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Single-photon atom gradiometry is a powerful experimental technique that can be employed to search for the oscillation of atomic transition energies induced by ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM). In the sub-Hz regime the background is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Leonardo Badurina , Valerie Gibson , Christopher McCabe , Jeremiah Mitchell

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

Atom interferometers offer exceptional sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) by precisely measuring effects on atomic systems. Previous studies have demonstrated their capability to detect scalar and vector ULDM candidates, yet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Diego Blas , John Carlton , Christopher McCabe

Atom gradiometers have emerged as compelling broadband probes of scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM) candidates that oscillate with frequencies between approximately $10^{-2}$ Hz and $10^3$ Hz. ULDM signals with frequencies greater than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-16 Leonardo Badurina , Ankit Beniwal , Christopher McCabe

Atom interferometers offer promising new avenues for detecting ultra-light dark matter (ULDM). The exceptional sensitivity of atom interferometers to fluctuations in the local gravitational potential exposes them to sources of noise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 John Carlton , Christopher McCabe

Ultralight particles are theoretically well-motivated dark matter candidates. In the vicinity of the solar system, these ultralight particles can be described as a superposition of plane waves, resulting in a stochastic field with sizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Yue-Hui Yao , Yong Tang

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

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

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 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

Measurements of differential length oscillations of Fabry-Perot cavities provide a sensitive and promising approach to searching for scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM). The initial demonstration sets direct lower bounds that are one to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-23 Tejas Deshpande , Andra Ionescu , Nicholas Miller , Zhiyuan Wang , Gerald Gabrielse , Andrew A. Geraci , Tim Kovachy

Spin-2 ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is a viable dark matter candidate and it can be constrained using gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this paper, we investigate the detectability of spin-2 ULDM by space-based GW interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Jing-Rui Zhang , Ju Chen , Heng-Sen Jiao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yun-Long Zhang

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

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

The detection of dark matter is a challenging problem in modern physics. The ultralight scalar and axion dark matter could induce the oscillation of the nuclear charge radii and then oscillate the atomic transition frequency by interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-31 Wei Zhao , Hui Liu , Xitong Mei

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…

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

We propose an experiment to search for ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilatonic interactions. Such couplings can arise for the dilaton as well as for moduli and axion-like particles in the presence of CP violation. Ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-03 Asimina Arvanitaki , Junwu Huang , Ken Van Tilburg

We study the purely gravitational signatures of dark matter from the ultralight to the ultraheavy mass range in proposed long-baseline atom gradiometers, focusing on terrestrial designs, such as AION-km and MAGIS-km, as well as space-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Leonardo Badurina , Yufeng Du , Vincent S. H. Lee , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek
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