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Axion Dark Matter eXperiment: Run 1A analysis details

C. Boutan, B. H. LaRoque, E. Lentz*, N. S. Oblath, M. S. Taubman, J. Tedeschi, J. Yang, and A. M. Jones†

T. Braine, N. Crisosto, L. J. Rosenberg, G. Rybka, D. Will, D. Zhang, S. Kimes‡, and R. Ottens§

C. Bartram

D. Bowring, R. Cervantes, A. S. Chou, S. Knirck, D. V. Mitchell, A. Sonnenschein, and W. Wester

R. Khatiwada

G. Carosi, N. Du, S. Durham, S. R. O’Kelley, and N. Woollett∥

L. D. Duffy

R. Bradley

J. Clarke and I. Siddiqi

A. Agrawal and A. V. Dixit**

J. R. Gleason, A. T. Hipp, S. Jois, P. Sikivie, N. S. Sullivan, and D. B. Tanner

J. H. Buckley, C. Gaikwad, E. A. Henriksen, J. Hoffman, K. W. Murch, and P. M. Harrington††

E. J. Daw and M. G. Perry

G. C. Hilton

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA

  • University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

  • SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA

  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA

  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA

  • Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

  • National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903, USA

  • University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

  • University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA

  • Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

  • University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA

  • *Corresponding author: erik.lentz@pnnl.gov
  • †Present address: Open Engineering, Inc., Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
  • ‡Present address: Microsoft Quantum, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington 98052, USA.
  • §Present address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
  • ∥Present address: Rigetti Computing, Oxford, England, United Kingdom.
  • Present address: Amazon Web Services Center for Quantum Networking, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • **Present address: Advanced Microwave Photonics Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
  • ††Present address: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
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Phys. Rev. D 109, 012009 – Published 26 January, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.012009

Abstract

The ADMX Collaboration gathered data for its Run 1A axion dark matter search from January 2017 to June 2017, scanning with an axion haloscope over the frequency range 645–680 MHz (2.66–2.81  μeV in axion mass) at Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii (DFSZ) sensitivity. The resulting axion search found no axionlike signals comprising all the dark matter in the form of a virialized galactic halo over the entire frequency range, implying lower bound exclusion limits at or below DFSZ coupling at the 90% confidence level. This paper presents expanded details of the axion search analysis of Run 1A, including review of relevant experimental systems, data-taking operations, preparation and interpretation of raw data, axion search methodology, candidate handling, and final axion limits.

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Phys. Rev. D 109, 012009– Published 26 January, 2024
  • Received 7 June 2023
  • Accepted 6 December 2023
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