Can large scintillators be used for solar-axion searches to test the cosmological axion-photon oscillation proposal?

F. T. Avignone; R. J. Creswick; S. Nussinov

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.011

Can large scintillators be used for solar-axion searches to test the cosmological axion-photon oscillation proposal?

F. T. Avignone^*, R. J. Creswick, S. Nussinov

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School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

Solar-axion interaction rates in NaI, CsI and Xe scintillators via the axio-electric effect were calculated. A table is presented with photo-electric and axio-electric cross sections, solar-axion fluxes, and the interaction rates from 2.0 to 10.0 keV. The results imply that annual-modulation data of large NaI and CsI arrays, and large Xe scintillation detectors, might be made sensitive enough to probe coupling to photons at levels required to explain axion-photon oscillation phenomena proposed to explain the survival of high-energy photons traveling cosmological distances. The DAMA/LIBRA data are used to demonstrate the power of the model-independent annual modulation due to the seasonal variation in the earth-sun distance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	122-124
Number of pages	3
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	681
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.011
State	Published - 26 Oct 2009

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