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We present a method to determine the sensitivity of a closed dielectric haloscope to axion dark matter. Dielectric haloscopes aim to probe the theoretically well-motivated axion mass range of ~26 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV to ~500 $\mathrm{\mu}$eV by…

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

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

The dark photon is a well motivated candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the mass of our visible Universe, leading to worldwide experimental and observational efforts towards its discovery. A primary tool in this search is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-01 Yuan-Hann Chang , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Hien Thi Doan , Nick Houston , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Lina Wu , Xin Zhang

We study the effect of the axion dark matter velocity in the recently proposed dielectric haloscopes, a promising avenue to search for well-motivated high mass ($40-400~\mu$eV) axions. We describe non-zero velocity effects for axion-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander J. Millar , Javier Redondo , Frank D. Steffen

The dark photon is a well-motivated ultralight dark-matter candidate that may couple to the Standard Model through kinetic mixing. We search for dark-photon dark matter in the mass range $m_{A'}c^2 =…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Joel Barir , Itay M. Bloch , Yair Goldszeft , Gal Goldstein , Constantine Feinberg , Or Katz , Tomer Volansky

Many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics predict a parallel sector of a new U(1) symmetry, giving rise to hidden photons. These hidden photons are candidate particles for cold dark matter. They are expected to kinetically…

The dark photon is a massive hypothetical particle that interacts with the Standard Model by kinetically mixing with the visible photon. For small values of the mixing parameter, dark photons can evade cosmological bounds to be a viable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-02 Andrea Caputo , Alexander J. Millar , Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Edoardo Vitagliano

The axion is a hypothetical low-mass boson predicted by the Peccei-Quinn mechanism solving the strong CP problem. It is naturally also a cold dark matter candidate if its mass is below $\sim$\,1\,meV, thus simultaneously solving two major…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 B. Majorovits

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and cold dark matter candidate. In this RF cavity experiment, halo axions entering a resonant cavity immersed in a static magnetic field convert into microwave photons, with the resulting…

We report the results from a haloscope search for axion dark matter in the $3.3\text{-}4.2~{\mu}$eV mass range. This search excludes the axion-photon coupling predicted by one of the benchmark models of "invisible" axion dark matter, the…

Light cold dark matter consisting of weakly interacting slim (or sub-eV) particles (WISPs) has been in the focus of a large number of studies made over the past two decades. The QCD axion and axion-like particles with masses in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-10-24 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

We report the first search results for axion dark matter using an 18\,T high-temperature superconducting magnet haloscope. The scan frequency ranges from 4.7789 to 4.8094\,GHz. No significant signal consistent with the Galactic halo dark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-06-20 Youngjae Lee , Byeongsu Yang , Hojin Yoon , Moohyun Ahn , Heejun Park , Byeonghun Min , DongLak Kim , Jonghee Yoo

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…

This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the…

We present a novel search for dark photon dark matter (DM) using terrestrial magnetic field measurements at frequencies below 100 Hz. Coherently oscillating dark photon DM can induce a monochromatic magnetic field via kinetic mixing with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Kimihiro Nomura , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Laboratory searching for dark matter is crucial for understanding several fundamental conundrums in physics and cosmology. Most cavity-based haloscope searches focus on the frequency range below 10 GHz, while the parameter space with higher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yue Yin , Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong

Hidden photons and axion-like particles are candidates for cold dark matter if they were produced non-thermally in the early universe. We conducted a search for both of these bosons using 800 live-days of data from the XMASS detector with…

We report new limits on the kinetic mixing strength of the dark photon spanning the mass range 0.21 -- 1.24 $\mu$eV corresponding to a frequency span of 50 -- 300 MHz. The Dark E-Field Radio experiment is a wide-band search for dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-06-03 Joseph Levine , Benjamin Godfrey , J. Anthony Tyson , S. Mani Tripathi , Daniel Polin , Amin Aminaei , Brian H. Kolner , Paul Stucky