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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

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

Ground-based radio telescopes are routinely used to search for light dark matter (DM) candidates such as axion-like particles or dark photons. These instruments face however inherent limitations to push the searches to masses below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ruben Zatini , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We explore the possibility of axion-photon conversion as a common origin of two low-frequency anomalies: the isotropic radio excess (ARCADE2) and the deep global 21-cm absorption trough (EDGES). From the axion-photon action in an FLRW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Setabuddin , Md Riajul Haque , Rajesh Karmakar , Supratik Pal

Axions seem ubiquitous in string theories and some of them may be produced non-thermally by heavy scalar decays, contributing to dark radiation. We study various cosmological effects of photons produced from the axionic dark radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

Ultralight axions which couple sufficiently strongly to photons can leave imprints on the sky at diverse frequencies by mixing with cosmic light in the presence of background magnetic fields. We explore such direction dependent grey-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-16 Guido D'Amico , Nemanja Kaloper

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. While helioscopes can always measure the axion coupling to photons, the conversion signal…

Gravitationally bound clumps of dark matter axions in the form of 'miniclusters' or even denser 'axion stars' can generate strong radio signals through axion-photon conversion when encountering highly magnetised neutron star magnetospheres.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Samuel J. Witte , Sebastian Baum , Matthew Lawson , M. C. David Marsh , Alexander J. Millar , Gustavo Salinas

Light boson dark matter such as axion or hidden photon can be resonantly converted into a magnon in a magnetic insulator under the magnetic field, which can be detected experimentally. We provide a quantum mechanical formulation for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-21 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

Axion dark matter (DM) is predicted to convert into radio waves in neutron star magnetospheres. We assess the detectability of this signal using a 5 m radio telescope to be installed at the Fan Mountain Observatory, operating in the UHF, L-…

Axion-photon conversion at dielectric interfaces, immersed in a near-homogeneous magnetic field, is the basis for the dielectric haloscope method to search for axion dark matter. In analogy to transition radiation, this process is possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-07 Ara N. Ioannisian , Narine Kazarian , Alexander J. Millar , Georg G. Raffelt

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

Electromagnetic fields surrounding pulsars may source coherent ultralight axion signals at the known rotational frequencies of the neutron stars, which can be detected by laboratory experiments (e.g., pulsarscopes). As a promising case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Mariia Khelashvili , Mariangela Lisanti , Anirudh Prabhu , Benjamin R. Safdi

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 effect of a magnetized plasma on the resonant photoproduction of axions on the electromagnetic multipole components of the medium, $i \to f+a$, has been considered. It has been shown that the axion resonant emissivity, due to various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-30 N. V. Mikheev , D. A. Rumyantsev , Yu. E. Shkol'nikova

It has recently been observed that solar spicules covering almost of all solar surface have strong magnetic field $B\sim 10^2$G. They are supposed to be plasma jets emitted from chromosphere and they arrive up to $\sim 10^4$km. Their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Aiichi Iwazaki

Axion-photon oscillation refers to the process of mutual conversion between photons and axions when they propagate in a magnetic field. This process depends on the strength of the background magnetic field, and magnetic white dwarfs provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Hao-Chen Tian , Zhao-Yang Wang , Yun-Feng Liang , Zhao-Wei Du

Some of the most stringent constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) arise from considerations of particle emission from astrophysical plasmas. However, many studies assume that particle production occurs in an isotropic plasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Nirmalya Brahma , Katelin Schutz

Axion dark matter (DM) may efficiently convert to photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars (NSs), producing nearly monochromatic radio emission. This process is resonantly triggered when the plasma frequency induced by the underlying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Joshua W. Foster , Samuel J. Witte , Matthew Lawson , Tim Linden , Vishal Gajjar , Christoph Weniger , Benjamin R. Safdi

The idea that photons can convert into axion-like particles (ALPs) $\gamma \to a$ in or around an AGN and reconvert back into photons $a \to \gamma$ in the Milky Way magnetic field has been put forward in 2008 and has recently attracted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Fabrizio Tavecchio , Marco Roncadelli , Giorgio Galanti