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WIDG Seminar: Danielle Speller, Yale, “Searching for Axions with the HAYSTAC Experiment”

Event time: 
Tuesday, September 25, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Wright Lab - Connector (EAL), WLC-245 See map
270 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

The nature of dark matter is one of the most elusive puzzles in modern physics.  With the absence of the discovery of traditional candidates like the WIMP, there has been a strong resurgence of interest in low mass and very light candidates, such as the axion. The Haloscope At Yale Sensitive To Axion CDM (HAYSTAC) is a tunable microwave cavity axion experiment sensitive to significant regions of parameter space interesting to both particle physics and cosmology.  In 2017, the HAYSTAC experiment reached sensitivities of  order 2x10-14 GeV-1 for axion masses between 23.15 < m< 24.0 MeV, a mass range previously unexplored by existing haloscope experiments.  HAYSTAC is now incorporating a new squeezed-state receiver system and significant upgrades to the cryogenics system, and commissioning for Phase II.