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Axions and axion-like particles are ubiquitous in extensions of the Standard Model and offer a unifying framework for addressing open problems in cosmology. Depending on their mass and interactions, axions can act as dark matter, drive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Luca Visinelli

The velocity distribution of cold dark matter within galaxies is expected to exhibit ultra-fine-grained substructure as a result of the many foldings of an initially smooth phase-space sheet under gravity. The innumerable folds of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Giovanni Pierobon

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

The past few years have seen a renewed interest in the search for light particle dark matter. ABRACADABRA is a new experimental program to search for axion dark matter over a broad range of masses, $10^{-12}\lesssim m_a\lesssim10^{-6}$ eV.…

The detection of dark matter is a challenging problem in modern physics. The ultralight scalar and axion dark matter could induce the oscillation of the nuclear charge radii and then oscillate the atomic transition frequency by interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Wei Zhao , Hui Liu , Xitong Mei

We present forecasts on the detectability of Ultra-light axion-like particles (ULAP) from future 21cm radio observations around the epoch of reionization (EoR). We show that the axion as the dominant dark matter component has a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Cristiano G. Sabiu , Kenji Kadota , Jacobo Asorey , Inkyu Park

Dark matter exists in our Universe, but its nature remains mysterious. The remarkable sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may be able to solve this mystery. A good dark matter candidate is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Huai-Ke Guo , Keith Riles , Feng-Wei Yang , Yue Zhao

The axion is an hypothetical beyond the Standard Model particle. Its experimental search is an ongoing effort, and an expanding number of techniques keep on narrowing its parameters space. Leveraging the interaction between dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-08 Nicolò Crescini

Axion-gluon interaction induces quadratic couplings between the axion and the matter fields. We find that, if the axion is an ultralight dark matter field, it induces small oscillations of the mass of the hadrons as well as other nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-15 Hyungjin Kim , Gilad Perez

The QCD axion stands as one of the most promising candidates for resolving the strong CP problem. However, the value of the axion's decay constant $f_a$ and, by extension, its mass $m_a$, remain uncertain within the framework of effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-01 Qiaoli Yang , Runchao Huang

A QCD axion with a decay constant below $ 10 ^{ 11} ~{\rm GeV} $ is a strongly-motivated extension to the Standard Model, though its relic abundance from the misalignment mechanism or decay of cosmic defects is insufficient to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Jeff Dror , Stefania Gori , Pankaj Munbodh

Dark matter is a major constituent of our universe and the axion is a prime candidate. In this article, it is shown that by exploiting the axion induced magnetization in a magnetic rod and the Faraday effect, axions in the mass range $500$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 A. T. M. Anishur Rahman

Signal estimates for direct axion dark matter searches have used the isothermal sphere halo model for the last several decades. While insightful, the isothermal model does not capture effects from a halo's infall history nor the influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 Erik W. Lentz , Thomas R. Quinn , Leslie J Rosenberg , Michael J. Tremmel

Theoretical axion models state that axions are very weakly interacting particles. In order to experimentally detect them, the use of colorful and inspired techniques becomes mandatory. There is a wide variety of experimental approaches that…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-11 R. Battesti , B. Beltran , H. Davoudiasl , M. Kuster , P. Pugnat , R. Rabadan , A. Ringwald , N. Spooner , K. Zioutas

While most scintillation-based dark matter experiments search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a sub-GeV WIMP-like particle may also be detectable in these experiments. While dark matter of this type and scale would not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-30 A. R. Caddell , V. V. Flambaum , B. M. Roberts

We propose a novel method to detect axion dark matter based on a topological phenomenon known as the shift current. We exploit the second-order nonlinearity of the shift current by applying a strong oscillating electric field. This field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Dan Kondo , Takahiro Morimoto , Genta Osaki , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

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

We review the available atomic data used for interpreting and modeling X-ray observations. The applications for these data can be divided into several levels of detail, ranging from compilations which can be used with direct inspection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. R. Kallman , P. Palmeri

We have proposed a new approach to search for axion dark matter with an optical ring cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161301 (2018)]. The coupling of photons to axions or axion-like particles makes a modulated difference in the phase velocity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-25 Yuta Michimura , Yuka Oshima , Taihei Watanabe , Takuya Kawasaki , Hiroki Takeda , Masaki Ando , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita

Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao