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CAST achievements and perspectivesK. Zioutas
University of Patras & CERN
Naxos, 8/5/2014
Abstract: CAST is a 3rd generation axion helioscope and its outcome since 2000 along with the ongoing activities will be presented. Recently, CAST became the first chameleon helioscope searching for such dark energy constituents. For the future, CAST has the potential to become an antenna for axion relics. The use of a home made highest sensitive force sensor from solid state physics might transform CAST to a powerfull chameleon helioscope, being sensitive also to the chameleon coupling to matter. If time allows, further implications in astroparticle physics will be mentioned.
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The CAST collaboration
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4 fundamental questions (+ gravity) after the HIGGS discovery:
• What is dark matter?
• What is dark energy?
• Matter - Antimatter asymmetry
• What is the origin of the ‘strong CP-problem’?
why nEDM → 0
Now: DM ≈ DE >> chance coincidence?
Physics motivation:
New physics!
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SPS accelerator
Geneva AirportLHC accelerator
CERN main site
CAST
g
BXvirtual
α
CAST
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Decommissioned prototype LHC dipole magnet: B=9 T, L=9.26 m
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5PI0ZVqwwvOQUVUejJidm1TUFk
SUN the convenient lab for new physics!?
Note: Allowed emission of exotica < 10% Lsolar !!
+ gravitational self-trapping of massive ~axions/WISPs (yield ~10-7)
accumulation over 4.5 Gyears …
… without visible ageing effects!
L.DiLella, K.Z., Astropart. Phys. (2003)
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GeV10
g110
aγ
keV4.2Ea
CERN Axion Solar Telescope: QCD Axions or other exotica
Detection => Inverse Primakoff effect: Axion / CH interacting coherently with a magnetic field (~B2) convert to a photon
Signal: excess of X-rays during sun tracking
Differential axion flux on Earth
Pierre Sikivie 1983
Production: Primakoff effect =>Thermal photons interacting with solar nuclei / B Axions & CHs
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CAST = a difficult experiment:
- 1.8K - superconducting ( quenches!)
- moving / alignment - Cryo Fluid Dynamics of buffer gas tracking - low background X-ray detectors
the only(!?) telescope at 1.8K
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Shielded Micromegas(bulk and microbulk technology)
Shielding upgrade
Unshielded Micromegas (classic technology)
Canfranc, undergroundlaboratory
Micromegas evolution
University of Zaragoza
T. Vafeiadis Rencontres de Moriond EW 2014
Transparent windows
=> nanotechnology
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Spare # from german space program
... not in the original proposal!
unique ID potential + signal and noise improvement
CAST fulfilled original proposal from 1999
CAST X-ray telescope
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BackgroundTracking Signal simulation
~ 8x10-5cts keV-1cm-2s-1
• Spot position well determined
• Full sensitivity of telescope exploited
• Counts in the spot compatible with background level
• Background rate 1-7keV:
X-ray Telescope / CCD
CAST Status & Perspectives, Theopisti Dafni (UNIZAR), Moriond2010
Solar axions! paraphotons, chameleons?
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This is CAST =>
CDM
Since Fritz Zwicky (1933) Q:
What is “dunkle Materie” made of? Beyond original CAST proposal >>
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CMB 400000 years ~400/cm3
CνB 1 sec ~50/cm3 ?
CaB 10-10 – 10-26 sec $ ~1012 cm3 (maxionc2≈meV) ?
Cosmic relics
$ Joerg Jaeckel
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Preliminary Analysis of data with SDD
PRELIMINARY
• First data from final configuration – Shielding and Cooling
• Background 6 hrs each night (field ON)• Solar tracking data ~ 100 mins each morning• Tracking (red) and background (blue) rates 400 – 1500 eV– Typically < 4∙10-5 Hz (per 76 eV bin)
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Solar Chameleon spectrum
First look at sub keV in CAST
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>> End 2013
The “first” solar chameleon helioscope βγ
βmatter
βmatter + βγ
A novel self-made force sensor
>> towards nominal sensitivity!
RadPres sensor
Dark Energy >> ~Chameleons => βmatter
KWISP
βγ
G. Cantatore M. Karuza
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Radiation pressure from solar Chameleons?
- A nano-membrane reflects solar chameleons radiation pressure & shift of membrane
- Membrane motion can be detected within a Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer
shifted membrane
probe beamprofile
motionless membrane
Radiation pressure
FP cavitymirror
1917/12/2013
(1mm)x(1mm), 50nm thick Si3N4 membrane mounted on a 200 µm Si substrate
FP cavitymirror
A novel interdisciplinary concept in dark energy.
