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10 papers

hep-ph2026

Halbach Magnetic Weber Bars

Valerie Domcke, Itay M. Bloch

Magnetic Weber Bars have been proposed to search for gravitational waves in the kHz to GHz regime by exploiting the mechanical deformation of a large magnet induced by a gravitatio…

hep-ph2026

Dark Matter Detection Using Phonon Sensing in Amorphous Materials

Itay M. Bloch, Simon Knapen, Xinran Li +2

We present a concept for a tabletop-scale detector with an amorphous target designed to search for dark matter absorption into phonon excitations. In crystalline materials, absorpt…

hep-ph2026

The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles

Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…

hep-ph2026

NASDUCK': Laboratory Limits on Ultralight Dark-Photon Dark Matter with Null-Axis Magnetometry

Joel Barir, Itay M. Bloch, Yair Goldszeft +4

The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass…

hep-ph2026

Earth Matter Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Search

Xiaofei Huang, Xiaolin Ma, Zitong Xu +2

Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. Ho…

hep-ex2025

SENSEI: A Search for Diurnal Modulation in sub-GeV Dark Matter Scattering

Itay M. Bloch, Ana M. Botti, Mariano Cababie +28

Dark matter particles with sufficiently large interactions with ordinary matter can scatter in the Earth's atmosphere and crust before reaching an underground detector. This Earth-…