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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

Direct detection experiments for dark matter are increasingly ruling out large parameter spaces. However, light dark matter models with particle masses $<$ GeV are still largely unconstrained. Here we examine a proposal to use atom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-09 Yufeng Du , Clara Murgui , Kris Pardo , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

We propose a dark matter (DM) model with a complex scalar charged under a hidden gauge symmetry, denoted as $U(1)_D$. The scalar field is the DM candidate while the $U(1)_D$ gauge field $A'$ plays the role of a mediator, which connects the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Yu-Hang Su , Chengfeng Cai , Hong-Hao Zhang

We made global fits of the inert Higgs doublet model (IDM) in the light of collider and dark matter search limits and the requirement for a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition (EWPT). These show that there are still IDM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Shehu AbdusSalam , Leila Kalhor , Mohammad Mohammadidoust

We construct a self-interacting scalar dark matter (DM) model with local discrete $Z_{3}$ symmetry that stabilizes a weak scale scalar dark matter $X$. The model assumes a hidden sector with a local $U(1)_X$ dark gauge symmetry, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-30 P. Ko , Yong Tang

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

We present a method to search for scalar field ultralight dark matter directly interacting with gravitational-wave interferometers via a modulation of the fine structure constant and the electron mass. This modulation induces an effective…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-01 Evan Hall , Nancy Aggarwal

(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

We study a $Z_2 \times Z'_2$ symmetric 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM), wherein two of the doublets are inert and one is active (thus denoted in literature as I(2+1)HDM), yielding a two-component Dark Matter (DM) sector. The two DM candidates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 J. Hernandez-Sanchez , V. Keus , S. Moretti , D. Rojas-Ciofalo , D. Sokolowska

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

A new frontier in the search for dark matter (DM) is based on the idea of detecting the decoherence caused by DM scattering against a mesoscopic superposition of normal matter. Such superpositions are uniquely sensitive to very small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 C. Jess Riedel , Itay Yavin

The DAMA collaboration have claimed to detect particle dark matter (DM) via an annual modulation in their observed recoil event rate. This appears to be in strong disagreement with the null results of other experiments if interpreted in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 John March-Russell , Christopher McCabe , Matthew McCullough

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

In this work we have considered a minimal extension of Standard Model by a local $U(1)$ gauge group in order to accommodate a stable (fermionic) Dark Matter (DM) candidate. We have focussed on parameter regions where DM possesses adequate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-08 Rahool Kumar Barman , Biplob Bhattacherjee , Arindam Chatterjee , Arghya Choudhury , Aritra Gupta

We propose an extension to the standard model incorporating a dark sector with a non-Abelian SU(2) gauge symmetry. The model yields stable dark matter candidates, protected by a residual $Z_3$ symmetry arising after the spontaneous symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Shao-Long Chen , Wen-wen Jiang

This study explores a minimal renormalizable dark matter (DM) model, incorporating a sub-GeV Majorana DM and a singlet scalar particle $\phi$. Using scalar and pseudo-scalar interactions (couplings $c_s$ and $c_p$), we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 Yu-Tong Chen , Shigeki Matsumoto , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Lei Wu

In the last decade direct detection Dark Matter (DM) experiments have increased enormously their sensitivity and ton-scale setups have been proposed, especially using germanium and xenon targets with double readout and background…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 D. G. Cerdeno , C. Cuesta , M. Fornasa , E. Garcia , C. Ginestra , C. Marcos , M. Martinez , Y. Ortigoza , M. Peiro , J. Puimedon , M. L. Sarsa

We propose a novel dark matter (DM) detection strategy for the models with non-minimal dark sector. The main ingredients in the underlying DM scenario are a boosted DM particle and a heavier dark sector state. The relativistic DM impinged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

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

Experimental observations and theoretical arguments point out that Dark Matter (DM) particles are one of the most prominent component of the Universe. This motivated the pioneer DAMA experiment to investigate the presence of these particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-12 R. Bernabei , P. Belli , V. Caracciolo , R. Cerulli , V. Merlo , F. Cappella , A. d'Angelo , A. Incicchitti , C. J. Dai , X. H. Ma , X. D. Sheng , F. Montecchia , Z. P. Ye