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Superconducting targets have recently been proposed for the direct detection of dark matter as light as a keV, via elastic scattering off conduction electrons in Cooper pairs. Detecting such light dark matter requires sensitivity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Yonit Hochberg , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

This Letter reports results from a haloscope search for dark matter axions with masses between 2.66 and 2.81 $\mu$eV. The search excludes the range of axion-photon couplings predicted by plausible models of the invisible axion. This…

Electromagnetic radiation with angular frequency equal to half the axion mass stimulates the decay of cold dark matter axions and produces an echo, i.e. faint electromagnetic radiation traveling in the opposite direction. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Ariel Arza , Pierre Sikivie

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

We show that Earth's natural environment can serve as a powerful probe for ultralight axion dark matter. In the presence of global geomagnetic fields, the axions with masses ranging from $10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}-10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Atsushi Taruya , Atsushi Nishizawa , Yoshiaki Himemoto

We explore the axionic dark matter search sensitivity with a narrow-band detection scheme aiming at the axion-photon conversion by the static electric field inside a cylindrical capacitor. An alternating magnetic field signal is induced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-13 Yu Gao , Yongsheng Huang , Zhengwei Li , Manqi Ruan , Peng Sha , Meiyu Si , Qiaoli Yang

We report the first search results for axion dark matter using an 18\,T high-temperature superconducting magnet haloscope. The scan frequency ranges from 4.7789 to 4.8094\,GHz. No significant signal consistent with the Galactic halo dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-20 Youngjae Lee , Byeongsu Yang , Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , DongLak Kim , Jonghee Yoo

In dark matter axion searches, quantum uncertainty manifests as a fundamental noise source, limiting the measurement of the quadrature observables used for detection. We use vacuum squeezing to circumvent the quantum limit in a search for a…

We propose to use high-purity lab-grown diamond for the detection of sub-GeV dark matter. Diamond targets can be sensitive to both nuclear and electron recoils from dark matter scattering in the MeV and above mass range, as well as to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-19 Noah Kurinsky , To Chin Yu , Yonit Hochberg , Blas Cabrera

The strong CP problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The constraints on the axion from accelerator searches, from the evolution of red giants and from supernova SN1987a combine to require $m_a < 3…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. Sikivie

The QCD axion is one of the most compelling candidates to explain the dark matter abundance of the universe. With its extremely small mass ($\ll 1\,\mathrm{eV}/c^2$), axion dark matter interacts as a classical field rather than a particle.…

The QCD axion, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in QCD, is a prominent candidate for dark matter (DM). In the presence of strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars, axions can theoretically convert into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Luca Visinelli , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Jordan E. Shroyer , Liam Walters

We propose using the ultra-narrow 88 keV M\"ossbauer transition in $^{109}$Ag to search for QCD axion dark matter. The sub-eV axion field oscillates coherently, inducing a time-varying effective $\bar{\theta}_{\rm QCD}$ angle. This, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Shengyi Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Jie Meng , Jing Shu , Yakun Wang , Yue Zhao

The low-mass dark matter (DM) such as axion or wavelike scalar is a plausible DM candidate. Recently, the possible non-standard couplings of low-mass DM has drawn much attention. In this work we investigate the detection of electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-16 Chang-Jie Dai , Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

The ultralight axion with mass around $10^{-22}$ eV is known as a candidate of dark matter. A peculiar feature of the ultralight axion is oscillating pressure in time, which produces oscillation of gravitational potentials. Since the solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-09 Arata Aoki , Jiro Soda

We report the results of a search for dark photon dark matter using a cavity that employs a transmon qubit as a frequency tuner. The tuning mechanism utilizes the energy level shift arising from the mode mixing between the qubit and the…

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

Axions in the micro eV mass range are a plausible cold dark matter candidate and may be detected by their conversion into microwave photons in a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field. The first result from such an axion search…

We propose a new method for detecting dark matter axions using a resonant cavity coupled with a quantum Hall system. When a small sample exhibiting quantum Hall effect is placed inside the cavity and the cavity is tuned to resonance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Aiichi Iwazaki

It is demonstrated that detection of putative particles such as paraphotons and axions constituting the dark sector of the universe can be reduced to detection of extremely weak links or couplings between cavities and modes. This method…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-09 Maxim Goryachev , Ben McAllister , Michael E. Tobar