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We point out that power measurements of single quasiparticle devices open a new avenue to detect dark matter (DM). The threshold of these devices is set by the Cooper pair binding energy, and is therefore so low that they can detect DM as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-26 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

Ultralight dark matter induces time-dependent perturbations in the spacetime metric, enabling its gravitational direct detection. In this work, we propose using astrometry to detect dark matter. After reviewing the calculation of the metric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Jeff A. Dror , Sarunas Verner

The status and prospects of the experimental efforts in the detection of Particle Dark Matter is reviewed. Emphasis is put in the direct searches for WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles), outlining the various strategies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angel Morales

Numerous lines of evidence indicate that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by some unseen component. Determining the nature of this Dark Matter is one of the most important problems in cosmology. Weakly Interacting Massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nader Mirabolfathi

Dynamically probing systems of ultrastrongly coupled light and matter by advanced coherent control has been recently proposed as a unique tool for detecting peculiar quantum features of this regime. Coherence allows in principle on-demand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 A. Ridolfo , J. Rajendran , L. Giannelli , E. Paladino , G. Falci

Dark matter has been introduced to explain mass deficits noted at different astronomical scales, in galaxies, groups of galaxies, clusters, superclusters and even across the full horizon. Dark matter makes itself felt only through its…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Matts Roos

The nature of dark matter is one of the most pressing questions in particle physics. Yet all our present knowledge of the dark sector to date comes from its gravitational interactions with astrophysical systems. Moreover, astronomical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Matthew R. Buckley , Annika H. G. Peter

In spite or the large astronomical evidence for its existence, the nature of dark matter remains enigmatic. Particles that interact only, or almost only, gravitationally, in particular with masses around the Planck mass -- the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-30 Alejandro Perez , Carlo Rovelli , Marios Christodoulou

In this non-specialist review I look at how weak lensing can provide information on the dark sector of the Universe. The review concentrates on what can be learned about Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Dark Gravity, and why. On Dark Matter,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Alan Heavens

We review theoretically well-motivated dark-matter candidates, and pathways to their discovery, in the light of recent results from collider physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. Taken in aggregate, these encourage broader thinking in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Susan Gardner , George Fuller

Elucidating the nature of dark matter is a key priority that would involve discovering new fundamental physics and is essential for understanding the structure and evolution of the universe. Despite the decades-long ever-more-sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-07-03 Patrick Knights , Konstantinos Nikolopoulos

As cosmology has entered a phase of precision experiments, the content of the universe has been established to contain interesting and not yet fully understood components, namely dark energy and dark matter. While the cause and exact nature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Lars Bergstrom

The precision era of multi-messenger astronomy, together with modern astrophysical, cosmological, and gravitational wave observations, increasingly points toward the existence of a ``dark" sector that cannot be explained within the…

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

Previous work has shown that optomechanical force sensing can be used for efficient detection of ultralight (sub-eV) dark matter candidates. We propose to extend the reach of this method to the search for ultralight dark matter in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-11 Katherine Slattery , Joshua Eby , Lauren Street , Rohana Wijewardhana

We study the possibility that dark matter is a baryon of a new strongly interacting gauge theory, which was introduced in the low energy theory of Cosmological SUSY Breaking (CSB). This particle can fit the observed dark matter density if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Banks , J. D. Mason , D. O'Neil

The cosmological observations coupled with theoretical calculations suggest the existence of enormous amount of unseen and unknown matter or dark matter in the universe. The evidence of their existence, the possible candidates and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Debasish Majumdar

Quantum sensing with solid-state systems finds broad applications in diverse areas ranging from material and biomedical sciences to fundamental physics. Several solid-state spin sensors have been developed, facilitating the ultra-sensitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Hao Wu , Shuo Yang , Mark Oxborrow , Qing Zhao , Bo Zhang , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum device measurements are powerful tools to probe dark matter interactions. Among these, transmon qubits stand out for their ability to suppress external noise while remaining highly sensitive to tiny energy deposits. Ambient galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-07 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Noah Kurinsky , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou