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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for detection of light scalar Dark Matter (DM), through probing temporal oscillations of fundamental constants in an atomic optical transition. Utilizing the quantum information notion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shahaf Aharony , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri , Gilad Perez , Inbar Savoray , Ravid Shaniv

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

We propose using the ultra-narrow 88 keV M\"ossbauer transition in $^{109}$Ag to search for QCD axion dark matter. The sub-eV axion field oscillates coherently, inducing a time-varying effective $\bar{\theta}_{\rm QCD}$ angle. This, in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-20 Shengyi Liu , Kun-Feng Lyu , Jie Meng , Jing Shu , Yakun Wang , Yue Zhao

We investigate the feasibility of probing the interaction between ultralight scalar dark matter and atomic nuclei using a stationary Mossbauer spectroscopy scheme. The exceptional energy resolution of the Mossbauer resonance enables testing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Peng-Long Zhang , Yu-Ming Yang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Qin Chang , Yu Gao , Hai-Bo Li , Wei Xu , Peng-Fei Yin

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

The effects of scalar and pseudoscalar ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) were searched for by comparing the frequency of a quartz oscillator to that of a hyperfine-structure transition in $^{87}$Rb, and an electronic transition in…

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

Dark photons can be the ultralight dark matter candidate, interacting with Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for ultralight dark photon dark matter (DPDM) through the local absorption at different radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Wen-Qing Guo , Xiaoyuan Huang , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range $20$~kHz-$100$ MHz, that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent, significantly upgraded optical-spectroscopy apparatus, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Oleg Tretiak , Xue Zhang , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Dionysios Antypas , Andrea Brogna , Abhishek Banerjee , Gilad Perez , Dmitry Budker

A light scalar dark matter (DM) is allowed in a wide range of the mass and interaction types. We show that the light scalar DM may be probed in a new way from final years of neutron-star (NS) binary inspirals. If the DM interacts with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Han Gil Choi , Sunghoon Jung

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

The next generation of ultralight dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments, which could confirm sub-eV bosons as the dominant source of DM, will feature multiple detectors operating at various terrestrial locations. As a result of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Joshua W. Foster , Yonatan Kahn , Rachel Nguyen , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

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

We investigate dark matter (DM) interactions via spectroscopic signatures of energy injection in planetary environments. We develop a general framework to account for how DM energy injection signals depend on the DM spatial distribution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Carlos Blanco , Rebecca K. Leane , Marianne Moore , Joshua Tong

We present a novel search for dark photon dark matter (DM) using terrestrial magnetic field measurements at frequencies below 100 Hz. Coherently oscillating dark photon DM can induce a monochromatic magnetic field via kinetic mixing with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Kimihiro Nomura , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Dark matter (DM) with masses of order an electronvolt or below can have a non-zero coupling to electromagnetism while being compatible with cosmological observations. In these models, the ambient DM behaves as a new classical source in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Nikita Blinov , Christina Gao , Roni Harnik , Ryan Janish , Neil Sinclair

Diffuse neutrinos from past supernovae in the Universe present us with a unique opportunity to test dark matter (DM) interactions. These neutrinos can scatter and boost the DM particles in the Milky Way halo to relativistic energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-24 Anirban Das , Tim Herbermann , Manibrata Sen , Volodymyr Takhistov

We consider the scenario where dark matter (DM) is represented by an ultra-light classical scalar field performing coherent periodic oscillations. We point out that such DM perturbs the dynamics of binary systems either through its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-24 Diego Blas , Diana Lopez Nacir , Sergey Sibiryakov

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

Ultralight scalar dark matter may induce apparent oscillations of the muon mass, which may be directly probed via temporal shifts in the spectra of muonium and muonic atoms. Existing datasets and ongoing spectroscopy measurements with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-10 Yevgeny V. Stadnik
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