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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

We present systematic case studies to investigate the sensitivity of axion searches by liquid xenon detectors, using the axio-electric effect (analogue of the photoelectric effect) on xenon atoms. Liquid xenon is widely considered to be one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Arisaka , P. Beltrame , C. Ghag , J. Kaidi , K. Lung , A. Lyashenko , R. D. Peccei , P. Smith , K. Ye

In the presence of a background magnetic field, axion dark matter induces an electric field and can thus excite phonon-polaritons in suitable materials. We revisit the calculation of the axion-photon conversion power output from such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-18 David J. E. Marsh , Jamie I. McDonald , Alexander J. Millar , Jan Schütte-Engel

Light boson dark matter such as axion or hidden photon can be resonantly converted into a magnon in a magnetic insulator under the magnetic field, which can be detected experimentally. We provide a quantum mechanical formulation for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-21 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

We study the underlying theory of dielectric haloscopes, a new way to detect dark matter axions. When an interface between different dielectric media is inside a magnetic field, the oscillating axion field acts as a source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander J. Millar , Georg G. Raffelt , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

The potential to detect axion dark matter through astrophysical processes has shown high promise in recent years. We therefore expand on previous work studying the axion-to-photon conversion efficacy of neutron stars and the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Felix Weber , Vikram Ravi

The mass of axion dark matter is only weakly bounded by cosmological observations, necessitating a variety of detection techniques over several orders of magnitude of mass ranges. Axions haloscopes based on resonant cavities have become the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-29 Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Jeremy Bourhill , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

We propose a magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) search for axion dark matter around 1 GHz. The experiment leverages the axion's derivative coupling to electrons, which induces an effective A.C. magnetic field on a sample of electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Elham Kashi , Muhammad Hani Zaheer , Ryan Petery , Swati Singh

We investigate a search for the oscillating current induced by axion dark matter in an external magnetic field using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). This experiment is based upon the LC circuit axion detection concept of Sikivie,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-24 P. -H. Chu , L. D. Duffy , Y. J. Kim , I. M. Savukov

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

Long-standing efforts to detect axions are driven by two compelling prospects, naturally accounting for the absence of charge-conjugation and parity symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics, and for the elusive dark matter at ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Georg Engelhardt , Amit Bhoonah , W. Vincent Liu

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

Axions are among the most sought-after candidates for dark matter. In the ultralight regime, they could help alleviate puzzles in small scale cosmology. Searches for a halo of axion dark matter rely on the electromagnetic response to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Joshua Berger , Amit Bhoonah

We present a detection scheme to search for QCD axion dark matter, that is based on a direct interaction between axions and electrons explicitly predicted by DFSZ axion models. The local axion dark matter field shall drive transitions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 C. Braggio , G. Carugno , F. Chiossi , A. Di Lieto , M. Guarise , P. Maddaloni , A. Ortolan , G. Ruoso , L. Santamaria , J. Tasseva , M. Tonelli

Cosmological mechanisms that yield ultralight dark matter are insensitive to the intrinsic parity of a bosonic dark matter candidate, but that same quantity plays a crucial role in a direct detection experiment. The modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 Christopher M. Donohue , Susan Gardner , Wolfgang Korsch

We propose a new axion dark matter detection strategy that employs optical readout of laser-beam ellipticity modulations caused by axion-induced electric fields in a microwave cavity, using electro-optic (EO) crystals, enhanced by…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-19 Hooman Davoudiasl , Yannis K. Semertzidis

For low-mass (frequency $\ll$ GHz) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Robert Lasenby

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In this Letter, a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity is proposed. If the scheme is applied to the Fabry-P\'erot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-01 Koji Nagano , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

We have proposed a method for the detection of dark matter axion. It uses superconductor under strong magnetic field. As is well known, the dark matter axion induces oscillating electric field under magnetic field. The electric field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Aiichi Iwazaki

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou