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most citedThe NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

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36 papers

hep-ph2026

First-principles upper bounds on dark matter-electron scattering rates from condensed matter sum rules

Bradford A. Barker, Jay Epstein, Luke James +5

A wide variety of condensed matter systems are used or proposed as detectors to search for dark matter-electron scattering. In general, the scattering rate depends on detailed know…

astro-ph.CO2026

Correlated signals of ultralight scalar dark matter in pulsar timing

Joshua W. Foster, Kimberly K. Boddy, Jeff A. Dror +5

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to ultralight dark matter (ULDM) in the - mass range, with existing datasets already probing otherwise op…

astro-ph.CO2026

Projecting the ultimate pulsar timing sensitivity to dark matter substructure in a stochastic gravitational wave background

Joshua W. Foster, Tanner Trickle, Fabrizio Vassallo

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are sensitive to the gravitational influence of passing compact substructures, which can produce Doppler timing delays by accelerating pulsars or the So…

hep-ph2026

Electronic Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter with Intermediate-Mass Mediators

Connor Stratman, Tanner Trickle

Recent years have seen dramatic improvements in the sensitivity of electron-based direct detection experiments. Typically, the sensitivity to dark matter scattering is determined i…

hep-ph2025

Infrared Freeze-In of Magnetic Dipole Dark Matter

Asher Berlin, Jae Hyeok Chang, Tanner Trickle

We propose a novel mechanism for the cosmological production of keV - GeV mass dark matter that interacts with the Standard Model through a small effective magnetic dipole moment.…

hep-ph2025

A Thermal Relic Encyclopedia: Dark Matter Candidates Coupled to Quarks

Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, Tanner Trickle +1

Thermal freeze-out is a compelling framework for naturally generating the dark matter abundance. We systematically study a broad range of dark matter and mediator particle combinat…

hep-ph2025

MOSAIC: Magnonic Observations of Spin-dependent Axion-like InteraCtions

Clarence Chang, T. J. Hobbs, Dafei Jin +6

We introduce an array-scalable, magnon-based detector (MOSAIC) to search for the spin-dependent interactions of electron-coupled axion dark matter. These axions can excite single m…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Determining Spin-Dependent Light Dark Matter Rates from Neutron Scattering

Asher Berlin, Alexander J. Millar, Tanner Trickle +1

The scattering and absorption rates of light dark matter with electron spin-dependent interactions depend on the target's spin response. We show how this response is encoded by the…

hep-ph2025

Piezoelectric Bulk Acoustic Resonators For Dark Photon Detection

Tanner Trickle

The kinetically mixed dark photon is a simple, testable dark matter candidate with strong theoretical motivation. Detecting the feeble electric field dark photon dark matter produc…

hep-ph2024

Listening For New Physics With Quantum Acoustics

Ryan Linehan, Tanner Trickle, Christopher R. Conner +4

We present a novel application of a qubit-coupled phonon detector to search for new physics, e.g., ultralight dark matter (DM) and high-frequency gravitational waves. The detector,…

hep-ph2024★ 5 cited

The Non-Relativistic Effective Field Theory Of Dark Matter-Electron Interactions

Gordan Krnjaic, Duncan Rocha, Tanner Trickle

Electronic excitations in atomic, molecular, and crystal targets are at the forefront of the ongoing search for light, sub-GeV dark matter (DM). In many light DM-electron interacti…

hep-ph2023★ 14 cited

Physical Signatures of Fermion-Coupled Axion Dark Matter

Asher Berlin, Alexander J. Millar, Tanner Trickle +1

In the presence of axion dark matter, fermion spins experience an "axion wind" torque and an "axioelectric" force. We investigate new experimental probes of these effects and find…

hep-ph2023★ 22 cited

Searching for High Frequency Gravitational Waves with Phonons

Yonatan Kahn, Jan Schütte-Engel, Tanner Trickle

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum at frequencies above a kHz is a largely unexplored frontier. We show that detectors with sensitivity to single-phonon excitations in crystal ta…

hep-ph2023★ 18 cited

Effective Field Theory for Dark Matter Absorption on Single Phonons

Andrea Mitridate, Kris Pardo, Tanner Trickle +1

Single phonon excitations, with energies in the range, are a powerful probe of light dark matter (DM). Utilizing effective field theory, we derive a framework…

hep-ph2023

PTArcade

Andrea Mitridate, David Wright, Richard von Eckardstein +5

This is a lightweight manual for PTArcade, a wrapper of ENTERPRISE and ceffyl that allows for easy implementation of new-physics searches in PTA data. In this manual, we describe h…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 801 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +120

The 15-year pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-freque…

hep-ph2023★ 15 cited

Absorption of Axion Dark Matter in a Magnetized Medium

Asher Berlin, Tanner Trickle

Detection of axion dark matter heavier than a meV is hindered by its small wavelength, which limits the useful volume of traditional experiments. This problem can be avoided by dir…

hep-ph2023★ 11 cited

Absorption of Vector Dark Matter Beyond Kinetic Mixing

Gordan Krnjaic, Tanner Trickle

Massive vector particles are minimal dark matter candidates that motivate a wide range of laboratory searches, primarily exploiting a postulated kinetic mixing with the photon. How…

hep-ph2022★ 32 cited

EXCEED-DM: Extended Calculation of Electronic Excitations for Direct Detection of Dark Matter

Tanner Trickle

Direct detection experiments utilizing electronic excitations are spearheading the search for light, sub-GeV, dark matter (DM). It is thus crucial to have accurate predictions for…

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Constraining Fundamental Constant Variations from Ultralight Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing Arrays

David E. Kaplan, Andrea Mitridate, Tanner Trickle

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are exceptionally sensitive detectors in the frequency band . Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with mass in the…

hep-ph2022★ 2 cited

Snowmass White Paper: Light Dark Matter Direct Detection at the Interface With Condensed Matter Physics

Andrea Mitridate, Tanner Trickle, Zhengkang Zhang +1

Direct detection experiments for light (sub-GeV) dark matter are making enormous leaps in reaching previously unexplored theory space. The need for accurate characterizations of ta…

hep-ph2022★ 40 cited

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,…

hep-ph2022★ 24 cited

Dark Matter Direct Detection in Materials with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Hsiao-Yi Chen, Andrea Mitridate, Tanner Trickle +3

Semiconductors with band gaps have been shown to be promising targets to search for sub-MeV mass dark matter (DM). In this paper we focus on a class of ma…

hep-ph2021★ 5 cited

Radiative Semileptonic Decays

Michele Papucci, Tanner Trickle, Mark B. Wise

We consider the form factors for the radiative semileptonic decays in the kinematic region where the photon momentum, ,…