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Transient Radio Signatures from Neutron Star Encounters with QCD Axion Miniclusters
Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Luca Visinelli +1
The QCD axion is expected to form dense structures known as axion miniclusters if the Peccei-Quinn symmetry is broken after inflation. Miniclusters that have survived until today w…
Radio Signal of Axion-Photon Conversion in Neutron Stars: A Ray Tracing Analysis
Mikaël Leroy, Marco Chianese, Thomas D. P. Edwards +1
Axion dark matter can resonantly convert into photons in the magnetospheres of neutron stars (NSs). It has recently been shown that radio observations of nearby NSs can therefore p…
Digging for Dark Matter: Spectral Analysis and Discovery Potential of Paleo-Detectors
Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Christoph Weniger +5
Paleo-detectors are a recently proposed method for the direct detection of Dark Matter (DM). In such detectors, one would search for the persistent damage features left by DM--nucl…
Statistical challenges in the search for dark matter
Sara Algeri, Melissa van Beekveld, Nassim Bozorgnia +19
The search for the particle nature of dark matter has given rise to a number of experimental, theoretical and statistical challenges. Here, we report on a number of these statistic…
Dark Matter Model or Mass, but Not Both: Assessing Near-Future Direct Searches with Benchmark-free Forecasting
Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, Christoph Weniger
Forecasting the signal discrimination power of dark matter (DM) searches is commonly limited to a set of arbitrary benchmark points. We introduce new methods for benchmark-free for…
swordfish: Efficient Forecasting of New Physics Searches without Monte Carlo
Thomas D. P. Edwards, Christoph Weniger
We introduce swordfish, a Monte-Carlo-free Python package to predict expected exclusion limits, the discovery reach and expected confidence contours for a large class of experiment…