A proposed search for dark-matter axions in the 0.6-16 micro-eV range
- Author
- Tanner, D. B.
- Published
- Mar 1, 1991.
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- 1 electronic document
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- Turner, Michael S., Moltz, D. M., Vanbibber, Karl, Sikivie, P., and Sullivan, N. S.
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- A proposed experiment is described to search for dark matter axions in the mass range 0.6 to 16 micro-eV. The method is based on the Primakoff conversion of axions into monochromatic microwave photons inside a tunable microwave cavity in a large volume high field magnet, as described by Sikivie. This proposal capitalizes on the availability of two Axicell magnets from the decommissioned Mirror Fusion Test Facility (MFTF-B) fusion machine at LLNL. Assuming a local dark matter density in axions of rho = 0.3 GeV/cu cm, the axion would be found or ruled out at the 97 pct. c.l. in the above mass range in 48 months.
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- Document ID: 19910014702.
Accession ID: 91N24015.
NASA-CR-188173.
FERMILAB-CONF-91/81-A.
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