1997/08/01 by R. J. Creswick, F. T. Avignone, F. T. Avignone III +6 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Axion #Boson #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Detector #Germanium #Massless particle #Optics #Optoelectronics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Photon #Physics #Semiconductor detector #Silicon #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(98)00183-x
published as Phys.Lett. B427 (1998) 235-240 · gzipped postscript file from Microsoft Word, 8 pages. Figures can be obtained by fax from [email protected]. Submitted to Phys. Lett. B
arxiv created 1997/08/01 · openalex publication_date 1998/05/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
It is assumed that axions exist and are created in the Sun by Primakoff conversion of photons in the Coulomb fields of nuclei. Detection rates are calculated in germanium detectors due to the coherent conversion of axions to photons in the lattice when the incident angle fulfills the Bragg condition for a given crystalline plane. The rates are correlated with the relative positions of the Sun and detector, yielding a characteristic recognizable sub-diurnal temporal pattern. A major experiment is proposed based on a large detector array.