Optical effects of domain walls

Khoze, Valentin V.; Milne, Daniel L.

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137044

Optical effects of domain walls

Khoze, Valentin V.; Milne, Daniel L.

Authors

Professor Valentin Khoze valya.khoze@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Daniel Milne daniel.l.milne@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy

Abstract

Domain walls arise in theories where there is spontaneous symmetry breaking of a discrete symmetry such as ZN and are a feature of many BSM models. In this work we consider the possibility of detecting domain walls through their optical effects and specify three different methods of coupling domain walls to the photon. We consider the effects of these couplings in the context of gravitational wave detectors, such as LIGO, and examine the sensitivity of these experiments to domain wall effects. In cases where gravitational wave detectors are not sensitive we examine our results in the context of axion experiments and show how effects of passing domain walls can be detected at interferometers searching for an axion signal.

Citation

Khoze, V. V., & Milne, D. L. (2022). Optical effects of domain walls. Physics Letters B, 829, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137044

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 23, 2022
Online Publication Date	Apr 8, 2022
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	May 10, 2022
Publicly Available Date	May 10, 2022
Journal	Physics Letters B
Print ISSN	0370-2693
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	829
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137044