Searching for axion and axion-like-particle dark matter in the laboratory and with high-energy astrophysical observations

A first application of machine and deep learning for background rejection in the ALPS II TES detector

Author(s): Manuel Meyer, Katharina Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Axel Lindner, Gulden Othman, José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno, Christina Schwemmbauer, Matthias Schott, Rikhav Shah
Published in: Annals of Physics, 2023, ISSN 0003-3804
Publisher: A Hüthig
DOI: 10.1002/andp.202200545

Novel bounds on decaying axionlike particle dark matter from the cosmic background

Author(s): Sara Porras-Bedmar, Manuel Meyer, Dieter Horns
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.110.103501

Sensitivity of a gigahertz Fabry-Pérot resonator for axion dark matter detection

Author(s): Jacob Egge, Manuel Meyer
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 112, 2025, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/3y21-8b64

Binary classification of signal and background triggers of a transition edge sensor using convolutional neural networks

Author(s): Elmeri Rivasto, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Axel Lindner, Manuel Meyer, Gulden Othman, José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno, Christina Schwemmbauer
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 16, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-33353-4

Constraints on axionlike particles from VERITAS observations of a flaring radio galaxy in the Perseus cluster

Author(s): C. B. Adams, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, Y. Chen, J. L. Christiansen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Escobar Godoy, J. Escudero Pedrosa, S. Feldman, Q. Feng, S.
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 112, 2025, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/jydc-npy6

"Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic field from <mml:math xmlns:mml=""http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"" display=""inline""> <mml:mi>F</mml:mi> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mi>r</mml:mi> <mml:mi>m</mml:mi> <mml:mi>i</mml:mi> </mml:math>"

Author(s): Lea Burmeister, Paolo Da Vela, Francesco Longo, Guillem Martí-Devesa, Manuel Meyer, Francesco G. Saturni, Antonio Stamerra, Péter Veres
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 113, 2026, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/g8rr-g7p4

Searching for axionlike particles from core-collapse supernovae with Fermi LAT’s low-energy technique

Author(s): Milena Crnogorčević; Regina Caputo; Manuel Meyer; Nicola Omodei; Michael Gustafsson
Published in: Physical Review D, 2022, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: Americal Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.05790

Constraints on the Intergalactic Magnetic Field Using Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. Blazar Observations

Author(s): F. Aharonian, J. Aschersleben, M. Backes, V. Barbosa Martins, R. Batzofin, Y. Becherini, D. Berge, B. Bi, M. Bouyahiaoui, M. Breuhaus, R. Brose, F. Brun, B. Bruno, T. Bulik, C. Burger-Scheidlin, T. Bylund, S. Caroff, S. Casanova, J. Celic, M. Cerruti, T. Chand, S. Chandra, A. Chen, J. Chibueze, O. Chibueze, G. Cotter, M. de Bony, K. Egberts, J. -P. Ernenwein, G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, M. Filipov
Published in: Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acd777

"Constraints on axionlike particles from a combined analysis of three flaring <mml:math xmlns:mml=""http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"" display=""inline""><mml:mi>F</mml:mi><mml:mi>e</mml:mi><mml:mi>r</mml:mi><mml:mi>m</mml:mi><mml:mi>i</mml:mi></mml:math> flat-spectrum radio quasars"

Author(s): James Davies; Manuel Meyer; Garret Cotter
Published in: Physical Review D, 2023, ISSN 1550-7998
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.107.083027

Probing a Cosmogenic Origin of Astrophysical Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays Using Gamma-Ray Observations of TXS 0506+056

Author(s): A. Acharyya, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, J. L. Christiansen, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Escobar Godoy, A. Falcone, S. Feldman, Q. Feng, S. Filbert, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, W. Hanlon, O. Hervet, C. E. Hinrichs, J. Holder, Z. Hughes, M. Iskakova, W. Jin, P. Kaaret, M. Kertzman, M. Kherlakian, D. Kieda, T. K. Kleiner, N. Korzoun, M. J. Lang, M. Lundy, G. M
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Issue 996, 2025, Page(s) 38, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1d72

