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Dark matter, gauge coupling unification, and the strong CP problem find a common and simple solution (in the absence of naturalness) within axion models. We show that such solution, even without specifying the details of the model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Gian F. Giudice , Riccardo Rattazzi , Alessandro Strumia

Many theoretically well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics predict the existence of the axion and further ultralight axion-like particles. They may constitute the mysterious dark matter in the universe and solve…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Andreas Ringwald

Axions are one of the well-motivated candidates for dark matter, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in particle physics. Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) is a new experimental project to broadly…

Cosmological axions/axion-like particles can compose a significant part of dark matter; however, the uncertainty of their mass is large. Here, we propose to search the axions using a cylindrical capacitor, in which the static electric field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Wenming Chen , Yu Gao , Qiaoli Yang

We construct a theory in which the solution to the strong CP problem is an emergent property of the background of the dark matter in the Universe. The role of the axion degree of freedom is played by multi-body collective excitations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-05 Jason Arakawa , Arvind Rajaraman , Tim M. P. Tait

Axion dark matter can satisfy the conditions needed to account for all of the dark matter and solve the strong CP problem. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) is a direct dark matter search using a haloscope to convert axions to photons…

Axions and axion like particles in general are consequences of the extensions of the standard model in particle physics. Axions have been proposed as hypothetical pseudo-scalar particles in particle physics to solve the strong Charge-Parity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 K K Singh

Proposed half a century ago, the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion explains the lack of charge and parity violation in the strong interactions and is a compelling candidate for cold dark matter. The last decade has seen the rapid…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-16 Masha Baryakhtar , Leslie Rosenberg , Gray Rybka

If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Miguel Escudero , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn , Diego Blas , Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle postulated to solve issues with the Standard Model, including the strong CP problem and the origin of dark matter. In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the physics of axions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-03 Kiwoon Choi , Sang Hui Im , Chang Sub Shin

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

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

We propose experimental schemes for detection an axionic condensate supposed to be cosmic dark matter. Various procedures are considered in dependence on the value of the axion mass. There are well known indications that a large part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Vorob'ev , Igor' Kolokolov

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

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

Axions provide a solution to the strong CP problem and are excellent dark matter candidates. The presence of additional sources of CP violation, for example to account for the matter/antimatter asymmetry of the universe, can lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Vaisakh Plakkot , Wouter Dekens , Jordy de Vries , Sachin Shain

The Strong CP Problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The combined constraints from accelerator searches, the evolution of red giants and the duration of the SN 1987a neutrino pulse require the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Pierre Sikivie

The axion is arguably one of the best motivated candidates for dark matter. For a decay constant greater than about 10^9 GeV, axions are dominantly produced non-thermally in the early universe and hence are "cold", their velocity dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 Andreas Ringwald

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang