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In the presence of QCD axion dark matter, atoms acquire time-dependent electric dipole moments. This effect gives rise to an oscillating current in a nuclear spin-polarized dielectric, which can resonantly excite an electromagnetic mode of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Asher Berlin , Kevin Zhou

We explore finite size 3D effects in open axion haloscopes such as a dish antenna, a dielectric disk and a minimal dielectric haloscope consisting of a mirror and one dielectric disk. Particularly dielectric haloscopes are a promising new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-23 Stefan Knirck , Jan Schütte-Engel , Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Olaf Reimann , Andreas Ringwald , Frank D. Steffen

Axion-like particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Hongwan Liu , Brodi D. Elwood , Matthew Evans , Jesse Thaler

We report the results of a QCD axion dark matter search with discovery ability for Dine Fischler Srednicki Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) axions using an axion haloscope. Sub-Kelvin noise temperatures are reached with an ultra low-noise Josephson…

Axion haloscopes provide a leading experimental approach to detecting QCD axion dark matter through resonant axion-photon conversion in microwave cavities. Extending haloscope sensitivity to low axion masses remains challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Raj Aryan Singh , Paige Rose Taylor , Elrina Hartmann , Geoffrey Brooks , Ben T. McAllister

The DAMIC (Dark Matter in CCDs) experiment uses high resistivity, scientific grade CCDs to search for dark matter. The CCD's low electronic noise allows an unprecedently low energy threshold of a few tens of eV that make it possible to…

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle that could solve the long-standing strong CP problem in particle physics and the dark matter mystery in the cosmos. Due to the stimulation of the ambient photons, the axion dark matter decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Ariel Arza , Quan Guo , Lei Wu , Qiaoli Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

The cavity haloscope is among the most widely adopted experimental platforms designed to detect dark matter axions with its principle relying on the conversion of axions into microwave photons in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The…

The axion is a hypothetical particle considered to be the most economical solution to the strong CP problem. It can also be formulated as a compelling component of dark matter. The haloscope, a leading axion detection scheme, relies on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-17 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Michael E. Tobar

We present a novel approach to investigating axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) by studying their potential conversion into X-rays within the Sun's atmospheric magnetic field. Utilizing high-sensitivity data from the Nuclear…

The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 M. A. Akgümüs , N. Salama , J. Egge , E. Garutti , M. Maroudas , L. H. Nguyen , D. Leppla-Weber

The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) is a new generation axion helioscope aiming at a sensitivity to the axion-photon coupling of a few 10$^{12}$ GeV$^{-1}$, i.e. 1 - 1.5 orders of magnitude beyond the one currently achieved by CAST.…

Recent advances in tabletop quantum sensor technology have enabled searches for nongravitational interactions of dark matter (DM). Traditional axion DM experiments rely on sharp resonance, resulting in extensive scanning time to cover a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Kai Wei , Zitong Xu , Yuxuan He , Xiaolin Ma , Xing Heng , Xiaofei Huang , Wei Quan , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Dmitry Budker , Jiancheng Fang

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

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses $m_a \lesssim 10^{-6} \text{ eV}$. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between…

We develop a formalism to describe extensions of existing axion haloscope designs to those that possess directional sensitivity to incoming dark matter axion velocities. The effects are measurable if experiments are designed to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 Stefan Knirck , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

Axions and axion-like particles are excellent low-mass dark matter candidates. The MADMAX experiment aims to directly detect galactic axions with masses between $40\,\mu{\rm eV}$ and $400\,\mu{\rm eV}$ by using the axion-induced emission of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-12 Jacob Egge , Stefan Knirck , Béla Majorovits , Christopher Moore , Olaf Reimann

Revealing the essence of dark matter (DM) and dark energy is essential for understanding our universe. Ultralight (rest energy $<$10 eV) bosonic particles, including pseudoscalar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have emerged among…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Lei Cong , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Wei Quan , Kai Wei

Axion is a promising candidate for ultralight dark matter which may cause a polarization rotation of laser light. Recently, a new idea of probing the axion dark matter by optical linear cavities used in the arms of gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Koji Nagano , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Soichiro Morisaki , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata