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Axion Electrodyanmics in the Presence of Current Sources

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-12-08 v1

Abstract

Axions are among the most sought-after candidates for dark matter. In the ultralight regime, they could help alleviate puzzles in small scale cosmology. Searches for a halo of axion dark matter rely on the electromagnetic response to a magnetic field. In this work, we resolve a number of issues in the determination of this response by carefully solving Maxwell's equations in the presence of an axion background. We find that the electric field induced by a magnetic field in an axion background is significant and unsuppressed by the size of the experiment.

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@article{arxiv.2312.03832,
  title  = {Axion Electrodyanmics in the Presence of Current Sources},
  author = {Joshua Berger and Amit Bhoonah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03832},
  year   = {2023}
}