Constraints on the Coupling between Axionlike Dark Matter and Photons Using an Antiproton Superconducting Tuned Detection Circuit in a Cryogenic Penning Trap
Abstract
We constrain the coupling between axionlike particles (ALPs) and photons, measured with the superconducting resonant detection circuit of a cryogenic Penning trap. By searching the noise spectrum of our fixed-frequency resonant circuit for peaks caused by dark matter ALPs converting into photons in the strong magnetic field of the Penning-trap magnet, we are able to constrain the coupling of ALPs with masses around 2.7906-2.7914 neV/c2 to gaγ<1×10-11 GeV-1. This is more than one order of magnitude lower than the best laboratory haloscope and approximately 5 times lower than the CERN axion solar telescope (CAST), setting limits in a mass and coupling range which is not constrained by astrophysical observations. Our approach can be extended to many other Penning-trap experiments and has the potential to provide broad limits in the low ALP mass range.
Details
- Organisationseinheit(en)
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Institut für Quantenoptik
SFB 1227: Designte Quantenzustände der Materie (DQ-mat)
- Externe Organisation(en)
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Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory
CERN - Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
University of Tokyo (UTokyo)
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH
- Typ
- Artikel
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Band
- 126
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Publikationsdatum
- 25.01.2021
- Publikationsstatus
- Veröffentlicht
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie
- Elektronische Version(en)
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.041301 (Zugang:
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