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In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find that magnetized analogs of multilayer dielectric haloscopes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-11 Asher Berlin , Alexander J. Millar , Tanner Trickle , Kevin Zhou

We perform the first search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle. A sub-millimeter permanent magnet is levitated in a superconducting trap with a measured force sensitivity of $0.2\,\mathrm{fN/\sqrt{Hz}}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Dorian W. P. Amaral , Dennis G. Uitenbroek , Tjerk H. Oosterkamp , Christopher D. Tunnell

Ultralight dark matter, such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter (DPDM) or axionlike-particle dark matter (axion DM), can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at Earth's surface. Previous work searched for this signal in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Matt Friel , Jesper W. Gjerloev , Saarik Kalia , Alvaro Zamora

The noble-alkali comagnetometer, developed in recent years, has been shown to be a very accurate measuring device of anomalous magnetic-like fields. An ultra-light relic axion-like particle can source an anomalous field that permeates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-04 Itay M. Bloch , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky

Levitated ferromagnetic systems are expected to have significant potential in precision magnetic field sensing by leveraging mechanical isolation to minimize mechanical contact and associated noise. Here, we report the implementation of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ren Yichong , Wu Lielie , Broer Wijnand , Xue Fei , Huang Pu , Du JiangFeng

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…

Axions are well motivated particles that could make up most or all of the dark matter if they have masses below 100 $\mu$eV. Microwave cavity techniques comprised of closed resonant structures immersed in solenoid magnets are sensitive to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-02-24 Gray Rybka , Andrew Wagner , Aryeh Brill , Kunal Patel , Robert Percival , Katleiah Ramos

The ultralight axion with mass around $10^{-22}$ eV is known as a candidate of dark matter. A peculiar feature of the ultralight axion is oscillating pressure in time, which produces oscillation of gravitational potentials. Since the solar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-09 Arata Aoki , Jiro Soda

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 investigate a search for the oscillating current induced by axion dark matter in an external magnetic field using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). This experiment is based upon the LC circuit axion detection concept of Sikivie,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-24 P. -H. Chu , L. D. Duffy , Y. J. Kim , I. M. Savukov

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

A ferromagnetic axion haloscope searches for Dark Matter in the form of axions by exploiting their interaction with electronic spins. It is composed of an axion-to-electromagnetic field transducer coupled to a sensitive rf detector. The…

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

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Collective excitations in condensed matter systems, such as phonons and magnons, have recently been proposed as novel detection channels for light dark matter. We show that excitation of i) optical phonon polaritons in polar materials in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Zhengkang Zhang , Kathryn M. Zurek

Among several dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight (sub meV) dark matter is well motivated because it could couple to the Standard Model (SM) and induce new forces. Previous MICROSCOPE and Eot Wash torsion experiments have achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Li , Shaochun Lin , Liang Zhang , Changkui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

We consider using optomechanical accelerometers as resonant detectors for ultralight dark matter. As a concrete example, we describe a detector based on a silicon nitride membrane fixed to a beryllium mirror, forming an optical cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jack Manley , Mitul Dey Chowdhury , Daniel Grin , Swati Singh , Dalziel J. Wilson

We propose new signals for the direct detection of ultralight dark matter such as the axion. Axion or axion like particle (ALP) dark matter may be thought of as a background, classical field. We consider couplings for this field which give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-11 Peter W. Graham , Surjeet Rajendran

Cosmological mechanisms that yield ultralight dark matter are insensitive to the intrinsic parity of a bosonic dark matter candidate, but that same quantity plays a crucial role in a direct detection experiment. The modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 Christopher M. Donohue , Susan Gardner , Wolfgang Korsch

Long-standing efforts to detect axions are driven by two compelling prospects, naturally accounting for the absence of charge-conjugation and parity symmetry breaking in quantum chromodynamics, and for the elusive dark matter at ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 Georg Engelhardt , Amit Bhoonah , W. Vincent Liu