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Axions and axion-like particles are strongly motivated dark matter candidates that are the subject of many current ground based dark matter searches. We present first results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity (ADBC) experiment,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-10 Swadha Pandey , Evan D. Hall , Matthew Evans

Dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics, with axions, a hypothetical particle proposed to resolve the strong CP problem, standing as a compelling candidate. Among various experimental strategies, cavity…

Axions are one of the well-motivated candidates for dark matter, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in particle physics. Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) is a new experimental project to broadly…

Light cold dark matter consisting of weakly interacting slim (or sub-eV) particles (WISPs) has been in the focus of a large number of studies made over the past two decades. The QCD axion and axion-like particles with masses in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-24 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

The axion is arguably one of the best motivated candidates for dark matter. For a decay constant greater than about 10^9 GeV, axions are dominantly produced non-thermally in the early universe and hence are "cold", their velocity dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 Andreas Ringwald

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

A number of proposed and ongoing experiments search for axion dark matter with a mass nearing the limit set by small scale structure (${\cal O} ( 10 ^{ - 21 } {\rm eV} ) $). We consider the late universe cosmology of these models, showing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Jeff A. Dror , Jacob M. Leedom

Dark matter constitutes about $23\%$ of the total energy density of the universe but its properties are still little known besides that it should be composed by cold and weakly interacting particles. Many beyond standard model theories can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-18 Qiaoli Yang

Axionlike particles (ALPs) and dark photons (DPs) are viable dark matter particle candidates. We have searched for possible ALP/DP signals in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector using 440 kg$\cdot$yr of data. A binned likelihood fit is…

The MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX) is a future experiment aiming to detect dark matter axions from the galactic halo by resonant conversion to photons in a strong magnetic field. It uses a novel concept based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 Fabrice Hubaut

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

In the late 1970's, the axion was proposed as a solution to the Strong CP Problem, i.e. the puzzle why the strong interactions conserve parity P and the product CP of charge conjugation and parity in spite of the fact that the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Pierre Sikivie

The strong CP problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The constraints on the axion from accelerator searches, from the evolution of red giants and from supernova SN1987a combine to require $m_a < 3…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. Sikivie

The Strong CP Problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The combined constraints from accelerator searches, the evolution of red giants and the duration of the SN 1987a neutrino pulse require the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Pierre Sikivie

Dark matter is a focused issue in galactic evolution and cosmology. Axion is a viable particle candidate for dark matter. Its interaction with photon is an effective way to detect it, e.g., pseudoscalar-photon interaction will generate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Sheng-Jui Chen , Sheau-shi Pan

We report the results from a haloscope search for axion dark matter in the $3.3\text{-}4.2~{\mu}$eV mass range. This search excludes the axion-photon coupling predicted by one of the benchmark models of "invisible" axion dark matter, the…

The axion is a hypothetical particle proposed to solve the strong $CP$ problem, and also a candidate for dark matter. This non-relativistic particle in the galactic halo can be converted into a photon under a strong magnetic field and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-15 Soohyung Lee , Saebyeok Ahn , Jihoon Choi , Byeong Rok Ko , Yannis K. Semertzidis

In dark matter axion searches, quantum uncertainty manifests as a fundamental noise source, limiting the measurement of the quadrature observables used for detection. We use vacuum squeezing to circumvent the quantum limit in a search for a…