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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

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle which suppresses CP-violating effects in strong interactions and also happens to be an excellent dark matter candidate. Axions constituting the dark matter halo of our galaxy may be detected by…

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

Recently, two of the present authors showed that even when the axion momentum is much smaller than its mass, the axion can still behave like radiation if its energy density greatly exceeds the maximum potential energy set by the cosine-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-17 Max Miyazaki , Yuma Narita , Deheng Song , Nemin Yaginuma , Wen Yin

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

A coupled microwave-cavity system of cylindrical TM$_{010}$ single-mode has been developed to search for dark matter axions around 10 $\mu {\rm eV}$(2.4 GHz) with the Rydberg-atom cavity detector at 10 mK range temperature. One component of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tada , Y. Kishimoto , M. Shibata , K. Kominato , I. Ogawa , H. Funahashi , K. Yamamoto , S. Matsuki

Axion is a promising candidate for ultralight dark matter which may cause a polarization rotation of laser light. Recently, a new idea of probing the axion dark matter by optical linear cavities used in the arms of gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Koji Nagano , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Soichiro Morisaki , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

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

The axion particle, a consequence of an elegant hypothesis that resolves the strong-CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, is a plausible origin for cosmological dark matter. In searches for axionic dark matter that detect the conversion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Huaixiu Zheng , Matti Silveri , R. T. Brierley , S. M. Girvin , K. W. Lehnert

The QCD axion and axion-like particles are compelling candidates for galactic dark matter. Theoretically, axions can convert into photons in the presence of a strong external magnetic field, which means it is possible to search for them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Liam Walters , Jordan Shroyer , Madeleine Edenton , Prakamya Agrawal , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Luca Visinelli

In recent years a new field emerged in dark matter community and immediately attracted a multitude of theoriests and experimentalists, that of light dark matter direct detection in electronic systems. The phenomenon is similar with nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Tairan Liang , Bin Zhu , Ran Ding , Tianjun Li

The QCD axion, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in QCD, is a prominent candidate for dark matter (DM). In the presence of strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars, axions can theoretically convert into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Luca Visinelli , Bradley Johnson , Bradley J. Kavanagh , David J. E. Marsh , Jordan E. Shroyer , Liam Walters

Axion-like particles are a broad class of dark matter candidates which are expected to behave as a coherent, classical field with a weak coupling to photons. Research into the detectability of these particles with laser interferometers has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-07 Hongwan Liu , Brodi D. Elwood , Matthew Evans , Jesse Thaler

We propose a novel method to detect axion dark matter based on a topological phenomenon known as the shift current. We exploit the second-order nonlinearity of the shift current by applying a strong oscillating electric field. This field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Dan Kondo , Takahiro Morimoto , Genta Osaki , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Terrestrial searches for the conversion of dark matter axions or axion-like particles into photons inside magnetic fields are sensitive to the phase space structure of the local Milky Way halo. We simulate signals in a hypothetical future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-29 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Anne M. Green

Axions are well motivated particles that could make up most or all of the dark matter if they have masses below 100 $\mu$eV. Microwave cavity techniques comprised of closed resonant structures immersed in solenoid magnets are sensitive to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-24 Gray Rybka , Andrew Wagner , Aryeh Brill , Kunal Patel , Robert Percival , Katleiah Ramos

Dark matter makes up 85% of the matter in the universe and 27% of its energy density, but we don't know what comprises dark matter. There are several compelling candidates for dark matter that have wavelike properties, including axions and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-12-10 Raphael Cervantes

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…

We present an experimental and theoretical investigation of the spectroscopy of dilute alkali atoms in a solid matrix of inert gases at cryogenic temperatures, specifically Rubidium atoms in a solid Argon or Neon matrix, and related aspects…