TY - JOUR
T1 - Ultralight dark matter searches with KAGRA gravitational wave telescope
AU - Michimura, Yuta
AU - Fujita, Tomohiro
AU - Kume, Jun'ya
AU - Morisaki, Soichiro
AU - Nagano, Koji
AU - Nakatsuka, Hiromasa
AU - Nishizawa, Atsushi
AU - Obata, Ippei
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Nos. 18H01224, 18K13537, 19H01894, 19J21974, 20H04726, 20H05850, 20H05854, 20H05859, 20J01928, 20J218661, JST PRESTO Grant No. JPMJPR200B, and NSF PHY-1912649. K.N., H.N, A.N. and I.O acknowledge the support from JSPS Research Fellowship, the Advanced Leading Graduate Course for Photon Science, Research Grants from Inamori Foundation, and JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship, respectively.
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PY - 2022/2/21
Y1 - 2022/2/21
N2 - Among various dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight fields with masses below 1 eV are well motivated. Recently, a number of novel approaches have been put forward to search for ultralight dark matter candidates using laser interferometers at various scales. Those include our proposals to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) and vector fields with laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. ALPs can be searched for by measuring the oscillating polarization rotation of laser light. Massive vector fields weakly coupled to the standard model sector can also be searched for by measuring the oscillating forces acting on the suspended mirrors of the interferometers. In this paper, the current status of the activities to search for such ultralight dark matter candidates using a gravitational wave detector in Japan, KAGRA, is reviewed. The analysis of data from KAGRA's observing run in 2020 to search for vector dark matter, and the installation of polarization optics to the arm cavity transmission ports of the interferometer to search for ALPs in future observing runs are underway.
AB - Among various dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight fields with masses below 1 eV are well motivated. Recently, a number of novel approaches have been put forward to search for ultralight dark matter candidates using laser interferometers at various scales. Those include our proposals to search for axion-like particles (ALPs) and vector fields with laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. ALPs can be searched for by measuring the oscillating polarization rotation of laser light. Massive vector fields weakly coupled to the standard model sector can also be searched for by measuring the oscillating forces acting on the suspended mirrors of the interferometers. In this paper, the current status of the activities to search for such ultralight dark matter candidates using a gravitational wave detector in Japan, KAGRA, is reviewed. The analysis of data from KAGRA's observing run in 2020 to search for vector dark matter, and the installation of polarization optics to the arm cavity transmission ports of the interferometer to search for ALPs in future observing runs are underway.
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U2 - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012071
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2156/1/012071
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85131901968
SN - 1742-6588
VL - 2156
JO - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
JF - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IS - 1
M1 - 012071
T2 - 17th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2021
Y2 - 26 August 2021 through 3 September 2021
ER -