Signatures for Solar Axions/WISPs

Abstract

Standard solar physics cannot account for the X-ray emission and other puzzles, the most striking example being the solar corona mystery. The corona temperature rise above the non-flaring magnetized sunspots, while the photosphere just underneath becomes cooler, makes this mystery more intriguing. The paradoxical Sun is suggestive of some sort of exotic solution, axions being the (only?) choice for the missing ingredient. We present atypical axion signatures, which depict solar axions with a rest mass max ~17 meV/c2. Then, the Sun has been for decades the overlooked harbinger of new particle physics.

To appear in the proceedings of the 6th Patras Workshop, Zurich 5-9 July 2010

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• Observations of conduction driven evaporation in the early rise phase of solar flares
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• Axion Searches with Helioscopes and astrophysical signatures for axion(-like) particles

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• The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology