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The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

We report a methodology to determine the quality factor ($Q$) in implementations of the so-called dielectric haloscope, a new concept of wavy dark matter detector equipped with a multilayered resonator. An anechoic chamber enables the…

One of the prime tools to search for new light bosons interacting very weakly with photons -- prominent examples are axions, axion-like particles and extra ``hidden'' U(1) gauge bosons -- are light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-17 Paola Arias , Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo , Andreas Ringwald

The Any Light Particle Search (ALPS~II) is a light shining through a wall (LSW) experiment searching for axion-like elementary particles in the sub-eV mass range, which are motivated by astrophysics and cosmology and fulfill the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Katharina-Sophie Isleif

Searches for dark matter axion involve the use of microwave resonant cavities operating in a strong magnetic field. Detector sensitivity is directly related to the cavity quality factor, which is limited, however, by the presence of the…

We propose a seeded axion-photon conversion scheme to enhance the sensitivity of light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiments for axion detection, where the axions are generated from short pulse lasers and the usual resonant cavity is not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Xiangyan An , Min Chen , Jianglai Liu , Yipeng Wu , Peng Yuan , Wenchao Yan , Boyuan Li , Feng Liu , Zhengming Sheng , Jie Zhang

Highly boosted axion-like particles decaying into photon pairs are notoriously hard to detect at the LHC. The collimated decay photons cannot be individually reconstructed using only electromagnetic calorimeter information, making the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-27 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego D. Lopes

Theoretical arguments predict that the distribution of cold dark matter in spiral galaxies has peaks in velocity space associated with non-thermalized flows of dark matter particles. We searched for the corresponding peaks in the spectrum…

Single photon detectors are key for time-correlated photon counting applications [1] and enable a host of emerging optical quantum information technologies [2]. So far, the leading approach for continuous and efficient single-photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Waqar Khan , Patrick P. Potts , Sebastian Lehmann , Claes Thelander , Kimberly A. Dick , Peter Samuelsson , Ville F. Maisi

We propose to use graphene-based Josephson junctions (gJjs) to detect single photons in a wide electromagnetic spectrum from visible to radio frequencies. Our approach takes advantage of the exceptionally low electronic heat capacity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Evan D. Walsh , Dmitri K. Efetov , Gil-Ho Lee , Mikkel Heuck , Jesse Crossno , Thomas A. Ohki , Philip Kim , Dirk Englund , Kin Chung Fong

The use of light axion dark matter experiments as high-frequency gravitational wave (HFGW) detectors has garnered increasing attention in recent years. We explore the capabilities of the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Rodolfo Capdevilla , Roni Harnik , Taegyun Kim , Tom Krokotsch

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…

The latest result from the ORGAN experiment, an axion haloscope is presented. This iteration of the experiment operated at millikelvin temperatures using a flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier for reduced noise, along with various…

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

The ADAMOS (Axion Daily Modulation Searches) project aims to explore the nature of dark matter (DM) through a novel axion haloscope experiment. We propose to construct a fixed-frequency cavity resonator operating at 20 GHz at the University…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-03-20 Marios Maroudas , Toma-Stefan Cezar , Antonios Gardikiotis , Dieter Horns

We establish new experiments to search for dark matter based on a model of a light scalar field with a dilaton-like coupling to the electromagnetic field, which is strongly motivated by superstring theory. We estimate the power of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-06 V. V. Flambaum , B. T. McAllister , I. B. Samsonov , M. E. Tobar

We propose the Semiconductor-Quantum-Well Axion Radiometer Experiment ($\texttt{SQWARE}$) -- a new experimental platform for direct detection of axion dark matter in the meV mass range -- based on resonantly enhanced axion-photon conversion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Jaanita Mehrani , Tao Xu , Andrey Baydin , Michael J. Manfra , Henry O. Everitt , Andrew J. Long , Kuver Sinha , Junichiro Kono , Shengxi Huang

Single-photon detection is an essential component in many experiments in quantum optics, but remains challenging in the microwave domain. We realize a quantum non-demolition detector for propagating microwave photons and characterize its…

This Letter reports on the first results from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with Haloscope, a search for axions using a microwave cavity at frequencies between 4.70750 and 4.79815 GHz. Apart from the non-axion signals, no candidates…