Probing eV-scale axions with CAST

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Arik, E ^a   Aune, S ^b   Autiero, D ^c,r   Barth, K ^c   Belov, A ^d   Beltrn, B ^e,s   Borghi, S ^c,t   Bourlis, G ^u   Boydag, F S ^a   Brauninger H ^f   Carmona, J M ^e   Cebrin, S ^e   Cetin, S A ^a   Collar, J I ^g   Dafni, T ^e   Davenport, M ^c   Di Lella, L ^c,v   Dogan, O B ^a   Eleftheriadis, C ^h   Elias, N ^c   Fanourakis, G ⁱ   Ferrer Ribas, E ^b   Fischer, H ^j   Friedrich, P ^f   Franz, J ^j   Galn, J ^e   Geralis, T ⁱ   Giomataris, I ^b   Gninenko, S ^d   Gomez H ^e   Hartmann, R ^f,w   Hasinoff, M ^k   Heinsius, F H ^j,x   Hikmet, I ^a   Hoffmann, D H H ^l   Irastorza, I G ^e   Jacoby, J ^m   Jakovi K ⁿ   Kang, D ^j,y   Konigsmann K ^j   Kotthaus, R ^o   Krmar, M ⁿ   KousourisK , ^i,z   Kuster, M ^f,l   Laki B ⁿ   Lasseur, C ^c   Liolios, A ^h   Ljubii A ⁿ   Lutz, G ⁿ   Luzon G ^e   Miller, D ^g   Morales, J ^e   Niinikoski, T ^c   Nordt, A ^f,l   Ortiz, A ^e   Papaevangelou, T ^b   Pivovaroff, M J ^p   Placci, A ^c   Raffelt, G ^o   Riege, H ^c,l   Rodriguez A ^e   Ruz, J ^e   Savvidis, I ^h   Semertzidis, Y ^q,aa   Serpico, P ^c,o   Soufli, R ^p   Stewart, L ^c   Van Bibber, K ^p   Villar, J ^e   Vogel, J ^j   Walckiers, L ^c   Zioutas, K ^c,q   more..

^a DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^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 DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^m GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁿ RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^o MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^p LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^r Lyon Medicine University   (France)

^s UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^t UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^u HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^v SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^w PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^x RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^y UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^z FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^aa BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Axions; Dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649152947     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/008     Document Type: Article

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