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First Results from ABRACADABRA-10 cm: A Search for Sub-μeV Axion Dark Matter

Jonathan L. Ouellet, Chiara P. Salemi, Joshua W. Foster, Reyco Henning, Zachary Bogorad, Janet M. Conrad, Joseph A. Formaggio, Yonatan Kahn, Joe Minervini, Alexey Radovinsky, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, Jesse Thaler, Daniel Winklehner, and Lindley Winslow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 121802 – Published 29 March 2019

Abstract

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 ma1μeV. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, 1012ma106eV. 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<1.4×1010 and gaγγ<3.3×109GeV1 over the mass range 3.1×10108.3×109eV. These results are competitive with the most stringent astrophysical constraints in this mass range.

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  • Received 30 October 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.121802

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Nuclear PhysicsParticles & FieldsGravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Jonathan L. Ouellet1,*, Chiara P. Salemi1, Joshua W. Foster2, Reyco Henning3,4, Zachary Bogorad1, Janet M. Conrad1, Joseph A. Formaggio1, Yonatan Kahn5,6, Joe Minervini7, Alexey Radovinsky7, Nicholas L. Rodd8,9, Benjamin R. Safdi2, Jesse Thaler10, Daniel Winklehner1, and Lindley Winslow1,†

  • 1Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 2Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 3University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
  • 4Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
  • 5Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 6Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • 7Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 8Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 9Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 10Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

  • *ouelletj@mit.edu
  • lwinslow@mit.edu

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Vol. 122, Iss. 12 — 29 March 2019

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