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Ultralight dark matter candidates, such as axions and dark photons, are leading dark matter candidates. They may couple feebly to photons, sourcing oscillating electromagnetic signals in the Earth's conducting cavity formed between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jun Guo , Xiaofei Huang , Jing Shu , Hongliang Tian , Wenyu Wang , Kai Wei , Lei Wu , Mingming Xia , Jin Min Yang , Qiang Yuan , Yang Zhang , Yi Zhang , Bin Zhu

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…

Nearly all astrophysical and cosmological data point convincingly to a large component of cold dark matter (CDM) in the Universe. The axion particle, first theorized as a solution to the strong charge-parity problem of quantum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-06 I. Stern

The axion is a light pseudoscalar particle postulated to solve issues with the Standard Model, including the strong CP problem and the origin of dark matter. In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in the physics of axions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-03 Kiwoon Choi , Sang Hui Im , Chang Sub Shin

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In Phys.Rev.Lett. 123 (2019) no.11, 111301, we have proposed a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity. If the scheme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

A haloscope of the QUAX--$a\gamma$ experiment composed of an oxygen-free high thermal conductivity-Cu cavity inside an 8.1 T magnet and cooled to $\sim200$ mK is put in operation for the search of galactic axion with mass…

The invisible axion is a well-motivated hypothetical particle which could address two fundamental questions in modern physics - the CP symmetry problem in the strong interactions and the dark matter mystery of our universe. The plausible…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-27 Junu Jeong , Sungwoo Youn , Jihn E. Kim

The axion was first introduced as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to solve the CP problem in strong interactions of particle physics and is a well motivated cold dark matter candidate. This particle is expected to interact…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-08 S. W. Youn , E. Sala , J. Jeong , J. Kim , Y. K. Semertzidis

Light cold dark matter consisting of weakly interacting slim (or sub-eV) particles (WISPs) has been in the focus of a large number of studies made over the past two decades. The QCD axion and axion-like particles with masses in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-24 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

A QCD axion with a decay constant below $ 10 ^{ 11} ~{\rm GeV} $ is a strongly-motivated extension to the Standard Model, though its relic abundance from the misalignment mechanism or decay of cosmic defects is insufficient to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Jeff Dror , Stefania Gori , Pankaj Munbodh

We report the results of an experimental search for ultralight axion-like dark matter in the mass range 162 neV to 166 neV. The detection scheme of our Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) is based on a precision measurement of…

Non-relativistic QCD axions or axion-like particles are among the most popular candidates for cold Dark Matter (DM) in the universe. We proposed to detect axion-like DM, using linearly polarized pulsar light as a probe. Because of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tao Liu , George Smoot , Yue Zhao

Following a phenomenological analysis done by the late Martin Perl for the detection of the dark energy, we show that an axion of energy $1.5\times 10^{-3}~eV/c^2$ can be a viable candidate for the dark energy particle. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-31 Elias C. Vagenas

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with large missing transverse momentum, at least one energetic jet, and no leptons, in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-07-13 CMS Collaboration

Axions and axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates. We propose an experiment that uses single photon detection interferometry to search for axions and axion-like particles in the galactic halo. We show that photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-23 Haocun Yu , Ohkyung Kwon , Hartmut Grote , Denis Martynov

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with a Z boson candidate and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-21 CMS Collaboration

The QCD axion or axion-like particles are candidates of dark matter of the universe. On the other hand, axion-like excitations exist in certain condensed matter systems, which implies that there can be interactions of dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

We update cosmological hot dark matter constraints on neutrinos and hadronic axions. Our most restrictive limits use 7-year data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe for the cosmic microwave background anisotropies, the halo power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Steen Hannestad , Alessandro Mirizzi , Georg G. Raffelt , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Almost 35 years since their suggestion as a good solution to the strong CP-problem, axions remain one of the few viable candidates for the Dark Matter, although still eluding detection. Most of the methods for their detection are based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Dafni , F. J. Iguaz

This chapter will cover the search for dark matter axions based on microwave cavity experiments proposed by Pierre Sikivie. The topic begins with a brief overview of halo dark matter and the axion as a candidate. The principle of resonant…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianpaolo Carosi , Karl van Bibber