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Superradiance is a process by which massive bosonic particles can extract energy from spinning black holes, leading to the build up of a "cloud" if the particle has a Compton wavelength comparable to the black hole's Schwarzschild radius.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Zipeng Wang , Thomas Helfer , Katy Clough , Emanuele Berti

Dark photon is a massive vector field which interacts only with the physical photon through the kinetic mixing. This coupling is assumed to be weak so that the dark photon becomes almost unobservable in processes with elementary particles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

A dark photon is a well-motivated new particle which, as a component of an associated dark sector, could explain dark matter. One strong limit on dark photons arises from excessive cooling of supernovae. We point out that even at couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-06 William DeRocco , Peter W. Graham , Daniel Kasen , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Surjeet Rajendran

We have arrived at tight constraints on the photon charge, giving comparable bounds, one based on the dominance by dark energy at the present epoch, and the other based on the requirement that early universe nucleosynthesis not be affected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-13 C. Sivaram , Kenath Arun

We investigate a scenario where the dark matter of the Universe is made from very light hidden photons transforming under a $Z_{2}$-symmetry. In contrast to the usual situation, kinetic mixing is forbidden by the symmetry and the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego Vargas-Arancibia

In this paper, we investigate constraints of the transmon qubit, an improved version of the charge qubit, on bosonic light dark matters. Phonon excitations induced by the scattering or absorption of dark matter on a superconductor may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Wei Chao , Yu Gao , Ming-jie Jin , Xiao-sheng Liu , Xi-lei Sun

Relativistic axions are good candidates for the dark radiation for which there are mounting observational hints. The primordial decays of heavy fields produce axions which are ultra-energetic compared to thermalised matter and inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh

Ultralight bosons, predicted in scenarios beyond the Standard Model and viable dark matter (DM) candidates, can form superradiant clouds around spinning black holes influencing their dynamics. Using century-long monitored OJ287 supermassive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-14 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Volodymyr Takhistov , Hui-Yu Zhu

There are reasons (which we enumerate) to think that an infinite extra dimension will harbor a black hole. In this case, brane-localized modes of gravity and gauge fields become quasilocalized, and light from a distant object can become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Khlebnikov

We study how the constraints on the primordial black hole density arising from the extragalactic photon background are modified in the scenario that there exist extra large spatial dimensions. We find that though the overall magnitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 George Johnson

Black hole superradiance, which only relies on gravitational interactions, can provide a powerful probe of the existence of ultralight bosons that are weakly coupled to ordinary matter. However, as a boson cloud grows through superradiance,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-04 William E. East

Although the standard {\Lambda}CDM model describes the cosmic microwave background radiation and the large scale structure of the Universe with great success, it has some tensions with observations in the effective number of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-26 Kiwoon Choi , Ki-Young Choi , Chang Sub Shin

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

When axion cold dark matter interacts with a static magnetic field, it can be converted to photons with energy near the axion's mass. Classical analysis shows that incorporating a resonant cavity significantly enhances this conversion rate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-20 Ruifeng Zheng , Puxian Wei , Qiaoli Yang

Light axions ($m_a \lesssim 10^{-10}$ eV) can form dense clouds around rapidly rotating astrophysical black holes via a mechanism known as rotational superradiance. The coupling between axions and photons induces a parametric resonance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Diego Blas , Samuel J. Witte

Black holes can amplify incoming bosonic waves via rotational superradiance, inducing bound states of ultralight bosons around them. This phenomenon has the potential to confine the parameter spaces of new bosons. Axions and axion-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Zhiren Wang , Avery E. Broderick

We investigate black hole superradiance evolution of the interacting multiple fields. We consider a model of two scalar fields interacting with a cubic coupling, and study the superradiant evolution of the cloud. We demonstrate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhi-Qing Zhu , Yun-Song Piao , Jun Zhang

Hidden sectors with light extra U(1) gauge bosons, so-called hidden photons, recently received much interest as natural feature of beyond standard model scenarios like string theory and SUSY and because of their possible connection to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-20 Sarah Andreas

Dark matter could be made up of dark photons, massive but very light particles whose interactions with matter resemble those of usual photons but suppressed by a small mixing parameter. We analyze the main approaches to dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Álvarez-Luna , J. A. R. Cembranos

We introduce an $SU(2)_X^{}$ dark sector without any fermions and then realize a non-abelian kinetic mixing between the dark $SU(2)_X^{}$ gauge fields and the standard model $SU(2)_L^{}\times U(1)_Y^{}$ gauge fields. While one of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Hang Zhou