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地球作为探测轴子暗物质的传感器

Earth as a transducer for axion dark-matter detection

Ariel Arza, Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Saarik Kalia

摘要:

我们证明,超轻的轴子暗物质与光子耦合诱导振荡的全球地球磁场信号中存在的背景地磁场的地球。这个信号在结构上类似于最近在[arXiv:2106.00022]和[arXiv:2108.08852]中指出和搜索的暗光子暗物质。它有一个由地球地磁场固定的全球矢量模式,在长时间尺度上是时间相干的,并且具有由轴子质量$m_a$设定的频率。在这项工作中,我们都计算详细的信号模式,并进行搜索,这个信号在磁强计网络数据由SuperMAG协作。我们的分析没有发现强有力的证据表明,在轴子质量范围$2\times10^{-18}\text{eV} \lesssim m_a \lesssim 7\times10^{-17}\text{eV}$的轴子暗物质信号。假设轴子是所有的暗物质,我们把约束的轴子光子耦合$g_{aγ}$在相同的质量范围内,在其最强的,质量$3\times 10^{-17}\text{eV} \lesssim m_a \lesssim 4\times 10^{-17}\text{eV}$,这些约束是可比的CAST日光镜。

英文摘要:

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomagnetic field of the Earth. This signal is similar in structure to that of dark-photon dark matter that was recently pointed out and searched for in [arXiv:2106.00022] and [arXiv:2108.08852]. It has a global vectorial pattern fixed by the Earth's geomagnetic field, is temporally coherent on long time scales, and has a frequency set by the axion mass $m_a$. In this work, we both compute the detailed signal pattern, and undertake a search for this signal in magnetometer network data maintained by the SuperMAG Collaboration. Our analysis identifies no strong evidence for an axion dark-matter signal in the axion mass range $2\times10^{-18}\text{eV} \lesssim m_a \lesssim 7\times10^{-17}\text{eV}$. Assuming the axion is all of the dark matter, we place constraints on the axion-photon coupling $g_{aγ}$ in the same mass range; at their strongest, for masses $3\times 10^{-17}\text{eV} \lesssim m_a \lesssim 4\times 10^{-17}\text{eV}$, these constraints are comparable to those obtained by the CAST helioscope.

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