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Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

An axion rotating in field space can produce dark photons in the early universe via tachyonic instability. This explosive particle production creates a background of stochastic gravitational waves that may be visible at pulsar timing arrays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Raymond T. Co , Keisuke Harigaya , Aaron Pierce

Revealing the essence of dark matter (DM) and dark energy is essential for understanding our universe. Ultralight (rest energy $<$10 eV) bosonic particles, including pseudoscalar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have emerged among…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Lei Cong , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Wei Quan , Kai Wei

Measurements in the radio regime embrace a number of effective approaches for WISP searches, often covering unique or highly complementary ranges of the parameter space compared to those explored in other research domains. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-19 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

We propose a method for searching dark matter axion in axion-photon conversion. We consider a superconductor of cylindrical shape under strong magnetic field. The dark matter axion generates oscillating electric field which induces…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Aiichi Iwazaki

Cosmological mechanisms that yield ultralight dark matter are insensitive to the intrinsic parity of a bosonic dark matter candidate, but that same quantity plays a crucial role in a direct detection experiment. The modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 Christopher M. Donohue , Susan Gardner , Wolfgang Korsch

Dark photons, as a minimal extension of the Standard Model through an additional Abelian gauge group, may propagate relativistically across the galaxy, originating from dark matter decay or annihilation, thereby contributing to a galactic…

We propose a novel technique to search for axions with an optomechanical cavity filled with a material such as superfluid helium. Axion absorption converts a pump laser photon to a photon plus a phonon. The axion absorption rate is enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Clara Murgui , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

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

This chapter will cover the search for dark matter axions based on microwave cavity experiments proposed by Pierre Sikivie. The topic begins with a brief overview of halo dark matter and the axion as a candidate. The principle of resonant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianpaolo Carosi , Karl van Bibber

We propose a double-resonant interferometric strategy for axion dark matter detection that combines microwave circuit resonance with Fabry--P\'erot optical enhancement. In a strong magnetic field, axion--photon mixing induces a weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Spencer Green , Frank Wilczek

Ultraprecise mechanical sensors offer an exciting avenue for testing new physics. While many of these sensors are tailored to detect inertial forces, magnetically levitated (Maglev) systems are particularly interesting, in that they are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Gerard Higgins , Saarik Kalia , Zhen Liu

We present a new mechanism for producing the correct relic abundance of dark photon dark matter over a wide range of its mass, extending down to $10^{-20}\,\mathrm{eV}$. The dark matter abundance is initially stored in an axion which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-11 Prateek Agrawal , Naoya Kitajima , Matthew Reece , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Fuminobu Takahashi

Axions are a theoretically promising dark matter (DM) candidate. In the presence of radiation from bright astrophysical sources at radio frequencies, nonrelativistic DM axions can undergo stimulated decay to two nearly back-to-back photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-25 Yitian Sun , Katelin Schutz , Anjali Nambrath , Calvin Leung , Kiyoshi Masui

Motivated by the recently reported diphoton resonance at 750 GeV, we study a new axion-like bosonic portal model of dark matter physics. When the resonance particle is identified as the pseudo-scalar mediator, via which the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-15 Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park

We investigate the prospect of an alternative laboratory-based search for the coupling of axions and axion-like particles to photons. Here, the collision of two laser beams resonantly produces axions, and a signal photon is detected after…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-18 K. A. Beyer , G. Marocco , R. Bingham , G. Gregori

Axions are a leading dark matter candidate. In this work, we study the detectability of a multi-axion-like model, dubbed the $\pi$-axiverse, that is distinguishable from the string axiverse. The dark matter candidates are $N^2-1$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Stephon Alexander , Geoff Beck , Santiago Loane , Tucker Manton

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

The MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX) is a future experiment aiming to detect dark matter axions from the galactic halo by resonant conversion to photons in a strong magnetic field. It uses a novel concept based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 Fabrice Hubaut