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We point out that power measurements of single quasiparticle devices open a new avenue to detect dark matter (DM). The threshold of these devices is set by the Cooper pair binding energy, and is therefore so low that they can detect DM as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-26 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

Quantum device measurements are powerful tools to probe dark matter interactions. Among these, transmon qubits stand out for their ability to suppress external noise while remaining highly sensitive to tiny energy deposits. Ambient galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-07 Yonit Hochberg , Majed Khalaf , Noah Kurinsky , Alessandro Lenoci , Rotem Ovadia

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

In this paper, we investigate constraints of the transmon qubit, an improved version of the charge qubit, on bosonic light dark matters. Phonon excitations induced by the scattering or absorption of dark matter on a superconductor may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Wei Chao , Yu Gao , Ming-jie Jin , Xiao-sheng Liu , Xi-lei Sun

We consider current observational constraints on the electromagnetic charge of dark matter. The velocity dependence of the scattering cross-section through the photon gives rise to qualitatively different constraints than standard dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Samuel D. McDermott , Hai-Bo Yu , Kathryn M. Zurek

We present the design and the sensitivity reach of the Qubit-based Light Dark Matter detection experiment. We propose the novel two-chip design to reduce signal dissipation, with quantum parity measurement to enhance single-phonon detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Xuegang Li , Yuxiang Liu , Jing Shu , Ningqiang Song , Yidong Song , Junhua Wang , Yue-Liang Wu , Tiantian Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

We examine in greater detail the recent proposal of using superconductors for detecting dark matter as light as the warm dark matter limit of O(keV). Detection of such light dark matter is possible if the entire kinetic energy of the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Yonit Hochberg , Matt Pyle , Yue Zhao , Kathryn M. Zurek

We present new observational constraints on the elastic scattering of dark matter with electrons for dark matter masses between 10 keV and 1 TeV. We consider scenarios in which the momentum-transfer cross section has a power-law dependence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 David Nguyen , Dimple Sarnaaik , Kimberly K. Boddy , Ethan O. Nadler , Vera Gluscevic

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

Dark matter is five times more abundant than ordinary visible matter in our Universe. While laboratory searches hunting for dark matter have traditionally focused on the electroweak scale, theories of low mass hidden sectors motivate new…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-08 S. A. Lyon , Kyle Castoria , Ethan Kleinbaum , Zhihao Qin , Arun Persaud , Thomas Schenkel , Kathryn Zurek

We discuss a limitation on extracting bounds on the scattering cross section of dark matter with nucleons, using neutrinos from the Sun. If the dark matter particle is sufficiently light (less than about 4 GeV), the effect of evaporation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-09 Giorgio Busoni , Andrea De Simone , Wei-Chih Huang

We consider the use of quantum-limited mechanical force sensors to detect ultralight (sub-meV) dark matter candidates which are weakly coupled to the standard model. We show that mechanical sensors with masses around or below the milligram…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-12 Daniel Carney , Anson Hook , Zhen Liu , Jacob M. Taylor , Yue Zhao

We propose the use of superconducting nanowires as both target and sensor for direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter. With excellent sensitivity to small energy deposits on electrons, and demonstrated low dark counts, such devices could be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-16 Yonit Hochberg , Ilya Charaev , Sae-Woo Nam , Varun Verma , Marco Colangelo , Karl K. Berggren

We present a novel unifying interpretation of excess event rates observed in several dark matter direct-detection experiments that utilize single-electron threshold semiconductor detectors. Despite their different locations, exposures,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Noah Kurinsky , Daniel Baxter , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic

We report the results of a search for dark photon dark matter using a cavity that employs a transmon qubit as a frequency tuner. The tuning mechanism utilizes the energy level shift arising from the mode mixing between the qubit and the…

Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments. However, newly proposed technology will allow the detection of single electron events in semiconductor materials with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Matthew T. Walters

We give an estimation of the masses of light dark matter particle and dark energy quasiparticle which can be extracted from the astrophysical data about the contributions of baryon, dark matter, and dark energy densities to the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Celestial objects such as stars and planets might be able to capture a large amount of dark matter particles through dark matter-nucleon scattering. Many previous studies have considered different celestial objects such as the Sun and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-30 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Sub-GeV Dark Matter particles upscattered by cosmic rays gain enough kinetic energy to pass the thresholds of large volume detectors on Earth. We then use public Super-Kamiokande and MiniBooNE data to derive a novel limit on the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 Yohei Ema , Filippo Sala , Ryosuke Sato

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
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