Extended Search for the Invisible Axion with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

T Braine; R Cervantes; N Crisosto; N Du; S Kimes; L J Rosenberg; G Rybka; J Yang; D Bowring; A S Chou; R Khatiwada; A Sonnenschein; W Wester; G Carosi; N Woollett; L D Duffy; R Bradley; C Boutan; M Jones; B H LaRoque; N S Oblath; M S Taubman; J Clarke; A Dove; A Eddins; S R O'Kelley; S Nawaz; I Siddiqi; N Stevenson; A Agrawal; A V Dixit; J R Gleason; S Jois; P Sikivie; J A Solomon; N S Sullivan; D B Tanner; E Lentz; E J Daw; J H Buckley; P M Harrington; E A Henriksen; K W Murch; ADMX Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101303

Extended Search for the Invisible Axion with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

Phys Rev Lett. 2020 Mar 13;124(10):101303. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101303.

Authors

T Braine¹, R Cervantes¹, N Crisosto¹, N Du¹, S Kimes¹, L J Rosenberg¹, G Rybka¹, J Yang¹, D Bowring², A S Chou², R Khatiwada², A Sonnenschein², W Wester², G Carosi³, N Woollett³, L D Duffy⁴, R Bradley⁵, C Boutan⁶, M Jones⁶, B H LaRoque⁶, N S Oblath⁶, M S Taubman⁶, J Clarke⁷, A Dove⁷, A Eddins⁷, S R O'Kelley⁷, S Nawaz⁷, I Siddiqi⁷, N Stevenson⁷, A Agrawal⁸, A V Dixit⁸, J R Gleason⁹, S Jois⁹, P Sikivie⁹, J A Solomon⁹, N S Sullivan⁹, D B Tanner⁹, E Lentz¹⁰, E J Daw¹¹, J H Buckley¹², P M Harrington¹², E A Henriksen¹², K W Murch¹²; ADMX Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
² Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
³ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
⁴ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, California 87545, USA.
⁵ National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA.
⁶ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
⁷ University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
⁸ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
⁹ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
¹⁰ University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany.
¹¹ University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.
¹² Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.

PMID: 32216421
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.101303

Abstract

This Letter reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the Galactic halo in the mass range 2.81-3.31 μeV. This search utilizes the combination of a low-noise Josephson parametric amplifier and a large-cavity haloscope to achieve unprecedented sensitivity across this mass range. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the invisible axion that solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics.