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Most of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter, which has evaded detection so far. Ultralight axionlike particles (ALPs) are a class of dark matter candidates that produce measurable signatures in the form of oscillating…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Mingyu Fan , Bassam Nima , Aleksandar Radak , Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Amar Vutha

A number of proposals have been put forward for detecting axion dark matter (DM) with grand unification scale decay constants that rely on the conversion of coherent DM axions to oscillating magnetic fields in the presence of static,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Joshua N. Benabou , Joshua W. Foster , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Chiara P. Salemi

We propose using the ultra-narrow 88 keV M\"ossbauer transition in $^{109}$Ag to search for QCD axion dark matter. The sub-eV axion field oscillates coherently, inducing a time-varying effective $\bar{\theta}_{\rm QCD}$ angle. This, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Shengyi Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Jie Meng , Jing Shu , Yakun Wang , Yue Zhao

Fundamental constants such as masses and coupling constants of elementary particles can have small temporal and spatial variations in the scalar field dark matter model. These variations entail time oscillations of other constants, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 V. V. Flambaum , A. J. Mansour , I. B. Samsonov , C. Weitenberg

The dark matter puzzle is one of the most important open problems in modern physics. The ultra-light axion is a well-motivated dark matter candidate, conceived to resolve the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics. Numerous precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-24 Alexander O. Sushkov

The interaction of standard model's particles with the axionic Dark Matter field may generate oscillating nuclear electric dipole moments (EDMs), oscillating nuclear Schiff moments and oscillating nuclear magnetic quadrupole moments (MQMs)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 V. V. Flambaum , H. B. Tran Tan , D. Budker , A. Wickenbrock

Axion dark matter inevitably generates electromagnetic radiation in quantum Hall effect experiments that use strong magnetic fields. Although these emissions are very weak, we have shown using a QCD axion model that they influence the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-11 Aiichi Iwazaki

We present a novel quantum sensing approach to search for axion-electron interactions around the axion mass of 6 \mueV. In this region, laboratory searches are relatively scarce, and our direct experiment measuring the axion-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hongliang Wu , Yuchen Han , Zhengtao Wang , Dezhi Zheng , Yeliang Wang , Liu Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Bo Zhang , Dmitry Budker , Jun Zhang

The strong CP problem of QCD is at heart a problem of naturalness: why is the F\tilde{F} term highly suppressed in the QCD Lagrangian when it seems necessary to explain why there are three and not four light pions? The most elegant solution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Howard Baer

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

A leading direction in the hunt for axion dark matter is to search for its influence on nuclear spins. The detection scheme involves polarizing a sample of nuclei within a strong static magnetic field and then looking for a spin precession…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-15 Jeff A. Dror , Stefania Gori , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd

In the presence of QCD axion dark matter, atoms acquire time-dependent electric dipole moments. This effect gives rise to an oscillating current in a nuclear spin-polarized dielectric, which can resonantly excite an electromagnetic mode of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Asher Berlin , Kevin Zhou

We propose a new method for detecting dark matter axions using a resonant cavity coupled with a quantum Hall system. When a small sample exhibiting quantum Hall effect is placed inside the cavity and the cavity is tuned to resonance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Aiichi Iwazaki

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions in the mass range of 40--400 $\mu$eV by introducing dielectric haloscopes, which consist of dielectric disks placed in a magnetic field. The changing dielectric media cause…

We demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason is conceptually straightforward. An instrument such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Carl Beadle , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd

Axions are hypothesized particles believed to potentially resolve two major puzzles in modern physics: the strong CP problem and the nature of dark matter. Cavity-based axion haloscopes represent the most sensitive tools for probing their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 Sungjae Bae , Junu Jeong , Younggeun Kim , SungWoo Youn , Heejun Park , Taehyeon Seong , Seongjeong Oh , Yannis K. Semertzidis

Interaction with the axion dark matter (DM) field generates an oscillating nuclear electric dipole moment (EDM) with a frequency corresponding to the axion's Compton frequency. Within an atom, an oscillating EDM can drive electric dipole…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Victor V. Flambaum , Dmitry Budker , Arne Wickenbrock

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

We present a brief overview of recently proposed detection schemes for axion, axion-like pseudoscalar particle and topological defect dark matter. We focus mainly on the possibility of using atomic and molecular systems for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Victor V. Flambaum

The QCD axion addresses the strong CP problem and dark matter via the misalignment mechanism, typically requiring a decay constant $f_a\sim \mathcal{O}(10^{12}$ GeV), unless the initial misalignment angle ($\theta_i$) is fine-tuned. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-09 Dipendu Bhandari , Soumen Kumar Manna , Arunansu Sil