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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

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 photon dark matter that has a kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon can resonantly convert in environments where its mass $m_{A'}$ coincides with the plasma frequency. We show that such conversion in neutron stars or accreting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Edward Hardy , Ningqiang Song

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

Ground-based radio telescopes are routinely used to search for light dark matter (DM) candidates such as axion-like particles or dark photons. These instruments face however inherent limitations to push the searches to masses below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Ruben Zatini , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We revisit and invalidate all dark photon dark matter constraints from resonant conversion of dark photons into photons (plasmons) in the early universe. These constraints rely on the resonant transfer of a substantial portion of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Anson Hook , Junwu Huang , Mohamad Shalaby

Dark matter in the cosmological concordance model is parameterised by a single number, describing the covariantly conserved energy density of a non-relativistic fluid. Here we test this assumption in a model-independent and conservative way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Torsten Bringmann , Felix Kahlhoefer , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg , Parampreet Walia

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

Both axion and dark photon dark matter are among the most promising candidates of dark matter. What we know with some confidence is that they exhibit a small velocity distribution $\delta v\lesssim v\sim 10^{-3}$c. In addition, their mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Puxian Wei , Ruifeng Zheng , Qiaoli Yang

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

Dark matter may consist of light, very weakly interacting bosons, produced non-thermally in the early Universe. Prominent examples of such very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs) are axions and hidden photons. Direct detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-16 Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo

Axion dark matter passing through the magnetospheres of magnetars can undergo hyper-efficient resonant mixing with low-energy photons, leading to the production of narrow spectral lines that could be detectable on Earth. Since this is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Sandip Roy , Anirudh Prabhu , Christopher Thompson , Samuel J. Witte , Carlos Blanco , Jonathan Zhang

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 propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon masses by breaking translational invariance (cavity and dielectric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Lawson , Alexander J. Millar , Matteo Pancaldi , Edoardo Vitagliano , Frank Wilczek

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

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

Ultralight axions and dark photons are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Inside the plasma, once the mass of ultralight dark matter candidates equals the plasma frequency, they can resonantly convert into electromagnetic waves, due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-04 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu

A dark photon may kinetically mix with the ordinary photon, inducing oscillations with observable imprints on cosmology. Oscillations are resonantly enhanced if the dark photon mass equals the ordinary photon plasma mass, which tracks the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-11 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joshua T. Ruderman

A dark photon may kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon, leading to observable cosmological signatures. The mixing is resonantly enhanced when the dark photon mass matches the primordial plasma frequency, which depends sensitively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-11 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joshua T. Ruderman

Resonant axion-plasmon conversion in the magnetospheres of magnetars may substantially impact the landscape of dark-matter axion detection. This work explores how resonant axion-plasmon conversion, through a mechanism that is analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 H. Terças , J. T. Mendonça , R. Bingham
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