TY - JOUR
T1 - First Results from ABRACADABRA-10 cm
T2 - A Search for Sub- μeV Axion Dark Matter
AU - Ouellet, Jonathan L.
AU - Salemi, Chiara P.
AU - Foster, Joshua W.
AU - Henning, Reyco
AU - Bogorad, Zachary
AU - Conrad, Janet M.
AU - Formaggio, Joseph A.
AU - Kahn, Yonatan
AU - Minervini, Joe
AU - Radovinsky, Alexey
AU - Rodd, Nicholas L.
AU - Safdi, Benjamin R.
AU - Thaler, Jesse
AU - Winklehner, Daniel
AU - Winslow, Lindley
N1 - The authors would like to acknowledge the useful conversations and advice from Henry Barthelmess of Magnicon Inc. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. NSF-PHY-1658693, No. NSF-PHY-1806440, No. NSF-PHY-1505858, and No. NSF-PHY-1122374. This work was also supported by DOE Early Career Grant No. DE-SC0019225, by the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, by the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley, by the MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Physics program, by the Leinweber Graduate Fellowship Program and by the Simons Foundation through a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. This research was supported in part through computational resources and services provided by Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Awards No. DE-FG02-97ER41041 and No. DEFG02-97ER41033 and by the Office of High Energy Physics under Grant No. DE-SC-0012567. We would like to thank the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Research Computing group for providing computational resources and support that have contributed to these research results.
PY - 2019/3/29
Y1 - 2019/3/29
N2 - The axion is a promising dark matter candidate, which was originally proposed to solve the strong-CP problem in particle physics. To date, the available parameter space for axion and axionlike particle dark matter is relatively unexplored, particularly at masses ma1 μeV. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, 10-12ma10-6 eV. ABRACADABRA-10 cm is a small-scale prototype for a future detector that could be sensitive to the QCD axion. In this Letter, we present the first results from a 1 month search for axions with ABRACADABRA-10 cm. We find no evidence for axionlike cosmic dark matter and set 95% C.L. upper limits on the axion-photon coupling between gaγγ<1.4×10-10 and gaγγ<3.3×10-9 GeV-1 over the mass range 3.1×10-10-8.3×10-9 eV. These results are competitive with the most stringent astrophysical constraints in this mass range.
AB - The axion is a promising dark matter candidate, which was originally proposed to solve the strong-CP problem in particle physics. To date, the available parameter space for axion and axionlike particle dark matter is relatively unexplored, particularly at masses ma1 μeV. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, 10-12ma10-6 eV. ABRACADABRA-10 cm is a small-scale prototype for a future detector that could be sensitive to the QCD axion. In this Letter, we present the first results from a 1 month search for axions with ABRACADABRA-10 cm. We find no evidence for axionlike cosmic dark matter and set 95% C.L. upper limits on the axion-photon coupling between gaγγ<1.4×10-10 and gaγγ<3.3×10-9 GeV-1 over the mass range 3.1×10-10-8.3×10-9 eV. These results are competitive with the most stringent astrophysical constraints in this mass range.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121802
M3 - Article
C2 - 30978106
AN - SCOPUS:85064038542
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 122
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 12
M1 - 121802
ER -