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For the first time, we determine the properties of the optimal single-moded, linear, passive search for electromagnetic coupling to axion and hidden-photon dark matter, subject to the Standard Quantum Limit on phase-insensitive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-11 Saptarshi Chaudhuri , Kent Irwin , Peter W. Graham , Jeremy Mardon

We propose a new approach to search for light dark matter (DM), with keV-GeV mass, via inelastic nucleus scattering at large-volume neutrino detectors such as Borexino, DUNE, Super-K, Hyper-K, and JUNO. The approach uses inelastic nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-21 Bhaskar Dutta , Wei-Chih Huang , Doojin Kim , Jayden L. Newstead , Jong-Chul Park , Iman Shaukat Ali

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

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 study the probing prospects of cosmic ray boosted dark matter (DM) in the framework of simplified electron-philic dark photon model. Focusing on the dark matter and dark photon masses around keV $\sim $ MeV scale, we consider the bounds…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-13 Jinmian Li , Junle Pei , Cong Zhang

We consider optical fibers as detectors for scalar ultralight dark matter (UDM) and propose using a fiber-based interferometer to search for scalar UDM with particle mass in the range $10^{-17} - 10^{-13}$ eV/$c^2$ $\left(10^{-3}- 10 \text{…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-22 J. Manley , R. Stump , R. Petery , and S. Singh

We present a comprehensive framework for interpreting electron recoil signals induced by fast-moving dark matter (DM), applicable across a wide range of theoretically motivated models. Amid both null results in conventional weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-07 Haider Alhazmi , Doojin Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Aishah Sumayli

The development of levitated optomechanics has enabled precise force sensors that operate in the quantum measurement regime, opening up unique opportunities to search for new physics whose weak interactions may have evaded existing sensors.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-22 Yu-Han Tseng , T. W. Penny , Benjamin Siegel , Jiaxiang Wang , David C. Moore

We report on a search for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles interacting with electrons using the DAMIC-M prototype detector at the Modane Underground Laboratory. The data feature a significantly lower detector single $e^-$ rate (factor 50)…

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

We present a novel way of probing non-gravitational dark matter interactions: dark astronomy, which leverages the dark radiation emitted by dissipative dark sectors. If the mediator of the dark matter self interactions is a dark photon with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , David Curtin

Cosmology observations indicate that our universe is composed of 25% dark matter (DM), yet we know little about its microscopic properties. Whereas the gravitational interaction of DM is well understood, its interaction with the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-05 R. T. Thornton , MiniBooNE-DM collaboration

We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range $20$~kHz-$100$ MHz, that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent, significantly upgraded optical-spectroscopy apparatus, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Oleg Tretiak , Xue Zhang , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Dionysios Antypas , Andrea Brogna , Abhishek Banerjee , Gilad Perez , Dmitry Budker

We carry out a model independent study of resonant photon scattering off dark matter (DM) particles. The DM particle chi_1 can feature an electric or magnetic transition dipole moment which couples it with photons and a heavier neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

We introduce the DM Radio, a dual search for axion and hidden photon dark matter using a tunable superconducting lumped-element resonator. We discuss the prototype DM Radio Pathfinder experiment, which will probe hidden photons in the 500…

We study novel scenarios where thermal dark matter (DM) can be efficiently captured in the Sun and annihilate into boosted dark matter. In models with semi-annihilating DM, where DM has a non-minimal stabilization symmetry, or in models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Joshua Berger , Yanou Cui , Yue Zhao

Dark Matter (DM) is an elusive form of matter which has been postulated to explain astronomical observations through its gravitational effects on stars and galaxies, gravitational lensing of light around these, and through its imprint on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-07 James Bateman , Ian McHardy , Alexander Merle , Tim R. Morris , Hendrik Ulbricht

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou

Dark matter may interact with the Standard Model through the kinetic mixing of dark photons, $A'$, with Standard Model photons. Such dark matter will accumulate in the Sun and annihilate into dark photons. The dark photons may then leave…

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

Dark matter is poorly constrained by direct detection experiments at masses below 1 MeV. This is an important target for the next generation of experiments, and several methods have been proposed to probe this mass range. One class of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-31 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Stefano Profumo