CERN Accelerating science

Preprint
Report number	astro-ph/0211606
Title	The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) : status and prospects
Author(s)	Irastorza, I.G. ; Andriamonje, S. ; Arik, E. ; Autiero, D. ; Avignone, F. ; Barth, K. ; Bingol, E. ; Brauninger, H. ; Brodzinski, R. ; Carmona, J. ; Chesi, E. ; Cebrian, S. ; Cetin, S. ; Collar, J. ; Creswick, R. ; Dafni, T. ; de Oliveira, R. ; Dedoussis, S. ; Delbart, A. ; di Lella, L. ; Eleftheriadis, C. ; Fanourakis, G. ; Farach, H. ; Fischer, H. ; Formenti, F. ; Geralis, T. ; Giomataris, I. ; Gninenko, S. ; Goloubev, N. ; Hartmann, R. ; Hasinoff, N. ; Hoffmann, D. ; Jacoby, J. ; Kang, D. ; Konigsmann, Kay ; Kotthaus, R. ; Krcmar, M. ; Kuster, M. ; Lakic, B. ; Liolios, A. ; Ljubicic, A. ; Lutz, G. ; Luzon, G. ; Miley, H. ; Morales, A. ; Morales, J. ; Mutterer, M. ; Nikolaidis, A. ; Ortiz, a. ; Papaevangelou, T. ; Placci, A. ; Raffelt, G. ; Riege, H. ; Sarsa, M. ; Savvidis, I. ; Schopper, R. ; Semertzidis, I. ; Spano, C. ; Villar, J. ; Vullierme, B. ; Walckiers, L. ; Zachariadou, K. ; Zioutas, K.
Publication	2002
Imprint	27 Nov 2002
Number of pages	6
Note	6 pages, talk given at 4th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter, York, September 2002. Replaced version with added reference
Presented at	4th International Workshop on the Identificaion of Dark Matter, York, UK, 2 - 6 Sep 2002
Subject category	Astrophysics and Astronomy
Abstract	The CAST experiment is being mounted at CERN. It will make use of a decommissioned LHC test magnet to look for solar axions through its conversion into photons inside the magnetic field. The magnet has a field of 9 Tesla and length of 10 m and is installed in a platform which allows to move it  8 degrees vertically and  40 degrees horizontally. According to these numbers we expect a sensitivity in axion-photon coupling  5 x 10^-11 GeV^-1 for axion masses m <  10^-2 eV, and with a gas filled tube 10^-10 GeV^-1 for m <  2 eV.
Other source	Inspire
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