Speaker
Christina Gao
Description
Ultralight dark matter (UDM) is a well motivated dark matter candidate. However, direct detection of UDM poses an experimental challenge due to the low energy scales and weak couplings involved. We propose to use optical microring resonators to search for UDM particles. The microring resonators not only have a high quality factor which produce large enhancements in signal power, but also can be made from non-linear dielectric materials which enable novel search channels. We study the sensitivity of microring resonator based searches to axion dark matter and dark photon dark matter sub-eV scale.
Author
Christina Gao
