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The nature and properties of dark matter (DM) are both outstanding issues in physics. Besides clustering in halos, the universal character of gravity implies that self-gravitating compact DM configurations might be spread throughout the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Caio F. B. Macedo , Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Luis C. B. Crispino

Gravitational waves with frequencies below 1~nHz are notoriously difficult to detect. With periods exceeding current experimental lifetimes, they induce slow drifts in observables rather than periodic correlations. Observables with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 William DeRocco , Jeff A. Dror

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), as a class of low mass (< 1 eV) dark matter (DM) candidates, is a compelling alternative to historically dominant models such as WIMPs and has recently gained significant attention in the scientific community.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Jordan Gué

We propose a novel modification to the optical benches of space-based gravitational wave detectors (SGWDs) to enable the detection of axion-like dark matter (ALDM)-induced birefringence without altering the polarization of inter-spacecraft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 Run-Min Yao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Qing-Guo Huang

We show that Milky Way white dwarfs are excellent targets for dark matter (DM) detection. Using Fermi and H.E.S.S. Galactic center gamma-ray data, we investigate sensitivity to DM annihilating within white dwarfs into long-lived or boosted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-05 Javier F. Acevedo , Rebecca K. Leane , Lillian Santos-Olmsted

The EDELWEISS collaboration reports on the search for Dark Matter (DM) particle interactions via Migdal effect with masses between $32$ MeV$\cdot$c$^{-2}$ to $2$ GeV$\cdot$c$^{-2}$ using a $200$ g cryogenic Ge detector sensitive to…

Primordial black holes can be the entirety of the dark matter in a broad, approximately five-orders-of-magnitude-wide mass range, the ``asteroid mass range'', between $10^{-16}\ M_{\rm Sun}$ -- where constraints originate from evaporation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Stefano Profumo , Lucas Brown , Christopher Ewasiuk , Sean Ricarte , Henry Su

The oscillating pressure of the ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) can induce the oscillation of the local gravitational potential. Similar to the time-dependent frequency shift for the pulse signals of pulsars, the oscillation of the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Ke Wang , Yin Zhong

Single-photon atom gradiometry is a powerful experimental technique that can be employed to search for the oscillation of atomic transition energies induced by ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM). In the sub-Hz regime the background is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Leonardo Badurina , Valerie Gibson , Christopher McCabe , Jeremiah Mitchell

Ultralight dark matter (UDM) may manifest itself through oscillating fundamental constants of normal matter. These can be experimentally searched for by implementing two dissimilar oscillators producing a beat between their frequencies and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 René Oswald , Victor Vogt , Stephan Schiller

As a candidate of dark matter, and related to many fundamental physics issues, the primordial black hole (PBH) is a crucial topic. However, so far the existence of PBHs is still not confirmed, and currently running GW detectors are still…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Hao Wen

We consider the scenario where dark matter (DM) is represented by an ultra-light classical scalar field performing coherent periodic oscillations. We point out that such DM perturbs the dynamics of binary systems either through its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-24 Diego Blas , Diana Lopez Nacir , Sergey Sibiryakov

Ultralight bosons with masses in the range from $\sim 10^{-22}$ eV/$c^2$ to $\sim 1$ eV/$c^2$, are well-motivated, wave-like dark matter candidates. Particles on the lower-mass end are less explored in experiments due to their vanishingly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-01 Ling Sun , Bram J. J. Slagmolen , Jiayi Qin

(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

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

A scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM) candidate would induce oscillatory motion of freely falling test masses via its coupling to Standard Model fields. Such oscillations would create an observable Doppler shift of light exchanged between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Jordan Gué , Peter Wolf , Aurélien Hees

Primordial black holes (PBHs) in the asteroid-mass range, with typical masses $10^{17}\,{\rm g}\lesssim M \lesssim 10^{23}\,{\rm g}$, have drawn significant recent attention as a viable dark matter candidate. The peak frequencies of photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-27 Alexandra P. Klipfel , David I. Kaiser

In this work, we explore the potential of probing the inelastic dark matter (DM) model with an extra U(1)D gauge symmetry at the Large Hadron Collider, ForwArd Search ExpeRiment and Super Tau Charm Factory. To saturate the observed DM relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-04 Chih-Ting Lu , Jianfeng Tu , Lei Wu

Next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are expected to detect millions of binary black hole mergers during their operation period. A small fraction ($\sim 0.1 - 1\%$) of them will be strongly lensed by intervening…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Souvik Jana , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Surhud More , Parameswaran Ajith