Towards a new generation axion helioscope

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Irastorza, I G ^a   Avignone, F T ^b   Caspi, S ^c   Carmona, J M ^a   Dafni, T ^a   Davenport, M ^d   Dudarev, A ^d   Fanourakis, G ^e   Ferrer Ribas, E ^f   Galn, J ^a,f   Garcia J A ^a   Geralis, T ^e   Giomataris, I ^a   Gomez H ^g   Hoffmann, D H H ^f   Iguaz, F J ^h   Jakovcic K ^h   Krmar, M ^h   Lakic B ^a   Luzon G ⁱ   Pivovaroff, M ^f   Papaevangelou, T ^j   Raffelt, G ^j   Redondo, J ^a   Rodriguez A ^d   Russenschuck, S ^d   Ruz, J ^d,k   Shilon, I ^d   Ten Kate, H ^a   Toms, A ^a   Troitsky, S ^l   Van Bibber, K ^m   Villar, J A ^a   Vogel, J ^g   Walckiers, L ^d   Zioutas, K ⁿ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

ⁱ LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^j MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^k BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^l INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^m NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

more..

Author keywords

axions; dark matter experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959994422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/06/013     Document Type: Article

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