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A SQUID-based microwave cavity search for dark-matter axions

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arxiv 0910.5914 v1 pith:FWUACJKB submitted 2009-10-30 astro-ph.CO

A SQUID-based microwave cavity search for dark-matter axions

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Axions in the micro eV mass range are a plausible cold dark matter candidate and may be detected by their conversion into microwave photons in a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field. The first result from such an axion search using a superconducting first-stage amplifier (SQUID) is reported. The SQUID amplifier, replacing a conventional GaAs field-effect transistor amplifier, successfully reached axion-photon coupling sensitivity in the band set by present axion models and sets the stage for a definitive axion search utilizing near quantum-limited SQUID amplifiers.

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