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Search of Axions from a Nuclear Power Reactor with a High Purity Germanium Detector
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This article reports the first study of possible emissions of axions from power reactors using Primakoff and Compton conversions as the detection mechanisms. The expected experimental signatures are mono-energetic lines produced by their Primakoff or Compton conversions at a high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector. No evidence of axion emissions were observed and constraints on axion couplings versus axion mass within the framework of invisible axion models were placed. This experimental approach provides a unique probe for axion mass at the keV-MeV range not accessible to the other techniques.
- Subjects :
- Physics
History
Range (particle radiation)
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
Detector
chemistry.chemical_element
Germanium
Computer Science Applications
Education
Semiconductor detector
Nuclear physics
High Energy Physics::Theory
chemistry
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Nuclear power reactor
Axion
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b724e8a3c26dbc99432015ac88faf3b5