{"id":204485,"date":"2025-01-24T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-technique-to-detect-dark-matter-uses-atomic-clocks-and-lasers"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T05:33:42","slug":"new-technique-to-detect-dark-matter-uses-atomic-clocks-and-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-technique-to-detect-dark-matter-uses-atomic-clocks-and-lasers","title":{"rendered":"New technique to detect dark matter uses atomic clocks and lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-to-detect-dark-matter-uses-atomic-clocks-and-lasers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany\u2019s metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB), the team used data from atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers located far apart in space and time to search for forms of dark matter that would have been invisible in previous searches.<\/p>\n<p>This technique will allow the researchers to detect signals from dark matter models that interact universally with all atoms, an achievement that has eluded traditional experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The team analyzed data from a European network of ultra-stable lasers connected by fiber <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optic+cables\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optic cables<\/a> (previously reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-021-27884-3\" target=\"_blank\">a 2022 article<\/a>), and from the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atomic+clocks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atomic clocks<\/a> aboard GPS satellites. By comparing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/precision+measurements\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">precision measurements<\/a> across vast distances, the analysis became sensitive to subtle effects of oscillating dark matter fields that would otherwise cancel out in conventional setups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter. In a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Australia, and Germany\u2019s metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, PTB), the team used data from atomic clocks and cavity-stabilized lasers located far apart in space and time to search for forms of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}