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Direct Deflection of Millicharged Radiation

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Pith's one-line read A light-shining-through-wall cavity pair can also operate as a direct-deflection detector for a relativistic background of millicharged particles, with a future Dark SRF run probing unexplored parameter space.

desk verdict Existing SRF light-shining-through-wall cavities can plausibly double as direct-deflection detectors for relativistic millicharged radiation; the physics is sound, but the reach curves rest on an unverified mode-overlap factor. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.03643 v1 pith:ERFDJ2FI submitted 2024-12-04 hep-ph astro-ph.COhep-ex

Asher Berlin , Surjeet Rajendran , Harikrishnan Ramani , Erwin H. Tanin This is my paper · ORCID
classification hep-phastro-ph.COhep-ex
keywords millichargedparticlesdarkradiationlight-shining-through-wallsuperconductingradio-frequencycavitiesdirectdeflectionsolarwindcosmicneutrinobackgroundplasmalinearresponse
topics Dark EnergyDark Matter
open problems Dark MatterDark Energy
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

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The reading

This paper argues that experiments built to search for new particles by shining light through a wall, driving one superconducting radio-frequency cavity and listening in a shielded second cavity, are inadvertently also direct detectors for a background of millicharged particles. A relativistic background of millicharged particles crossing the driven cavity is deflected, setting up oscillating charge and current disturbances that travel into the shielded cavity and resonantly excite its detection mode. Applying this to the existing Dark SRF experiment, the authors estimate that a future upgrade could probe orders of magnitude of currently unconstrained parameter space, including millicharges emitted by the Sun as a dark solar wind, millicharged cosmic neutrinos, and thermal dark radiation with energy density as small as about $10^{-4}$ of the cosmic microwave background. The central quantity is the plasma response: the induced millicurrent scales with the square of the millicharge plasma frequency, so low-energy, high-density populations give the largest signal.

What carries the argument

The engine is the plasma linear-response tensor $\widetilde{\Pi}^{\mu\nu}(k)$ of an ultrarelativistic, collisionless, weakly coupled $\chi^\pm$ plasma, derived from the Vlasov equation and decomposed into longitudinal and transverse parts; its poles define the plasma dispersion relations and its static limit gives Debye screening. The deflector current is chosen as a shielded, sinusoidal capacitor-like source $\sim e^{-z^2/L_{\rm def}^2}\cos(x/L_{\rm def})\cos(y/L_{\rm def})$, which approximately reproduces a TM010 cavity mode. The induced millicurrent is fitted by $|J_\chi| \sim a_\gamma (E_{\rm def}/L_{\rm def}) \min(\tilde{\omega}_p L_{\rm def},\,1,\,b_\gamma \gamma/\tilde{\omega}_p L_{\rm def})^2$, and for a dark-photon mediator the substitutions $\tilde{\omega}_p\to\tilde{\omega}_p'$ and $J_\chi\to\epsilon^2 J_\chi$ convert this into the visible current. The detector power is $P_{\rm sig}=(Q/\omega_{\rm def})\eta^2 |J_\chi|^2 V_{\rm det}$, with a mode-overlap factor $\eta=1$ assumed.

What would settle it

Run a future Dark SRF apparatus at the assumed upgraded parameters, $Q=10^{12}$, $E_{\rm def}=60$ MV/m, $\sim 1$ m$^3$ cavities, and one year at 10 mK, and look for the power excess predicted for the dark solar wind, a millicharged cosmic neutrino background, and $\Omega_{\rm DR}\gtrsim 10^{-4}$ thermal dark radiation; no excess at the level of $|J_\chi|\sim 3\times 10^{-24}$ A/m$^2$ would falsify the claimed reach. A separate check is to measure the induced current from a real TM$_{010}$ deflector with an independently known millicharge density and compare the extracted overlap factor to the assumed perfect value.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that a two-cavity light-shining-through-wall apparatus, originally designed to create and detect dark photons, can be repurposed as a direct-deflection detector for an ambient relativistic population of millicharged particles. In this mode, the driven deflector cavity imprints an oscillating deflection on the passing millicharged plasma; the resulting charge and current perturbations, described by the linear response of an ultrarelativistic collisionless plasma, propagate out of the deflector and resonantly drive the TM010 mode of the nearby shielded detector cavity. For cavity frequencies matched to the inverse cavity size, the induced current is maximized and, unlike the quasistatic LC-circuit version of the idea, does not require relative motion between the laboratory and the plasma. Applying this to Dark SRF, the paper projects sensitivity to millicharges from the dark solar wind, from dark matter decay or annihilation, from dark energy, and from the cosmic neutrino background, down to energy densities of order $10^{-4}$ of the CMB.

