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Searching a Dark Photon with HADES

We present a search for the e+e- decay of a hypothetical dark photon, also names U vector boson, in inclusive dielectron spectra measured by HADES in the p (3.5 GeV) + p, Nb reactions, as well as the Ar (1.756 GeV/u) + KCl reaction. An…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-11-04 HADES Collaboration , G. Agakishiev , A. Balanda , D. Belver , A. Belyaev , J. C. Berger-Chen , A. Blanco , M. Boehmer , J. L. Boyard , P. Cabanelas , S. Chernenko , A. Dybczak , E. Epple , L. Fabbbietti , O. Fateev , P. Finocchiaro , P. Fonte , J. Friese , I. Froehlich , T. Galatyuk , J. A. Garzon , R. Gernhaeuser , K. Goebel , M. Golubeva , D. Gonzalez-Diaz , F. Guber , M. Gumberidze , T. Heinz , T. Hennino , R. Holzmann , A. Ierusalimov , I. Iori , A. Ivashkin , M. Jurkovic , B. Kaempfer , T. Karavicheva , I. Koenig , W. Koenig , B. W. Kolb , G. Kornakov , R. Kotte , A. Krasa , F. Krizek , R. Kruecken , H. Kuc , W. Kuehn , A. Kugler , A. Kurepin , V. Ladygin , R. Lalik , S. Lang , K. Lapidus , A. Lebedev , T. Liu , L. Lopes , M. Lorenz , L. Maier , A. Mangiarotti , J. Markert , V. Metag , B. Michalska , J. Michel , C. Muentz , L. Naumann , Y. C. Pachmayer , M. Palka , Y. Parpottas , V. Pechenov , O. Pechenova , V. Petousis , J. Pietraszko , W. Przygoda , B. Ramstein , A. Reshetin , A. Rustamov , A. Sadovsky , P. Salabura , T. Scheib , H. Schuldes , A. Schmah , E. Schwab , J. Siebenson , Yu. G. Sobolev , S. Spataro , B. Spruck , H. Stroebele , J. Stroth , C. Sturm , A. Tarantola , K. Teilab , P. Tlusty , M. Traxler , R. Trebacz , H. Tsertos , T. Vasiliev , V. Wagner , M. Weber , C. Wendisch , J. Wuestenfeld , S. Yurevich , Y. Zanevsky

Displaced Dark Matter at Colliders

Models in which the dark matter is very weakly coupled to the observable sector may explain the observed dark matter density, either as a "superWIMP" or as "asymmetric dark matter." Both types of models predict displaced vertices at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-30 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty

First Displaced Vertex Search for Electroproduced Dark-Sector Strongly Interacting Massive Particles by the HPS Experiment

The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is a fixed-target, electron beam experiment designed to search for $e^+e^-$ mass resonances and displaced decays using a forward acceptance spectrometer. This article details the search for naturally…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 The HPS Collaboration

Dark Matter decay to neutrinos

It is possible that the strongest interactions between dark matter and the Standard Model occur via the neutrino sector. Unlike gamma rays and charged particles, neutrinos provide a unique avenue to probe for astrophysical sources of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Carlos A. Argüelles , Diyaselis Delgado , Avi Friedlander , Ali Kheirandish , Ibrahim Safa , Aaron C. Vincent , Henry White

Search for invisible decays of a dark photon using $e^+e^-$ annihilation data at BESIII

We report a search for a dark photon using $14.9$~fb$^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ annihilation data taken at center-of-mass energies from 4.13 to 4.60~GeV with the BESIII detector operated at the BEPCII storage ring. The dark photon is assumed to be…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-03-03 BESIII Collaboration , M. Ablikim , M. N. Achasov , P. Adlarson , M. Albrecht , R. Aliberti , A. Amoroso , M. R. An , Q. An , X. H. Bai , Y. Bai , O. Bakina , R. Baldini Ferroli , I. Balossino , Y. Ban , V. Batozskaya , D. Becker , K. Begzsuren , N. Berger , M. Bertani , D. Bettoni , F. Bianchi , J. Bloms , A. Bortone , I. Boyko , R. A. Briere , A. Brueggemann , H. Cai , X. Cai , A. Calcaterra , G. F. Cao , N. Cao , S. A. Cetin , J. F. Chang , W. L. Chang , G. Chelkov , C. Chen , Chao Chen , G. Chen , H. S. Chen , M. L. Chen , S. J. Chen , S. M. Chen , T. Chen , X. R. Chen , X. T. Chen , Y. B. Chen , Z. J. Chen , W. S. Cheng , S. K. Choi , X. Chu , G. Cibinetto , F. Cossio , J. J. Cui , H. L. Dai , J. P. Dai , A. Dbeyssi , R. E. de Boer , D. Dedovich , Z. Y. Deng , A. Denig , I. Denysenko , M. Destefanis , F. De Mori , Y. Ding , J. Dong , L. Y. Dong , M. Y. Dong , X. Dong , S. X. Du , P. Egorov , Y. L. Fan , J. Fang , S. S. 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Dark Photons in the Early Universe: From Thermal Production to Cosmological Constraints

