Probing the axion-photon coupling with space-based gravitational waves detectors

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Autori principali: Gué, Jordan, Hees, Aurélien, Wolf, Peter
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author Gué, Jordan
Hees, Aurélien
Wolf, Peter
author_facet Gué, Jordan
Hees, Aurélien
Wolf, Peter
contents We propose a simple modification of space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector optical benches which would enable the measurement of vacuum birefringence of light induced by axion dark matterthrough its coupling to electromagnetism. Specifically, we propose to change a half-wave plate by a circular polarizer. While marginally affecting the sensitivity to GW by a factor $\sqrt{2}$, we show that such an adjustment would make future detectors such as LISA, TianQin, Taiji and Big-Bang Observer the most sensitive experiments at low axion masses
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spellingShingle Probing the axion-photon coupling with space-based gravitational waves detectors
Gué, Jordan
Hees, Aurélien
Wolf, Peter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Optics
We propose a simple modification of space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector optical benches which would enable the measurement of vacuum birefringence of light induced by axion dark matterthrough its coupling to electromagnetism. Specifically, we propose to change a half-wave plate by a circular polarizer. While marginally affecting the sensitivity to GW by a factor $\sqrt{2}$, we show that such an adjustment would make future detectors such as LISA, TianQin, Taiji and Big-Bang Observer the most sensitive experiments at low axion masses
title Probing the axion-photon coupling with space-based gravitational waves detectors
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17763