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We report on a laboratory search for ultralight dark photon dark matter using a single-site, two-sensor scalar magnetometer array. The experiment employs two scalar optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) operated in a differential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Peisen Zhao , Ole Behrens , Maja Benning , Peter Fierlinger , Xuefen Han , Maximilian Huber , Florian Kuchler , Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Philipp Wunderl

Dark photon is a new gauge boson beyond the Standard Model as a kind of dark matter (DM) candidate. Dark photon dark matter (DPDM) interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing, implicating an approach to give a constraint with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Tian-Ci Liu , Ming-Xuan Lu , Xiao-Song Hu

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

The exploration of the parameter space of axion and axion-like particle dark matter is a major aim of the future program of astroparticle physics investigations. In this context, we present a possible strategy that focuses on detecting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-06 Elisa Todarello , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso , Maurizio Giannotti , Jaime Ruz , Julia K. Vogel

The ultralight dark photon is a well-motivated, hypothetical dark matter candidate. In a dilute plasma, they can resonantly convert into photons, and heat up the intergalactic medium between galaxies. In this work, we explore the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Andrea Trost , James S. Bolton , Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Stefano Cristiani , Matteo Viel

It has been proposed that an additional U(1) sector of hidden photons could account for the Dark Matter observed in the Universe. When passing through an interface of materials with different dielectric properties, hidden photons can give…

Dark photons, as a minimal extension of the Standard Model through an additional Abelian gauge group, may propagate relativistically across the galaxy, originating from dark matter decay or annihilation, thereby contributing to a galactic…

Dark photons (DPs) produced in the early Universe are well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. We show that the recently proposed tunable plasma haloscopes are particularly advantageous for DP searches. While in-medium effects suppress…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-12 Graciela B. Gelmini , Alexander J. Millar , Volodymyr Takhistov , Edoardo Vitagliano

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…

Dark matter may be charged under dark electromagnetism with a dark photon that kinetically mixes with the Standard Model photon. In this framework, dark matter will collect at the center of the Earth and annihilate into dark photons, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

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

We investigate the prospects for direct detection of Dark Matter (DM) particles, such as dark photons, incident on the upper atmosphere. A recent work relates the burst-like temperature excursions in the stratosphere at heights of ~38-47 km…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-08 G. Cantatore , H. Fischer , W. Funk , M. Karuza , A. Kryemadhi , M. Maroudas , Y. Semertzidis , K. Zioutas

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,…

If Dark Matter is composed of hidden-sector photons that kinetically mix with photons of the visible sector, then Dark Matter has a tiny oscillating electric field component. Its presence would lead to a small amount of visible radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-02 Babette Döbrich , Kai Daumiller , Ralph Engel , Marek Kowalski , Axel Lindner , Javier Redondo , Markus Roth

We propose a new method to detect observational appearance of Dark Matter axions. The method utilizes observations of neutron stars (NSs) in radio. It is based on the conversion of axions to photons in strong magnetic fields of NSs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. S. Pshirkov , S. B. Popov

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

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…

Axion as one of the promising dark matter candidates can be detected through narrow radio lines emitted from the magnetic white dwarf stars. Due to the existence of the strong magnetic field, the axion may resonantly convert into the radio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-23 Jin-Wei Wang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Run-Min Yao , Peng-Fei Yin

Hidden photons are dark matter candidates motivated by theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. They mix with conventional photons, and they can be detected through the very weak electromagnetic radiation they induce at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-05-29 Pierre Brun , Laurent Chevalier , Christophe Flouzat

Motivated by various kinds of new physics models, a new light neutral vector boson (the dark photon) connected to the Standard Model of particle physics only through the kinetic mixing with the U(1)_Y factor has been studied extensively.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-03 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler