Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

DM Radio: A Quantum-Limited Axion Search

Jul 25, 2019, 4:00 PM
15m
Auditorium G. Testori (Milano)

Auditorium G. Testori

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Oral Presentation Low Temperature Detector for quantum technologies and other frontiers Orals LM 005

Speaker

Dr Dale Li (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

The direct detection of WIMP dark matter has so far eluded detection efforts. Like WIMPs, the QCD axion is a natural dark-matter candidate, but large parts of its parameter space, including some of the most well-motivated models, remain unexplored. We describe the Dark Matter Radio (DM Radio), a low-temperature search for axions and hidden-photons over the peV$-$$\mu$eV mass range. Axion and hidden-photon dark matter has wavelike properties and behaves as a coherent field. DM Radio uses a tunable, high-Q lumped-element resonator within a superconducting shield. Like an AM radio searching for a station at an unknown frequency, DM radio is tuned to search for signals created when axions or hidden photons are converted into photons at frequency $f=mc^2/h$, where $m$ is the rest mass of dark matter. By using lumped-element components, it can search an extremely broad range of frequencies (from ~300 Hz to 300 MHz). DM Radio is designed to be a quantum limited search for dark matter, using both dc SQUIDs and other quantum sensors to read out the state of the resonator. We describe the ongoing development of the DM Radio 50 L experiment, and plans for DM Radio Cubic Meter, which will be sensitive to the QCD axion over two orders of magnitude in mass, from ~10 neV to 1 $\mu$eV.

Student (Ph.D., M.Sc. or B.Sc.) N
Less than 5 years of experience since completion of Ph.D N

Primary authors

Dr Dale Li (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Mr Samuel Carman (Stanford University) Mr Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University) Dr Hsiao-Mei Cho (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Mr Carl Dawson (Stanford University) Mr Alex Droster (UC Berkeley) Mr Henry Froland (Stanford University) Prof. Peter Graham (Stanford University) Prof. Kent Irwin (Stanford University) Mr Stephen Kuenstner (Stanford University) Dr Alexander Leder (UC Berkeley) Dr Arran Phipps (Stanford University) Prof. Surjeet Rajendran (UC Berkeley) Mr Kevin Wells (Stanford University) Prof. Betty Young (Santa Clara University)

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