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Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The KAGRA Collaboration, Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Acernese, F., et al. (2022). Constraints on dark photon dark matter using data from LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. Physical Review D, 105(6): 063030. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Author
The Virgo Collaboration, Author
The KAGRA Collaboration, Author
Abbott, R., Author
Abbott, T. D., Author
Acernese, F., Author
Ackley, K., Author
Affeldt, C.1, Author
Agarwal, D., Author
Agathos, M., Author
Agatsuma, K., Author
Aggarwal, N., Author
Aguiar, O. D., Author
Aiello, L., Author
Ain, A., Author
Ajith, P., Author
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1Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, ou_24010
2Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, ou_1933290
3Binary Merger Observations and Numerical Relativity, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, ou_2461691

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Free keywords: Astrophysics, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, gr-qc,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, hep-ph
Abstract: We present a search for dark photon dark matter that could couple to gravitational-wave interferometers using data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run. To perform this analysis, we use two methods, one based on cross-correlation of the strain channels in the two nearly aligned LIGO detectors, and one that looks for excess power in the strain channels of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. The excess power method optimizes the Fourier Transform coherence time as a function of frequency, to account for the expected signal width due to Doppler modulations. We do not find any evidence of dark photon dark matter with a mass between $m_{\rm A} \sim 10^{-14}-10^{-11}$ eV/$c^2$, which corresponds to frequencies between 10-2000 Hz, and therefore provide upper limits on the square of the minimum coupling of dark photons to baryons, i.e. $U(1)_{\rm B}$ dark matter. For the cross-correlation method, the best median constraint on the squared coupling is $\sim1.31\times10^{-47}$ at $m_{\rm A}\sim4.2\times10^{-13}$ eV/$c^2$; for the other analysis, the best constraint is $\sim 1.2\times 10^{-47}$ at $m_{\rm A}\sim 5.7\times 10^{-13}$ eV/$c^2$. These limits improve upon those obtained in direct dark matter detection experiments by a factor of $\sim100$ for $m_{\rm A}\sim [2-4]\times 10^{-13}$ eV/$c^2$.

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Dates: 2021-05-272022
Publication Status: Published in print
Pages: 18 pages, 3 figures
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Identifiers: arXiv: 2105.13085
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063030
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