Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu
Abstract It is important to test the possible existence of fifth forces, as ultralight bosons that would mediate these are predicted to exist in several well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. Recent work indicated asteroids as promising probes, but applications to real data are lacking so far. Here we use the OSIRIS-REx mission and ground-based tracking data for the asteroid Bennu to derive constraints on fifth forces. Our limits are strongest for mediator masses m ~ (10 −18 -10 −17 ) eV, where we currently achieve the tightest bounds. These can be translated to a wide class of models leading to Yukawa-type fifth forces, and we demonstrate how they apply to U (1) B dark photons and baryon-coupled scalars. Our results demonstrate the potential of asteroid tracking in probing well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model and ultralight bosons near the fuzzy dark matter range.
Authors
- Yu-Dai Tsai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5763-5758)
- Sunny Vagnozzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7614-6677)
- M. Micheli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7895-8209)
- Davide Farnocchia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0774-884X)
- Luca Visinelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-8940)
Institutions
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- University of Trento (IT)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics And Applications (IT)
- Los Alamos National Security (United States) (US)
- European Space Research Institute (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Physics
- Published
- 2024-09-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01779-3
- Citations
- 8
- Primary Topic
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.65
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Aspen Center for Physics
- University of Washington
- CERN
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Provincia Autonoma di Trento
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development
- Los Alamos National Laboratory