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Title: ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $$\textit{LC}$$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions

Abstract

Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). To search for lighter, low frequency axions in the sub-2 × 10–7 eV (50 MHz) range, a tunable lumped-element $$\textit{LC}$$ circuit has been proposed. For the first time, through ADMX SLIC (Superconducting $$\textit{LC}$$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions), a resonant $$\textit{LC}$$ circuit was used to probe this region of axion mass-coupling space. The detector used a superconducting $$\textit{LC}$$ circuit with piezoelectric driven capacitive tuning. The axion mass and corresponding frequency ranges 1.7498–1.7519 × 10–7 eV (42.31–42.36 MHz), 1.7734–1.7738 × 10–7 eV (42.88–42.89 MHz), and 1.8007–1.8015 × 10–7 eV (43.54–43.56 MHz) were covered at magnetic fields of 4.5 T, 5.0 T, and 7.0 T, respectively. Exclusion results from the search data, for coupling below 10–12 GeV–1, are presented.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States); Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1802080
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010296; SC0011665; SC0009723
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 124; Journal Issue: 24; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Physics

Citation Formats

Crisosto, N., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N.  S., Tanner, D.  B., Yang, J., and Rybka, G. ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $\textit{LC}$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.124.241101.
Crisosto, N., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N.  S., Tanner, D.  B., Yang, J., & Rybka, G. ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $\textit{LC}$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.241101
Crisosto, N., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N.  S., Tanner, D.  B., Yang, J., and Rybka, G. Wed . "ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $\textit{LC}$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.241101. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1802080.
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title = {ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $\textit{LC}$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions},
author = {Crisosto, N. and Sikivie, P. and Sullivan, N.  S. and Tanner, D.  B. and Yang, J. and Rybka, G.},
abstractNote = {Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). To search for lighter, low frequency axions in the sub-2 × 10–7 eV (50 MHz) range, a tunable lumped-element $\textit{LC}$ circuit has been proposed. For the first time, through ADMX SLIC (Superconducting $\textit{LC}$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions), a resonant $\textit{LC}$ circuit was used to probe this region of axion mass-coupling space. The detector used a superconducting $\textit{LC}$ circuit with piezoelectric driven capacitive tuning. The axion mass and corresponding frequency ranges 1.7498–1.7519 × 10–7 eV (42.31–42.36 MHz), 1.7734–1.7738 × 10–7 eV (42.88–42.89 MHz), and 1.8007–1.8015 × 10–7 eV (43.54–43.56 MHz) were covered at magnetic fields of 4.5 T, 5.0 T, and 7.0 T, respectively. Exclusion results from the search data, for coupling below 10–12 GeV–1, are presented.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.124.241101},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 24,
volume = 124,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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