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Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh , Andrew J. Powell

We have searched for axions which could be produced in the solar core by exploiting their conversion to X rays in a strong laboratory magnetic field. The signature of the solar axion is an increase in the rate of the X rays detected in a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Shigetaka Moriyama , Makoto Minowa , Toshio Namba , Yoshizumi Inoue , Yuko Takasu , Akira Yamamoto

Axions can be copiously produced in localized regions of neutron star magnetospheres where the ambient plasma is unable to efficiently screen the induced electric field. As these axions stream away from the neutron star they can resonantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dion Noordhuis , Anirudh Prabhu , Samuel J. Witte , Alexander Y. Chen , Fábio Cruz , Christoph Weniger

Non-virialized dark-matter axions may be present in the Milky Way halo in the form of low-velocity-dispersion flows. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment performed a search for the conversion of these axions into microwave photons using a…

We consider the early binary neutron star inspiral phase as a scenario to probe environmental axion--photon resonant conversion. For this we approximately model the merger site electromagnetic fields as the superposition of two rotating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 D. Suárez-Fontanella , M. Ángeles Pérez-García , C. Albertus

Gravitationally bound clumps of dark matter axions in the form of 'miniclusters' or even denser 'axion stars' can generate strong radio signals through axion-photon conversion when encountering highly magnetised neutron star magnetospheres.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Samuel J. Witte , Sebastian Baum , Matthew Lawson , M. C. David Marsh , Alexander J. Millar , Gustavo Salinas

Resonant axion-plasmon conversion in the magnetospheres of magnetars may substantially impact the landscape of dark-matter axion detection. This work explores how resonant axion-plasmon conversion, through a mechanism that is analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 H. Terças , J. T. Mendonça , R. Bingham

We investigate the form of the radiation emitted by an axion star-neutron star binary using a $f(r)=\text{sech(r/R)}$ profile for the axion star. Our analysis takes into account the co-rotating plasma of the neutron star. We find that that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-16 A. Kyriazis

Light axions ($m_a \lesssim 10^{-10}$ eV) can form dense clouds around rapidly rotating astrophysical black holes via a mechanism known as rotational superradiance. The coupling between axions and photons induces a parametric resonance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Diego Blas , Samuel J. Witte

We explore the possibility of axion-photon conversion as a common origin of two low-frequency anomalies: the isotropic radio excess (ARCADE2) and the deep global 21-cm absorption trough (EDGES). From the axion-photon action in an FLRW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-12 Setabuddin , Md Riajul Haque , Rajesh Karmakar , Supratik Pal

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

In this article we treat the non-adiabatic photon-to-axion resonant conversion of curvature radiation, synchrotron emission and inverse Compton scattering dominating the spectral density function of pulsars. First, we introduce emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Javier De Miguel , Chiko Otani

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

A search for solar axions has been performed using an axion helioscope which is equipped with a 2.3m-long 4T superconducting magnet, PIN-photodiode X-ray detectors, and a telescope mount mechanism to track the sun. In addition, a gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Inoue , T. Namba , S. Moriyama , M. Minowa , Y. Takasu , T. Horiuchi , A. Yamamoto

We study ALP-photon-conversion within strong inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields as provided by contemporary high-intensity laser systems. We observe that probe photons traversing the focal spot of a superposition of Gaussian beams of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Babette Döbrich , Holger Gies

In certain laboratory experiments the production and/or detection of axions is due to the photon-axion transformations in a strong magnetic field. This process is coherent, and the rate of the transformation is proportional to the length…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan , D. Budker

For the first time, we predict the axion spectra and their associated luminosities for several low-mass stars -- one and two solar masses stars in the main sequence and post-main sequence stages of evolution. Equally, we also compute the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Ilídio Lopes

Axions are one of the most promising candidates of dark matter. The axions have been shown to form miniclusters with masses $\sim 10^{-12}M_{\odot}$ and to become dominant component of dark matter. Some of the axion miniclusters condense to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Aiichi Iwazaki

The axion-like particles $a$ can be produced in the Sun via the process of $p + D \to {}^3{\rm He} +a$, with mass up to 5.5 MeV. The photons in the subsequent decay $a \to \gamma\gamma$ can deviate significantly from the Sun, or even from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Yu-Cheng Qiu , Yongchao Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to photons in strong magnetic fields, producing characteristic fluctuations in X-ray spectra. Using data from NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we analyzed three pulsars: PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Yen-Jhen Liu , Yi Yang