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most citedEarth as a transducer for dark-photon dark-matter detection

52 citations · 271 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

hep-ph2026

Earth as a transducer for ultralight bosonic dark-matter detection

Saarik Kalia, Ibrahim A. Sulai

Ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) that couples to electromagnetism can generate an oscillating magnetic-field signal at the Earth's surface. This is referred to as the ``Earth…

astro-ph.IM2026

Global detector network to search for high-frequency gravitational waves (GravNet): conceptual design

Dorian Amaral, Diego Blas, Yuliia Borysenkova +30

We propose GravNet (Global detector network to search for high-frequency gravitational waves), a novel experimental scheme enabling the search for gravitational waves in the MHz to…

hep-ph2025

Dynamically generated tilt of isocurvature fluctuations

Saarik Kalia

Light scalar fields acquire isocurvature fluctuations during inflation. While these fluctuations could lead to interesting observable signatures at small scales, they are strongly…

hep-ex2025

Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment

Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu, Bianca Giaccone +15

We report the refined dark-photon exclusion bound from Dark SRF's pathfinder run. Our new result is driven by improved theoretical modeling of frequency instability in high-quality…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Stamps of state on structure: Probing the state of ultralight dark matter via its density fluctuations

Saarik Kalia

Dark matter (DM) candidates with very small masses, and correspondingly large number densities, have gained significant interest in recent years. These DM candidates are typically…

physics.ins-det2025

Modeling frequency instability in high-quality resonant experiments

Hao-Ran Cui, Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu

Modern resonant sensing tools can achieve increasingly high quality factors, which correspond to extremely narrow linewidths. In such systems, time-variation of the resonator's nat…

hep-ph2024★ 17 cited

Search for ultralight dark matter in the SuperMAG high-fidelity dataset

Matt Friel, Jesper W. Gjerloev, Saarik Kalia +1

Ultralight dark matter, such as kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter (DPDM) or axionlike-particle dark matter (axion DM), can source an oscillating magnetic-field signal at Ea…

hep-ph2024★ 18 cited

Ultralight dark matter detection with levitated ferromagnets

Saarik Kalia, Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball +7

Levitated ferromagnets act as ultraprecise magnetometers, which can exhibit high quality factors due to their excellent isolation from the environment. These instruments can be uti…

hep-ph2024

Tunneling away the relic neutrino asymmetry

Saarik Kalia

The Earth acts as a matter potential for relic neutrinos which modifies their index of refraction from vacuum by . It has been argued that the refractive effects from…

hep-ph2023★ 21 cited

Maglev for Dark Matter: Dark-photon and axion dark matter sensing with levitated superconductors

Gerard Higgins, Saarik Kalia, Zhen Liu

Ultraprecise mechanical sensors offer an exciting avenue for testing new physics. While many of these sensors are tailored to detect inertial forces, magnetically levitated (Maglev…

hep-ph2023★ 13 cited

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…

hep-ph2023★ 24 cited

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…

hep-ph2021★ 31 cited

Earth as a transducer for axion dark-matter detection

Ariel Arza, Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham +2

We demonstrate that ultralight axion dark matter with a coupling to photons induces an oscillating global terrestrial magnetic field signal in the presence of the background geomag…

hep-ph2021★ 34 cited

Search for dark-photon dark matter in the SuperMAG geomagnetic field dataset

Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball +1

In our recent companion paper [arXiv:2106.00022], we pointed out a novel signature of ultralight kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter. This signature is a quasi-monochromatic,…

hep-ph2021★ 33 cited

Warming up cold inflation

William DeRocco, Peter W. Graham, Saarik Kalia

The axion is a well-motivated candidate for the inflaton, as the radiative corrections that spoil many single-field models are avoided by virtue of its shift symmetry. However, axi…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

Galactic Geology: Probing Time-Varying Dark Matter Signals with Paleo-Detectors

Sebastian Baum, William DeRocco, Thomas D. P. Edwards +1

Paleo-detectors are a proposed experimental technique to search for dark matter by reading out the damage tracks caused by nuclear recoils in small samples of natural minerals. Unl…

hep-ph2021★ 52 cited

Earth as a transducer for dark-photon dark-matter detection

Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball +1

We propose the use of the Earth as a transducer for ultralight dark-matter detection. In particular we point out a novel signal of kinetically mixed dark-photon dark matter: a mono…

math-ph2018

Statistics of Peaks in Chi-Squared Fields

Jolyon K. Bloomfield, Stephen H. P. Face, Alan H. Guth +2

Chi-squared random fields arise naturally from the study of fluctuations in field theories with SO(n) symmetry. The extrema of chi-squared fields are of particular physical interes…

physics.data-an2017★ 16 cited

Modeling Smooth Backgrounds and Generic Localized Signals with Gaussian Processes

Meghan Frate, Kyle Cranmer, Saarik Kalia +2

We describe a procedure for constructing a model of a smooth data spectrum using Gaussian processes rather than the historical parametric description. This approach considers a ful…

math-ph2016★ 2 cited

Number Density of Peaks in a Chi-Squared Field

Jolyon K. Bloomfield, Stephen H. P. Face, Alan H. Guth +3

We investigate the statistics of stationary points in the sum of squares of Gaussian random fields, which we call a "chi-squared" field. The behavior of such a field at a point…

math.CO2014

Generalizations of the Szemerédi-Trotter Theorem

Saarik Kalia, Micha Sharir, Noam Solomon +1

We generalize the Szemerédi-Trotter incidence theorem, to bound the number of complete \emph{flags} in higher dimensions. Specifically, for each , we are given a…