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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 104, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.103030
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [864035-Un-Dark]
- Vetenskapsradet (Swedish Research Council) [638-2013-8993]
- Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics
- research environment grant 'Detecting Axion Dark Matter In The Sky And In The Lab (AxionDM) ' - Swedish Research Council (VR) [Dnr 2019-02337]
- Swedish Research Council [2018-05973]
This study explores the use of radio telescopes in the magnetospheres of neutron stars to search for axion dark matter, while addressing questions related to plasma interactions. Through advanced auto-differentiation algorithms and ray-tracing analysis, it is found that under reasonable parameters, strong anisotropy in signal, line broadening, and various physical effects can be expected.
The most promising indirect search for the existence of axion dark matter uses radio telescopes to look for narrow spectral lines generated from the resonant conversion of axions in the magnetospheres of neutron stars. Unfortunately, a large list of theoretical uncertainties has prevented this search strategy from being fully accepted as robust. In this work we attempt to address major outstanding questions related to the role and impact of the plasma, including: (i) does refraction and reflection of radio photons in the magnetosphere induce strong inhomogeneities in the flux, (ii) can refraction induce premature axionphoton dephasing, (iii) to what extent do photon-plasma interactions induce a broadening of the spectral line, (iv) does the flux have a strong time dependence, and (v) can radio photons sourced by axions be absorbed by the plasma. We present an end-to-end analysis pipeline based on ray-tracing that exploits a state-of-the-art auto-differentiation algorithm to propagate photons from the conversion surface to asymptotically large distances. Adopting a charge symmetric Goldreich-Julian model for the magnetosphere, we show that for reasonable parameters one should expect a strong anisotropy of the signal, refraction induced axion-photon dephasing, significant line-broadening, a variable time-dependence of the flux, and, for large enough magnetic fields, anisotropic absorption. Our simulation code is flexible enough to serve as the basis for follow-up studies with a large range of magnetosphere models.
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