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A search for hidden-photon (HP) dark matter using a multi-cathode counter is reported. The technique based on counting of single electrons emitted from outer cathode of the proportional counter by hidden-photons was used. The apparatus and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Kopylov , I. Orekhov , V. Petukhov

Hidden sectors in connection with GeV-scale dark forces and dark matter are not only a common feature of physics beyond the Standard Model such as string theory and SUSY but are also phenomenologically of great interest regarding recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-22 Sarah Andreas

We propose a resonant electromagnetic detector to search for hidden-photon dark matter over an extensive range of masses. Hidden-photon dark matter can be described as a weakly coupled "hidden electric field," oscillating at a frequency…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Peter W. Graham , Kent Irwin , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , Yue Zhao

We investigate a scenario where the dark matter of the Universe is made from very light hidden photons transforming under a $Z_{2}$-symmetry. In contrast to the usual situation, kinetic mixing is forbidden by the symmetry and the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego Vargas-Arancibia

Dark matter exists in our Universe, but its nature remains mysterious. The remarkable sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) may be able to solve this mystery. A good dark matter candidate is the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Huai-Ke Guo , Keith Riles , Feng-Wei Yang , Yue Zhao

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

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

The dark photon is a promising candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the matter in our visible Universe. Via kinetic mixing with the Standard Model it can also be resonantly converted to photons in an electromagnetic cavity,…

Ultralight dark photons are compelling dark matter candidates, but their allowed kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon is severely constrained by requiring that the dark photons do not collapse into a cosmic string network in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 David Cyncynates , Zachary J. Weiner

Hidden sectors with light extra U(1) gauge bosons, so-called hidden photons, recently received much interest as natural feature of beyond standard model scenarios like string theory and SUSY and because of their possible connection to dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-20 Sarah Andreas

Dark photon is a massive vector field which interacts only with the physical photon through the kinetic mixing. This coupling is assumed to be weak so that the dark photon becomes almost unobservable in processes with elementary particles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

In this review of Dark Matter we review dark matter as sterile neutrinos, fermions, with their present and possibly future detection via neutrino Oscillations. We review the creation of Dark Matter via interactions with the Dark Energy…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Leonard S. Kisslinger , Debasish Das

Dark photon not only provides a portal linking dark sector particles and ordinary matter but also is a well-motivated dark matter candidate. We propose to detect the dark photon dark matter through the inverse Compton-like scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-06 Liangliang Su , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Dark photon as an ultralight dark matter candidate can interact with the Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for the ultralight dark photon dark matter using radio telescopes with solar observations. The dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-07 Haipeng An , Fa Peng Huang , Jia Liu , Wei Xue

The dark photon, an new hypothetical light spin 1 field, constitutes a well-motivated dark matter candidate. It manifests as an oscillating electric field with a fixed direction, which can be observed in magnetometric records. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-27 G. Pignol , B. Clement , M. Guigue , D. Rebreyend , B. Voirin

Hidden sector photons are a weakly interacting slim particle arising from an additional U(1) gauge symmetry predicted by many standard model extensions. We present and demonstrate a new experimental method using a single microwave cavity to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 Rhys G. Povey , John G. Hartnett , Michael E. Tobar

Dark matter remains one of the most profound and unresolved mysteries in modern physics. To unravel its nature, numerous haloscope experiments have been implemented across various mass ranges. However, very few haloscope experiments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Guoqing Wei , Diguang Wu , Runqi Kang , Qingning Jiang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

We point out that a cold dark matter condensate made of gauge bosons from an extra hidden U(1) sector - dubbed hidden- photons - can create a small, oscillating electric density current. Thus, they could also be searched for in the recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza , Babette Döbrich , Jorge Gamboa , Fernando Mendez

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

Mirror dark matter, where dark matter resides in a hidden sector exactly isomorphic to the standard model, can be probed via direct detection experiments by both nuclear and electron recoils if the kinetic mixing interaction exists. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 J. D. Clarke , R. Foot