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Ultralight scalar fields around spinning black holes can trigger superradiant instabilities, forming a long-lived bosonic condensate outside the horizon. We use numerical solutions of the perturbed field equations and astrophysical models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-05 Richard Brito , Shrobana Ghosh , Enrico Barausse , Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Irina Dvorkin , Antoine Klein , Paolo Pani

We consider global and gravitational lensing properties of the recently suggested Einstein clusters of WIMPs as galactic dark matter halos. Being tangential pressure dominated, Einstein clusters are strongly anisotropic systems which can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. G. Boehmer , T. Harko

In the presence of an ultralight bosonic field, spinning black holes are unstable to superradiance. The rotational energy of the black hole is converted into a non-axisymmetric, oscillating boson cloud which dissipates through the emission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-09 Nils Siemonsen , William E. East

This work expands previous efforts, within the classical theories of Special and General Relativity, to include tachyons (faster-than-light particles) along with ordinary (slower-than-light) particles at any energy. The objective here is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-24 Charles Schwartz

Thanks to the new generation of gravitational wave detectors LIGO and VIRGO, the theory of general relativity will face new and important confrontations to observational data with unprecedented precision. Indeed the detection and analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Luc Blanchet

The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 M. A. Akgümüs , N. Salama , J. Egge , E. Garutti , M. Maroudas , L. H. Nguyen , D. Leppla-Weber

Numerous theories extending beyond the standard model of particle physics predict the existence of bosons that could constitute the dark matter (DM) permeating the universe. In the standard halo model (SHM) of galactic dark matter the…

Axions and other very light axion-like particles appear in many extensions of the Standard Model, and are leading candidates to compose part or all of the missing matter of the Universe. They also appear in models of inflation, dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Igor G. Irastorza , Javier Redondo

The dynamics of spin in external electromagnetic, gravitational, and axion fields is analysed in the framework of the gravitoelectromagnetism approach in Einstein's general relativity theory. We consistently extend the recent studies from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Yuri N. Obukhov

We explore a model of dark matter called wave dark matter (also known as scalar field dark matter and boson stars) which has recently been motivated by a new geometric perspective by Bray. Wave dark matter describes dark matter as a scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-26 Alan R. Parry

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

Axion-like particles (ALPs) can induce a birefringence effect that rotates the polarization angle of light, offering a probe of ultralight dark matter. We analyze archival near-infrared polarimetric data of the protoplanetary disk (PPD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Kanako Narita , Tomohiro Fujita , Ryo Tazaki , Bunyo Hatsukade

A number of proposed and ongoing experiments search for axion dark matter with a mass nearing the limit set by small scale structure (${\cal O} ( 10 ^{ - 21 } {\rm eV} ) $). We consider the late universe cosmology of these models, showing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Jeff A. Dror , Jacob M. Leedom

A large class of modified theories of gravity used as models for dark energy predict a propagation speed for gravitational waves which can differ from the speed of light. This difference of propagations speeds for photons and gravitons has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-06 Hermano Velten , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Federico Piazza

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

After a short review of prominent properties of gravitational waves and the newly born gravitational astronomy, we focus on theoretical aspects. Analytic approximation methods in general relativity have played a crucial role in the recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Luc Blanchet

We compute the accuracy at which a LISA-like space-based gravitational wave detector will be able to observe deviations from General Relativity in the low frequency approximation. To do so, we introduce six correction parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Cédric Huwyler , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

We report on a search for ultra-low-mass axion-like dark matter by analysing the ratio of the spin-precession frequencies of stored ultracold neutrons and $^{199}$Hg atoms for an axion-induced oscillating electric dipole moment of the…

Combining the dark matter and muon $g-2$ anomaly, we study the $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ breaking phase transition, gravitational wave spectra, and the direct detection at the LHC in an extra $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ gauge symmetry extension of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 Jie Wang , Jinghong Ma , Jing Gao , Xiao-Fang Han , Lei Wang

If dark matter stems from the background of a very light gauge boson, this gauge boson could exert forces on test masses in gravitational wave detectors, resulting in displacements with a characteristic frequency set by the gauge boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Aaron Pierce , Keith Riles , Yue Zhao