29 May 2018 to 3 June 2018
Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center
US/Pacific timezone

DM Radio: An Optimized Resonant Search for Axion and Hidden-Photon Dark Matter

29 May 2018, 17:10
20m
South Foyer | Pinon Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

South Foyer | Pinon Room

Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center

44600 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells, CA 92210, USA
Parallel DM Dark Matter

Speaker

Mr Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University)

Description

We discuss DM Radio, a lumped-LC resonant search for axion and hidden-photon dark matter between 100 Hz and 300 MHz. We illustrate the detection concept and discuss design and fabrication of the Pilot detector, which will operate in liquid helium at 4 K over the next three years and probe hidden photons in a portion of this frequency range. We show results from a fixed-frequency resonator and present work on detector characterization, including a study of loss mechanisms, shielding performance, and dc SQUID amplifier noise. We discuss future plans to optimize DM Radio, in the context of fundamental limitations on electromagnetic searches for light-field dark matter.
E-mail [email protected]
Funding source Heising-Simons Foundation, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC Laboratory Directed Research and Development

Primary author

Mr Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Stanford University)

Co-authors

Dr Arran Phipps (Stanford University) Mr Carl Dawson (Stanford University) Dr Dale Li (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Dr Hsiao-Mei Cho (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Prof. Kent Irwin (Stanford University) Prof. Peter Graham (Stanford University) Mr Stephen Kuenstner (Stanford University) Prof. Surjeet Rajendran (University of California, Berkeley)

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