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We present new results of a room temperature resonant AC haloscope, which searches for axions via photon upconversion. Traditional haloscopes require a strong applied DC magnetic background field surrounding the haloscope cavity resonator,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-06-08 Catriona A. Thomson , Maxim Goryachev , Ben T. McAllister , Eugene N. Ivanov , Paul Altin , Michael E. Tobar

An x-ray detector for a solar axion search was developed. The detector is operated at 60K in a cryostat of a superconducting magnet. Special care was paid to microphonic noise immunity and mechanical structure against thermal contraction.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Namba , Y. Inoue , S. Moriyama , M. Minowa

Short-baseline reactor neutrino experiments using large organic liquid scintillator detectors provide an experimentally rich environment for precise neutrino physics. Neutrino detection is done through inverse beta decay and relies on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 D. Aristizabal Sierra , L. Duque , O. Miranda , H. Nunokawa

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

Quiescent hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray emission from neutron stars constitute a promising frontier to explore axion-like-particles (ALPs). ALP production in the core peaks at energies of a few keV to a few hundreds of keV; subsequently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-19 Jean-François Fortin , Huai-Ke Guo , Steven P. Harris , Elijah Sheridan , Kuver Sinha

We propose the use of FASER as a light-shining-through-walls experiment to search for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs). LHC collisions generate a high intensity and high energy photon flux in the forward direction which can oscillate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-16 Felix Kling , Pablo Quílez

Axions are a promising cold dark matter candidate. Haloscopes, which use the conversion of axions to photons in the presence of a magnetic field to detect axions, are the basis of microwave cavity searches such as the Axion Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. Crisosto , G. Rybka , P. Sikivie , N. S. Sullivan , D. B. Tanner , J. Yang

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) with a sub-keV range mass are searched by using the light-shining-through-a-wall technique. A novel system is developed in which injected X rays are converted and reconverted by the Laue-case conversion within a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Yamaji , K. Tamasaku , T. Namba , T. Yamazaki , Y. Seino

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…

The SUPerconduction AXion search experiment (Supax) is a haloscope designed to probe axion-like particles (ALPs) as candidates for dark matter and solutions to the strong CP problem. ALPs are predicted to couple to photons, allowing their…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-13 Dhruv Chouhan , Tim Schneemann , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott

This paper presents the first search for dark matter axions with mass in the ranges 76.56 to 76.82 $\mu$eV and 79.31 to 79.53 $\mu$eV using a prototype setup for the MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX). The experimental…

The potential to detect axion dark matter through astrophysical processes has shown high promise in recent years. We therefore expand on previous work studying the axion-to-photon conversion efficacy of neutron stars and the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Felix Weber , Vikram Ravi

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet, a gas container to hold dispersion-matching gas, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , R. Ohta , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto , M. Minowa

We present a method to determine the sensitivity of a closed dielectric haloscope to axion dark matter. Dielectric haloscopes aim to probe the theoretically well-motivated axion mass range of ~26 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV to ~500 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV by…

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions and dark photons. The plasma haloscope is a novel method for…

We report details on the axion dark matter search experiment that uses the innovative technologies of a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) magnet and a Josephson Parametric Converter (JPC). An 18 T HTS solenoid magnet is developed for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-12-14 Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Byeongsu Yang , Youngjae Lee , DongLak Kim , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , Jonghee Yoo

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

The Tokyo Axion Helioscope experiment aims to detect axions which are produced in the solar core. The helioscope uses a strong magnetic field in order to convert axions into X-ray photons and has a mounting to follow the sun very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-24 R. Ohta , Y. Akimoto , Y. Inoue , M. Minowa , T. Mizumoto , S. Moriyama , T. Namba , Y. Takasu , A. Yamamoto

The axion is a hypothetical particle considered to be the most economical solution to the strong CP problem. It can also be formulated as a compelling component of dark matter. The haloscope, a leading axion detection scheme, relies on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-17 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Michael E. Tobar

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo