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Search for solar axions produced in the p(d,He3)A reaction with Borexino detector

G. Bellini1, J. Benziger2, D. Bick3, G. Bonfini4, D. Bravo5, M. Buizza Avanzini1, B. Caccianiga1, L. Cadonati6, F. Calaprice7 et al. (Borexino collaboration)

F. Calaprice7, C. Carraro8, P. Cavalcante4, A. Chavarria7, D. D’Angelo1, S. Davini8, A. Derbin9, A. Etenko10, K. Fomenko11,4, D. Franco12, C. Galbiati7, S. Gazzana4, C. Ghiano4, M. Giammarchi1, M. Goeger-Neff13, A. Goretti7, L. Grandi7, E. Guardincerri8, S. Hardy5, Aldo Ianni4, Andrea Ianni7, A. Kayunov9, A. Kobychev17, D. Korablev11, G. Korga4, Y. Koshio4, D. Kryn12, M. Laubenstein4, L. Lewke13, E. Litvinovich10, B. Loer7, F. Lombardi4, P. Lombardi1, L. Ludhova1, I. Machulin10, S. Manecki5, W. Maneschg14, G. Manuzio8, Q. Meindl13, E. Meroni1, L. Miramonti1, M. Misiaszek15,4, D. Montanari4,7, P. Mosteiro7, V. Muratova9, L. Oberauer13, M. Obolensky12, F. Ortica16, K. Otis6, M. Pallavicini8, L. Papp5, L. Perasso1, S. Perasso8, A. Pocar6, R. S. Raghavan5, G. Ranucci1, A. Razeto4, A. Re1, P. A. Romani16, A. Sabelnikov10, R. Saldanha7, C. Salvo8, S. Schönert13, H. Simgen14, M. Skorokhvatov10, O. Smirnov11, A. Sotnikov11, S. Sukhotin10, Y. Suvorov4, R. Tartaglia4, G. Testera8, D. Vignaud12, R. B. Vogelaar5, F. von Feilitzsch13, J. Winter13, M. Wojcik15, A. Wright7, M. Wurm3, J. Xu7, O. Zaimidoroga11, S. Zavatarelli8, and G. Zuzel15 (Borexino collaboration)

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’degli Studi e INFN, 20133 Milano, Italy
  • 2Chemical Engineering Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 3Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universitat, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
  • 4INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, SS 17 bis Km 18+910, 67010 Assergi (AQ), Italy
  • 5Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
  • 6Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, AM01003, USA
  • 7Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 8Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’e INFN, Genova 16146, Italy
  • 9St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188350 Gatchina, Russia
  • 10NRC Kurchatov Institute, 123182 Moscow, Russia
  • 11Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia
  • 12Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, 75231 Paris cedex 13, France
  • 13Physik Department, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 85747 Garching, Germany
  • 14Max-Plank-Institut fuer Kernphysik, 69029 Heidelberg, Germany
  • 15M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagellonian University, 30059 Krakow, Poland
  • 16Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita’e INFN, 06123 Perugia, Italy
  • 17Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research, 06380 Kiev, Ukraine

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 092003 – Published 4 May, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092003

Abstract

A search for 5.5 MeV solar axions produced in the p+d→He3+A (5.5 MeV) reaction was performed using the Borexino detector. The Compton conversion of axions to photons, A+e→e+γ; the axioelectric effect, A+e+Z→e+Z; the decay of axions into two photons, A→2γ; and inverse Primakoff conversion on nuclei, A+Z→γ+Z, are considered. Model-independent limits on axion-electron (gAe), axion-photon (gAγ), and isovector axion-nucleon (g3AN) couplings are obtained: |gAe×g3AN|≤5.5×10−13 and |gAγ×g3AN|≤4.6×10−11  GeV−1 at mA<1  MeV (90% confidence level). These limits are 2–4 orders of magnitude stronger than those obtained in previous laboratory-based experiments using nuclear reactors and accelerators.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 092003– Published 4 May, 2012
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