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We present a novel way of probing non-gravitational dark matter interactions: dark astronomy, which leverages the dark radiation emitted by dissipative dark sectors. If the mediator of the dark matter self interactions is a dark photon with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , David Curtin

The axion is a hypothetical elementary particle and a cold dark matter candidate. It could dominate potential wells of most astrophysical objects. Axions spontaneously decay into nearly monochromatic microwave photons. We present results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. D. Blout , E. J. Daw , M. P. Decowski , Paul T. P. Ho , L. J Rosenberg , D. B. Yu

If Dark Matter is composed of hidden-sector photons that kinetically mix with photons of the visible sector, then Dark Matter has a tiny oscillating electric field component. Its presence would lead to a small amount of visible radiation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-10-02 Babette Döbrich , Kai Daumiller , Ralph Engel , Marek Kowalski , Axel Lindner , Javier Redondo , Markus Roth

Dark photon is a massive vector particle which couples to the physical photon through the kinetic mixing term. Such particles, if exist, are produced in photon beams and, in particular, in laser radiation. Due to the oscillations between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov , H. B. Tran Tan

We search for indirect signals of $\mathscr{O}$(keV) dark matter annihilating or decaying into $\mathscr{O}$(eV) dark photons. These dark photons will be highly boosted and have decay lengths larger than the Milky Way, and can be absorbed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Michael L. Graesser , R. Andrew Gustafson , Kate Hildebrandt , Varun Mathur , Ian M. Shoemaker

Dark photons have been considered potential candidates for dark matter. The dark photon dark matter (DPDM) has a mass and interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing with a coupling constant of $\chi$. Thus, DPDMs are converted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-29 S. Adachi , F. Fujinaka , S. Honda , Y. Muto , H. Nakata , Y. Sueno , T. Sumida , J. Suzuki , O. Tajima , H. Takeuchi

Ultralight dark photon dark matter features distinctive cosmological and astrophysical signatures and is also supported by a burgeoning direct-detection program searching for its kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon over a wide mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 David Cyncynates , Zachary J. Weiner

The search for dark matter and physics beyond the Standard Model has grown to encompass a highly interdisciplinary approach. In this review, we survey recent searches for light, weakly-coupled particles - axions and dark photons - over the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-13 Asher Berlin , Yonatan Kahn

An attractive way to generate neutrino masses as required to account for current neutrino oscillation data involves the spontaneous breaking of lepton number. The resulting majoron may pick up a mass due to gravity. If its mass lies in the…

Dark matter may be charged under dark electromagnetism with a dark photon that kinetically mixes with the Standard Model photon. In this framework, dark matter will collect at the center of the Earth and annihilate into dark photons, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Jonathan L. Feng , Jordan Smolinsky , Philip Tanedo

The dark photon has been postulated as a potential constituent of dark matter, exhibiting notable similarities to the axion. The primary distinction between the two particles lies in the nature of their respective fields: the dark photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-15 Jose R. Navarro-Madrid , José Reina-Valero , Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo , Benito Gimeno

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…

The recently discovered 3.5 keV X-ray line from extragalactic sources may be evidence of dark matter scatterings or decays. We show that dark atoms can be the source of the emission, through their hyperfine transitions, which would be the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-28 James M. Cline , Yasaman Farzan , Zuowei Liu , Guy D. Moore , Wei Xue

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

The dark photon is a new gauge boson that naturally arises in many beyond the Standard Model theoretical models, featuring interactions that resemble quantum electrodynamics. Due to this feature, it is often considered the portal between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 L. Angel , G. Casse , G. Gambini , A. S. de Jesus , V. Kozhuharov , A. Machado , F. S. Queiroz , E. Segreto , J. Smirnov

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

Despite the great success of the Standard Model of particle physics the nature of Dark Matter still remains unclear. Recently, the idea of the existence of a hidden sector coupling only weakly with the ordinary matter was revitalized and…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-10-17 V. Kozhuharov , M. Raggi , P. Valente

Dark photons are well motivated hypothetical dark sector particles that could account for observations that cannot be explained by the standard model of particle physics. A search for dark photons that are produced by an electron beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-16 Seon-Hee Seo , Yeongduk Kim

The ultralight dark photon is one of intriguing dark matter candidates. The interaction between the visible photon and dark photon is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge groups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Chang-Jie Dai , Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

Dark matter remains one of the most profound and unresolved mysteries in modern physics. To unravel its nature, numerous haloscope experiments have been implemented across various mass ranges. However, very few haloscope experiments…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Guoqing Wei , Diguang Wu , Runqi Kang , Qingning Jiang , Man Jiao , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du