Novel signatures of dark matter in laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors

2019/06/30 by H. Grote, Y. V. Stadnik · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark matter #Detector #Field (mathematics) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Scalar field dark matter #astro-ph.IM #hep-ph #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevresearch.1.033187

published as Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033187 (2019) · 17 pages, 4 figures

openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · arxiv created 2019/09/29 · openalex publication_date 2019/12/19 · arxiv updated 2019/12/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The authors present novel ways of how scalar field dark matter can couple to laser interferometers, which now regularly observe gravitational waves. Using existing data from these gravitational-wave detectors and searching for these novel signatures of dark matter, this paper shows that is possible to detect scalar field dark matter and macroscopic dark matter objects with better sensitivity than with other types of experiments.

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