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The “Gen 2” Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX)

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1508642· OSTI ID:1508642
 [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); Department of Physics / University of Florida
  2. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)

The Generation-2 ADMX project is an upgrade of the existing Axion Dark Matter eXperiment to add a high-performance dilution refrigerator to the cavity axion detector. The refrigerator reduces the operating temperature of the experiment from 3–4 K to of order 0.12 K (120 mK). There is a corresponding 20-fold reduction in the background noise of the experiment. The refrigerator has been installed and commissioned. The reduced background has allowed a search for the very weakly-coupled but highly compelling DFSZ-model axions. This search, at this sensitivity, is a definitive experiment, able to detect axions or to reject the axion dark matter hypothesis with high confidence.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0009723
OSTI ID:
1508642
Report Number(s):
DOE-UFLORIDA--0009723
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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