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Should axions exist, their discovery would be a major scientific advance. The facts and the motivation underlying the recent search for these conjectured new elementary particles are outlined in this review.
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Morgan, D. The context of the search for axions. Nature 274, 22–25 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274022a0
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