Optimization of High-Sensitivity SQUID Gradiometer for ARIADNE at CAPP

Abstract

ARIADNE (Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment) is a table-top experiment that intends to search for QCD axions from exotic spin-dependent interactions mediated by axion between nuclei at sub-mm range. This experiment includes a non-magnetic mass to source the axion field, and a dense ensemble of hyper-polarized He-3 nuclei to detect the axion field with nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR)-based method. The expected NMR signal from the interaction could be easily buried in the noise spectrum of the magnetometer, especially in a frequency range (similar to 100 Hz) where the interaction signal is supposed to exist. In this work, we report optimization of SQUID gradiometer for ARIADNE including noise spectrum measurement.