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Novel approaches to dark-matter detection using space-time separated clocks

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-10-15 v5 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We discuss the theoretical analysis and interpretation of space-time separated clock experiments in the context of a space-time varying scalar field that is non-universally coupled to the standard model fields. If massive, such a field is a candidate for dark matter and could be detected in laboratory experiments. We show that space-time separated experiments have the potential to probe a fundamentally different parameter space from more common co-located experiments, allowing decorrelation of previously necessarily correlated parameters. Finally, we describe such a space-time separated clock experiment currently running at the Paris Observatory, and present some preliminary results as a proof of principle.

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@article{arxiv.1902.07192,
  title  = {Novel approaches to dark-matter detection using space-time separated clocks},
  author = {Etienne Savalle and Benjamin M. Roberts and Florian Frank and Paul-Eric Pottie and Ben T. McAllister and Conner Dailey and Andrei Derevianko and Peter Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.07192},
  year   = {2019}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures

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