@ U. Trieste, U. Rijeka, … !work in progress!
LCH ≥ 10-
10Lʘ
New perspective: CAST as a tracking haloscope for relics
•Helioscope (axion/chameleon/paraphoton)
•Haloscope(*) for (streaming) axions/ALPS/paraphotons m ≳ 10-4 eV/c2 ( λ ≲ 1 cm ) Single photon detection! ⇒ recover existing detectors!? ⇒ search in progress
CAST plusses: large B, moveable, T~1.8K- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ⇒ m ≲ 10-4 eV/c2 ? ⇒ cavity? … ADMX
?The “Dish Antenna” concept (arXiv:1212.2970, arXiv:1307.7181
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D. Hoffmann (TU-Darmstadt), A. Lindner (DESY), K.Z.
Needed:
• wide band detectors + expertise => from astrophysics
- Photoconductor detectors => ~25 - 250 μm [MPE] Sensitivity: 10-19W/Hz1/2 => 10-21 W /#/10h <= 100x? 100 dishes?
=> 10-23 W => subcritical for aDM (≈10-25W)
- Kinetic Induction Detectors (KIDs) [MPI-Bonn] ~105 # ADCs binning with Fourier analysis READOUT!? => a quasi Q=105 & no scan ~75 - 300GHz >>aDM - work in progress
• more DM => directional, streams, caustics, … => (Planetary) gravitational Lensing => ~104x flux?
~.01c (Sun) & ~.001c (Jupiter)21
New perspective: CAST as a tracking haloscope for relics
… CAST: past + pioneering future!?
The “Dish Antenna” concept / DESY
Streaming DM (axions/ALPS/paraphotons/..)
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If so …
Feasibility study: MPE (Garching) … μm sensors MPI (Bonn) … mm sensors Grav. Lensing => ~104 higher flux? ~.01c (Sun) & ~.001c (Jupiter) 𝚯𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐌(𝐑 )𝑹𝒗𝟐
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in all experimental DM
=> important challenge: ~10-4 - ~102eV
Y. Semertzidis
TES : >10-4eV << = one solution G. Cantatore
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CAST:
• has a “good” name since 1999 -
• to replace? => ~100M€ >> 2019
• A reference axion experiment >> next #
http://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.125030
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astrophysical (solar) signatures!CAST inspiring for ……overlooked?!
=> Solar mysteries suggest (out)streaming DM#)
- Simulation
- GAIA in orbit (Febr2014 - ) >> galactic streams? => streaming DM!!
#) The 11-years solar cycle as the manifestation of the dark Universe, K.Z., M. Tsagri, Y.K. Semertzidis, T. Papaevangelou, D.H.H. Hoffmann, V. Anastassopoulos, Mod. Phys. Lett. A (2014) in press (arXiv:1309.4021)
GAIA calibration
CAST + DM search
2013
2014 @ CERN
2015 @ Zaragoza
2016 @ Patra
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Conclusion =>
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Conclusion => … we insist
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Conclusion => … we insist
CAST has a future!!
Solar ChameleonsP. Brax, K. Zioutas, Phys. Rev. D82 (2010) 043007 arXiv:1004.1846 [astro-ph.SR]Detection prospects for solar and terrestrial chameleonsP. Brax, A. Lindner, K. Zioutas, Phys. Rev. D85 (2012) 043014 arXiv:1110.2583 [hep-ph]Detection of radiation pressure from solar chameleonsO.K. Baker, A. Lindner, Y.K. Semertzidis, A. Upadhye, K. Zioutas arXiv:1201.6508 [astro-ph.IM] A chameleon helioscope, K. Baker, A. Lindner, A. Upadhye, K. Zioutas arXiv:1201.0079 [astro-ph.SR]Gravitational lensing by the Sun of non-relativistic penetrating particlesD.H.H. Hoffmann, J. Jacoby, K. Zioutas, Astropart. Phys. 20 (2003) 73 DOI: 10.1016/S0927-6505(03)00138-5Flux Enhancement of Slow-moving Particles by Sun or Jupiter: Can they be Detected on Earth?B.R. Patla, R.J. Nemiroff, D.H.H. Hoffmann, K. Zioutas, ApJ. 780 (2014) 158 http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2454 The 11-years solar cycle as the manifestation of the dark UniverseK. Zioutas, M. Tsagri, Y.K. Semertzidis, T. Papaevangelou, D.H.H. Hoffmann, V. Anastassopouloshttp://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4021 >> special issue of Mod. Phys. Lett. A (2014) "Indirect Dark Matter Searches“Searching for WISPy Cold Dark Matter with a Dish Antenna,D. Horns, J. Jaeckel, A. Lindner, A. Lobanov, J. Redondo, A. Ringwald, JCAP 1304 (2013) 016, DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/016CAST opens a new window into dark energy and dark matter after 11 years of operation and continuous renewal.D. Hoffmann, K. Zioutas, PH – NEWSLETTER (Dec. 2013) http://ph-news.web.cern.ch/content/cast-opens-new-window-dark-energy-and-dark-matter-after-11-years-operation-and-continuous
