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Gravimeter search for compact dark matter objects moving in the Earth

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2020-02-10 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). These objects may interact very weakly with normal matter and could move freely {\it inside} the Earth. A CDO moving in the inner core of the Earth will have an orbital period near 55 min and produce a time dependent signal in a gravimeter. Data from superconducting gravimeters rule out such objects moving inside the Earth unless their mass mDm_D and or orbital radius aa are very small so that mDa<1.2×1013MRm_D\, a < 1.2\times 10^{-13}M_\oplus R_\oplus. Here MM_\oplus and RR_\oplus are the mass and radius of the Earth.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.00940,
  title  = {Gravimeter search for compact dark matter objects moving in the Earth},
  author = {C. J. Horowitz and R. Widmer-Schnidrig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00940},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures

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