Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light
Abstract
QCD axions or axionlike particles are among the most popular candidates for cold dark matter (DM) in the Universe. We proposed to detect axionlike DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of birefringence effect potentially caused by an oscillating galactic axion DM background, when pulsar light travels across the Galaxy, its linear polarization angle may vary with time. With a soliton + NFW galactic DM halo profile, we show that this strategy can potentially probe an axion-photon coupling as small as ~10–13 GeV–1 for axion mass $$m_a$$ ~ 10–22–10–20 eV , given the current measurement accuracy. An exclusion limit stronger than CAST (~ 10–10 GeV–1) and SN1987A (~ 10–11 GeV–1) could be extended up to $$m_a$$ ~ 10–18 eV and ~10–19 eV, respectively.
- Authors:
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[1];
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China)
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); IAS TT&WF Chao Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1801962
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1604229
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009959; DESC0009959
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
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Liu, Tao, Smoot, George, and Zhao, Yue. Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.101.063012.
Liu, Tao, Smoot, George, & Zhao, Yue. Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.063012
Liu, Tao, Smoot, George, and Zhao, Yue. Wed .
"Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.063012. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1801962.
@article{osti_1801962,
title = {Detecting axionlike dark matter with linearly polarized pulsar light},
author = {Liu, Tao and Smoot, George and Zhao, Yue},
abstractNote = {QCD axions or axionlike particles are among the most popular candidates for cold dark matter (DM) in the Universe. We proposed to detect axionlike DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of birefringence effect potentially caused by an oscillating galactic axion DM background, when pulsar light travels across the Galaxy, its linear polarization angle may vary with time. With a soliton + NFW galactic DM halo profile, we show that this strategy can potentially probe an axion-photon coupling as small as ~10–13 GeV–1 for axion mass $m_a$ ~ 10–22–10–20 eV , given the current measurement accuracy. An exclusion limit stronger than CAST (~ 10–10 GeV–1) and SN1987A (~ 10–11 GeV–1) could be extended up to $m_a$ ~ 10–18 eV and ~10–19 eV, respectively.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.101.063012},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 6,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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