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Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a compelling avenue for exploring physics beyond the Standard Model. In astrophysical magnetized plasmas an ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma}$ induces energy-dependent oscillations in the photon survival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 Yu Zhou , Jiejia Liu , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

We give a detailed study of axion-photon and photon-axion conversion amplitudes, which enter the analysis of ``light shining through a wall'' experiments. Several different calculational methods are employed and compared, and in all cases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stephen L. Adler , J. Gamboa , F. Mendez , J. Lopez-Sarrion

It is known that magnetic fields exist near black holes and photons can go around black holes due to strong gravity. Utilizing these facts, we can probe hypothetical pseudoscalar particles, so-called axions. In fact, photons can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-12 Kimihiro Nomura , Kaishu Saito , Jiro Soda

If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Miguel Escudero , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn , Diego Blas , Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh

In certain laboratory experiments the production and/or detection of axions is due to the photon-axion transformations in a strong magnetic field. This process is coherent, and the rate of the transformation is proportional to the length…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan , D. Budker

We apply novel, recently developed plasma ray-tracing techniques to model the propagation of radio photons produced by axion dark matter in neutron star magnetospheres and combine this with both archival and new data for the galactic centre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-13 R. A. Battye , J. Darling , J. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

The effects of an external time-dependent magnetic field in the conversion probability of photon-to-axion-like particles are studied. Our findings show that for a certain time regime, the amplitude of the produced axion-like field can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza and , Jorge Gamboa

Axions are a promising dark matter candidate that were motivated to solve the strong CP problem and that may also address the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry. Axion-photon conversion is possible in the presence of the strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jeremy Darling

Exploring the mysterious dark matter is a key quest in modern physics. Currently, detecting axions, a hypothetical particle proposed as a primary component of dark matter, remains a significant challenge due to their weakly interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Qiaoli Yang , Yu Gao , Zhihui Peng

Identifying dark matter candidates that simultaneously generate multiple observable cosmological signatures is a key goal in connecting particle physics with upcoming observations. Axion-like particles coupled to the Standard Model photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Christopher Gerlach , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller

The nature of dark matter is an unsolved cosmological problem and axions are one of the weakly interacting cold dark matter candidates. Axions or ALPs (Axion-like particles) are pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by beyond-standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

We treat prospects for multimessenger astronomy with giant flares (GFs), a rare transient event featured by magnetars that can be as luminous as a hundred of the brightest supernovae ever observed. The beamed photons could correlate with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 Javier De Miguel , Chiko Otani

Collective excitations in condensed matter systems, such as phonons and magnons, have recently been proposed as novel detection channels for light dark matter. We show that excitation of i) optical phonon polaritons in polar materials in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

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 show that, by studying the arrival times of radio pulses from highly-magnetized pulsars, it may be possible to detect light spin-0 bosons (such as axions and axion-like particles) with a much greater sensitivity, over a broad particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Doron Chelouche , Eduardo I. Guendelman

We present a theoretical study of radiative transfer in strongly magnetized electron-ion plasmas, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization due to quantum electrodynamics. This study is directly relevant to thermal radiation from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dong Lai , W. C. G. Ho

Direct photons are a powerful tool to study the hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC, since they are created in the different stages of the collision. Since they do not interact via the strong force, they can travel…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-05-31 Baldo Sahlmueller

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

Orbiting $\gamma$-detectors combined with the magnetic field of the Earth or the Sun can work parasitically as cosmic axion telescopes. The relatively short field lengths allow the axion-to-photon conversion to be coherent for $m_{axion}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Zioutas , D. J. Thompson , E. A. Paschos

The surfaces of neutron stars are likely sources of strongly polarized soft X rays due to the presence of strong magnetic fields. Scattering transport in the surface layers is critical to the determination of the emergent anisotropy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Kun Hu , Matthew G. Baring , Joseph A. Barchas , George Younes