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First results from the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) - CAST Collaboration (Zioutas, K. et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 121301 hep-ex/0411033An Improved limit on the axion-photon coupling from the CAST experiment - CAST Collaboration (Andriamonje, S. et al.) JCAP 0704 (2007) 010 hep-ex/0702006Search for 14.4-keV solar axions emitted in the M1-transition of Fe-57 nuclei with CAST - CAST Collaboration (Andriamonje, S. et al.) JCAP 0912 (2009) 002 arXiv:0906.4488 [hep-ex] SLAC-PUB-14825Search for solar axion emission from 7Li and D(p,γ) 3He nuclear decays with the CAST γ -ray calorimeter - CAST Collaboration (Andriamonje, S. et al.) JCAP 1003 (2010) 032 arXiv:0904.2103 [hep-ex] FERMILAB-PUB-09-854Probing eV-scale axions with CAST - CAST Collaboration (Arik, E. et al.) JCAP 0902 (2009) 008 arXiv:0810.4482 [hep-ex]CAST search for sub-eV mass solar axions with 3He buffer gas - CAST Collaboration (Aune, S. et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 261302 arXiv:1106.3919 [hep-ex]CAST solar axion search with 3He buffer gas: Closing the hot dark matter gap - CAST Collaboration (M. Arik, et al.) Phys. Rev. Lett. 112 (2014) 091302 arXiv:1307.1985 [hep-ex]
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P R E L I M I N
A R Y
Chameleons : exclusion plot
InGrid Detector• Detector for Q4 was developed starting
from Micromegas detectors.
• InGrid based on Timepix
• Drift distance 3 cm
• Gas mixture Ar:iC4H10 97.7:2.3
• Entrance window 2 µm aluminized Mylar foil.
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Radiation pressure from solar Chameleons
• A thin micromembrane having a suitable density absorbs momentum from a flux of chameleons coming from the sun and reflecting off it: the resulting radiation pressure causes a collettive motion (shift) of the membrane (arXiv:1206.0614)
• Membrane motion can be detected with high sensitivity by exploiting the multiplication factor afforded by the finesse (resonator Q in practice) of a Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer
• During operation the FP is kept at resonance with a probe laser beam by means of a feedback loop: the control signal of this loop contains the information on membrane motion and hence on chameleon properties
Optical cavity … with a movable end mirror (membrane).6nN=1W
Pcirc
Mass m & Frequency ωΜ
10-50 nm, ~50ngram
(r1,t1)
~7mm
(r2,t2)
~2-3 mm
LCH ≥ 10-
10Lʘ
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Maximum sensor area: 1 mm2 & Typical thickness: 100 - 200 nmMaterial: amorphous Si3Ni4 or single-crystal SiResonance frequency: 1 kHz - 1 MHz
Force sensitivity at RT: 10-15 N/Hz1/2(on resonance) & 10-13 N/Hz1/2(at dc)Force sensitivity at resonance frequency, at 300 mK:
10-17 N/Hz1/2(on resonance) & 10-14 N/Hz1/2 (at dc)Note:
10-11N/m2 ► 10-13 mbar ► 0.1 μW/cm2, OR
10 μW/cm2 ► 10-9N/m2 = 10-15N/mm2 + (104 s)1/2 =100x improved sensitivity:
► 10-17N/mm2/3hours(DC) ► 100nW/cm2 ►10-5Lmax-solar-CH
Potential improvements: x10 (#sensors) + x100 (focusing mirror(s)) + x100 (resonance)
► 10-22N/mm2 / 3hours (DC @ RT)
► 1 pW/cm2 ► 10-10Lmax-solar-CHs @ RT
http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/arxiv/papers/1201/1201.6508.pdf
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CAST Detectors - active and planned
• Micromegas (active) and new generation MM (commissioning) - few keV range
• Low-threshold detectors
• SDD (active) - > 400 eV range
• InGrid (commissioning) - 280 eV and above
• BaRBE (commissioning) - eV range
• Detectors for expanding sensitivity
• KWISP Radiation Pressure force sensor (prototype)
• dish antenna tracking haloscope (feas. study phase)
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