Weighing the Axion with Muon Haloscopy

Recent measurements of muon spin precession confirm a long-standing tension with the Standard Model of particle physics. We argue that axions from the local dark matter halo of the galaxy are responsible for the tension. The argument yields a percent level prediction for the mass of the axion provided that dark matter is made of axions. An analysis of charge asymmetry in kaon decays suggests that at least in the local halo dark matter is made of axions and that axions from the local halo are responsible for the observed violation by these reactions of the combined charge conjugation and spatial inversion symmetry operation. Tabletop experiments to directly detect dark matter in the form of axions with the predicted mass are proposed.