axion

If Hudson's or another team were to reel in axions, the announcement that they are the dark matter particle would not immediately follow.

If the PVLAS results are correct, then axions should appear in an experiment known as "shining a light through a wall. "

Axions could help astrophysicists to make more accurate measurements of the temperature of the sun's core, for instance.

Once at the solar corona, where the sun's magnetic field is strong, the axions would convert back into photons.

In particular, the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) ran for six months in 2003 and failed to detect any axions arriving from the sun.

Other axions, freshly formed inside the sun, could be streaming through us.

When photons at the sun's core feel a magnetic field, they become axions, the thinking goes.

The sun is thought to possibly be a factory for these axions.

Only a handful of groups are searching for the lightweight particles called axions.

From its data, the PVLAS group infers the mass of the putative axions and how strongly they interact.

The composite image would help the astrophysicists to get rid of so-called background noise produced by everything else but the axions.

however, it may also include exotic species of non- baryonic dark matter, such as supersymmetric particles, axions or black holes.