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Dark photon as an ultralight dark matter candidate can interact with the Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for the ultralight dark photon dark matter using radio telescopes with solar observations. The dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-07 Haipeng An , Fa Peng Huang , Jia Liu , Wei Xue

We show that axion dark matter (DM) may be detectable through narrow radio lines emitted from neutron stars. The neutron star magnetosphere hosts a strong magnetic field and a plasma frequency that increases towards the neutron star…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Anson Hook , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun

Dark photons can be the ultralight dark matter candidate, interacting with Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for ultralight dark photon dark matter (DPDM) through the local absorption at different radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Wen-Qing Guo , Xiaoyuan Huang , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

Dark matter may be charged under dark electromagnetism with a dark photon that kinetically mixes with the Standard Model photon. In this framework, dark matter will collect at the center of the Earth and annihilate into dark photons, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

Mixing between dark photons and visible photons leads to substantial anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background due to resonant conversions of visible photons into dark photons in baryonic matter found in dark matter halos. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ethan Baker , Hongwan Liu

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

We consider Thomson-like processes between dark matter dark photons and free electrons in the Milky Way. The result is a radio signal background that can be detectable with current or future radio telescope arrays. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Ariel Arza

It has been suggested that radio telescopes may be sensitive to axion dark matter that resonantly converts to radio photons in the magnetospheres surrounding neutron stars (NSs). In this work, we closely examine this possibility by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun , Alexander Y. Chen

We study the conditions for the adiabatic resonant conversion of the cold dark matter (CDM) axions into photons in existence of the astrophysically sourced strong magnetic fields such as those in the neutron star magnetosphere. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Fa Peng Huang , Kenji Kadota , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Hiroyuki Tashiro

Dark photons are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter, but their detection becomes challenging for ultralight masses with both experimental and astrophysical probes. In this work, we propose a new approach to explore this regime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-06 Javier F. Acevedo , Amit Bhoonah , Kun Cheng

Due to their high magnetic fields and plasma densities, pulsars provide excellent laboratories for tests of beyond Standard Model (BSM) physics. When axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) approach closely enough to pulsars, they can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-29 Anirudh Prabhu , Nicholas M. Rapidis

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

We consider resonant wave-like dark matter conversion into low-frequency radio waves in the Earth's ionosphere. Resonant conversion occurs when the dark matter mass and the plasma frequency coincide, defining a range $m_{ \text{DM} } \sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Carl Beadle , Andrea Caputo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

In this letter we begin the study of visible dark sector signals coming from binary neutron star mergers. We focus on dark photons emitted in the 10 ms - 1 s after the merger, and show how they can lead to bright transient gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Melissa D. Diamond , Gustavo Marques-Tavares

Dark photon dark matter will resonantly convert into visible photons when the dark photon mass is equal to the plasma frequency of the ambient medium. In cosmological contexts, this transition leads to an extremely efficient, albeit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Samuel J. Witte , Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz , Samuel D. McDermott , Vivian Poulin

Axion dark matter (DM) may efficiently convert to photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars (NSs), producing nearly monochromatic radio emission. This process is resonantly triggered when the plasma frequency induced by the underlying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Joshua W. Foster , Samuel J. Witte , Matthew Lawson , Tim Linden , Vishal Gajjar , Christoph Weniger , Benjamin R. Safdi

We discuss axion dark matter detection via two mechanisms: spontaneous decays and resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. For decays, we show that the brightness temperature signal, rather than flux, is a less ambiguous measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Richard A. Battye , Bjoern Garbrecht , Jamie I. McDonald , Francesco Pace , Sankarshana Srinivasan

Dark matter could be made up of dark photons, massive but very light particles whose interactions with matter resemble those of usual photons but suppressed by a small mixing parameter. We analyze the main approaches to dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Álvarez-Luna , J. A. R. Cembranos

Typically, the interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter is assumed to be very small. Nevertheless, in this article, I show that the effective resonant absorption of dark photon dark matter in the atmosphere is definitely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Man Ho Chan

We demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason is conceptually straightforward. An instrument such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Carl Beadle , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd
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