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Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

We search for dark matter in the form of axionlike particles (ALPs) in the mass range $5.576741 \,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ - $5.577733\,\mathrm{neV/c^2}$ by probing their possible coupling to fermion spins through the ALP field gradient. This is…

Dark matter and neutrinos provide the two most compelling pieces of evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics but they are often treated as two different sectors. The aim of this paper is to determine whether…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Andres Olivares-Del Campo , Celine Boehm , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Silvia Pascoli

The precision era of multi-messenger astronomy, together with modern astrophysical, cosmological, and gravitational wave observations, increasingly points toward the existence of a ``dark" sector that cannot be explained within the…

Obtaining insight into the constituents of dark matter and their interactions with normal matter has inspired a wide range of experimental efforts. Several approaches, particularly those involving searches for ultralight bosonic dark matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Jose-Daniel Bernal , Ryan B. Petery , K. J. Joven , Swati Singh

Optically levitated nanospheres are highly sensitive to the motion of their center of mass even under small momentum transfer. We propose detecting exotic particles via nucleon scattering in such spheres in the context of an ongoing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Bhaskar Dutta , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Sk Jeesun

We propose a new strategy to search for a particular type of dark matter via nuclear capture. If the dark matter particle carries baryon number, as motivated by a class of theoretical explanations of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-27 Bartosz Fornal , Benjamin Grinstein , Yue Zhao

The dark photon is a new gauge boson that naturally arises in many beyond the Standard Model theoretical models, featuring interactions that resemble quantum electrodynamics. Due to this feature, it is often considered the portal between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 L. Angel , G. Casse , G. Gambini , A. S. de Jesus , V. Kozhuharov , A. Machado , F. S. Queiroz , E. Segreto , J. Smirnov

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

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

We consider axionlike particles, as the most probable constituents of dark matter, the Yukawa-type corrections to Newton's gravitational law and constraints on their parameters following from astrophysics and different laboratory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 Galina L. Klimchitskaya , Vladimir M. Mostepanenko

Supersymmetry may be discovered at high energy colliders, through low energy precision measurements, and by dark matter searches. We present a comprehensive analysis of all available probes in minimal supergravity. This work extends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Jonathan L. Feng , Konstantin T. Matchev , Frank Wilczek

The development of levitated optomechanics has enabled precise force sensors that operate in the quantum measurement regime, opening up unique opportunities to search for new physics whose weak interactions may have evaded existing sensors.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-22 Yu-Han Tseng , T. W. Penny , Benjamin Siegel , Jiaxiang Wang , David C. Moore

We discuss the use of atom interferometry as a tool to search for Dark Matter (DM) composed of ultra-light scalar fields. Previous work on ultra-light DM detection using accelerometers has considered the possibility of equivalence principle…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Andrew A. Geraci , Andrei Derevianko

Earth can act as a transducer to convert ultralight bosonic dark matter (axions and hidden photons) into an oscillating magnetic field with a characteristic pattern across its surface. Here we describe the first results of a dedicated…

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…

We propose the use of the super-binomial variance in the count rate of an atom interferometer as a novel signature of dark matter. We show that the dark matter induced shift in this observable is enhanced by N, the number of atoms used per…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-02 Clara Murgui , Ryan Plestid

A leading hypothesis for the nature of the elusive dark matter are thermally produced, weakly interacting massive particles that arise in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Their self-annihilation in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Torsten Bringmann

Dark matter (DM) is a new type of invisible matter introduced to explain various features of recent astrophysical observations, including galaxy rotation curves and other fundamental characteristics of our universe. DM may couple to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-24 Vindhyawasini Prasad

One of the key questions in particle physics and astrophysics is the nature of dark matter, which existence has been confirmed in many astrophysical and cosmological observations. Besides direct and indirect detection experiments, collider…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-05 Jeanette Miriam Lorenz