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Seeing in the Dark: Gravitational Waves from Resonant Production of Dark Photon Dark Matter
Abstract
Ultralight dark photons (DPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates. A promising yet underexplored mechanism for their relic abundance is parametric resonance in the Abelian-Higgs model that generates the DP mass. We advance previous analytical studies through dedicated 3D lattice simulations that capture important nonlinear effects, including backreaction and relic partitioning between the dark Higgs and DPs. We further predict the associated stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) signal, which can be within reach of a broad range of detectors, opening a new avenue to probe ultralight DP dark matter.
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BibTeX
@misc{cui2026seeing,
title = {{Seeing in the Dark: Gravitational Waves from Resonant Production of Dark Photon Dark Matter}},
author = {Yanou Cui and Pankaj Saha and Evangelos I. Sfakianakis},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.12564},
eprint = {2610.12564},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12564},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Seeing in the Dark: Gravitational Waves from Resonant Production of Dark Photon Dark Matter
AU - Yanou Cui
AU - Pankaj Saha
AU - Evangelos I. Sfakianakis
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/08
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.12564
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12564
AB - Ultralight dark photons (DPs) are well-motivated dark matter candidates. A promising yet underexplored mechanism for their relic abundance is parametric resonance in the Abelian-Higgs model that generates the DP mass. We advance previous analytical studies through dedicated 3D lattice simulations that capture important nonlinear effects, including backreaction and relic partitioning between the dark Higgs and DPs. We further predict the associated stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) signal, which can be within reach of a broad range of detectors, opening a new avenue to probe ultralight DP dark matter.
ER -