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<p>Joint Theory Seminar Speaker: Yue Zhao (U. of Utah)<br />mail: zhaoyue@physics.utah.edu<br />Title: Searching for Dark Photon Dark Matter with Gravitational Wave Detectors<br />Host: Verhaaren<br />Room: 432<br />Abstract: If dark matter stems from the background of a very light gauge boson, this gauge boson could exert forces on test masses in gravitational wave detectors, resulting in displacements with a characteristic frequency set by the gauge boson mass. We outline a novel search strategy for such dark matter, assuming the dark photon is the gauge boson of U(1)_B or U(1)_{B-L}. We show that both ground-based and future space-based gravitational wave detectors have the capability to make a 5-sigma discovery in unexplored parameter regimes.</p> |
