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We report new experimental results on the search for dark photons based on a near-quantum-limited haloscope equipped with a superconducting cavity. The loaded quality factor of the superconducting cavity is $6\times10^{5}$, so that the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-22 Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Yu Tong , Yang Liu , Youpeng Zhong , Yi-Fu Cai , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

The axion is an intriguing dark matter candidate emerging from the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. Current experimental searches for axion dark matter focus on the axion mass range below 40 $\mu$eV. However, if the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Béla Majorovits , Javier Redondo

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…

Quantum phase measurements offer a complementary route to axion searches. We show that axion-photon interactions can imprint both Aharonov-Bohm (AB) and Berry phases in experimentally motivated quantum setups. For a coherently oscillating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Tanmay Kumar Poddar , Michael Spannowsky

Ultralight dark matter candidates, such as axions and dark photons, are leading dark matter candidates. They may couple feebly to photons, sourcing oscillating electromagnetic signals in the Earth's conducting cavity formed between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Xiaofei Huang , Jing Shu , Hongliang Tian , Wenyu Wang , Kai Wei , Lei Wu , Mingming Xia , Jin Min Yang , Qiang Yuan , Yang Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bin Zhu

Recently the EDGES experiment reported an enhanced 21cm absorption signal in the radio wave observation, which may be interpreted as either anomalous cooling of baryons or heating of cosmic microwave background photons. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama , Yong Tang

We propose a novel technique to search for axions with an optomechanical cavity filled with a material such as superfluid helium. Axion absorption converts a pump laser photon to a photon plus a phonon. The axion absorption rate is enhanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Clara Murgui , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

The axion is particularly well motivated candidate for the dark matter comprising most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. As is well known, resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Yu-Ang Liu , Bilal Ahmad , Nick Houston

Quantum coherence is one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics rooted in the superposition principle. Recently it has been demonstrated that it is possible to harvest the quantum coherence from a coherent scalar field. In order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Sugumi Kanno , Akira Matsumura , Jiro Soda

Dark matter axions may cause transitions between atomic states that differ in energy by an amount equal to the axion mass. Such energy differences are conveniently tuned using the Zeeman effect. It is proposed to search for dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-02 P. Sikivie

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 report a pilot dark-matter search with a cryogenic, magnetized, scaled-down DALI prototype. An analysis of 36 hours of data reveals no statistically significant excess attributable to axionlike particles. We therefore set new exclusion…

The axion is a highly motivated elementary particle which could address two fundamental questions in physics - the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Experimental searches for this hypothetical particle have started to reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Yannis K. Semertzidis , SungWoo Youn

We show that ultra-peripheral heavy-ion collisions at the LHC can be used to search for axion-like particles with mass below 100 GeV. The $Z^4$ enhanced photon-photon luminosity from the ions provides a large exclusive production rate, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-05 Simon Knapen , Tongyan Lin , Hou Keong Lou , Tom Melia

Axionlike particles (ALPs) and dark photons (DPs) are viable dark matter particle candidates. We have searched for possible ALP/DP signals in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector using 440 kg$\cdot$yr of data. A binned likelihood fit is…

We propose a novel dark matter detection method utilizing the excitation of superconducting transmon qubits. Assuming the hidden photon dark matter of a mass of $O(10)\ \mu{\rm eV}$, the classical wave-matter oscillation induces an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-20 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Toshiaki Inada , Takeo Moroi , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Four decades after its prediction, the axion remains the most compelling solution to the Strong-CP problem and a well-motivated dark matter candidate, inspiring a host of elegant and ultrasensitive experiments based on axion-photon mixing.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-02-02 Peter W. Graham , Igor G. Irastorza , Steven K. Lamoreaux , Axel Lindner , Karl A. van Bibber

Axions are a well motivated candidate for dark matter. The most sensitive experiments searching for dark matter axions rely on the coupling of axions to the electromagnetic resonances of a microwave cavity immersed in a strong magnetic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-03-27 Gray Rybka

Axions are hypothetical pseudo-Nambu Goldstone bosons that could explain the observed cold dark matter density and solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Haloscope experiments commonly employ resonant cavities to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-21 Jacob Egge , Manuel Meyer

Dark matter direct (and indirect) detection experiments usually can only determine a specific combination of a power of the coupling and the dark matter density. This is also true for axion haloscopes which are sensitive to the product…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Virgile Dandoy , Joerg Jaeckel , Valentina Montoya