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In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find that magnetized analogs of multilayer dielectric haloscopes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Asher Berlin , Alexander J. Millar , Tanner Trickle , Kevin Zhou

The oscillating light axion field is known as wave dark matter. We propose an LC-resonance enhanced detection of the narrow band electric signals induced by the axion dark matter using a solenoid magnet facility. We provide full 3D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-02 Junxi Duan , Yu Gao , Chang-Yin Ji , Sichun Sun , Yugui Yao , Yun-Long Zhang

Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

The MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX) is a future experiment aiming to detect dark matter axions from the galactic halo by resonant conversion to photons in a strong magnetic field. It uses a novel concept based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 Fabrice Hubaut

The axion is a well-motivated cold dark matter (CDM) candidate first postulated to explain the absence of $CP$ violation in the strong interactions. CDM axions may be detected via their resonant conversion into photons in a "haloscope"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-04 Benjamin M. Brubaker

In the near future BabyIAXO will be the most powerful axion helioscope, relying on a custom-made magnet of two bores of 70 cm diameter and 10 m long, with a total available magnetic volume of more than 7 m$^3$. In this document, we propose…

Dark matter is a focused issue in galactic evolution and cosmology. Axion is a viable particle candidate for dark matter. Its interaction with photon is an effective way to detect it, e.g., pseudoscalar-photon interaction will generate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Sheng-Jui Chen , Sheau-shi Pan

Searches for the axion and axionlike particles may hold the key to unlocking some of the deepest puzzles about our universe, such as dark matter and dark energy. Here we use the recently demonstrated spin-based amplifier to constrain such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-10 Yuanhong Wang , Haowen Su , Min Jiang , Ying Huan , Yushu Qin , Chang Guo , Zehao Wang , Dongdong Hu , Wei Ji , Pavel Fadeev , Xinhua Peng , Dmitry Budker

We present a new exclusion bound of axion-like particle dark matter with axion-photon couplings above $\mathrm{10^{-13}}$ $\mathrm{GeV^{-1}}$ over the frequency range 4796.7--4799.5 MHz, corresponding to a narrow range of axion masses…

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment searches for solar axions by the "helioscope" method. First results imply an upper limit on the axion-photon coupling of g_a-gamma < 1.16 x 10^-10 GeV^-1 (95% CL) for m_a < 0.02 eV, in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg G. Raffelt

Axion dark matter may couple to fermion spins through an effective oscillating magnetic field, the ``axion wind". Existing approaches for detecting axion wind via axion-electron coupling $g_{ae}$ face sensitivity limitations due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Christina Gao , Yuxuan He , Yubo Mo , Peiran Yin

The axion offers a well-motivated solution to two fundamental questions in modern physics: the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Cavity haloscopes, exploiting resonant enhancement of photon signals, provide the most sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-04 SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong , Yannis K. Semertzidis

We describe in detail the analysis procedure used to derive the first limits from the Haloscope at Yale Sensitive to Axion CDM (HAYSTAC), a microwave cavity search for cold dark matter (CDM) axions with masses above $20\ \mu\text{eV}$. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-25 B. M. Brubaker , L. Zhong , S. K. Lamoreaux , K. W. Lehnert , K. A. van Bibber

The axion haloscope is the currently most sensitive method to probe the vanishingly small coupling of this prominent Dark Matter candidate to photons. To scan a sizeable axion Dark Matter parameter space, the cavities that make up the…

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

We investigate a search for the oscillating current induced by axion dark matter in an external magnetic field using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). This experiment is based upon the LC circuit axion detection concept of Sikivie,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-24 P. -H. Chu , L. D. Duffy , Y. J. Kim , I. M. Savukov

The cavity haloscope is among the most widely adopted experimental platforms designed to detect dark matter axions with its principle relying on the conversion of axions into microwave photons in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The…

We describe the results of a haloscope axion search performed with an 11.7 T dipole magnet at CERN. The search used a custom-made radio-frequency cavity coated with high-temperature superconducting tape. A set of 27 h of data at a resonant…

We propose to use the nuclear spin excitation in the ferromagnetic A1 phase of the superfluid $^3$He for the axion dark matter detection. This approach is striking in that it is sensitive to the axion-nucleon coupling, one of the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-04 So Chigusa , Dan Kondo , Hitoshi Murayama , Risshin Okabe , Hiroyuki Sudo