Ultralight scalar dark matter detection with ZAIGA
arXiv:2110.11564 · doi:10.1142/S0218271822500377
Abstract
ZAIGA is a proposed underground long-baseline atom interferometer (AI) facility, aiming for experimental research on gravitation and related problems. In this paper, we study the possibility of detecting the ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with ZAIGA. According to a popular scalar DM model, the DM field contains a background oscillation term and a local exponential fluctuation term. In order to calculate the proposed constraints on DM coupling parameters, we need to first compute the DM signals in ZAIGA. For the case of two AIs vertically separated by 300 meters, the DM-induced differential phase consists of three contributions, coming from the DM-induced changes in atomic internal energy levels, atomic masses and the gravitational acceleration. For the case of two AIs horizontally separated by several kilometers, the signal comes from the DM-induced changes in atomic internal energy levels. With the current and future technical parameters of ZAIGA, we then obtain the proposed constraints on five DM coupling parameters. It turns out that our proposed constraints could be several orders of magnitude better than the ones set by the MICROSCOPE space mission.
arXiv commentTo appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
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