Constraining the Astrophysical Origin of Intergalactic Magnetic Fields

Author(s): J. Tjemsland; M. Meyer; F. Vazza
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 963, Iss 2, p 135 (2024), Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad22dd

Impact of baryons on the population of Galactic subhalos and implications for dark matter searches

Author(s): Sara Porras-Bedmar, Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde, Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella
Published in: Physics of the Dark Universe, Issue 52, 2026, Page(s) 102262, ISSN 2212-6864
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dark.2026.102262

Niebla: An open-source code for modeling the extragalactic background light

Author(s): Sara Porras-Bedmar, Manuel Meyer
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue 710, 2026, Page(s) A377, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202557813

Simulation and measurement of blackbody radiation background in a transition edge sensor

Author(s): José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno, Friederike Januschek, Axel Lindner, Christina Schwemmbauer, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Manuel Meyer, Elmeri Rivasto, Gulden Othman, Rikhav Shah
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 112, 2025, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/hqmt-vq1g

Quantum Mechanics of an Abrikosov Vortex in Nanofabricated Pinning Potential

Author(s): Elmeri O. Rivasto
Published in: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Issue 222, 2025, ISSN 0022-2291
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10909-025-03353-9

Curvature in the very-high energy gamma-ray spectrum of M 87

Author(s): H.E.S.S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben, H. Ashkar, M. Backes, V. Barbosa Martins, R. Batzofin, Y. Becherini, D. Berge, K. Bernlöhr, M. Böttcher, C. Boisson, J. Bolmont, M. de Bony de Lavergne, F. Bradascio, R. Brose, F. Brun, B. Bruno, T. Bulik C. Burger-Scheidlin, T. Bylund, S. Casanova, R. Cecil, J. Celic, M. Cerruti, T. Chand, S. Chandra, A. Chen, J. Chibueze,
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348913

Relevance of photon-photon dispersion within the jet for blazar axionlike particle searches

Author(s): James Davies; Manuel Meyer; Garret Cotter
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: Americal Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.105.023017

Gamma-ray Cosmology and Tests of Fundamental Physics

Author(s): Jonathan Biteau; Manuel Meyer
Published in: Galaxies, 2022, ISSN 2075-4434
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.00523

First direct search for light dark matter interactions in a transition-edge sensor

Author(s): Christina Schwemmbauer, Guy Daniel Hadas, Yonit Hochberg, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Benjamin V. Lehmann, Axel Lindner, Adriana E. Lita, Manuel Meyer, Gulden Othman, Elmeri Rivasto, José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno
Published in: Physical Review D, Issue 114, 2026, ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/zytz-n25v

Constraints on axionlike particles from a combined analysis of three flaring Fermi flat-spectrum radio quasars

Author(s): Davies, James; Meyer, Manuel; Cotter, Garret
Published in: Phyical Review D, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: Americal Physical Society

Simulations for direct dark matter searches using ALPS II's TES detection system

Author(s): Christina Schwemmbauer, Yonit Hochberg, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Benjamin Lehmann, Axel Lindner, Manuel Meyer, Gulden Othman, Jose Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno
Published in: Proceedings of 1st General Meeting and 1st Training School of the COST Action COSMIC WSIPers — PoS(COSMICWISPers), 2024, Page(s) 055
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.454.0055

Detection of new Extreme BL Lac objects with H.E.S.S. and Swift XRT

Author(s): Angel Priyana Noel; Hassan Abdalla; Felix Aharonian; Faical Ait-Benkhali; Oguzhan Anguener; Cornelia Arcaro; Celine Armand; Tom Armstrong; Halim Ashkar; Michael Backes; Vardan Baghmanyan; Victor Barbosa Martins; Anna Barnacka; Monica Barnard; Rowan Batzofin; Yvonne Becherini; David Berge; Konrad Bernloehr; Baiyang Bi; Markus Böttcher; Catherine Boisson; Julien Bolmont; Mathieu Bony (de); Mischa B
Published in: 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference. 12-23 July 2021. Berlin, Germany, PoS, 2022
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.02232

