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Longer Observation Times and Expanding the Mass Window

by Phenomenology TechnologyOctober 27th, 2024
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Future dark matter detection efforts should focus on longer observation times and advanced detection methods, enabling the probing of higher mass ranges and accounting for Earth's rotational effects, thereby refining the signal analysis of vector dark matter signals.
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Authors:

(1) Dorian W. P. Amaral, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University and These authors contributed approximately equally to this work;

(2) Mudit Jain, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology, King’s College London and These authors contributed approximately equally to this work;

(3) Mustafa A. Amin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University;

(4) Christopher Tunnell, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University.

Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Calculating the Stochastic Wave Vector Dark Matter Signal

2.1 The Dark Photon Field

2.2 The Detector Signal

3 Statistical Analysis and 3.1 Signal Likelihood

3.2 Projected Exclusions

4 Application to Accelerometer Studies

4.1 Recasting Generalised Limits onto B − L Dark Matter

5 Future Directions

6 Conclusions, Acknowledgments, and References


A Equipartition between Longitudinal and Transverse Modes

B Derivation of Marginal Likelihood with Stochastic Field Amplitude

C Covariance Matrix

D The Case of the Gradient of a Scalar

5 Future Directions

5.1 Longer Observation Times

5.2 Expanding the Mass Window


This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.