http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08364
We present a brief overview of a new generation of high-precision laboratory and astrophysical measurements to search for ultralight (sub-eV) axion, axion-like pseudoscalar and scalar dark matter, which form either a coherent condensate or topological defects (solitons). In these new detection methods, the sought effects are linear in the interaction constant between dark matter and ordinary matter, which is in stark contrast to traditional searches for dark matter, where the sought effects are quadratic or higher order in the underlying interaction constants (which are extremely small).
Y. Stadnik and V. Flambaum
Tue, 30 Jun 15
38/75
Comments: 10 pages, Invited brief review for Modern Physics Letters A, Guest Editor: Maxim Yu. Khlopov