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We propose a magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) search for axion dark matter around 1 GHz. The experiment leverages the axion's derivative coupling to electrons, which induces an effective A.C. magnetic field on a sample of electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Elham Kashi , Muhammad Hani Zaheer , Ryan Petery , Swati Singh

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

A number of proposed and ongoing experiments search for axion dark matter with a mass nearing the limit set by small scale structure (${\cal O} ( 10 ^{ - 21 } {\rm eV} ) $). We consider the late universe cosmology of these models, showing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Jeff A. Dror , Jacob M. Leedom

We present a brief overview of a new generation of high-precision laboratory and astrophysical measurements to search for ultralight (sub-eV) axion, axion-like pseudoscalar and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherent condensate or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-30 Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Victor V. Flambaum

The axion is particularly well motivated candidate for the dark matter comprising most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. As is well known, resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Ang Liu , Bilal Ahmad , Nick Houston

The $\mu$eV-mass axion is one of the most promising candidates for cold dark matter, and remains to be a well-motivated solution to the CP problem of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) via the Peccei-Quinn mechanism. In this paper, we propose a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-16 Guo-yuan Huang , Shun Zhou

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

Electromagnetic resonant systems, such as cavities and LC circuits, are widely used to detect ultralight boson dark matter and high-frequency gravitational waves. However, the narrow bandwidth of single-mode resonators necessitates multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-07 Yifan Chen , Chunlong Li , Yuxin Liu , Jing Shu , Yuting Yang , Yanjie Zeng

It is an intriguing possibility that the cold dark matter of the Universe may consist of very light and very weakly interacting particles such as axion(-like particles) and hidden photons. This opens up (but also requires) new techniques…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo

The search for dark matter is of fundamental importance to our understanding of the universe. Weakly-Interacting Slim Particles (WISPs) such as axions and hidden sector photons (HSPs) are well motivated candidates for the dark matter. Some…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-26 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems center is developing searches for dark photons, axions and ALPs with the goal of improving upon the current state-of-the-art sensitivity. These efforts leverage on Fermi National Accelerator…

Exploring the mysterious dark matter is a key quest in modern physics. Currently, detecting axions, a hypothetical particle proposed as a primary component of dark matter, remains a significant challenge due to their weakly interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Qiaoli Yang , Yu Gao , Zhihui Peng

Axion-like particles (ALP) are promising candidates to comprise all the dark matter in the universe. We investigate the ALP couplings to photons and electrons via astrophysical measurements through the search for very-high-energy gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Victor P. Goncalves , Emmanuel Moulin , Igor Reis , Aion Viana

Laboratory searching for dark matter is crucial for understanding several fundamental conundrums in physics and cosmology. Most cavity-based haloscope searches focus on the frequency range below 10 GHz, while the parameter space with higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yue Yin , Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong

In view of the ongoing galactic (or cosmic) axion detection experiments, we compare the axion-photon-photon coupling $c_{a\gamma\gamma}$'s for various invisible (or very light) axion models.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jihn E. Kim

Collective excitations in condensed matter systems, such as phonons and magnons, have recently been proposed as novel detection channels for light dark matter. We show that excitation of i) optical phonon polaritons in polar materials in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

Ultralight dark matter is expected to induce oscillations of nuclear parameters. These oscillations are characterized by extremely weak couplings or high suppression scales, with the Planck scale - the characteristic scale of quantum…

Current techniques cannot detect axion dark matter over much of its parameter space, particularly in the theoretically well-motivated region where the axion decay constant f_a lies near the GUT and Planck scales. We suggest a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-03 Peter W. Graham , Surjeet Rajendran

We have proposed a new approach to search for axion dark matter with an optical ring cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161301 (2018)]. The coupling of photons to axions or axion-like particles makes a modulated difference in the phase velocity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-25 Yuta Michimura , Yuka Oshima , Taihei Watanabe , Takuya Kawasaki , Hiroki Takeda , Masaki Ando , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita

We present an overview of recent developments in the detection of light bosonic dark matter, including axion, pseudoscalar axion-like and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherently oscillating classical field or topological defects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Y. V. Stadnik , V. V. Flambaum