Frequency-scanning considerations in axionlike dark matter spin-precession experiments
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| author | Zhang, Yuzhe Tumturk, Deniz Aybas Bekker, Hendrik Budker, Dmitry Kimball, Derek F. Jackson Sushkov, Alexander O. Wickenbrock, Arne |
| author_facet | Zhang, Yuzhe Tumturk, Deniz Aybas Bekker, Hendrik Budker, Dmitry Kimball, Derek F. Jackson Sushkov, Alexander O. Wickenbrock, Arne |
| contents | Galactic dark matter may consist of axionlike particles (ALPs) that can be described as an "ultralight bosonic field" oscillating at the ALP Compton frequency. The ALP field can be searched for using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where resonant precession of spins of a polarized sample can be sensitively detected. The ALP mass to which the experiment is sensitive is scanned by sweeping the bias magnetic field. The scanning either results in detection of ALP dark matter or rules out ALP dark matter with sufficiently strong couplings to nuclear spins over the range of ALP masses corresponding to the covered span of Larmor frequencies. In this work, scanning strategies are analyzed with the goal of optimizing the parameter-space coverage via a proper choice of experimental parameters (e.g., the effective transverse relaxation time). |
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| spellingShingle | Frequency-scanning considerations in axionlike dark matter spin-precession experiments Zhang, Yuzhe Tumturk, Deniz Aybas Bekker, Hendrik Budker, Dmitry Kimball, Derek F. Jackson Sushkov, Alexander O. Wickenbrock, Arne Atomic Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Galactic dark matter may consist of axionlike particles (ALPs) that can be described as an "ultralight bosonic field" oscillating at the ALP Compton frequency. The ALP field can be searched for using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where resonant precession of spins of a polarized sample can be sensitively detected. The ALP mass to which the experiment is sensitive is scanned by sweeping the bias magnetic field. The scanning either results in detection of ALP dark matter or rules out ALP dark matter with sufficiently strong couplings to nuclear spins over the range of ALP masses corresponding to the covered span of Larmor frequencies. In this work, scanning strategies are analyzed with the goal of optimizing the parameter-space coverage via a proper choice of experimental parameters (e.g., the effective transverse relaxation time). |
| title | Frequency-scanning considerations in axionlike dark matter spin-precession experiments |
| topic | Atomic Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08462 |