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We propose to use the nuclear spin excitation in the ferromagnetic A1 phase of the superfluid $^3$He for the axion dark matter detection. This approach is striking in that it is sensitive to the axion-nucleon coupling, one of the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 So Chigusa , Dan Kondo , Hitoshi Murayama , Risshin Okabe , Hiroyuki Sudo

Axion dark matter may couple to fermion spins through an effective oscillating magnetic field, the ``axion wind". Existing approaches for detecting axion wind via axion-electron coupling $g_{ae}$ face sensitivity limitations due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Christina Gao , Yuxuan He , Yubo Mo , Peiran Yin

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical entities often invoked to solve various problems in particle physics to cosmology. They are one of the most promising candidates to explain the elusive dark matter. A way to search for ALPs is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Rafael Alves Batista , Cristina Viviente , Gaetano Di Marco , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

Adding an axion-like particle (ALP) to the Standard Model, with a field velocity in the early universe, simultaneously explains the observed baryon and dark matter densities. This requires one or more couplings between the ALP and photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

We have recently shown that axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) may emit an observable stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background when they begin to oscillate in the early universe. In this note, we identify the regions of ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Camila S. Machado , Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller , Ben A. Stefanek

We propose a novel detection method for axion dark matter using the Rabi oscillation of neutron spins in beam-based measurements. If axions couple to neutron spins, a background oscillating axion dark matter field would drive transitions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-10 Peter Fierlinger , Jie Sheng , Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Chuan-Yang Xing

We report on the search for a new spin-dependent P- and T-violating interaction between nucleons mediated by light, pseudoscalar bosons such as the axion which was invented to solve the strong CP problem. Our experimental approach is to use…

We propose a new scenario of using the dark axion portal at one-loop level to explain the recently observed muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Fermilab Muon g-2 experiment. Both axion/axion-like particle (ALP) and dark photon are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-01 Shao-Feng Ge , Xiao-Dong Ma , Pedro Pasquini

In this paper we outline an experiment to detect the conversion of photons to axion-like particles (ALPs) in a strong magnetic field. We show that by modulating the polarization of the light passing through a Fabry-Perot cavity so that it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Richard Creswick , Frank T. Avignone

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

The Axion Like Particle (ALP) is a hypothetical pseudo-scalar particle beyond the Standard Model, with a compelling possible connection to dark matter and early universe physics. ALPs can be converted into photons via interactions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Ryo Yamamoto , Noriko Y. Yamasaki , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Masahiro Takada

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 remains the most convincing solution to the strong-CP problem and a well-motivated dark matter candidate, causing the search for axions and axion-like particles(ALPs) to attract attention continually. The exchange of such particles…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-02 Lei Chen , Jian Liu , Kadi Zhu

Condensed matter materials have shown great potential in searching for light dark matter (DM) via detecting the phonon or magnon signals induced by the scattering of DMs off the materials. In this paper, we study the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Wei Chao , Sichun Sun , Xin Wang , Chen-Hui Xie

Axion and axion-like particles (ALPs), predicted by various extensions of the Standard Model, can be copiously produced in nuclear reactors via the Primakoff process. In this work, we explore the detection of such relativistic ALPs through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Ning Liu , Liangliang Su , Wen-Na Yang

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising candidates for mediating interactions between a dark sector and the Standard Model (SM). In this work, considering the effective interactions of ALPs with the SM gauge bosons and a fermion dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Sahabub Jahedi , Soumen Kumar Manna , Arunansu Sil

The axion anti-quark nugget (A$\bar{\mathrm{Q}}$N) model was developed to explain in a natural way the asymmetry between matter and antimatter in Universe. In this hypothesis, a similitude between the dark and the visible components exists.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-10 Ionel Lazanu , Mihaela Parvu

We consider the search for axion-like particles (ALPs) by using time series data of the polarization angle of the light. If the condensation of an ALP plays the role of dark matter, the polarization plane of the light oscillates as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

We propose a novel modification to the optical benches of space-based gravitational wave detectors (SGWDs) to enable the detection of axion-like dark matter (ALDM)-induced birefringence without altering the polarization of inter-spacecraft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Run-Min Yao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qing-Guo Huang