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The ANITA experiment has recently observed two anomalous events emerging from well below the horizon. Even though they are consistent with tau cascades, a high energy Standard Model or Beyond the Standard Model explanation is challenging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Ivan Esteban , Jacobo Lopez-Pavon , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Jordi Salvado

The ANITA experiment, which is designed to detect ultra-high energy neutrinos, has reported the observation of two anomalous events, directed at angles of $27^{\circ}$ and $35^{\circ}$ with respect to the horizontal. At these angles, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Dan Hooper , Shalma Wegsman , Cosmin Deaconu , Abigail Vieregg

The ANITA collaboration has observed two ultra-high-energy upgoing air shower events that cannot originate from Standard Model neutrinos that have traversed the Earth. Several beyond-the-standard-model physics scenarios have been proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 James M. Cline , Christian Gross , Wei Xue

Recently the EDGES experiment reported an enhanced 21cm absorption signal in the radio wave observation, which may be interpreted as either anomalous cooling of baryons or heating of cosmic microwave background photons. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama , Yong Tang

It is known that a coherently oscillating axion field is a candidate of the dark matter. In the presence of the oscillating axion, the photon can be resonantly produced through the parametric amplification. In the universe, there also exist…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 Emi Masaki , Arata Aoki , Jiro Soda

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) detector has observed several radio pulses coming from the surface of the ice cap at the South Pole. These pulses were attributed to upward-going atmospheric particle showers instead of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 Juan Ammerman-Yebra , Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Enrique Zas

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

When axion cold dark matter interacts with a static magnetic field, it can be converted to photons with energy near the axion's mass. Classical analysis shows that incorporating a resonant cavity significantly enhances this conversion rate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ruifeng Zheng , Puxian Wei , Qiaoli Yang

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomagnetic field of the Earth. This signal is similar in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Ariel Arza , Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Saarik Kalia

The ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) collaboration has observed two EeV-energy, upward going events originating from below the horizon. As no standard model (SM) particles, propagating through the earth at such energy and exit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta , Ujjal Kumar Dey , Gaurav Tomar

The Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (\textsc{ANITA}) collaboration [1-3] has reported two anomalous events with noninverted polarity. These events are hard to explain in terms of conventional cosmic rays (CRs). We explore a new possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-27 Xunyu Liang , Ariel Zhitnitsky

The ANITA experiment has observed two air shower events with energy ~ 500 PeV emerging from the Earth with exit angles of ~ 30 degrees. We explain ANITA events as arising from neutrino-induced supersymmetric sphaleron transitions. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis

The ANITA balloon experiment was designed to detect radio signals initiated by neutrinos and cosmic ray air showers. These signals are typically discriminated by the polarization and phase inversions of the radio signal. The reflected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-22 Ian M. Shoemaker , Alexander Kusenko , Peter Kuipers Munneke , Andrew Romero-Wolf , Dustin M. Schroeder , Martin J. Siegert

We propose a new physics scenario in which the decay of a very heavy dark-matter candidate which does not interact with the neutrino sector could explain the two anomalous events recently reported by ANITA. The model is composed of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-27 Lucien Heurtier , Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

In particle physics, axions and axion-like particles are ubiquitous. Remarkably, ultra-light axions could constitute dark matter or dark energy. Therefore, it is important to detect axions experimentally. In the presence of a magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Taiki Ikeda , Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

An axion rotating in field space can produce dark photons in the early universe via tachyonic instability. This explosive particle production creates a background of stochastic gravitational waves that may be visible at pulsar timing arrays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Raymond T. Co , Keisuke Harigaya , Aaron Pierce

Axion dark matter can resonantly convert to photons in the magnetosphere of neutron stars, possibly giving rise to radio signals observable on Earth. This method for the indirect detection of axion dark matter has recently received…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-11 Alexander J. Millar , Sebastian Baum , Matthew Lawson , M. C. David Marsh

Axions are hypothetical particles that could address both the strong charge-parity problem in quantum chromodynamics and the enigmatic nature of dark matter. However, if axions exist, their mass remains unknown, and they are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Evangelos Almpanis

In interstellar media characterized by a nonrelativistic plasma of electrons and heavy ions, we study the effect of axion dark matter coupled to photons on the dynamics of an electric field. In particular, we assume the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Makoto Amakawa , Tomohiro Fujita , Shinji Tsujikawa

The ANITA experiment has registered two anomalous events that can be interpreted as $\nu_\tau$ or $\bar{\nu}_\tau$ with a very high energy of $\mathcal{O}(0.6)$~EeV emerging from deep inside the Earth. At such high energies, the Earth is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-10 Arman Esmaili , Yasaman Farzan
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