activity
20182021
most citedBending of light in axion backgrounds

5 citations · 5 across the 1 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

7 papers

hep-ph2021

Radio Line Properties of Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Stars

R. A. Battye, B. Garbrecht, J. I. McDonald +1

Axions are well-motivated candidates for dark matter. Recently, much interest has focused on the detection of photons produced by the resonant conversion of axion dark matter in ne…

hep-ph20205 cited

Bending of light in axion backgrounds

Jamie I. McDonald, Luís B. Ventura

In this work we examine refraction of light by computing full solutions to axion electrodynamics. We also allow for the possibility of an additional plasma component. We then speci…

hep-ph2020

Dynamical Evolution of Gravitational Leptogenesis

Jamie I. McDonald, Graham M. Shore

Radiatively-induced gravitational leptogenesis is a potential mechanism to explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. Gravitational tidal effects at the quan…

hep-ph2019

Optical properties of dynamical axion backgrounds

Jamie I. McDonald, Luís B. Ventura

We discuss spectral distortions, time delays and refraction of light in an axion or axion-plasma background. This involves solving the full set of geodesic equations associated to…

astro-ph.CO2019

Dark matter axion detection in the radio/mm-waveband

Richard A. Battye, Bjoern Garbrecht, Jamie I. McDonald +2

We discuss axion dark matter detection via two mechanisms: spontaneous decays and resonant conversion in neutron star magnetospheres. For decays, we show that the brightness temper…

hep-ph2019

Axion superradiance in rotating neutron stars

Francesca V. Day, Jamie I. McDonald

It is a well-known fact that compact gravitating objects admit bound state configurations for massive bosonic fields. In this work we describe a new class of superradiant instabili…