Searching for Scalar Field Dark Matter with LIGO
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Cardiff University
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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
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California Institute of Technology
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University of Rome Tor Vergata
Abstract
We report on a direct search for scalar field dark matter using data from LIGO's third observing run. We analyze the coupling of size oscillations of the interferometer's beam splitter and arm test masses that may be caused by scalar field dark matter. Using new efficient search methods to maximize sensitivity for signatures of such oscillations, we set new upper limits for the coupling constants of scalar field dark matter as a function of its mass, which improve upon bounds from previous direct searches by up to four orders of magnitude in a frequency band from 10 to 180 Hz. Published by the American Physical Society 2024
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Acknowledgement
The authors are grateful for support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Grants No. ST/T006331/1 and No. ST/W006456/1 for the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics program, as well as No. ST/I006285/1, and No. ST/L000946/1, and the Leverhulme Trust, Grant No. RPG-2019-022. This work was supported in part by Oracle Cloud credits and related resources provided by the Oracle Corporation. This research has made use of data or software obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center, a service of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA. This material is based upon work supported by NSF’s LIGO Laboratory which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation, as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. Virgo is funded, through the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by institutions from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. K. A. G. R. A. is supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan; National Research Foundation (NRF) and Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in Korea; Academia Sinica (AS) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan. This document has been assigned LIGO document No. LIGO-P2400010.
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Additional details
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- ST/T006331/1
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- ST/W006456/1
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- ST/I006285/1
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- ST/L000946/1
- Leverhulme Trust
- RPG-2019-022
- Oracle (United States)
- National Science Foundation
- Max Planck Society
- Australian Research Council
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ministry of Science and ICT
- Academia Sinica
- National Science and Technology Council
- Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics
- Accepted
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2024-07-08Accepted
- Available
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2024-09-04Published online
- Caltech groups
- LIGO
- Other Numbering System Name
- LIGO
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- LIGO-P2400010
- Publication Status
- Published