Tuesday, June 18, 2013

1306.3591 (S. K. Lamoreaux et al.)

Analysis of single-photon, squeezed-state and linear amplifier detectors
for microwave cavity dark matter axion searches
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S. K. Lamoreaux, K. A. van Bibber, K. W. Lehnert, G. Carosi
We show that at higher frequencies, and thus higher axion masses, single-photon detectors become competitive and ultimately favored, when compared to quantum-limited linear amplifiers, as the detector technology in microwave cavity experimental searches for galactic halo dark matter axions. The cross-over point in this comparison is of order 10 GHz ($\sim 40\ \mu$eV), not far above the frequencies of current searches.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3591

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