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We report a methodology to determine the quality factor ($Q$) in implementations of the so-called dielectric haloscope, a new concept of wavy dark matter detector equipped with a multilayered resonator. An anechoic chamber enables the…

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

In this note we report on the development plans and first results of the Grenoble Axion Haloscope (GrAHal) project. It is aimed at developing a haloscope platform dedicated to the search for axion dark matter particles. We discuss its…

We describe the design of the dark matter experiment Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC), and report the results of a haloscope search for dark matter axions. We exclude axion models with axion-photon couplings…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-15 Alex G. Droster , Karl van Bibber

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of a few 10$^{12}$ GeV$^{-1}$, i.e. 1 - 1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one currently achieved by CAST.…

We report the first results of a high-sensitivity (10^{-23} Watt) search for light halo axions through their conversion to microwave photons. At 90 percent confidence we exclude a KSVZ axion of mass 2.9 x 10^{-6} eV to 3.3 x 10^{-6} eV as…

Exploring the mysterious dark matter is a key quest in modern physics. Currently, detecting axions, a hypothetical particle proposed as a primary component of dark matter, remains a significant challenge due to their weakly interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Qiaoli Yang , Yu Gao , Zhihui Peng

Electromagnetic radiation with angular frequency equal to half the axion mass stimulates the decay of cold dark matter axions and produces an echo, i.e. faint electromagnetic radiation traveling in the opposite direction. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Ariel Arza , Pierre Sikivie

As part of the T-REX project, a number of R&D and prototyping activities have been carried out during the last years to explore the applicability of Micromegas-read gaseous TPCs in rare event searches like double beta decay (DBD), axion…

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

The SUPerconduction AXion search experiment (Supax) is a future haloscope-type detector designed to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) as candidates for dark matter and solutions to the strong-CP problem in the mass range between $8\,\mu$eV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-12 Tim Schneemann , Hendrik Bekker , Dmitry Budker , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Malavika Unni , Arne Wickenbrock

Microwave cavity haloscopes are among the most sensitive direct detection experiments searching for dark matter axions via their coupling to photons. When the power of the expected microwave signal due to axion-photon conversion is on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-10 Yuqi Zhu , M. J. Jewell , Claire Laffan , Xiran Bai , Sumita Ghosh , Eleanor Graham , S. B. Cahn , Reina H. Maruyama , S. K. Lamoreaux

A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari

We discuss the physics case for and the concept of a medium-scale axion helioscope with sensitivities in the axion-photon coupling a few times better than CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST). Search for an axion-like particle with these…

The mass of axion dark matter is only weakly bounded by cosmological observations, necessitating a variety of detection techniques over several orders of magnitude of mass ranges. Axions haloscopes based on resonant cavities have become the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-29 Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Jeremy Bourhill , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

The axion is a well-motivated cold dark matter (CDM) candidate first postulated to explain the absence of $CP$ violation in the strong interactions. CDM axions may be detected via their resonant conversion into photons in a "haloscope"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-04 Benjamin M. Brubaker

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. While helioscopes can always measure the axion coupling to photons, the conversion signal…

We have performed a high resolution search for galactic halo axions in cold flows using a microwave cavity detector. The analysis procedure and other details of this search are described. No axion signal was found in the mass range…

We point out that photon regeneration-experiments that search for the axion, or axion-like particles, may be resonantly enhanced by employing matched Fabry-Perot optical cavities encompassing both the axion production and conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Karl van Bibber

The axion, a hypothetical elementary pseudoscalar, is expected to solve the strong CP problem of QCD and is also a promising candidate for dark matter. The most sensitive axion search experiments operate at millikelvin temperatures and…