Load-bearing premise

The projections assume the induced dark-current pattern couples to the detector cavity with perfect efficiency and that the dark-photon-mediated response is just the photon response with rescaled couplings; if either assumption proves too optimistic by a factor of ten, the claimed reach shrinks by roughly a factor of one hundred.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Future versions of Dark SRF could probe orders of magnitude of unexplored parameter space for millicharges produced in the Sun as a dark solar wind.
  • The same setup could detect a cosmic neutrino background whose lightest neutrino carries a small effective millicharge, or a cosmic neutrino background that has equilibrated with a light millicharged sector.
  • Cosmological dark radiation with energy density as small as about $10^{-4}$ of the CMB would be visible through this mechanism.
  • Optimal operation occurs at $\omega_{\rm def}\sim L_{\rm def}^{-1}$, so RF cavities, unlike quasistatic LC circuits, work even with no relative wind between the laboratory and the plasma.
  • The signal grows quadratically with the millicharge plasma frequency, so thermalized, low-energy, high-density dark radiation is much easier to see than a free-streaming population of the same luminosity.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the central claim is right, any existing two-cavity light-shining-through-wall apparatus is already a millicharge-radiation telescope; re-analyzing archival noise data from Dark SRF pathfinder-like runs could place immediate bounds without hardware changes.
  • The paper leaves the perfect mode-overlap and the dark-photon substitution unchecked; a first-principles two-fluid calculation or a full-cavity simulation would either confirm the reach or move the quoted contours, and this is the cleanest next step before committing to the upgrade.
  • The scaling with inverse particle energy suggests that non-thermal, high-occupancy low-momentum populations, for example from parametric resonance or tachyonic instability, would produce disproportionately large signals, making direct-deflection searches a natural probe of those production mechanisms.
  • The paper mentions multiple deflecting cavities only briefly; if pursued as a LINAC-like array, the signal would multiply and the experiment could become a purpose-built millicharged-radiation detector rather than an inadvertent one.
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Referee Report

3 major / 4 minor

Summary. This paper proposes that light-shining-through-wall experiments with superconducting RF cavities, such as Dark SRF, can operate as "direct deflection" detectors for a relativistic background of millicharged particles. The authors model the millicharged background as an ultrarelativistic collisionless plasma, compute its linear response to a driven cavity field using a Vlasov formalism (Appendix A), obtain the induced current in the plasma (Eqs. 13 and 14), and estimate the power resonantly deposited in a nearby shielded cavity (Eq. 15). They apply this formalism to the dark solar wind of Ref. [31] and to cosmological dark radiation, including the cosmic neutrino background, and project that future Dark SRF can probe orders of magnitude of unexplored parameter space, including dark radiation with energy density as small as about 10^-4 of the CMB.

