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Axions are a well motivated candidate for dark matter. The most sensitive experiments searching for dark matter axions rely on the coupling of axions to the electromagnetic resonances of a microwave cavity immersed in a strong magnetic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-27 Gray Rybka

The axion were proposed as a result to a solution to the Strong CP Problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and is now considered a leading candidate for dark matter. Direct axion dark matter detection experiments are challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Kiara Chantel Ruffin , Gray Rybka

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

The invisible axion is a hypothetical particle that arises from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism proposed to resolve the CP problem in quantum chromodynamics, and is considered one of the most favoured candidates for cold dark matter. Dish…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Junu Jeong , Sungwoo Youn , Yannis K. Semertzidis

Axions are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter. The preeminent method to search for axion dark matter is known as the axion haloscope, which makes use of the conversion of axions to photons in a large magnetic field. Due to the weak…

Light axion-like particles occur in many theories of beyond-Standard-Model physics, and may make up some or all of the universe's dark matter. One of the ways they can couple to the Standard Model is through the electromagnetic $F_{\mu\nu}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Robert Lasenby

The HAYSTAC experiment utilizes a tunable resonant microwave cavity to search for dark matter axions. We report on the system and the results from Phase I of the experiment. This phase relied on a 9 T magnet, Josephson parametric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas M. Rapidis

Haloscope is one of the typical installations to detect the electromagnetic responses (EMRs) of axion field in radio-frequency (RF) and microwave bands. Given that the detectable signals of the usual Haloscope-type detectors (HTDs), biased…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-06 Li Gao , Hao Zheng , Xianing Feng , Suirong He , Lianfu Wei , Lingbo Zhao , Qingquan Jiang

The ADAMOS (Axion Daily Modulation Searches) project aims to explore the nature of dark matter (DM) through a novel axion haloscope experiment. We propose to construct a fixed-frequency cavity resonator operating at 20 GHz at the University…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-20 Marios Maroudas , Toma-Stefan Cezar , Antonios Gardikiotis , Dieter Horns

A search for cosmological axions has been performed by scanning a frequency region of $38\,$MHz centered at about $10.2\,$GHz, corresponding to an axion mass $m_a \simeq 42\,\mu$eV. The QUAX experimental apparatus, a haloscope comprised of…

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions in the mass range of 40--400 $\mu$eV by introducing dielectric haloscopes, which consist of dielectric disks placed in a magnetic field. The changing dielectric media cause…

The axion is particularly well motivated candidate for the dark matter comprising most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. As is well known, resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Ang Liu , Bilal Ahmad , Nick Houston

The cavity haloscope technique has been the most successful approach to date in searching for axion dark matter, owing to a confluence of factors at the GHz scale including the macroscopic size of the axion-to-photon converting cavity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Erik W. Lentz , Christian R. Boutan , Matthew S. Taubman , Kevin L. Gervais

Axions, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, emerge now as leading candidates of WISP dark matter. The rich phenomenology associated to the light and stable QCD axion can be described as an effective…

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

The present state of the art axion haloscope employs a cylindrical resonant cavity in a solenoidal field. We, the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, are also pursuing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-14 B. R. Ko

First experimental results from a room-temperature table-top phase-sensitive axion haloscope experiment are presented. The technique exploits the axion-photon coupling between two photonic resonator-oscillators excited in a single cavity,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 Catriona A. Thomson , Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

In this work, a study on the development of scalable multicavity architectures for axion haloscopes, based on a hexagonal coaxial geometry operating at $30$ GHz frequencies, is presented. To enhance the scanning rate and sensitivity within…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-05-12 J. M. García-Barceló , Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo