Article ; Online: Can LIGO Detect Nonannihilating Dark Matter?
2023 Volume 131, Issue 9, Page(s) 91401
Abstract: Dark matter (DM) from the galactic halo can accumulate in neutron stars and transmute them into sub-2.5M_{⊙} black holes if the dark matter particles are heavy, stable, and have interactions with nucleons. We show that nondetection of gravitational waves ...
| Abstract | Dark matter (DM) from the galactic halo can accumulate in neutron stars and transmute them into sub-2.5M_{⊙} black holes if the dark matter particles are heavy, stable, and have interactions with nucleons. We show that nondetection of gravitational waves from mergers of such low-mass black holes can constrain the interactions of nonannihilating dark matter particles with nucleons. We find benchmark constraints with LIGO O3 data, viz., σ_{χn}≥O(10^{-47}) cm^{2} for bosonic DM with m_{χ}∼PeV (or m_{χ}∼GeV, if they can Bose-condense) and ≥O(10^{-46}) cm^{2} for fermionic DM with m_{χ}∼10^{3} PeV. These bounds depend on the priors on DM parameters and on the currently uncertain binary neutron star merger rate density. However, with increased exposure by the end of this decade, LIGO will probe cross sections that are many orders of magnitude below the neutrino floor and completely test the dark matter solution to missing pulsars in the Galactic center, demonstrating a windfall science case for gravitational wave detectors as probes of particle dark matter. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2023-09-18 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 208853-8 |
| ISSN | 1079-7114 ; 0031-9007 |
| ISSN (online) | 1079-7114 |
| ISSN | 0031-9007 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.091401 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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