no code implementations • 17 Dec 2020 • Victor V. Flambaum, Liangliang Su, Lei Wu, Bin Zhu
Due to the low nuclear recoils, sub-GeV dark matter (DM) is usually beyond the sensitivity of the conventional DM direct detection experiments.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2020 • Victor V. Flambaum, Junlan Jin, Dmitry Budker
We present a possibility of direct resonance production of pionic atoms (Coulomb bound states of a negative pion and a nucleus) with a rate of up to $\sim10^{10}$ per second using the gamma-ray beams from the Gamma Factory.
Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory Atomic Physics
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2019 • Abhishek Banerjee, Dmitry Budker, Joshua Eby, Victor V. Flambaum, Hyungjin Kim, Oleksii Matsedonskyi, Gilad Perez
We discuss the sensitivity of the present and near-future axion dark matter experiments to a halo of axions or axion-like particles gravitationally bound to the Earth or the Sun.
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Atomic Physics