Search for streaming dark matter axions or other exotica
Abstract
We suggest a new approach to search for galactic axions or other similar exotica. Streaming dark matter (DM) could have a better discovery potential because of flux enhancement, due to gravitational lensing when the Sun and/or a planet are aligned with a DM stream. Of interest are also axion miniclusters, in particular, if the solar system has trapped one during its formation. Wide-band axion antennae fit this concept, but also the proposed fast narrow band scanning. A network of detectors can provide full time coverage and a large axion mass acceptance. Other DM searches may profit from this proposal.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1803.08588
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.08588
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180308588G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Submitted to the proceedings of "13Th Patras Workshop On Axions, Wimps And Wisps"