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Heterodyne broadband detection of axion dark matter

Asher Berlin1, Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo2, Sebastian A. R. Ellis3, and Kevin Zhou3

  • 1Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA
  • 2Institut de Physique Théorique, Université Paris Saclay, CEA, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • 3SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 104, L111701 – Published 17 December, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L111701

Abstract

We propose a new broadband search strategy for ultralight axion dark matter that interacts with electromagnetism. An oscillating axion field induces transitions between two quasidegenerate resonant modes of a superconducting cavity. In two broadband runs optimized for high and low masses, this setup can probe unexplored parameter space for axionlike particles covering 15 orders of magnitude in mass, including astrophysically long-ranged fuzzy dark matter.

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Phys. Rev. D 104, L111701– Published 17 December, 2021
  • Received 18 August 2020
  • Accepted 1 December 2021
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