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We show that dark matter axions or axion-like particles (ALP) induce spontaneously alternating electric currents in conductors along the external magnetic fields due to the (medium) axial anomaly, realizing the chiral magnetic effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-05 Deog Ki Hong , Sang Hui Im , Kwang Sik Jeong , Dong-han Yeom

Dark matter may be composed of self-interacting ultralight quantum fields that form macroscopic objects. An example of which includes Q-balls, compact non-topological solitons predicted by a range of theories that are viable dark matter…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 B. M. Roberts , A. Derevianko

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-05-28 N. J. Ayres

Axions are considered a key component of dark matter, characterized by very weak couplings to fermions and Chern-Simons couplings to gauge fields. We propose a novel detection mechanism based on symmetry-breaking magnetoelectric materials…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Runyu Lei , Chen-Hui Xie , Jiayi Liu , Zhong Liu , Xin Liu , Yu Gao , Sichun Sun , Jinxing Zhang

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

We revisit birefringence effects associated with the evolution of the polarization of light as it propagates through axion dark matter or the background of a passing gravitational wave (GW). We demonstrate that this can be described by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-16 Camilo García-Cely , Luca Marsili , Andreas Ringwald , Aaron D. Spector

With their high beam energy and intensity, existing and near-future proton beam dumps provide an excellent opportunity to search for new very weakly coupled particles in the MeV to GeV mass range. One particularly interesting example is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 Babette Döbrich , Joerg Jaeckel , Felix Kahlhoefer , Andreas Ringwald , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

Axion-like-particles are a well-motivated extension of the Standard Model that can mediate interactions between the dark matter and ordinary matter. Here we consider an axion portal between the two sectors, where the axion couples to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Patrick J. Fitzpatrick , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Rotem Ovadia , Yotam Soreq

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

Adding an axion-like particle (ALP) to the Standard Model, with a field velocity in the early universe, simultaneously explains the observed baryon and dark matter densities. This requires one or more couplings between the ALP and photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Raymond T. Co , Lawrence J. Hall , Keisuke Harigaya

This thesis explores experimental and theoretical approaches to dark matter detection, from gas-based detectors to quantum sensors, tackling the challenge of identifying dark matter, which makes up 27% of the Universe's energy. It reviews…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 David Díez-Ibáñez

The next generation of axion direct detection experiments may rule out or confirm axions as the dominant source of dark matter. We develop a general likelihood-based framework for studying the time-series data at such experiments, with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Joshua W. Foster , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising dark matter candidates. They are typically described by a classical field, motivated by large phase space occupation numbers. Here we show that such a description is accompanied by a quantum effect:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 Michael Kopp , Vasileios Fragkos , Igor Pikovski

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

Axions are considered as a candidate of dark matter. The axions form coherent clouds which delay and amplify gravitational waves (GWs) at a resonant frequency. That is, the coherent axion clouds produce secondary GWs following a primary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Tsutsui , Atsushi Nishizawa

Various satellite-borne missions are being planned whose goal is to measure the polarization of a large number of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We show that the polarization pattern predicted by current models of GRB emission can be drastically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Nicola Bassan , Alessandro Mirizzi , Marco Roncadelli

New pseudoscalars, axion-like particles (ALPs), provide the exciting target for present and future collider-based experiments. Search for ALPs is performed in this paper via the $W^{+}W^{-}$ fusion process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Han Wang , Yue-Qi Wang

The search for relativistic scattering signals of cosmogenic light dark matter at terrestrial detectors has received increasing attention as an alternative approach to probe dark-sector physics. Large-volume neutrino experiments are well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-02 Albert De Roeck , Doojin Kim , Zahra Gh. Moghaddam , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin , Leigh H. Whitehead

The interpretation of data from indirect detection experiments searching for dark matter annihilations requires computationally expensive simulations of cosmic-ray propagation. In this work we present a new method based on Recurrent Neural…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Felix Kahlhoefer , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel