Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter in LIGO O1 Data. (arXiv:1905.04316v1 [hep-ph])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Guo_H/0/1/0/all/0/1">Huai-Ke Guo</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Riles_K/0/1/0/all/0/1">Keith Riles</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Yang_F/0/1/0/all/0/1">Feng-Wei Yang</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+Zhao_Y/0/1/0/all/0/1">Yue Zhao</a>
A gravitational wave detector can be used to search for dark photon dark
matter. We use the publicly available data from LIGO’s first observing run, O1,
to perform the first such search. We find that, if a dark photon is the gauge
boson of $U(1)_B$, LIGO-O1 data has already provided a sensitivity better in a
mass band around $m_Asim4times10^{-13}$ eV than achieved by prior
experiments. Substantially improved search sensitivity is expected during the
coming years of continued data taking by LIGO and other gravitational wave
detectors in a growing global network.
A gravitational wave detector can be used to search for dark photon dark
matter. We use the publicly available data from LIGO’s first observing run, O1,
to perform the first such search. We find that, if a dark photon is the gauge
boson of $U(1)_B$, LIGO-O1 data has already provided a sensitivity better in a
mass band around $m_Asim4times10^{-13}$ eV than achieved by prior
experiments. Substantially improved search sensitivity is expected during the
coming years of continued data taking by LIGO and other gravitational wave
detectors in a growing global network.
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