Speaker
Ms
Nicole Crisosto
(University of Florida ADMX)
Description
Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Using the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field haloscopes can be employed to detect axions as is done in microwave cavity searches such as ADMX. To search for lighter, low frequency axions in the unexplored sub 100 neV (50 MHz) range a tunable LC circuit has been proposed. Progress in the development of such an LC circuit based search will be presented. This will include preliminary results from prototypes using electrical tuning, superconducting inductive loops, and aluminum shielding.
Primary author
Ms
Nicole Crisosto
(University of Florida ADMX)
Co-authors
David Tanner
(University of Florida)
Prof.
Pierre Sikivie
(University of Florida)
Prof.
Sullivan Neil
(University of Florida)