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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…

Axions and axion-like particles are excellent low-mass dark matter candidates. The MADMAX experiment aims to directly detect galactic axions with masses between $40\,\mu{\rm eV}$ and $400\,\mu{\rm eV}$ by using the axion-induced emission of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-12 Jacob Egge , Stefan Knirck , Béla Majorovits , Christopher Moore , Olaf Reimann

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 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

We report the first result from a dark photon dark matter search in the mass range from ${78.62}$ to $83.95~\mathrm{\mu eV}/c^2$ with a dielectric haloscope prototype for MADMAX (Magnetized Disc and Mirror Axion eXperiment). Putative dark…

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 cavity haloscope provides a highly sensitive method to search for dark matter axions in the microwave regime. Experimental attempts to enhance the sensitivity have focused on improving major aspects, such as producing strong magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-01 Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Sungjae Bae , Dongok Kim , Younggeun Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

Dark matter makes up 85% of the matter in the universe and 27% of its energy density, but we do not know what comprises dark matter. It is possible that dark matter may be composed of either axions or dark photons, both of which can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-10 R. Cervantes , G. Carosi , C. Hanretty , S. Kimes , B. H. LaRoque , G. Leum , P. Mohapatra , N. S. Oblath , R. Ottens , Y. Park , G. Rybka , J. Sinnis , J. Yang

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

We present 3D calculations for dielectric haloscopes such as the currently envisioned MADMAX experiment. For ideal systems with perfectly flat, parallel and isotropic dielectric disks of finite diameter, we find that a geometrical form…

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

We report the first search results for axion dark matter using an 18\,T high-temperature superconducting magnet haloscope. The scan frequency ranges from 4.7789 to 4.8094\,GHz. No significant signal consistent with the Galactic halo dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-20 Youngjae Lee , Byeongsu Yang , Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , DongLak Kim , Jonghee Yoo

We argue that dielectric haloscopes like MADMAX, originally designed for detecting axion dark matter, are also very promising gravitational wave detectors. Operated in resonant mode at frequencies around $\mathcal{O}(10\,\text{GHz})$, these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-11 Valerie Domcke , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Joachim Kopp

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon masses by breaking translational invariance (cavity and dielectric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Lawson , Alexander J. Millar , Matteo Pancaldi , Edoardo Vitagliano , Frank Wilczek

RADES (Relic Axion Detector Exploratory Setup) is a project with the goal of directly searching for axion dark matter above the $30 \mu$eV scale employing custom-made microwave filters in magnetic dipole fields. Currently RADES is taking…

We report details on the axion dark matter search experiment that uses the innovative technologies of a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) magnet and a Josephson Parametric Converter (JPC). An 18 T HTS solenoid magnet is developed for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-14 Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Byeongsu Yang , Youngjae Lee , DongLak Kim , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , Jonghee Yoo

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…

Light dark matter candidates such as axions and dark photons generically couple to electromagnetism, yielding dark-matter-to-photon conversion as a key search strategy. In addition to resonant conversion in cavities and circuits, light dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Stewart Koppell , Otavio D. A. R. Bittencourt , Dip Joti Paul , Junwu Huang , Masha Baryakhtar , Karl K. Berggren

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar