The ultralight dark photon is an intriguing dark matter candidate.The interaction between visible and dark photons is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge grou...The ultralight dark photon is an intriguing dark matter candidate.The interaction between visible and dark photons is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge groups in the Standard Model and dark sector.Relativistic electrodynamics was generalized to quantum electromagnetodynamics(QEMD)in the presence of both electric and magnetic charges.The photon is described by two fourpotentials corresponding to two U(1)gauge groups and satisfying non-trivial commutation relations.In this work,we construct low-energy dark photon-photon interactions in the QEMD framework and obtain new dark photonphoton kinetic mixings.Then,we derive the consequent field and Maxwell's equations.We also investigate the detection strategies of dark photons as light dark matter and generic kinetic mixings at haloscope experiments.展开更多
The Witten effect implies the presence of electric charge of magnetic monople and the possible relationship between axion and dyon.The axion-dyon dynamics can be reliably built based on the quantum electromagnetodynam...The Witten effect implies the presence of electric charge of magnetic monople and the possible relationship between axion and dyon.The axion-dyon dynamics can be reliably built based on the quantum electromagnetodynamics(QEMD)which was developed by Schwinger and Zwanziger in the 1960's.A generic low-energy axionphoton effective field theory can also be realized in the language of“generalized symmetries”with higher-form symmetries and background gauge fields.In this work,we implement the quantum calculation of the axion-single photon transition rate inside a homogeneous electromagnetic field in terms of the new axion interaction Hamiltonian in QEMD.This quantum calculation can clearly imply the enhancement of conversion rate through resonant cavity in axion haloscope experiments.We also show the promising potentials on the cavity search of new axion-photon couplings.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12375096,12035008,11975129)。
文摘The ultralight dark photon is an intriguing dark matter candidate.The interaction between visible and dark photons is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge groups in the Standard Model and dark sector.Relativistic electrodynamics was generalized to quantum electromagnetodynamics(QEMD)in the presence of both electric and magnetic charges.The photon is described by two fourpotentials corresponding to two U(1)gauge groups and satisfying non-trivial commutation relations.In this work,we construct low-energy dark photon-photon interactions in the QEMD framework and obtain new dark photonphoton kinetic mixings.Then,we derive the consequent field and Maxwell's equations.We also investigate the detection strategies of dark photons as light dark matter and generic kinetic mixings at haloscope experiments.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12375096,11975129,12035008)“the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”,Nankai University(63196013)。
文摘The Witten effect implies the presence of electric charge of magnetic monople and the possible relationship between axion and dyon.The axion-dyon dynamics can be reliably built based on the quantum electromagnetodynamics(QEMD)which was developed by Schwinger and Zwanziger in the 1960's.A generic low-energy axionphoton effective field theory can also be realized in the language of“generalized symmetries”with higher-form symmetries and background gauge fields.In this work,we implement the quantum calculation of the axion-single photon transition rate inside a homogeneous electromagnetic field in terms of the new axion interaction Hamiltonian in QEMD.This quantum calculation can clearly imply the enhancement of conversion rate through resonant cavity in axion haloscope experiments.We also show the promising potentials on the cavity search of new axion-photon couplings.