Probing Gamma-Ray Propagation at Very-High Energies with H.E.S.S. Observations of M87

Author(s): R. Cecil, H.E.S.S. Collaboration
Published in: Proceedings of Science, 2024
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.444.0908

gammaALPs: An open-source python package for computing photon-axion-like-particle oscillations in astrophysical environments

Author(s): Manuel Meyer; Jim Davies; Julian Kuhlmann
Published in: 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference. 12-23 July 2021. Berlin, Germany, PoS id.557, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.395.0557

Axion and ALP search with the Any Light Particle Search II experiment at DESY

Author(s): Isabella Oceano, null null
Published in: Proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP2023), 2024, Page(s) 117
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.449.0117

Modeling the Magnetic Field of the Virgo Cluster For Axion Like Particle Search in Gamma Ray Energies

Author(s): Rahul Cecil; Manuel Meyer
Published in: Proceedings of Science, 2023
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.417.0182

Superconducting Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics Searches

Author(s): Gulden Othman, Robert H. Hadfield, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Axel Lindner, Manuel Meyer, Dmitry Morozov, Devendra Kumar Namburi, Elmeri Rivasto, José Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno, Christina Schwemmbauer
Published in: The 19th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, 2025, Page(s) 2
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/psf2025011002

Direct dark matter searches using ALPS II's TES detection system

Author(s): C. Schwemmbauer, Y. Hochberg, K.S. Isleif, F. Januschek, B. Lehmann, A. Lindner, A.E. Lita, M. Meyer, S.W. Nam, G. Othman, J.A. Rubiera Gimeno
Published in: Proceedings of Science, 2024
Publisher: Proceeding of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.449.0120

Extending the sample of core-collapse supernovae for searches of axion-like-particle induced gamma-ray bursts with the Fermi LAT

Author(s): Manuel Meyer; Tanja Petrushevska
Published in: 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 12-23 July 2021, Berlin, Germany, PoS id. 557, Issue 1, 2022
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.02069

Towards the first axion search results of the Any Light Particle Search II experiment

Author(s): Wei, Li-Wei
Published in: Proceedings of Science, Issue 4, 2024
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.441.0049

A TES system for ALPS II - Status and Prospects

Author(s): J.A. Rubiera Gimeno, F. Januschek, K.S. Isleif, A. Lindner, M. Meyer, G. Othman, C. Schwemmbauer and R. Shah
Published in: Proceedings of Science, 2024
Publisher: Proceedings of Science
DOI: 10.22323/1.449.0567

Unveiling the Quantum Nature of Black Holes: Towards a Proof of Hawking Radiation through Gamma-Ray Observations

Author(s): Atreya Acharyya, Giacomo CACCIAPAGLIA, Manuel Meyer, Francesco Sannino
Published in: Proceedings of 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2025), 2025, Page(s) 913
Publisher: Sissa Medialab
DOI: 10.22323/1.501.0913

Gamma-Ray Constraints on Heavy Axion-Like-Particle Decays from Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. Blazar Spectra

Author(s): A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian, M. Backes, R. Batzofin, Y. Becherini, S. Bisero, M. Böttcher, C. Boisson, J. Bolmont, F. Brun, C. Burger-Scheidlin, T. Bylund, S. Casanova, D. Cecchin Momesso, M. Cerruti, A. Chen, M. Chernyakova, J.O. Chibueze, O. Chibueze, T. Collins, B. Cornejo, G. Cotter, G. Cozzolongo, J. de Assis Scarpin, M. de Naurois, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, A. Deka Baruah, A. Dmytriiev, K. Egberts
Published in: Arxiv (submitted to JCAP), 2026
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.11923

Characterization of a Two-Channel Optical and Near-infrared Transition Edge Sensor System for Rare-Event Searches

Author(s): Manuel Meyer, Katharina-Sophie Isleif, Friederike Januschek, Axel Lindner, Gulden Othman, Elmeri Rivasto, Jose Alejandro Rubiera Gimeno, Christina Schwemmbauer
Published in: Arxiv (submitted for publication to Physical Review Applied), 2026
Publisher: Arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.07423

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