LISA forecasts for quadratically coupled ultralight dark matter show competitive or superior sensitivity to terrestrial and astrophysical probes in selected mass windows, free of screening.
Detecting ultralight axion dark matter wind with laser interferometers
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The ultralight axion with mass around $10^{-22}$ 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 $v \sim 300 \, \text{km} / \text{s} = 10^{-3}$, 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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ULDM oscillations in constants create directional signals in LISA/Taiji that survive TDI processing, with a new local observable improving sensitivity to dilaton-electron coupling d_e by three orders of magnitude over standard Michelson channels.
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Probing Quadratically Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
LISA forecasts for quadratically coupled ultralight dark matter show competitive or superior sensitivity to terrestrial and astrophysical probes in selected mass windows, free of screening.
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Signatures of Ultralight Dark Matter in Space-Based Laser Interferometers
ULDM oscillations in constants create directional signals in LISA/Taiji that survive TDI processing, with a new local observable improving sensitivity to dilaton-electron coupling d_e by three orders of magnitude over standard Michelson channels.