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We look for and place observational constraints on the imprint of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) soliton cores in rotation-dominated galaxies. Extending previous analyses, we find a conservative constraint which disfavors the soliton-host…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-29 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Chen Sun

Dark Matter could potentially manifest itself in the form of asymmetric dark stars. In this paper we entertain the possibility of probing such asymmetric bosonic dark matter stars by the use of atomic clocks. If the dark sector connects to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Chris Kouvaris , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Lauren Street , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Ultralight particles, with a mass below the electronvolt scale, exhibit wave-like behavior and have arisen as a compelling dark matter candidate. A particularly intriguing subclass is scalar dark matter, which induces variations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Xucheng Gan , Da Liu , Di Liu , Xuheng Luo , Bingrong Yu

In theories with Universal Extra-Dimensions (UED), the gamma_1 particle, first excited state of the hypercharge gauge boson, provides an excellent Dark Matter (DM) candidate. Here we use a modified version of the SuperBayeS code to perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Gianfranco Bertone , Kyoungchul Kong , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Roberto Trotta

We study the probing prospects of cosmic ray boosted dark matter (DM) in the framework of simplified electron-philic dark photon model. Focusing on the dark matter and dark photon masses around keV $\sim $ MeV scale, we consider the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-13 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang

Supernova explosions are among the most extreme events in the Universe, making them a promising environment in which to search for the effects of light, weakly coupled new particles. As significant sources of energy, they are known to have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Stefan Vogl , Xun-Jie Xu

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

Atom interferometry 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). Previous studies have focused on the sensitivity to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-01 Leonardo Badurina , Diego Blas , Christopher McCabe

Ultralight axionlike dark matter (ALDM) is a leading candidate in the dark matter realm, characterized by its prominent wave properties on astronomical scales. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and Pulsar polarization arrays (PPAs) aim to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Ximeng Li , Yonghao Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Shi Dai , Boris Goncharov , Xiao-Song Hu , Qing-Guo Huang , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Yu-Mei Wu , Xiao Xue , Xingjiang Zhu

We propose a model of asymmetric bosonic dark matter (DM) with self-repulsion mediated by the vector field coupled to the complex scalar particles. By adopting the two-fluid formalism, we study different DM distribution regimes, either,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Edoardo Giangrandi , Violetta Sagun , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , Constança Providência , Tim Dietrich

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) made of ultra-light bosonic particles is a viable alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) with clearly distinguishable small-scale features in collapsed structures. On large scales, it behaves gravitationally like CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer

We explore the presence of self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) within neutron stars (NSs) in light of the latest multi-messenger observations of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and LIGO/Virgo detectors. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Soroush Shakeri , Davood Rafiei Karkevandi

Due to their extreme density and low temperature, neutron stars (NS) are efficient probes to unveil interactions between standard model and dark matter (DM) particles. From elastic scatterings on NS material, DM can get gravitationally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-28 Raghuveer Garani , Yoann Genolini , Thomas Hambye

Dark matter in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way may take the form of a dark plasma. Hidden sector dark matter charged under an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge interaction provides a simple and well defined particle physics model realising this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Jackson D. Clarke , Robert Foot

A search for inelastic boosted dark matter (iBDM) using the COSINE-100 detector with 59.5 days of data is presented. This relativistic dark matter is theorized to interact with the target material through inelastic scattering with…

In this work, we compute multi-field core and halo properties in wave Dark Matter models. We focus on the case where Dark Matter consists of two light (real) scalars, interacting gravitationally. As in the single-field Ultra Light Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Fabio van Dissel , Mark P. Hertzberg , Jared Shapiro

Utilizing single-photon photoassociation, we have achieved ultracold rubidium molecules with a high number density that provides a new efficient approach toward molecular quantum degeneracy. A new detection mechanism for ultracold molecule…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun-Ren Chen , Cheng-Yang Kao , Hung-Bin Chen , Yi-Wei Liu

We recall how a new light gauge boson emerged in Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model with an extra singlet superfield, and how it could behave very much as a light pseudoscalar, with the corresponding symmetry broken at a scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Fayet

The dark matter conundrum stands out as one of the central challenges to understand in both particle physics and cosmology. The ultralight axion-like particle (UALP) is an appealing dark matter candidate that can be searched for in neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Rubén Cordero , Luis A. Delgadillo

We initiate the study of `bubbletrons', by which we mean ultra-high-energy collisions of the particle shells that generically form at the walls of relativistic bubbles in cosmological first-order phase transitions (PT). As an application,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Iason Baldes , Maximilian Dichtl , Yann Gouttenoire , Filippo Sala