A Multi-Messenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13919v2
• Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 22:52:28 GMT
• Title: A Multi-Messenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network
• Authors: Sami S. Khamis, Ibrahim A. Sulai, Paul Hamilton, S. Afach, B. C. Buchler, D. Budker, N. L. Figueroa, R. Folman, D. Gavilán-Martín, M. Givon, Z. D. Grujić, H. Guo, M. P. Hedges, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. Kim, E. Klinger, T. Kornack, A. Kryemadhi, N. Kukowski, G. Lukasiewicz, H. Masia-Roig, M. Padniuk, C. A. Palm, S. Y. Park, X. Peng, M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, Y. Rosenzweig, O. M. Ruimi, P. C. Segura, T. Scholtes, Y. K. Semertzidis, Y. C. Shin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Tandon, A. Weis, A. Wickenbrock, T. Wilson, T. Wu, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao,
• Abstract summary: Quantum sensor networks in combination with traditional astronomical observations are emerging as a novel modality for multi-messenger astronomy.<n>We develop a data-driven approach to model the sensitivity of a quantum sensor network to astrophysical signals as a consequence of beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) physics.<n>We use this analysis method to carry out the first direct search utilizing a terrestrial network of precision quantum sensors for BSM fields emitted during a black hole merger.
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• Abstract: Quantum sensor networks in combination with traditional astronomical observations are emerging as a novel modality for multi-messenger astronomy. Here we develop a generic analysis framework that uses a data-driven approach to model the sensitivity of a quantum sensor network to astrophysical signals as a consequence of beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) physics. The analysis method evaluates correlations between sensors to search for BSM signals coincident with astrophysical triggers such as black hole mergers, supernovae, or fast radio bursts. Complementary to astroparticle approaches that search for particlelike signals (e.g. WIMPs), quantum sensors are sensitive to wavelike signals from exotic quantum fields. This analysis method can be applied to networks of different types of quantum sensors, such as atomic clocks, matter-wave interferometers, and nuclear clocks, which can probe many types of interactions between BSM fields and standard model particles. We use this analysis method to carry out the first direct search utilizing a terrestrial network of precision quantum sensors for BSM fields emitted during a black hole merger. Specifically we use the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics (GNOME) to perform a search for exotic low-mass field (ELF) bursts generated in coincidence with a gravitational wave signal from a binary black hole merger (GW200311 115853) detected by LIGO/Virgo on the 11th of March 2020. The associated gravitational wave heralds the arrival of the ELF burst that interacts with the spins of fermions in the magnetometers. This enables GNOME to serve as a tool for multi-messenger astronomy. Our search found no significant events, and consequently we place the first lab-based limits on combinations of ELF production and coupling parameters.

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