Open AccessDark matter signals on laser interferometer
Author(s) -
S. Tsuchida,
Nobuyuki Kanda,
Y. Itoh,
M. Mori
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012022
Subject(s) - physics , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , chromatography
WIMPs are promising dark matter candidates. When WIMPs collide with a mirror equipped with interferometric gravitational wave detectors, we expect that characteristic motions of the pendulum and mirror are excited, and those signals could be extracted by highly sophisticated sensors developed for gravitational wave detection. We analyze the motions of the pendulum and mirror, and estimate the detectability of these motions. For the “Thin-ET” detector, the signal to noise ratio may be 1.7 ( m DM 100 GeV ) , where m DM is the mass of a WIMP. We may set a more strict upper limit on the cross section between a WIMP and a nucleon than the limits obtained by other experiments so far when m DM is approximately lower than 0.2 GeV. We find an order of magnitude improvement in the upper limit around m DM = 0.2 GeV.