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The nature of dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics. In this work, we investigate the phenomenological implications of ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM) coupled to neutrinos. We focus on a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda , Hiroshi Nunokawa

We study the ultralight vector dark matter with a mass around $10^{-23}\,\mathrm{eV}$. The vector field oscillating coherently on galactic scales induces oscillations of the spacetime metric with a frequency around nHz, which is detectable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-21 Kimihiro Nomura , Asuka Ito , Jiro Soda

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

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

Ultra-light bosons, naturally appearing in well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model, can constitute all the dark matter. Models with particle mass close to the smallest phenomenologically allowed exhibit coherent field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Diego Blas , Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente

We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range $20$~kHz-$100$ MHz, that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent, significantly upgraded optical-spectroscopy apparatus, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Oleg Tretiak , Xue Zhang , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Dionysios Antypas , Andrea Brogna , Abhishek Banerjee , Gilad Perez , Dmitry Budker

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band $\text{nHz} \lesssim f \lesssim \mu\text{Hz}$. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the range $10^{-23}\,\text{eV} \lesssim m_\phi \lesssim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-14 David E. Kaplan , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle

We report new limits on ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilaton-like couplings to photons that can induce oscillations in the fine-structure constant alpha. Atomic dysprosium exhibits an electronic structure with two nearly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ken Van Tilburg , Nathan Leefer , Lykourgos Bougas , Dmitry Budker

The increasing observational pressure on the standard cosmological model motivates analyses going beyond the paradigm of the collision-less cold dark matter (DM). Since the only clear evidence for the existence of DM is based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Philippe Brax , Carsten van de Bruck , Sebastian Trojanowski

The nature of dark matter remains obscure in spite of decades of experimental efforts. The mass of dark matter candidates can span a wide range, and its coupling with the Standard Model sector remains uncertain. All these unknowns make the…

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

Ultra-light scalar fields may explain the nature of the dark matter in our universe. If such scalars couple quadratically to particles of the Standard Model the scalar acquires an effective mass which depends on the local matter energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Clare Burrage , Angus Macdonald , Michael P. Ross , Gray Rybka , Elisa Todarello

The study of ultralight dark matter helps to constrain the lower bound of the mass in minimally coupled dark matter models. The granular structure of ultralight dark matter density fields produces metric perturbations which have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrew Eberhardt , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

Recent evidence for stochastic gravitational waves reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations might open a new window for studying cosmology and astrophysical phenomena. In addition to signals from gravitational waves, there is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Qing-Hua Zhu

We show that gravitational wave detectors based on a type of atom interferometry are sensitive to ultralight scalar dark matter. Such dark matter can cause temporal oscillations in fundamental constants with a frequency set by the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-25 Asimina Arvanitaki , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Surjeet Rajendran , Ken Van Tilburg

We suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

Dark photons can be the ultralight dark matter candidate, interacting with Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for ultralight dark photon dark matter (DPDM) through the local absorption at different radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Wen-Qing Guo , Xiaoyuan Huang , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is proposed as a theoretical candidate of dark matter particles with masses of approximately $10^{-22}$ eV. The interactions between ULDM particles and standard model particles would cause variations in pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 Zi-Qing Xia , Tian-Peng Tang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

Ultralight dark matter (UDM) may manifest itself through oscillating fundamental constants of normal matter. These can be experimentally searched for by implementing two dissimilar oscillators producing a beat between their frequencies and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 René Oswald , Victor Vogt , Stephan Schiller