Multimessenger search strategy for composite dark matter with white dwarf data and gravitational wave detectors
astro-ph.HE, hep-ph
Submitted: 2025-11-28
Updated: 2026-08-26
Comments: Accepted version for Physical Review D
DOI: 10.1103/8snb-pfbr
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most challenges in modern physics.
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Abstract
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most challenges in modern physics. Composite or macroscopic DM present a compelling alternative to conventional particle DM, yet their terrestrial search is notoriously challenging due to low number density. This Letter presents a unified, multimessenger search strategy for composite DM, dramatically improving existing constraints and proposing a new detection method. We first perform a model independent update of astrophysical constraints from compact objects, utilizing systematic calculations and additional white dwarf data related to ignition and subsequent supernovae. Crucially, for the first time, we explore novel signals of composite DM in future gravitational wave detectors like LISA, TianQin, and Taiji, performing detailed signal to noise ratio and Fisher matrix analyses. We demonstrate that these detectors will possess the requisite sensitivity to probe untouched regions of the DM parameter space. Our results underscore the unique power of the multimessenger paradigm spanning stellar astrophysics and gravitational wave astronomy to explore this distinct and challenging frontier of DM physics. Our analyses extend broadly to a wide range of macroscopic or composite DM scenarios.
Sources
- Solitons in the supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model
- Supersymmetric Q-balls as dark matter
- Cosmological phase transition, baryon asymmetry and dark matter Q-balls
- Probing the baryogenesis and dark matter relaxed in phase transition by gravitational waves and colliders
- Fermi-ball dark matter from a first-order phase transition
- Gauged Q-ball dark matter through a cosmological first-order phase transition
- Macro Dark Matter
- Constraining Dark Matter-Baryon Scattering with Linear Cosmology
- A counter-top search for macroscopic dark matter
- Macroscopic Dark Matter Constraints from Bolide Camera Networks
- Detecting gravitational signatures of dark matter with atom gradiometers
- Gravitational Waves From More Attractive Dark Binaries
- Constraining axion and compact dark matter with interstellar medium heating
- Dark Matter Triggers of Supernovae
- White Dwarfs as Dark Matter Detectors
- Reconsidering astrophysical constraints on macroscopic dark matter
- Supernovae and superbursts by dark matter clumps
- Compact Stars as Dark Matter Probes
- Capture of Inelastic Dark Matter in White Dwarves
- Inelastic Dark Matter As An Efficient Fuel For Compact Stars
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