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 and or orbital radius are very small so that . Here and 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