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Völksen F, Devlin JA, Borchert MJ, Erlewein SR, Fleck M, Jäger JI, Latacz BM, Micke P, Nuschke P, Umbrazunas G, Wursten EJ, Abbass F, Bohman MA, Popper D, Wiesinger M, Will C, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Mooser A, Ospelkaus C, Smorra C, Soter A, Quint W, Walz J, Yamazaki Y, Ulmer S. A high-Q superconducting toroidal medium frequency detection system with a capacitively adjustable frequency range >180 kHz. Rev Sci Instrum 2022; 93:093303. [PMID: 36182508 DOI: 10.1063/5.0089182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
We describe a newly developed polytetrafluoroethylene/copper capacitor driven by a cryogenic piezoelectric slip-stick stage and demonstrate with the chosen layout cryogenic capacitance tuning of ≈60 pF at ≈10 pF background capacitance. Connected to a highly sensitive superconducting toroidal LC circuit, we demonstrate tuning of the resonant frequency between 345 and 685 kHz, at quality factors Q > 100 000. Connected to a cryogenic ultra low noise amplifier, a frequency tuning range between 520 and 710 kHz is reached, while quality factors Q > 86 000 are achieved. This new device can be used as a versatile image current detector in high-precision Penning-trap experiments or as an LC-circuit-based haloscope detector to search for the conversion of axion-like dark matter to radio-frequency photons. This new development increases the sensitive detection bandwidth of our axion haloscope by a factor of ≈1000.
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Affiliation(s)
- F Völksen
- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0041, Japan
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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- GSI-Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstraße 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN, Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Borchert MJ, Devlin JA, Erlewein SR, Fleck M, Harrington JA, Higuchi T, Latacz BM, Voelksen F, Wursten EJ, Abbass F, Bohman MA, Mooser AH, Popper D, Wiesinger M, Will C, Blaum K, Matsuda Y, Ospelkaus C, Quint W, Walz J, Yamazaki Y, Smorra C, Ulmer S. A 16-parts-per-trillion measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge-mass ratio. Nature 2022; 601:53-57. [PMID: 34987217 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04203-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The standard model of particle physics is both incredibly successful and glaringly incomplete. Among the questions left open is the striking imbalance of matter and antimatter in the observable universe1, which inspires experiments to compare the fundamental properties of matter/antimatter conjugates with high precision2-5. Our experiments deal with direct investigations of the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons, performing spectroscopy in advanced cryogenic Penning trap systems6. For instance, we previously compared the proton/antiproton magnetic moments with 1.5 parts per billion fractional precision7,8, which improved upon previous best measurements9 by a factor of greater than 3,000. Here we report on a new comparison of the proton/antiproton charge-to-mass ratios with a fractional uncertainty of 16 parts per trillion. Our result is based on the combination of four independent long-term studies, recorded in a total time span of 1.5 years. We use different measurement methods and experimental set-ups incorporating different systematic effects. The final result, [Formula: see text], is consistent with the fundamental charge-parity-time reversal invariance, and improves the precision of our previous best measurement6 by a factor of 4.3. The measurement tests the standard model at an energy scale of 1.96 × 10-27 gigaelectronvolts (confidence level 0.68), and improves ten coefficients of the standard model extension10. Our cyclotron clock study also constrains hypothetical interactions mediating violations of the clock weak equivalence principle (WEPcc) for antimatter to less than 1.8 × 10-7, and enables the first differential test of the WEPcc using antiprotons11. From this interpretation we constrain the differential WEPcc-violating coefficient to less than 0.030.
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Affiliation(s)
- M J Borchert
- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,GSI-Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany.,Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
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- GSI-Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.,Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.,Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany
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- Ulmer Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan.
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