Earth screening of quadratically coupled ultralight dark matter produces a multi-band frequency structure in the induced force whose sideband amplitudes vary annually, enabling improved constraints from MICROSCOPE and future EP missions.
Dark Matter Direct Detection with Accelerometers
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The mass of the dark matter particle is unknown, and may be as low as ~$10^{-22}$ eV. The lighter part of this range, below ~eV, is relatively unexplored both theoretically and experimentally but contains an array of natural dark matter candidates. An example is the relaxion, a light boson predicted by cosmological solutions to the hierarchy problem. One of the few generic signals such light dark matter can produce is a time-oscillating, EP-violating force. We propose searches for this using accelerometers, and consider in detail the examples of torsion balances, atom interferometry, and pulsar timing. These approaches have the potential to probe large parts of unexplored parameter space in the next several years. Thus such accelerometers provide radically new avenues for the direct detection of dark matter.
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The paper formulates dark matter detection in matter-wave interferometers as an open-system problem using Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, revealing channel asymmetries and Bose/Pauli factors for elastic scattering.
Ultralight dark matter induces oscillating CKM elements that can be probed at NA62 through direct counting of meson decay events, which avoids sensitivity loss from unknown particle flux.
A review deriving couplings, noise spectra, SNRs, and quantum techniques like squeezing for detectors in dark matter, GW, and mechanical sensor experiments.
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Background-Induced Forces from Quadratically Coupled Ultralight Dark Matter
Earth screening of quadratically coupled ultralight dark matter produces a multi-band frequency structure in the induced force whose sideband amplitudes vary annually, enabling improved constraints from MICROSCOPE and future EP missions.
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Matter-Wave Interferometers as Open-System Dark Matter Detectors
The paper formulates dark matter detection in matter-wave interferometers as an open-system problem using Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory, revealing channel asymmetries and Bose/Pauli factors for elastic scattering.
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Oscillating Imprints of Dark Matter in Mesons Decays
Ultralight dark matter induces oscillating CKM elements that can be probed at NA62 through direct counting of meson decay events, which avoids sensitivity loss from unknown particle flux.