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We present results from the FUNK experiment in the search for hidden-photon dark matter. Near the surface of a mirror, hidden photons may be converted into ordinary photons. These photons are emitted perpendicular to the surface and have an…

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

Dark matter particles with a mass around 1 eV can decay into near-infrared photons. Utilising available public blank sky observations from the NIRSpec IFU on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we search for a narrow emission line due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-25 Ryan Janish , Elena Pinetti

The dark photon is a well motivated candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. A primary tool in this search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-01 Yuan-Hann Chang , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Hien Thi Doan , Nick Houston , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Lina Wu , Xin Zhang

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,…

We investigate constraints on the interactions of light dark matter with Standard Model quarks in a framework with effective contact operators mediating the decay of heavy flavor bound state quarkonium to dark matter and a photon. When…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-05 Nicolas Fernandez , Ilsoo Seong , Patrick Stengel

The dark (or hidden) photon is a massive U(1) gauge boson theorized as a dark force mediator and as a dark matter candidate. Dark photons can be detected with axion cavity haloscopes by probing for a power excess caused by the dark photon's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Sumita Ghosh , Liz Ruddy , Michael J. Jewell , Alexander F. Leder , Reina H. Maruyama

We search for ultra-light vector dark matter interacting with a rotating torsion balance with a baryon minus lepton number composition dipole. Our search spans candidate masses in the ultra-low mass range from 1.3~$\times10^{-22}$ to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-28 M. P. Ross , E. A. Shaw , C. Gettings , S. K. Apple , I. A. Paulson , J. H. Gundlach

At a level too faint for astronomy, particle dark matter may interact with Standard Model states via the photon. We derive limits from direct detection experiments on photon-mediated nuclear interactions up to operator dimension-6, viz.,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jason Kumar , Biprajit Mondal , Girish Muralidhara , Nirmal Raj

WIMPs are promising dark matter candidates. A WIMP occasionally collides with a mirror equipped with interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and the Einstein Telescope (ET). When WIMPs collide with a mirror…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-10 Satoshi Tsuchida , Nobuyuki Kanda , Yousuke Itoh , Masaki Mori

We report direct-detection constraints on light dark matter particles interacting with electrons. The results are based on a method that exploits the extremely low levels of leakage current of the DAMIC detector at SNOLAB of…

Astrometric surveys offer us a method to search for elusive cosmic signatures, such as ultralight dark photon dark matter and gravitational waves, by observing the deflection to the apparent positions of the stars. The detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-03 Haipeng An , Tingyu Li , Jing Shu , Xin Wang , Xiao Xue , Yue Zhao

We provide a comprehensive comparison of linear amplifiers and microwave photon-counters in axion dark matter experiments. The study is done assuming a range of realistic operating conditions and detector parameters, over the frequency…

Identifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the major challenges for modern astro and particle physics. Direct dark-matter searches aim at an observation of dark-matter particles interacting within detectors. The focus of…

A dark photon is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and can be a dark matter candidate. Dark photons kinetically mix with ordinary photons. The mass range from $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-3}$ eV of such dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-16 Akira Miyazaki , Tor Lofnes , Fritz Caspers , Paolo Spagnolo , John Jelonnek , Tobias Ruess , Johannes L. Steinmann , Manfred Thumm

We examine the status of dark matter (heavy photon) in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) in light of the new results from the LHC Higgs search, the Planck dark matter relic density and the XENON100 limit on the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-30 Lei Wang , Jin Min Yang , Jingya Zhu

We study the interaction between photons, dark photons, and axions at future lepton colliders, focusing on single-photon events with missing energy as the experimental signature. We find that future facilities such as the ILC, CEPC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Van Que Tran

Dark matter direct (and indirect) detection experiments usually can only determine a specific combination of a power of the coupling and the dark matter density. This is also true for axion haloscopes which are sensitive to the product…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Virgile Dandoy , Joerg Jaeckel , Valentina Montoya

We report on a search for dark matter axion-like particles (ALPs) using a Ramsey-type apparatus for cold neutrons. A hypothetical ALP-gluon-coupling would manifest in a neutron electric dipole moment signal oscillating in time. Twenty-four…