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Ultralight dark matter, such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter (DPDM) or axionlike-particle dark matter (axion DM), can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at Earth's surface. Previous work searched for this signal in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-30 Matt Friel , Jesper W. Gjerloev , Saarik Kalia , Alvaro Zamora

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

The recent observation of an excess in the electronic recoil data by the XENON1T detector has drawn many attentions as a potential hint for an extension of the Standard Model (SM). Absorption of a vector boson with the mass of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-08 Gongjun Choi , Tsutomu T. Yanagida , Norimi Yokozaki

We consider using optomechanical accelerometers as resonant detectors for ultralight dark matter. As a concrete example, we describe a detector based on a silicon nitride membrane fixed to a beryllium mirror, forming an optical cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jack Manley , Mitul Dey Chowdhury , Daniel Grin , Swati Singh , Dalziel J. Wilson

We investigate singlet scalar dark matter (DM) candidate in a left-right symmetric gauge model with two Higgs bidoublets (2HBDM) in which the stabilization of the DM particle is induced by the discrete symmetries P and CP. According to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 Wan-Lei Guo , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

We propose an experiment to search for ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilatonic interactions. Such couplings can arise for the dilaton as well as for moduli and axion-like particles in the presence of CP violation. Ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-03 Asimina Arvanitaki , Junwu Huang , Ken Van Tilburg

If dark matter consists of ultralight bosons, on galactic scales it can be effectively described as a coherent classical field experiencing oscillations. Such a field could perturb the dynamics of celestial bodies via a direct coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Federico Huxhagen , Diana López Nacir

We search for ultra-light vector dark matter interacting with a rotating torsion balance with a baryon minus lepton number composition dipole. Our search spans candidate masses in the ultra-low mass range from 1.3~$\times10^{-22}$ to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-28 M. P. Ross , E. A. Shaw , C. Gettings , S. K. Apple , I. A. Paulson , J. H. Gundlach

Dark matter exists in our Universe, but its nature remains mysterious. The remarkable sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may be able to solve this mystery. A good dark matter candidate is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Huai-Ke Guo , Keith Riles , Feng-Wei Yang , Yue Zhao

We report new limits on ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilaton-like couplings to photons that can induce oscillations in the fine-structure constant alpha. Atomic dysprosium exhibits an electronic structure with two nearly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 Ken Van Tilburg , Nathan Leefer , Lykourgos Bougas , Dmitry Budker

A search for dark matter (DM) particles produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson is performed using $pp$ collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-07 ATLAS Collaboration

We study signatures of macroscopic dark matter (DM) in current and future gravitational wave (GW) experiments. Transiting DM with a mass of $\sim10^5-10^{15}$ kg that saturates the local DM density can be potentially detectable by GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Yufeng Du , Vincent S. H. Lee , Yikun Wang , Kathryn M. Zurek

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

Ultra-light bosons, naturally appearing in well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model, can constitute all the dark matter. Models with particle mass close to the smallest phenomenologically allowed exhibit coherent field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Diego Blas , Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente

We recently proposed to cross-correlate the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background with the gravitational lensing signal of cosmic shear. This represents a novel and promising strategy to search for annihilating or decaying particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 Stefano Camera , Mattia Fornasa , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

If dark matter stems from the background of a very light gauge boson, this gauge boson could exert forces on test masses in gravitational wave detectors, resulting in displacements with a characteristic frequency set by the gauge boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Aaron Pierce , Keith Riles , Yue Zhao

The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}$, offers a promising solution to…

Simplified models of light new physics provide a convenient benchmark for experimental searches for new physics signatures, including dark matter (DM). However, additional detection modes can arise in less simplified and more realistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Krzysztof Jodłowski , Leszek Roszkowski , Sebastian Trojanowski

We study the superheavy dark matter (DM) scenario in an extended $B-L$ model, where one generation of right-handed neutrino $\nu_R$ is the DM candidate. If there is a new lighter sterile neutrino that co-annihilate with the DM candidate,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Ligong Bian , Xuewen Liu , Ke-Pan Xie

In the framework of an nonuniversal $U(1)'$ extension of the standard model, we propose an scalar candidate for cold dark matter which exhibits interactions with ordinary matter through Higgs and gauge bosons. Using limits from low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-07 R. Martinez , J. Nisperuza , F. Ochoa , J. P. Rubio