K. (Thessaloniki U.)
Publication	1998
Number of pages	8 p, 8
Note	gzipped postscript file from Microsoft Word, 8 pages. Figures can be obtained by fax from [email protected]. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
In:	Phys. Lett. B 427 (1998) 235-240
DOI	10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00183-X
Subject category	Particle Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract	It is assumed that axions exist and are created in the Sun by Primakoff conversion of photons in the Coulomb fields of nuclei. Detection rates are calculated in germanium detectors due to the coherent conversion of axions to photons in the lattice when the incident angle fulfills the Bragg condition for a given crystalline plane. The rates are correlated with the relative positions of the Sun and detector, yielding a characteristic recognizable sub-diurnal temporal pattern. A major experiment is proposed based on a large detector array.
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