Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes
Abstract
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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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1567920
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- OSTI ID: 1634999
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012567
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- Published Article
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- Physical Review Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 123 Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; axions; metamaterials; particle dark matter; low-temperature plasma; dark matter detectors
Citation Formats
Lawson, Matthew, Millar, Alexander J., Pancaldi, Matteo, Vitagliano, Edoardo, and Wilczek, Frank. Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802.
Lawson, Matthew, Millar, Alexander J., Pancaldi, Matteo, Vitagliano, Edoardo, & Wilczek, Frank. Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802
Lawson, Matthew, Millar, Alexander J., Pancaldi, Matteo, Vitagliano, Edoardo, and Wilczek, Frank. Tue .
"Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802.
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title = {Tunable Axion Plasma Haloscopes},
author = {Lawson, Matthew and Millar, Alexander J. and Pancaldi, Matteo and Vitagliano, Edoardo and Wilczek, Frank},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 14,
volume = 123,
place = {United States},
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.141802
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