Light boson dark matter such as axion or hidden photon can be resonantly converted into a magnon in a magnetic insulator under the magnetic field, which can be detected experimentally. We provide a quantum mechanical formulation for the magnon event rate and show that the result is consistent with that obtained by a classical calculation. Besides, it is pointed out that the experimental setup of the QUAX proposal for the axion detection also works as a detector of hidden photon dark matter. It has good sensitivity in the mass range around 1 meV, which is beyond astrophysical constraints.
@article{arxiv.2001.10666,
title = {Detecting Light Boson Dark Matter through Conversion into Magnon},
author = {So Chigusa and Takeo Moroi and Kazunori Nakayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10666},
year = {2020}
}