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Axion-like particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Hongwan Liu , Brodi D. Elwood , Matthew Evans , Jesse Thaler

We report on a search for dark matter axion-like particles (ALPs) using a Ramsey-type apparatus for cold neutrons. A hypothetical ALP-gluon-coupling would manifest in a neutron electric dipole moment signal oscillating in time. Twenty-four…

We propose a novel dark matter detection method utilizing the excitation of superconducting transmon qubits. Assuming the hidden photon dark matter of a mass of $O(10)\ \mu{\rm eV}$, the classical wave-matter oscillation induces an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-20 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Toshiaki Inada , Takeo Moroi , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

The long-standing claim of dark matter detection by the DAMA experiment remains a crucial open question in astroparticle physics. A key step towards its independent verification is the development of NaI(Tl)-based detectors with improved…

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are good candidates for mediators to the dark sector. We explore scenarios in which an ALP mediates interactions between dark matter and electroweak gauge bosons. These models yield testable electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Stephanie Allen , Albany Blackburn , Oswaldo Cardenas , Zoe Messenger , Ngan H. Nguyen , Brian Shuve

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

A number of proposals have been put forward for detecting axion dark matter (DM) with grand unification scale decay constants that rely on the conversion of coherent DM axions to oscillating magnetic fields in the presence of static,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Joshua N. Benabou , Joshua W. Foster , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Chiara P. Salemi

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…

We present the results from the first axion-like particle search conducted using a dish antenna. The experiment was conducted at room temperature and sensitive to axion-like particles in the $44-52\,\mu\mathrm{eV}$ range ($10.7 -…

Discovering the microscopic composition of dark matter is one of the most important open problems in physics today. Axions are a leading candidate to be dark matter; however, a search of the full range of all likely axion masses is hampered…

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

We propose a new broadband search strategy for ultralight axion dark matter that interacts with electromagnetism. An oscillating axion field induces transitions between two quasi-degenerate resonant modes of a superconducting cavity. In two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Asher Berlin , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Kevin Zhou

We present systematic case studies to investigate the sensitivity of axion searches by liquid xenon detectors, using the axio-electric effect (analogue of the photoelectric effect) on xenon atoms. Liquid xenon is widely considered to be one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. Ghag , J. Kaidi , K. Lung , A. Lyashenko , R. D. Peccei , P. Smith , K. Ye

Strong coupling between cavity photons and various excitations in condensed matters boosts the field of light-matter interaction and generates several exciting sub-fields, such as cavity optomechanics and cavity magnon polariton. Axion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Yang Xiao , Huaiqiang Wang , Dinghui Wang , Ruifeng Lu , Xiaohong Yan , Hong Guo , C. -M. Hu , Ke Xia , Haijun Zhang , Dingyu Xing

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 find that the polarimetric observations of protoplanetary disks are useful to search for ultra-light axion dark matter. Axion dark matter predicts the rotation of the linear polarization plane of propagating light, and protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Tazaki , Kenji Toma

Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. However, quadratic couplings to matter introduce a non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Zitong Xu , Itay M. Bloch , Kai Wei

Dark matter consisting of very light and very weakly interacting particles such as axions, axion-like particles and hidden photons could be detected using reflective surfaces. On such reflectors some of the dark matter particles are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-30 Joerg Jaeckel , Stefan Knirck

In this paper, we investigate constraints of the transmon qubit, an improved version of the charge qubit, on bosonic light dark matters. Phonon excitations induced by the scattering or absorption of dark matter on a superconductor may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Wei Chao , Yu Gao , Ming-jie Jin , Xiao-sheng Liu , Xi-lei Sun

We examine in greater detail the recent proposal of using superconductors for detecting dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit of O(keV). Detection of such light dark matter is possible if the entire kinetic energy of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Yonit Hochberg , Matt Pyle , Yue Zhao , Kathryn M. Zurek