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The China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX), located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) whose overburden is about 2400m rock, aims at direct searches of light Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). A single-element…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-03-24 Hao Ma , Ze She , Zhongzhi Liu , Litao Yang , Qian Yue , Zhi Zeng , Tao Xue

We present the improved constraints on couplings of solar axions and more generic bosonic dark matter particles using 737.1 kg-days of data from the CDEX-1B experiment. The CDEX-1B experiment, located at the China Jinping Underground…

"Dark Photons", light new vector particles V kinetically mixed with the photon, are a frequently considered extension of the Standard Model. For masses below 10 keV they are emitted from the solar interior. In the limit of small mass m_V…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-26 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

Recently, the XENON1T experiment has reported the possible detection of an excess in the electronic recoil spectrum. Such an excess may indicate the presence of new physics. In this work, we suggest that the scattering of mirror electrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-17 Lei Zu , Guan-Wen Yuan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan

We present improved germanium-based constraints on sub-GeV dark matter via dark matter--electron ($\chi$-$e$) scattering using the 205.4 kg$\cdot$day dataset from the CDEX-10 experiment. Using a novel calculation technique, we attain…

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 China Dark Matter Experiment (CDEX) is a low background experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) designed to directly detect dark matter with a high-purity Germanium (HPGe) detector. In the second phase CDEX-10 with a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-09 Qing-Hao Chen , Qian Yue , Jian-Ping Cheng , Ke-Jun Kang , Yuan-Jing Li , Shin-Ted Lin , Chang-Jian Tang , Hao-Yang Xing , Xun-Zhen Yu , Ming Zeng

The axion emerges in extensions of the Standard Model that explain the absence of CP violation in the strong interactions. Simultaneously, it can provide naturally the cold dark matter in our universe. Several searches for axions and…

BDX-MINI is a beam dump experiment optimized to search for Light Dark Matter produced in the interaction of the intense CEBAF 2.176 GeV electron beam with the Hall A beam dump at Jefferson Lab. The BDX-MINI detector consists of a PbWO$_4$…

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 present new constraints on the cosmic ray electron boosted light dark matter (CReDM) using the 205.4 kg$\cdot$day data of the CDEX-10 experiment located at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. The cosmic ray electron spectrum and…

We present a novel constraint on light dark matter utilizing $1.54$ tonne$\cdot$year of data acquired from the PandaX-4T dual-phase xenon time projection chamber. This constraint is derived through detecting electronic recoil signals…

New upper limit on a mixing parameter for hidden photons with a mass from 5 eV till 10 keV has been obtained from the results of measurements during 78 days in two configurations R1 and R2 of a multicathode counter. For a region of a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-06-14 Anatoly Kopylov , Igor Orekhov , Valery Petukhov

The MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX) is a future experiment aiming to detect dark matter axions from the galactic halo by resonant conversion to photons in a strong magnetic field. It uses a novel concept based on a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-09 Fabrice Hubaut

We present direct detection constraints on the absorption of hidden-photon dark matter with particle masses in the range 1.2-30 eV$c^{-2}$ with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB. Under the assumption that the local dark matter is entirely…

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…

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

We show that hidden hot dark matter, hidden-sector dark matter with interactions that decouple when it is relativistic, is a viable dark matter candidate provided it has never been in thermal equilibrium with the particles of the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Kris Sigurdson

Mirror dark matter is a dissipative and self-interacting multiparticle dark matter candidate which can explain the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESST-II direct detection experiments. This explanation requires photon-mirror photon kinetic mixing of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 R. Foot