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Tuning is an essential requirement for the search of dark matter axions employing haloscopes since its mass is not known yet to the scientific community. At the present day, most haloscope tuning systems are based on mechanical devices…

Axion dark matter (DM) is predicted to convert into radio waves in neutron star magnetospheres. We assess the detectability of this signal using a 5 m radio telescope to be installed at the Fan Mountain Observatory, operating in the UHF, L-…

We show that at higher frequencies, and thus higher axion masses, single-photon detectors become competitive and ultimately favored, when compared to quantum-limited linear amplifiers, as the detector technology in microwave cavity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-16 S. K. Lamoreaux , K. A. van Bibber , K. W. Lehnert , G. Carosi

We demonstrate a novel broad-frequency tuning mechanism for superconducting microwave cavities designed for dark matter searches. Using a Nb$_3$Sn-coated cigar-shaped cavity operating at approximately 9\,GHz, we achieve continuous frequency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-10 D. Maiello , R. Di Vora , D. Ahn , G. Carugno , R. Cervantes , B. Giaccone , A. Ortolan , S. Posen , G. Ruoso , G. Sardo Infirri , B. Tennis , S. Tocci , C. Braggio

Dark matter remains one of the most profound and unresolved mysteries in modern physics. To unravel its nature, numerous haloscope experiments have been implemented across various mass ranges. However, very few haloscope experiments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Guoqing Wei , Diguang Wu , Runqi Kang , Qingning Jiang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-28 N. J. Ayres

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…

We explore finite size 3D effects in open axion haloscopes such as a dish antenna, a dielectric disk and a minimal dielectric haloscope consisting of a mirror and one dielectric disk. Particularly dielectric haloscopes are a promising new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-23 Stefan Knirck , Jan Schütte-Engel , Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Olaf Reimann , Andreas Ringwald , Frank D. Steffen

In the heterodyne approach to axion detection, axion dark matter induces transitions between two modes of a microwave cavity, resulting in a parametrically enhanced signal power. We describe the fabrication and characterization of a…

We report an axion dark matter search at Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii sensitivity with the CAPP-12TB haloscope, assuming axions contribute 100\% of the local dark matter density. The search excluded the axion--photon coupling…

The axion is a hypothetical particle, a promising candidate for dark matter, and a solution to the strong CP problem. Axion haloscope search experiments deal with a signal power comparable to noise uncertainty at millikelvin temperature. We…

We propose a new method for detecting dark matter axions using a resonant cavity coupled with a quantum Hall system. When a small sample exhibiting quantum Hall effect is placed inside the cavity and the cavity is tuned to resonance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Aiichi Iwazaki

In contrast to WIMPs, light Dark Matter candidates have increasingly come under the focus of scientific interest. In particular the QCD axion is also able to solve other fundamental problems such as CP-conservation in strong interactions.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-05 Stefan Knirck

The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 M. A. Akgümüs , N. Salama , J. Egge , E. Garutti , M. Maroudas , L. H. Nguyen , D. Leppla-Weber

We report the first result of a direct search for a Cosmic ${\it axion}$ Background (C$a$B) - a relativistic background of axions that is not dark matter - performed with the axion haloscope, the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX).…

This paper presents the first search for dark matter axions with mass in the ranges 76.56 to 76.82 $\mu$eV and 79.31 to 79.53 $\mu$eV using a prototype setup for the MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX). The experimental…

We propose a Rydberg-atom-based single-photon detector for signal readout in dark matter haloscope experiments between 40 ${\mu}$eV and 200 ${\mu}$eV (10 GHz and 50 GHz). At these frequencies, standard haloscope readout using linear…

In cavity-based axion dark matter detectors, quantum noise remains a primary barrier to achieving the scan rate necessary for a comprehensive search of axion parameter space. Here we introduce a method of scan rate enhancement in which an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 K. Wurtz , B. M. Brubaker , Y. Jiang , E. P. Ruddy , D. A. Palken , K. W. Lehnert

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 dark photon is a promising candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the matter in our visible Universe. Via kinetic mixing with the Standard Model it can also be resonantly converted to photons in an electromagnetic cavity,…