Significance. If the quantitative estimates survive scrutiny, this is a valuable proposal: it would turn existing and future RF-cavity LSW experiments into accidental detectors for several classes of dark radiation, with reach beyond current stellar bounds for light millicharged particles. The Vlasov derivation in Appendix A is standard and clearly presented; the numerical response is checked for charge continuity; and the discussion of the physical regimes (weak backreaction, on-shell plasmons, Debye screening) is illuminating. However, the headline reach depends on three asserted O(1) factors: the unit mode-overlap η in Eq. (15), the O(1) fidelity of the idealized infinite periodic source in Eq. (11), and the replacement rule used to obtain the dark-photon response in Eq. (14). Because the reach scales as η^2 and as the square of the induced current, these assumptions are load-bearing for the central claim.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. III C, Eq. (15)] The signal power is written as Psig=(Q/ω) η^2 |Jχ|^2 Vdet and the value η=1 is adopted without computing the overlap integral. The induced current from the source in Eq. (11) has a transverse profile cos(x/Ldef)cos(y/Ldef), while the TM010 mode has a Bessel-function profile J0(2.4ρ/R) (Eq. C11); these profiles are not obviously matched. Since all projected reaches in Figs. 5 and 6 scale as η^2, an order-of-magnitude error in η translates directly into a corresponding shrinkage of the claimed parameter space. An explicit overlap integral over the finite detector volume is required.
  2. [Sec. III B, Eq. (14)] The dark-photon response is obtained by asserting the replacements ωp→ω'p and Jχ→ε^2 Jχ in the visible-only result. This is not derived from the coupled Vlasov/Maxwell system for the SM photon and the dark photon. In particular, the dark-sector plasma frequency ω'p appears in the A' propagator, and the visible current is generated only after kinetic mixing; the replacement rule assumes that no O(1) form-factor or resonance effects arise from the A' dynamics. Since Eq. (14) is used for every projected limit, a two-fluid derivation, or at least a controlled approximation with explicit validity conditions, is needed.
  3. [Sec. III B, Eq. (11) and Fig. 2] The idealized deflector source is infinite and periodic in the transverse plane, and the paper argues O(1) fidelity to real cavity modes because the fields are "qualitatively similar" within |x|<~Ldef. This does not establish that the induced current Jχ in a real finite cavity is reproduced to O(1): source regions outside the cavity aperture contribute coherently in the infinite periodic model, and the transverse phase variation of the traveling current over the detector volume affects the overlap in Eq. (15). A finite-source computation, or at least a quantitative comparison of the induced current for a truncated source, is needed to support the claimed O(1) accuracy.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Sec. II, after Fig. 1] The manuscript contains a block of unrelated text about a Cavendish-shell millicharged-particle trap, including duplicated passages and references [1]-[4] that do not match the paper's bibliography. This material must be removed and the reference list renumbered.
  2. [Sec. III B, Eq. (13)] The fitting coefficients aγ and bγ are introduced without stating whether the fits are used for the projected reach and how the unmodeled resonance near ωp ~ γ ωdef is treated; please state explicitly whether the reach curves are based on the fit and whether the fit is conservative in the resonance region.
  3. [Sec. III C, Eq. (15)] The symbol Jχ is used both for the current vector and for its characteristic amplitude in Eq. (15); please use distinct notation for the two quantities.
  4. [Sec. IV, Fig. 5] The assumption that the cavity axis is aligned with the Earth-Sun axis should be listed explicitly in the caption of Fig. 5, since the dark solar wind signal is directional and the reach depends on this alignment.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the reach estimates follow from a Vlasov-based plasma calculation plus explicit experimental assumptions, with no prediction reducing to its own inputs.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained: the linear response tensor is derived from the Vlasov equation in Appendix A, the induced plasma current is obtained numerically by solving Maxwell's equations in Sec. III B and Appendix B, and the signal power and sensitivity thresholds in Eqs. 15 and 16 are definitions/conversions rather than fits to the target signal. Equation 13 is explicitly labeled a 'simple fitting formula' with coefficients a_gamma and b_gamma matched to the authors' own numerical results, so it is a surrogate for the first-principles computation, not a fit to experimental data or to the Dark SRF reach. The dark solar wind parameters in Eqs. 18-19 are quoted from Ref. [31], which shares authors with this paper, but that source is an independently published, externally falsifiable model whose parameters are inputs rather than restatements of the present result; under the review rules this citation does not constitute circularity. The main approximations--the unit mode-overlap factor eta=1 and the infinite transverse extent of the deflector current in Eq. 11--are acknowledged O(1) estimates that affect the numerical reach, but they are correctness risks, not reductions of the prediction to its inputs.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central signal calculation rests on standard plasma linear response theory, on the assumption that the mCP background is a collisionless, weak-field, homogeneous ultrarelativistic plasma, and on the dark solar wind parameters from Ref [31]. The projected reach also assumes an O(1) mode overlap and an asserted replacement for the kinetically mixed dark photon response.

