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most citedA quantum-enhanced search for dark matter axions

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hep-ex2026

Design of ALPHA Phase I: A Plasma Haloscope for 10--20 GHz Post-Inflation Axions

ALPHA Collaboration, Xiran Bai, Rustam Balafendiev +53

The axion is a well-motivated hypothetical particle capable of resolving both the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery, with recent post-inflationary cosmological simulati…

physics.ins-det2026

The Cryogenic System of DMRadio-50L

V. Ankel, C. Bartram, J. Begin +36

The DMRadio-50L experiment is designed to search for axion dark matter in the 5 kHz - 5 MHz frequency range using a lumped-element LC resonator and a toroidal magnet and to serve a…

hep-ex2026

DMRadio-Core: A new approach for GUT-scale axion searches

V. Ankel, C. Bartram, J. Begin +33

Searches for QCD axions with masses in the neV/ mass range are strongly motivated by new physics at the GUT scale and by well-motivated pre-inflationary axion symmetry breakin…

physics.ins-det2026

A First Demonstration of the SQUAT Detector Architecture: Direct Measurement of Resonator-Free Charge-Sensitive Transmons

H. Magoon, T. Aralis, T. Dyson +18

The Superconducting Quasiparticle-Amplifying Transmon (SQUAT) is a new sensor architecture for THz (meV) detection based on a weakly charge-sensitive transmon directly coupled to a…

hep-ex2025

Search for Dark Photons between 16.96--19.52 eV with the HAYSTAC Experiment

Xiran Bai, A. Droster, J. Echevers +21

We report dark photon results from HAYSTAC Phase II using data from previously reported axion searches. Additionally, we present an analysis of an unpublished dataset covering a re…

quant-ph2025

Noise limits for dc SQUID readout of high- resonators below 300 MHz

V. Ankel, C. Bartram, J. Begin +38

We present the limits on noise for the readout of cryogenic high- resonators using dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) below 300 MHz. This analysis uses rea…

hep-ex2024★ 28 cited

Dark Matter Axion Search with HAYSTAC Phase II

HAYSTAC Collaboration, Xiran Bai, M. J. Jewell +22

This Letter reports new results from the HAYSTAC experiment's search for dark matter axions in our galactic halo. It represents the widest search to date that utilizes squeezing to…

hep-ex2023★ 10 cited

Tunable Wire Metamaterials for an Axion Haloscope

Nolan Kowitt, Dajie Sun, Mackenzie Wooten +5

Metamaterials based on regular two-dimensional arrays of thin wires have attracted renewed attention in light of a recently proposed strategy to search for dark matter axions. When…

hep-ex2023★ 3 cited

Electromagnetic modeling and science reach of DMRadio-m

DMRadio Collaboration, A. AlShirawi, V. Ankel +45

DMRadio-m is an experiment that is designed to be sensitive to KSVZ and DFSZ QCD axion models in the 10--200\,MHz (41 neV -- 0.83 eV/) range. The experiment uses…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

New Results from HAYSTAC's Phase II Operation with a Squeezed State Receiver

HAYSTAC Collaboration, M. J. Jewell, A. F. Leder +26

A search for dark matter axions with masses has been performed using the HAYSTAC experiment's squeezed state receiver to achieve sub-quantum limited noise. This rep…

hep-ph2022★ 75 cited

Searching For Dark Matter with Plasma Haloscopes

Alexander J. Millar, Steven M. Anlage, Rustam Balafendiev +24

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions an…

hep-ex2022★ 91 cited

Projected Sensitivity of DMRadio-m: A Search for the QCD Axion Below eV

DMRadio Collaboration, L. Brouwer, S. Chaudhuri +31

The QCD axion is one of the most compelling candidates to explain the dark matter abundance of the universe. With its extremely small mass (), axion dark ma…

hep-ex2022★ 56 cited

New Horizons: Scalar and Vector Ultralight Dark Matter

D. Antypas, A. Banerjee, C. Bartram +123

The last decade has seen unprecedented effort in dark matter model building at all mass scales coupled with the design of numerous new detection strategies. Transformative advances…

hep-ex2022★ 63 cited

Introducing DMRadio-GUT, a search for GUT-scale QCD axions

L. Brouwer, S. Chaudhuri, H. -M. Cho +29

The QCD axion is a leading dark matter candidate that emerges as part of the solution to the strong CP problem in the Standard Model. The coupling of the axion to photons is the mo…

hep-ex2022

Exploration of Wire Array Metamaterials for the Plasma Axion Haloscope

M. Wooten, A. Droster, Al Kenany +3

A plasma haloscope has recently been proposed as a feasible approach to extend the search for dark matter axions above 10 GHz ( 40 eV), whereby the microwave cavity in a c…

quant-ph2020★ 409 cited

A quantum-enhanced search for dark matter axions

K. M. Backes, D. A. Palken, S. Al Kenany +21

In dark matter axion searches, quantum uncertainty manifests as a fundamental noise source, limiting the measurement of the quadrature observables used for detection. We use vacuum…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 14 cited

A Symmetric Multi-rod Tunable Microwave Cavity for the HAYSTAC Dark Matter Axion Search

Maria Simanovskaia, Alex Droster, Heather Jackson +2

The microwave cavity experiment is the most sensitive way of looking for axions in the 0.1-10 GHz range, corresponding to masses of 0.5 - 40 eV. The particular challenge for fre…

physics.ins-det2019★ 3 cited

HAYSTAC Status, Results, and Plans

Alex G. Droster, Karl van Bibber

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 a…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 15 cited

A large-diameter cryogenic rotation stage for half-wave plate polarization modulation on the POLARBEAR-2 experiment

Charles A. Hill, Akito Kusaka, Paul Barton +15

We describe the design of a cryogenic rotation stage (CRS) for use with the cryogenic half-wave plate (CHWP) polarization modulator on the POLARBEAR-2b and POLARBEAR-2c (PB2b/c) co…