Future axion searches with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

I G Irastorza; F T Avignone; G Cantatore; J M Carmona; S Caspi; S A Cetin; F E Christensen; A Dael; T Dafni; M Davenport; A V Derbin; K Desch; A Diago; B Döbrich; A Dudarev; C Eleftheriadis; G Fanourakis; E Ferrer-Ribas; J Galán; J A García; J G Garza; T Geralis; B Gimeno; I Giomataris; S Gninenko; H Gómez; E Guendelman; C J Hailey; T Hiramatsu; D H H Hoffmann; D Horns; F J Iguaz; J Isern; A C Jakobsen; J Jaeckel; K Jakovčić; J Kaminski; M Kawasaki; M Krčmar; C Krieger; B Lakić; A Lindner; A Liolios; G Luzón; I Ortega; T Papaevangelou; M J Pivovaroff; G Raffelt; J Redondo; A Ringwald; S Russenschuck; J Ruz; K Saikawa; I Savvidis; T Sekiguchi; I Shilon; P Sikivie; H Silva; H ten Kate; A Tomas; S Troitsky; T Vafeiadis; K van Bibber; P Vedrine; J A Villar; J K Vogel; L Walckiers; W Wester; S C Yildiz; K Zioutas

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Future axion searches with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)

I G Irastorza¹, F T Avignone², G Cantatore³, J M Carmona¹, S Caspi⁴, S A Cetin⁵, F E Christensen⁶, A Dael⁷, T Dafni¹, M Davenport⁴, A V Derbin⁸, K Desch⁹, A Diago¹, B Döbrich²³, A Dudarev⁴, C Eleftheriadis¹⁰, G Fanourakis¹¹, E Ferrer-Ribas⁷, J Galán⁷, J A García¹, J G Garza¹, T Geralis¹¹, B Gimeno¹², I Giomataris⁷, S Gninenko¹³, H Gómez¹, E Guendelman¹⁴, C J Hailey¹⁵, T Hiramatsu¹⁶, D H H Hoffmann¹⁷, D Horns¹⁸, F J Iguaz¹, J Isern¹⁹, A C Jakobsen⁶, J Jaeckel²⁰, K Jakovčić²¹, J Kaminski⁹, M Kawasaki²², M Krčmar²¹, C Krieger⁹, B Lakić²¹, A Lindner²³, A Liolios¹⁰, G Luzón¹, I Ortega¹, T Papaevangelou⁷, M J Pivovaroff²⁴, G Raffelt²⁵, J Redondo²⁵, A Ringwald²³, S Russenschuck⁴, J Ruz²⁴, K Saikawa²², I Savvidis¹⁰, T Sekiguchi²², I Shilon⁴, P Sikivie²⁶, H Silva⁴, H ten Kate⁴, A Tomas¹, S Troitsky¹³, T Vafeiadis⁴, K van Bibber²⁷, P Vedrine⁷, J A Villar¹, J K Vogel²⁴, L Walckiers⁴, W Wester²⁸, S C Yildiz⁵ and K Zioutas²⁹

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 460, Sixth Symposium on Large TPCs for Low Energy Rare Event Detection 17–19 December 2012, Paris, France Citation I G Irastorza et al 2013 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 460 012002 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/460/1/012002

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¹ Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Altas Energías, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

² Physics Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

³ Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Trieste and Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

⁴ European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Genève, Switzerland

⁵ Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey

⁶ Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

⁷ IRFU, Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

⁸ St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia

⁹ Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

¹⁰ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

¹¹ National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens, Greece

¹² Instituto de Ciencias de las Materiales, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

¹³ Institute for Nuclear Research (INR), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

¹⁴ Physics department, Ben Gurion Uiversity, Beer Sheva, Israel

¹⁵ Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, New York, USA

¹⁶ Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

¹⁷ Technische Universität Darmstadt, IKP, Darmstadt, Germany

¹⁸ Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, 22761 Hamburg, Germany

¹⁹ Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Facultat de Ciències, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Spain

²⁰ Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

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²² Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

²³ Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany

²⁴ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

²⁵ Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany

²⁶ Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

²⁷ Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

²⁸ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA

²⁹ Physics Department, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

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The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of g_aγ ≳ few × 10⁻¹² GeV⁻¹, i.e. 1–1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one achieved by CAST, currently the most sensitive axion helioscope. The main elements of IAXO are an increased magnetic field volume together with extensive use of x-ray focusing optics and low background detectors, innovations already successfully tested in CAST. Additional physics cases of IAXO could include the detection of electron-coupled axions invoked to explain the white dwarf cooling, relic axions, and a large variety of more generic axion-like particles (ALPs) and other novel excitations at the low-energy frontier of elementary particle physics.

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