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We have proposed a method for the detection of dark matter axion. It uses superconductor under strong magnetic field. As is well known, the dark matter axion induces oscillating electric field under magnetic field. The electric field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Aiichi Iwazaki

A new method for searching for Dark Matter axions is proposed. It is shown that a two-contact SQUID can detect oscillating magnetic perturbations induced by the axions in a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field. A resonant signal is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Vladimir Popov

Axion-like particles are promising candidates to make up the dark matter of the universe, but it is challenging to design experiments that can detect them over their entire allowed mass range. Dark matter in general, and in particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano , Lutz Trahms , Thomas Wilkason

We show that dark matter axions or axion-like particles (ALP) induce spontaneously alternating electric currents in conductors along the external magnetic fields due to the (medium) axial anomaly, realizing the chiral magnetic effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Deog Ki Hong , Sang Hui Im , Kwang Sik Jeong , Dong-han Yeom

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomagnetic field of the Earth. This signal is similar in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Ariel Arza , Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Saarik Kalia

Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

We propose a novel method to detect axion dark matter based on a topological phenomenon known as the shift current. We exploit the second-order nonlinearity of the shift current by applying a strong oscillating electric field. This field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Dan Kondo , Takahiro Morimoto , Genta Osaki , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

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

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 mass of axion dark matter is only weakly bounded by cosmological observations, necessitating a variety of detection techniques over several orders of magnitude of mass ranges. Axions haloscopes based on resonant cavities have become the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-29 Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Jeremy Bourhill , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses $m_a \lesssim 10^{-6} \text{ eV}$. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between…

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-28 N. J. Ayres

Cosmological mechanisms that yield ultralight dark matter are insensitive to the intrinsic parity of a bosonic dark matter candidate, but that same quantity plays a crucial role in a direct detection experiment. The modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 Christopher M. Donohue , Susan Gardner , Wolfgang Korsch

The axion is a highly motivated elementary particle which could address two fundamental questions in physics - the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Experimental searches for this hypothetical particle have started to reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Yannis K. Semertzidis , SungWoo Youn

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

The QCD axion is a good dark matter candidate. The observed dark matter abundance can arise from misalignment or defect mechanisms, which generically require an axion decay constant $f_a \sim \mathcal{O}(10^{11})$ GeV (or higher). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-27 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

Axions are among the most sought-after candidates for dark matter. In the ultralight regime, they could help alleviate puzzles in small scale cosmology. Searches for a halo of axion dark matter rely on the electromagnetic response to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Joshua Berger , Amit Bhoonah

We propose to search for axion dark matter via the oscillating electric dipole moments that axions induce in atoms and molecules. These moments are produced through the intrinsic oscillating electric dipole moments of nucleons and through…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Benjamin M. Roberts , Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Victor V. Flambaum , Vladimir A. Dzuba

Electromagnetic radiation with angular frequency equal to half the axion mass stimulates the decay of cold dark matter axions and produces an echo, i.e. faint electromagnetic radiation traveling in the opposite direction. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Ariel Arza , Pierre Sikivie