Ultralight Scalar and Axion Dark Matter Detection with Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers

doi:10.1088/0256-307X/41/12/129501

Chin. Phys. Lett.

2024, Vol. 41

Issue (12): 129501 DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/41/12/129501

GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS

Ultralight Scalar and Axion Dark Matter Detection with Long-Baseline Atom Interferometers

Wei Zhao^1*, Hui Liu¹, and Xitong Mei^2,3

¹Shandong University of Aeronautics, Binzhou 256600, China
²State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Wei Zhao, Hui Liu, and Xitong Mei 2024 Chin. Phys. Lett. 41 129501

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Abstract Detecting dark matter remains one of the most challenging problems in modern physics. We propose a method to detect the coupling of ultralight scalar dark matter to quarks and gluons, as well as the coupling of ultralight axion dark matter to gluons, using long-baseline atom interferometers. Interactions between ultralight scalar and axion dark matter with quarks and gluons can induce oscillations in nuclear charge radii, consequently causing oscillations in atomic transition frequencies. We calculate the differential phase shift produced by these dark matter interactions in long-baseline atom interferometers, presenting constraints on the scalar dark matter coupling parameters $d_g$ and $d_{\hat{m}}$, as well as on the axion dark matter coupling parameter $1/f_a$. Our results are anticipated to improve existing bounds and complement bounds from other experiments.

Received: 01 July 2024 Published: 06 December 2024

PACS:	95.35.+d	(Dark matter)
	03.75.Dg	(Atom and neutron interferometry)
	37.25.+k	(Atom interferometry techniques)
	04.80.Nn	(Gravitational wave detectors and experiments)

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