We present the design and performance of a simple fixed-frequency superconducting lumped-element resonator developed for axion and hidden photon dark matter detection. A rectangular NbTi inductor was coupled to a Nb-coated sapphire capacitor and immersed in liquid helium within a superconducting shield. The resonator was transformer-coupled to a DC SQUID for readout. We measured a quality factor of ∼40,000 at the resonant frequency of 492.027 kHz and set a simple exclusion limit on ∼2 neV hidden photons with kinetic mixing angle ε≳1.5×10−9 based on 5.14 hours of integrated noise. This test device informs the development of the Dark Matter Radio, a tunable superconducting lumped-element resonator which will search for axions and hidden photons over the 100 Hz to 300 MHz frequency range.
@article{arxiv.1906.08814,
title = {Exclusion Limits on Hidden-Photon Dark Matter near 2 neV from a Fixed-Frequency Superconducting Lumped-Element Resonator},
author = {A. Phipps and S. E. Kuenstner and S. Chaudhuri and C. S. Dawson and B. A. Young and C. T. FitzGerald and H. Froland and K. Wells and D. Li and H. M. Cho and S. Rajendran and P. W. Graham and K. D. Irwin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08814},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
To appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Microwave Cavities and Detectors for Axion Research