Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes

Lawson, Matthew; Millar, Alexander J.; Pancaldi, Matteo; Vitagliano, Edoardo; Wilczek, Frank

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802

Title: Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes

Journal Article · 01 October 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802 · OSTI ID:1567920

Lawson, Matthew ^[1]; Millar, Alexander J. ^[1]; Pancaldi, Matteo ^[1]; Vitagliano, Edoardo ^[2]; Wilczek, Frank ^[3]

Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
Max-Planck-Inst. für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Inst.), Munchen (Germany)
Stockholm Univ. (Sweden); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); T. D. Lee Inst., Shanghai (China); Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China); Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)

We propose a new strategy for searching for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon masses by breaking translational invariance (cavity and dielectric haloscopes), a plasma haloscope enables resonant conversion by matching the axion mass to a plasma frequency. A key advantage is that the plasma frequency is unrelated to the physical size of the device, allowing large conversion volumes. Furthermore, we identify wire metamaterials as a promising candidate plasma, wherein the plasma frequency can be tuned by varying the interwire spacing. For realistic experimental sizes, we estimate competitive sensitivity for axion masses of 35–400 μeV, at least.

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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012567

OSTI ID:: 1567920

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1634999

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, Issue 14; ISSN 0031-9007

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Language:: English

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