New experimental approaches in the search for axion-like particles

IG Irastorza, J Redondo - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Axions and other very light axion-like particles appear in many extensions of the Standard
Model, and are leading candidates to compose part or all of the missing matter of the …

Dark photon limits: A handbook

A Caputo, AJ Millar, CAJ O'Hare, E Vitagliano - Physical Review D, 2021‏ - APS
The dark photon is a massive hypothetical particle that interacts with the Standard Model by
kinetically mixing with the visible photon. For small values of the mixing parameter, dark …

Broadband solenoidal haloscope for terahertz axion detection

J Liu, K Dona, G Hoshino, S Knirck, N Kurinsky… - Physical Review Letters, 2022‏ - APS
We introduce the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD) conceptual
design and science program. This haloscope plans to search for bosonic dark matter across …

New constraints on dark photon dark matter with superconducting nanowire detectors in an optical haloscope

J Chiles, I Charaev, R Lasenby, M Baryakhtar… - Physical review …, 2022‏ - APS
Uncovering the nature of dark matter is one of the most important goals of particle physics.
Light bosonic particles, such as the dark photon, are well-motivated candidates: they are …

Tunable axion plasma haloscopes

M Lawson, AJ Millar, M Pancaldi, E Vitagliano… - Physical review …, 2019‏ - APS
We propose a new strategy for searching for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic
plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon …

Refinement of the standard halo model for dark matter searches in light of the Gaia Sausage

NW Evans, CAJ O'Hare, C McCabe - Physical Review D, 2019‏ - APS
Predicting signals in experiments to directly detect dark matter (DM) requires a form for the
local DM velocity distribution. Hitherto, the standard halo model (SHM), in which velocities …

Dielectric haloscopes: A new way to detect axion dark matter

A Caldwell, G Dvali, B Majorovits, A Millar, G Raffelt… - Physical review …, 2017‏ - APS
We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions in the mass range of 40–400 μ
eV by introducing dielectric haloscopes, which consist of dielectric disks placed in a …

Axion and hidden photon dark matter detection with multilayer optical haloscopes

M Baryakhtar, J Huang, R Lasenby - Physical Review D, 2018‏ - APS
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 …

Revealing the dark matter halo with axion direct detection

JW Foster, NL Rodd, BR Safdi - Physical Review D, 2018‏ - APS
The next generation of axion direct-detection experiments may rule out or confirm axions as
the dominant source of dark matter. We develop a general likelihood-based framework for …

Early seeds of axion miniclusters

A Vaquero, J Redondo, J Stadler - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We study the small scale structure of axion dark matter in the post-inflationary scenario,
which predicts the formation of low-mass, high density clumps of gravitationally bound …