Dark matter axion search using a Josephson Traveling wave parametric amplifier

C Bartram; T Braine; R Cervantes; N Crisosto; N Du; G Leum; P Mohapatra; T Nitta; L J Rosenberg; G Rybka; J Yang; John Clarke; I Siddiqi; A Agrawal; A V Dixit; M H Awida; A S Chou; M Hollister; S Knirck; A Sonnenschein; W Wester; J R Gleason; A T Hipp; S Jois; P Sikivie; N S Sullivan; D B Tanner; E Lentz; R Khatiwada; G Carosi; C Cisneros; N Robertson; N Woollett; L D Duffy; C Boutan; M Jones; B H LaRoque; N S Oblath; M S Taubman; E J Daw; M G Perry; J H Buckley; C Gaikwad; J Hoffman; K Murch; M Goryachev; B T McAllister; A Quiskamp; C Thomson; M E Tobar; V Bolkhovsky; G Calusine; W Oliver; K Serniak

doi:10.1063/5.0122907

Dark matter axion search using a Josephson Traveling wave parametric amplifier

Rev Sci Instrum. 2023 Apr 1;94(4):044703. doi: 10.1063/5.0122907.

Authors

C Bartram¹, T Braine¹, R Cervantes¹, N Crisosto¹, N Du¹, G Leum¹, P Mohapatra¹, T Nitta¹, L J Rosenberg¹, G Rybka¹, J Yang¹, John Clarke², I Siddiqi², A Agrawal³, A V Dixit³, M H Awida⁴, A S Chou⁴, M Hollister⁴, S Knirck⁴, A Sonnenschein⁴, W Wester⁴, J R Gleason⁵, A T Hipp⁵, S Jois⁵, P Sikivie⁵, N S Sullivan⁵, D B Tanner⁵, E Lentz⁶, R Khatiwada^{4

7}, G Carosi⁸, C Cisneros⁸, N Robertson⁸, N Woollett⁸, L D Duffy⁹, C Boutan¹⁰, M Jones¹⁰, B H LaRoque¹⁰, N S Oblath¹⁰, M S Taubman¹⁰, E J Daw¹¹, M G Perry¹¹, J H Buckley¹², C Gaikwad¹², J Hoffman¹², K Murch¹², M Goryachev¹³, B T McAllister¹³, A Quiskamp¹³, C Thomson¹³, M E Tobar¹³, V Bolkhovsky¹⁴, G Calusine¹⁴, W Oliver¹⁵, K Serniak¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
² University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
³ University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
⁴ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
⁵ University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
⁶ University of Göttingen, Göttingen 37077, Germany.
⁷ Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616, USA.
⁸ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
⁹ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
¹⁰ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, USA.
¹¹ University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
¹² Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
¹³ University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
¹⁴ MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, Massachusetts 02421, USA.
¹⁵ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

PMID: 38081262
DOI: 10.1063/5.0122907

Abstract

We describe the first implementation of a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (JTWPA) in an axion dark matter search. The operation of the JTWPA for a period of about two weeks achieved sensitivity to axion-like particle dark matter with axion-photon couplings above 10-13 Ge V-1 over a narrow range of axion masses centered around 19.84 µeV by tuning the resonant frequency of the cavity over the frequency range of 4796.7-4799.5 MHz. The JTWPA was operated in the insert of the axion dark matter experiment as part of an independent receiver chain that was attached to a 0.56-l cavity. The ability of the JTWPA to deliver high gain over a wide (3 GHz) bandwidth has engendered interest from those aiming to perform broadband axion searches, a longstanding goal in this field.