Extensive search for axion dark matter over 1 GHz with CAPP's Main Axion eXperiment
arxiv(2024)
Abstract
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 frequency (mass) range of 1.025 GHz (4.24 μeV) to 1.185 GHz
(4.91 μeV). We have introduced a number of innovations in this field,
demonstrating the practical approach of optimizing all the relevant parameters
of axion haloscopes, extending presently available technology. The CAPP 12 T
magnet with an aperture of 320 mm made of Nb_3Sn and NbTi superconductors
surrounding a 37-liter ultralight-weight copper cavity is expected to convert
DFSZ axions into approximately 10^2 microwave photons per second. A powerful
dilution refrigerator, capable of keeping the core system below 40 mK,
combined with quantum-noise limited readout electronics, achieved a total
system noise of about 200 mK or below, which corresponds to a background of
roughly 4× 10^3 photons per second within the axion bandwidth. The
combination of all those improvements provides unprecedented search
performance, imposing the most stringent exclusion limits on axion–photon
coupling in this frequency range to date. These results also suggest an
experimental capability suitable for highly-sensitive searches for axion dark
matter above 1 GHz.
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