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We propose a new window to detect axion-like particle (ALP) dark matter from electrically charged fermions, such as electrons and quarks. We specifically consider a direct interaction between the axion and the electron and find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-18 Stephon Alexander , Robert Sims

We propose new signals for the direct detection of ultralight dark matter such as the axion. Axion or axion like particle (ALP) dark matter may be thought of as a background, classical field. We consider couplings for this field which give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-11 Peter W. Graham , Surjeet Rajendran

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Axion dark matter induces electromagnetic radiation in conductors through nearly perpetual oscillations of electrons, driven by axion-electron interactions through the so-called chiral magnetic effect. It therefore provides a complementary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Deog Ki Hong , Sang Hui Im , Jinsu Kim , TaeHun Kim , SungWoo Youn

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

New one- and two-loop contributions to the lepton's and nucleon's EDM, which are induced by an axion-like particle dark matter background, are examined. These contributions include effects from CP-violating ALP interactions with photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Jason L. Evans , Nan Li , Junyuan Lyu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are promising dark matter candidates. Their signals in direct detection experiments arise from the well-known inverse Primakoff effect or the inverse Compton scattering of the ALPs with the electron. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Wei Chao , Jing-Jing Feng , Ming-Jie Jin

Axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates whose coupling to photons induces periodic oscillations in the polarization angle of astrophysical light. This work reports the first search for such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Qiu-Ju Huang , Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

It is shown that dark matter axions cause an oscillating electric current to flow along magnetic field lines. The oscillating current induced in a strong magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ produces a small magnetic field $\vec{B}_a$. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Sikivie , N. Sullivan , D. B. Tanner

In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find that magnetized analogs of multilayer dielectric haloscopes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Asher Berlin , Alexander J. Millar , Tanner Trickle , Kevin Zhou

In non-central heavy-ion collisions, spectator protons that do not participate in the interaction create strong magnetic fields. The strength of these fields allows testing an effect based on the hypothesized properties of QCD. The presence…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Sizar Aziz

We propose a mechanism to generate dissipationless current in time reversal symmetry breaking Weyl semimetals through the anomalous chiral magnetic effect (ACME). The ACME current is induced by chiral imbalance and flows along the direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Long Liang

X-ray telescopes are an exceptional tool for searching for new fundamental physics. In particular, X-ray observations have already placed world-leading bounds on the interaction between photons and axion-like particles (ALPs). ALPs are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-11 Francesca Day , Sven Krippendorf

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are good candidates for mediators to the dark sector. We explore scenarios in which an ALP mediates interactions between dark matter and electroweak gauge bosons. These models yield testable electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Stephanie Allen , Albany Blackburn , Oswaldo Cardenas , Zoe Messenger , Ngan H. Nguyen , Brian Shuve

We study a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external electric field. We show that with the presence of both vector and axial charge densities, the electric field can induce an axial current along its direction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao

We propose an experiment to search for QCD axion and axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter. Nuclei that are interacting with the background axion dark matter acquire time-varying CP-odd nuclear moments such as an electric dipole moment. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Dmitry Budker , Peter W. Graham , Micah Ledbetter , Surjeet Rajendran , Alex Sushkov

Dark Matter (DM) may be comprised of axion-like particles (ALPs) with couplings to photons and the standard model fermions. In this paper we study photon signals arising from cosmic ray (CR) electron scattering on background ALPs. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Jayden L. Newstead , Alejandro Rodriguez , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Natalia Tapia Arellano

We propose an experiment for detecting Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) based on the axion-photon interaction in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field. The impact of virtual ALPs on the polarization of the photons inside a cavity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Moslem Zarei , Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Sharifian , Mehdi Abdi , David J. E. Marsh , Sabino Matarrese

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical entities often invoked to solve various problems in particle physics to cosmology. They are one of the most promising candidates to explain the elusive dark matter. A way to search for ALPs is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Rafael Alves Batista , Cristina Viviente , Gaetano Di Marco , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

In this work we consider searches for dark matter made of axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) using resonant radio frequency cavities inserted into dipole magnets from particle accelerators, wiggler magnets developed for accelerator based…

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