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Search for galactic axions with a traveling wave parametric amplifier
R. Di Vora, A. Lombardi, A. Ortolan +24
A traveling wave parametric amplifier has been integrated in the haloscope of the QUAX experiment. A search for dark matter axions has been performed with a high Q dielectric cavit…
Search for galactic axions with a high-Q dielectric cavity
D. Alesini, D. Babusci, C. Braggio +19
A haloscope of the QUAX-- experiment, composed of an high-Q resonant cavity immersed in a 8 T magnet and cooled to ~K is operated to search for galactic axion with ma…
A high-Q microwave dielectric resonator for axion dark matter haloscopes
R. Di Vora, D. Alesini, C. Braggio +17
The frequency band 1-15 GHz provides exciting prospects for resonant axion haloscopes as indicated by cosmological and astrophysical arguments. Among the challenges currently addre…
Search for invisible axion dark matter of mass meV with the QUAX-- experiment
D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno +17
A haloscope of the QUAX-- experiment composed of an oxygen-free high thermal conductivity-Cu cavity inside an 8.1 T magnet and cooled to mK is put in operation for th…
The PVLAS experiment: a 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence
A. Ejlli, F. Della Valle, U. Gastaldi +4
This paper describes the 25 year effort to measure vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism with the PVLAS experiment. The experiment went through two main phases: the first usi…
Realization of a high quality factor resonator with hollow dielectric cylinders for axion searches
D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno +18
The realization and characterization of a high quality factor resonator composed of two hollow-dielectric cylinders with its pseudo-TM mode resonating at 10.9 GHz frequency…
High quality factor photonic cavity for dark matter axion searches
D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno +18
Searches for dark matter axion involve the use of microwave resonant cavities operating in a strong magnetic field. Detector sensitivity is directly related to the cavity quality f…
Axion search with a quantum-limited ferromagnetic haloscope
N. Crescini, D. Alesini, C. Braggio +13
A ferromagnetic axion haloscope searches for Dark Matter in the form of axions by exploiting their interaction with electronic spins. It is composed of an axion-to-electromagnetic…
Galactic axions search with a superconducting resonant cavity
D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno +22
To account for the dark matter content in our Universe, post-inflationary scenarios predict for the QCD axion a mass in the range $(10-10^3)\,μ\mbox{eV}$. Searches with haloscope e…
Operation of a ferromagnetic axion haloscope at eV
N. Crescini, D. Alesini, C. Braggio +15
Axions, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, emerge now as leading candidates of WISP dark matter. The rich phenomenology associated to the…
Intrinsic mirror noise in Fabry-Perot based polarimeters: the case for the measurement of vacuum magnetic birefringence
G. Zavattini, F. Della Valle, A. Ejlli +5
Although experimental efforts have been active for about 30 years now, a direct laboratory observation of vacuum magnetic birefringence, an effect due to vacuum fluctuations, still…
Searching for galactic axions through magnetized media: QUAX status report
G. Ruoso, D. Alesini, C. Braggio +15
The current status of the QUAX R\&D program is presented. QUAX is a feasibility study for a detection of axion as dark matter based on the coupling to the electrons. The relevant s…
Searching for galactic axions through magnetized media: the QUAX proposal
R. Barbieri, C. Braggio, G. Carugno +6
We present a proposal to search for QCD axions with mass in the 200 eV range, assuming that they make a dominant component of dark matter. Due to the axion-electron spin couplin…
The QUAX proposal: a search of galactic axion with magnetic materials
Giuseppe Ruoso, Augusto Lombardi, Antonello Ortolan +5
Aim of the QUAX (QUaerere AXion) proposal is to exploit the interaction of cosmological axions with the spin of electrons in a magnetized sample. Their effect is equivalent to the…
The PVLAS experiment: measuring vacuum magnetic birefringence and dichroism with a birefringent Fabry-Perot cavity
F. Della Valle, E. Milotti, A. Ejlli +5
Vacuum magnetic birefringence was predicted long time ago and is still lacking a direct experimental confirmation. Several experimental efforts are striving to reach this goal, and…
First results from the new PVLAS apparatus: a new limit on vacuum magnetic birefringence
F. Della Valle, E. Milotti, A. Ejlli +6
Several groups are carrying out experiments to observe and measure vacuum magnetic birefringence, predicted by Quantum Electrodynamics (QED). We have started running the new PVLAS…
Measurement of the Cotton Mouton effect of water vapour
F. Della Valle, A. Ejlli, U. Gastaldi +6
In this paper we report on a measurement of the Cotton Mouton effect of water vapour. Measurement performed at room temperature ( K) with a wavelength of 1064 nm gave the va…
SuperB Technical Design Report
SuperB Collaboration, M. Baszczyk, P. Dorosz +406
In this Technical Design Report (TDR) we describe the SuperB detector that was to be installed on the SuperB e+e- high luminosity collider. The SuperB asymmetric collider, which wa…
Measurements of vacuum magnetic birefringence using permanent dipole magnets: the PVLAS experiment
F. Della Valle, U. Gastaldi, G. Messineo +5
The PVLAS collaboration is presently assembling a new apparatus (at the INFN section of Ferrara, Italy) to detect vacuum magnetic birefringence (VMB). VMB is related to the structu…
Exploring quantum vacuum with low-energy photons
E. Milotti, F. Della Valle, G. Zavattini +8
Although quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT) are highly successful, the seemingly simplest state -- vacuum -- remains mysterious. While the LHC experiments are ex…
Measuring the magnetic birefringence of vacuum: the PVLAS experiment
Guido Zavattini, Ugo Gastaldi, Ruggero Pengo +3
We describe the principle and the status of the PVLAS experiment which is presently running at the INFN section of Ferrara, Italy, to detect the magnetic birefringence of vacuum. T…
Towards a direct measurement of vacuum magnetic birefringence: PVLAS achievements
F. Della Valle, G. Di Domenico, U. Gastaldi +4
Nonlinear effects in vacuum have been predicted but never observed yet directly. The PVLAS collaboration has long been working on an apparatus aimed at detecting such effects by me…
Optical production and detection of dark matter candidates
F. Brandi, M. Bregant, G. Cantatore +11
The PVLAS collaboration is at present running, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of I.N.F.N., Padova, Italy, a very sensitive optical ellipsometer capable of measuring the sma…