Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Solar-axion interaction rates in Nal, Csl 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 Nal and Csl 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.
Recommended Citation
Avignone, F. T., Creswick, R. J., & Nussinov, S. (2009). Can large scintillators be used for solar-axion searches to test the cosmological axion-photon oscillation proposal? Physics Letters B, 681(2): 122-124. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.011
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Elsevier
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Physics Letters B. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Physics Letters B, volume 681, issue 2, in 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2009.09.011
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