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Dark matter axions may cause transitions between atomic states that differ in energy by an amount equal to the axion mass. Such energy differences are conveniently tuned using the Zeeman effect. It is proposed to search for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 P. Sikivie

Ultra light particles $(m_a \sim 10^{-21}eV-10^{-22}eV)$ with axion-like couplings to other particles can be candidates for fuzzy dark matter (FDM) if the axion decay constant $f_a\sim 10^{17}GeV$. If a compact star is immersed in such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Tanmay Kumar Poddar , Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Jana

We use the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster (NSC) to test the existence of a dark matter 'soliton core', as predicted in ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) models. Since the soliton core size is proportional to mDM^{-1}, while the core density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Firat Toguz , Daisuke Kawata , George Seabroke , Justin I. Read

Growing amount of observations indicate presence of intrinsically faint quasar subgroup (a few % of known quasars) with noncosmological quantized redshift. Here we find an analytical solution of Einstein equations describing bubbles made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky

We study novel solitonic solutions to Einstein-Klein-Gordon theory in the presence of a periodic scalar potential arising in models of axion-like particles. The potential depends on two parameters: the mass of the scalar field $m_a$ and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Davide Guerra , Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani

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

The newly established luminosity functions of high-z galaxies at $4 \lesssim z \lesssim 10$ can provide a stringent check on dark matter models that aim to explain the core properties of dwarf galaxies. The cores of dwarf spheroidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst , Kuan-Wei Huang

Axions are well motivated particles that could make up most or all of the dark matter if they have masses below 100 $\mu$eV. Microwave cavity techniques comprised of closed resonant structures immersed in solenoid magnets are sensitive to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-24 Gray Rybka , Andrew Wagner , Aryeh Brill , Kunal Patel , Robert Percival , Katleiah Ramos

Axions are some of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model. We show how the attractive self-interactions of dark matter (DM) axions over a broad range of masses, from $10^{-22}$ eV to $10^7$ GeV, can lead to nongravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Marios Galanis , Luis Lehner , Jedidiah O. Thompson , Ken Van Tilburg

If the dark matter particles are axions, gravity can cause them to coalesce into axion stars, which are stable gravitationally bound systems of axions. In the previously known solutions for axion stars, gravity and the attractive force…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-20 Eric Braaten , Abhishek Mohapatra , Hong Zhang

In this work, we compute multi-field core and halo properties in wave Dark Matter models. We focus on the case where Dark Matter consists of two light (real) scalars, interacting gravitationally. As in the single-field Ultra Light Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Fabio van Dissel , Mark P. Hertzberg , Jared Shapiro

Motivated by tension between the predictions of ordinary cold dark matter (CDM) and observations at galactic scales, ultralight axionlike particles (ULALPs) with mass of the order $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ have been proposed as an alternative CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Nilanjan Banik , Adam J. Christopherson , Pierre Sikivie , Elisa Maria Todarello

We construct families, and concrete examples, of simple extensions of the Standard Model that can yield ultralight {real or} complex vectors or scalars with potential astrophysical relevance. Specifically, the mass range for these putative…

We propose a scenario where the saxion dominates the energy density of the Universe and reheats the standard model sector via the dilatonic coupling, while its axionic partner contributes to dark matter decaying into photons via the same…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-29 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kwang Sik Jeong , Fuminobu Takahashi

The axion-like particles with ultralight mass ($\sim10^{-22}$eV) can be a possible candidate of dark matter, known as the fuzzy dark matter (FDM). These particles form Bose-Einstein condensate in the early Universe which can explain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Shreyansh S. Dave , Sanatan Digal

It is widely established that a lower bound on the dark matter particle mass, $m$, can be obtained by demanding that the de Broglie wavelength in a given galaxy must be smaller than the virial radius of the galaxy, leading to $m\gtrsim…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , James Alvey , David J. E. Marsh , Malcolm Fairbairn , Justin I. Read

Although the standard {\Lambda}CDM model describes the cosmic microwave background radiation and the large scale structure of the Universe with great success, it has some tensions with observations in the effective number of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-26 Kiwoon Choi , Ki-Young Choi , Chang Sub Shin

Relativistic axions are good candidates for the dark radiation for which there are mounting observational hints. The primordial decays of heavy fields produce axions which are ultra-energetic compared to thermalised matter and inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh

Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao

A portion of light scalar dark matter, especially axions, may organize into gravitationally bound clumps (stars) and be present in large number in the galaxy today. It is therefore of utmost interest to determine if there are novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-03 Mark P. Hertzberg , Yao Li , Enrico D. Schiappacasse