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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 38: Search for New Particles 3

T 38.5: Vortrag

Dienstag, 22. März 2022, 17:15–17:30, T-H23

Monte Carlo based ray tracing for BabyIAXO — •Johanna von Oy, Klaus Desch, Jochen Kaminski, Tobias Schiffer, and Sebastian Schmidt — Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bonn

The premise of the International AXion Observatory (IAXO) and its intermediate experimental stage BabyIAXO is to detect the undiscovered particle axion, which can be a good candidate for dark matter. This will be done by utilizing the inverse Primakoff effect to reconvert them into X-rays in the magnetic field of a movable magnet. Following this, they would get focused by an X-ray optic and detected in, for example, a window sealed gaseous detector.

To simulate this whole process, ray tracing based on the Monte Carlo method is a useful tool, as a certain number of axions would be generated and get assigned different probabilities and changes of direction depending on the setup. This talk will focus on the individual steps, starting with the production in the sun and following the axion's path to the detector.