{"id":207844,"date":"2025-03-05T05:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/alpha-experiment-successfully-installs-helium-dilution-fridge-to-aid-search-for-dark-matter"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:18:27","slug":"alpha-experiment-successfully-installs-helium-dilution-fridge-to-aid-search-for-dark-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/alpha-experiment-successfully-installs-helium-dilution-fridge-to-aid-search-for-dark-matter","title":{"rendered":"ALPHA experiment successfully installs helium dilution fridge to aid search for dark matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alpha-experiment-successfully-installs-helium-dilution-fridge-to-aid-search-for-dark-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA) experiment reached a milestone on February 24 with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at the site of the experiment in Wright Lab.<\/p>\n<p>ALPHA will extend the search for a hypothetical dark matter candidate\u2014a very low-mass particle called the axion\u2014to a higher mass range than has been searched for previously.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jewell, associate research scientist in physics and a member of Yale\u2019s Wright Lab is the ALPHA project technical coordinator. Jewell explained, \u201cIn order for ALPHA to achieve its physics goal, we need to limit any potential <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/noise\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">noise<\/a> source. For us, the biggest source of noise is thermal noise from the experiment. So we operate the whole experiment in the coldest commercially available systems, which are helium dilution fridges that are able to cool down to ~10 millikelvin (mK).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Axion Longitudinal Plasma Haloscope (ALPHA) experiment reached a milestone on February 24 with the successful installation of a Bluefors helium dilution fridge at the site of the experiment in Wright Lab. ALPHA will extend the search for a hypothetical dark matter candidate\u2014a very low-mass particle called the axion\u2014to a higher mass range than has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}