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Search for Solar Axions via Axion-Photon Coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator
- Arnquist, IJ;
- Avignone, FT;
- Barabash, AS;
- Barton, CJ;
- Bhimani, KH;
- Blalock, E;
- Bos, B;
- Busch, M;
- Buuck, M;
- Caldwell, TS;
- Chan, Y-D;
- Christofferson, CD;
- Chu, P-H;
- Clark, ML;
- Cuesta, C;
- Detwiler, JA;
- Efremenko, Yu;
- Ejiri, H;
- Elliott, SR;
- Giovanetti, GK;
- Green, MP;
- Gruszko, J;
- Guinn, IS;
- Guiseppe, VE;
- Haufe, CR;
- Henning, R;
- Hervas Aguilar, D;
- Hoppe, EW;
- Hostiuc, A;
- Kidd, MF;
- Kim, I;
- Kouzes, RT;
- Lannen V, TE;
- Li, A;
- Lopez, AM;
- López-Castaño, JM;
- Martin, EL;
- Martin, RD;
- Massarczyk, R;
- Meijer, SJ;
- Oli, TK;
- Othman, G;
- Paudel, LS;
- Pettus, W;
- Poon, AWP;
- Radford, DC;
- Reine, AL;
- Rielage, K;
- Ruof, NW;
- Schaper, DC;
- Tedeschi, D;
- Varner, RL;
- Vasilyev, S;
- Wilkerson, JF;
- Wiseman, C;
- Xu, W;
- Yu, C-H;
- Zhu, BX
- et al.
Abstract
Axions were originally proposed to explain the strong-CP problem in QCD. Through axion-photon coupling, the Sun could be a major source of axions, which could be measured in solid state detection experiments with enhancements due to coherent Primakoff-Bragg scattering. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment has searched for solar axions with a set of ^{76}Ge-enriched high purity germanium detectors using a 33 kg-yr exposure collected between January, 2017 and November, 2019. A temporal-energy analysis gives a new limit on the axion-photon coupling as g_{aγ}<1.45×10^{-9} GeV^{-1} (95% confidence level) for axions with mass up to 100 eV/c^{2}. This improves laboratory-based limits between about 1 eV/c^{2} and 100 eV/c^{2}.
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