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The axion was first introduced as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to solve the CP problem in strong interactions of particle physics and is a well motivated cold dark matter candidate. This particle is expected to interact…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 S. W. Youn , E. Sala , J. Jeong , J. Kim , Y. K. Semertzidis

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 review the physics of ultralight axion-like particles (ALPs) as dark matter candidates and the experimental strategies used to search for them with precision and quantum technologies. In the ultralight regime, the enormous occupation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-25 Sreemanti Chakraborti

We report a follow-up axion haloscope search near 1.036 GHz that completes and extends our previous work [Phys. Rev. X 14, 031023 (2024)], in which a portion of the HEMT-based data could not be analyzed due to unrecorded experimental…

For low-mass (frequency $\ll$ GHz) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Robert Lasenby

In the presence of QCD axion dark matter, atoms acquire time-dependent electric dipole moments. This effect gives rise to an oscillating current in a nuclear spin-polarized dielectric, which can resonantly excite an electromagnetic mode of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Asher Berlin , Kevin Zhou

MADMAX, a future experiment to search for axion dark matter, is based on a novel detection concept called the dielectric haloscope. It consists of a booster composed of several dielectric disks positioned with $\mu$m precision. A prototype…

In the present work we study possible time signatures Axion Dark Matter searches employing resonant cavities for various halo models. We study in particular the time dependence of the resonance width (modulation) and possible asymmetries in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 J. D. Vergados , Y. Semertzidis

Within the dual symmetric point of view, the theory for seeking axion dark matter via haloscope experiments is derived by exactly solving the dual symmetric axion electrodynamics equation. Notwithstanding that the conventional theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Dai-Nam Le , Le Phuong Hoang , Binh Xuan Cao

We report the results of Phase 1b of The ORGAN Experiment, a microwave cavity haloscope searching for dark matter axions in the $107.42-111.93~\mu$eV mass range. The search excludes axions with two-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma\gamma}\geq…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-11 Aaron Quiskamp , Ben T. McAllister , Paul Altin , Eugene N. Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael E. Tobar

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

A ferromagnetic haloscope is a rf spin-magnetometer used for searching Dark Matter in the form of axions. A magnetic material is monitored searching for anomalous magnetization oscillations which can be induced by dark matter axions. To…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-12 Nicolò Crescini

In this work we study electromagnetic properties of a resonator recently suggested for the search of axions - a hypothetical candidate to explain dark matter. A wire medium loaded resonator (called a plasma haloscope when used to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-18 Rustam Balafendiev , Constantin Simovski , Alexander J. Millar , Pavel Belov

This Letter reports on the first results from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with Haloscope, a search for axions using a microwave cavity at frequencies between 4.70750 and 4.79815 GHz. Apart from the non-axion signals, no candidates…

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou

Current searches for the gravitational-wave signature of compact binary mergers rely on matched-filtering data from interferometric observatories with sets of modelled gravitational waveforms. These searches currently use model waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-02 Ian Harry , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alex Nitz

This Letter reports new results from the HAYSTAC experiment's search for dark matter axions in our galactic halo. It represents the widest search to date that utilizes squeezing to realize sub-quantum limited noise. The new results cover…

The search for axions has gained ground in recent years, with laboratory searches for cold dark matter (CDM) axions, relativistic solar axions and ultra-light axions the subject of extensive literature. In particular, the interest in axions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-07 Katharine Kelley , P. J. Quinn

Almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the few viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Dafni , F. J. Iguaz

Axion haloscopes search for dark matter axions from the galactic halo, most commonly by measuring a power excess sourced by the axion effective current density. Constraining axion parameters from detection or lack thereof requires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Jacob Egge