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In the search for axion dark matter, the cavity-based haloscope offers the most sensitive approach to the theoretically interesting models in the microwave region. However, experimental searches have been limited to relatively low masses up…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-25 Sungjae Bae , SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong

In this work we consider searches for dark matter made of axions or axion-like particles (ALPs) using resonant radio frequency cavities inserted into dipole magnets from particle accelerators, wiggler magnets developed for accelerator based…

The axion is expected to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and is one of the leading candidates for dark matter. CAPP in South Korea has several axion search experiments based on cavity haloscopes in the frequency range…

The scan rate of an axion haloscope is proportional to the square of the cavity volume. In this paper, a new class of thin-shell cavities are proposed to search for axionic dark matter. These cavities feature active volume much larger…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-17 Chao-Lin Kuo

We explore finite size 3D effects in open axion haloscopes such as a dish antenna, a dielectric disk and a minimal dielectric haloscope consisting of a mirror and one dielectric disk. Particularly dielectric haloscopes are a promising new…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-23 Stefan Knirck , Jan Schütte-Engel , Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Olaf Reimann , Andreas Ringwald , Frank D. Steffen

RADES (Relic Axion Detector Exploratory Setup) is a project with the goal of directly searching for axion dark matter above the $30 \mu$eV scale employing custom-made microwave filters in magnetic dipole fields. Currently RADES is taking…

For low-mass (frequency $\ll$ GHz) axions, dark matter detection experiments searching for an axion-photon-photon coupling generally have suppressed sensitivity, if they use a static background magnetic field. This geometric suppression can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Robert Lasenby

The search for axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) remains a major endeavor in modern physics investigation. Axions play essential roles in the quest to understand dark matter, the strong CP problem, and various astrophysical phenomena.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Maurizio Giannotti

A new method for searching for Dark Matter axions is proposed. It is shown that a two-contact SQUID can detect oscillating magnetic perturbations induced by the axions in a strong inhomogeneous magnetic field. A resonant signal is a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-30 Vladimir Popov

We explore whether the axion which solves the strong CP problem can naturally be much lighter than the canonical QCD axion. The $Z_\mathcal{N}$ symmetry proposed by Hook, with $\mathcal{N}$ mirror and degenerate worlds coexisting in Nature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-09 Pablo Quilez , Luca Di Luzio , Belen Gavela , Andreas Ringwald

Haloscopes are resonant cavities that serve as detectors of dark matter axions when they are immersed in a strong static magnetic field. In order to increase the volume and improve its introduction within dipole or solenoid magnets for…

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle that could solve the long-standing strong CP problem in particle physics and the dark matter mystery in the cosmos. Due to the stimulation of the ambient photons, the axion dark matter decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-27 Ariel Arza , Quan Guo , Lei Wu , Qiaoli Yang , Xiaolong Yang , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

We propose an experiment to search for QCD axion and axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter. Nuclei that are interacting with the background axion dark matter acquire time-varying CP-odd nuclear moments such as an electric dipole moment. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Dmitry Budker , Peter W. Graham , Micah Ledbetter , Surjeet Rajendran , Alex Sushkov

Axions are a natural consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism, the most compelling solution to the strong-CP problem. Similar axion-like particles (ALPs) also appear in a number of possible extensions of the Standard Model, notably in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-08 Javier Galan

Proposed half a century ago, the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion explains the lack of charge and parity violation in the strong interactions and is a compelling candidate for cold dark matter. The last decade has seen the rapid…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-16 Masha Baryakhtar , Leslie Rosenberg , Gray Rybka

We show that the magnetic component of the photon field produced by dark matter axions via the two-photon coupling mechanism in a Sikivie Haloscope is an important parameter passed over in previous analysis and experiments. The interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-13 Ben T. McAllister , Stephen R. Parker , Michael E. Tobar

Antiferromagnetically doped topological insulators (A-TI) are among the candidates to host dynamical axion fields and axion-polaritons; weakly interacting quasiparticles that are analogous to the dark axion, a long sought after candidate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 David J. E. Marsh , Kin-Chung Fong , Erik W. Lentz , Libor Šmejkal , Mazhar N. Ali

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

Axions solve the Strong CP Problem and are a cold dark matter candidate. The combined constraints from accelerator searches, stellar evolution limits and cosmology suggest that the axion mass is in the range $3 \cdot 10^{-3} > m_a >…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre Sikivie