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Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have gained immense attention in searches for beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. Experiments searching for axions leverage their predicted couplings to Standard Model (SM) particles to look for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Tanmoy Kumar , N. P. S. Mithun , Subhendra Mohanty , Sourov Roy , B. S. Bharath Saiguhan , Santosh Vadawale

A calculation of the expected signal due to Primakoff coherent conversion of solar axions into photons via Bragg scattering in several crystal detectors is presented. The results are confronted with the experimental sensitivities of present…

A low background Micromegas detector has been operating in the CAST experiment at CERN for the search of solar axions during the first phase of the experiment (2002-2004). The detector, made out of low radioactivity materials, operated…

We point out that stars in the mass window ~ 8-12 Msun can serve as sensitive probes of the axion-photon interaction, g_{A\gamma\gamma}. Specifically, for these stars axion energy losses from the helium-burning core would shorten and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-28 Alexander Friedland , Maurizio Giannotti , Michael Wise

We report details on the axion dark matter search experiment that uses the innovative technologies of a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) magnet and a Josephson Parametric Converter (JPC). An 18 T HTS solenoid magnet is developed for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-14 Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Byeongsu Yang , Youngjae Lee , DongLak Kim , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , Jonghee Yoo

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

A calculation of the expected signal due to Primakov coherent conversion of solar axions into photons via Bragg scattering in several solid-state detectors is presented and compared with present and future experimental sensitivities. The…

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

We propose a novel method to detect axions which uniquely depends on the dimensionless axion-photon coupling $g_{\gamma}$, independent of the suppressive axion decay constant $f_a$. Using neutron star PSR B1919+21 data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Jun-Chen Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Yandong Liu , Qing-Hong Cao , Lijing Shao

Polarization measurements of thermal radiation from magnetic white dwarf (MWD) stars have been proposed as a probe of axion-photon mixing. The radiation leaving the surface of the MWD is unpolarized, but if low-mass axions exist then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Christopher Dessert , David Dunsky , Benjamin R. Safdi

We present a new statistical analysis that combines helioseismology (sound speed, surface helium and convective radius) and solar neutrino observations (the $^8$B and $^7$Be fluxes) to place upper limits to the properties of non standard…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Núria Vinyoles , Aldo Serenelli , Francesco L. Villante , Sarbani Basu , Javier Redondo , Jordi Isern

A new search result of the Tokyo axion helioscope is presented. The axion helioscope consists of a dedicated cryogen-free 4T superconducting magnet with an effective length of 2.3 m and PIN photodiodes as x-ray detectors. Solar axions, if…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-04 M. Minowa , Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , R. Ohta , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons can quantum mechanically interconvert when propagating through magnetic fields, and ALP-photon conversion may induce oscillatory features in the spectra of astrophysical sources. We use deep (370 ks),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 M. C. David Marsh , Helen R. Russell , Andrew C. Fabian , Brian R. McNamara , Paul Nulsen , Christopher S. Reynolds

We report on the first axion search results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. An energy threshold of 2 keV for electron-recoil events allows a search for possible solar axion…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 CDMS Collaboration

We apply novel, recently developed plasma ray-tracing techniques to model the propagation of radio photons produced by axion dark matter in neutron star magnetospheres and combine this with both archival and new data for the galactic centre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-13 R. A. Battye , J. Darling , J. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from…

The latest result from the ORGAN experiment, an axion haloscope is presented. This iteration of the experiment operated at millikelvin temperatures using a flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier for reduced noise, along with various…

We show that solar axion conversion to photons in the Earth's magnetosphere can produce an x-ray flux, with average energy \sim 4 keV, which is measurable on the dark side of the Earth. The smallness of the Earth's magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hooman Davoudiasl , Patrick Huber

We describe the results of a haloscope axion search performed with an 11.7 T dipole magnet at CERN. The search used a custom-made radio-frequency cavity coated with high-temperature superconducting tape. A set of 27 h of data at a resonant…