Axion Dark Matter Search around 4.55 μeV with Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii Sensitivity.

We report an axion dark matter search at Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitskii sensitivity with the CAPP-12TB haloscope, assuming axions contribute 100% of the local dark matter density. The search excluded the axion-photon coupling g_{aγγ} down to about 6.2×10^{-16}  GeV^{-1} over the axion mass range between 4.

First Results from an Axion Haloscope at CAPP around 10.7 μeV.

The Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research at the Institute for Basic Science is searching for axion dark matter using ultralow temperature microwave resonators. We report the exclusion of the axion mass range 10.7126-10.

Development of position sensitive radiation detectors using gas electron multipliers.

Gas electron multipliers (GEM) were introduced to develop a radiation detector which is applicable to medical imaging or luggage inspection systems at the airport or harbor. Two GEM foils were used in the amplifier, and an Ar/CO(2) mixed gas was inserted into the chamber at a mixing ratio of Ar:CO(2)=80:20. A two-dimensional X-ray image was taken with a 64-channel GEM detector from an Fe-55 radiation source.

Luminescence and spectral hole burning of Sm(2+) doped in Li(2)O-SrO-B(2)O(3) glass-ceramics.

The Sm(3+)-doped alkali strontium borate glass-ceramics were obtained by heating of the as-made glasses in air, where Sm(3+) ions were reduced to Sm(2+) ions. The XRD, optical absorption spectra and luminescence of Sm(3+) and Sm(2+) ions were investigated. The excitation spectra of the (7)F(0)-->(5)D(0) transition were measured in the region of (7)F(0)-->(5)D(1) transition, where spectral holes were burnt within two of the Stark split (5)D(1) bands.