Searching for Solar-Basin Axionlike-Particle Decay with XMM-Newton Blank-Sky Observations

arXiv:2608.24161 · hep-ph, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Code: https://github.com/bsafdi/XMM_BSO_DATA

Terminology

• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Axions In String Theory
• String Axiverse
• Heterotic String Theory Suggests a QCD Axion Near 0.5 neV
• String Theory and Grand Unification Suggest a Sub-Microelectronvolt QCD Axion
• Invisible Axions and Large-Radius Compactifications
• The Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics
• New experimental approaches in the search for axion-like particles
• Axion Cosmology
• Axiogenesis
• A new upper limit on the axion-photon coupling with an extended CAST run with a Xe-based Micromegas detector
• Design of the ALPS II Optical System
• Physics potential of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO)
• Search for Axion dark matter with the QUAX-LNF tunable haloscope
• Search for Axion Dark Matter from 1.1 to 1.3 GHz with ADMX
• The search for low-mass axion dark matter with ABRACADABRA-10cm
• First results from the Axion Dark-Matter Birefringent Cavity (ADBC) experiment
• Search for Dark Matter Axions with CAST-CAPP
• Earth as a transducer for axion dark-matter detection
• Light shining through walls
• New ALPS Results on Hidden-Sector Lightweights

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• Axions as Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Dark Radiation