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We report the results of an axion dark matter search over an axion mass range of 9.39-9.51 ${\mu}$eV. A flux-driven Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) was added to the cryogenic receiver chain. A system noise temperature of as low as 200…

Dark matter is a focused issue in galactic evolution and cosmology. Axion is a viable particle candidate for dark matter. Its interaction with photon is an effective way to detect it, e.g., pseudoscalar-photon interaction will generate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Sheng-Jui Chen , Sheau-shi Pan

Axions are a compelling dark matter candidate, and one of the primary techniques employed to search for them is the axion haloscope, in which a resonant cavity is deployed inside a strong magnetic field so that some of the surrounding…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-18 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron P. Quiskamp , Michael E. Tobar

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

Axionlike particles (ALPs) and dark photons (DPs) are viable dark matter particle candidates. We have searched for possible ALP/DP signals in the PandaX-4T liquid xenon detector using 440 kg$\cdot$yr of data. A binned likelihood fit is…

We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions and dark photons. The plasma haloscope is a novel method for…

We review the current status of axions as dark matter. Motivation, models, constraints and experimental searches are outlined. The axion remains an excellent candidate for the dark matter and future experiments, particularly the Axion Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Leanne D. Duffy , Karl van Bibber

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In this Letter, a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity is proposed. If the scheme is applied to the Fabry-P\'erot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-01 Koji Nagano , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

Bounds are derived on the axion-like particle (ALP) to two-photon coupling in the mass range $2.65-5.27$ eV. The bounds are obtained by searching for the signal from ALP decay in the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) observations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Elisa Todarello

The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) has previously excluded Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky (DFSZ) axions between 680-790 MHz under the assumption that the dark matter is described by the isothermal halo model. However, the precise…

The dark photon has been postulated as a potential constituent of dark matter, exhibiting notable similarities to the axion. The primary distinction between the two particles lies in the nature of their respective fields: the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , José Reina-Valero , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Benito Gimeno

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…

Dark matter Axion search with riNg Cavity Experiment (DANCE) was proposed. To search for axion-like particles, we aim to detect the rotation and oscillation of optical linear polarization caused by axion-photon coupling with a bow-tie…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Yuka Oshima , Hiroki Fujimoto , Masaki Ando , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Taihei Watanabe

We propose a new method to detect observational appearance of Dark Matter axions. The method utilizes observations of neutron stars (NSs) in radio. It is based on the conversion of axions to photons in strong magnetic fields of NSs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

In this article we present the Dark-photons$\&$Axion-Like particles Interferometer (DALI), a novel experiment designed for the detection of photon-mixing cold dark matter in the microwave band between 6 and 60 GHz. DALI is a haloscope for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-29 Javier De Miguel-Hernández

A new search strategy for the detection of the elusive dark matter (DM) axion is proposed. The idea is based on streaming DM axions, whose flux might get temporally enormously enhanced due to gravitational lensing. This can happen if the…

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…

A coupled microwave-cavity system of cylindrical TM$_{010}$ single-mode has been developed to search for dark matter axions around 10 $\mu {\rm eV}$(2.4 GHz) with the Rydberg-atom cavity detector at 10 mK range temperature. One component of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Tada , Y. Kishimoto , M. Shibata , K. Kominato , I. Ogawa , H. Funahashi , K. Yamamoto , S. Matsuki

Both axion and dark photon dark matter are among the most promising candidates of dark matter. What we know with some confidence is that they exhibit a small velocity distribution $\delta v\lesssim v\sim 10^{-3}$c. In addition, their mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-12 Puxian Wei , Ruifeng Zheng , Qiaoli Yang