RESULTS FROM A HIGH-SENSITIVITY SEARCH FOR COSMIC AXIONS

Authors
HAGMANN C KINION D STOEFFL W VANBIBBER K DAW E PENG H ROSENBERG LJ LAVEIGNE J SIKIVIE P SULLIVAN NS TANNER DB NEZRICK F TURNER MS MOLTZ DM POWELL J GOLUBEV NA
Citation
C. Hagmann et al., RESULTS FROM A HIGH-SENSITIVITY SEARCH FOR COSMIC AXIONS, Physical review letters, 80(10), 1998, pp. 2043-2046
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
80
Issue
10
Year of publication
1998
Pages
2043 - 2046
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1998)80:10<2043:RFAHSF>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We report the first results of a high-sensitivity (similar to 10(-23) W) search for light halo axions through their conversion to microwave photons. At the 90% confidence level, we exclude a Kim-Shifman-Vainsht ein-Zakharov axion of mass 2.9 x 10(-6) to 3.3 X 10(-6) eV as the dark matter in the halo of our galaxy.