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Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

The search for dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model has grown to encompass a highly interdisciplinary approach. In this review, we survey recent searches for light, weakly-coupled particles - axions and dark photons - over the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Asher Berlin , Yonatan Kahn

Two of the most pressing questions in physics are the microscopic nature of the dark matter that comprises 84% of the mass in the universe and the absence of a neutron electric dipole moment. These questions would be resolved by the…

We present the first results of a search for invisible axion dark matter using a multiple-cell cavity haloscope. This cavity concept was proposed to provide a highly efficient approach to high mass regions compared to the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-09 Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Sungjae Bae , Jihngeun Kim , Taehyeon Seong , Jihn E Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

We report a mm-wave search for axion dark matter from SGR 1745-2900, based on 4.8 h of ALMA observations. No candidate features are found between 133.99-135.78, 135.91-137.70, 145.99-147.78, and 147.99-149.78~GHz, corresponding to 0.55-0.62…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Javier De Miguel , Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Frédéric Poidevin , Nanda Rea , Daniel L. Walker , Davide De Grandis , Jaime Prieto-Polo

Axions and axion-like particles are strongly motivated dark matter candidates that are the subject of many current ground based dark matter searches. We present first results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity (ADBC) experiment,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-10 Swadha Pandey , Evan D. Hall , Matthew Evans

We present a brief overview of recently proposed detection schemes for axion, axion-like pseudoscalar particle and topological defect dark matter. We focus mainly on the possibility of using atomic and molecular systems for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Victor V. Flambaum

Dark matter makes up 85% of the matter in the universe and 27% of its energy density, but we do not know what comprises dark matter. It is possible that dark matter may be composed of either axions or dark photons, both of which can be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-10 R. Cervantes , G. Carosi , C. Hanretty , S. Kimes , B. H. LaRoque , G. Leum , P. Mohapatra , N. S. Oblath , R. Ottens , Y. Park , G. Rybka , J. Sinnis , J. Yang

We report on a search for dark matter axion conversion photons from the magnetosphere of the Galactic Center magnetar PSR J1745-2900 using spectra obtained from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. No significant spectral features are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jeremy Darling

The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the search for light particle dark matter. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, $10^{-12}\lesssim m_a\lesssim10^{-6}$ eV.…

Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. However, quadratic couplings to matter introduce a non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Zitong Xu , Itay M. Bloch , Kai Wei

We propose a novel experiment to search for axion dark matter which differentiates the phase velocities of the left and right-handed polarized photons. Our optical cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

Dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics, with axions, a hypothetical particle proposed to resolve the strong CP problem, standing as a compelling candidate. Among various experimental strategies, cavity…

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

We find that the polarimetric observations of protoplanetary disks are useful to search for ultra-light axion dark matter. Axion dark matter predicts the rotation of the linear polarization plane of propagating light, and protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Tazaki , Kenji Toma

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

Bounds are derived on the axion-like particle (ALP) to two-photon coupling in the mass range $2.65-5.27$ eV. The bounds are obtained by searching for the signal from ALP decay in the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Elisa Todarello

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In this Letter, a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity is proposed. If the scheme is applied to the Fabry-P\'erot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-01 Koji Nagano , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for solar axions by the "helioscope" method. First results imply an upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g_a-gamma < 1.16 x 10^-10 GeV^-1 (95% CL) for m_a < 0.02 eV, in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg G. Raffelt

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…