Search for Solar Axions via Axion-Photon Coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator

I J Arnquist¹, F T Avignone^{2

3}, A S Barabash⁴, C J Barton⁵, K H Bhimani^{6

7}, E Blalock^{7

8}, B Bos^{6

7}, M Busch^{7

9}, M Buuck¹⁰, T S Caldwell^{6

7}, Y-D Chan¹¹, C D Christofferson¹², P-H Chu¹³, M L Clark^{6

7}, C Cuesta¹⁴, J A Detwiler¹⁰, Yu Efremenko^{3

15}, H Ejiri¹⁶, S R Elliott¹³, G K Giovanetti¹⁷, M P Green^{3

7

8}, J Gruszko^{6

7}, I S Guinn^{6

7}, V E Guiseppe³, C R Haufe^{6

7}, R Henning^{6

7}, D Hervas Aguilar^{6

7}, E W Hoppe¹, A Hostiuc¹⁰, M F Kidd¹⁸, I Kim¹³, R T Kouzes¹, T E Lannen V², A Li^{6

7}, A M Lopez¹⁵, J M López-Castaño³, E L Martin^{6

7}, R D Martin¹⁹, R Massarczyk¹³, S J Meijer¹³, T K Oli⁵, G Othman^{6

7}, L S Paudel⁵, W Pettus^{20

21}, A W P Poon¹¹, D C Radford³, A L Reine^{6

7}, K Rielage¹³, N W Ruof¹⁰, D C Schaper¹³, D Tedeschi², R L Varner³, S Vasilyev²², J F Wilkerson^{3

6

7}, C Wiseman¹⁰, W Xu⁵, C-H Yu³, B X Zhu¹³; <span class="sc">Majorana</span> Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA.
⁴ National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117218 Russia.
⁵ Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA.
⁷ Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁸ Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA.
⁹ Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
¹⁰ Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
¹¹ Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹² South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹³ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
¹⁴ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT 28040, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.
¹⁶ Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
¹⁷ Physics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA.
¹⁸ Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
²⁰ Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
²¹ IU Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA.
²² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980 Russia.

PMID: 36053699
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081803

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Search for Solar Axions via Axion-Photon Coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator

I J Arnquist et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2022.

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. 2022 Aug 19;129(8):081803.

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081803.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA.
³ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA.
⁴ National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute" Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 117218 Russia.
⁵ Department of Physics, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, USA.
⁶ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514, USA.
⁷ Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
⁸ Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA.
⁹ Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
¹⁰ Center for Experimental Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, and Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
¹¹ Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
¹² South Dakota Mines, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA.
¹³ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
¹⁴ Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, CIEMAT 28040, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.
¹⁶ Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan.
¹⁷ Physics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267, USA.
¹⁸ Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee 38505, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada.
²⁰ Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
²¹ IU Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter, Bloomington, Indiana 47408, USA.
²² Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, 141980 Russia.

PMID: 36053699
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.081803

Abstract

Axions were originally proposed to explain the strong-CP problem in QCD. Through axion-photon coupling, the Sun could be a major source of axions, which could be measured in solid state detection experiments with enhancements due to coherent Primakoff-Bragg scattering. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment has searched for solar axions with a set of ^{76}Ge-enriched high purity germanium detectors using a 33 kg-yr exposure collected between January, 2017 and November, 2019. A temporal-energy analysis gives a new limit on the axion-photon coupling as g_{aγ}<1.45×10^{-9} GeV^{-1} (95% confidence level) for axions with mass up to 100 eV/c^{2}. This improves laboratory-based limits between about 1 eV/c^{2} and 100 eV/c^{2}.

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