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The nature of dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics. In this work, we investigate the phenomenological implications of ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM) coupled to neutrinos. We focus on a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda , Hiroshi Nunokawa

We present a way to search for light scalar dark matter (DM), seeking to exploit putative coupling between dark matter scalar fields and fundamental constants, by searching for frequency modulations in direct comparisons between frequency…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-06-18 William M. Campbell , Ben T. McAllister , Maxim Goryachev , Eugene N. Ivanov , Michael E. Tobar

A possible implication of an ultralight dark matter (UDM) field interacting wibeginth the Standard Model (SM) degrees of freedom is oscillations of fundamental constants. Here, we establish direct experimental bounds on the coupling of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 R. Oswald , A. Nevsky , V. Vogt , S. Schiller , N. L. Figueroa , K. Zhang , O. Tretiak , D. Antypas , D. Budker , A. Banerjee , G. Perez

Dark photons (DPs) produced in the early Universe are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. We show that the recently proposed tunable plasma haloscopes are particularly advantageous for DP searches. While in-medium effects suppress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Graciela B. Gelmini , Alexander J. Millar , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

We propose a new search channel for boosted dark matter (BDM) signals coming from the present universe, which are distinct from simple neutrino signals including those coming from the decay or pair-annihilation of dark matter. The signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

We study the environmental dependence of ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with linear interactions to the standard model particles. The solution to the DM field turns out to be a sum of the cosmic harmonic oscillation term and the local…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Wei Zhao , Dongfeng Gao , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

We propose to search for a boosted dark matter (DM) particle from astrophysical sources using an emulsion detector in deep underground facilities. We further propose using high-$Z$ material such as the lead for a larger DM-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Xin Chen , Litao Yang

We explore the possibilities of detecting MeV-scale boosted dark matter (DM) via astrophysical observations. Given a particular model framework, using gamma-ray data from \texttt{COMPTEL} and \texttt{EGRET}, as well as neutrino constraints…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Arindam Basu

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

In this study, we propose an investigation into dark photon dark matter (DPDM) within the infrared frequency band, utilizing highly sensitive infrared light detectors commonly integrated into space telescopes, such as the James Webb Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-11 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

Dark photons are a well-motivated candidate for dark matter, but their detection becomes challenging for ultralight masses with both experimental and astrophysical probes. In this work, we propose a new approach to explore this regime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-06 Javier F. Acevedo , Amit Bhoonah , Kun Cheng

The nature of dark matter remains obscure in spite of decades of experimental efforts. The mass of dark matter candidates can span a wide range, and its coupling with the Standard Model sector remains uncertain. All these unknowns make the…

The dark photon is a new hypothetical gauge boson arising in extensions of the Standard Model, and constitutes a compelling dark matter candidate. As dark photon dark matter (DPDM), it can interact with electromagnetic fields via kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Júlia G. Mamprim , Aion Viana , Vitor de Souza

We suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

We compute the decay spectrum for dark matter (DM) with masses above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, all the way to the Planck scale. For an arbitrary hard process involving a decay to the unbroken standard model, we determine…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Christian W. Bauer , Nicholas L. Rodd , Bryan R. Webber

A new scheme for detecting wave-like dark matter (DM) using Rydberg atoms is proposed. Recent advances in trapping and manipulating Rydberg atoms make it possible to use Rydberg atoms trapped in optical tweezer arrays for DM detection. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 So Chigusa , Taiyo Kasamaki , Toshi Kusano , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama , Naoya Ozawa , Yoshiro Takahashi , Atsuhiro Umemoto , Amar Vutha

Couplings between light scalar dark matter (DM) and neutrinos induce a perturbation to the neutrino mass matrix. If the DM oscillation period is smaller than ten minutes (or equivalently, the DM particle is heavier than $0.69\times10^{-17}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia , Kerry Whisnant

A simple extension of the Standard Model consists of a scalar field that can potentially constitute the dark matter (DM). Significant attention has been devoted to probing light $\mathcal{O}(\lesssim 10~\rm{eV})$ scalar DM, with a multitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-23 Graciela B. Gelmini , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

The sensitivity to dark matter signals at neutrino experiments is fundamentally challenged by the neutrino rates, as they leave similar signatures in their detectors. As a way to improve the signal sensitivity, we investigate a dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-28 Bhaskar Dutta , Doojin Kim , Shu Liao , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin , Louis E. Strigari , Adrian Thompson

We report on a laboratory search for ultralight dark photon dark matter using a single-site, two-sensor scalar magnetometer array. The experiment employs two scalar optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) operated in a differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Peisen Zhao , Ole Behrens , Maja Benning , Peter Fierlinger , Xuefen Han , Maximilian Huber , Florian Kuchler , Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Philipp Wunderl