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Description
Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector is a UK collaboration developing
ultra-low-noise readout and resonant detector technology, aiming
initially to search for halo axions in the 25-40 micro-eV mass window.
The collaboration has continued to develop a range of devices and has
now installed a high-field, low-temperature facility at the University
of Sheffield, centring around a dry dilution refrigerator supplied by
Oxford Instruments having a target physical temperature of 10mK and a
clear bore of 18cm, in which we intend to characterise and test the
ultra-low-noise devices in a haloscope geometry, alongside developing
haloscope and resonant detector technologies. Here, I update on the
QSHS collaboration aims, current progress and characterisation of the
hardware.
