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A Search for Ultra-Light Vector Dark Matter with a Rotating Torsion Balance

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2025-10-28 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We search for ultra-light vector dark matter interacting with a rotating torsion balance with a baryon minus lepton number composition dipole. Our search spans candidate masses in the ultra-low mass range from 1.3~×1022\times10^{-22} to 1.9~×1018\times10^{-18} eV. We set limits on the coupling strength to baryon minus lepton number for each dark matter candidate reaching a peak sensitivity of gBL9×1026g_{B-L} \leq 9 \times 10^{-26}.

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@article{arxiv.2510.21764,
  title  = {A Search for Ultra-Light Vector Dark Matter with a Rotating Torsion Balance},
  author = {M. P. Ross and E. A. Shaw and C. Gettings and S. K. Apple and I. A. Paulson and J. H. Gundlach},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21764},
  year   = {2025}
}