Particle Seminar: Yikun Wang (Caltech) “Axion Detection with Optomechanical Cavities”

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In this talk, I will present our recent proposal of searching for axion dark matter with an optomechanical cavity filled with a material such as superfluid helium. Axion absorption converts a pump laser photon to a photon plus a phonon. The axion absorption rate is enhanced by the high occupation number of coherent photons and phonons in the cavity, allowing our proposal to largely overcome the extremely small axion coupling. The axion mass probed is set by the relative frequency of the photon produced in the final state and the Stokes mode. The tunable photon and phonon frequencies allow for the reach to a broad range of axion masses. I will present some recent updates of the proposal and different possible realizations of the system.
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