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超轻暗物质在空间激光干涉仪中的信号特征

Signatures of Ultralight Dark Matter in Space-Based Laser Interferometers

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)(中国科学院大学);International Center for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific(亚太理论物理中心);School of Fundamental Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(杭州高等研究院基础物理与数学科学学院)

Tingyuan Jiang, Yong Tang

AI总结:

本文系统研究超轻暗物质(ULDM)在空间激光干涉仪(LISA、太极等)中引起的振荡信号,分析其对测试质量加速度、激光频率等的影响,并发现具有方向性模式的信号(如测试质量振荡)可被观测,而激光频率变化被抑制;进一步构建局域观测量,其对电子耦合的灵敏度比标准迈克尔逊干涉仪高三个数量级。

摘要:

与标准模型耦合的超轻暗物质(ULDM)可能有效诱导基本常数的相干振荡,从而在精密干涉实验中产生窄带信号。本文系统研究了这些振荡如何在空间激光干涉仪(包括LISA和太极)中留下独特印记。从单向星间链路观测量出发,我们分析了ULDM引起的几种仪器级效应,包括与成分相关的测试质量加速度、与腔长调制相关的激光频率变化、折射率效应以及时钟相关贡献。然后,我们将这些信号通过标准数据处理链传播,包括时间延迟干涉和时钟噪声消除。我们表明,ULDM诱导效应的可观测性由其单链路响应结构决定。特别是,ULDM驱动的激光频率变化在原始链路观测量中呈现与激光相位噪声相同的形式,因此最终干涉通道中被强烈抑制。相反,具有明确方向性模式的信号(如ULDM诱导的测试质量振荡)不会被此过程消除。我们进一步构建了一个局域观测量,用于隔离测试质量与光学平台之间的差分运动,并推导了LISA、太极和BBO对膨胀子-胶子耦合$d_g$和膨胀子-电子耦合$d_e$的灵敏度。我们发现,对于$d_g$,局域观测量产生的灵敏度与标准迈克尔逊干涉仪相当,但对于$d_e$,其灵敏度比迈克尔逊通道高三个数量级。

英文摘要:

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) coupled to the Standard Model may effectively induce coherent oscillations of fundamental constants and thereby generate narrow-band signals in precision interferometric experiments. Here we present a systematic study of how these oscillations leave distinctive imprints on space-based laser interferometers, including LISA and Taiji. Starting from the one-way inter-spacecraft link observables, we analyze several instrument-level effects induced by ULDM, including composition-dependent acceleration of test masses, laser-frequency variations associated with cavity-length modulation, refractive-index effects, and clock-related contributions. We then propagate these signals through the standard data processing chain, including time-delay interferometry and clock-noise elimination. We show that the observability of an ULDM-induced effect is determined by the structure of its single-link response. In particular, the ULDM-driven variation in laser frequency appears in the raw link observable with the same form as laser phase noise. As a consequence, it is strongly suppressed in the final interferometry channels. In contrast, signals that possess an explicit directional pattern are not eliminated by this procedure, such as the ULDM-induced oscillations of the test masses. We further construct a local observable that isolates the differential motion between the test mass and the optical bench, and derive its sensitivity to both the dilaton--gluon coupling $d_g$ and the dilaton--electron coupling $d_e$ for LISA, Taiji, and BBO. We find that the local observable yields sensitivities comparable to the standard Michelson interferometer for $d_g$, but better than Michelson channel by three orders of magnitude for $d_e$.

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