Taiwan axion search experiment with haloscope: Designs and operations
Hsin Chang, Jing-Yang Chang, Yi-Chieh Chang, Yu‐Han Chang, Yuan-Hann Chang, Chien-Han Chen, Ching-Fang Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yung‐Fu Chen, Wei-Yuan Chiang, Wei-Chen Chien, Hien Thi Doan, Wei-Cheng Hung, Watson Kuo, Shou-Bai Lai, Han-Wen Liu, Min-Wei OuYang, Ping-I Wu, S. S. Yu
Abstract
We report on a holoscope axion search experiment near 19.6 µeV from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with Haloscope collaboration. This experiment is carried out via a frequency-tunable cavity detector with a volume V = 0.234 liter in a magnetic field B0 = 8 T. With a signal receiver that has a system noise temperature Tsys ≅ 2.2 K and an experiment time of about one month, the search excludes values of the axion–photon coupling constant gaγγ ≳ 8.1 × 10−14 GeV−1, a factor of 11 above the Kim–Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov benchmark model, at the 95% confidence level in the mass range of 19.4687–19.8436 µeV. We present the experimental setup and procedures to accomplish this search.