TeV Particle Astrophysics- July 14, 2005

AXION DARK MATTER SEARCH

Leanne Duffy
Department of Physics University of Florida

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The Other End of the Spectrum:

eV Particle Astrophysics
Leanne Duffy
Department of Physics University of Florida

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Overview
Properties of dark matter axions Axion detection in the galactic halo New result from the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment
[astro-ph/0505237]

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Axion Properties
The Peccei-Quinn (1977) solution to the strong CP problem gives us the axion (Weinberg, 1978; Wilczek, 1978). New parameter: fa , the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaking scale. Small mass

ma = 6 eV

1012 GeV fa

(1)

ma 106 102 eV = fa 109 1013 GeV

The parameter space is bounded - we know where to look!

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Cold Axion Population

A cold population of axions has never been in thermal equilibrium with the rest of the universe.

Axions from vacuum realignment

(Abbot & Sikivie, 1983; Preskill, Wise & Wilczek, 1983; Dine & Fischler, 1983)

Initial momentum is of the order: pa (tQCD ) Hubble expansion until today: pa (t0 ) 1021 eV = Cold!
1 tQCD

109 eV.

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Generic couplings: gaii

1 fa

fa 109 1013 GeV = Weakly coupled!

Axions make a good candidate for the cold dark matter.

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Microwave Cavity Detection

Axion-electromagnetic eld coupling:

La = ga aE B.

(2)

Resonant conversion of axion to photons is induced in a microwave cavity when the resonant frequency is equal to the axion energy.
(Sikivie, 1983)

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ADMX Collaboration
(Axion Dark Matter eXperiment)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: S. J. Asztalos, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, L. J. Rosenberg, K. van Bibber, D. B. Yu University of Florida: L. D. Duffy, P. Sikivie, D. B. Tanner National Radio Astronomy Observatory: R. F. Bradley University of California (Berkeley): D. M. Moltz

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The ADMX Detector

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Cross-channel Comparison
BW = 125 Hz t = 2000 sec

MR Power fluctuations

30 20 10 0

479.994 BW = 1.21 Hz t = 52 sec

479.997

480.000

HR Power fluctuations

8 6 4 2 0 -2

479.9966

479.9970 Frequency (MHz)

479.9974

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High Resolution Search

Hypothesis: There exist steady ows of dark matter axions with small velocity dispersion that will result in ne structure in the spectrum taken with a microwave cavity detector.

Search procedure: (1) Scan entire range of interest for candidate signals above a certain threshold. (2) Reexamine candidates from (1), to see if they persist. (3) Identify the source of any persistent candidates remaining from (2).

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Recent Search Spectrum

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Data Sample

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Noise Statistics

108 106 # Points 104 102 100 0 10 20 Power ( ) 30 40

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Signal Modulation
Daily: Frequency shift 1 Hz HR Resolution: 0.02 Hz Scan time: 50 s

f 0.002 Hz

Annual: Frequency shift 100Hz HR Bandwidth: 6kHz

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Data Interpretation Signal width:

f = f vv f = frequency v = velocity v = velocity dispersion

(3)

Combined bin searches are performed to allow for different signal

widths.

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Power due to resonant axionphoton conversion:

2 P g a ma

(4)

g = modeldependent constant a = local density of axions ma = axion mass

Models:

KSVZ: g = 0.97
(Kim, 1979; Shifman, Vainshtein and Zakharov, 1980)

DFSZ: g = 0.36
(Dine, Fischler and Srednicki, 1981; Zhitnitsky, 1980)

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Axion Limits

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New High Resolution Result LD et al, 2005

10
6

Halo density (GeV/cm3)

4 2

DFSZ (MR)

DFSZ (HR)

1
6 4 2

KSVZ (HR)

0.1
6 4

2.00

2.05

2.10

2.15

Axion mass (eV)

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Summary and Outlook Axions are a good candidate for the dark matter of the universe.

The microwave cavity search is probing the allowed parameter

space.

The new high resolution channel has increased sensitivity and

improves the potential of nding the axion.

If the dark matter consists of axions, it will be found!