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Haloscopes are resonant cavities that serve as detectors of dark matter axions when they are immersed in a strong static magnetic field. In order to increase the volume and improve its introduction within dipole or solenoid magnets for…

In the search for axion dark matter, the cavity-based haloscope offers the most sensitive approach to the theoretically interesting models in the microwave region. However, experimental searches have been limited to relatively low masses up…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-25 Sungjae Bae , SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong

Haloscopes, microwave resonant cavities utilized in detecting dark matter axions within powerful static magnetic fields, are pivotal in modern astrophysical research. This paper delves into the realm of cylindrical geometries, investigating…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-26 J. M. García-Barceló , A. Díaz-Morcillo , B. Gimeno

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…

The scan rate of an axion haloscope is proportional to the square of the cavity volume. In this paper, a new class of thin-shell cavities are proposed to search for axionic dark matter. These cavities feature active volume much larger…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 Chao-Lin Kuo

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

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

Axion haloscopes provide a leading experimental approach to detecting QCD axion dark matter through resonant axion-photon conversion in microwave cavities. Extending haloscope sensitivity to low axion masses remains challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Raj Aryan Singh , Paige Rose Taylor , Elrina Hartmann , Geoffrey Brooks , Ben T. McAllister

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate particle. Haloscopes aim to detect axions in the galactic halo by measuring the photon signal resulting from axions interacting with a strong magnetic field. Existing haloscopes are…

The haloscope is one of the most sensitive approaches to the QCD axion physics within the region where the axion is considered to be a dark matter candidate. Current experimental sensitivities, which rely on the lowest fundamental TM010…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Jinsu Kim , SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong , Woohyun Chung , Ohjoon Kwon , Yannis K. Semertzidis

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…

A haloscope of the QUAX--$a\gamma$ experiment, composed of an high-Q resonant cavity immersed in a 8 T magnet and cooled to $\sim 4.5$~K is operated to search for galactic axion with mass $m_a\simeq42.8~\mu\text{eV}$. The design of the…

We present results from the first experimental demonstration of a tunable thin-shell axion haloscope. This novel geometry decouples the overall volume of the cavity-based resonator from its resonant frequency, thereby evading the steep…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-04-25 Taj A. Dyson , Chelsea L. Bartram , Ashley Davidson , Jonah B. Ezekiel , Laura M. Futamura , Tongtian Liu , Chao-Lin Kuo

We study the underlying theory of dielectric haloscopes, a new way to detect dark matter axions. When an interface between different dielectric media is inside a magnetic field, the oscillating axion field acts as a source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander J. Millar , Georg G. Raffelt , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

The present state of the art axion haloscope employs a cylindrical resonant cavity in a solenoidal field. We, the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Korea, are also pursuing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-14 B. R. Ko

The axion is a hypothetical particle considered to be the most economical solution to the strong CP problem. It can also be formulated as a compelling component of dark matter. The haloscope, a leading axion detection scheme, relies on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-17 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Michael E. Tobar

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

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

To account for the dark matter content in our Universe, post-inflationary scenarios predict for the QCD axion a mass in the range $(10-10^3)\,\mu\mbox{eV}$. Searches with haloscope experiments in this mass range require the monitoring of…

We comment on a recently published paper, Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 014028 (2018), which presents frequency-tuning mechanisms for dielectric resonators and demonstrates their potential application to axion haloscopes. One of the schemes…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-10 Jinsu Kim , SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong , Yannis K. Semertzidis
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