UPconversion Loop Oscillator Axion Detection experiment: A precision frequency interferometric axion dark matter search with a Cylindrical Microwave Cavity
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| author | Thomson, Catriona A. McAllister, Ben T. Goryachev, Maxim Ivanov, Eugene N. Tobar, Michael E. |
| author_facet | Thomson, Catriona A. McAllister, Ben T. Goryachev, Maxim Ivanov, Eugene N. Tobar, Michael E. |
| contents | First experimental results from a room-temperature table-top phase-sensitive axion haloscope experiment are presented. The technique exploits the axion-photon coupling between two photonic resonator-oscillators excited in a single cavity, allowing low-mass axions to be upconverted to microwave frequencies, acting as a source of frequency modulation on the microwave carriers. This new pathway to axion detection has certain advantages over the traditional haloscope method, particularly in targeting axions below 1 $μ$eV (240 MHz) in energy where high volume magnets are necessary. At the heart of the dual-mode oscillator, a tunable cylindrical microwave cavity supports a pair of orthogonally polarized modes ($\text{TM}_{\text{0,2,0}}$ and $\text{TE}_{\text{0,1,1}}$), which, in general, enables simultaneous sensitivity to axions with masses corresponding to the sum and difference of the microwave frequencies. The results place axion exclusion limits between 7.44 - 19.38 neV, excluding a minimal coupling strength above $3\times 10^{-3}$ 1/GeV, and between 74.4 - 74.5 $μ$eV, excluding a minimal coupling strength above $10^{-2}$ 1/GeV, after a measurement period of two and a half hours. We show that a state-of-the-art frequency-stabilized cryogenic implementation of this technique may achieve competitive limits in a large range of axion-space. |
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| spellingShingle | UPconversion Loop Oscillator Axion Detection experiment: A precision frequency interferometric axion dark matter search with a Cylindrical Microwave Cavity Thomson, Catriona A. McAllister, Ben T. Goryachev, Maxim Ivanov, Eugene N. Tobar, Michael E. High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors First experimental results from a room-temperature table-top phase-sensitive axion haloscope experiment are presented. The technique exploits the axion-photon coupling between two photonic resonator-oscillators excited in a single cavity, allowing low-mass axions to be upconverted to microwave frequencies, acting as a source of frequency modulation on the microwave carriers. This new pathway to axion detection has certain advantages over the traditional haloscope method, particularly in targeting axions below 1 $μ$eV (240 MHz) in energy where high volume magnets are necessary. At the heart of the dual-mode oscillator, a tunable cylindrical microwave cavity supports a pair of orthogonally polarized modes ($\text{TM}_{\text{0,2,0}}$ and $\text{TE}_{\text{0,1,1}}$), which, in general, enables simultaneous sensitivity to axions with masses corresponding to the sum and difference of the microwave frequencies. The results place axion exclusion limits between 7.44 - 19.38 neV, excluding a minimal coupling strength above $3\times 10^{-3}$ 1/GeV, and between 74.4 - 74.5 $μ$eV, excluding a minimal coupling strength above $10^{-2}$ 1/GeV, after a measurement period of two and a half hours. We show that a state-of-the-art frequency-stabilized cryogenic implementation of this technique may achieve competitive limits in a large range of axion-space. |
| title | UPconversion Loop Oscillator Axion Detection experiment: A precision frequency interferometric axion dark matter search with a Cylindrical Microwave Cavity |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07751 |