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Detecting ultralight axion dark matter wind with laser interferometers

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2017-06-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The ultralight axion with mass around 102210^{-22} eV is known as a candidate of dark matter. A peculiar feature of the ultralight axion is oscillating pressure in time, which produces oscillation of gravitational potentials. Since the solar system moves through the dark matter halo at the velocity of about v300km/s=103v \sim 300 \, \text{km} / \text{s} = 10^{-3}, there exists axion wind, which looks like scalar gravitational waves for us. Hence, there is a chance to detect ultralight axion dark matter with a wide mass range by using laser interferometer detectors. We calculate the detector signal induced by the oscillating pressure of the ultralight axion field, which would be detected by future laser interferometer experiments. We also argue that the detector signal can be enhanced due to the resonance in modified gravity theory explaining the dark energy.

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@article{arxiv.1608.05933,
  title  = {Detecting ultralight axion dark matter wind with laser interferometers},
  author = {Arata Aoki and Jiro Soda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.05933},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, published version

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