A new Limit for Axion Dark Matter with SPACE

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Hauptverfasser: Akgümüs, M. A., Salama, N., Egge, J., Garutti, E., Maroudas, M., Nguyen, L. H., Leppla-Weber, D.
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author Akgümüs, M. A.
Salama, N.
Egge, J.
Garutti, E.
Maroudas, M.
Nguyen, L. H.
Leppla-Weber, D.
author_facet Akgümüs, M. A.
Salama, N.
Egge, J.
Garutti, E.
Maroudas, M.
Nguyen, L. H.
Leppla-Weber, D.
contents The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment" (SPACE), which is also the first one in Germany. The hypothetical particle was looked for in the mass range from $16.626~\mathrm{μeV}$ to $16.653~\mathrm{μeV}$, corresponding to a frequency range of 4.020 GHz to 4.027 GHz, using a resonant cavity in a peak magnetic field of 14 T. No significant signal was found, allowing us to exclude an axion-photon coupling $g_{aγγ} = 14.6 \cdot 10^{-13}~\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ for the full mass range and $g_{aγγ} = 2.811 \cdot 10^{-13}~\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ at peak sensitivity with a 95% confidence level. This limit surpasses previous constraints by more than two orders of magnitude.
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spellingShingle A new Limit for Axion Dark Matter with SPACE
Akgümüs, M. A.
Salama, N.
Egge, J.
Garutti, E.
Maroudas, M.
Nguyen, L. H.
Leppla-Weber, D.
High Energy Physics - Experiment
The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment" (SPACE), which is also the first one in Germany. The hypothetical particle was looked for in the mass range from $16.626~\mathrm{μeV}$ to $16.653~\mathrm{μeV}$, corresponding to a frequency range of 4.020 GHz to 4.027 GHz, using a resonant cavity in a peak magnetic field of 14 T. No significant signal was found, allowing us to exclude an axion-photon coupling $g_{aγγ} = 14.6 \cdot 10^{-13}~\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ for the full mass range and $g_{aγγ} = 2.811 \cdot 10^{-13}~\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ at peak sensitivity with a 95% confidence level. This limit surpasses previous constraints by more than two orders of magnitude.
title A new Limit for Axion Dark Matter with SPACE
topic High Energy Physics - Experiment
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18411