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Report number	arXiv:1302.3273 ; FERMILAB-PUB-13-699-A
Title	IAXO - The International Axion Observatory
Related title	IAXO - The International Axion Observatory
Author(s)	Vogel, J.K. (LLNL, Livermore) ; Avignone, F.T. (U. South Carolina, Columbia) ; Cantatore, G. (INFN, Trieste) ; Carmona, J.M. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Caspi, S. (LBL, Berkeley) ; Cetin, S.A. (Dogus U., Kadikoy) ; Christensen, F.E. (Denmark, Tech. U.) ; Dael, A. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Dafni, T. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Davenport, M. (CERN) ; Derbin, A.V. (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Desch, K. (Bonn U.) ; Diago, A. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Dudarev, A. (CERN) ; Eleftheriadis, C. (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki) ; Fanourakis, G. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Ferrer-Ribas, E. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Galan, J. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Garcia, J.A. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Garza, J.G. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Geralis, T. (Democritos Nucl. Res. Ctr.) ; Gimeno, B. (Valencia U.) ; Giomataris, I. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Gninenko, S. (Moscow, INR) ; Gomez, H. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Hailey, C.J. (Columbia U., Astron. Astrophys.) ; Hiramatsu, T. (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto) ; Hoffmann, D.H.H. (Darmstadt, Tech. U.) ; Iguaz, F.J. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Irastorza, I.G. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Isern, J. (ICE, Bellaterra) ; Jaeckel, J. (U. Heidelberg, ITP) ; Jakovcic, K. (Boskovic Inst., Zagreb) ; Kaminski, J. (Bonn U.) ; Kawasaki, M. (Tokyo U., ICRR) ; Krcmar, M. (Boskovic Inst., Zagreb) ; Krieger, C. (Bonn U.) ; Lakic, B. (Boskovic Inst., Zagreb) ; Lindner, A. (DESY) ; Liolios, A. (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki) ; Luzon, G. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Ortega, I. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Papaevangelou, T. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Pivovaroff, M.J. (LLNL, Livermore) ; Raffelt, G. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Redondo, J. (Munich, Max Planck Inst.) ; Ringwald, A. (DESY) ; Russenschuck, S. (CERN) ; Ruz, J. (LLNL, Livermore) ; Saikawa, K. (Tokyo U., ICRR) ; Savvidis, I. (Aristotle U., Thessaloniki) ; Sekiguchi, T. (Tokyo U., ICRR) ; Shilon, I. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE ; CERN) ; Silva, H. (CERN) ; ten Kate, H.H.J. (CERN) ; Tomas, A. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Troitsky, S. (Moscow, INR) ; van Bibber, K. (UC, Berkeley, Nucl. Eng. Dept.) ; Vedrine, P. (IRFU, Saclay) ; Villar, J.A. (U. Zaragoza, LFNAE) ; Walckiers, L. (CERN) ; Wester, W. (Fermilab) ; Yildiz, S.C. (Dogus U., Kadikoy) ; Zioutas, K. (Patras U.)
Publication	2013
Imprint	15 Feb 2013
Number of pages	6
Note	Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to the 8th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Chicago, IL, USA, 2012 6 pages, 1 figure, Contribution to the 8th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Chicago, IL, USA, 2012
Presented at	8th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, Chicago, US, 18 - 22 Jul 2012
Subject category	Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract	The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a next generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of a few 10^{-12} GeV^{-1}, i.e. 1-1.5 orders of magnitude beyond sensitivities achieved by the currently most sensitive axion helioscope, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). Crucial factors in improving the sensitivity for IAXO are the increase of the magnetic field volume together with the extensive use of x-ray focusing optics and low background detectors, innovations already successfully tested at CAST. Electron-coupled axions invoked to explain the white dwarf cooling, relic axions, and a large variety of more generic axion-like particles (ALPs) along with other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics could provide additional physics motivation for IAXO.
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