Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter in the 3.3-4.2 μeV Mass Range

C Bartram; T Braine; E Burns; R Cervantes; N Crisosto; N Du; H Korandla; G Leum; P Mohapatra; T Nitta; L J Rosenberg; G Rybka; J Yang; John Clarke; I Siddiqi; A Agrawal; A V Dixit; M H Awida; A S Chou; M Hollister; S Knirck; A Sonnenschein; W Wester; J R Gleason; A T Hipp; S Jois; P Sikivie; N S Sullivan; D B Tanner; E Lentz; R Khatiwada; G Carosi; N Robertson; N Woollett; L D Duffy; C Boutan; M Jones; B H LaRoque; N S Oblath; M S Taubman; E J Daw; M G Perry; J H Buckley; C Gaikwad; J Hoffman; K W Murch; M Goryachev; B T McAllister; A Quiskamp; C Thomson; M E Tobar; ADMX Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.261803

Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter in the 3.3-4.2 μeV Mass Range

Phys Rev Lett. 2021 Dec 24;127(26):261803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.261803.

Authors

C Bartram¹, T Braine¹, E Burns¹, R Cervantes¹, N Crisosto¹, N Du¹, H Korandla¹, G Leum¹, P Mohapatra¹, T Nitta¹, L J Rosenberg¹, G Rybka¹, J Yang¹, John Clarke², I Siddiqi², A Agrawal³, A V Dixit³, M H Awida⁴, A S Chou⁴, M Hollister⁴, S Knirck⁴, A Sonnenschein⁴, W Wester⁴, J R Gleason⁵, A T Hipp⁵, S Jois⁵, P Sikivie⁵, N S Sullivan⁵, D B Tanner⁵, E Lentz⁶, R Khatiwada^{4

7}, G Carosi⁸, N Robertson⁸, N Woollett⁸, L D Duffy⁹, C Boutan¹⁰, M Jones¹⁰, B H LaRoque¹⁰, N S Oblath¹⁰, M S Taubman¹⁰, E J Daw¹¹, M G Perry¹¹, J H Buckley¹², C Gaikwad¹², J Hoffman¹², K W Murch¹², M Goryachev¹³, B T McAllister¹³, A Quiskamp¹³, C Thomson¹³, M E Tobar¹³; ADMX Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
² University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
³ University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
⁴ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁵ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
⁶ University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany.
⁷ Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
⁸ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
⁹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
¹⁰ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
¹¹ University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.
¹² Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
¹³ University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia.

PMID: 35029490
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.261803

Abstract

We report the results from a haloscope search for axion dark matter in the 3.3-4.2 μeV mass range. This search excludes the axion-photon coupling predicted by one of the benchmark models of "invisible" axion dark matter, the Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov model. This sensitivity is achieved using a large-volume cavity, a superconducting magnet, an ultra low noise Josephson parametric amplifier, and sub-Kelvin temperatures. The validity of our detection procedure is ensured by injecting and detecting blind synthetic axion signals.