Looking for dark matter on the light side

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent laboratory experiments searching for light dark matter particles, especially axions, focusing on their electromagnetic interactions and the latest experimental efforts to detect them.

Contribution

It provides a concise overview of the theoretical motivation and recent experimental approaches for detecting light, weakly interacting dark matter particles like axions.

Findings

Summary of recent experimental techniques

Highlighting electromagnetic coupling detection methods

Overview of current experimental results

Abstract

Among the prominent low-mass dark matter candidates is the QCD axion but also other light and weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model. We review briefly the case for such dark matter and give an overview on most recent experimental efforts within laboratory searches, where we focus on experiments exploiting a potential electromagnetic coupling of such particles.