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We develop formalisms for a network of vector sensors, sensitive to certain spatial components of the signals, to identify the properties of a light axion or a dark photon background. These bosonic fields contribute to vector-like signals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-29 Yifan Chen , Min Jiang , Jing Shu , Xiao Xue , Yanjie Zeng

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), as a class of low mass (< 1 eV) dark matter (DM) candidates, is a compelling alternative to historically dominant models such as WIMPs and has recently gained significant attention in the scientific community.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Jordan Gué

In this article we present the Dark-photons$\&$Axion-Like particles Interferometer (DALI), a novel experiment designed for the detection of photon-mixing cold dark matter in the microwave band between 6 and 60 GHz. DALI is a haloscope for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-29 Javier De Miguel-Hernández

We consider optical fibers as detectors for scalar ultralight dark matter (UDM) and propose using a fiber-based interferometer to search for scalar UDM with particle mass in the range $10^{-17} - 10^{-13}$ eV/$c^2$ $\left(10^{-3}- 10 \text{…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 J. Manley , R. Stump , R. Petery , and S. Singh

Experiments aimed at detecting ultralight dark matter typically rely on resonant effects, which are sensitive to the dark matter mass that matches the resonance frequency. In this study, we investigate the nucleon couplings of ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-12 Zitong Xu , Xiaolin Ma , Kai Wei , Yuxuan He , Xing Heng , Xiaofei Huang , Tengyu Ai , Jian Liao , Wei Ji , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Dmitry Budker

The axion is a compelling hypothetical particle that could account for the dark matter in our universe, while simultaneously explaining why quark interactions within the neutron do not appear to give rise to an electric dipole moment. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-11 Andrew Engel , Thomas Braine , Christian Boutan

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In this Letter, a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity is proposed. If the scheme is applied to the Fabry-P\'erot…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-01 Koji Nagano , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura , Ippei Obata

The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-23 Akio Kawasaki

It is demonstrated that detection of putative particles such as paraphotons and axions constituting the dark sector of the universe can be reduced to detection of extremely weak links or couplings between cavities and modes. This method…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-09 Maxim Goryachev , Ben McAllister , Michael E. Tobar

We study the underlying theory of dielectric haloscopes, a new way to detect dark matter axions. When an interface between different dielectric media is inside a magnetic field, the oscillating axion field acts as a source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Alexander J. Millar , Georg G. Raffelt , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

Ultralight bosonic fields (ULBFs) are predicted by various theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and are viable candidates of cold dark matter. There have been increasing interests to search for the ULBFs in physical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yue-Hui Yao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Axion dark matter differentiates the phase velocities of the circular-polarized photons. In Phys.Rev.Lett. 123 (2019) no.11, 111301, we have proposed a scheme to measure the phase difference by using a linear optical cavity. If the scheme…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata , Tomohiro Fujita , Yuta Michimura

A well-motivated class of dark matter candidates, including axions and dark photons, takes the form of coherent oscillations of a light bosonic field. If the dark matter couples to Standard Model states, it may be possible to detect it via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Masha Baryakhtar , Junwu Huang , Robert Lasenby

Ultralight Dark Matter (ULDM) offers an alternative to cold dark matter, characterized by wavelike behavior on galactic scales. This contribution summarizes our work~\cite{Blas:2024duy} on how solitonic cores induced by ULDM affect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Silvia Gasparotto

(Ultra)light spin-$1$ particles -- dark photons -- can constitute all of dark matter (DM) and have beyond Standard Model couplings. This can lead to a coherent, oscillatory signature in terrestrial detectors that depends on the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-28 Dorian W. P. Amaral , Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin , Christopher Tunnell

We present Dark from Light (DfL) - a novel method to infer the dark sector in wide-field galaxy surveys, leveraging a machine learning approach trained on contemporary cosmological simulations. The aim of this algorithm is to provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Asa F. L. Bluck , Joanna M. Piotrowska , Paul Goubert , Roberto Maiolino , Camilo Casimiro , Thomas Pinto Franco , Nicolas Cea

We study the effects of ultralight vector field (ULVF) dark matter on gravitational-wave propagation. We find that the coherent oscillations of the vector field induce an anisotropic suppression of the gravitational-wave amplitude as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Alfredo D. Miravet , Antonio L. Maroto

Gravitational-wave detectors can search for yet-undiscovered ultralight bosons, including those conjectured to solve problems in particle physics, high-energy theory and cosmology. Ground-based instruments could probe boson masses between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-07 Maximiliano Isi , Ling Sun , Richard Brito , Andrew Melatos

Among several dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight (sub meV) dark matter is well motivated because it could couple to the Standard Model (SM) and induce new forces. Previous MICROSCOPE and Eot Wash torsion experiments have achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Li , Shaochun Lin , Liang Zhang , Changkui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

The ultralight boson represents a promising dark matter candidate exhibiting unique wave-like behaviors. These properties could transfer to the dark mediator, such as the kinetic mixing dark photon, which can be a link between the dark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Jinhui Guo , Yuxuan He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ke-Pan Xie