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We summarise the recent progress of the Axion Longitudinal Plasma HAloscope (ALPHA) Consortium, a new experimental collaboration to build a plasma haloscope to search for axions and dark photons. The plasma haloscope is a novel method for…

Dark photons can be the ultralight dark matter candidate, interacting with Standard Model particles via kinetic mixing. We propose to search for ultralight dark photon dark matter (DPDM) through the local absorption at different radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-12 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Wen-Qing Guo , Xiaoyuan Huang , Jia Liu , Zhiyao Lu

We propose detecting dark photons (DP), a major candidate for wave dark matter, through polarimetry. The DP can modify Maxwell's equations due to its kinetic mixing with regular photons, inducing an oscillating component in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Fiesta Ting Yan Leung , Tao Liu , Sida Lu , Jing Ren , Cheuk Kan Kelvin Yue , Kaifeng Zheng

Dark photon dark matter (DPDM) emerges as a compelling candidate for ultralight bosonic dark matter, detectable through resonant conversion into photons within a plasma environment. This study employs in-situ measurements from the Parker…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Haipeng An , Shuailiang Ge , Jia Liu , Mingzhe Liu

We propose a new class of bosonic dark matter (DM) detectors based on resonant absorption onto a gas of small polyatomic molecules. Bosonic DM acts on the molecules as a narrow-band perturbation, like an intense but weakly coupled laser.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-10 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Ken Van Tilburg

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

Dark photons with masses in the 1-100 eV range can be produced in the Sun and subsequently absorbed in terrestrial detectors, offering a promising avenue for probing hidden-sector physics beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we develop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Theresa M. Backes , Riccardo Catena , Michael Krämer

Dark photons have been considered potential candidates for dark matter. The dark photon dark matter (DPDM) has a mass and interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing with a coupling constant of $\chi$. Thus, DPDMs are converted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-29 S. Adachi , F. Fujinaka , S. Honda , Y. Muto , H. Nakata , Y. Sueno , T. Sumida , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , H. Takeuchi

The nature of dark matter (DM) is still a mystery that may indicate the necessity for extensions of the Standard Model (SM). Light dark photons (DP) may comprise partially or entirely the observed DM density and existing limits on the DP DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-08 Ricardo G. Landim

Dark matter could be made up of dark photons, massive but very light particles whose interactions with matter resemble those of usual photons but suppressed by a small mixing parameter. We analyze the main approaches to dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-13 C. Álvarez-Luna , J. A. R. Cembranos

Dark matter (DM) with masses of order an electronvolt or below can have a non-zero coupling to electromagnetism while being compatible with cosmological observations. In these models, the ambient DM behaves as a new classical source in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-23 Nikita Blinov , Christina Gao , Roni Harnik , Ryan Janish , Neil Sinclair

We demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason is conceptually straightforward. An instrument such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Carl Beadle , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd

The dark photon is a massive hypothetical particle that interacts with the Standard Model by kinetically mixing with the visible photon. For small values of the mixing parameter, dark photons can evade cosmological bounds to be a viable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 Andrea Caputo , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Edoardo Vitagliano

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

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

We search for the dark photon dark matter (DPDM) using a cryogenic millimeter-wave receiver. DPDM has a kinetic coupling with electromagnetic fields with a coupling constant of $\chi$, and is converted into ordinary photons at the surface…

The dark photon is a new hypothetical gauge boson arising in extensions of the Standard Model, and constitutes a compelling dark matter candidate. As dark photon dark matter (DPDM), it can interact with electromagnetic fields via kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Júlia G. Mamprim , Aion Viana , Vitor de Souza

We propose a new strategy to search for dark matter axions using tunable cryogenic plasmas. Unlike current experiments, which repair the mismatch between axion and photon masses by breaking translational invariance (cavity and dielectric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Matthew Lawson , Alexander J. Millar , Matteo Pancaldi , Edoardo Vitagliano , Frank Wilczek

We report on the results of the search for dark photons with mass around 1.5$\,\rm eV/c^2$ using a multilayer dielectric haloscope equipped with an affordable and commercially available photosensor. The multilayer stack, which enables the…

Dark matter (DM) could couple to particles in the Standard Model (SM) through a light vector mediator. In the limit of small coupling, this portal could be responsible for producing the observed DM abundance through a mechanism known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz
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