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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for detection of light scalar Dark Matter (DM), through probing temporal oscillations of fundamental constants in an atomic optical transition. Utilizing the quantum information notion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shahaf Aharony , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri , Gilad Perez , Inbar Savoray , Ravid Shaniv

As a binary pulsar moves through a wind of dark matter particles, the resulting dynamical friction modifies the binary's orbit. We study this effect for the double disk dark matter (DDDM) scenario, where a fraction of the dark matter is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-13 Andrea Caputo , Jesús Zavala , Diego Blas

We consider a class of models involving interactions between ultra-light scalar dark matter and Standard Model neutrinos. Such couplings modify the neutrino mass splittings and mixing angles to include additional components that vary in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Asher Berlin

Oscillating ultra-light scalar fields are a natural explanation for the dark matter in our universe, as long as a mechanism, often called a misalignment mechanism, exists to explain the amplitude of the scalar oscillations. If the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Clare Burrage , Sergio Sevillano Muñoz

Massive compact objects soften binaries. This process has been used for decades to constrain the population of such objects, particularly as a component of dark matter (DM). The effects of light compact objects, such as those in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Badal Bhalla , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Kuver Sinha , Tao Xu

The effects of scalar and pseudoscalar ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) were searched for by comparing the frequency of a quartz oscillator to that of a hyperfine-structure transition in $^{87}$Rb, and an electronic transition in…

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling candidate for cosmological dark matter. If ULDM interacts with ordinary matter, it can induce measurable, characteristic signals in pulsar-timing data because it causes the orbits of pulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Pavel Kůs , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

(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

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) offer an independent method for searching for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), whose wavelike nature induces periodic oscillations in the arrival times of radio pulses. In addition to this gravitational effect, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

We discuss the use of atom interferometry as a tool to search for Dark Matter (DM) composed of ultra-light scalar fields. Previous work on ultra-light DM detection using accelerometers has considered the possibility of equivalence principle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andrew A. Geraci , Andrei Derevianko

Fluctuations in ultralight dark matter produce significant metric perturbations, which may be detected by monitoring the arrival times of light from millisecond pulsars. While searches using this technique are already underway, they do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jeff A. Dror , Austin Lam

Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around $10^{-23}\text{eV}$, are promising candidates for the elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime metric in the nanohertz frequency band, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

Ultralight dark matter may couple quadratically to Standard Model particles. Such quadratic interactions give rise to both coherent and stochastic signals in pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. In this work, we characterize these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Xucheng Gan , Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

An ultralight scalar field is one of the dark matter candidates. If it couples with Standard Model particles, it oscillates mirrors in gravitational-wave detectors and generates detectable signals. We study the spectra of the signals taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Soichiro Morisaki , Teruaki Suyama

It has been hypothesized that dark matter is comprised of ultra-light bosons whose collective phenomena can be described as a scalar field undergoing coherent oscillations. Examples include axion and fuzzy dark matter models. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-08 Jeremy Sakstein , Ippocratis D. Saltas

A coherently oscillating ultra-light axion can behave as dark matter. In particular, its coherently oscillating pressure perturbations can source an oscillating scalar metric perturbation, with a characteristic oscillation frequency which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh , Clemente Smarra

Gravitational wave observations have significantly broadened our capacity to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, providing crucial insights into dark matter that are inaccessible through conventional methods. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

Mirror Dark Matter (MDM) has been considered as an elegant framework for a particle theory of Dark Matter (DM). It is supposed that there exists a dark sector which is mirror of the ordinary matter. Some MDM models allow particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-26 Itzhak Goldman

It is usually assumed that dark matter direct detection is sensitive to a large fraction of the dark matter (DM) velocity distribution. We propose an alternative form of dark matter-nucleus scattering which only probes a narrow range of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Bai , Patrick J. Fox

Ultra-Light Dark Matter (ULDM) halos constituted by Ultra-Light Axions (ULAs) generate gravitational potentials that oscillate in time. In this paper I show these potentials interact with gravitational waves, resonantly amplifying them. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Paola C. M. Delgado