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We report the results of an axion dark matter search over an axion mass range of 9.39-9.51 ${\mu}$eV. A flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) was added to the cryogenic receiver chain. A system noise temperature of as low as 200…

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m x 4T superconducting magnet, a gas container to hold dispersion-matching gas, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , R. Ohta , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto , M. Minowa

In the search for axionic Dark Matter, the high frequency part of the QCD axion parameter space is favored, as indicated by both cosmological and astrophysical arguments and recent indications from lattice QCD calculations. To extend the…

We propose a novel method to detect axion dark matter based on a topological phenomenon known as the shift current. We exploit the second-order nonlinearity of the shift current by applying a strong oscillating electric field. This field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Dan Kondo , Takahiro Morimoto , Genta Osaki , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Axions and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for ultralight bosonic dark matter, forming coherent oscillating fields that can be probed by experiments known as haloscopes. A broad range of haloscope concepts has been developed,…

Axions are a compelling dark matter candidate, and one of the primary techniques employed to search for them is the axion haloscope, in which a resonant cavity is deployed inside a strong magnetic field so that some of the surrounding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron P. Quiskamp , Michael E. Tobar

Axion dark matter searches use a microwave cavity for the resonant conversion of axions into photons to enhance experimental sensitivity, with the cavity generally configured as a two-port system for both signal pickup and cavity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Byeong Rok Ko

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-24 A. Phipps , S. E. Kuenstner , S. Chaudhuri , C. S. Dawson , B. A. Young , C. T. FitzGerald , H. Froland , K. Wells , D. Li , H. M. Cho , S. Rajendran , P. W. Graham , K. D. Irwin

For the first time, we determine the properties of the optimal single-moded, linear, passive search for electromagnetic coupling to axion and hidden-photon dark matter, subject to the Standard Quantum Limit on phase-insensitive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-11 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Kent Irwin , Peter W. Graham , Jeremy Mardon

We introduce the concept of impedance matching to axion dark matter by posing the question of why axion detection is difficult, even though there is enough power in each square meter of incident dark-matter flux to energize a LED light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Saptarshi Chaudhuri

When ultralight axion dark matter encounters a static magnetic field, it sources an effective electric current that follows the magnetic field lines and oscillates at the axion Compton frequency. We propose a new experiment to detect this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Jesse Thaler

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for solar axions by the "helioscope" method. First results imply an upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g_a-gamma < 1.16 x 10^-10 GeV^-1 (95% CL) for m_a < 0.02 eV, in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg G. Raffelt

If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Miguel Escudero , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn , Diego Blas , Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh

Wavelike, bosonic dark matter candidates like axions and dark photons can be detected using microwave cavities known as haloscopes. Traditionally, haloscopes consist of tunable copper cavities operating in the TM$_{010}$ mode, but ohmic…

Discovering the microscopic composition of dark matter is one of the most important open problems in physics today. Axions are a leading candidate to be dark matter; however, a search of the full range of all likely axion masses is hampered…

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet, a gas container to hold dispersion-matching gas, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , R. Ohta , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto , M. Minowa

The recent detection of B-modes by BICEP2 has non-trivial implications for axion dark matter implied by combining the tensor interpretation with isocurvature constraints from Planck. In this paper the measurement is taken as fact, and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin , Renee Hlozek , Pedro G. Ferreira

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

We describe in detail the analysis procedure used to derive the first limits from the Haloscope at Yale Sensitive to Axion CDM (HAYSTAC), a microwave cavity search for cold dark matter (CDM) axions with masses above $20\ \mu\text{eV}$. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-25 B. M. Brubaker , L. Zhong , S. K. Lamoreaux , K. W. Lehnert , K. A. van Bibber

We have searched for axions which could have been produced in the solar core using an axion helioscope with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet. Axion mass region up to m_a=0.26eV was newly explored by introducing dispersion-matching gas.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Y. Inoue , T. Namba , S. Moriyama , M. Minowa , Y. Takasu , T. Horiuchi , A. Yamamoto