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Axions are a leading dark matter candidate. In this work, we study the detectability of a multi-axion-like model, dubbed the $\pi$-axiverse, that is distinguishable from the string axiverse. The dark matter candidates are $N^2-1$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Stephon Alexander , Geoff Beck , Santiago Loane , Tucker Manton

The cavity haloscope has been employed to detect microwave photons resonantly converted from invisible cosmic axions under a strong magnetic field. In this scheme, the axion-photon conversion power has been formulated to be valid for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-15 Dongok Kim , Junu Jeong , SungWoo Youn , Younggeun Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis

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

Assuming axion-like particles account for the entirety of the dark matter in the Universe, we study the possibility of detecting their decay into photons at radio frequencies. We discuss different astrophysical targets, such as dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-07 A. Caputo , M. Regis , M. Taoso , S. J. Witte

The axion emerges in extensions of the Standard Model that explain the absence of CP violation in the strong interactions. Simultaneously, it can provide naturally the cold dark matter in our universe. Several searches for axions and…

Direct-detection searches for axions and hidden photons are playing an increasingly prominent role in the search for dark matter. In this work, we derive the properties of optimal electromagnetic searches for these candidates, subject to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-05-11 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Kent D. Irwin , Peter W. Graham , Jeremy Mardon

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…

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

Electromagnetic fields surrounding pulsars may source coherent ultralight axion signals at the known rotational frequencies of the neutron stars, which can be detected by laboratory experiments (e.g., pulsarscopes). As a promising case…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Mariia Khelashvili , Mariangela Lisanti , Anirudh Prabhu , Benjamin R. Safdi

In the presence of QCD axion dark matter, atoms acquire time-dependent electric dipole moments. This effect gives rise to an oscillating current in a nuclear spin-polarized dielectric, which can resonantly excite an electromagnetic mode of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-28 Asher Berlin , Kevin Zhou

We develop a formalism to describe extensions of existing axion haloscope designs to those that possess directional sensitivity to incoming dark matter axion velocities. The effects are measurable if experiments are designed to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 Stefan Knirck , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

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

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomagnetic field of the Earth. This signal is similar in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Ariel Arza , Michael A. Fedderke , Peter W. Graham , Derek F. Jackson Kimball , Saarik Kalia

Experiments aimed at detecting ultralight dark matter typically rely on resonant effects, which are sensitive to the dark matter mass that matches the resonance frequency. In this study, we investigate the nucleon couplings of ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Zitong Xu , Xiaolin Ma , Kai Wei , Yuxuan He , Xing Heng , Xiaofei Huang , Tengyu Ai , Jian Liao , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Dmitry Budker

The axion dark matter echo technique, proposed in Ref. [1], aims to search for axion dark matter by detecting the electromagnetic echo coming from stimulated decay of ambient axion dark matter interacting with a radio-microwave outgoing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Ariel Arza , Abaz Kryemadhi , Konstantin Zioutas

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses $m_a \lesssim 10^{-6} \text{ eV}$. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between…

We present a method to determine the sensitivity of a closed dielectric haloscope to axion dark matter. Dielectric haloscopes aim to probe the theoretically well-motivated axion mass range of ~26 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV to ~500 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV by…

Revealing the essence of dark matter (DM) and dark energy is essential for understanding our universe. Ultralight (rest energy $<$10 eV) bosonic particles, including pseudoscalar axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) have emerged among…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-07-10 Xiaofei Huang , Xiaolin Ma , Lei Cong , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Wei Quan , Kai Wei

Axions are one of the well-motivated candidates for dark matter, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem in particle physics. Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) is a new experimental project to broadly…

Axions are considered as a candidate of dark matter. The axions form coherent clouds which delay and amplify gravitational waves (GWs) at a resonant frequency. That is, the coherent axion clouds produce secondary GWs following a primary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Tsutsui , Atsushi Nishizawa