New atomic probes for dark matter detection: Axions, axion-like particles and topological defects
New atomic probes for dark matter detection: Axions, axion-like particles and topological defects
We present a brief overview of recently proposed detection schemes for axion, axion-like pseudoscalar particle and topological defect dark matter. We focus mainly on the possibility of using atomic and molecular systems for dark matter detection. For axions and axion-like particles, these methods are complementary probes to ongoing photon-axion interconversion …