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Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

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 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

Ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter (ULDM) is an alternative to cold dark matter. A key feature of ULDM is the presence of solitonic cores at the centers of collapsed halos. These would potentially increase the drag experienced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Russell Boey , Emily Kendall , Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

In this paper, we consider the hypothesis in which a species of ultra light bosonic dark matter (ULBDM) with mass $m_{B}\sim 10^{-22}$ eV could be the dominant dark matter (DM) in the Universe. As a first approach we work in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-25 Ivan Rodriguez-Montoya , Juan Magaña , Tonatiuh Matos , Abdel Perez-Lorenzana

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 detection of gravitational waves from merging binaries has ushered in the era of gravitational wave interferometer astronomy. Besides these strong, transient, calamitous events, much weaker signals can be detected if the oscillations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-26 Juan Manuel Armaleo , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

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

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

Ultralight bosonic particles are fascinating candidates of dark matter (DM). It behaves as classical waves in our Galaxy due to its large number density. There have been various methods proposed to search for the wave-like DM, such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-09 Hiromasa Nakatsuka , Soichiro Morisaki , Tomohiro Fujita , Jun'ya Kume , Yuta Michimura , Koji Nagano , Ippei Obata

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 scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM) candidate would induce oscillatory motion of freely falling test masses via its coupling to Standard Model fields. Such oscillations would create an observable Doppler shift of light exchanged between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Jordan Gué , Peter Wolf , Aurélien Hees

We show that coupling of ultralight dark matter (UDM) to quarks and gluons would lead to an oscillation of the nuclear charge radius for both the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion and scalar dark matter. Consequently, the resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Abhishek Banerjee , Dmitry Budker , Melina Filzinger , Nils Huntemann , Gil Paz , Gilad Perez , Sergey Porsev , Marianna Safronova

We study the cosmological impact of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) with a quadratic coupling to Standard Model particles. In addition to the suppression of small-scale power from ULDM itself, the coupling induces a variation of fundamental…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Subhajit Ghosh , Kimberly K. Boddy , Tien-Tien Yu

In a broad class of theories, the accumulation of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) with particles of mass $10^{-22}~\textrm{eV} < m_{\phi} < 1~\textrm{eV}$ leads the to formation of long-lived bound states known as boson stars. When the ULDM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-30 Jason Arakawa , Joshua Eby , Marianna S. Safronova , Volodymyr Takhistov , Muhammad H. Zaheer

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a class of dark matter models (DM) where DM is composed by bosons with masses ranging from $10^{-24}\, \mathrm{eV} < m < \mathrm{eV}$. These models have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Elisa G. M. Ferreira

Spin-2 ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is a viable dark matter candidate and it can be constrained using gravitational wave (GW) observations. In this paper, we investigate the detectability of spin-2 ULDM by space-based GW interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Jing-Rui Zhang , Ju Chen , Heng-Sen Jiao , Rong-Gen Cai , Yun-Long Zhang

Supermassive black hole binary mergers serve as prominent sources of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), detectable by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If dark matter-induced friction is present in the vicinity of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Pratick Sarkar

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

Ultra-Light Dark Matter (ULDM) halos constituted by Ultra-Light Axions (ULAs) generate gravitational potentials that oscillate in time. In this paper I show these potentials interact with gravitational waves, resonantly amplifying them. For…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Paola C. M. Delgado