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A high finesse optical cavity can be used to search for cosmic axions in the mass range 10^{-6}< m_a <10^{-4} eV. Either a two-arm or a single-arm cavity is suitable and in either case the signal as resonant sidebands imposed on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 Adrian C. Melissinos

We report the first experimental results obtained with the new haloscope of the QUAX experiment located at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati of INFN (LNF). The haloscope is composed of a OFHC Cu resonant cavity cooled down to about 30 mK and…

We propose using the storage ring EDM method to search for the axion dark matter induced EDM oscillation in nucleons. The method uses a combination of B and E-fields to produce a resonance between the $g-2$ spin precession frequency and the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-17 Seung Pyo Chang , Selcuk Haciomeroglu , On Kim , Soohyung Lee , Seongtae Park , Yannis K. Semertzidis

We study the underlying theory of dielectric haloscopes, a new way to detect dark matter axions. When an interface between different dielectric media is inside a magnetic field, the oscillating axion field acts as a source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander J. Millar , Georg G. Raffelt , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

We report a pilot dark-matter search with a cryogenic, magnetized, scaled-down DALI prototype. An analysis of 36 hours of data reveals no statistically significant excess attributable to axionlike particles. We therefore set new exclusion…

We report the results of an axion dark matter search over an axion mass range of 9.39-9.51 ${\mu}$eV. A flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) was added to the cryogenic receiver chain. A system noise temperature of as low as 200…

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

We propose a novel broadband strategy to search for axions by leveraging observables controlled by the axion field squared. We present a practical implementation of this concept for probing the axion--photon coupling. This is done by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Angelo Esposito , Kin Chung Fong , Lam Hui

We report an extensive high-sensitivity search for axion dark matter above 1\,GHz at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP). The cavity resonant search, exploiting the coupling between axions and photons, explored the…

The standard model axion seesaw Higgs portal inflation (SMASH) model is a well motivated, self-contained description of particle physics over a range of energy scales that predicts axion dark matter particles to exist within the mass range…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-07-12 Aaron P. Quiskamp , Ben T. McAllister , Paul Altin , Eugene N. Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael E. Tobar

We develop a formalism to describe extensions of existing axion haloscope designs to those that possess directional sensitivity to incoming dark matter axion velocities. The effects are measurable if experiments are designed to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 Stefan Knirck , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

Cavity optomechanical systems have recently been proposed as detectors for ultralight dark matter, leveraging their ability to cool and probe mechanical oscillators at the quantum limit. Here we present a resonant search for ultralight dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-12 M. Dey Chowdhury , J. P. Manley , C. A. Condos , A. R. Agrawal , D. J. Wilson

A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari

We consider birefringent (i.e., polarization changing) scattering of x-ray photons at the superposition of two optical laser beams of ultra-high intensity and study the resonant contributions of axions or axion-like particles, which could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Stefan Evans , Ralf Schützhold

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

We study the impact of virtual axions on the polarization of photons inside a cavity during the interaction of high-power laser pulses. A novel detection scheme for measuring the axion-induced ellipticity signal during the Light-by-Light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-17 Soroush Shakeri , David J. E. Marsh , She-Sheng Xue

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

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-28 N. J. Ayres

The latest result from the ORGAN experiment, an axion haloscope is presented. This iteration of the experiment operated at millikelvin temperatures using a flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier for reduced noise, along with various…

Axion-like particles are promising candidates to make up the dark matter of the universe, but it is challenging to design experiments that can detect them over their entire allowed mass range. Dark matter in general, and in particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano , Lutz Trahms , Thomas Wilkason