https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2490-y
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Search for axioelectric effect of 5.5 MeV solar axions using BGO detectors
St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, 188300, Russia
* e-mail: derbin@pnpi.spb.ru
Received:
19
December
2012
Revised:
10
April
2013
Published online:
2
July
2013
A search for axioelectric absorption of solar axions produced in the 
reactions has been performed with a BGO detector placed in a low-background setup. A model-independent limit on an axion-nucleon and axion–electron coupling constant has been obtained: 
for 90 % confidence level. The constrains of the axion–electron coupling have been obtained for hadronic axion with masses in (0.1–1) MeV range: |g
Ae
|≤(1.4–9.7)×10−7.
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg and Società Italiana di Fisica, 2013
