Proposal for Axion Dark Matter Detection Using anLCCircuit

2013/10/31 by P. Sikivie, N. S. Sullivan, N. Sullivan +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Axion #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Field (mathematics) #Magnetic field #Magnetometer #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #astro-ph.GA #hep-ex #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.112.131301

5 pages, 2 figures. The first version of our paper gave an incorrect discussion of thermal noise

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Abstract

We show that dark matter axions cause an oscillating electric current to flow along magnetic field lines. The oscillating current induced in a strong magnetic field \stackrel\ensuremath→B₀ produces a small magnetic field \stackrel\ensuremath→B_a. We propose to amplify and detect \stackrel\ensuremath→B_a using a cooled LC circuit and a very sensitive magnetometer. This appears to be a suitable approach to searching for axion dark matter in the 10^\ensuremath-7 to 10^\ensuremath-9 eV mass range.

Citations

• Axions and the galactic angular momentum distribution
• A simple solution to the strong CP problem with a harmless axion
• Thermal Agitation of Electric Charge in Conductors
• Caustic ring model of the Milky Way halo
• Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions
• Probing eV-scale axions with CAST
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