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We report the results of an axion dark matter search over an axion mass range of 9.39-9.51 ${\mu}$eV. A flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) was added to the cryogenic receiver chain. A system noise temperature of as low as 200…

Hidden photons and axion-like particles are candidates for cold dark matter if they were produced non-thermally in the early universe. We conducted a search for both of these bosons using 800 live-days of data from the XMASS detector with…

Ultralight dark matter candidates, such as axions and dark photons, are leading dark matter candidates. They may couple feebly to photons, sourcing oscillating electromagnetic signals in the Earth's conducting cavity formed between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Xiaofei Huang , Jing Shu , Hongliang Tian , Wenyu Wang , Kai Wei , Lei Wu , Mingming Xia , Jin Min Yang , Qiang Yuan , Yang Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bin Zhu

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-28 N. J. Ayres

We suggest a novel experimental method to search for axion dark matter with an optical ring cavity. Our cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two circular-polarizations of the laser beam. Its technical design…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-30 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

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

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of 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

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

Two of the most pressing questions in physics are the microscopic nature of the dark matter that comprises 84% of the mass in the universe and the absence of a neutron electric dipole moment. These questions would be resolved by the…

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

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…

Dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics, with axions, a hypothetical particle proposed to resolve the strong CP problem, standing as a compelling candidate. Among various experimental strategies, cavity…

We propose a novel broadband strategy to search for axions by leveraging observables controlled by the axion field squared. We present a practical implementation of this concept for probing the axion--photon coupling. This is done by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Angelo Esposito , Kin Chung Fong , Lam Hui

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

Axion dark matter coupled via QCD induces a non-zero differential acceleration between test masses of different composition. Tests of the equivalence principle, like the recent MICROSCOPE space mission, are sensitive to such a signal. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Jordan Gué , Peter Wolf , Aurélien Hees

The axion is a highly motivated elementary particle which could address two fundamental questions in physics - the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Experimental searches for this hypothetical particle have started to reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Yannis K. Semertzidis , SungWoo Youn

Light axion-like particles occur in many theories of beyond-Standard-Model physics, and may make up some or all of the universe's dark matter. One of the ways they can couple to the Standard Model is through the electromagnetic $F_{\mu\nu}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Robert Lasenby

We report new experimental results on the search for dark photons based on a near-quantum-limited haloscope equipped with a superconducting cavity. The loaded quality factor of the superconducting cavity is $6\times10^{5}$, so that the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-22 Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Yu Tong , Yang Liu , Youpeng Zhong , Yi-Fu Cai , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du