When:
Monday, June 13, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Pamela Villalovoz
(847) 491-3666
Group: Physics and Astronomy High Energy Physics Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: The ADMX-HF Experiment
Speaker: Tim Schokair, UC Berkeley
Abstract:
The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment - High Frequency (ADMX-HF) is a a collaboration of Yale, Berkeley, Colorado/JILA and LLNL to search for dark matter axions initially in the 4-10 GHz (20-50 µeV) range. Axions may convert to a monochromatic RF signal in a microwave cavity permeated by a magnetic field. ADMX-HF will serve as an innovation test-bed for new concepts which can be applied in the larger-scale ADMX experiment, as well as serve as a pathfinder for this new frequency range. These innovations include hybrid superconducting cavities to boost the conversion power of the experiment and a squeezed-state receiver to reduce amplifier noise below the quantum limit. The experiment is currently analyzing data from the first run, and is expected to begin the next run this summer.
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, HEP