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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

The dark photon is a well motivated candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. A primary tool in this search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-01 Yuan-Hann Chang , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Hien Thi Doan , Nick Houston , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Lina Wu , Xin Zhang

The effective interaction of a pseudoscalar particle with photon in plasma with the presence of a constant uniform magnetic field is investigated. It is shown that under some physical conditions the effective coupling between pseudoscalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. V. Mikheev , E. N. Narynskaya

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

The photon zero-mass hypothesis has been investigated for a long time using the frequency-dependent time delays of radio emissions from astrophysical sources. However, the search for a rest mass of the photon has been hindered by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Neutron stars provide ideal astrophysical laboratories for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. If axions exist, photons can develop linear polarization during photon-axion conversion in the magnetic field of a neutron star. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 Ningqiang Song , Liangliang Su , Lei Wu

Recent work has suggested that an additional $\lesssim 6.9 \rm{\, eV}$ per baryon of heating in the intergalactic medium is needed to reconcile hydrodynamical simulations with Lyman-$\alpha$ forest absorption line widths at redshift…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 James S. Bolton , Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Matteo Viel

We evaluate the three-photon vertex functions at order $B$ and $B^{2}$ in a weak constant magnetic field at finite temperature and density with on shell external lines. Their application to the study of the photon splitting process leads to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Martinez Resco , M. A. Valle Basagoiti

The aim of this brief review is to present a case study of how astrophysics data can be used to get bounds on Lorentz-violating parameters. For this purpose, a particularly simple Lorentz-violating modification of the Maxwell theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-10-14 F. R. Klinkhamer

The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass range $m_{A'}c^2 =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Joel Barir , Itay M. Bloch , Yair Goldszeft , Gal Goldstein , Constantine Feinberg , Or Katz , Tomer Volansky

We investigate constraints on the dark photon arising from an analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data. We perform extractions of parton distribution functions (PDFs) with and without a dark photon being present and allow the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 A. W. Thomas , X. G. Wang , A. G. Williams

In this paper, the existence of a massive dark photon, associated with a new gauge group is considered. The dark photon can be kinetically mixed with the photon. To study some applications, the thermo field dynamics formalism is used.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-21 V. G. Prata , A. F. Santos , Faqir C. Khanna

We investigate an extension of the $\Lambda$CDM model where the dark matter (DM) is coupled to photons, inducing a nonconservation of the numbers of particles for both species, where the DM particles are allowed to dilute throughout the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh Kumar Yadav

Dark photons have been considered potential candidates for dark matter. The dark photon dark matter (DPDM) has a mass and interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing with a coupling constant of $\chi$. Thus, DPDMs are converted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-29 S. Adachi , F. Fujinaka , S. Honda , Y. Muto , H. Nakata , Y. Sueno , T. Sumida , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , H. Takeuchi

The ultralight dark photon is a well-motivated, hypothetical dark matter candidate. In a dilute plasma, they can resonantly convert into photons, and heat up the intergalactic medium between galaxies. In this work, we explore the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Andrea Trost , James S. Bolton , Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Stefano Cristiani , Matteo Viel

From special relativity, photon annihilation process \HepProcess{{\Pgg}{\Pgg}{\to}{\Pep}{\Pem}} prevents cosmic photons with energies above a threshold to propagate a long distance in cosmic space due to their annihilation with low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Hao Li , Bo-Qiang Ma

The effective interaction of a neutrino with a photon in magnetized plasma is obtained from a strong field expansion in the electroweak standard model. The interaction is expressed by a Chern-Simons form of the neutrino current and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

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

Recently, there have been proposals that the classic Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian together with duality could be employed to set limits on magnetic monopoles having masses less than 1 TeV. The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has used such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonard Gamberg , George R. Kalbfleisch , Kimball A. Milton

We show that Earth's natural environment can serve as a powerful probe for ultralight axion dark matter. In the presence of global geomagnetic fields, the axions with masses ranging from $10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}-10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ induce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Atsushi Taruya , Atsushi Nishizawa , Yoshiaki Himemoto