Searching for axion dark matter with birefringent cavities
Abstract
Axionlike particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has recently revealed a number of promising experimental designs. Inspired by these ideas, we propose the axion detection with birefringent cavities (ADBC) experiment, a new axion interferometry concept using a cavity that exhibits birefringence between its two, linearly polarized laser eigenmodes. This experimental concept overcomes several limitations of the designs currently in the literature and can be practically realized in the form of a simple bowtie cavity with tunable mirror angles. Our design thereby increases the sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling over a wide range of axion masses.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1545951
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- OSTI ID: 1611861; OSTI ID: 1630630
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- SC0012567
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- Physical Review D
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- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics; Axions; Optical interferometry; Particle dark matter
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Liu, Hongwan, Elwood, Brodi D., Evans, Matthew, and Thaler, Jesse. Searching for axion dark matter with birefringent cavities. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.023548.
Liu, Hongwan, Elwood, Brodi D., Evans, Matthew, & Thaler, Jesse. Searching for axion dark matter with birefringent cavities. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.023548
Liu, Hongwan, Elwood, Brodi D., Evans, Matthew, and Thaler, Jesse. Tue .
"Searching for axion dark matter with birefringent cavities". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.023548.
@article{osti_1545951,
title = {Searching for axion dark matter with birefringent cavities},
author = {Liu, Hongwan and Elwood, Brodi D. and Evans, Matthew and Thaler, Jesse},
abstractNote = {Axionlike particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has recently revealed a number of promising experimental designs. Inspired by these ideas, we propose the axion detection with birefringent cavities (ADBC) experiment, a new axion interferometry concept using a cavity that exhibits birefringence between its two, linearly polarized laser eigenmodes. This experimental concept overcomes several limitations of the designs currently in the literature and can be practically realized in the form of a simple bowtie cavity with tunable mirror angles. Our design thereby increases the sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling over a wide range of axion masses.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.023548},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 2,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {7}
}
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