Current Status of ADMX
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Abstract
The QCD Axion arose as a solution to the strong CP problem and gained further attention as a leading cold dark matter candidate. The two main benchmark models describing axion-photon coupling (KSVZ and DFSZ) suggest that axions couple weakly to photons, making them extremely difficult to detect. Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) was the first haloscope experiment to reach DFSZ sensitivity through the use of a dilution refrigerator and ultra-low noise electronics. Last year we reached KSVZ sensitivity for 1-1.4 GHz range. Since then, we have incorporated a new flux biased Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA) intended to improve sensitivity. In this talk I will present the status of the current data taking run, in which we aim to reach DFSZ sensitivity for the same frequency range.
*This work is supported by U.S. Department of Energy through Awards No.DE-SC0009800,No.DE-SC0009723,No.DE-SC0010296,No.DE-SC0010280,No.DE-SC0011665,No.DEFG02-97ER41029,No.DE-FG02-96ER40956,No.DE-AC52-07NA27344,No.DE-C03-76SF00098,No.DE-SC-0022148,No.DE-SC0017987 and others.
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Presenters
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Madeleine Carhart
- University of Washington