DFG Funding: Giant Magnet to Search for Axion that could Transform Our Understanding of Matter

A ten-meter-long magnet is designed to track the Sun in search of a particle that has never been directly detected. A total of six million euros have been allocated to build the BabyIAXO magnet system. The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for the large-scale facility, which is to be built at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton DESY in Hamburg. The grant application is being coordinated by Prof. Dr. Matthias Schott of the University of Bonn, an Associated Principal Investigator at the Lamarr Institute.