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Axions and axion-like pseudoscalar particles with dimension-5 couplings to photons exhibit coherent Bragg-Primakoff scattering with ordered crystals at keV energy scales. This provides for a natural detection technique in searches for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Adrian Thompson

Axions have aroused widespread research interest because they can solve the strong CP problem and serve as a possible candidate for dark matter. Currently, people have explored a lot of axion detection experiments, including passively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-27 Xiangyan An , Min Chen , Jianglai Liu , Zhengming Sheng , Jie Zhang

Magnetic field dependent transient solar observations are suggestive for axion-photon oscillations with light axion(-like) particle involvement. Novel dark-moon measurements with the SMART X-ray detectors can be conclusive for radiatively…

The ATLAS detector is intended to verify the standard model and to search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, CERN). In addition to this primary goal, it also allows detection of muons of cosmic rays. On the other hand,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-19 S. N. Karpov , Z. M. Karpova , V. A. Bednyakov

Axions are an elegant solution to the strong CP problem for particle physics and a promising dark matter candidate. They can convert into photons under a strong magnetic field, while magnetars with extreme magnetic fields are natural labs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Zixuan Liu , Jiajun Zhang

We investigate the interaction between an optical laser and an ionic crystal and reveal coherent emission of axions through phase-match between laser and axion fields. Such emission is further enhanced by stacking thin crystal layers of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Zhan Bai , Xiangyan An , Yuqi Chen , Baifei Shen , Ruxin Li , Liangliang Ji

We show that XENON1T and future liquid xenon (LXe) direct detection experiments are sensitive to axions through the standard $g_{a\gamma}aF\tilde{F}$ operators due to inverse-Primakoff scattering. This previously neglected channel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-02 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Adrian Thompson

We propose an experimental scheme to search for galactic halo axions with mass $m_a \sim 10^{-3}$eV, which is above the range accessible with cavity techniques. The detector consists of a large number of parallel superconducting wires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Pierre Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Yun Wang

The axion is a hypothetical particle proposed to solve the strong $CP$ problem, and also a candidate for dark matter. This non-relativistic particle in the galactic halo can be converted into a photon under a strong magnetic field and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-15 Soohyung Lee , Saebyeok Ahn , Jihoon Choi , Byeong Rok Ko , Yannis K. Semertzidis

A search for axioelectric absorption of solar axions produced in the $ p + d \rightarrow {^3\rm{He}}+\gamma~(5.5~ \rm{MeV})$ reactions has been performed with a BGO detector placed in a low-background setup. A model-independent limit on an…

IAXO, the new International AXion Observatory, will feature the most ambitious detector for solar axions to date. Axions are hypothetical particles which were postulated to solve one of the puzzles arising in the standard model of particle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-18 I. Shilon , A. Dudarev , H. Silva , U. Wagner , H. H. J. ten Kate

Axion dark matter can be converted into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars leading to a spectral line centred on the Compton wavelength of the axion. Due to the rotation of the star and the plasma effects in the magnetosphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. A. Battye , M. J. Keith , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

There are strong theoretical arguments in favour of the existence of very light scalar or pseudoscalar particles beyond the Standard Model which have, so far, remained undetected, due to their very weak coupling to ordinary matter. We point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ringwald

We propose a novel experiment to search for axion dark matter which differentiates the phase velocities of the left and right-handed polarized photons. Our optical cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

We propose a fixed-target experiment to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) coupling to photons, which utilizes electron and positron beams available at KEK Linac. The sensitivity to ALP is evaluated for two shielding setups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Akimasa Ishikawa , Yasuhito Sakaki , Yosuke Takubo

The coherent Bragg scattering of photons converted from solar axions inside crystals would boost the signal for axion-photon coupling enhancing experimental sensitivity for these hypothetical particles. Knowledge of the scattering angle of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-07 Wenqin Xu , Steven R. Elliott

A search for 5.5-MeV solar axions produced in the $p+d\rightarrow\rm{^3He}+A (5.5 \rm{MeV})$ reaction was performed using the Borexino detector. The Compton conversion of axions to photons, ${\rm A}+e\rightarrow e+\gamma$; the axio-electric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 The Borexino Collaboration

In the scope of solar axion searches, detectors which are able to measure low energetic X-rays with high efficiency are required. For this purpose a detector based on the GridPix technology was built for the CAST experiment at CERN. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-08 Klaus Desch , Jochen Kaminski , Christoph Krieger , Tobias Schiffer , Sebastian Schmidt

If the recently observed anomaly in the PVLAS experiment is due to the axion, then the powerful beams of synchrotron photons, propagating through high magnetic field of the HERA beamline, become strong axion sources. This gives a unique…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Piotrzkowski

The axion is a hypothetical particle which is a candidate for cold dark matter. Haloscope experiments directly search for these particles in strong magnetic fields with RF cavities as detectors. The Relic Axion Detector Exploratory Setup…