ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting $LC$ Circuit Investigating Cold Axions

Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). To search for lighter, low frequency axions in the sub- 2×10-7 eV (50 MHz) range, a tunable lumped-element LC circuit has been proposed. For the first time, through ADMX SLIC (Superconducting LC Circuit Investigating Cold Axions), a resonant LC circuit was used to probe this region of axion mass-coupling space. The detector used a superconducting LC circuit with piezoelectric driven capacitive tuning. The axion mass and corresponding frequency ranges 1.7498–1.7519×10-7 eV (42.31–42.36 MHz), 1.7734–1.7738×10-7 eV (42.88–42.89 MHz), and 1.8007–1.8015×10-7 eV (43.54–43.56 MHz) were covered at magnetic fields of 4.5 T, 5.0 T, and 7.0 T, respectively. Exclusion results from the search data, for coupling below 10-12 GeV−1, are presented.

Gravitation and Astrophysics
axion: dark matter
axion: mass
cavity: microwaves
frequency: low
magnetic field
4/3
superconductivity
photon

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