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The EDELWEISS collaboration has performed a direct search for WIMP dark matter using a 320 g heat-and-ionization cryogenic Ge detector operated in a low-background environment in the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane. No nuclear recoils are…

New results after 0.69 kg yr of measurement with an enriched 76Ge detector of the Heidelberg--Moscow experiment with an active mass of 2.758 kg are presented. An energy threshold of 9 keV and a background level of 0.042 counts/(kg d keV) in…

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

We set the strongest limits to-date on the velocity-independent dark matter (DM) - proton cross section $\sigma$ for DM masses $m = 10\,\mathrm{keV}$ to $100\,\mathrm{GeV}$, using large-scale structure traced by the Lyman-alpha forest:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 Keir K. Rogers , Cora Dvorkin , Hiranya V. Peiris

We investigate the freeze-in of MeV-scale fermionic dark matter (DM) that couples to the Standard Model via a new vector mediator to assess the potential that future direct detection experiments have to observe new physics in either the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 David Cerdeño , Patrick Foldenauer , Rafael López Noé , Óscar Zapata

As astronomical observations and their interpretation improve, the case for cold dark matter (CDM) becomes increasingly persuasive. A particularly appealing version of CDM is a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) with a mass near the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-28 Bailey Tallman , Alexandra Boone , Adhithya Vijayakumar , Fiona Lopez , Samuel Apata , Jehu Martinez , Roland Allen

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

The DAMIC-M collaboration recently reported impressive bounds on sub-GeV dark matter, robustly testing both thermal and non-thermal models for the very first time. In this work we derive novel bounds from the recent PandaX-4T ionization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Andrew Cheek , Pablo Figueroa , Gonzalo Herrera , Ian M. Shoemaker

Recent sky surveys have discovered a large number of stellar substructures. It is highly likely that there are dark matter (DM) counterparts to these stellar substructures. We examine the implications of DM substructures for electron recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-17 Tarak Nath Maity , Ranjan Laha

Dark matter plays a crucial role in our comprehension of the universe, but its mysterious nature poses challenges for direct detection. A primary obstacle in detecting dark matter is distinguishing genuine signals from the prevailing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-03-05 M. Mirzakhani , S. Maludze

Device of new type is suggested - germanium detector with internal amplification. Such detector having effective threshold about 10 eV opens up fresh opportunity for investigation of dark matter, measurement of neutrino magnetic moment, of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2011-04-15 A. S. Starostin , A. G. Beda

Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that the light dark matter is composed of complex scalars and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun Guo , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Dark matter experiments primarily search for the scattering of WIMPs on target nuclei of well shielded underground detectors. The results from liquid scintillator experiments furthermore provide precise probes of very light and very weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-19 Haipeng An , Kaixuan Ni , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

In Phys. Rev. D 98, 103023 (2018), a novel scenario was proposed to probe the interactions between dark matter (DM) particles and electrons, via hydrogen-atmosphere pulsating white dwarfs (DAVs) in globular clusters. The estimation showed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Jia-Shu Niu , Hui-Fang Xue

The axion, which has yet to be discovered, is a promising candidate for dark matter that emerges from Peccei-Quinn theory. This article presents the search for axion dark matter with the "Student Project for an Axion Cavity Experiment"…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-10-29 M. A. Akgümüs , N. Salama , J. Egge , E. Garutti , M. Maroudas , L. H. Nguyen , D. Leppla-Weber

We investigate dark matter (DM)-electron scattering in a minimal $U(1)_X$ extension of the Standard Model (SM), where the DM can appear as a Majorana fermion, a complex singlet scalar or a Dirac fermion. To study bounds on the $U(1)_X$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Sanjoy Mandal

Dark matter with mass in the crossover range between wave dark matter and particle dark matter, around $(10^{-3},\, 10^3)\,$eV, remains relatively unexplored by terrestrial experiments. In this mass regime, dark matter scatters coherently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Pengshun Luo , Shigeki Matsumoto , Jie Sheng , Chuan-Yang Xing , Lin Zhu , Zhi-Jie Zhuge

Mirror dark matter, a hidden-sector counterpart to the Standard Model with identical particle content, could be detectable through photon-mirror-photon kinetic mixing $(\epsilon)$. We present new constraints from CDEX-10 low-energy recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 M. Tousif Raza

We present a comprehensive analysis of high-resolution transition-edge sensors (TESs) as a quantum sensing platform for detecting dark matter (DM). Operating near the thermodynamic noise limit with sub-eV energy resolution, TESs offer a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Muping Chen , Volodymyr Takhistov , Kazunori Nakayama , Kaori Hattori

A search for dark matter is conducted in final states containing a photon and missing transverse momentum in proton$-$proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV. The data, collected during 2015$-$2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 ATLAS Collaboration