Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu

Tsai, Yu-Dai; Farnocchia, Davide; Micheli, Marco; Vagnozzi, Sunny; Visinelli, Luca

doi:10.1038/s42005-024-01779-3

Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu

Journal Article · Fri Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2024 · Communications Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01779-3· OSTI ID:2008095

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); University of California, Irvine, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); University of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP)
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
European Space Agency (ESA), Frascati (Italy). NEO Coordination Centre
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento (Italy). Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (INFN-TIFPA)
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai (China); Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

It is important to test the possible existence of fifth forces, as ultralight bosons that would mediate these are predicted to exist in several well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. Recent work indicated asteroids as promising probes, but applications to real data are lacking so far. Here we use the OSIRIS-REx mission and ground-based tracking data for the asteroid Bennu to derive constraints on fifth forces. Our limits are strongest for mediator masses m ~ (10^-18-10^-17) eV, where we currently achieve the tightest bounds. These can be translated to a wide class of models leading to Yukawa-type fifth forces, and we demonstrate how they apply to U(1)_B dark photons and baryon-coupled scalars. Our results demonstrate the potential of asteroid tracking in probing well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model and ultralight bosons near the fuzzy dark matter range.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); UniTrento Internal Call for Research

Grant/Contract Number:: 89233218CNA000001; AC02-07CH11359; FG02-00ER41132

OSTI ID:: 2008095

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2476043

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-23-538-T-V; LA-UR--24-28586; UCI-HEP-TR--2023-04; arXiv:2309.13106; oai:inspirehep.net:2702536

Journal Information:: Communications Physics, Journal Name: Communications Physics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2399-3650

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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