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The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is the first axion haloscope search to reach DFSZ sensitivity in any mass range for the QCD axion. The QCD axion is a well-motivated dark matter candidate that additionally solves the strong CP…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-08 Thomas Braine

In halo dark matter axion search experiments, cylindrical microwave cavities are typically employed to detect signals from the axion-photon conversion. To enhance the conversion power and reduce the noise level, cavities are placed in…

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon masses by breaking translational invariance (cavity and dielectric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Lawson , Alexander J. Millar , Matteo Pancaldi , Edoardo Vitagliano , Frank Wilczek

Current and future searches for dark matter axions, based on their resonant conversion to photons in a magnetic field, span many orders of magnitude. A major impediment to designing resonators at the high end of this range, 5 GHz and above,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 D. Goulart , A. M. Sindhwad , H. M. Jackson , N. I. Kowitt , K. A. Dones , P. Castaño Basurto , A. Dawes , S. Jois , S. M. Lewis , K. van Bibber

In this work we propose reactoscope, a novel experimental setup for axion-like particle (ALP) searches. Nuclear reactors produce a copious number of photons, a fraction of which could convert into ALPs via Primakoff process in the reactor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Fernando Arias-Aragón , Vedran Brdar , Jérémie Quevillon

Haloscope is one of the typical installations to detect the electromagnetic responses (EMRs) of axion field in radio-frequency (RF) and microwave bands. Given that the detectable signals of the usual Haloscope-type detectors (HTDs), biased…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-06 Li Gao , Hao Zheng , Xianing Feng , Suirong He , Lianfu Wei , Lingbo Zhao , Qingquan Jiang

Axions, if discovered, could serve as a powerful new messenger for studying astrophysical objects. In this study we show how the Sun's spatial and spectral "axion image" can be inverted to infer the radial dependence of solar properties in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 Sebastian Hoof , Joerg Jaeckel , Lennert J. Thormaehlen

Laboratory searching for dark matter is crucial for understanding several fundamental conundrums in physics and cosmology. Most cavity-based haloscope searches focus on the frequency range below 10 GHz, while the parameter space with higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yue Yin , Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong

A preliminary result of the solar axion search experiment at the University of Tokyo is presented. We searched for axions which could be produced in the solar core by exploiting the axion helioscope. The helioscope consists of a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-31 Makoto Minowa , Shigetaka Moriyama , Yoshizumi Inoue , Toshio Namba , Yuko Takasu , Akira Yamamoto

A high-quality factor microwave resonator in the presence of a strong magnetic field could have a wide range of applications, such as axion dark matter searches where the two aspects must coexist to enhance the experimental sensitivity. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-29 Danho Ahn , Ohjoon Kwon , Woohyun Chung , Wonjun Jang , Doyu Lee , Jhinhwan Lee , Sung Woo Youn , HeeSu Byun , Dojun Youm , Yannis K. Semertzidis

The axion was first introduced as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to solve the CP problem in strong interactions of particle physics and is a well motivated cold dark matter candidate. This particle is expected to interact…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 S. W. Youn , E. Sala , J. Jeong , J. Kim , Y. K. Semertzidis

The HAYSTAC experiment utilizes a tunable resonant microwave cavity to search for dark matter axions. We report on the system and the results from Phase I of the experiment. This phase relied on a 9 T magnet, Josephson parametric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-19 Nicholas M. Rapidis

We present an improved search for axion-like polarization oscillations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with observations from the Keck Array. An all-sky, temporally sinusoidal rotation of CMB polarization, equivalent to a…

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

Many searches for axion cold dark matter rely on the use of tunable electromagnetic resonators. Current detectors operate at or near microwave frequencies and use cylindrical cavities with cylindrical tuning rods. The cavity performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-21 Nicholas M. Rapidis , Samantha M. Lewis , Karl A. van Bibber

Signal estimates for direct axion dark matter searches have used the isothermal sphere halo model for the last several decades. While insightful, the isothermal model does not capture effects from a halo's infall history nor the influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Erik W. Lentz , Thomas R. Quinn , Leslie J Rosenberg , Michael J. Tremmel

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…

Axion insulators are magnetic topological insulators in which the non-trivial $\mathbb{Z}_2$ index is protected by inversion symmetry instead of time-reversal symmetry. The naturally gapped surfaces of axion insulators give rise to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-19 Nicodemos Varnava , David Vanderbilt

Axion haloscopes search for dark matter axions from the galactic halo, most commonly by measuring a power excess sourced by the axion effective current density. Constraining axion parameters from detection or lack thereof requires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Jacob Egge