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Particle Physics Driven by Quantum Technology - Quantum Simulations and Quantum Sensing
Itay M. Bloch, Marcela Carena, Yifan Chen +3
We review recent advances in particle physics enabled and motivated by the rapid progress of quantum technologies. The continued development of quantum computing toward large-scale…
Halbach Magnetic Weber Bars
Valerie Domcke, Itay M. Bloch
Magnetic Weber Bars have been proposed to search for gravitational waves in the kHz to GHz regime by exploiting the mechanical deformation of a large magnet induced by a gravitatio…
Dark Matter Detection Using Phonon Sensing in Amorphous Materials
Itay M. Bloch, Simon Knapen, Xinran Li +2
We present a concept for a tabletop-scale detector with an amorphous target designed to search for dark matter absorption into phonon excitations. In crystalline materials, absorpt…
The COSMIC WISPers White Paper: The physics case for Weakly Interacting Slim Particles
Ariel Arza, Deniz Aybas, Shyam Balaji +124
Axions and other very weakly interacting slim particles (WISPs), with masses below 1 GeV, arise naturally in many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In particula…
NASDUCK': Laboratory Limits on Ultralight Dark-Photon Dark Matter with Null-Axis Magnetometry
Joel Barir, Itay M. Bloch, Yair Goldszeft +4
The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass…
Earth Matter Enhanced Axion Dark Matter Search
Xiaofei Huang, Xiaolin Ma, Zitong Xu +2
Laboratory searches for ultralight axion dark matter (DM) have traditionally assumed the terrestrial density of axions is equal to the average density of DM in the solar system. Ho…
Momentum and Matter Matter for Axion Dark Matter Matters on Earth
Abhishek Banerjee, Itay M. Bloch, Quentin Bonnefoy +5
We investigate the implications of matter effects to searches for axion Dark Matter on Earth. The finite momentum of axion Dark Matter is crucial to elucidating the effects of Eart…
Broadband phonon production from axion absorption
Itay M. Bloch, Simon Knapen, Amalia Madden +1
We show that axion dark matter in the range meV 100 meV can incoherently excite phonons in crystal targets with unpolarised nuclear spins. This can occur thr…
A Rotating-Wave Comagnetometer Detector for Particle Physics
Itay M. Bloch, Or Katz
Many extensions of the Standard Model propose the existence of new particles or forces, aiming to answer mysteries such as the identity of the elusive dark matter. Atomic-based det…
Looking for WIMPs through the neutrino fogs
Itay M. Bloch, Salvatore Bottaro, Diego Redigolo +1
We revisit the expected sensitivity of large-scale xenon detectors to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Assuming current primary noise sources can be mitigated, we find…
Curl up with a good : Detecting ultralight dark matter with differential magnetometry
Itay M. Bloch, Saarik Kalia
Ultralight dark matter (such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter or axionlike dark matter) can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at the Earth's surface, which ca…
A Hunt for Magnetic Signatures of Hidden-Photon and Axion Dark Matter in the Wilderness
Ibrahim A. Sulai, Saarik Kalia, Ariel Arza +17
Earth can act as a transducer to convert ultralight bosonic dark matter (axions and hidden photons) into an oscillating magnetic field with a characteristic pattern across its surf…
Scalar dark matter induced oscillation of permanent-magnet field
I. M. Bloch, D. Budker, V. V. Flambaum +3
Scalar-field dark matter models imply small oscillations of fundamental constants. These oscillations could result in observable variations of the magnetic field in a permanent mag…
Constraints on axion-like dark matter from a SERF comagnetometer
Itay M. Bloch, Roy Shaham, Yonit Hochberg +3
Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestr…
Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier: The landscape of low-threshold dark matter direct detection in the next decade
Rouven Essig, Graham K. Giovanetti, Noah Kurinsky +90
The search for particle-like dark matter with meV-to-GeV masses has developed rapidly in the past few years. We summarize the science case for these searches, the recent progress,…
Publishing statistical models: Getting the most out of particle physics experiments
Kyle Cranmer, Sabine Kraml, Harrison B. Prosper +30
The statistical models used to derive the results of experimental analyses are of incredible scientific value and are essential information for analysis preservation and reuse. In…
NASDUCK: New Constraints on Axion-like Dark Matter from Floquet Quantum Detector
Itay M. Bloch, Gil Ronen, Roy Shaham +3
We report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Part…
Exploring New Physics with O(keV) Electron Recoils in Direct Detection Experiments
Itay M. Bloch, Andrea Caputo, Rouven Essig +3
Motivated by the recent XENON1T results, we explore various new physics models that can be discovered through searches for electron recoils in O(keV)-threshold direct-detection exp…
Crunching Away the Cosmological Constant Problem: Dynamical Selection of a Small
Itay M. Bloch, Csaba Csáki, Michael Geller +1
We propose a novel explanation for the smallness of the observed cosmological constant (CC). Regions of space with a large CC are short lived and are dynamically driven to crunch s…
Axion-like Relics: New Constraints from Old Comagnetometer Data
Itay M. Bloch, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik +1
The noble-alkali comagnetometer, developed in recent years, has been shown to be a very accurate measuring device of anomalous magnetic-like fields. An ultra-light relic axion-like…
Searching for Dark Absorption with Direct Detection Experiments
Itay M. Bloch, Rouven Essig, Kohsaku Tobioka +2
We consider the absorption by bound electrons of dark matter in the form of dark photons and axion-like particles, as well as of dark photons from the Sun, in current and next-gene…