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Axions are hypothetical particles related to the violation of the charge-parity symmetry, being the most prone candidates for dark matter. Multiple attempts to prove their existence are currently performed in different physical systems.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 H. Terças , J. D. Rodrigues , J. T. Mendonça

The search for non-baryonic dark matter remains a key focus in modern physics, with the light pseudoscalar axion serving as a well-motivated candidate. Here, we present a laboratory-scale detection scheme to constrain axion-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Jiawei Li , Ka-di Zhu

We propose a novel detection method for axion dark matter using the Rabi oscillation of neutron spins in beam-based measurements. If axions couple to neutron spins, a background oscillating axion dark matter field would drive transitions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-10 Peter Fierlinger , Jie Sheng , Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Chuan-Yang Xing

The cavity haloscope technique has been the most successful approach to date in searching for axion dark matter, owing to a confluence of factors at the GHz scale including the macroscopic size of the axion-to-photon converting cavity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Erik W. Lentz , Christian R. Boutan , Matthew S. Taubman , Kevin L. Gervais

First experimental results from a room-temperature table-top phase-sensitive axion haloscope experiment are presented. The technique exploits the axion-photon coupling between two photonic resonator-oscillators excited in a single cavity,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 Catriona A. Thomson , Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

We explore the axionic dark matter search sensitivity with a narrow-band detection scheme aiming at the axion-photon conversion by the static electric field inside a cylindrical capacitor. An alternating magnetic field signal is induced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-13 Yu Gao , Yongsheng Huang , Zhengwei Li , Manqi Ruan , Peng Sha , Meiyu Si , Qiaoli Yang

We suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

Haloscope is one of the typical installations to detect the electromagnetic responses (EMRs) of axion field in radio-frequency (RF) and microwave bands. Given that the detectable signals of the usual Haloscope-type detectors (HTDs), biased…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-06 Li Gao , Hao Zheng , Xianing Feng , Suirong He , Lianfu Wei , Lingbo Zhao , Qingquan Jiang

Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) was proposed. To search for axion-like particles, we aim to detect the rotation and oscillation of optical linear polarization caused by axion-photon coupling with a bow-tie…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuka Oshima , Hiroki Fujimoto , Masaki Ando , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Taihei Watanabe

We show that coupling of ultralight dark matter (UDM) to quarks and gluons would lead to an oscillation of the nuclear charge radius for both the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion and scalar dark matter. Consequently, the resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Abhishek Banerjee , Dmitry Budker , Melina Filzinger , Nils Huntemann , Gil Paz , Gilad Perez , Sergey Porsev , Marianna Safronova

A QCD axion with a decay constant below $ 10 ^{ 11} ~{\rm GeV} $ is a strongly-motivated extension to the Standard Model, though its relic abundance from the misalignment mechanism or decay of cosmic defects is insufficient to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Jeff Dror , Stefania Gori , Pankaj Munbodh

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 investigate axion-like particles coupled to gravity through a parity-violating Chern-Simons (CS) interaction. In this framework, axion dark matter (DM) can decay into pairs of circularly polarized gravitons, producing a persistent,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Marco Figliolia , Francesco Grippa , Gaetano Lambiase , Luca Visinelli

An inhomogeneous pseudo-scalar field configuration behaves like an optically active medium. Consequently, if a light ray passes through an axion cloud surrounding a Kerr black hole, it may experience a polarization-dependent bending. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-16 Alexis D. Plascencia , Alfredo Urbano

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 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

Electromagnetic radiation with angular frequency equal to half the axion mass stimulates the decay of cold dark matter axions and produces an echo, i.e. faint electromagnetic radiation traveling in the opposite direction. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Ariel Arza , Pierre Sikivie

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interactions within the Standard Model of particle physics, which explains more than 99% of the mass of the visible Universe. However, there is evidence that a substantial portion of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-01 Bastian B. Brandt , Gergely Endrődi , José Javier Hernández Hernández , Gergely Markó , Laurin Pannullo

We propose an experimental scheme for detecting the effects of off-shell axion-like particles (ALPs) through optical cavities. In this proposed experiment, linearly polarized photons are pumped into an optical cavity where an external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-14 Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei , Mehdi Abdi , Marco Peloso , Sabino Matarrese

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