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The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) is a fixed-target, electron beam experiment designed to search for $e^+e^-$ mass resonances and displaced decays using a forward acceptance spectrometer. This article details the search for naturally…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-11-05 The HPS Collaboration

The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. The first results from a search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-12-27 FASER Collaboration

We investigate a scenario where the dark matter of the Universe is made from very light hidden photons transforming under a $Z_{2}$-symmetry. In contrast to the usual situation, kinetic mixing is forbidden by the symmetry and the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Paola Arias , Ariel Arza , Joerg Jaeckel , Diego Vargas-Arancibia

Dark matter is a focused issue in galactic evolution and cosmology. Axion is a viable particle candidate for dark matter. Its interaction with photon is an effective way to detect it, e.g., pseudoscalar-photon interaction will generate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Sheng-Jui Chen , Sheau-shi Pan

We propose an approach to search for axion dark matter with a specially designed superconducting radio frequency cavity, targeting axions with masses $m_a \lesssim 10^{-6} \text{ eV}$. Our approach exploits axion-induced transitions between…

The next generation of large scale WIMP direct detection experiments have the potential to go beyond the discovery phase and reveal detailed information about both the particle physics and astrophysics of dark matter. We report here on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-05 Jayden L. Newstead , Thomas D. Jacques , Lawrence M. Krauss , James B. Dent , Francesc Ferrer

The upcoming Deep Synoptic Array 2000 (DSA-2000) will map the radio sky at $0.7-2$ GHz ($2.9 - 8.3 \, \mu$eV) with unprecedented sensitivity. This will enable searches for dark matter and other physics beyond the Standard Model, of which we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-07 Kim V. Berghaus , Yufeng Du , Vincent S. H. Lee , Anirudh Prabhu , Robert Reischke , Liam Connor , Kathryn M. Zurek

We provide a comprehensive comparison of linear amplifiers and microwave photon-counters in axion dark matter experiments. The study is done assuming a range of realistic operating conditions and detector parameters, over the frequency…

Antiferromagnetically doped topological insulators (A-TI) are among the candidates to host dynamical axion fields and axion-polaritons; weakly interacting quasiparticles that are analogous to the dark axion, a long sought after candidate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-25 David J. E. Marsh , Kin-Chung Fong , Erik W. Lentz , Libor Šmejkal , Mazhar N. Ali

The axion is a well-motivated cold dark matter (CDM) candidate first postulated to explain the absence of $CP$ violation in the strong interactions. CDM axions may be detected via their resonant conversion into photons in a "haloscope"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-04 Benjamin M. Brubaker

Axions, originally proposed to solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, emerge now as leading candidates of WISP dark matter. The rich phenomenology associated to the light and stable QCD axion can be described as an effective…

A dark photon, one of the candidates of light dark matter, will be searched around 0.1 meV range by using a gyrotron. The use of a Transition Edge Sensor is the key of this experiment and the expected result is promising. This search will…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-08-24 A. Miyazaki , P. Spagnolo

Dielectric structures can support low-absorption optical modes, which are attractive for engineering light-matter interactions with excitonic resonances in two-dimensional (2D) materials. However, the coupling strength is often limited by…

We consider resonant wave-like dark matter conversion into low-frequency radio waves in the Earth's ionosphere. Resonant conversion occurs when the dark matter mass and the plasma frequency coincide, defining a range $m_{ \text{DM} } \sim…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Carl Beadle , Andrea Caputo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

We present the first results from the Quantum Resolution-Optimized Cryogenic Observatory for Dark matter Incident at Low Energy (QROCODILE). The QROCODILE experiment uses a microwire-based superconducting nanowire single-photon detector…

Dark photon is one of the promising candidates of light dark matter and could be detected by using its interaction with standard model particles via kinetic mixings. Here, we propose a feasible approach to detect the dark photons by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Suirong He , De He , Yufen Li , Li Gao , Xianing Feng , Hao Zheng , L. F. Wei

Several models of dark matter suggest the existence of dark sectors consisting of SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y singlet fields. These sectors of particles do not interact with the ordinary matter directly but could couple to it via gravity. In…

Direction-sensitive WIMP dark matter searches may help overcome the challenges faced by direct dark matter detection experiments. In particular, directional detectors should be able to clearly differentiate a dark matter signal from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-02-04 Steven Ross

The dark photon is a well-motivated candidate of dark matter due to its potential to open the window of new physics beyond the Standard Model. A fundamental mass-range-sensitivity dilemma is always haunting the dark photon searching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-25 Runqi Kang , Qingqin Hu , Xiao Cai , Wenlong Yu , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

The cavity haloscope technique has been the most successful approach to date in searching for axion dark matter, owing to a confluence of factors at the GHz scale including the macroscopic size of the axion-to-photon converting cavity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-01-30 Erik W. Lentz , Christian R. Boutan , Matthew S. Taubman , Kevin L. Gervais