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We model clusters of axions with spherically symmetric momentum but arbitrary spatial distributions and study the directional profile of photos produced in their evolution through spontaneous and stimulated decay of axions via the process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Liang Chen , Thomas W. Kephart

The origin of various celestial phenomena have remained mysterious for conventional astrophysics. Therefore, alternative solutions should be considered, taking into account the involvement of unstable dark-matter particle candidates, such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Zioutas , Y. Semertzidis , Th. Papaevangelou

Polarization measurements of thermal radiation from magnetic white dwarf (MWD) stars have been proposed as a probe of axion-photon mixing. The radiation leaving the surface of the MWD is unpolarized, but if low-mass axions exist then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-08 Christopher Dessert , David Dunsky , Benjamin R. Safdi

We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

In particle physics, axions and axion-like particles are ubiquitous. Remarkably, ultra-light axions could constitute dark matter or dark energy. Therefore, it is important to detect axions experimentally. In the presence of a magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Taiki Ikeda , Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

Solitons are observed to form in simulations of dark matter (DM) halos consisting of bosonic fields. We use the extended Press-Schechter formalism to compute the mass function of solitons, assuming various forms for the relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh , Miguel Escudero , Andrew Benson , Diego Blas , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate. They may be detectable from radio line emission due to resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. While radio data collection for this signal has begun, further efforts are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 Jesse Satherley , Chris Gordon , Chris Stevens

Axion production due to photon-axion mixing in tangled magnetic field(s) prior to recombination epoch and magnetic field damping can generate cosmic microwave background (CMB) spectral distortions. In particular, contribution of both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Damian Ejlli

If the symmetry breaking leading to the origin of the axion dark matter field occurs after the end of inflation and is never restored, then overdensities in the axion field collapse to form dense objects known in the literature as axion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Luca Visinelli , Javier Redondo

We point out that the cosmological moduli problem is not necessarily resolved even if the modulus mass is heavier than O(10)TeV, contrary to the common wisdom. The point is that, in many scenarios where the lightest moduli fields are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kazunori Nakayama , Fuminobu Takahashi

We examine the effects of photon bubble instability in radiation-dominated accretion disks such as those found around black holes in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binary star systems. Two- and 3-D numerical radiation MHD calculations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Turner , O. M. Blaes , A. Socrates , M. C. Begelman , S. W. Davis

We argue that the QCD axion can arise from many aligned axions with decay constants much smaller than the conventional axion window. If the typical decay constant is of {\cal O}{(100)} GeV to 1 TeV, one or more of the axions or saxions may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-03 Tetsutaro Higaki , Kwang Sik Jeong , Naoya Kitajima , Fuminobu Takahashi

The overcritical regime of axion-electrodynamics (AED) is investigated. For magnetic fields larger than the characteristic scale linked to AED, quantum vacuum fluctuations due to axion-like fields can dominate over those associated with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Anatoly E. Shabad , Carsten Müller

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. Anticipating the detection of solar axions, we determine the potential for the planned…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-28 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Andrea Caputo , Alexander J. Millar , Edoardo Vitagliano

In non-hadronic axion models, where axions couple to electrons at tree level, the solar axion flux is completely dominated by the ABC reactions (Atomic recombination and deexcitation, Bremsstrahlung and Compton). In this paper the ABC flux…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Javier Redondo

Axions, initially proposed to solve the strong CP problem, have recently gained attention in condensed matter physics, particularly in topological insulators. However, detecting axion dynamics has proven challenging, with no experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Taige Wang , Michael P. Zaletel , Dung-Hai Lee

We reconsider the conversion of the photon into axion in the external electromagnetic fields, namely in the static fields and in a periodic field of the wave guide. The total cross-sections for the conversion are evaluated in detail. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-21 D. V. Soa , H. N. Long , T. D. Tham

In this article, we propose a concise theoretical framework based on mixed field-susceptibilities to describe the decay of magnetic dipoles induced by non--magnetic nanostructures. This approach is first illustrated in simple cases in which…

In the strong magnetic field of a neutron star's magnetosphere, axions coupled to electromagnetism develop a nonzero probability to convert into photons. Past studies have revealed that the axion-photon conversion can be resonantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Andrew J. Long , Enrico D. Schiappacasse

Light bosonic fields may suffer an instability around a rotating compact object. This process, known as superradiance, leads to the exponential amplification of the field around a black hole or neutron star, while the spin of the central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Francesca Chadha-Day