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The axion is a hypothetical particle associated with a possible solution to the strong CP problem and is a leading candidate for dark matter. In this paper we investigate the emission of axions by accelerated electrons. We find the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Georgios Vacalis , Atsushi Higuchi , Robert Bingham , Gianluca Gregori

Detection of axion dark matter heavier than a meV is hindered by its small wavelength, which limits the useful volume of traditional experiments. This problem can be avoided by directly detecting in-medium excitations, whose $\sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 Asher Berlin , Tanner Trickle

The sensitivity of experimental searches for axion dark matter coupled to photons is typically proportional to the strength of the applied static magnetic field. We demonstrate how a permeable material can be used to enhance the magnitude…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-09 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

Magnetic fields mix axions with photons, allowing for the cyclotron process e -> e + a by virtue of an intermediate plasmon even if axions do not couple to electrons at tree level. The axion and longitudinal-plasmon dispersion relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. V. Mikheev , G. Raffelt , L. A. Vassilevskaya

The axion is a highly motivated elementary particle which could address two fundamental questions in physics - the strong CP problem and the dark matter mystery. Experimental searches for this hypothetical particle have started to reach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-28 Yannis K. Semertzidis , SungWoo Youn

Recently the EDGES experiment reported an enhanced 21cm absorption signal in the radio wave observation, which may be interpreted as either anomalous cooling of baryons or heating of cosmic microwave background photons. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-10 Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama , Yong Tang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that serve as promising candidates for cold dark matter. Portals like inelastic axion scattering and axion propagated force have been employed to search for the upper limit of the ALPs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Dongyi Yang , Chenxi Sun , Jianwei Zhang

Axion-like particles are a well-motivated candidate for ultralight dark matter. Because dark matter must be non-relativistic, the effects of its scattering with Standard Model particles are negligible and generally go unnoticed. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-20 Jason L. Evans

We extend Maxwell electrodynamics with a Chern--Simons coupling to a dark sector top form sourced by domain walls. Electromagnetic fields which cross such domain walls exhibit optical activity. We outline the parameter space where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Nemanja Kaloper

We present the results from the first axion-like particle search conducted using a dish antenna. The experiment was conducted at room temperature and sensitive to axion-like particles in the $44-52\,\mu\mathrm{eV}$ range ($10.7 -…

We study the cosmology of multi-field Dark Energy, using a well-motivated axio-dilaton model that contains the minimal number of fields to have the 2-derivative sigma-model interactions that power-counting arguments show naturally compete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Adam Smith , Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , C. P. Burgess , Anne-Christine Davis

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 propose a magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) search for axion dark matter around 1 GHz. The experiment leverages the axion's derivative coupling to electrons, which induces an effective A.C. magnetic field on a sample of electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Elham Kashi , Muhammad Hani Zaheer , Ryan Petery , Swati Singh

The current status of the QUAX R\&D program is presented. QUAX is a feasibility study for a detection of axion as dark matter based on the coupling to the electrons. The relevant signal is a magnetization change of a magnetic material…

Axions could be a component of the dark matter and are of great interest for particle physics. If present, their interaction with magnetic fields in the solar photosphere should produce a polarization signal of real photons, whose amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 C. Beck

Nambu-Goldstone bosons, or axions, may be ubiquitous. Some of the axions may have small masses and thus serve as mediators of long-range forces. In this paper, we study the force mediated by an extremely light axion, $\phi$, between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Dongok Kim , Younggeun Kim , Yannis K. Semertzidis , Yun Chang Shin , Wen Yin

We present a search for ultralight axion dark matter coupled to electron spins using a levitated ferromagnetic torsional oscillator (FMTO). This platform directly measures axion-induced torques on a macroscopic spin-polarized body,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chunlong Li , Yiwei Huang , Shien Yang , Yichong Ren , Yu Zhang , Peiran Yin , Pu Huang , Fei Xue