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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

This paper presents the first results from the Dandelion experiment, a directional detection, which searches for 1 meV dark photon dark matter. We use a spherical mirror to convert dark photons into standard millimeter-wavelength photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 I. Ourahou , S. Savorgnano , C. Beaufort , M. Bastero-Gil , J. Bounmy , A. Catalano , J. Macias-Perez , D. Santos , C. Smith , F. Naraghi , D. Tourres , F. Vezzu

The resonant cavity system has been widely used to search for the electromagnetic response of dark photons, although its achievable detection sensitivity remains at a relatively low level. In this letter, we propose a feasible approach to…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. R. He , L. Gao , P. H. Ouyang , H. Zheng , X. N. Feng , L. F. Wei

The invisible axion is a hypothetical particle that arises from the Peccei-Quinn mechanism proposed to resolve the CP problem in quantum chromodynamics, and is considered one of the most favoured candidates for cold dark matter. Dish…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-06 Junu Jeong , Sungwoo Youn , Yannis K. Semertzidis

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…

We are building an experiment to search for dark matter in the form of dark photons in the nano- to milli-eV mass range. This experiment is the electromagnetic dual of magnetic detector dark radio experiments. It is also a frequency-time…

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

If dark matter (DM) particles are lighter than a few MeV/$c^2$ and can scatter off electrons, their interaction within the solar interior results in a considerable hardening of the spectrum of galactic dark matter received on Earth. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

The scattering of dark matter particles within the Sun's hot plasma can lead to acceleration of dark matter, producing a high-energy solar-reflected DM flux detectable in ground-based experiments. In the vector portal model, interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Haoming Nie

Many theories beyond the Standard Model contain hidden photons. A light hidden photon will generically couple to the Standard Model through a kinetic mixing term, giving a powerful avenue for detection using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-29 Peter W. Graham , Jeremy Mardon , Surjeet Rajendran , Yue Zhao

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…

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

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

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 propose a novel dark matter detection method utilizing the excitation of superconducting transmon qubits. Assuming the hidden photon dark matter of a mass of $O(10)\ \mu{\rm eV}$, the classical wave-matter oscillation induces an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-20 Shion Chen , Hajime Fukuda , Toshiaki Inada , Takeo Moroi , Tatsumi Nitta , Thanaporn Sichanugrist

We propose a new strategy to directly detect light particle dark matter that has long-ranged interactions with ordinary matter. The approach involves distorting the local flow of dark matter with time-varying fields and measuring these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Asher Berlin , Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We investigate the diurnal modulation of the event rate for dark matter scattering on solid targets arising from the directionally dependent defect creation threshold energy. In particular, we quantify how this effect would help in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Sebastian Sassi , Abolfazl Dinmohammadi , Matti Heikinheimo , Nader Mirabolfathi , Kai Nordlund , Hossein Safari , Kimmo Tuominen

A number of direct detection experiments are searching for electron excitations created by scattering of sub-GeV dark matter. We present an alternate formulation of dark matter-electron scattering in terms of the dielectric response of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Simon Knapen , Jonathan Kozaczuk , Tongyan Lin

We report on the first results from a new dish antenna search for hidden photon dark matter (HPDM) in the meV mass region. A double mirror system composed of a plane and a parabolic mirror is designed to convert HPDMs into photons focused…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-30 Stefan Knirck , Takayuki Yamazaki , Yoshiki Okesaku , Shoji Asai , Toshitaka Idehara , Toshiaki Inada

We show the first results of a new cavity based haloscope searching for dark photons with masses around $34~\mu\text{eV}$. Dark photons are hypothetical vector particles and a compelling dark matter candidate. Having the same quantum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-17 Tim Schneemann , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott