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In this paper another class of Dark Matter candidate particles: the pseudoscalar and scalar light bosonic candidates, is discussed. Particular care is devoted to the study of the processes for their detection (which only involves electrons…

Dark photon not only provides a portal linking dark sector particles and ordinary matter but also is a well-motivated dark matter candidate. We propose to detect the dark photon dark matter through the inverse Compton-like scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

The dark photon is a new gauge boson that naturally arises in many beyond the Standard Model theoretical models, featuring interactions that resemble quantum electrodynamics. Due to this feature, it is often considered the portal between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 L. Angel , G. Casse , G. Gambini , A. S. de Jesus , V. Kozhuharov , A. Machado , F. S. Queiroz , E. Segreto , J. Smirnov

A class of dark photon dark matter models with ultralight masses would lead to oscillation of a test body through a coupling with baryons or $B-L$ charge. This periodical oscillation of an observer results in swing of a star's apparent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-14 Huai-Ke Guo , Yingqi Ma , Jing Shu , Xiao Xue , Qiang Yuan , Yue Zhao

Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao

We describe a method for dark matter detection based on the evaporation of helium atoms from a cold surface and their subsequent detection using field ionization. When a dark matter particle scatters off a nucleus of the target material,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Humphrey J. Maris , George M. Seidel , Derek Stein

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomagnetic field of the Earth. This signal is similar in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Ariel Arza , Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Saarik Kalia

Identifying dark matter candidates that simultaneously generate multiple observable cosmological signatures is a key goal in connecting particle physics with upcoming observations. Axion-like particles coupled to the Standard Model photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Christopher Gerlach , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller

The axion, as a leading dark matter candidate, is the target of many ongoing and proposed experimental searches based on its coupling to photons. Ultralight axions that couple to photons can also cause polarization rotation of light, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Xucheng Gan , Lian-Tao Wang , Huangyu Xiao

Axions are well-motivated dark matter candidates with simple cosmological production mechanisms. They were originally introduced to solve the strong CP problem, but also arise in a wide range of extensions to the Standard Model. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-31 C. B. Adams , N. Aggarwal , A. Agrawal , R. Balafendiev , C. Bartram , M. Baryakhtar , H. Bekker , P. Belov , K. K. Berggren , A. Berlin , C. Boutan , D. Bowring , D. Budker , A. Caldwell , P. Carenza , G. Carosi , R. Cervantes , S. S. Chakrabarty , S. Chaudhuri , T. Y. Chen , S. Cheong , A. Chou , R. T. Co , J. Conrad , D. Croon , R. T. D'Agnolo , M. Demarteau , N. DePorzio , M. Descalle , K. Desch , L. Di Luzio , A. Diaz-Morcillo , K. Dona , I. S. Drachnev , A. Droster , N. Du , K. Dunne , B. Döbrich , S. A. R. Ellis , R. Essig , J. Fan , J. W. Foster , J. T. Fry , A. Gallo Rosso , J. M. García Barceló , I. G. Irastorza , S. Gardner , A. A. Geraci , S. Ghosh , B. Giaccone , M. Giannotti , B. Gimeno , D. Grin , H. Grote , M. Guzzetti , M. H. Awida , R. Henning , S. Hoof , G. Hoshino , V. Irsic , K. D. Irwin , H. Jackson , D. F. Jackson Kimball , J. Jaeckel , K. Jakovcic , M. J. Jewell , M. Kagan , Y. Kahn , R. Khatiwada , S. Knirck , T. Kovachy , P. Krueger , S. E. Kuenstner , N. A. Kurinsky , R. K. Leane , A. F. Leder , C. Lee , K. W. Lehnert , E. W. Lentz , S. M. Lewis , J. Liu , M. Lynn , B. Majorovits , D. J. E. Marsh , R. H. Maruyama , B. T. McAllister , A. J. Millar , D. W. Miller , J. Mitchell , S. Morampudi , G. Mueller , S. Nagaitsev , E. Nardi , O. Noroozian , C. A. J. O'Hare , N. S. Oblath , J. L. Ouellet , K. M. W. Pappas , H. V. Peiris , K. Perez , A. Phipps , M. J. Pivovaroff , P. Quílez , N. M. Rapidis , V. H. Robles , K. K. Rogers , J. Rudolph , J. Ruz , G. Rybka , M. Safdari , B. R. Safdi , M. S. Safronova , C. P. Salemi , P. Schuster , A. Schwartzman , J. Shu , M. Simanovskaia , J. Singh , S. Singh , K. Sinha , J. T. Sinnis , M. Siodlaczek , M. S. Smith , W. M. Snow , A. V. Sokolov , A. Sonnenschein , D. H. Speller , Y. V. Stadnik , C. Sun , A. O. Sushkov , T. M. P. Tait , V. Takhistov , D. B. Tanner , F. Tavecchio , D. J. Temples , J. H. Thomas , M. E. Tobar , N. Toro , Y. -D. Tsai , E. C. van Assendelft , K. van Bibber , M. Vandegar , L. Visinelli , E. Vitagliano , J. K. Vogel , Z. Wang , A. Wickenbrock , L. Winslow , S. Withington , M. Wooten , J. Yang , B. A. Young , F. Yu , K. Zhou , T. Zhou

Ultralight dark matter candidates, such as axions and dark photons, are leading dark matter candidates. They may couple feebly to photons, sourcing oscillating electromagnetic signals in the Earth's conducting cavity formed between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Xiaofei Huang , Jing Shu , Hongliang Tian , Wenyu Wang , Kai Wei , Lei Wu , Mingming Xia , Jin Min Yang , Qiang Yuan , Yang Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bin Zhu

The axion particle, a consequence of an elegant hypothesis that resolves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, is a plausible origin for cosmological dark matter. In searches for axionic dark matter that detect the conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Huaixiu Zheng , Matti Silveri , R. T. Brierley , S. M. Girvin , K. W. Lehnert

Dark photons, which can kinetically mix with ordinary photons, represent the simplest extension to the standard model. Detecting their oscillations with visible photons could provide crucial insights into the nature of dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yu-Xin Tian , Wenyu Wang , Wen-Na Yang , Bin Zhu

Dark photon is a massive vector particle which couples to the physical photon through the kinetic mixing term. Such particles, if exist, are produced in photon beams and, in particular, in laser radiation. Due to the oscillations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan

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 propose a new strategy to search for a particular type of dark matter via nuclear capture. If the dark matter particle carries baryon number, as motivated by a class of theoretical explanations of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-27 Bartosz Fornal , Benjamin Grinstein , Yue Zhao

We report on the results of the search for dark photons with mass around 1.5$\,\rm eV/c^2$ using a multilayer dielectric haloscope equipped with an affordable and commercially available photosensor. The multilayer stack, which enables the…

We propose an experimental scheme to search for galactic halo axions with mass $m_a \sim 10^{-3}$eV, which is above the range accessible with cavity techniques. The detector consists of a large number of parallel superconducting wires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Pierre Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Yun Wang

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate particle. Haloscopes aim to detect axions in the galactic halo by measuring the photon signal resulting from axions interacting with a strong magnetic field. Existing haloscopes are…

The search for a dark photon produced at $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders which subsequently decays into inelastic dark matter particles, is discussed. The heavier dark matter decays into a pair of visible charged particles and a lighter dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Xin Chen , Zhen Hu , Yongcheng Wu , Kai Yi