An improved limit on the axion-photon coupling from the CAST experiment

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn , Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Andriamonje, S ^a   Aune, S ^a   Autiero, D ^b,r   Barth, K ^b   Belov, A ^c   Beltran B ^d,s   Brauninger H ^e   Carmona, J M ^d   Cebrian S ^d   Collar, J I ^f   Dafni, T ^a,g   Davenport, M ^b   Di Lella, L ^b,t   Eleftheriadis, C ^h   Englhauser, J ^e   Fanourakis, G ⁱ   Ferrer Ribas, E ^a   Fischer, H ^j   Franz, J ^j   Friedrich, P ^e   Geralis, T ⁱ   Giomataris, I ^a   Gninenko, S ^c   Gomez H ^d   Hasinoff, M ^k   Heinsius, F H ^j   Hoffmann, D H H ^g,l   Irastorza, I G ^a,d   Jacoby, J ^m   Jakovic K ⁿ   Kang, D ^j   Konigsmann K ^j   Kotthaus, R ^o   Krmar, M ⁿ   Kousouris, K ⁱ   Kuster, M ^e,g   Lakic B ⁿ   Lasseur, C ^b   Liolios, A ^h   Ljubiic A ⁿ   Lutz, G ^o   Luzon G ^d   Miller, D ^f   Morales, A ^d   Morales, J ^d   Ortiz, A ^d   Papaevangelou, T ^b   Placci, A ^b   Raffelt, G ^o   Riege, H ^g   Rodriguez A ^d   Ruz, J ^d   Savvidis, I ^h   Semertzidis, Y ^p,u   Serpico, P ^q   Stewart, L ^b   Vieira, J ^f   Villar, J ^d   Vogel, J ^j   Walckiers, L ^b   Zioutas, K ^b,p   more..

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^l GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^m GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^o MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^q FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^r Institut de Physique Nucléaire ^*  (France)

^s QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^t SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^u BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Axions; Magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749100224     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2007/04/010     Document Type: Article

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