https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6412-x
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
New method of galactic axion search
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan
* e-mail: sasao@okayama-u.ac.jp
Received:
11
July
2018
Accepted:
24
October
2018
Published online:
19
November
2018
An appealing candidate of the galactic dark matter is the axion, which was postulated to solve the strong CP (Charge-conjugation Parity) violation problem in the standard particle theory. A new experimental method is proposed to determine the axion mass. The method uses collectively and coherently excited atoms or molecules, the trigger laser inducing galactic axion absorption along with signal photon emission to be detected.
© The Author(s), 2018
