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Searching for ultra-light dark matter with optical cavities

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arxiv 1808.00540 v2 pith:RRDTPY22 submitted 2018-08-01 astro-ph.IM gr-qchep-phphysics.atom-phphysics.optics

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We discuss the use of optical cavities as tools to search for dark matter (DM) composed of virialized ultra-light fields (VULFs). Such fields could lead to oscillating fundamental constants, resulting in oscillations of the length of rigid bodies. We propose searching for these effects via differential strain measurement of rigid and suspended-mirror cavities. We estimate that more than two orders of magnitude of unexplored phase space for VULF DM couplings can be probed at VULF Compton frequencies in the audible range of 0.1-10 kHz.

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