DM sensitivity

Basic plotting scripts for projecting BREAD sensitivity in axion (spin 0) and dark photon (spin 1) scenarios. Packages used are numpy (1.19.4), pandas (1.1.4), matplotlib (3.3.3), and a tex (TeX Live 2016) backend. These scripts create one plot per run.

Scripts for plots in paper

The following scripts are used to make the various plots in the paper arXiv:2111.12103:

• Fig 2: the dark_photon.py and axion.py scripts make the main sensitivity plots for the paper. Each line for BREAD has to be manually coded in the scropt. The plot is created by running the script.

• Fig 3: the single plot for QCD axion (KSVZ, DFSZ) emitted photon rate is made using photon_rate.py

• Fig 4: the sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling (normalized to DFSZ) vs experimental parameters are created by the coupling_vs_ABsq.py, coupling_vs_efficiency.py, coupling_vs_nep.py scripts.

• Fig 5: the dark_photon-general.py and axion-general.py make the generic bolometer/photocounter plots

• Table 2: The calc_coupling_sensitivity.py is a simple script to compute the coupling sensitivity (eq. 2 in paper) normalized to KSVZ and DFSZ for axions, and 1e-14 for dark photons displayed in this table.

• The print_summary_curve.py script writes out the numerical values of summary limit curves to a space-separated text file.

References:

• BREAD concept paper: Liu et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12103
• Dish antenna paper: Horns et al https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2970
• Astrophysical constraints: Arias et al https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5902
• QCD axion band: Di Luzio et al https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07593
• Dark photon limits cookbook: Caputo et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04565
• Axion and dark photon limits: https://github.com/cajohare/AxionLimits/