free parameters (3)
  • mode overlap form factor eta = 1
    Set to unity in Eq 15 to estimate signal power. The reach in Eq 16 scales as eta^2; no detailed overlap integral between the induced current and the detector TM010 mode is presented.
  • fit coefficients a_gamma, b_gamma of Eq 13 = a_gamma=10^-2, b_gamma=1 (gamma~1); a_gamma=1, b_gamma=10^-2 (gamma>>1)
    Chosen to match the numerically computed plasma current; they are used in the sensitivity projections (Eq 14) for all scenarios.
  • deflector frequency = omega_def = 2.4 / L_def
    Fixed to mimic the TM010 mode of a cylindrical cavity; the results in Fig 4 show dependence on this choice.
assumptions (5)
  • standard math The Vlasov equation and hard-thermal-loop polarization tensor give the correct linear response of an ultrarelativistic pair plasma.
    Appendix A derives and uses standard results (Refs [38-46]); these are well-established.
  • domain assumption The millicharged background is a homogeneous, isotropic, collisionless, weak-field ultrarelativistic plasma in its rest frame.
    Conditions for fluid behavior, weak field, and collisionlessness are stated in Sec III A; the dark solar wind is approximated as collisionless on lab scales (Sec IV).
  • domain assumption The dark solar wind model of Ref [31] correctly predicts the local parameters (gamma~893, T_chi~10^-4 eV, n_chi~150 cm^-3) at Earth.
    These inputs are taken from prior work (Ref [31]) and directly set the plasma frequency entering the signal estimate.
  • ad hoc to paper For a kinetically mixed dark photon, the visible response is obtained by replacing the plasma frequency and current as in Eq 14.
    Asserted in Sec III B without derivation; this replacement underpins all sensitivity projections.
  • ad hoc to paper The idealized deflector source of Eq 11 is a faithful proxy for the driven RF cavity mode to O(1) accuracy.
    The source is chosen for analytic tractability and is infinitely extended in the transverse plane; the paper argues the fields match TM010 inside the cavity but concedes O(1) accuracy.

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abstract

Millicharged particles are generic in theories of dark sectors. A cosmic or local abundance of them may be produced by the early universe, stellar environments, or the decay or annihilation of dark matter/dark energy. Furthermore, if such particles are light, these production channels result in a background of millicharged radiation. We show that light-shining-through-wall experiments employing superconducting RF cavities can also be used as ``direct deflection" experiments to search for this relativistic background. The millicharged plasma is first subjected to an oscillating electromagnetic field of a driven cavity, which causes charge separation in the form of charge and current perturbations. In turn, these perturbations can propagate outwards and resonantly excite electromagnetic fields in a well-shielded cavity placed nearby, enabling detection. We estimate that future versions of the existing Dark SRF experiment can probe orders of magnitude of currently unexplored parameter space, including millicharges produced from the Sun, the cosmic neutrino background, or other mechanisms that generate a thermal abundance with energy density as small as $\sim 10^{-4}$ that of the cosmic microwave background.

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Figure 2
Figure 2. The electromagnetic fields Edef and Bdef directly sourced by the deflector of width ∼ Ldef (Eq. 11) and frequency ωdef = 2.4L −1 def, independent of the plasma, evaluated in the x − z plane at y = 0 and t = Ldef. In both panels, the dark gray arrows show the direction of Re(Edef) projected onto the x − z plane. In the left- and right-panels, the color contours show the magnitude |Re(Edef)| and |Re(Bdef)|, respective… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The plasma current Jχ in the lab-frame, evaluated in the x − z plane at y = 0 and t = Ldef, fixing the plasma frequency to ω˜p = 10−2 L −1 def and deflector frequency to ωdef = 2.4L −1 def. In both panels, the dark gray arrows show the direction of Re(Jχ) projected onto the x − z plane, and the contours show the magnitude |Re(Jχ)|, normalized by Jχ (Eq. 12). In the left-panel, we consider the plasma to be at rest in… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. The magnitude of the induced plasma current [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The projected direct deflection sensitivity of the Dark SRF light-shining-through-wall experiment to millicharged [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: As in Fig [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_6.png]

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