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We investigate axion-photon conversion in stochastic magnetic fields, focusing on the evolution of the photon intensity and polarizations induced by conversion into axions. Assuming Gaussian magnetic fields characterized by the power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 Wataru Chiba , Ryusuke Jinno , Kimihiro Nomura

Light particle-photon mixing in magnetised plasmas plays a vital role in constraining the existence of new physics, especially axions, dark photons, and ultra-high-frequency gravitational waves. Recently, we derived an expression for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 J. I. McDonald , P. Millington

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

It is known that magnetic fields exist near black holes and photons can go around black holes due to strong gravity. Utilizing these facts, we can probe hypothetical pseudoscalar particles, so-called axions. In fact, photons can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-12 Kimihiro Nomura , Kaishu Saito , Jiro Soda

We study the weak mixing of photons and relativistic axion-like particles (axions) in plasmas with background magnetic fields, ${\bf B}$. We show that, to leading order in the axion-photon coupling, the conversion probability, $P_{\gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-04 M. C. David Marsh , James H. Matthews , Christopher Reynolds , Pierluca Carenza

Dark photons can be resonantly produced in the early universe via their coupling to an oscillating axion field. However, this mechanism typically requires large axion--dark photon couplings or some degree of fine-tuning. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Hong-Yi Zhang , Paola Arias , Andrew Cheek , Enrico D. Schiappacasse , Luca Visinelli , Leszek Roszkowski

Axions seem ubiquitous in string theories and some of them may be produced non-thermally by heavy scalar decays, contributing to dark radiation. We study various cosmological effects of photons produced from the axionic dark radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

Axion-photon oscillation refers to the process of mutual conversion between photons and axions when they propagate in a magnetic field. This process depends on the strength of the background magnetic field, and magnetic white dwarfs provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Hao-Chen Tian , Zhao-Yang Wang , Yun-Feng Liang , Zhao-Wei Du

We report an axion dark matter search with a haloscope equipped with a microwave photon counter. The haloscope is a tunable high quality factor 3-dimensional microwave cavity placed in a magnetic field. The photon counter, operated…

A light hidden photon or axion-like particle is a good dark matter candidate and they are often associated with the spontaneous breaking of dark global or gauged U(1) symmetry. We consider the dark Higgs dynamics around the phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Kazunori Nakayama , Wen Yin

We calculate the total cross section for the production of photons from the scattering of axions by a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field in the form of a 2D delta-function, a cylindrical step function and a 2D Gaussian distribution, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Eduardo I. Guendelman , Idan Shilon , Giovanni Cantatore , Konstantin Zioutas

In certain laboratory experiments the production and/or detection of axions is due to the photon-axion transformations in a strong magnetic field. This process is coherent, and the rate of the transformation is proportional to the length…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan , D. Budker

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

In the presence of a background magnetic field, axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) can be resonantly converted to photons when their mass is nearly equal to the effective photon mass. In this paper, we propose a novel method to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ashu Kushwaha , Rajeev Kumar Jain

The dark photon has been postulated as a potential constituent of dark matter, exhibiting notable similarities to the axion. The primary distinction between the two particles lies in the nature of their respective fields: the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , José Reina-Valero , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Benito Gimeno

The effects of an external time-dependent magnetic field in the conversion probability of photon-to-axion-like particles are studied. Our findings show that for a certain time regime, the amplitude of the produced axion-like field can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza and , Jorge Gamboa

Light dark matter candidates such as axions and dark photons generically couple to electromagnetism, yielding dark-matter-to-photon conversion as a key search strategy. In addition to resonant conversion in cavities and circuits, light dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Stewart Koppell , Otavio D. A. R. Bittencourt , Dip Joti Paul , Junwu Huang , Masha Baryakhtar , Karl K. Berggren

We present a brief overview of the ongoing searches for the axion particle via its coupling to photons. Both the classical QCD axions and more recently proposed Axion-Like-Particles are considered. Astrophysical bounds on the axion-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-27 G. Carosi , A. Friedland , M. Giannotti , M. J. Pivovaroff , J. Ruz , J. K. Vogel

In this paper we examine the possibility of dilute axion stars converting to photons in the weak, large-scale magnetic field of the Milky Way and show that they can resonate with the surrounding plasma and produce a sizable signal. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-19 A. Kyriazis

We present a new mechanism to produce the dark photon ($\gamma'$) in the early universe with a help of the axion ($a$) using a recently proposed dark axion portal. The dark photon, a light gauge boson in the dark sector, can be a relic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-05 Kunio Kaneta , Hye-Sung Lee , Seokhoon Yun