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A brief review of light dark matter particles and their spectroscopy is presented, specifically aimed at understanding the interaction mechanisms of axion and Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with matter and an interim proposal and some ideas…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-04-02 Masroor H. S. Bukhari

Axions and axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates. We propose an experiment that uses single photon detection interferometry to search for axions and axion-like particles in the galactic halo. We show that photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 Haocun Yu , Ohkyung Kwon , Hartmut Grote , Denis Martynov

The dark (or hidden) photon is a massive U(1) gauge boson theorized as a dark force mediator and as a dark matter candidate. Dark photons can be detected with axion cavity haloscopes by probing for a power excess caused by the dark photon's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Sumita Ghosh , Liz Ruddy , Michael J. Jewell , Alexander F. Leder , Reina H. Maruyama

The Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP) was founded in 2013, with the ambition of shedding light on the strong CP problem and the proposed existence of axions. Much of CAPP's effort focuses on the direct detection of dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Eleni Petrakou

Axions are well-motivated candidates for dark matter. Recently, much interest has focused on the detection of photons produced by the resonant conversion of axion dark matter in neutron star magnetospheres. Various groups have begun to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 R. A. Battye , B. Garbrecht , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan

The axion is a hypothetical particle proposed to solve the strong $CP$ problem, and also a candidate for dark matter. This non-relativistic particle in the galactic halo can be converted into a photon under a strong magnetic field and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-15 Soohyung Lee , Saebyeok Ahn , Jihoon Choi , Byeong Rok Ko , Yannis K. Semertzidis

A number of proposals have been put forward for detecting axion dark matter (DM) with grand unification scale decay constants that rely on the conversion of coherent DM axions to oscillating magnetic fields in the presence of static,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Joshua N. Benabou , Joshua W. Foster , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Chiara P. Salemi

The QCD axion or axion-like particles are candidates of dark matter of the universe. On the other hand, axion-like excitations exist in certain condensed matter systems, which implies that there can be interactions of dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

An appealing candidate of the galactic dark matter is the axion, which was postulated to solve the strong CP (Charge-conjugation Parity) violation problem in the standard particle theory. A new experimental method is proposed to determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-18 M. Yoshimura , N. Sasao

We present the first analysis of Dark Matter axion detection applying neural networks for the improvement of sensitivity. The main sources of thermal noise from a typical read-out chain are simulated, constituted by resonant and amplifier…

We report the first search results for axion dark matter using an 18\,T high-temperature superconducting magnet haloscope. The scan frequency ranges from 4.7789 to 4.8094\,GHz. No significant signal consistent with the Galactic halo dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-20 Youngjae Lee , Byeongsu Yang , Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , DongLak Kim , Jonghee Yoo

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 haloscopes provide a leading experimental approach to detecting QCD axion dark matter through resonant axion-photon conversion in microwave cavities. Extending haloscope sensitivity to low axion masses remains challenging due to the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Raj Aryan Singh , Paige Rose Taylor , Elrina Hartmann , Geoffrey Brooks , Ben T. McAllister

The axion is a hypothetical particle, a promising candidate for dark matter, and a solution to the strong CP problem. Axion haloscope search experiments deal with a signal power comparable to noise uncertainty at millikelvin temperature. We…

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

The haloscope is one of the most sensitive approaches to the QCD axion physics within the region where the axion is considered to be a dark matter candidate. Current experimental sensitivities, which rely on the lowest fundamental TM010…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Jinsu Kim , SungWoo Youn , Junu Jeong , Woohyun Chung , Ohjoon Kwon , Yannis K. Semertzidis

If dark matter is composed of axions, then axion stars form in the cores of dark matter halos. These stars are unstable above a critical mass, decaying to radio photons that heat the intergalactic medium, offering a new channel for axion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-09 Miguel Escudero , Charis Kaur Pooni , Malcolm Fairbairn , Diego Blas , Xiaolong Du , David J. E. Marsh

Axion dark matter can be converted into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars leading to a spectral line centred on the Compton wavelength of the axion. Due to the rotation of the star and the plasma effects in the magnetosphere…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 R. A. Battye , M. J. Keith , J. I. McDonald , S. Srinivasan , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

The mass of axion dark matter is only weakly bounded by cosmological observations, necessitating a variety of detection techniques over several orders of magnitude of mass ranges. Axions haloscopes based on resonant cavities have become the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-29 Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Jeremy Bourhill , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar