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We examine the resonant conversion of axion-like particle (ALP) or dark photon to the electromagnetic photon in the early Universe, which takes place due to the ALP-photon-dark photon oscillations in background dark photon gauge fields. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-28 Kiwoon Choi , Hyeonseok Seong , Seokhoon Yun

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

We observe that it is very usefull to introduce a complex field for the axion photon system in an external magnetic field, when for example considered with the geometry of the experiments exploring axion photon mixing, where the real part…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-11-27 E. I. Guendelman

We study the problem of axion-photon coupling in the magnetic field influenced by gravitational radiation. We focus on exact solutions to the equations for axion electrodynamics in the pp-wave gravitational background for two models with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander B. Balakin , Wei-Tou Ni

Using magnetic white dwarfs as a case study, we show that the emission of sub-MeV bosons from stellar plasmas can be substantially modified in the presence of a magnetic field. In particular, the magnetic field-induced anisotropy and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Nirmalya Brahma , Ella Iles , Hugo Schérer , Katelin Schutz

Identifying dark matter candidates that simultaneously generate multiple observable cosmological signatures is a key goal in connecting particle physics with upcoming observations. Axion-like particles coupled to the Standard Model photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-21 Christopher Gerlach , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller

We present results showing that, thanks to axion-photon mixing in external magnetic fields, it is actually possible to produce an effect similar to the one needed to explain the large-scale coherent orientations of quasar polarisation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 A. Payez , J. R. Cudell , D. Hutsemekers

We identify a new resonance, axion magnetic resonance (AMR), that can greatly enhance the conversion rate between axions and photons. A series of axion search experiments rely on converting them into photons inside a constant magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-12 Hyeonseok Seong , Chen Sun , Seokhoon Yun

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

One of the promising new proposals to search for axions in astrophysical environments is to look for narrow radio lines produced from the resonant conversion of axion dark matter falling through the magnetospheres of neutron stars. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-05 Jonas Tjemsland , Jamie McDonald , Samuel J. Witte

It has been hypothesized that dark matter is comprised of ultra-light bosons whose collective phenomena can be described as a scalar field undergoing coherent oscillations. Examples include axion and fuzzy dark matter models. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-08 Jeremy Sakstein , Ippocratis D. Saltas

It is known that vacuum polarization can modify the photon propagation modes in the atmospheric plasma of a strongly magnetized neutron star. A resonance occurs when the effect of vacuum polarization on the photon modes balances that of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dong Lai , Wynn C. G. Ho

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

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

We investigate a scenario where the dark matter of the Universe is made from very light hidden photons transforming under a $Z_{2}$-symmetry. In contrast to the usual situation, kinetic mixing is forbidden by the symmetry and the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego Vargas-Arancibia

The effect of a magnetized plasma on the resonant photoproduction of axions on the electromagnetic multipole components of the medium, $i \to f+a$, has been considered. It has been shown that the axion resonant emissivity, due to various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-30 N. V. Mikheev , D. A. Rumyantsev , Yu. E. Shkol'nikova

In particle physics, axions and axion-like particles are ubiquitous. Remarkably, ultra-light axions could constitute dark matter or dark energy. Therefore, it is important to detect axions experimentally. In the presence of a magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Taiki Ikeda , Sugumi Kanno , Jiro Soda

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

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) remain highly motivated extensions to the standard model due to their ability to address open questions such as the relic abundance of dark matter and the strong CP problem. Axions are also capable of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Bryce Cyr , Jens Chluba , Pranav Bharadwaj Gangrekalve Manoj

When ultralight axion dark matter encounters a static magnetic field, it sources an effective electric current that follows the magnetic field lines and oscillates at the axion Compton frequency. We propose a new experiment to detect this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin R. Safdi , Jesse Thaler