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We present a novel search for dark photon dark matter (DM) using terrestrial magnetic field measurements at frequencies below 100 Hz. Coherently oscillating dark photon DM can induce a monochromatic magnetic field via kinetic mixing with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Kimihiro Nomura , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Ultralight dark matter is expected to induce oscillations of nuclear parameters. These oscillations are characterized by extremely weak couplings or high suppression scales, with the Planck scale - the characteristic scale of quantum…

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and Pulsar polarization arrays (PPAs) aim to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ximeng Li , Yonghao Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Shi Dai , Boris Goncharov , Xiao-Song Hu , Qing-Guo Huang , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Yu-Mei Wu , Xiao Xue , Xingjiang Zhu

A coherently oscillating ultra-light axion can behave as dark matter. In particular, its coherently oscillating pressure perturbations can source an oscillating scalar metric perturbation, with a characteristic oscillation frequency which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh , Clemente Smarra

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 examine the capability of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect very small-scale clumps of dark matter (DM), which are a natural outcome of the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. A clump streaming near the Earth or a pulsar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Kazumi Kashiyama , Masamune Oguri

Ultralight dark photons are compelling dark matter candidates, but their allowed kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon is severely constrained by requiring that the dark photons do not collapse into a cosmic string network in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 David Cyncynates , Zachary J. Weiner

The nature of dark matter, the invisible substance making up over $80\%$ of the matter in the Universe, is one of the most fundamental mysteries of modern physics. Ultralight bosons such as axions, axion-like particles or dark photons could…

Models of Dark Matter (DM) can leave unique imprints on the Universe's small scale structure by boosting density perturbations on small scales. We study the capability of Pulsar Timing Arrays to search for, and constrain, subhalos from such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Vincent S. H. Lee , Andrea Mitridate , Tanner Trickle , Kathryn M. Zurek

We propose detecting dark photons (DP), a major candidate for wave dark matter, through polarimetry. The DP can modify Maxwell's equations due to its kinetic mixing with regular photons, inducing an oscillating component in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Fiesta Ting Yan Leung , Tao Liu , Sida Lu , Jing Ren , Cheuk Kan Kelvin Yue , Kaifeng Zheng

Pulsar timing provides a sensitive probe of small-scale structure. Gravitational perturbations arising from an inhomogeneous environment could manifest as detectable perturbations in the pulsation phase. Consequently, pulsar timing arrays…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 M. Sten Delos , Tim Linden

A strong absorption profile was reported by the EDGES Collaboration, which indicates the hydrogen gas being colder than expected. It could be signatures of non-gravitational interactions between normal matter and dark matter (DM), and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Lian-Bao Jia

Millisecond pulsars are extremely precise celestial clocks: as they rotate, the beamed radio waves emitted along the axis of their magnetic field can be detected with radio telescopes, which allows for tracking subtle changes in the…

We propose a new type of experiment that compares the frequency of a clock (an ultra-stable optical cavity in this case) at time $t$ to its own frequency some time $t-T$ earlier, by "storing" the output signal (photons) in a fibre delay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-10 Etienne Savalle , Aurelien Hees , Florian Frank , Etienne Cantin , Paul-Eric Pottie , Benjamin M. Roberts , Lucie Cros , Ben T. McAllister , Peter Wolf

The particle nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant enigmas in modern cosmology. Axion-like particles (ALPs), as well-motivated candidates for cold dark matter, can undergo radiative decay into photon pairs, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Wen-Qing Guo

In this study, we propose an investigation into dark photon dark matter (DPDM) within the infrared frequency band, utilizing highly sensitive infrared light detectors commonly integrated into space telescopes, such as the James Webb Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-11 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

In models where ultralight fields constitute dark matter, the misalignment mechanism leads to coherent, low-amplitude oscillations in fundamental constants. This effect arises from effective operators that couple dark matter to Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Martin Bauer , Sreemanti Chakraborti

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics predict a parallel sector of a new U(1) symmetry, giving rise to hidden photons. These hidden photons are candidate particles for cold dark matter. They are expected to kinetically…

A search for evidence of particle dark matter (DM) and unparticle production at the LHC has been performed using events containing two charged leptons, consistent with the decay of a Z boson, and large missing transverse momentum. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-14 CMS Collaboration

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