Experimental Tests of the "Invisible" Axion
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Experiments are proposed which address the question of the existence of the "invisible" axion for the whole allowed range of the axion decay constant. These experiments exploit the coupling of the axion to the electromagnetic field, axion emission by the sum, and/or the cosmological abundance and presumed clustering of axions in the halo of our galaxy.
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A variety of astrophysical observations including Zeeman splitting, synchrotron emission, Faraday rotation measurements combined with pulsar dispersion measurements and polarization measurements suggest the presence of large scale magnetic fields.
“A variety of astrophysical observations including Zeeman splitting, synchrotron emission, Faraday rotation measurements (RM) combined with pulsar dispersion measurements (DM) and polarization measurements suggest the presence of large scale magnetic fields[112, 113].”
From Phase Transitions in the Early and Present Universe (2006) · cites this paper as [113]
The strength of typical galactic magnetic fields is of the order ∼μG and they are correlated on very large scales up to galactic or even larger reaching to scales of cluster of galaxies ∼1 Mpc.
“The strength of typical galactic magnetic fields is of the order ∼ µ G [112, 113] and they are correlated on very large scales up to galactic or even larger reaching to scales of cluster of galaxies ∼ 1 Mpc[112].”
From Phase Transitions in the Early and Present Universe (2006) · cites this paper as [113]
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- Authors
- Sikivie, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sikivie, P.
- ORCID
- Sikivie, P.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1983-10-17
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 1415-1417
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2000037069
- Cited by
- 1,760
- References
- 24
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- FWCI
- 8.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Neutrino Physics Research
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Keywords
- invisible axion, axion decay constant, axion-photon coupling, axion emission, axion abundance, Galactic halo, dark matter, axion detection
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