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A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

We report the results of a search for axionlike dark matter using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. This search is part of the multi-faceted Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) program. In order to distinguish…

The axion is a promising dark matter candidate, which was originally proposed to solve the strong-CP problem in particle physics. To date, the available parameter space for axion and axion-like particle dark matter is relatively unexplored,…

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

Axion-like particles are promising candidates to make up the dark matter of the universe, but it is challenging to design experiments that can detect them over their entire allowed mass range. Dark matter in general, and in particular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , William A. Terrano , Lutz Trahms , Thomas Wilkason

We report the first result of a direct search for a Cosmic ${\it axion}$ Background (C$a$B) - a relativistic background of axions that is not dark matter - performed with the axion haloscope, the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX).…

Dark matter (DM) with masses of order an electronvolt or below can have a non-zero coupling to electromagnetism while being compatible with cosmological observations. In these models, the ambient DM behaves as a new classical source in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Nikita Blinov , Christina Gao , Roni Harnik , Ryan Janish , Neil Sinclair

The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 M. A. Akgümüs , N. Salama , J. Egge , E. Garutti , M. Maroudas , L. H. Nguyen , D. Leppla-Weber

Axions are considered as a candidate of dark matter. The axions form coherent clouds which delay and amplify gravitational waves (GWs) at a resonant frequency. That is, the coherent axion clouds produce secondary GWs following a primary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Tsutsui , Atsushi Nishizawa

We study the implications of relaxing the requirement for ultralight axions to account for all dark matter in the Universe by examining mixed dark matter (MDM) cosmologies with axion fractions $f \leq 0.3$ within the fuzzy dark matter (FDM)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Tibor Dome , Simon May , Alex Laguë , David J. E. Marsh , Sarah Johnston , Sownak Bose , Alex Tocher , Anastasia Fialkov

A haloscope of the QUAX--$a\gamma$ experiment, composed of an high-Q resonant cavity immersed in a 8 T magnet and cooled to $\sim 4.5$~K is operated to search for galactic axion with mass $m_a\simeq42.8~\mu\text{eV}$. The design of the…

We present an overview of recent developments in the detection of light bosonic dark matter, including axion, pseudoscalar axion-like and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherently oscillating classical field or topological defects…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Y. V. Stadnik , V. V. Flambaum

Recent analyses of WMAP9 data show that dark radiation-- parametrized by the apparent number of additional neutrinos \Delta N_{eff} contributing to the cosmic expansion-- is consistent with the Standard Model and bounded from above by about…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Kyu Jung Bae , Howard Baer , Andre Lessa

When axion cold dark matter interacts with a static magnetic field, it can be converted to photons with energy near the axion's mass. Classical analysis shows that incorporating a resonant cavity significantly enhances this conversion rate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ruifeng Zheng , Puxian Wei , Qiaoli Yang

Forecasting the signal discrimination power of dark matter (DM) searches is commonly limited to a set of arbitrary benchmark points. We introduce new methods for benchmark-free forecasting that instead allow an exhaustive exploration and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Thomas D. P. Edwards , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Christoph Weniger

We present a new mechanism to deplete the energy density of the QCD axion, making decay constants as high as $f_a \simeq 10^{17}\,\rm{GeV}$ viable for generic initial conditions. In our setup, the axion couples to a massless dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Prateek Agrawal , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Wei Xue

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

Revealing the essence of dark matter (DM) and dark energy is essential for understanding our universe. Ultralight (rest energy $<$10 eV) bosonic particles, including pseudoscalar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have emerged among…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Lei Cong , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Wei Quan , Kai Wei

A model is constructed to predict the emission originating from axion-to-photon conversion in the strongly magnetized ultrarelativistic plasma of neutron stars. The acceleration and multiplicity of the charges are observed to shift the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-20 Javier De Miguel

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