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Tests of general relativity with GWTC-3

R. Abbott, H. Abe, F. Acernese et al. · 2025 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

The ever-increasing number of detections of gravitational waves from compact binaries by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors allows us to perform ever-more sensitive tests of general relativity (GR) in the dynamical and…

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First Search for Ultralight Dark Matter Using a Magnetically Levitated Particle

D. W. P. Amaral, Dennis G. Uitenbroek, Tjerk H. Oosterkamp et al. · 2025 · Physical Review Letters

We perform the first search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle. A submillimeter permanent magnet is levitated in a superconducting trap with a measured force sensitivity of 0.2 fN/sqrt[Hz]. We find no evidence of a signal and derive limits on dark matter coupled to the difference between baryon and lepton number, B-L, in the mass range (1.10360-1.10485)×10^{-13} eV/c^{2}. Our most stringent limit on the coupling strength is g_{B-L}≲2.98×10^{-21}. We propose the POLONAISE (Probing Oscillations using Levitated Objects for Novel Accelerometry In Searches of Exotic

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