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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) consisting of widely distributed and well-timed millisecond pulsars can serve as a galactic interferometer to measure gravitational waves. With the same data acquired for PTAs, we propose to develop pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Tao Liu , Xuzixiang Lou , Jing Ren

We propose a novel method for distinguishing the spin of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) using interferometric gravitational wave detectors. ULDM can be a bosonic field of spin-0, 1, or 2, and each induces distinctive signatures in signals.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Yusuke Manita , Hiroki Takeda , Katsuki Aoki , Tomohiro Fujita , Shinji Mukohyama

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model is a leading dark matter candidate that arises naturally in extensions of the Standard Model. In the Galactic Center, ULDM manifests as dense hydrogen-like boson clouds or self-gravitating soliton cores.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao

We present a systematic study of the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) effects on neutrino oscillations using the latest long-baseline data from the T2K and NO$\nu$A experiments. Our analysis covers both flavor-universal and flavor-general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Xin-Qiang Li , Hai-Xing Lin , Jian Tang , Sampsa Vihonen

It is widely accepted that dark matter contributes about a quarter of the critical mass-energy density in our Universe. The nature of dark matter is currently unknown, with the mass of possible constituents spanning nearly one hundred…

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling candidate for cosmological dark matter. If ULDM interacts with ordinary matter, it can induce measurable, characteristic signals in pulsar-timing data because it causes the orbits of pulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Pavel Kůs , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to oscillations in the gravitational potential along the line-of-sight due to ultralight particle pressure. We calculate the probing power of PTAs for ultralight bosons across all frequencies, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Caner Unal , Federico R. Urban , Ely D. Kovetz

It is well known that Ultra-Light Dark Matter (ULDM), usually scalar fields of mass $m \sim 10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$, can solve some of the outstanding problems of the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm. Such a scalar field could have non-negligible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Sayan Chakrabarti , Bihag Dave , Koushik Dutta , Gaurav Goswami

The angular correlation of pulsar residuals observed by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations show evidence in support of the Hellings-Downs correlation expected from stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-03 Debtosh Chowdhury , Arpan Hait , Subhendra Mohanty , Suraj Prakash

Composed of ultralight bosons, fuzzy dark matter provides an intriguing solution to challenges that the standard cold dark matter model encounters on sub-galactic scales. The ultralight dark matter with mass $m\sim10^{-23} \rm{eV}$ will…

Ultra-light Dark Matter (ULDM) is one of the most promising DM candidates. Due to the Bose enhancement, we find the annihilation rate of the ULDM in the presence of background photon radiation can be greatly enhanced and produce a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-14 Yuanlin Gong , Xin Liu , Lei Wu , Qiaoli Yang , Bin Zhu

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

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) refers to a class of theories, including ultra-light axions, in which particles with mass $m_{\psi} < 10^{-20}\, \rm{eV}$ comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. A galactic scale de Broglie…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Alexander Laroche , Daniel Gilman , Xinyu Li , Jo Bovy , Xiaolong Du

In this thesis, we investigate the possibility that dark matter consists of ultra light spin-zero particles with mass $m \sim 10^{-22}\ \text{eV}$. We focus on the role of self-interactions, assuming all other non-gravitational couplings to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Bihag Dave

Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around $10^{-23}\text{eV}$, are promising candidates for the elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime metric in the nanohertz frequency band, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

Ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter (ULDM) is an alternative to cold dark matter. A key feature of ULDM is the presence of solitonic cores at the centers of collapsed halos. These would potentially increase the drag experienced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Russell Boey , Emily Kendall , Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

Measurements of differential length oscillations of Fabry-Perot cavities provide a sensitive and promising approach to searching for scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM). The initial demonstration sets direct lower bounds that are one to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-23 Tejas Deshpande , Andra Ionescu , Nicholas Miller , Zhiyuan Wang , Gerald Gabrielse , Andrew A. Geraci , Tim Kovachy

The dense environment of our Galactic Center (GC) offers a unique laboratory for probing ultralight dark matter (ULDM). We explore the prospect of detecting a scalar ULDM field through its effects on the orbital dynamics of S-stars around…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Lijing Shao

Fluctuations in ultralight dark matter produce significant metric perturbations, which may be detected by monitoring the arrival times of light from millisecond pulsars. While searches using this technique are already underway, they do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jeff A. Dror , Austin Lam

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is currently one of the most popular classes of cosmological dark matter. The most important advantage is that ULDM with mass $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV can account for the small-scale problems encountered in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-27 Man Ho Chan , Chu Fai Yeung