Technique - (1) Lumped-element LC resonator axion detection (DMRadio)

Type: Experimental

Description: Tunable superconducting LC lumped-element pickup and readout chain used to search for sub-ueV axion dark matter below the cavity-mode regime.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Princeton Axion Search (Chaudhuri Lab) @ Princeton
Summary:

Chaudhuri leads the Princeton Axion Search (PXS) and is a core contributor to the DMRadio program, using solenoidal lumped-element LC resonators, DC-SQUID and near-quantum-limited (traveling-wave parametric amplifier) readout to search for QCD axion dark matter from roughly neV to ueV masses; his group explicitly frames this as electromagnetic quantum sensing beyond the Standard Quantum Limit. He is actively developing superconducting resonators and RF quantum upconverters that push readout sensitivity toward and below the SQL.