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Search for axions in streaming dark matter

Authors :
Zioutas, K.
Anastassopoulos, V.
Bertolucci, S.
Cantatore, G.
Cetin, S. A.
Fischer, H.
Funk, W.
Antonios gardikiotis
Hoffmann, D. H. H.
Hofmann, S.
Karuza, M.
Maroudas, M.
Semertzidis, Y. K.
Tkatchev, I.
Source :
INSPIRE-HEP
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
arXiv, 2017.

Abstract

A new search strategy for the detection of the elusive dark matter (DM) axion is proposed. The idea is based on streaming DM axions, whose flux might get temporally enormously enhanced due to gravitational lensing. This can happen if the Sun or some planet (including the Moon) is found along the direction of a DM stream propagating towards the Earth location. The experimental requirements to the axion haloscope are a wide-band performance combined with a fast axion rest mass scanning mode, which are feasible. Once both conditions have been implemented in a haloscope, the axion search can continue parasitically almost as before. Interestingly, some new DM axion detectors are operating wide-band by default. In order not to miss the actually unpredictable timing of a potential short duration signal, a network of co-ordinated axion antennae is required, preferentially distributed world-wide. The reasoning presented here for the axions applies to some degree also to any other DM candidates like the WIMPs.<br />Comment: 5 pages

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
INSPIRE-HEP
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....07b3b96e21eae9368cfea9849ef4ae06
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1703.01436