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The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and a cold dark matter candidate. It could dominate potential wells of most astrophysical objects. Axions spontaneously decay into nearly monochromatic microwave photons. We present results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. D. Blout , E. J. Daw , M. P. Decowski , Paul T. P. Ho , L. J Rosenberg , D. B. Yu

Axions can be copiously produced in localized regions of neutron star magnetospheres where the ambient plasma is unable to efficiently screen the induced electric field. As these axions stream away from the neutron star they can resonantly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Dion Noordhuis , Anirudh Prabhu , Samuel J. Witte , Alexander Y. Chen , Fábio Cruz , Christoph Weniger

A new technique has been used to search for solar axions using a single crystal germanium detector. It exploits the coherent conversion of axions into photons when their angle of incidence satisfies a Bragg condition with a crystalline…

A search for solar axions and axion-like particles produced in the $p+d\rightarrow\rm{^3He}+A~(5.5\rm{ ~MeV})$ reaction was performed using the complete dataset of the Borexino detector (3995 days of measurement live-time). The following…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-23 Borexino Collaboration

Physics beyond the Standard Model predicts the possible existence of new particles that can be searched at the low energy frontier in the sub-eV range. The OSQAR photon regeneration experiment looks for "Light Shining through a Wall" from…

We present prospects of two experiments using the Tokyo Axion Helioscope. One is a search for solar axions. In the past measurements, axion mass from 0 to 0.27 eV and from 0.84 to 1.00 eV have been scanned and no positive evidence was seen.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-04 R. Ohta , M. Minowa , Y. Inoue , Y. Akimoto , T. Mizumoto , A. Yamamoto

We use the first observation of Betelgeuse in hard $X$-rays to perform a novel search for axion-like particles (ALPs). Betelgeuse is not expected to be a standard source of $X$-rays, but light ALPs produced in the stellar core could be…

Astrophysical sources of energetic gamma rays provide the right conditions for maximal mixing between (pseudo)scalar (axion-like) particles and photons if their coupling is as strong as suggested by the PVLAS claim. This is independent of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Fairbairn , S. N. Gninenko , N. V. Krasnikov , V. A. Matveev , T. I. Rashba , A. Rubbia , Sergey Troitsky

We report the first results of the GammeV experiment, a search for milli-eV mass particles with axion-like couplings to two photons. The search is performed using a "light shining through a wall" technique where incident photons oscillate…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-02-18 A. S. Chou , W. Wester , A. Baumbaugh , H. R. Gustafson , Y. Irizarry-Valle , P. O. Mazur , J. H. Steffen , R. Tomlin , X. Yang , J. Yoo

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions by their conversion in x-rays in the presence of high magnetic fields. The use of low background x-ray detectors is an essential component contributing to the sensitivity of these searches. In this…

A search for resonant absorption of the solar axion by $^{83}\rm{Kr}$ nuclei was performed using the proportional counter installed inside the low-background setup at the Baksan Neutrino Observatory. The obtained model independent upper…

The existence of an axion-like particle (ALP) would induce anomalous scattering of light by light. This process can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider in central exclusive production of photon pairs in proton-proton collisions by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Cristian Baldenegro , Sylvain Fichet , Gero von Gersdorff , Christophe Royon

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and photons inter-convert in the presence of a magnetic field. At keV energies in the environment of galaxy clusters, the conversion probability can become unsuppressed for light ALPs. Conversion of thermal X-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh , Andrew J. Powell

A search for optical line emission from the two-photon decay of relic axions was conducted in the galaxy clusters Abell 2667 and 2390, using spectra from the VIMOS (Visible Multi-Object Spectrograph) integral field unit at the Very Large…

The PVLAS signal has renewed the interest in light bosons coupled to the electromagnetic field. However, astrophysical bounds coming from the lifetime of the sun and the CAST experiment are seemingly in conflict with this result. We discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joerg Jaeckel , Eduard Masso , Javier Redondo , Andreas Ringwald , Fuminobu Takahashi

The decay of the $Z$ boson into axion-like particles (ALP) at the $Z$-pole run of the proposed CERN FCC-ee collider is investigated. We perform a detailed study of final states with three photons or with a single photon and missing energy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-13 Giacomo Polesello

We report on a neutron particle physics experiment, which provides for the first time an upper limit on the strength of an axial coupling constant for a new light spin 1 boson in the millimeter range. Such a new boson would mediate a new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-05-03 F. Piegsa , G. Pignol

We perform the most sensitive search to-date for the existence of ultralight axions using data from the NuSTAR telescope. We search for stellar axion production in the M82 starburst galaxy and the M87 central galaxy of the Virgo cluster and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Orion Ning , Benjamin R. Safdi

Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Nissim Fraija , Gonzalo Herrera