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The axion is expected to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and is one of the leading candidates for dark matter. CAPP in South Korea has several axion search experiments based on cavity haloscopes in the frequency range…

We report new experimental results on the search for dark photons based on a near-quantum-limited haloscope equipped with a superconducting cavity. The loaded quality factor of the superconducting cavity is $6\times10^{5}$, so that the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-22 Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Yu Tong , Yang Liu , Youpeng Zhong , Yi-Fu Cai , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the search for light particle dark matter. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, $10^{-12}\lesssim m_a\lesssim10^{-6}$ eV.…

Axions are hypothetical pseudo-Nambu Goldstone bosons that could explain the observed cold dark matter density and solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Haloscope experiments commonly employ resonant cavities to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-21 Jacob Egge , Manuel Meyer

Recent advances in tabletop quantum sensor technology have enabled searches for nongravitational interactions of dark matter (DM). Traditional axion DM experiments rely on sharp resonance, resulting in extensive scanning time to cover a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Kai Wei , Zitong Xu , Yuxuan He , Xiaolin Ma , Xing Heng , Xiaofei Huang , Wei Quan , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Dmitry Budker , Jiancheng Fang

We present a general approach to solve the Maxwell-axion equations for arbitrary geometries and materials. The approach is based on the finite element method (FEM) and applied to experimental setups related to the new MADMAX (MAgnetized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-02 Jan Schütte-Engel

The origin of non-baryonic Dark Matter remains elusive despite ongoing sensitive searches for heavy, thermally produced dark matter particles. Recently, it has been shown, that non-thermally produced vector bosons (sometimes called hidden…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-09 Le Hoang Nguyen , Andrei Lobanov , Dieter Horns

We describe the electronics and data acquisition system used in the first phase of the PandaX experiment -- a 120 kg dual-phase liquid xenon dark matter direct detection experiment in the China Jin-Ping Underground Laboratory. This system…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-25 Xiangxiang Ren , Xun Chen , Xiangdong Ji , Shaoli Li , Siao Lei , Jianglai Liu , Meng Wang , Mengjiao Xiao , Pengwei Xie , Binbin Yan

A new method for searching for Dark Matter axions is proposed. It is shown that a two-contact SQUID can detect oscillating magnetic perturbations induced by the axions in a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field. A resonant signal is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Vladimir Popov

We present new results of a room temperature resonant AC haloscope, which searches for axions via photon upconversion. Traditional haloscopes require a strong applied DC magnetic background field surrounding the haloscope cavity resonator,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-06-08 Catriona A. Thomson , Maxim Goryachev , Ben T. McAllister , Eugene N. Ivanov , Paul Altin , Michael E. Tobar

We describe a resonant cavity search apparatus for axion dark matter constructed by the Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector (QSHS) collaboration. The apparatus is configured to search for QCD axion dark matter, though also has the…

Axions are a popular dark matter candidate which are often searched for in experiments known as ``haloscopes" which exploit a putative axion-photon coupling. These experiments typically rely on Transverse Magnetic (TM) modes in resonant…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-10 Aaron P. Quiskamp , Ben T. McAllister , Gray Rybka , Michael E. Tobar

The axion is a promising dark matter candidate, which was originally proposed to solve the strong-CP problem in particle physics. To date, the available parameter space for axion and axion-like particle dark matter is relatively unexplored,…

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions and dark photons. The plasma haloscope is a novel method for…

Dark matter axions may cause transitions between atomic states that differ in energy by an amount equal to the axion mass. Such energy differences are conveniently tuned using the Zeeman effect. It is proposed to search for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 P. Sikivie

The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems center is developing searches for dark photons, axions and ALPs with the goal of improving upon the current state-of-the-art sensitivity. These efforts leverage on Fermi National Accelerator…

Fixed-target experiments using primary electron beams can be powerful discovery tools for light dark matter in the sub-GeV mass range. The Light Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) is designed to measure missing momentum in high-rate electron…

The axion offers a well-motivated solution to two fundamental questions in modern physics: the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Cavity haloscopes, exploiting resonant enhancement of photon signals, provide the most sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-04 SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong , Yannis K. Semertzidis

Ultralight dark matter, such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter (DPDM) or axionlike-particle dark matter (axion DM), can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at Earth's surface. Previous work searched for this signal in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Matt Friel , Jesper W. Gjerloev , Saarik Kalia , Alvaro Zamora

Dielectric axion haloscopes, such as the MADMAX experiment, are promising concepts for the direct search for dark matter axions. A reliable simulation is a fundamental requirement for the successful realisation of the experiments. Due to…