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Detectable Electric Current induced by Dark Matter Axion in a Conductor

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-17 v3

Abstract

We propose a way of detecting dark matter axion by using two slabs of conductor. The flat surfaces are put to meet face to face so that they are parallel to each other. External magnetic field BB parallel to the surfaces is impressed. Radiations converted from the axion arise between two slabs. When we tune the spacing ll between two surfaces such as l=π/mal=\pi/m_a with axion mass mam_a, a resonance occurs so that the radiations become strong. Furthermore, electric current flowing on the surface of the slabs is enhanced. We show that the electric current is large enough to be detectable at the resonance. It reaches 0.7×1090.7\times 10^{-9}A(105\mboxeV/ma)1/2(B/5\mboxT)(L/10\mboxcm)(σ/3.3×107eV)(10^{-5}\mbox{eV}/m_a)^{1/2}(B/5\mbox{T})(L/10\mbox{cm})(\sigma/3.3\times 10^7\rm eV), using 66N copper of the square slab with side length LL and high electrical conductivity σ\sigma at temperature T1T\sim 1K. The power of the Joule heating is 0.3×1022\mboxW(B/5\mboxT)2(105\mboxeV/ma)1/2(L/10\mboxcm)2(σ/3.3×107eV)0.3\times10^{-22}\mbox{W}(B/5\mbox{T})^2(10^{-5}\mbox{eV}/m_a)^{1/2}(L/10\mbox{cm})^2(\sigma/3.3\times 10^7\rm eV). When we amplify the power using LC circuit with QQ value, the signal to noise ratio is 4.5×104(Q/106)(B/5\mboxT)2(tobs/1sec)1/2(105\mboxeV/ma)(L/10\mboxcm)2(σ/3.3×107eV)4.5\times 10^4(Q/10^6)(B/5\mbox{T})^2(t_{obs}/1\sec)^{1/2}\,(10^{-5}\mbox{eV}/m_a) (L/10\mbox{cm})^2(\sigma/3.3\times 10^7\rm eV) with tobst_{obs} observational time.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09468,
  title  = {Detectable Electric Current induced by Dark Matter Axion in a Conductor},
  author = {Aiichi Iwazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09468},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure. To be published in PTEP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.06514

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