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We report an extensive high-sensitivity search for axion dark matter above 1\,GHz at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP). The cavity resonant search, exploiting the coupling between axions and photons, explored the…

With the axion being a prime candidate for dark matter, there has been some recent interest in direct detection through a so called `Ferromagnetic haloscope.' Such devices exploit the coupling between axions and electrons in the form of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-02 Graeme Flower , Jeremy Bourhill , Maxim Goryachev , Michael E. Tobar

Axion dark matter can satisfy the conditions needed to account for all of the dark matter and solve the strong CP problem. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is a direct dark matter search using a haloscope to convert axions to photons…

The axion was first introduced as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to solve the CP problem in strong interactions of particle physics and is a well motivated cold dark matter candidate. This particle is expected to interact…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 S. W. Youn , E. Sala , J. Jeong , J. Kim , Y. K. Semertzidis

The axion were proposed as a result to a solution to the Strong CP Problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and is now considered a leading candidate for dark matter. Direct axion dark matter detection experiments are challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Kiara Chantel Ruffin , Gray Rybka

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

This Letter reports results from a haloscope search for dark matter axions with masses between 2.66 and 2.81 $\mu$eV. The search excludes the range of axion-photon couplings predicted by plausible models of the invisible axion. This…

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 axion particle, a consequence of an elegant hypothesis that resolves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, is a plausible origin for cosmological dark matter. In searches for axionic dark matter that detect the conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Huaixiu Zheng , Matti Silveri , R. T. Brierley , S. M. Girvin , K. W. Lehnert

The axion haloscope is the currently most sensitive method to probe the vanishingly small coupling of this prominent Dark Matter candidate to photons. To scan a sizeable axion Dark Matter parameter space, the cavities that make up the…

Axions are hypothesized particles believed to potentially resolve two major puzzles in modern physics: the strong CP problem and the nature of dark matter. Cavity-based axion haloscopes represent the most sensitive tools for probing their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 Sungjae Bae , Junu Jeong , Younggeun Kim , SungWoo Youn , Heejun Park , Taehyeon Seong , Seongjeong Oh , Yannis K. Semertzidis

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

Discovering the microscopic composition of dark matter is one of the most important open problems in physics today. Axions are a leading candidate to be dark matter; however, a search of the full range of all likely axion masses is hampered…

We describe a new axion search method based on measuring the variance in the interference of the axion signal using injected photons with a power detector. The need for a linear amplifier is eliminated by putting a strong signal into the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-08 Zhanibek Omarov , Junu Jeong , Yannis K. Semertzidis

Axions are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter. The preeminent method to search for axion dark matter is known as the axion haloscope, which makes use of the conversion of axions to photons in a large magnetic field. Due to the weak…

Experiments aimed at detecting ultralight dark matter typically rely on resonant effects, which are sensitive to the dark matter mass that matches the resonance frequency. In this study, we investigate the nucleon couplings of ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Zitong Xu , Xiaolin Ma , Kai Wei , Yuxuan He , Xing Heng , Xiaofei Huang , Tengyu Ai , Jian Liao , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Dmitry Budker

For low-mass (frequency $\ll$ GHz) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Robert Lasenby

The cavity haloscope has been employed to detect microwave photons resonantly converted from invisible cosmic axions under a strong magnetic field. In this scheme, the axion-photon conversion power has been formulated to be valid for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-15 Dongok Kim , Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Younggeun Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

This article reviews different microwave technologies used in dark matter axion detection experiments with resonant cavities. The general concepts of the experiment are presented and ways to optimize the design parameters of microwave…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-01 Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , Jose María García-Barceló , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo

Axions, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, emerge now as leading candidates of WISP dark matter. The rich phenomenology associated to the light and stable QCD axion can be described as an effective…