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We explore a common symmetrical origin for two long standing problems in particle physics: the strong CP and the fermion mass hierarchy problems. The Peccei--Quinn mechanism solves the former one with an anomalous global $U(1)_{\rm PQ}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 Salvador Centelles Chuliá , Christian Döring , Werner Rodejohann , Ulises J. Saldaña-Salazar

Although the axion is the most compelling solution to the strong CP problem, the ad hoc introduced global Peccei-Quinn symmetry suffers from a severe fine-tuning problem known as the quality problem. In this Letter, we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Jie Sheng , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

It is firmly believed that the axion for solving the strong CP problem must come from the spontaneous breaking of an anomalous Peccei-Quinn global symmetry. Here we show a new possibility that the axion can be induced by a pseudo Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Pei-Hong Gu

The observed values of the cosmological constant {\it and} the abundance of Dark Matter (DM) can be successfully understood, using certain measures, by imposing the anthropic requirement that density perturbations go non-linear and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Eramo , Lawrence J. Hall , Duccio Pappadopulo

I present an introduction and topical review on axions as a dark matter candidate. Emphasis is placed on issues surrounding the cosmology of axion dark matter that are relevant for present-day searches, including: early-Universe production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-28 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare

The SUPerconduction AXion search experiment (Supax) is a future haloscope-type detector designed to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) as candidates for dark matter and solutions to the strong-CP problem in the mass range between $8\,\mu$eV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-12 Tim Schneemann , Hendrik Bekker , Dmitry Budker , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott , Malavika Unni , Arne Wickenbrock

We review the physics potential of a next generation search for solar axions: the International Axion Observatory (IAXO). Endowed with a sensitivity to discover axion-like particles (ALPs) with a coupling to photons as small as…

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

The Peccei Quinn (PQ) solution of the strong CP problem requires the existence of axions, which are a viable candidate for Dark Matter. Here we show that, if the Nambu Goldstone potential of the PQ model is replaced by a potential V(|\Phi|)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Mainini , Silvio A. Bonometto

Axions are likely to be the Dark Matter (DM) that cosmological data require. They arise in the Peccei Quinn solution of the strong CP problem. In a previous work we showed that their model has a simple and natural generalization which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Mainini , Loris P. L. Colombo , Silvio A. Bonometto

Axions, hypothetical particles proposed to solve the strong CP problem and considered promising dark matter candidates, can be produced in the Sun and interact in detectors via couplings to photons, electrons, or nucleons. The CUORE and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 Livia Petrillo

Most matter in the Universe is invisible and unknown, which is called dark matter. A candidate of dark matter is axion, which is an ultra-light particle motivated as a solution for the CP problem. Axions form clouds in a galactic halo,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 Takuya Tsutsui , Atsushi Nishizawa

The axion particle, a consequence of an elegant hypothesis that resolves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, is a plausible origin for cosmological dark matter. In searches for axionic dark matter that detect the conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Huaixiu Zheng , Matti Silveri , R. T. Brierley , S. M. Girvin , K. W. Lehnert

The QCD Axion is a particle postulated to exist since the 1970s to explain the Strong-CP problem in particle physics. It could also account for all of the observed Dark Matter in the universe. The Axion Resonant InterAction DetectioN…

We propose an experiment to search for QCD axion and axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter. Nuclei that are interacting with the background axion dark matter acquire time-varying CP-odd nuclear moments such as an electric dipole moment. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Dmitry Budker , Peter W. Graham , Micah Ledbetter , Surjeet Rajendran , Alex Sushkov

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…

Dark Matter searches have been ongoing for three decades; the lack of a positive discovery of the main candidate, the WIMP, after dedicated efforts, has put axions and axion-like-particles in the spotlight. The three main techniques…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 T. Dafni , J. Galan

Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model when combined with the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem necessarily contain also the axino, the fermionic partner of the axion. In contrast to the neutralino and the gravitino,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leszek Roszkowski

There is plenty of evidence that most matter in the Universe is dark (non-luminous). Particle physics offers several possible explanations. In this talk I focus on cold dark matter; the most promising candidates are then axions and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Manuel Drees