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Axions are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter. The preeminent method to search for axion dark matter is known as the axion haloscope, which makes use of the conversion of axions to photons in a large magnetic field. Due to the weak…

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

Ultra-low-mass axions are a viable dark matter candidate and may form a coherently oscillating classical field. Nuclear spins in experiments on Earth might couple to this oscillating axion dark-matter field, when propagating on Earth's…

Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) was proposed. To search for axion-like particles, we aim to detect the rotation and oscillation of optical linear polarization caused by axion-photon coupling with a bow-tie…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuka Oshima , Hiroki Fujimoto , Masaki Ando , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Taihei Watanabe

Direct-detection searches for axions and hidden photons are playing an increasingly prominent role in the search for dark matter. In this work, we derive the properties of optimal electromagnetic searches for these candidates, subject to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-11 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Kent D. Irwin , Peter W. Graham , Jeremy Mardon

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In Phys.Rev.Lett. 123 (2019) no.11, 111301, we have proposed a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity. If the scheme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

We propose a direct axion dark matter (DM) search using superconducting transmon qubits as quantum sensors. With an external magnetic field applied, axion DM generates an oscillating electric field which causes the excitation of the qubit;…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Toshiaki Inada , Takeo Moroi , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Searches for axion and axionlike dark matter based on solid-state spin qubits are fundamentally limited by strong longitudinal dephasing, which rapidly suppresses the sensitivity gains offered by entanglement. Here we show that quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiangjun Tan , Zhanning Wang

Axions, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, emerge now as leading candidates of WISP dark matter. The rich phenomenology associated to the light and stable QCD axion can be described as an effective…

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling open problems in modern physics, motivating experimental searches for new light, weakly coupled particles beyond the Standard Model. Despite extensive efforts employing diverse detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-12 Sharada Sahoo , Jing-han Chen , Mahdi Mirzakhani , Harikrishnan Ramani , Rupak Mahapatra , Surjeet Rajendran

We present the first results of a search for invisible axion dark matter using a multiple-cell cavity haloscope. This cavity concept was proposed to provide a highly efficient approach to high mass regions compared to the conventional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-09 Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Sungjae Bae , Jihngeun Kim , Taehyeon Seong , Jihn E Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

The nature of dark matter remains unknown to date; several candidate particles are being considered in a dynamically changing research landscape. Scalar field dark matter is a prominent option that is being explored with precision…

The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass range $m_{A'}c^2 =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Joel Barir , Itay M. Bloch , Yair Goldszeft , Gal Goldstein , Constantine Feinberg , Or Katz , Tomer Volansky

The $\mu$eV-mass axion is one of the most promising candidates for cold dark matter, and remains to be a well-motivated solution to the CP problem of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) via the Peccei-Quinn mechanism. In this paper, we propose a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-16 Guo-yuan Huang , Shun Zhou

We present the first analysis of Dark Matter axion detection applying neural networks for the improvement of sensitivity. The main sources of thermal noise from a typical read-out chain are simulated, constituted by resonant and amplifier…

We report first results from a large scale search for dark matter axions. The experiment probes axion masses of 1.3-13 micro-eV at a sensitivity which is about 50 times higher than previous pilot experiments. We have already scanned part of…

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

In this note we look at the time evolution of signals in axion dark matter experiments from a quantum perspective. Our aim is not to contribute new results to the general discussion of the quantum/classical connection (which we do not) but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Joerg Jaeckel , Valentina Montoya , Cedric Quint