Exploration of Wire Array Metamaterials for the Plasma Axion Haloscope
A plasma haloscope has recently been proposed as a feasible approach to extend the search for dark matter axions above 10 GHz (≈40 μeV), whereby the microwave cavity in a conventional axion haloscope is supplanted by a wire array metamaterial. Since the plasma frequency of a metamaterial is determined by its unit cell, and is thus a bulk property, a metamaterial resonator of any frequency can be made arbitrarily large, in contrast to a microwave cavity which incurs a steep penalty in volume with increasing frequency. To assess the actual potential of this concept as a practical dark matter haloscope, the basic properties of wire array metamaterials have been investigated through an extensive series of S21 measurements in the 10 GHz range. This report presents some new systematics of wire array metamaterials themselves including the approach to full plasmonic behavior, the applicability of the semianalytic theory of Belov, and estimates of the loss term which bode favorably for the plasmonic haloscope application. This present work constitutes the first precision test of the semianalytic theory of Belov et al., for which the predicted plasma frequency agrees with the experimental value at the 0.1% level.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; 1914199
- OSTI ID:
- 1867671
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-22-286-AD; arXiv:2203.13945; oai:inspirehep.net:2058922
- Journal Information:
- Annalen der Physik (Leipzig), Vol. 2023; ISSN 0003-3804
- Publisher:
- WileyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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