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BabyIAXO is the initial stage of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO), designed to search for solar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) with unprecedented sensitivity. It incorporates a straight, large-aperture dipole magnet, precision X-ray optics, and ultra-low background detectors, enabling both early-stage data acquisition and validation of the experimental approach for the full-scale IAXO. With projected sensitivity to axion–photon couplings down to gaγ∼10E−11 GeV−1, BabyIAXO will surpass current helioscope limits and explore previously inaccessible regions of ALP parameter space. Beyond its role in instrumentation development, BabyIAXO is expected to deliver meaningful physics results and contribute directly to the global effort to uncover the properties and existence of axions. In addition to solar axions, its infrastructure offers broad physics potential, including searches for dark matter axions with haloscopes, supernova axions, other WISPs such as hidden photons and chameleons, and even high-frequency gravitational waves.
