An Experiment and Detection Scheme for Cavity-Based Light Cold Dark Matter Particle Searches

<div>A schematic of our modified TD-ULNA oscillator-detector-amplifier. 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Figure 5: An Experiment and Detection Scheme for Cavity-Based Light Cold Dark Matter Particle Searches 