The Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion CDM

The Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion CDM (HAYSTAC) Experiment is a microwave cavity search for cold dark matter (CDM) axions with masses above 20ueV.  Located at Yale’s Wright Laboratory in New Haven, Connecticut, the HAYSTAC collaboration consists of members from Yale University, the University of California Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder.  HAYSTAC searches for axion dark matter in the galactic halo by searching for a resonant photon signal produced by axion conversion in a magnetic field.  The detection of such a signal would provide important clues to the nature of dark matter and the constitution of the mass content of the universe.

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An artist's depiction of the axion field coming through a haloscope and the signal being amplified by a set of JPAs
February 10, 2021
The article is here. Ben Brubaker, the first graduate student on HAYSTAC, wrote a beginner-friendly article about it here. Yale has made a news announcement here. Berkeley...
April 16, 2018
Final results from phase 1 of the  HAYSTAC experiment are now on the arXiv:  https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03690.  The full text has been accepted to Phys. Rev. D for...