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In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find that magnetized analogs of multilayer dielectric haloscopes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Asher Berlin , Alexander J. Millar , Tanner Trickle , Kevin Zhou

Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. Crisosto , G. Rybka , P. Sikivie , N. S. Sullivan , D. B. Tanner , J. Yang

Terrestrial dark matter detection experiments probe the velocity-space distribution of dark matter particles in the vicinity of the Earth. We present a novel method, to be used in conjunction with standard cosmological simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Stiff , Lawrence M. Widrow

The axion, as a leading dark matter candidate, is the target of many ongoing and proposed experimental searches based on its coupling to photons. Ultralight axions that couple to photons can also cause polarization rotation of light, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Xucheng Gan , Lian-Tao Wang , Huangyu Xiao

Dark matter is a major constituent of our universe and the axion is a prime candidate. In this article, it is shown that by exploiting the axion induced magnetization in a magnetic rod and the Faraday effect, axions in the mass range $500$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 A. T. M. Anishur Rahman

Axions and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for ultralight bosonic dark matter, forming coherent oscillating fields that can be probed by experiments known as haloscopes. A broad range of haloscope concepts has been developed,…

Microwave cavity haloscopes are among the most sensitive direct detection experiments searching for dark matter axions via their coupling to photons. When the power of the expected microwave signal due to axion-photon conversion is on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-10 Yuqi Zhu , M. J. Jewell , Claire Laffan , Xiran Bai , Sumita Ghosh , Eleanor Graham , S. B. Cahn , Reina H. Maruyama , S. K. Lamoreaux

We consider the production of axion dark matter through the misalignment mechanism in the context of a nonstandard cosmological history involving early matter domination by a scalar field with a time-dependent decay rate. In cases where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Paola Arias , Nicolás Bernal , Jacek K. Osiński , Leszek Roszkowski

Nearly all astrophysical and cosmological data point convincingly to a large component of cold dark matter in the Universe. The axion particle, first theorized as a solution to the strong charge-parity problem of quantum chromodynamics, has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-09 I. Stern

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be explained by collapsing axion stars, imposing constraints on the axion parameter space and providing valuable guidance for experimental axion searches. In the traditional post-inflationary model, axion stars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-21 Haoran Di , Zhu Yi , Haihao Shi , Yungui Gong

We study the effect of the axion dark matter velocity in the recently proposed dielectric haloscopes, a promising avenue to search for well-motivated high mass ($40-400~\mu$eV) axions. We describe non-zero velocity effects for axion-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions and dark photons. The plasma haloscope is a novel method for…

Cold dark matter in the Milky Way halo may have structure defined by flows with low velocity dispersion. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment high resolution channel is especially sensitive to axions in such low velocity dispersion flows.…

The QCD axion and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for galactic dark matter. Theoretically, axions can convert into photons in the presence of a strong external magnetic field, which means it is possible to search for them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Liam Walters , Jordan Shroyer , Madeleine Edenton , Prakamya Agrawal , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Luca Visinelli

Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates that are the target of numerous direct detection efforts. In the vicinity of the Solar System, such particles can be treated as oscillating scalar fields. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Mariangela Lisanti , Matthew Moschella , William Terrano

Within the dual symmetric point of view, the theory for seeking axion dark matter via haloscope experiments is derived by exactly solving the dual symmetric axion electrodynamics equation. Notwithstanding that the conventional theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Dai-Nam Le , Le Phuong Hoang , Binh Xuan Cao

We discuss the discovery potential of the Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer (DALI) in this letter. The apparatus, currently in a design and prototyping phase, will probe axion dark matter from the Teide Observatory, an…

We study the implications of relaxing the requirement for ultralight axions to account for all dark matter in the Universe by examining mixed dark matter (MDM) cosmologies with axion fractions $f \leq 0.3$ within the fuzzy dark matter (FDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tibor Dome , Simon May , Alex Laguë , David J. E. Marsh , Sarah Johnston , Sownak Bose , Alex Tocher , Anastasia Fialkov

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

The amplitude of the pseudoscalar (axion) or scalar field fluctuates on a time scale of order of million field oscillation periods which is a typical coherence time in the virialized axion galactic dark matter halo model. This causes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-15 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov