Search for topological defect dark matter with a global network of optical magnetometers

Afach, Samer; Buchler, Ben C.; Budker, Dmitry; Dailey, Conner; Derevianko, Andrei; Dumont, Vincent; Figueroa, Nataniel L.; Gerhardt, Ilja; Grujić, Zoran D.; Guo, Hong; Hao, Chuanpeng; Hamilton, Paul S.; Hedges, Morgan; Jackson Kimball, Derek F.; Kim, Dongok; Khamis, Sami; Kornack, Thomas; Lebedev, Victor; Lu, Zheng-Tian; Masia-Roig, Hector; Monroy, Madeline; Padniuk, Mikhail; Palm, Christopher A.; Park, Sun Yool; Paul, Karun V.; Penaflor, Alexander; Peng, Xiang; Pospelov, Maxim; Preston, Rayshaun; Pustelny, Szymon; Scholtes, Theo; Segura, Perrin C.; Semertzidis, Yannis K.; Sheng, Dong; Shin, Yun Chang; Smiga, Joseph A.; Stalnaker, Jason E.; Sulai, Ibrahim; Tandon, Dhruv; Wang, Tao; Weis, Antoine; Wickenbrock, Arne; Wilson, Tatum; Wu, Teng; Wurm, David; Xiao, Wei; Yang, Yucheng; Yu, Dongrui; Zhang, Jianwei

doi:10.1038/s41567-021-01393-y

Title: Search for topological defect dark matter with a global network of optical magnetometers

Journal Article · Tue Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Nature Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01393-y· OSTI ID:1837557

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GSI-Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany)
Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
GSI-Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany); Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz (Germany); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States); Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (IQST), Stuttgart (Germany); Max Planck Society, Stuttgart (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research
Univ. of Belgrade (Serbia); Univ. of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
California State Univ., East Bay, Hayward, CA (United States)
Inst. of Basic Science, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Korea Advanced Inst. Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Twinleaf LLC, Plainsboro, NJ (United States)
Univ. of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); California State Univ., East Bay, Hayward, CA (United States)
Jagiellonian Univ., Krakow (Poland)
Oberlin College, OH (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
Univ. of Fribourg (Switzerland); Leibniz Inst. for Photonic Technology, Jena (Germany)
Oberlin College, OH (United States); Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Inst. of Basic Science, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Oberlin College, OH (United States)
Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA (United States)
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Technical Univ. of Munich (Germany)

Ultralight bosons such as axion-like particles are viable candidates for dark matter. They can form stable, macroscopic field configurations in the form of topological defects that could concentrate the dark matter density into many distinct, compact spatial regions that are small compared with the Galaxy but much larger than the Earth. Here we report the results of the search for transient signals from the domain walls of axion-like particles by using the global network of optical magnetometers for exotic (GNOME) physics searches. We search the data, consisting of correlated measurements from optical atomic magnetometers located in laboratories all over the world, for patterns of signals propagating through the network consistent with domain walls. The analysis of these data from a continuous month-long operation of GNOME finds no statistically significant signals, thus placing experimental constraints on such dark matter scenarios.

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Research Organization:: Regents of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF); German Research Foundation (DFG); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); European Research Council (ERC); Polish National Science Centre (NCN); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011842; PHY-1707875; PHY-1707803; PHY-1912465; PHY-1806672; 200021 172686; 439720477; FKZ 13N15064; 695405; 2015/19/B/ST2/02129; 62071012; 61225003; IBS-R017-D1-2021-a00

OSTI ID:: 1837557

Journal Information:: Nature Physics, Vol. 17, Issue 12; ISSN 1745-2473

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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