The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) is a collaborative effort to search for the QCD axion using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), where the axion acts as a mediator of spin-dependent forces between an unpolarized tungsten source mass and a sample of polarized helium-3 gas. Since the experiment involves precision measurement of a small magnetization, it relies on limiting ordinary magnetic noise with superconducting magnetic shielding. In addition to the shielding, proper characterization of the noise level from other sources is crucial. We investigate one such noise source in detail: the magnetic noise due to impurities and Johnson noise in the tungsten source mass.
@article{arxiv.2011.10141,
title = {Source mass characterization in the ARIADNE axion experiment},
author = {Chloe Lohmeyer and Nancy Aggarwal and Asimina Arvanitaki and Alex Brown and Alan Fang and Andrew A Geraci and Aharon Kapitulnik and Dongok Kim and Younggeun Kim and Inbum Lee and Yong Ho Lee and Eli Levenson-Falk and Chen Yu Liu and Josh C Long and Sam Mumford and Austin Reid and Allard Schnabel and Yannis Semertzidis and Yun Shin and Justin Shortino and Eric Smith and William M Snow and Lutz Trahms and Jens Voigt and Evan Weisman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10141},
year = {2020}
}