Searching for hidden Sector Photons and Chameleons with ADMX

A. Wagner; C. Boutan; M. Hotz; D. Lyapustin; L.J. Rosenberg; G. Rybka; S.J. Asztalos; G. Carosi; C. Hagmann; D. Kinion; K. van Bibber; J. Hoskins; J. Hwang; C. Martin; P. Sikivie; I. Stern; N.S. Sullivan; D.B. Tanner; R. Bradley; J. Clarke

Searching for hidden Sector Photons and Chameleons with ADMX

ORAL

Abstract

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is a microwave cavity detector designed to search for the standard axion that may exist as a solution to the stong-CP problem. In addition this experiment is also sensitive to other light bosons such as hidden sector photons, chameleons, etc. Here we describe proof-of-concept experiments run with the ADMX Phase I system to search for these new particles as well as describe sensitivity expected from ADMX Phase II, currently under construction.

^*Supported by DOE Grants DE-FG02-97ER41029, DE- FG02-96ER40956, DE-AC52-07NA27344, and DE- AC03-76SF00098, and the Livermore LDRD program.

April 1, 2012, 2:54 PM – April 1, 2012, 3:06 PM

Authors

A. Wagner
- U. of Washington
C. Boutan
- U. of Washington
M. Hotz
- U. of Washington
D. Lyapustin
- U. of Washington
L.J. Rosenberg
- U. of Washington
G. Rybka
- U. of Washington
S.J. Asztalos
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
G. Carosi
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
C. Hagmann
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
D. Kinion
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
K. van Bibber
- Naval Postgraduate School
J. Hoskins
- U. of Florida
J. Hwang
- U. of Florida
C. Martin
- U. of Florida
P. Sikivie
- U. of Florida
I. Stern
- U. of Florida
N.S. Sullivan
- U. of Florida
D.B. Tanner
- U. of Florida
R. Bradley
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
J. Clarke
- U. of California, Berkeley