Next Steps in the Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt)

POSTER

Abstract

The Earth can act as a transducer for ultralight dark-matter detection: hidden-photon or axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter can induce a coherent global magnetic field pattern [1-3]. We discuss the next generation of the Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt), a search for oscillating magnetic signals due to ultralight bosonic dark matter. We use a network of atomic magnetometers located in relatively quiet magnetic environments, namely in the wilderness far from human-generated magnetic noise. The next generation of the SNIPE Hunt targets higher frequencies (in the 5 Hz to 1 kHz range) and will employ induction-coil magnetometers. In order to clearly interpret the data without detailed modeling of complicated features of the Earth's ionosphere, we propose to measure the curl of the magnetic field at each site.

*NSF grant PHYS-2110388

Publication: [1] M. A. Fedderke, P. W. Graham, D. F. Jackson Kimball, and S. Kalia, Phys. Rev. D 104, 075023 (2021).
[2] M. A. Fedderke, P. W. Graham, D. F. Jackson Kimball, and S. Kalia, Phys. Rev. D 104, 095032 (2021).
[3] A. Arza, M. A. Fedderke, P. W. Graham, D. F. Jackson Kimball, and S. Kalia, Phys. Rev. D 105, 095007 (2022).

Presenters

  • Katie Hermanson

    • California State University, East Bay
    • California State University - East Bay

Authors

  • Katie Hermanson

    • California State University, East Bay
    • California State University - East Bay

  • Brittany Karki

    • California State University, East Bay
    • California State University - East Bay

  • Derek F Jackson Kimball

    • California State University - East Bay

  • Ariel Arza

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  • Itay M Bloch

    • Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
    • University of California at Berkeley

  • Eduardo Castro Muñoz

    • Oberlin College

  • Chris Fabian

    • Bucknell University

  • Michael A Fedderke

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Madison Forseth

    • California State University, East Bay
    • Chabot College

  • Peter Graham

    • Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
    • Stanford University

  • Erik B Helgren

    • California State University, East Bay

  • Andres Interiano-Alvarado

    • California State University, East Bay
    • California State University - East Bay

  • Saarik Kalia

    • University of Minnesota

  • Will Griffith

    • Messiah University

  • Abaz Kryemadhi

    • Messiah University

  • Andre Li

    • California State University, East Bay
    • California State University - East Bay

  • Ehsanullah Nikfar

    • Oberlin College

  • Warner Serrano

    • Oberlin College

  • Jason E Stalnaker

    • Oberlin College

  • Ibrahim Sulai

    • Bucknell University

  • Yicheng Wang

    • Bucknell University