HAYSTAC Status, Results, and Plans
arXiv:1901.01668
Abstract
We describe the design of the dark matter experiment Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion Cold Dark Matter (HAYSTAC), and report the results of a haloscope search for dark matter axions. We exclude axion models with axion-photon couplings GeV over the range eV. This sensitivity is a factor of 2.7 above KSVZ model coupling, averaged over the given mass range. Phase I achieved a noise temperature a factor of 2 over the standard quantum limit. Phase II, now entering commissioning, incorporates a squeezed-vacuum state receiver to evade the quantum limit, which will deliver a factor of improvement in scanning rate over the current single Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) receiver. The sensitivity of the HAYSTAC Phase II receiver will lead to precise constraints on two photon coupling strengths and represents the most sensitive axion cavity detector probing eV to date.
arXiv commentTalk presented CIPANP2018. 16 pages, LaTeX, 9 figures
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