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Long-standing efforts to detect axions are driven by two compelling prospects, naturally accounting for the absence of charge-conjugation and parity symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics, and for the elusive dark matter at ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Georg Engelhardt , Amit Bhoonah , W. Vincent Liu

We present a novel quantum sensing approach to search for axion-electron interactions around the axion mass of 6 \mueV. In this region, laboratory searches are relatively scarce, and our direct experiment measuring the axion-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hongliang Wu , Yuchen Han , Zhengtao Wang , Dezhi Zheng , Yeliang Wang , Liu Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Bo Zhang , Dmitry Budker , Jun Zhang

We have searched for solar axions with a detector which consists of a 4T x 2.3m superconducting magnet, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and an altazimuth mount to track the sun. The conversion region is filled with cold helium gas which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Y. Inoue , M. Minowa , Y. Akimoto , R. Ota , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto

A search for axioelectric absorption of 5.5 MeV solar axions produced in the $p + d \rightarrow {^3\rm{He}}+\gamma~(5.5~ \rm{MeV})$ reaction has been performed with a BGO detectors. A model-independent limit on the product of axion-nucleon…

The search for non-baryonic dark matter remains a key focus in modern physics, with the light pseudoscalar axion serving as a well-motivated candidate. Here, we present a laboratory-scale detection scheme to constrain axion-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Jiawei Li , Ka-di Zhu

We estimate the event rate for excitation of atomic transition by photino-like dark matter. For excitations of several eV, this event rate can exceed naive cross-section by many orders of magnitude. Although the event rate for these atomic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Glenn D. Starkman , David N. Spergel

We propose using highly excited cyclotron states of a trapped electron to detect meV axion and dark photon dark matter, marking a significant improvement over our previous proposal and demonstration [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 261801]. When the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-18 Xing Fan , Gerald Gabrielse , Peter W. Graham , Harikrishnan Ramani , Samuel S. Y. Wong , Yawen Xiao

We have searched for axions which could be produced in the solar core by exploiting their conversion to X rays in a strong laboratory magnetic field. The signature of the solar axion is an increase in the rate of the X rays detected in a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Shigetaka Moriyama , Makoto Minowa , Toshio Namba , Yoshizumi Inoue , Yuko Takasu , Akira Yamamoto

A new method for searching for Dark Matter axions is proposed. It is shown that a two-contact SQUID can detect oscillating magnetic perturbations induced by the axions in a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field. A resonant signal is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Vladimir Popov

The processes of electron excitation, capture, and ionization were investigated in proton collisions with atomic hydrogen in the initial $n=1$ and $n=2$ states at impact energies from 1 to 300 keV. The theoretical analysis is based on the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Anthony C. K. Leung , Tom Kirchner

The axion electromagnetic anomaly induces an oscillating electric dipole for {\em any} static magnetic dipole. Static electric dipoles do not produce oscillating magnetic moments. This is a low energy theorem which is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-01 Christopher T. Hill

Ionization-excitation of an atom induced by the absorption of a single photon in the presence of a neighbouring atom is studied. The latter is, first, resonantly photoexcited and, afterwards, transfers the excitation energy radiationlessly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 S. Kim , S. Steinhäuser , A. B. Voitkiv , C. Müller

If axions or axion-like particles exist and are detected, they will not only extend the standard model of particle physics but will also open a new way to probe their sources. Axion helioscopes aim to detect axions which are produced in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 Joerg Jaeckel , Lennert J. Thormaehlen

A new experimental scheme is proposed to search for almost monochromatic solar axions, whose existence has not been discussed heretofore. The axions would be produced when thermally excited $^{57}$Fe in the sun relaxes to its ground state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shigetaka Moriyama

The axion is a hypothetical particle associated with a possible solution to the strong CP problem and is a leading candidate for dark matter. In this paper we investigate the emission of axions by accelerated electrons. We find the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Georgios Vacalis , Atsushi Higuchi , Robert Bingham , Gianluca Gregori

The sensitivities of large arrays of low-background germanium detectors for solar axion searches are investigated in the context of three coupling scenarios. A search was made for the 14.4-keV axion branch from the M1-transition in the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-06 F. T. Avignone

The resonance strength of the two-step process of nuclear excitation by electron capture followed by $\gamma$ decay of the nucleus can be significantly increased in highly charged ions if the resonant capture proceeds via an excited…

The experimental search for solar hadronic axions is started at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Researches Russian Academy of Science. It is assumed that axions are created in the Sun during M1-transition…

Core-collapse supernovae provide a unique opportunity to probe axions because they can be a copious source of the particles. It has recently been proposed that axion helioscopes can be used for the direct search for supernova axions if a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Kanji Mori , Masamitsu Mori

We describe a novel approach to the search for solar, near-monochromatic hadronic axions, the latter being suggested to be created in the solar core during M1 transitions between the first excited level of Li-7, at 478 keV, and the ground…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Krcmar , Z. Krecak , A. Ljubicic , M. Stipcevic , D. A. Bradley