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With continuously increasing intensities, modern laser systems can become a valuable tool for the search for axions and axion-like particles. As conventional setups of axion searches cannot easily accommodate the usage of a high-intensity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Babette Döbrich , Holger Gies

This Letter reports results from a haloscope search for dark matter axions with masses between 2.66 and 2.81 $\mu$eV. The search excludes the range of axion-photon couplings predicted by plausible models of the invisible axion. This…

We propose a laser-plasma wakefield interaction based scheme for in situ axion generation and detection through the Primakoff process. Strong electromagnetic fields ($\gtrsim 10^{11}$\,V/m) in the wakefield can enhance axion production…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiangyan An , Min Chen , Jianglai Liu , Zhan Bai , Liangliang Ji , Zhengming Sheng , Jie Zhang

Resonance states of axion-like particles were searched for via four-wave mixing by focusing two-color pulsed lasers into a quasi-vacuum. A quasi-parallel collision system that allows probing of the sub-eV mass range was realized by focusing…

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

The axion is a hypothetical particle associated with a possible solution to the strong CP problem and is a leading candidate for dark matter. In this paper we investigate the emission of axions by accelerated electrons. We find the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Georgios Vacalis , Atsushi Higuchi , Robert Bingham , Gianluca Gregori

We show that ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC can be used to search for axion-like particles with mass below 100 GeV. The $Z^4$ enhanced photon-photon luminosity from the ions provides a large exclusive production rate, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-05 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Hou Keong Lou , Tom Melia

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

We consider birefringent (i.e., polarization changing) scattering of x-ray photons at the superposition of two optical laser beams of ultra-high intensity and study the resonant contributions of axions or axion-like particles, which could…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Stefan Evans , Ralf Schützhold

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can decay into two photons with a rest-frame frequency given by half of the ALP mass. This implies that ultra-violet searches can be used to investigate ALPs in the multi-eV mass range. We use archival data from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis

Bounds are derived on the axion-like particle (ALP) to two-photon coupling in the mass range $2.65-5.27$ eV. The bounds are obtained by searching for the signal from ALP decay in the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Elisa Todarello

We propose an experimental scheme to search for galactic halo axions with mass $m_a \sim 10^{-3}$eV, which is above the range accessible with cavity techniques. The detector consists of a large number of parallel superconducting wires…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Pierre Sikivie , D. B. Tanner , Yun Wang

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 OSQAR photon regeneration experiment searches for pseudoscalar and scalar axion-like particles by the method of "Light Shining Through a Wall", based on the assumption that these weakly interacting sub-eV particles couple to two photons…

A dark photon is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and can be a dark matter candidate. Dark photons kinetically mix with ordinary photons. The mass range from $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-3}$ eV of such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-16 Akira Miyazaki , Tor Lofnes , Fritz Caspers , Paolo Spagnolo , John Jelonnek , Tobias Ruess , Johannes L. Steinmann , Manfred Thumm

We propose a novel experiment to search for axion dark matter which differentiates the phase velocities of the left and right-handed polarized photons. Our optical cavity measures the difference of the resonant frequencies between two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

Sub-eV axion-like particles (ALPs) have been searched for by focusing two-color near-infrared pulse lasers into a vacuum along a common optical axis. Within the focused quasi-parallel collision system created by combining a creation field…

We conduct the first ``light-shining-through-wall" (LSW) search for dark photons using two state-of-the-art high quality-factor superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities and report the results of its pathfinder run. Our new…

"Light Shining Through the Wall" experiments can probe the existence of "axion like particles" through their weak coupling to photons. We have adapted such an experiment to the microwave regime and constructed the table top apparatus. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-03 M. Betz , F. Caspers , M. Gasior

We present prospects of two experiments using the Tokyo Axion Helioscope. One is a search for solar axions. In the past measurements, axion mass from 0 to 0.27 eV and from 0.84 to 1.00 eV have been scanned and no positive evidence was seen.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-04 R. Ohta , M. Minowa , Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto