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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

The ultralight boson represents a promising dark matter candidate exhibiting unique wave-like behaviors. These properties could transfer to the dark mediator, such as the kinetic mixing dark photon, which can be a link between the dark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-29 Jinhui Guo , Yuxuan He , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

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

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

Core-collapse supernovae, among the universe's most energetic events, offer a novel window into the dark sector by potentially producing a flux of boosted dark matter (BDM). We explore the potential to detect the BDM produced by supernovae…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Badal Bhalla , Fazlollah Hajkarim , Doojin Kim , Kuver Sinha

If ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) exists and couples to neutrinos, the neutrino oscillation probability might be significantly altered by a parametric resonance. This resonance can occur if the typical frequency of neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 Marta Losada , Yosef Nir , Gilad Perez , Inbar Savoray , Yogev Shpilman

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

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

We study the possibility to directly detect the boosted dark matter generated from the scatterings with high energetic cosmic particles such as protons and electrons. As a concrete example, we consider the sub-GeV dark matter mediated by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-18 Wonsub Cho , Ki-Young Choi , Seong Moon Yoo

Spin-2 ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is a viable dark matter candidate and it can be constrained using gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this paper, we investigate the detectability of spin-2 ULDM by space-based GW interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Jing-Rui Zhang , Ju Chen , Heng-Sen Jiao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yun-Long Zhang

The possible existence of a new gauge boson U, light and very weakly coupled, allows for Light Dark Matter particles, which could also be at the origin of the 511 keV line from the galactic bulge. Independently of dark matter, and taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre Fayet

We derive the characteristic scales for physical quantities of dwarf galaxies, such as mass, size, acceleration, and angular momentum, within the self-interacting ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model. Due to the small mass of ULDM, even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-23 Jae-Weon Lee , Chueng-Ryong Ji

We propose that the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model, in which dark matter particles have a tiny mass of $m=O(10^{-22})eV$, has characteristic scales for physical quantities of observed galaxies such as mass, size, acceleration, mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-24 Jae-Weon Lee

Ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) can be described by a classical wave-like field oscillating near the Compton frequency of the bosons. If a measurement scheme for the direct detection of UBDM interactions is sensitive to a signature…

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

While ultra-light bosonic dark matter (ULDM) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) state could naturally account for the central core in some galaxies and resolve the core-cusp problem, the dark matter density distribution in the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Tian-yao Fang , Ming-Chung Chu

Cosmological mechanisms that yield ultralight dark matter are insensitive to the intrinsic parity of a bosonic dark matter candidate, but that same quantity plays a crucial role in a direct detection experiment. The modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-20 Christopher M. Donohue , Susan Gardner , Wolfgang Korsch

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

The Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) is a dark matter candidate with mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$eV and de Broglie wavelength of order kpc. Such an axion, also called the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), thermalizes via the gravitational force and forms a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jiajun Zhang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Jui-Lin Kuo , Kingman Cheung , Ming-Chung Chu

We study an impact of self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) on various observable properties of neutron stars (NSs). The analysis is performed for asymmetric DM with masses from few MeV to GeV, the self-coupling constant of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Davood Rafiei Karkevandi , Soroush Shakeri , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi