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The effective interactions of dark matter with photons are fairly restricted. Yet both direct detection as well as monochromatic gamma ray signatures depend sensitively on the presence of such interactions. For a Dirac fermion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-27 Neal Weiner , Itay Yavin

Light new particles with masses below 10 keV, often considered as a plausible extension of the Standard Model, will be emitted from the solar interior, and can be detected on the Earth with a variety of experimental tools. Here we analyze…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-21 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model is one of the main tasks of experimental physics. Candidates for dark matter include axion-like ultralight bosonic particles. Comagnetometers form ultra-high sensitivity probes for such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Yossi Rosenzweig , Yevgeny Kats , Menachem Givon , Yonathan Japha , Ron Folman

We consider using optomechanical accelerometers as resonant detectors for ultralight dark matter. As a concrete example, we describe a detector based on a silicon nitride membrane fixed to a beryllium mirror, forming an optical cavity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Jack Manley , Mitul Dey Chowdhury , Daniel Grin , Swati Singh , Dalziel J. Wilson

Obtaining insight into the constituents of dark matter and their interactions with normal matter has inspired a wide range of experimental efforts. Several approaches, particularly those involving searches for ultralight bosonic dark matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Jose-Daniel Bernal , Ryan B. Petery , K. J. Joven , Swati Singh

Superconducting targets have recently been proposed for the direct detection of dark matter as light as a keV, via elastic scattering off conduction electrons in Cooper pairs. Detecting such light dark matter requires sensitivity to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Yonit Hochberg , Tongyan Lin , Kathryn M. Zurek

We discover that the mass of dark matter particles mDM is imprinted in phase-correlations of the cosmic density field more significantly than in the 2-point correlation. In particular, phase-correlations trace mDM out to scales about five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 Danail Obreschkow , Chris Power , Martin Bruderer , Camille Bonvin

Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with electrons can excite electrons occupying molecular orbitals in a scattering event. In particular, aromatic compounds such as benzene or xylene have an electronic excitation energy of a few eV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Carlos Blanco , J. I. Collar , Yonatan Kahn , Benjamin Lillard

It is shown that dark matter axions cause an oscillating electric current to flow along magnetic field lines. The oscillating current induced in a strong magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ produces a small magnetic field $\vec{B}_a$. We propose to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Sikivie , N. Sullivan , D. B. Tanner

The development of levitated optomechanics has enabled precise force sensors that operate in the quantum measurement regime, opening up unique opportunities to search for new physics whose weak interactions may have evaded existing sensors.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-22 Yu-Han Tseng , T. W. Penny , Benjamin Siegel , Jiaxiang Wang , David C. Moore

We suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

A neutral dark matter (DM) particle with a magnetic dipole moment has a very different direct detection phenomenology with respect to standard candidates. This is due to the peculiar functional form of the differential cross section for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-27 Eugenio Del Nobile

We propose a new constraint on millicharged dark matter from considerations on galaxy clusters. The charged dark matter moves under the influence of the randomly oriented magnetic fields in galaxy clusters, and the corresponding dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-15 Kenji Kadota , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Hiroyuki Tashiro

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 report constraints on sub-GeV dark matter particles interacting with electrons from the first underground operation of DAMIC-M detectors. The search is performed with an integrated exposure of 85.23 g days, and exploits the subelectron…

The detection of ultralight dark matter through interactions with nucleons, electrons, and photons has been explored in depth. In this work we propose to use precision muon experiments, specifically muon g-2 and electric dipole moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Ryan Janish , Harikrishnan Ramani

Dark Matter (DM) particles with sufficiently large cross sections may scatter as they travel through Earth's bulk. The corresponding changes in the DM flux give rise to a characteristic daily modulation signal in detectors sensitive to…

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 propose to search for a boosted dark matter (DM) particle from astrophysical sources using an emulsion detector in deep underground facilities. We further propose using high-$Z$ material such as the lead for a larger DM-nucleus coherent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Xin Chen , Litao Yang

A light scalar dark matter (DM) is allowed in a wide range of the mass and interaction types. We show that the light scalar DM may be probed in a new way from final years of neutron-star (NS) binary inspirals. If the DM interacts with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Han Gil Choi , Sunghoon Jung