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The non-observation of dark matter (DM) by direct detection experiments suggests that any new interaction of DM with the Standard Model (SM) should be very weak. One of the simplest scenarios to achieve this is a dark sector that is charged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-26 Patrick Foldenauer

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

We report on a new technique of a Multi-Cathode Counter (MCC) developed to search for hidden photon (HP) cold dark matter (CDM) with a mass from 5 to 500 eV. The method is suggested in the assumption that HP-photon mixing causes emission of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-20 A. V. Kopylov , I. V. Orekhov , V. V. Petukhov

Polarimetric experiments driven by the strong field of a circularly polarized laser wave can become a powerful tool to limit the parameter space of not yet detected hidden-photons and minicharged particles associated with extra U(1) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-10 Selym Villalba-Chávez , Carsten Müller

A dark matter sector composed of magnetic monopoles of a dark U(1) symmetry having a small kinetic mixing with the Standard Model photon has a rich and interesting phenomenology. The model in itself is also of theoretical interest. Based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-23 Michael L. Graesser , R. Andrew Gustafson

In this paper, we propose an experiment, LANSCE-mQ, aiming to detect fractionally charged and millicharged particles (mCP) using an 800 MeV proton beam fixed target at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) facility. This search can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Yu-Dai Tsai , Insung Hwang , Ryan Schmitz , Matthew Citron , Kranti Gunthoti , Jacob Steenis , Hoyong Jeong , Hyunki Moon , Jae Hyeok Yoo , Ming Xiong Liu

We examine the prospects for supersymmetry discovery in the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model via indirect detection of neutralino dark matter. We investigate rates for muon detection in neutrino telescopes, and detection of photons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Howard Baer , Alexander Belyaev , Tadas Krupovnickas , Jorge O'Farrill

We propose to search for a boosted dark matter (DM) particle from astrophysical sources using an emulsion detector in deep underground facilities. We further propose using high-$Z$ material such as the lead for a larger DM-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Xin Chen , Litao Yang

The detection of massless kinetically-mixed dark photons is notoriously difficult, as the effect of this mixing can be removed by a field redefinition in vacuum. In this work, we study the prospect of detecting massless dark photons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-09 Asher Berlin , Jeff A. Dror , Xucheng Gan , Joshua T. Ruderman

Although various pieces of indirect evidence about the nature of dark matter have been collected, its direct detection has eluded experimental searches despite extensive effort. If the mass of dark matter is below 1 MeV, it is essentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 C. Jess Riedel

We demonstrated the first-order interference between coherent light at 1580 nm and 795 nm by using frequency-domain Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The MZI is implemented by two frequency-domain BSs based on a second-order nonlinear…

We investigate the potential for detecting pion-like dark matter within the framework of a Strongly Interacting Massive Particle (SIMP) model using the MoEDAL Apparatus for Penetrating Particles (MAPP) at the LHC. The model, motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Shafakat Arifeen , Pierre-Philippe Ouimet , James Pinfold , Michael Staelens

It has been suggested that the annihilation of Dark Matter particles \chi with mass between 0.5 and 20 MeV into e^+e^- pairs could be responsible for the excess flux of 511 keV photons coming from the central region of our galaxy that has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Natalia Borodatchenkova , Debajyoti Choudhury , Manuel Drees

We consider the possibility to detect cosmic light dark matter (DM), i.e., axions and dark photons, of mass $\sim 10^{-6}$ eV and $\sim 10^{-4}$ eV, by magnetic excitation in a magnet with strong hyperfine interaction. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-05 So Chigusa , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

By correlating nuclear recoil directions with the Earth's direction of motion through the Galaxy, a directional dark matter detector can unambiguously detect Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), even in the presence of backgrounds.…

We conduct a comprehensive study on the sub-GeV millicharge dark matter produced through the freeze-in mechanism. We discuss in general the mixing mechanism, encompassing both kinetic mixing and mass mixing, between the $U(1)_X$ hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-07 Wan-Zhe Feng , Zi-Hui Zhang , Kai-Yu Zhang

We propose a new particle-trajectory detector composed of Josephson junctions, named the superconducting cloud chamber. By measuring the quantum phase difference, this device can detect charged particles with extremely low kinetic energy,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Bo Gao , Jie Sheng , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

We compute the thermalization of a hidden sector consisting of minicharged fermions (MCPs) and massless hidden photons in the early Universe. The precise measurement of the anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by Planck and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-11 Hendrik Vogel , Javier Redondo

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