The dark matter radio : a quantum-enhanced search for QCD axion dark matter
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation introduces the Dark Matter (DM) Radio, a tunable, lumped-LC oscillator search for axion and hidden-photon dark matter between 1 peV and 1 ueV. The design of DM Radio is motivated from fundamental statements regarding impedance-matching to dark matter and optimal electromagnetic searches for axions and hidden photons subject to the Standard Quantum Limit (SQL) on phase-insensitive amplification. I describe the DM Radio Pathfinder, a prototype detector searching for hidden-photon dark matter between 400 peV and 40 neV. First data from the Pathfinder are presented. I propose the Radio-Frequency Quantum Upconverter (RQU), a device which enables DM Radio readout sensitivity beyond the SQL. The ultimate vision for DM Radio, a cubic-meter-volume resonant experiment operating at 10 mK with a 4 Tesla DC magnetic field and exploiting quantum metrology, is presented. This experiment will enable a probe of the QCD axion between 4 neV and 1 ueV.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Chaudhuri, Saptarshi | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Irwin, Kent | |
| Thesis advisor | Irwin, Kent | |
| Thesis advisor | Graham, Peter W, 1951- | |
| Thesis advisor | Gratta, Giorgio | |
| Degree committee member | Graham, Peter W, 1951- | |
| Degree committee member | Gratta, Giorgio | |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Saptarshi Chaudhuri. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2019 by Saptarshi Chaudhuri
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