2019/01/30 by Jonathan Ouellet, Jonathan L. Ouellet, Chiara P. Salemi +17
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Axion #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Detector #Limit (mathematics) #Optics #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Range (aeronautics) #hep-ex #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.99.052012
published as Phys. Rev. D 99, 052012 (2019) · 12 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2019/01/30 · openalex publication_date 2019/03/29 · arxiv updated 2019/04/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the search for light particle dark matter. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, 10^\ensuremath-12\ensuremath\lesssimma\ensuremath\lesssim10^\ensuremath-6 eV. ABRACADABRA-10 cm is a small-scale prototype for a future detector that could be sensitive to QCD axion couplings. In this paper, we present the details of the design, construction, and data analysis for the first axion dark matter search with the ABRACADABRA-10 cm detector. We include a detailed discussion of the statistical techniques used to extract the limit from the first result with an emphasis on creating a robust statistical footing for interpreting those limits.