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Dark matter is five times more abundant than ordinary visible matter in our Universe. While laboratory searches hunting for dark matter have traditionally focused on the electroweak scale, theories of low mass hidden sectors motivate new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-08 S. A. Lyon , Kyle Castoria , Ethan Kleinbaum , Zhihao Qin , Arun Persaud , Thomas Schenkel , Kathryn Zurek

Among the prominent candidates for dark matter are bosonic fields with small scalar couplings to the Standard-Model particles. Several techniques are employed to search for such couplings and the current best constraints are derived from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 D. Antypas , O. Tretiak , A. Garcon , R. Ozeri , G. Perez , D. Budker

Superconducting targets have recently been proposed for the direct detection of dark matter as light as a keV, via elastic scattering off conduction electrons in Cooper pairs. Detecting such light dark matter requires sensitivity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Yonit Hochberg , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

Virialized Ultra-Light Fields (VULFs) are viable cold dark matter candidates and include scalar and pseudo-scalar bosonic fields, such as axions and dilatons. Direct searches for VULFs rely on low-energy precision measurement tools. While…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Andrei Derevianko

Precision astrometry offers a way to probe new physics. By measuring the angular position of light sources at unprecedented precision, astrometry could probe minuscule fluctuations of underlying spacetime. This work explores the possibility…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Hyungjin Kim

It has been proposed that an additional U(1) sector of hidden photons could account for the Dark Matter observed in the Universe. When passing through an interface of materials with different dielectric properties, hidden photons can give…

Light scalar Dark Matter with scalar couplings to matter is expected within several scenarios to induce variations in the fundamental constants of nature. Such variations can be searched for, among other ways, via atomic spectroscopy.…

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

This is a review on the brief history of the scalar field dark matter model also known as fuzzy dark matter, BEC dark matter, wave dark matter, or ultra-light axion. In this model ultra-light scalar dark matter particles with mass $m =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jae-Weon Lee

Among several dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight (sub meV) dark matter is well motivated because it could couple to the Standard Model (SM) and induce new forces. Previous MICROSCOPE and Eot Wash torsion experiments have achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Li , Shaochun Lin , Liang Zhang , Changkui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

We assume the supersymmetric model for dark matter in the universe and our galaxy, and direct methods to distinguish these kinds of dark matter are described. We then focus on the current and future experiment search for SUSY-WIMPS.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David B. Cline

In the past decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved questions in modern physics. The sensitivity of these…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-04 Teresa Marrodan Undagoitia , Ludwig Rauch

In recent years, the sensitivity of opto-mechanical force sensors has improved leading to increased interest in using these devices as particle detectors. In this study we consider scenarios where dark matter with mass close to the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-09 Carlos Blanco , Bahaa Elshimy , Rafael F. Lang , Robert Orlando

In this white paper, we discuss the prospects for characterizing and identifying dark matter using gravitational waves, covering a wide range of dark matter candidate types and signals. We argue that present and upcoming gravitational wave…

Among various dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight fields with masses below 1~eV are well motivated. Recently, a number of novel approaches have been put forward to search for ultralight dark matter candidates using laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Yuta Michimura , Tomohiro Fujita , Jun'ya Kume , Soichiro Morisaki , Koji Nagano , Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Atsushi Nishizawa , Ippei Obata

There can arise ubiquitous ultra-light scalar fields in the Universe, such as the pseudo-Goldstone bosons from the spontaneous breaking of an approximate symmetry, which can make a partial contribution to the dark matter and affect the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kenji Kadota , Yi Mao , Kiyomoto Ichiki , Joseph Silk

The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Jennifer M. Gaskins

The discovery of the accelerating universe indicates strongly the presence of a scalar field which is not only expected to solve today's version of the cosmological constant problem, or the fine-tuning and the coincidence problems, but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-24 Yasunori Fujii , Kensuke Homma

The Scalar Field Dark Matter model has been known in various ways throughout its history; Fuzzy, BEC, Wave, Ultralight, Axion-like Dark Matter, etc. All of them consist in proposing that the dark matter of the universe is a spinless field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Tonatiuh Matos , Luis A. Ureña-López , Jae-Weon Lee

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