학술논문

CAPP Axion Search Experiments with Quantum Noise Limited Amplifiers
Document Type
Working Paper
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Subject
Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
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Abstract
The axion is expected to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and is one of the leading candidates for dark matter. CAPP in South Korea has several axion search experiments based on cavity haloscopes in the frequency range of 1-6 GHz. The main effort focuses on operation of the experiments with the highest possible sensitivity. It requires maintenance of the haloscopes at the lowest physical temperature in the range of mK and usage of low noise components to amplify the weak axion signal. We report development and operation of low noise amplifiers for 5 haloscope experiments targeting at different frequency ranges. The amplifiers show noise temperatures approaching the quantum limit.
Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, 29th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, August 18-24, 2022, Sapporo, Japan