Extracting hidden-photon dark matter from an LC-circuit

The European Physical Journal C

Paola Arias¹  Ariel Arza¹  Fernando Méndez¹  Jorge Gamboa¹  Babette Döbrich² 

[1] Departmento de Física, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Casilla 307, Santiago, Chile;Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany;CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland;

关键词: Dark Matter;    External Magnetic Field;    Magnetic Flux;    Cold Dark Matter;    Dark Matter Search;   

DOI  :  10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3536-0

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

We point out that a cold dark matter condensate made of gauge bosons from an extra hidden U(1) sector—dubbed hidden photons—can create a small, oscillating electric density current. Thus, they could also be searched for in the recently proposed LC-circuit setup conceived for axion cold dark matter search by Sikivie, Sullivan and Tanner. We estimate the sensitivity of this setup for hidden-photon cold dark matter and we find it could cover a sizable, so far unexplored parameter space.

【 授权许可】

CC BY