标题： 用于通过针对并合遗骸黑洞的引力波搜索限制超轻矢量玻色子的方法学 显示英文标题

标题： Methodology for constraining ultralight vector bosons with gravitational wave searches targeting merger remnant black holes

摘要： 超轻玻色子是一类在标准模型物理各种扩展理论下被预测出的假想粒子。 由于超辐射机制的结果，我们预期如果超轻玻色子存在于某些质量范围内，它们会在旋转黑洞周围形成宏观云团，这样我们可以通过寻找由这些云团产生的长时标暂现引力波辐射来探测它们的存在。 本文提出了一种统计稳健的框架，用于在未检测到来自针对合并遗迹黑洞搜索信号的情况下限制超轻矢量玻色子的存在性，有效地消除了对目标黑洞属性中的不确定性。 我们还评估了普通光子的弱动能混合以及通过隐藏希格斯机制产生矢量质量对这些搜索限制能力的影响。 我们发现，特别是下一代引力波探测器的单独后续搜索，能够探测到此类模型参数空间的区域，而目前在这个区域内的稳健限制仍然缺乏。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Ultralight bosons are a hypothetical class of particles predicted under various extensions of Standard Model physics. As a result of the superradiance mechanism, we expect ultralight bosons, should they exist in certain mass ranges, to form macroscopic clouds around rotating black holes, so that we can probe their existence by looking for the long-transient gravitational wave emission produced by such clouds. In this paper, we propose a statistically robust framework for constraining the existence of ultralight vector bosons in the absence of detecting such a signal from searches targeting merger remnant black holes, effectively marginalizing over the uncertainties present in the properties of the target black holes. We also determine the impact of weak kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon and vector mass generation through a hidden Higgs mechanism on the constraining power of these searches. We find that individual follow-up searches, particularly with the next-generation gravitational wave detectors, can probe regions of parameter space for such models where robust constraints are still lacking.