تقرير
Search for vector dark matter in microwave cavities with Rydberg atoms
| العنوان: | Search for vector dark matter in microwave cavities with Rydberg atoms |
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| المؤلفون: | Gué, Jordan, Hees, Aurélien, Lodewyck, Jérôme, Targat, Rodolphe Le, Wolf, Peter |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Physics (Other) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Physics - Atomic Physics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| الوصف: | We propose a novel experiment to search for dark matter, based on the application of an electric field inside a microwave cavity and electrometry using Rydberg atoms. We show that this kind of experiment could be extremely useful for detecting specific dark matter candidates, namely massive vector fields coupled to the photon field, more commonly known as dark photons. Such a massive vector field is a good candidate for dark matter. Using realistic experimental parameters we show that such an experiment could improve the current constraint on the coupling constant of the dark photons to Standard Model photons in the 1~$\mu$eV to 10~$\mu$eV mass range, with the possibility of tuning the maximum sensitivity via the cavity size. The main limiting factors on the sensitivity of the experiment are the amplitude stability of the applied field and the measurement uncertainty of the electric field by the atoms. Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.035042 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11671 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2305.11671 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.035042 |
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