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A major fraction of the mass content of the universe is composed of dark matter (DM), i.e. particles not interacting significantly with electromagnetic radiation, with ordinary matter or self-interacting (cold dark matter). The axion is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-12 Woohyun Chung

Searching for physics beyond the standard model is crucial for understanding the mystery of the universe, such as the dark matter. We utilized a single spin in a diamond as a sensor to explore the spin-dependent interactions mediated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Xing Rong , Man Jiao , Maosen Guo , Diguang Wu , Jiangfeng Du

The axion has emerged as the most attractive solution to two fundamental questions in modern physics related to the charge-parity invariance in strong interactions and the invisible matter component of our universe. Over the past decade,…

The axion emerges in extensions of the Standard Model that explain the absence of CP violation in the strong interactions. Simultaneously, it can provide naturally the cold dark matter in our universe. Several searches for axions and…

Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. However, quadratic couplings to matter introduce a non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Zitong Xu , Itay M. Bloch , Kai Wei

We develop the theoretical model that describes dynamic non-equilibrium effects of external inertial and axion fields in a system of particles with spin. The possibility of using the spin density and the current density of non-relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Mariya Iv. Trukhanova , Yuri N. Obukhov

Axions and axion-like particles may couple to nuclear spins like a weak oscillating effective magnetic field, the "axion wind." Existing proposals for detecting the axion wind sourced by dark matter exploit analogies to nuclear magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-30 Christina Gao , W. P. Halperin , Yonatan Kahn , Man Nguyen , Jan Schütte-Engel , J. W. Scott

The oscillating light axion field is known as wave dark matter. We propose an LC-resonance enhanced detection of the narrow band electric signals induced by the axion dark matter using a solenoid magnet facility. We provide full 3D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-02 Junxi Duan , Yu Gao , Chang-Yin Ji , Sichun Sun , Yugui Yao , Yun-Long Zhang

We consider the possibility that fermionic dark matter (DM) interacts with the Standard Model fermions through an axial Z' boson. As long as Z' decays predominantly into dark matter, the relevant LHC bounds are rather loose. Direct dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Oleg Lebedev , Yann Mambrini

We present a pedagogical introduction to the direct search of axions as dark matter, as well as to searches for solar axions. The plethora of experimental searches exploit the axion's coupling to two photons: They attempt to convert the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-10 Babette Döbrich , Igor G. Irastorza

The natural environment of the Earth can act as a sensitive detector for dark matter in ultralight axions. When axions with masses between $1\times10^{-15}\,{\rm eV}$ and $1\times10^{-13}\,{\rm eV}$ pass through the Earth, they interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Ultracold alkali atoms provide experimentally accessible model systems for probing quantum states that manifest themselves at the macroscopic scale. Recent experimental realizations of superfluidity in dilute gases of ultracold fermionic…

Axion dark matter may couple to fermion spins through an effective oscillating magnetic field, the ``axion wind". Existing approaches for detecting axion wind via axion-electron coupling $g_{ae}$ face sensitivity limitations due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Christina Gao , Yuxuan He , Yubo Mo , Peiran Yin

We propose an interferometry experiment for the detection of axion-like particles (ALPs). As in ordinary photon-regeneration (light shining through a wall) experiments, a laser beam traverses a region permeated by a magnetic field, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-28 H. Tam , Q. Yang

A previous publication [H. S. Roising et al., Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033236 (2021)] involving the current authors pointed out a coupling between dark matter axions and ferroic orders in multiferroics. In this comment we argue that using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-07 Alexander Balatsky , Benjo Fraser

We investigate the influence of axion dark matter as a background on the spin-independent axion forces between nucleons. Notably, we find that the potential for axion forces scales from $1/r^3$ in a vacuum-only context to $1/r$ when the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-06 Yu Cheng , Shuailiang Ge

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 evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A general picture emerges, where both baryonic and non-baryonic dark matter is needed to explain current observations. In particular, a wealth of observational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 L. Bergstrom

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates that couple to photons in external magnetic fields. The parameter space around $m_a \sim 50~\mu$eV remains largely unexplored by haloscope experiments. We…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-09 Josep Maria Batllori , Michael Frosz , Dieter Horns , Marios Maroudas

Sensitive dark matter (DM) experiments can be well exploited beyond their designated targets, allowing to explore a breadth of physics topics. As we discuss, future large direct DM detection experiments constitute impressive telescopes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Volodymyr Takhistov