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Neutron stars harbour matter under extreme conditions, providing a unique testing ground for fundamental interactions. We recently developed an improved treatment of dark matter (DM) capture in neutron stars that properly incorporates many…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-30 Nicole F. Bell , Giorgio Busoni , Sandra Robles , Michael Virgato

This paper investigates experimental means of measuring the transmission matrix (TM) of a highly scattering medium, with the simplest optical setup. Spatial light modulation is performed by a digital micromirror device (DMD), allowing high…

We are building an experiment to search for dark matter in the form of dark photons in the nano- to milli-eV mass range. This experiment is the electromagnetic dual of magnetic detector dark radio experiments. It is also a frequency-time…

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues

Dark matter could be made up of dark photons, massive but very light particles whose interactions with matter resemble those of usual photons but suppressed by a small mixing parameter. We analyze the main approaches to dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Álvarez-Luna , J. A. R. Cembranos

Owing to their extremely narrow line-widths and exceptional coherence properties, M\"ossbauer nuclei form a promising platform for quantum optics, spectroscopy and dynamics at energies of hard x-rays. A key requirement for further progress…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Lukas Wolff , Jörg Evers

The presence of a dissipative dark matter (DM) sector may allow for the trapping of a significant DM mass inside stars, either during structure formation or by accretion over their lifetime, influencing stellar behavior well into the Main…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-21 Gil Peled , Tomer Volansky

Owing to its low electronic noise and flexible target materials, the Spherical Proportional Counter (SPC) with a single electron detection threshold can be utilized to search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM). In this work, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-19 Yuchao Gu , Jie Tang , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

We devise and demonstrate a method to search for non-gravitational couplings of ultralight dark matter to standard model particles using space-time separated atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers. By making use of space-time separated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Melina Filzinger , Ashlee R. Caddell , Dhruv Jani , Martin Steinel , Leonardo Giani , Nils Huntemann , Benjamin M. Roberts

Numerous applications of M\"{o}ssbauer spectroscopy are related to a unique resolution of absorption spectra of resonant radiation in crystals, when the nucleus absorbs a photon without a recoil. However, the narrow nuclear linewidth…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 O. D. Skoromnik , I. D. Feranchuk , J. Evers , C. H. Keitel

The search for relativistic scattering signals of cosmogenic light dark matter at terrestrial detectors has received increasing attention as an alternative approach to probe dark-sector physics. Large-volume neutrino experiments are well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-02 Albert De Roeck , Doojin Kim , Zahra Gh. Moghaddam , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin , Leigh H. Whitehead

We argue that the lensing power spectrum of astrometric shift (lensing shift power spectrum) is a powerful tool of the clustering property of dark matter on subgalactic scales. First we give the formalism to probe the nature of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-01 Kaiki Taro Inoue , Takumi Shinohara , Teruaki Suyama , Tomo Takahashi

Next-generation ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino telescopes, presently under planning, will have the potential to probe the decay of heavy dark matter (DM) into UHE neutrinos, with energies in excess of $10^7$~GeV. Yet, this potential may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Victor Valera , Mauricio Bustamante , Walter Winter

We investigate the possibility of detecting the gravitational influence of dark matter (DM) on the trajectory of prospective Doppler ranging missions to Uranus and Neptune. In addition, we estimate the constraints such a mission can provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Lorenz Zwick , Deniz Soyuer , Jozef Bucko

If ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) exists and couples to neutrinos, it can be discovered via time-periodic variations in the neutrino mass and mixing parameters. We analyze the current bounds on such a scenario and establish the sensitivity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-27 Marta Losada , Yosef Nir , Gilad Perez , Yogev Shpilman

The identity of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most captivating topics in particle physics today. The R-parity conserving Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), which naturally provides a DM candidate in the form of the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-15 Carlos Ávila , Andrés Flórez , Alfredo Gurrola , Dale Julson , Savanna Starko

Recently it has been shown that when the Dark Matter (DM) particles captured in the Sun directly annihilate into neutrino pairs, the oscillatory terms in the oscillation probability do not average to zero and can lead to a seasonal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-21 Arman Esmaili , Yasaman Farzan

We experimentally measure the monochromatic transmission matrix (TM) of an optical multiple scattering medium using a spatial light modulator together with a phase-shifting interferometry measurement method. The TM contains all information…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. M. Popoff , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , A. C. Boccara , S. Gigan

Single-photon atom gradiometry 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). In the sub-Hz regime the background is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-07 Leonardo Badurina , Valerie Gibson , Christopher McCabe , Jeremiah Mitchell

Direct detection experiments utilizing electronic excitations are spearheading the search for light, sub-GeV, dark matter (DM). It is thus crucial to have accurate predictions for any DM-electron interaction rate in this regime. EXCEED-DM…

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