Microwave Cavities and Detectors for Axion Research

Introduction to RF-Structures and Their Design.- Symmetry Breaking in Haloscope Microwave Cavities.- Pound - Drever - Hall frequency locking method.- Evaluation of Commercial Phase Shifters for Cryogenic Applications.- Application of the Bead-Perturbation Technique to a Study of a Tunable 5 GHz Annular Cavity.- Novel Resonant Cavity Designs and Applications to Axion Haloscopes.- PBG cavities for future ADMX.- First test of a photonic band gap structure for ADMX-HF.- Hybrid cavities for axion detectors.- Simulation of Superconducting QUBIT devices.- Detecting Axion Dark Matter with Superconducting Qubits.- First results from a microwave cavity axion search at 24 mieV.- Multiple-cavity detector for axion search.- The ORGAN Experiment.- Searching for Low Mass Axions with an LC Circuit.- ABRACADABRA: A broadband/resonant search for axions.- The QUAX experiment.- Progress on the ARIADNE axion experiment.

Dr. Gianpaolo Carosi is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a primary research focus in direct dark matter axion searches and quantum detector development. Dr. Carosi obtained his Bachelors in Physics from Harvey Mudd College (2000) and a Ph.D in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006). His thesis focused on indirect dark matter searches with the AMS Cosmic Ray experiment, currently sited on the International Space Station. Dr. Carosi worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) at LLNL starting in 2006 and transitioned to staff in 2009. He is currently Co-spokesman of the ADMX experiment, now a DOE Office of Science "Generation 2" Dark Matter Project. He is a DOE Early Career Research Award recipient (2012-2017) with a focus on Microwave Cavity development for dark matter axion searches. He has led the organization of both the current workshop outlined in this proceedings proposal and the previous workshop (last held at LLNL in Aug 2015). In addition to his work on axion research, he is involved in research on superconducting quantum sensors and has worked in the past on national security applications involving fast neutron detection and gamma-ray imaging. 

Dr. Rybka Gray is an assistant professor at the University of Washington Department of Physics.  He received his BS from Caltech in 2002 and his PhD in experimental particle physics from MIT in 2007.  He is co-spokesperson for the ADMX experiment, now a DOE Office of Science "Generation 2" Dark Matter Project.  He co-organized the workshop outlined in the proceedings.  In addition to axion dark matter, Dr. Rybka played a key role in the development of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) and is working actively on the Project 8 experiment to measure the neutrino mass scale.

 

Dr. Karl van Bibber received his BS and PhD