We give a brief update on the search for Hidden Photon Dark Matter with FUNK. The experiment uses a large spherical mirror, which, if Hidden Photon Dark Matter exists in the accessible mass and coupling parameter range, would yield an optical signal in the mirror's center in an otherwise dark environment. After a test run with a CCD, preparations for a run with a low-noise PMT are under way and described in this proceedings.
@article{arxiv.1510.05869,
title = {The FUNK search for Hidden Photon Dark Matter in the eV range},
author = {Babette Döbrich and Kai Daumiller and Ralph Engel and Joerg Jaeckel and Marek Kowalski and Axel Lindner and Hermann-Josef Mathes and Javier Redondo and Markus Roth and Christoph Schäfer and Ralf Ulrich and Darko Veberic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.05869},
year = {2015}
}
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Proceedings for PHOTON 2015, BINP Novosibirsk, Russia, June 15-19, 2015; 4 pages, 2 figures