Dark Matter with Light and Ultralight Stückelberg Axions
Claudio Corianò, Matteo Maria Maglio, Alessandro Tatullo, Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos
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29 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2019 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" 1-27 September 2019, Corfu, Greece
Scenarios with axion-like particles of variable masses, from the milli-eV range to ultralight, can be generated in a natural way in the context of effective field theory models with anomalous $U(1)$ gauge symmetries. They include dimension-5 operators which define a coupling of the axion to the gauge anomaly. They provide a realization, in the domain of ordinary gauge theories, of models for such particles, which evade the usual mass/coupling constraint of ordinary (Peccei-Quinn) axions and are natural dark matter candidates. As an illustration of these models, we present an overview of two of these scenarios. One of them is built around the next-to-minimal MSSM (NMSSM), a model called the USSM-A, which illustrates how the Stückelberg supermultiplet can be used to generate two dark matter candidates, a neutralino containing an axino component coming from the Stückelberg sector, plus the axion ($\textrm{Im}\, b$). The real component of the complex Stückelberg field carries dilaton-like ($\textrm{Re}\, b\, FF$) interactions. In a second model, non-supersymmetric, the Stückelberg scale is raised up to the GUT epoch. In this case the axion mass can be ultralight ($\sim 10^{-20}$ eV). The periodic potential generated at the GUT phase transition and the corresponding oscillations are related to a particle whose De Broglie wavelength can be sub-galactic. A similar analysis is also possible for the supersymmetric scenario.
Ultralight scalar and axion dark matter detection with atom interferometers
Shandong University of Aeronautics（山东航空学院）；Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院精密测量科学与技术创新研究院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
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Muonium Spectroscopy as a Quantum Sensor for Ultralight Axion Dark Matter
Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory（先进能源科学技术广东省实验室）；Institute of Modern Physics, CAS（中国科学院近代物理研究所）；Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交大李政道研究所与物理天文学院）；University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Department of Physics, Jinan University（暨南大学物理系）；State Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Science and Technology, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院近代物理研究所重离子科学和技术国家重点实验室）；School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学核科学与技术学院）
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Enhancing Constraints on Ultralight Axion Dark Matter from Gravitational Capture
University of California Santa Cruz（加州大学圣克鲁兹分校）；Princeton University（普林斯顿大学）；Argonne National Laboratory（阿贡国家实验室）；University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；The University of Tokyo（东京大学）
The geodetic and frame-dragging effects are the direct consequences of the spacetime curvature near Earth which can be probed from the Gravity probe B (GP-B) satellite. The satellite result matches quite well with Einstein's general relativistic result. The gyroscope of the satellite which measures the spacetime curvature near Earth contains lots of electrons and nucleons. Ultralight axions, vector gauge bosons, and unparticles can interact with these electrons and nucleons through different spin-dependent and spin-independent operators and change the drift rate of the gyroscope. Some of these…
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Search for Ultralight Axion Dark Matter with a Levitated Ferromagnetic Torsional Oscillator
School of Physics, Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学物理学院）；National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University（南京大学固体微结构物理国家重点实验室和物理系）
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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics（马克斯·普朗克地外物理研究所）；Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik（因斯布鲁克大学天体与粒子物理研究所）；INAF, Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio（意大利国家天体物理研究所空间科学与天文观测台）；Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University（纽约州立大学石溪分校物理与天文学系）；Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Sternwarte（汉堡大学汉堡天文台）；Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University（国立成功大学物理系）；IRAP, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES（图卢兹大学宇宙射线与天体物理学研究所）
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Ultralight scalars, which are states that are either exactly massless or much lighter than any other massive particle in the model, appear in many new physics scenarios. Axions and majorons constitute well-motivated examples of this type of particle. In this work, we explore the phenomenology of these states in low-energy leptonic observables adopting a model independent approach that includes both scalar and pseudoscalar interactions. Then, we consider processes in which the ultralight scalar $ϕ$ is directly produced, such as $μ\to e \, ϕ$, or acts as a mediator, as in $τ\to μμμ$. Finally, co…
