Journal of High Energy Physics | |
Axion dark matter detection by superconducting resonant frequency conversion | |
Asher Berlin1  Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo2  Jeffrey Neilson3  Christopher Nantista3  Philip Schuster3  Natalia Toro3  Sami Tantawi3  Sebastian A. R. Ellis3  Kevin Zhou3  | |
[1] Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University;Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Saclay;SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; | |
关键词: Beyond Standard Model; Dark matter; Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments); | |
DOI : 10.1007/JHEP07(2020)088 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
Abstract We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses m a ≲ 10 −6 eV. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between nearly degenerate resonant modes of frequency ∼ GHz. A scan over axion mass is achieved by varying the frequency splitting between the two modes. Compared to traditional approaches, this allows for parametrically enhanced signal power for axions lighter than a GHz. The projected sensitivity covers unexplored parameter space for QCD axion dark matter for 10 −8 eV ≲ m a ≲ 10 −6 eV and axion-like particle dark matter as light as m a ∼ 10 −14 eV.
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