Methodology for constraining ultralight vector bosons with gravitational wave searches targeting merger remnant black holes
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| author | Jones, Dana Siemonsen, Nils Sun, Ling East, William E. Miller, Andrew L. Wette, Karl Piccinni, Ornella J. |
| author_facet | Jones, Dana Siemonsen, Nils Sun, Ling East, William E. Miller, Andrew L. Wette, Karl Piccinni, Ornella J. |
| contents | Ultralight bosons are a hypothetical class of particles predicted under various extensions of Standard Model physics. As a result of the superradiance mechanism, we expect ultralight bosons, should they exist in certain mass ranges, to form macroscopic clouds around rotating black holes, so that we can probe their existence by looking for the long-transient gravitational wave emission produced by such clouds. In this paper, we propose a statistically robust framework for constraining the existence of ultralight vector bosons in the absence of detecting such a signal from searches targeting merger remnant black holes, effectively marginalizing over the uncertainties present in the properties of the target black holes. We also determine the impact of weak kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon and vector mass generation through a hidden Higgs mechanism on the constraining power of these searches. We find that individual follow-up searches, particularly with the next-generation gravitational wave detectors, can probe regions of parameter space for such models where robust constraints are still lacking. |
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| spellingShingle | Methodology for constraining ultralight vector bosons with gravitational wave searches targeting merger remnant black holes Jones, Dana Siemonsen, Nils Sun, Ling East, William E. Miller, Andrew L. Wette, Karl Piccinni, Ornella J. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Ultralight bosons are a hypothetical class of particles predicted under various extensions of Standard Model physics. As a result of the superradiance mechanism, we expect ultralight bosons, should they exist in certain mass ranges, to form macroscopic clouds around rotating black holes, so that we can probe their existence by looking for the long-transient gravitational wave emission produced by such clouds. In this paper, we propose a statistically robust framework for constraining the existence of ultralight vector bosons in the absence of detecting such a signal from searches targeting merger remnant black holes, effectively marginalizing over the uncertainties present in the properties of the target black holes. We also determine the impact of weak kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon and vector mass generation through a hidden Higgs mechanism on the constraining power of these searches. We find that individual follow-up searches, particularly with the next-generation gravitational wave detectors, can probe regions of parameter space for such models where robust constraints are still lacking. |
| title | Methodology for constraining ultralight vector bosons with gravitational wave searches targeting merger remnant black holes |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00320 |