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Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2013, Issue 7, May 7, 2013.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/007.
Abstract
We report the results of a search for axions from the 14.4 keV M1 transition from 57Fe in the core of the sun using the axio-electric effect in TeO2bolometers. The detectors are 5
× 5 × 5 cm3 crystals operated at about 10 mK in a facility used to test bolometers for the CUORE experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy. An analysis of 43.65 kg⋅d of data was made using a newly developed low energy trigger which was optimized to reduce the energy threshold of the detector. An upper limit of 0.58 c⋅kg−1⋅d−1 is established at 95% C.L., which translates into lower bounds fA ≥ 3.12 × 105 GeV 95% C.L. (DFSZ model) and fA ≥ 2.41 × 104 GeV 95% C.L. (KSVZ model) on the Peccei-Quinn symmetry-breaking scale, for a value of S = 0.5 of the flavor-singlet axial vector matrix element. These bounds can be expressed in terms of axion masses as mA ≤ 19.2 eV and mA ≤ 250 eV at 95% C.L. in the DFSZ and KSVZ models respectively. Bounds are given also for the interval 0.35 ≤ S ≤ 0.55.
Disciplines
Physics
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 IOP Science.
Number of Pages
18
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/phy_fac/510