A search for axions with the DarkSide-50 detector

The DarkSide-50 (DS-50) experiment is designed to directly detect weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Located deep underground at the Gran Sasso National Underground Laboratory in Italy, the heart of the detector system is a dual phase liquid argon time projection chamber. It is nested inside a liquid scintillator veto, which is further placed inside a water Cherenkov detector, both to suppress and identify background. While WIMPs are one of the most well motivated candidates for particle dark matter, another equally well motivated candidate is the axion. DS-50 has been utilized to search for solar axions via their hypothesized coupling to electrons. This work describes one such study to constrain the coupling constant (g_Ae) which is used to determine the probability of interaction between an axion and an electron.