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Bosonic superweakly interacting massive particles (super-WIMPs) are a candidate for warm dark matter. With the absorption of such a boson by a xenon atom these dark matter candidates would deposit an energy equivalent to their rest mass in…

Recent experiments suggest that polarized photons may couple significantly to pseudoscalar particles such as axions. We study the possible observational signatures of axion-photon coupling for radiation from magnetic stars, with particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dong Lai , Jeremy Heyl

Searches for the axion and axionlike particles may hold the key to unlocking some of the deepest puzzles about our universe, such as dark matter and dark energy. Here we use the recently demonstrated spin-based amplifier to constrain such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-10 Yuanhong Wang , Haowen Su , Min Jiang , Ying Huan , Yushu Qin , Chang Guo , Zehao Wang , Dongdong Hu , Wei Ji , Pavel Fadeev , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

The pseudoscalar-photon mixing in presence of large scale magnetic field induces polarization in light from distant cosmological sources. We study the effect of these pseudoscalars or axion like particles (ALPs) on Cosmic Microwave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-04 Prabhakar Tiwari

Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles actively searched as light dark matter candidates. The coupling of ALPs to photons can give rise to distinctive spectral features in the observed gamma-ray spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Cervane Grimaud , Denys Malyshev , Emmanuel Moulin

Very high energy (VHE, energy >~ 100 GeV) {\gamma}-rays originating from extragalactic sources interact with low energy photons of background radiation fields and produce electron-positron pairs. Alternatively, in the presence of ambient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-28 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Luca Maccione , Alessandro Mirizzi , Daniele Montanino , Marco Roncadelli

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

We have strong evidence on all cosmic scales, from galaxies to the largest structures ever observed, that there is more matter in the universe than we can see. Galaxies and clusters would fly apart unless they would be held together by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Laura Baudis

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are very light, neutral, spin zero bosons predicted by superstring theory. ALPs interact primarily with two photons and in the presence of an external magnetic field they generate photon-ALP oscillations and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Giorgio Galanti

Pseudoscalar particles, with almost zero mass and very weak coupling to the visible matter, arise in many extensions of the standard model of particle physics. Their mixing with photons in the presence of an external magnetic field leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-03 Avijit K. Ganguly , Pankaj Jain , Subhayan Mandal

The growing interest in axion-like particles (ALPs) stems from the fact that they provide successful theoretical explanations of physics phenomena, from the anomaly of the CP-symmetry conservation in strong interactions to the observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Ivana Batković , Alessandro De Angelis , Michele Doro , Marina Manganaro

A system of light axions comprising a classical axion field, one candidate for dark matter, has an instability that would rapidly mix in photon pairs in a coherent fashion if the system were initially seeded by some tiny amount of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 R. F. Sawyer

The Electron-Ion Collider~(EIC), a forthcoming powerful high-luminosity facility, represents an exciting opportunity to explore new physics. In this article, we study the potential of the EIC to probe the coupling between axion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Reuven Balkin , Or Hen , Wenliang Li , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

We show that the magnetic component of the photon field produced by dark matter axions via the two-photon coupling mechanism in a Sikivie Haloscope is an important parameter passed over in previous analysis and experiments. The interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-13 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Michael E. Tobar

We observe that it is very usefull to introduce a complex field for the axion photon system in an external magnetic field, when for example considered with the geometry of the experiments exploring axion photon mixing, where the real part…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-27 E. I. Guendelman

We investigate a new class of dark matter: superweakly-interacting massive particles (superWIMPs). As with conventional WIMPs, superWIMPs appear in well-motivated particle theories with naturally the correct relic density. In contrast to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Jonathan L. Feng , Arvind Rajaraman , Fumihiro Takayama

In the last years it has been realized, that extensions of the Standard Model may manifest itself also at meV energy scales. The low energy frontier is a rich complement to the conventional high-energy particle physics landscape. The search…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-07-01 Klaus Ehret

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates that couple to photons in external magnetic fields. The parameter space around $m_a \sim 50~\mu$eV remains largely unexplored by haloscope experiments. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-09 Josep Maria Batllori , Michael Frosz , Dieter Horns , Marios Maroudas

The hypothetical axion and axion-like particles, feebly coupled with photon, have not yet been found in any experiment. With the improvement of laser technique, much stronger but shorter quasi-static electric and magnetic fields can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Shan Huang , Baifei Shen , Zhigang Bu , Xiaomei Zhang , Liangliang Ji , Shuhua Zhai

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have gained immense attention in searches for beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. Experiments searching for axions leverage their predicted couplings to Standard Model (SM) particles to look for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Tanmoy Kumar , N. P. S. Mithun , Subhendra Mohanty , Sourov Roy , B. S. Bharath Saiguhan , Santosh Vadawale