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We report on a search for axion dark matter in the frequency range near 5.9 GHz, conducted using the haloscope technique. The experiment employed an 8-cell microwave resonator designed to extend the accessible frequency range by a…

The recent detection of B-modes by BICEP2 has non-trivial implications for axion dark matter implied by combining the tensor interpretation with isocurvature constraints from Planck. In this paper the measurement is taken as fact, and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin , Renee Hlozek , Pedro G. Ferreira

The purpose of this paper is to assess the feasibility of axion detection by X-ray spectroscopy of the sun. We review the theory of axion-photon mode conversion with special attention to axions emitted in the 14.4 keV M1 decay of 57Fe at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Martin Laming

We report on the results from a search for dark matter axions with the HAYSTAC experiment using a microwave cavity detector at frequencies between 5.6-5.8$\, \rm Ghz$. We exclude axion models with two photon coupling…

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 propose to use the nuclear spin excitation in the ferromagnetic A1 phase of the superfluid $^3$He for the axion dark matter detection. This approach is striking in that it is sensitive to the axion-nucleon coupling, one of the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 So Chigusa , Dan Kondo , Hitoshi Murayama , Risshin Okabe , Hiroyuki Sudo

We explore the possibility to develop a new axion helioscope type, sensitive to the higher axion mass region favored by axion models. We propose to use a low background large volume TPC immersed in an intense magnetic field. Contrary to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 J. Galán , T. Dafni , E. Ferrer-Ribas , I. Giomataris , F. J. Iguaz , I. G. Irastorza , J. A. García , J. Gracia , G. Luzón , T. Papaevangelou , J. Redondo , A. Tomás

The dark photon has been postulated as a potential constituent of dark matter, exhibiting notable similarities to the axion. The primary distinction between the two particles lies in the nature of their respective fields: the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , José Reina-Valero , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Benito Gimeno

We present a general approach to solve the Maxwell-axion equations for arbitrary geometries and materials. The approach is based on the finite element method (FEM) and applied to experimental setups related to the new MADMAX (MAgnetized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-02 Jan Schütte-Engel

A haloscope of the QUAX--$a\gamma$ experiment composed of an oxygen-free high thermal conductivity-Cu cavity inside an 8.1 T magnet and cooled to $\sim200$ mK is put in operation for the search of galactic axion with mass…

Axions are considered a key component of dark matter, characterized by very weak couplings to fermions and Chern-Simons couplings to gauge fields. We propose a novel detection mechanism based on symmetry-breaking magnetoelectric materials…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Runyu Lei , Chen-Hui Xie , Jiayi Liu , Zhong Liu , Xin Liu , Yu Gao , Sichun Sun , Jinxing Zhang

We present a search for ultralight axion dark matter coupled to electron spins using a levitated ferromagnetic torsional oscillator (FMTO). This platform directly measures axion-induced torques on a macroscopic spin-polarized body,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chunlong Li , Yiwei Huang , Shien Yang , Yichong Ren , Yu Zhang , Peiran Yin , Pu Huang , Fei Xue

Axion dark matter may couple to fermion spins through an effective oscillating magnetic field, the ``axion wind". Existing approaches for detecting axion wind via axion-electron coupling $g_{ae}$ face sensitivity limitations due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Christina Gao , Yuxuan He , Yubo Mo , Peiran Yin

Black holes can amplify incoming bosonic waves via rotational superradiance, inducing bound states of ultralight bosons around them. This phenomenon has the potential to confine the parameter spaces of new bosons. Axions and axion-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Zhiren Wang , Avery E. Broderick

We propose a method for remotely detecting backward reflection via induced decay of cold dark matter such as axion in the background of a propagating coherent photon field. This method can be particularly useful for probing concentrated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-21 Kensuke Homma

Assuming axion-like particles account for the entirety of the dark matter in the Universe, we study the possibility of detecting their decay into photons at radio frequencies. We discuss different astrophysical targets, such as dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 A. Caputo , M. Regis , M. Taoso , S. J. Witte

Axions are a compelling dark matter candidate, and one of the primary techniques employed to search for them is the axion haloscope, in which a resonant cavity is deployed inside a strong magnetic field so that some of the surrounding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron P. Quiskamp , Michael E. Tobar

Advanced LIGO may be the first experiment to detect gravitational waves. Through superradiance of stellar black holes, it may also be the first experiment to discover the QCD axion with decay constant above the GUT scale. When an axion's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Asimina Arvanitaki , Masha Baryakhtar , Xinlu Huang

Microwave cavity haloscopes are among the most sensitive direct detection experiments searching for dark matter axions via their coupling to photons. When the power of the expected microwave signal due to axion-photon conversion is on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-10 Yuqi Zhu , M. J. Jewell , Claire Laffan , Xiran Bai , Sumita Ghosh , Eleanor Graham , S. B. Cahn , Reina H. Maruyama , S. K. Lamoreaux

We discuss the use of the bicoherence - a measure of the phase coupling of oscillations at different frequencies - as a diagnostic between different models for high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations from Galactic black hole candidates.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas J. Maccarone , Jeremy D. Schnittman