| Abstract: | Abstract
Ultra-low-mass bosonic dark matter may form a coherently oscillating classical field. Scalar-type interactions of this field with ordinary matter induce apparent variations of the fundamental “constants”, including the fundamental interaction strengths and particle masses. I discuss how these varying constants can be sought with precision, low-energy (and often table-top-scale) experiments, including: spectroscopy (clocks), optical cavities, interferometry, and torsion pendula. Existing and new experimental data have allowed us to improve on previous bounds on scalar-field dark-matter interactions by up to 15 orders of magnitude. Ultra-low-mass bosons may also form macroscopic topological defects, such as domain walls. I discuss previously overlooked signatures in models of scalar-field topological defects, including an environmental dependence of and spatial variations of the fundamental constants in the vicinity of dense bodies such as Earth due to the formation of a “bubblelike” defect structure surrounding the dense body. These novel quasi-non-transient signatures have allowed us to significantly improve on previous bounds on models of scalar-field domain walls.
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