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~ to 1.9~ eV. We set limits on the coupling strength to baryon minus lepton number for each dark matter candidate reaching a peak sensitivity of .
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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}
}