Experiments to test the hypothesis for solar and dark matter axions

2025/07/08 by Babette Döbrich, Döbrich, Babette, I.G. Irastorza +1 · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · #Chemical and Physical Properties of Materials #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.06414

openalex publication_date 2025/07/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present a pedagogical introduction to the direct search of axions as dark matter, as well as to searches for solar axions. The plethora of experimental searches exploit the axion's coupling to two photons: They attempt to convert the axion dark matter to photons in a resonator placed in an external magnetic field or convert solar axions into X-rays in a magnet pointing towards the sun. We give a basic introduction to this concept, its many variants and to searches that exploit the axion's other couplings. We also speculate about potentially transformative developments for such searches in the near-term future.

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