How to Use axion in a Sentence

axion

noun
  • As a result, only a small slice of the axion mass range has been explored.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • The great question that Safi hopes to answer is to identify an axion.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • That's not so with the axion, which can potentially spread its wavelength across an entire galaxy.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The axion-like particle would then travel across the vastness of space unimpeded.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
  • This is the shape of the mathematical function defining the axion field.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
  • By ruling out wide ranges of possible properties, the study has narrowed down where axions could be hiding.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • No scientists have been able to find axions so far, yet Safdi can’t conceive of a universe without them.
    — Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Physicists originally cooked up the axion to explain why neutrons don’t spin in electric fields.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2017
  • Enter the axion, the second-most promising candidate for dark matter.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Like WIMPs, axions are thought to have been produced in the very early universe.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • No WIMPs, no axions—just a slight tweak to some century-old equations.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Among the non-WIMP candidates, axions may be the new favorite.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Their findings reveal a signal that looks strikingly like the kind of fingerprint axions would leave behind.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025
  • That includes perhaps the leading dark matter candidate at the moment, axions.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 July 2025
  • The hunt for wispy particles called axions, which might make up the dark matter whose gravity keeps galaxies from falling apart, is heating up.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But axions may be making a comeback, or at least holding steady while WIMPs faceplant.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The Sun could be producing a novel type of (candidate dark matter) particle known as an axion.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The April analysis would potentially make the axions far lighter than even neutrinos.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 June 2023
  • Other axion searches use our sun, which is expected to produce axions in its interior that then stream into space.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Because only a small number of those photons would match the axion frequency, few would trigger an axion conversion.
    — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
  • What is intriguing, is that the high-energy photo may have been converted into an axion-like particle.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
  • If dark matter is made up of wavelike particles called axions, then the varying density of axions from place to place should cause the strength of some of the forces to wiggle up and down.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Physicists have been on the quest for axions for decades because some possible variants of these particles might constitute most or all of the universe’s dark matter.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But as time goes on, the axions will dilute and lose steam, allowing for the negative cosmological constant to take over, the authors propose.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 24 July 2025
  • Physicists suspect that this signals the existence of a new kind of particle—the axion—that formed in the early universe and has the right properties to be dark matter.
    — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
  • The new idea, which goes by the name axiogenesis, could further motivate experimental searches for the axion.
    — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
  • This equipment is designed to distinguish potential axion signals from background thermal and electronic noise.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Dec. 2025
  • To demonstrate their idea, Jiang and Wilczek focused on an unorthodox set of rules called axion electrodynamics, which could give rise to unique properties.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • An axion is a hypothetical subatomic particle of low mass and energy that could be responsible for dark matter in the cosmos.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As this light traveled across the vast cluster of magnetic fields, some of it might have briefly turned into axions and back into photons, leaving tiny irregularities in the data.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2025

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