Dark photons, a generic class of light gauge bosons that interact with the Standard Model (SM) exclusively through kinetic mixing, arise naturally in many gauge extensions of the SM. Motivated by these theoretical considerations, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Xun-Jie Xu , Boting Zhou

Dark Photons from Nuclear Transitions

Light new particles can be emitted in decays of excited nuclear states. Experiments analyzing such transitions and incorporating high-resolution detectors can be sensitive to new MeV-scale physics at a level competitive with upcoming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-31 Jonathan Kozaczuk

Diphoton and Dark Matter from Cascade Decay

We propose a simplified model to study the possible new heavy diphoton resonance from cascade decay of a heavier particle at colliders, which may be related to the dark matter or other new physics beyond the standard model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-27 Fa Peng Huang , Chong Sheng Li , Ze Long Liu , Yan Wang

Search for dark matter in the hidden-photon sector with a large spherical mirror

If dark matter consists of hidden-sector photons which kinetically mix with regular photons, a tiny oscillating electric-field component is present wherever we have dark matter. In the surface of conducting materials this induces a small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-10 The FUNK Experiment , : , Darko Veberič , Kai Daumiller , Babette Döbrich , Ralph Engel , Joerg Jaeckel , Marek Kowalski , Axel Lindner , Hermann-Josef Mathes , Javier Redondo , Markus Roth , Christoph M. Schäfer , Ralf Ulrich

Dark Photon Dark Matter in Quantum Electromagnetodynamics and Detection at Haloscope Experiments

The ultralight dark photon is one of intriguing dark matter candidates. The interaction between the visible photon and dark photon is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge groups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Chang-Jie Dai , Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

Search for the $U$ boson in the process $e^+ e^- \to U \gamma$, $U \to e^+ e^-$ with the KLOE detector

Dark Matter and Dark Energy are two of the most fundamental open questions in physics today. The existence of a light dark-force mediator has been hypothesized as a possible explanation for several unexplained physical phenomena. A new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-23 Anthony Palladino

Dark photon constraints using the UHE gamma-ray emission from galactic sources. A Phenomenological Study

Context: Dark photons (Dph) appear in theories beyond the Standard Model of particles (SM). Under certain conditions, it is possible to have a mixing between SM photons and Dphs that should be observed as anomalies in the spectrum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Arlette Melo , Sergio Hernández , Rubén Alfaro

Search for Anomalous Production of Photonic Events with Missing Energy in e+e- Collisions at sqrt{s} = 130-172 GeV

Photonic events with large missing energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 130, 136, 161 and 172 GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Results are presented based on search topologies designed to select…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL Collaboration , K. Ackerstaff et al

Gamma-Ray Flashes from Dark Photons in Neutron Star Mergers

In this letter we begin the study of visible dark sector signals coming from binary neutron star mergers. We focus on dark photons emitted in the 10 ms - 1 s after the merger, and show how they can lead to bright transient gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Melissa D. Diamond , Gustavo Marques-Tavares

The PADME experiment at LNF

Massive photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model. They have interactions similar to the photon, are vector bosons, and can be produced together with photons. The PADME experiment proposes a search for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-09 Mauro Raggi , Venelin Kozhuharov , P. Valente

Dark matter, dark photons through the observables

We analyse dark matter (DM) produced somehow in space-time is charged under the hidden $U^{\prime} (1)$ gauge symmetry and interacting with Standard Model (SM) through the scale invariance breaking sector containing dilatons and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-11 Gennady Kozlov

Concept of Very-Asymmetric Lepton Collider for Dark Matter Search

Accelerator-based searches for dark matter are aiming for high sensitivity and need an experimental setup with high luminosity. This field of research is often called intensity frontier physics. One of the best motivated portals of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Vasiliy Morozov , Bogdan Wojtsekhowski

Hunting super-heavy dark matter with ultra-high energy photons

At any epoch, particle physics must be open to completely unexpected discoveries, and that is reason enough to extend the reach of searches for ultra-high energy (UHE) photons. The observation of a population of photons with energies $E…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-10 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Corinne Berat , Mario E. Bertaina , Antonella Castellina , Olivier Deligny , Ralph Engel , Glennys R. Farrar , Piera L. Ghia , Dan Hooper , Oleg Kalashev , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Marcus Niechciol , Angela V. Olinto , Philipp Papenbreer , Lorenzo Perrone , Julian Rautenberg , Andres Romero-Wolf , Pierpaolo Savina , Jorge F. Soriano , Tonia M. Venters

Thermal Production of Massless Dark Photons

A dark photon is predicted by several well-motivated Standard Model extensions and UV completions. Here the most general effective field theory up to dimension-six operators describing the interactions of a massless dark photon with all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-13 Alberto Salvio

Dark Photon Bremsstrahlung and Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray

A dark photon is a hypothetical particle that is similar to a photon with a small mass and interacts very weakly with ordinary matter through a kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon. In this paper, we propose a new way to probe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Predee Tantirangsri , Daris Samart , Chakrit Pongkitivanichkul