Results from a High-Sensitivity Search for Cosmic Axions

9 March 1998

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 80 (10) , 2043-2046
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.2043

Abstract

We report the first results of a high-sensitivity

(\sim 10^{- 23} W)

search for light halo axions through their conversion to microwave photons. At the 90% confidence level, we exclude a Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov axion of mass

2.9 \times 10^{- 6}

3.3 \times 10^{- 6} eV

as the dark matter in the halo of our galaxy.

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