The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) is a collaborative effort to search for the QCD axion using techniques based on nuclear magnetic resonance. In the experiment, axions or axion-like particles would mediate short-range spin-dependent interactions between a laser-polarized 3He gas and a rotating (unpolarized) tungsten source mass, acting as a tiny, fictitious "magnetic field". The experiment has the potential to probe deep within the theoretically interesting regime for the QCD axion in the mass range of 0.1-10 meV, independently of cosmological assumptions. The experiment relies on a stable rotary mechanism and superconducting magnetic shielding, required to screen the 3He sample from ordinary magnetic noise. Progress on testing the stability of the rotary mechanism is reported, and the design for the superconducting shielding is discussed.
@article{arxiv.1710.05413,
title = {Progress on the ARIADNE axion experiment},
author = {A. A. Geraci and H. Fosbinder-Elkins and C. Lohmeyer and J. Dargert and M. Cunningham and M. Harkness and E. Levenson-Falk and S. Mumford and A. Kapitulnik and A. Arvanitaki and I. Lee and E. Smith and E. Wiesman and J. Shortino and J. C. Long and W. M. Snow and C. -Y. Liu and Y. Shin and Y. Semertzidis and Y. -H. Lee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05413},
year = {2017}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the 2nd Axion Cavity and Detector Workshop