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The ORGAN Experiment: An axion haloscope above 15 GHz

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-05-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present first results and future plans for the Oscillating Resonant Group AxioN (ORGAN) experiment, a microwave cavity axion haloscope situated in Perth, Western Australia designed to probe for high mass axions motivated by several theoretical models. The first stage focuses around 26.6 GHz in order to directly test a claimed result, which suggests axions exist at the corresponding mass of 110 μ110~\mueV. Later stages will move to a wider scan range of 15-50 GHz (60210 μ60-210~\mu eV). We present the results of the pathfinding run, which sets a limit on gaγγg_{a\gamma\gamma} of 2.02×10122.02\times 10^{-12} eV1^{-1} at 26.531 GHz, or 110~μ\mueV, in a span of 2.5 neV (shaped by the Lorentzian resonance) with 90%90 \% confidence. Furthermore, we outline the current design and future strategies to eventually attain the sensitivity to search for well known axion models over the wider mass range.

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@article{arxiv.1706.00209,
  title  = {The ORGAN Experiment: An axion haloscope above 15 GHz},
  author = {Ben T. McAllister and Graeme Flower and Justin Kruger and Eugene N. Ivanov and Maxim Goryachev and Jeremy Bourhill and Michael E. Tobar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.00209},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages, 5 figures. V2: As published in Physics of Dark Universe