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We consider axions coupled to nucleons and photons only through the nucleon electric-dipole moment (EDM) portal. This coupling is a model-independent feature of QCD axions, which solve the strong CP problem, and might arise as well in more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Giuseppe Lucente , Leonardo Mastrototaro , Pierluca Carenza , Luca Di Luzio , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Mirizzi

We consider a possibility to observe the axion emission from a nearby supernova (SN) in the future, which can be known in advance by the pre-SN alert system, by collider detectors like the LHC detectors (i.e., the ATLAS and the CMS) and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Shoji Asai , Yoshiki Kanazawa , Takeo Moroi , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Axion stars could form binaries with neutron stars. Given the extremely strong external magnetic field exhibited by individual neutron stars, there can be a substantial conversion of axions to photons in these binaries. The photon emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Chris Kouvaris , Tao Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu

We discuss axion dark matter detection via two mechanisms: spontaneous decays and resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. For decays, we show that the brightness temperature signal, rather than flux, is a less ambiguous measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Richard A. Battye , Bjoern Garbrecht , Jamie I. McDonald , Francesco Pace , Sankarshana Srinivasan

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are likely sources of hadronic particle acceleration within our galaxy, contributing to the galactic cosmic ray flux. Next-generation instruments, such as the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Nick Scharrer , Samuel T. Spencer , Vikas Joshi , Alison M. W. Mitchell

Axions coupled to nucleons might be copiously emitted from core-collapse supernovae (SNe). If the axion-nucleon coupling is strong enough, axions would be emitted from the SN as a burst and, reaching Earth, may excite the oxygen nuclei in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-04 Pierluca Carenza , Giampaolo Co' , Maurizio Giannotti , Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Alessandro Mirizzi , Thomas Rauscher

It was recently shown that a powerful beam of radio/microwave radiation sent out to space can produce detectable back-scattering via the stimulated decay of ambient axion dark matter. This echo is a faint and narrow signal centered at an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-24 Ariel Arza , Elisa Todarello

If a supernova explosion occurs within a few hundred parsecs from the Earth, a huge number of axions, in addition to neutrinos, may arrive at the Earth. In this paper, we discuss in detail the prospect of detecting those supernova axions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Shao-Feng Ge , Koichi Hamaguchi , Koichi Ichimura , Koji Ishidoshiro , Yoshiki Kanazawa , Yasuhiro Kishimoto , Natsumi Nagata , Jiaming Zheng

Strong intergalactic shocks are a natural consequence of structure formation in the universe. These shocks are expected to deposit large fractions of their energy in relativistic electrons (xi_e~0.05 of the thermal energy according to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

New generational very-high-energy telescope arrays have been detecting more than 120 TeV {\gamma}-ray sources. Multi-wavelength observations on these Gamma-ray sources have proven to be robust in shedding light on their nature. The coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-04 Wenwu Tian , Jianli Zhang

A new method for searching for Dark Matter axions is proposed. It is shown that a two-contact SQUID can detect oscillating magnetic perturbations induced by the axions in a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field. A resonant signal is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Vladimir Popov

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Axion-like particles, which we call axions, can compose the missing dark matter and may form substructures such as miniclusters and axion stars. We obtain the mass distributions of axion stars derived from their host miniclusters in our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-23 Dennis Maseizik , Sagnik Mondal , Hyeonseok Seong , Günter Sigl

It has been suggested that radio telescopes may be sensitive to axion dark matter that resonantly converts to radio photons in the magnetospheres surrounding neutron stars (NSs). In this work, we closely examine this possibility by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun , Alexander Y. Chen

Radio emission is insensitive to dust obscuration, and the breadth of the radio luminosity function ensures that sources are detected over a wide range of redshifts at all radio flux densities. As a result, radio continuum observations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C A Jackson

We compute the fluxes of radio photons from conversion of axion-like particle dark matter in cosmic magnetic fields. We find that for axion-like particle masses around $10^{-6}\,$eV and effective coupling constants to photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Guenter Sigl

X-ray synchrotron emission tells us of the highest energy reached by accelerated electrons. In a few supernova remnants (SN 1006, G347.3-0.5) this is the dominant form of X-ray radiation, but in most it is superposed to the dominant thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean Ballet

We study the conditions for the adiabatic resonant conversion of the cold dark matter (CDM) axions into photons in existence of the astrophysically sourced strong magnetic fields such as those in the neutron star magnetosphere. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Fa Peng Huang , Kenji Kadota , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Hiroyuki Tashiro

The explosion of a supernova releases almost instantaneously about 10^51 ergs of mechanic energy, changing irreversibly the physical and chemical properties of large regions in the galaxies. The stellar ejecta, the nebula resulting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-29 Gloria Dubner , Elsa Giacani