R. Ohta, Y. Akimoto, Y. Inoue, M. Minowa, T. Mizumoto, S. Moriyama, T. Namba, Y. Takasu, A. Yamamoto
The Tokyo Axion Helioscope experiment aims to detect axions which are
produced in the solar core. The helioscope uses a strong magnetic field in
order to convert axions into X-ray photons and has a mounting to follow the sun
very accurately. The photons are detected by an X-ray detector which is made of
16 PIN-photodiodes. In addition, a gas container and a gas regulation system is
adopted for recovering the coherence between axions and photons in the
conversion region giving sensitivity to axions with masses up to 2 eV. In this
paper, we report on the technical detail of the Tokyo Axion Helioscope.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4622
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