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We propose a novel modification to the optical benches of space-based gravitational wave detectors (SGWDs) to enable the detection of axion-like dark matter (ALDM)-induced birefringence without altering the polarization of inter-spacecraft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Run-Min Yao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qing-Guo Huang

We investigate a search for the oscillating current induced by axion dark matter in an external magnetic field using optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). This experiment is based upon the LC circuit axion detection concept of Sikivie,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-24 P. -H. Chu , L. D. Duffy , Y. J. Kim , I. M. Savukov

It is demonstrated that detection of putative particles such as paraphotons and axions constituting the dark sector of the universe can be reduced to detection of extremely weak links or couplings between cavities and modes. This method…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-09 Maxim Goryachev , Ben McAllister , Michael E. Tobar

We present results of a search for spin-independent dark matter-nucleon interactions in a 1 cm$^2$ by 1 mm thick (0.233 gram) high-resolution silicon athermal phonon detector operated above ground. For interactions in the substrate, this…

We reexamine the axion-photon couplings in various invisible axion models motivated by the recent proposal of using optical interferometry at the ASST facility in the SSCL to search for axion. We illustrate that the assignment of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. L. Cheng , C. Q. Geng , W. -T. Ni

The majoron is a well-motivated light (pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone) boson associated with the spontaneous breaking of a global lepton-number symmetry. In this {\it letter}, we relate the spontaneous breaking scale and its soft-breaking mass by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-28 Qiuyue Liang , Xavier Ponce Díaz , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Scanning probe microscopy with multi-qubit sensors offers the potential to improve imaging speed and measure previously inaccessible quantities, such as two-point correlations. We develop a multiplexed quantum sensing approach with scanning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 William S. Huxter , Federico Dalmagioni , Christian L. Degen

In this note we look at the time evolution of signals in axion dark matter experiments from a quantum perspective. Our aim is not to contribute new results to the general discussion of the quantum/classical connection (which we do not) but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Joerg Jaeckel , Valentina Montoya , Cedric Quint

An effective quantum description of the axion is proposed as a two-level dynamic system together with a spin-spin Hamiltonian for a coupled axion-Josephson qubit system. The interaction between axion and Josephson Junction can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-13 Roberto Grimaudo , Claudio Guarcello , Giovanni Filatrella , Bernardo Spagnolo , Davide Valenti

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…

In this work, prospects to probe an overlooked facet of axion-like particles (ALPs) -- their potential couplings to sterile neutrinos -- are presented. We found that mono-photon searches have the potential to constrain ALP couplings to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-18 Alexandre Alves , Alex G. Dias , Diego D. Lopes

Scenarios with multiple pseudoscalars are interesting as they usually tend to provide a framework to naturally realize a light axion with a large decay constant which has rich applications in cosmology, especially in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-15 Srimoy Bhattacharya , Debajyoti Choudhury , Suvam Maharana , Tripurari Srivastava

Quantum sensors based on the superposition of neutral atoms are promising for sensing the nature of dark matter (DM). In this study, we utilize the Stern-Gerlach (SG) interferometer configuration to seek a novel method for the detection of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-24 Milad Hajebrahimi , Hassan Manshouri , Mohammad Sharifian , Moslem Zarei

We propose an experiment for detecting Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) based on the axion-photon interaction in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field. The impact of virtual ALPs on the polarization of the photons inside a cavity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-22 Moslem Zarei , Soroush Shakeri , Mohammad Sharifian , Mehdi Abdi , David J. E. Marsh , Sabino Matarrese

We propose an experiment to search for QCD axion and axion-like-particle (ALP) dark matter. Nuclei that are interacting with the background axion dark matter acquire time-varying CP-odd nuclear moments such as an electric dipole moment. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 Dmitry Budker , Peter W. Graham , Micah Ledbetter , Surjeet Rajendran , Alex Sushkov

In view of the ongoing galactic (or cosmic) axion detection experiments, we compare the axion-photon-photon coupling $c_{a\gamma\gamma}$'s for various invisible (or very light) axion models.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jihn E. Kim

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 study the interaction between photons, dark photons, and axions at future lepton colliders, focusing on single-photon events with missing energy as the experimental signature. We find that future facilities such as the ILC, CEPC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Van Que Tran

One of the prime tools to search for new light bosons interacting very weakly with photons -- prominent examples are axions, axion-like particles and extra ``hidden'' U(1) gauge bosons -- are light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) experiments.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-17 Paola Arias , Joerg Jaeckel , Javier Redondo , Andreas Ringwald

We propose an experiment to search for axions and axion-like-particles in the galactic halo using quantum-enhanced interferometry. This proposal is related to the previously reported ideas (Phys. Rev. D 98, 035021, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-06-24 Denis Martynov , Haixing Miao