Axion Quark Nuggets and how a Global Network can discover them [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.09475


We advocate the idea that a global network of the synchronized axion detectors can greatly enhance the discovery potential of the QCD axions. Our computations are based on the so-called Axion Quark Nugget (AQN) dark matter model which was originally invented to explain the similarity of the dark and visible cosmological matter densities $\Omega_{\rm dark}\sim \Omega_{\rm visible}$. In our framework the conventional population of the galactic axions will be always accompanied by the axions emitted by AQNs. These AQN- originated axions with mass $ 10^{-6} {\rm eV}\lesssim m_a\lesssim 10^{-3}{\rm eV}$ can be observed as correlated events with synchronized detectors assembled in a global network. The correlations can be effectively observed if the individual axion detectors are positioned at distances shorter than a few hundred kilometres.

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D. Budker, V. Flambaum, X. Liang, et. al.
Mon, 23 Sep 19
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Comments: 5 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.04675, arXiv:1905.00022