The IAXO Helioscope

E Ferrer Ribas; E Armengaud; F T. Avignone; M Betz; P Brax; P Brun; G Cantatore; J M. Carmona; G P Carosi; F Caspers; S Caspi; S A Cetin; D Chelouche; F E Christensen; A Dael; T Dafni; M Davenport; A V Derbin; K Desch; A Diago; B Döbrich; I Dratchnev; A Dudarev; C Eleftheriadis; G Fanourakis; J Galán; J A García; J G Garza; T Geralis; B Gimeno; I Giomataris; S Gninenko; H Gómez; D González-Diaz; E Guendelman; C J. Hailey; T Hiramatsu; D H H. Hoffmann; D Horns; F J Iguaz; I G Irastorza; J Isern; K Imai; J Jaeckel; A C Jakobsen; K Jakovčić; J Kaminski; M Kawasaki; M Karuza; M Krčmar; K Kousouris; C Krieger; B Lakić; O Limousin; A Lindner; A Liolios; G Luzón; S Matsuki; V N Muratova; C Nones; I Ortega; T Papaevangelou; M J Pivovaroff; G Raffelt; J Redondo; A Ringwald; S Russenschuck; J Ruz; K Saikawa; I Savvidis; T Sekiguchi; Y K Semertzidis; I Shilon; P Sikivie; H Silva; H H J ten Kate; A Tomas; S Troitsky; T Vafeiadis; K van Bibber; P Vedrine; J A Villar; J K Vogel; L Walckiers; A Weltman; W Wester; S C. Yildiz; K Zioutas

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012009

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The IAXO Helioscope

E Ferrer Ribas¹, E Armengaud¹, F T. Avignone², M Betz³, P Brax⁴, P Brun¹, G Cantatore⁵, J M. Carmona⁶, G P Carosi⁷, F Caspers³, S Caspi⁸, S A Cetin⁹, D Chelouche¹⁰, F E Christensen¹¹, A Dael¹, T Dafni⁶, M Davenport³, A V Derbin¹², K Desch¹³, A Diago⁶, B Döbrich¹⁴, I Dratchnev¹², A Dudarev³, C Eleftheriadis¹⁵, G Fanourakis¹⁶, J Galán⁶, J A García⁶, J G Garza⁶, T Geralis¹⁶, B Gimeno¹⁷, I Giomataris¹, S Gninenko¹⁸, H Gómez⁶, D González-Diaz⁶, E Guendelman¹⁹, C J. Hailey²⁰, T Hiramatsu²¹, D H H. Hoffmann²², D Horns²³, F J Iguaz⁶, I G Irastorza⁶, J Isern²⁴, K Imai²⁵, J Jaeckel²⁶, A C Jakobsen¹¹, K Jakovčić²⁷, J Kaminski¹³, M Kawasaki²⁸, M Karuza²⁹, M Krčmar²⁷, K Kousouris³, C Krieger¹³, B Lakić²⁷, O Limousin¹, A Lindner¹⁴, A Liolios¹⁵, G Luzón⁶, S Matsuki³⁰, V N Muratova¹², C Nones¹, I Ortega⁶, T Papaevangelou¹, M J Pivovaroff⁷, G Raffelt³¹, J Redondo⁶, A Ringwald¹⁴, S Russenschuck³, J Ruz⁷, K Saikawa³⁰, I Savvidis¹⁵, T Sekiguchi²⁸, Y K Semertzidis³², I Shilon^6,3, P Sikivie³³, H Silva³, H H J ten Kate³, A Tomas⁶, S Troitsky¹⁸, T Vafeiadis³, K van Bibber³⁴, P Vedrine¹, J A Villar⁶, J K Vogel⁷, L Walckiers³, A Weltman³⁵, W Wester³⁶, S C. Yildiz⁹ and K Zioutas^3,37

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 650, 7th International Symposium on Large TPCs for Low-Energy Rare Event Detection 15–17 December 2014, Paris, France Citation E Ferrer Ribas et al 2015 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 650 012009 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/650/1/012009

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¹ CEA, Irfu, Centre de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France

² Physics Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

³ CERN, Genève, Switzerland

⁴ CEA, IPHT, Centre de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, France

⁵ INFN, Sezione di Trieste & Università di Trieste, Italy

⁶ Lab. de Física Nuclear y Altas Energías, Univ. de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

⁷ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, LLNL, Livermore, California, USA

⁸ LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA

⁹ Dogus Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

¹⁰ Physics Department, Univ. of Haifa, Haifa, 31905 Israel

¹¹ DTU Space, Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

¹² St.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia

¹³ Physikalisches Institut der Universität, Bonn, Germany

¹⁴ DESY, Hamburg, Germany

¹⁵ Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

¹⁶ NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece

¹⁷ Inst. de Ciencias de las Materiales, Univ. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

¹⁸ INR, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

¹⁹ Physics dep., Ben Gurion Univ., Beer Sheva, Israel

²⁰ Columbia Univ. Astrophysics Laboratory, New York, NY, USA

²¹ Yukawa Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

²² Technische Universität Darmstadt, IKP, Darmstadt, Germany

²³ Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

²⁴ Inst. de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC), Facultat de Ciències, Bellaterra, Spain

²⁵ Advanced Science Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokai-mura, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

²⁶ Inst. für theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

²⁷ Rudjer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

²⁸ Inst. for Cosmic Ray Research, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

²⁹ Physics Dep. & Center for Micro and Nano Sciences and Technologies, Univ. of Rijeka, Croatia.

³⁰ Research Center for Low Temperature & Materials Sciences, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan

³¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany

³² Center of Axion & Precision Physics, IBS, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

³³ Department of Physics, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

³⁴ Dep. of Nuclear Engineering, Univ. of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

³⁵ Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa

³⁶ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA

³⁷ Physics Department, Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

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The IAXO (International Axion Experiment) is a fourth generation helioscope with a sensitivity, in terms of detectable signal counts, at least 10⁴ better than CAST phase-I, resulting in sensitivity on g_aγ one order of magnitude better. To achieve this performance IAXO will count on a 8-coil toroidal magnet with 60 cm diameter bores and equipped with X-ray focusing optics into 0.20 cm² spots coupled to ultra-low background Micromegas X-ray detectors. The magnet will be on a platform that will allow solar tracking for 12 hours per day. The next short term objectives are to prepare a Technical Design Report and to construct the first prototypes of the hardware main ingredients: demonstration coil, X-ray optics and low background detector while refining the physics case and studying the feasibility studies for Dark Matter axions.

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