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On the detectability of ultralight scalar field dark matter with gravitational-wave detectors

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arxiv 1811.05003 v1 pith:W2XXS4CG submitted 2018-11-09 hep-ph gr-qc

On the detectability of ultralight scalar field dark matter with gravitational-wave detectors

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An ultralight scalar field is one of the dark matter candidates. If it couples with Standard Model particles, it oscillates mirrors in gravitational-wave detectors and generates detectable signals. We study the spectra of the signals taking into account the motion of the detectors due to the Earth's rotation/the detectors' orbital motion around the Sun and formulate a suitable data-analysis method to detect it. We find that our method can improve the existing constraints given by fifth-force experiments on one of the scalar field's coupling constants by a factor of $\sim 30$, $\sim 100$ and $\sim 350$ for $m_\phi = 2 \times 10^{-17}~\mathrm{eV},~10^{-14}~\mathrm{eV}$ and $10^{-12}~\mathrm{eV}$ respectively, where $m_\phi$ is the scalar field's mass. Our study demonstrates that experiments with gravitational-wave detectors play a complementary role to that Equivalence Principle tests do.

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