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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

We describe a new axion search method based on measuring the variance in the interference of the axion signal using injected photons with a power detector. The need for a linear amplifier is eliminated by putting a strong signal into the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-08 Zhanibek Omarov , Junu Jeong , Yannis K. Semertzidis

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

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

In the late 1970's, the axion was proposed as a solution to the Strong CP Problem, i.e. the puzzle why the strong interactions conserve parity P and the product CP of charge conjugation and parity in spite of the fact that the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Pierre Sikivie

A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari

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

The hypothetical axion particle (of unknown mass) is a leading candidate for dark matter (DM). Many experiments search for axions with microwave cavities, where an axion may convert into a cavity photon, leading to a feeble excess in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Anthony J. Brady , Christina Gao , Roni Harnik , Zhen Liu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Terrestrial searches for the conversion of dark matter axions or axion-like particles into photons inside magnetic fields are sensitive to the phase space structure of the local Milky Way halo. We simulate signals in a hypothetical future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Anne M. Green

Nearly all astrophysical and cosmological data point convincingly to a large component of cold dark matter in the Universe. The axion particle, first theorized as a solution to the strong charge-parity problem of quantum chromodynamics, has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-09 I. Stern

We report an extensive high-sensitivity search for axion dark matter above 1\,GHz at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP). The cavity resonant search, exploiting the coupling between axions and photons, explored the…

We present a brief overview of the ongoing searches for the axion particle via its coupling to photons. Both the classical QCD axions and more recently proposed Axion-Like-Particles are considered. Astrophysical bounds on the axion-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-27 G. Carosi , A. Friedland , M. Giannotti , M. J. Pivovaroff , J. Ruz , J. K. Vogel

We propose an experimental setup to search for Axion-like particles (ALPs) using two superconducting radio-frequency cavities. In this light-shining-through-wall setup the axion is sourced by two modes with large fields and nonzero $\vec…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Christina Gao , Roni Harnik

We propose a novel technique to search for axions with an optomechanical cavity filled with a material such as superfluid helium. Axion absorption converts a pump laser photon to a photon plus a phonon. The axion absorption rate is enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Clara Murgui , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

In this contribution an entirely different way compared to conventional approaches for axion, hidden photon and dark matter (DM) detection is proposed for discussion. The idea is to use living plants which are known to be very sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-29 Fritz Caspers

We review the current status of axions as dark matter. Motivation, models, constraints and experimental searches are outlined. The axion remains an excellent candidate for the dark matter and future experiments, particularly the Axion Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Leanne D. Duffy , Karl van Bibber

In this manuscript we anticipate axion detection in order to theorize on a novel telecommunications system based on the coherent axion-two-photon vertex Primakoff effect conversion and reversion of microwave photons transmitting a modulated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-12 Javier De Miguel-Hernández

We propose a quantum sensing protocol for coupled qubit-oscillator systems that surpasses the standard quantum limit by exploiting a geometric phase for dark matter searches. Instead of letting the cavity evolve freely under a weak dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-02 Xiaolin Ma , Jie Sheng

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates that couple to photons in external magnetic fields. The parameter space around $m_a \sim 50~\mu$eV remains largely unexplored by haloscope experiments. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-09 Josep Maria Batllori , Michael Frosz , Dieter Horns , Marios Maroudas

The axion is an intriguing dark matter candidate emerging from the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. Current experimental searches for axion dark matter focus on the axion mass range below 40 $\mu$eV. However, if the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Béla Majorovits , Javier Redondo