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We describe a resonant cavity search apparatus for axion dark matter constructed by the Quantum Sensors for the Hidden Sector (QSHS) collaboration. The apparatus is configured to search for QCD axion dark matter, though also has the…

Measurements in the radio regime embrace a number of effective approaches for WISP searches, often covering unique or highly complementary ranges of the parameter space compared to those explored in other research domains. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-19 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

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

M\"ossbauer spectroscopy is widely used in biochemistry, geology, and solid-state physics to obtain structural information on materials. Here, we extend this technique into the optical range using a vacuum ultraviolet laser to probe the…

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

A high finesse optical cavity can be used to search for cosmic axions in the mass range 10^{-6}< m_a <10^{-4} eV. Either a two-arm or a single-arm cavity is suitable and in either case the signal as resonant sidebands imposed on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 Adrian C. Melissinos

We have proposed a method for the detection of dark matter axion. It uses superconductor under strong magnetic field. As is well known, the dark matter axion induces oscillating electric field under magnetic field. The electric field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Aiichi Iwazaki

Axions provide a natural and well-motivated dark matter candidate, with the capability to convert directly to photons in the presence of an electromagnetic field. A particularly compelling observational target is the conversion of dark…

Ultralight axions and other bosons are dark matter candidates present in many high energy physics theories beyond the Standard Model. In particular, the string axiverse postulates the existence of up to $\mathcal{O}(100)$ light scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Alex Laguë , J. Richard Bond , Renée Hložek , Keir K. Rogers , David J. E. Marsh , Daniel Grin

Consistent frameworks of quantum gravity often predict the existence of large numbers of ultralight pseudoscalar degrees of freedom, forming the phenomenological landscape of the String Axiverse. The complexity of the extra-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-15 Matthew J. Stott

We investigate the time modulation of weak nuclear decays as a method to probe axion dark matter. To this end, we develop a theoretical framework to compute the $\theta$-dependence of weak nuclear decays, including electron capture and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Jorge Alda , Carlo Broggini , Giuseppe Di Carlo , Luca Di Luzio , Denise Piatti , Stefano Rigolin , Claudio Toni

Dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics, with axions, a hypothetical particle proposed to resolve the strong CP problem, standing as a compelling candidate. Among various experimental strategies, cavity…

The MicroBooNE neutrino experiment at Fermilab is constructing a liquid-argon time-projection chamber for the Booster Neutrino Beam to study neutrino oscillations and interactions with nucleons and nuclei, starting in 2014. We describe the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tia Miceli , Vassili Papavassiliou , Stephen Pate , Katherine Woodruff

Dark matter remains one of the most compelling open problems in modern physics, motivating experimental searches for new light, weakly coupled particles beyond the Standard Model. Despite extensive efforts employing diverse detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-12 Sharada Sahoo , Jing-han Chen , Mahdi Mirzakhani , Harikrishnan Ramani , Rupak Mahapatra , Surjeet Rajendran

Atomic dark matter is a simple but highly theoretically motivated possibility for an interacting dark sector that could constitute some or all of dark matter. We perform a comprehensive study of precision cosmological observables on minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-31 Saurabh Bansal , Jared Barron , David Curtin , Yuhsin Tsai

It has been suggested that radio telescopes may be sensitive to axion dark matter that resonantly converts to radio photons in the magnetospheres surrounding neutron stars (NSs). In this work, we closely examine this possibility by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Benjamin R. Safdi , Zhiquan Sun , Alexander Y. Chen

The presence of dark matter provides some of the most tangible evidence for the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model. One compelling dark matter candidate is the axion, a light boson that was originally postulated as a solution to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-17 Chiara P. Salemi

Fundamental constants such as masses and coupling constants of elementary particles can have small temporal and spatial variations in the scalar field dark matter model. These variations entail time oscillations of other constants, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-18 V. V. Flambaum , A. J. Mansour , I. B. Samsonov , C. Weitenberg

The potential to detect axion dark matter through astrophysical processes has shown high promise in recent years. We therefore expand on previous work studying the axion-to-photon conversion efficacy of neutron stars and the interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Felix Weber , Vikram Ravi

We study the purely gravitational signatures of dark matter from the ultralight to the ultraheavy mass range in proposed long-baseline atom gradiometers, focusing on terrestrial designs, such as AION-km and MAGIS-km, as well as space-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Leonardo Badurina , Yufeng Du , Vincent S. H. Lee , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek