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Axion is a promising candidate for ultralight dark matter which may cause a polarization rotation of laser light. Recently, a new idea of probing the axion dark matter by optical linear cavities used in the arms of gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Koji Nagano , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Soichiro Morisaki , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

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 microwave cavity experiment is the most sensitive way of looking for axions in the 0.1-10 GHz range, corresponding to masses of 0.5 - 40 $\mu$eV. The particular challenge for frequencies greater than 5 GHz is designing a cavity with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-11 Maria Simanovskaia , Alex Droster , Heather Jackson , Isabella Urdinaran , Karl van Bibber

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…

We report an axion dark matter search with a haloscope equipped with a microwave photon counter. The haloscope is a tunable high quality factor 3-dimensional microwave cavity placed in a magnetic field. The photon counter, operated…

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

The frequency band 1-15 GHz provides exciting prospects for resonant axion haloscopes as indicated by cosmological and astrophysical arguments. Among the challenges currently addressed to reach the required sensitivity, the development of…

In the context of axion search with haloscopes, tunable cavity resonators with high quality factor and high effective volume at frequencies above about 8 GHz are central for probing the axion-photon coupling with the required sensitivity to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-11 R. Di Vora , A. Gardikiotis , C. Braggio , G. Carugno , A. Lombardi , A. Ortolan , G. Ruoso

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…

The axion is a compelling hypothetical particle that could account for the dark matter in our universe, while simultaneously explaining why quark interactions within the neutron do not appear to give rise to an electric dipole moment. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-11 Andrew Engel , Thomas Braine , Christian Boutan

Analogous to the light-shining-through-wall setup proposed for axion-like particle searches, a pair of resonant cavities have been considered to search for an extra U(1) massive gauge boson, called a hidden photon, which mediates the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-03-10 Younggeun Kim , SungWoo Youn , Danho Ahn , Junu Jeong , Dongok Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

Axions have attracted attention as promising candidates for dark matter (DM). Although axions have been intensively searched for, they have not been observed yet. Recently, novel experiments to search for axion DM have been proposed that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-30 Hinata Takidera , Hiroki Fujimoto , Yuka Oshima , Satoru Takano , Kentaro Komori , Tomohiro Fujita , Ippei Obata , Masaki Ando , Yuta Michimura

Wire media (WM) resonators have emerged as promising realization for plasma haloscopes -- devices designed to detect axions, a potential component of dark matter. Key factors influencing the detection probability include cavity volume,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-07 Jim A. Enriquez , Rustam Balafendiev , Alexander J. Millar , Constantin Simovski , Pavel Belov

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

In the present work we study possible time signatures Axion Dark Matter searches employing resonant cavities for various halo models. We study in particular the time dependence of the resonance width (modulation) and possible asymmetries in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 J. D. Vergados , Y. Semertzidis

Developing a dark matter detector with wide mass tunability is an immensely desirable property, yet it is challenging due to maintaining strong sensitivity. Resonant cavities for dark matter detection have traditionally employed mechanical…

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,…

M\"obius-ring resonators stem from a well-studied and fascinating geometrical structure that features a one-sided topology; the M\"obius strip, and have been shown to exhibit fermion rotational symmetry with respect to a ring resonator with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-05 J. F. Bourhill , E. C. I. Paterson , M. Goryachev , M. E. Tobar

The axion is a hypothetical particle which is a candidate for cold dark matter. Haloscope experiments directly search for these particles in strong magnetic fields with RF cavities as detectors. The Relic Axion Detector Exploratory Setup…