10.3204/DESY-PROC-2011-04/SCHWARZ_MATTHIAS
Schwarz, Matthias
Matthias
Schwarz
Lindner, Axel
Axel
Lindner
Redondo, Javier
Javier
Redondo
Ringwald, Andreas
Andreas
Ringwald
Wiedemann, Guenter
Guenter
Wiedemann
Solar Hidden Photon Search.
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
2011
ConferencePaper
Physics
2011
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Proc. of Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 129-132; DESY
The Solar Hidden Photon Search (SHIPS) is a joint astroparticle project of the
Hamburger Sternwarte and DESY. The main target is to detect the solar emission of a
new species of particles, so called Hidden Photons (HPs). Due to kinetic mixing,
photons and HPs
can convert into each other as they propagate.
A small number of solar HPs - originating from photon --> HP oscillations in the
interior of the Sun - can be converted into
photons in a long vacuum pipe pointing to the Sun - the SHIPS helioscope.
Proc. of Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 129 - 132; DESY-PROC-2011-04; ISSN 1435-8077