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Earth can act as a transducer to convert ultralight bosonic dark matter (axions and hidden photons) into an oscillating magnetic field with a characteristic pattern across its surface. Here we describe the first results of a dedicated…

We report direction detection constraints on the presence of hidden photon dark matter with masses between 20-30 ueV using a cryogenic emitter-receiver-amplifier spectroscopy setup designed as the first iteration of QUALIPHIDE (QUantum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Karthik Ramanathan , Nikita Klimovich , Ritoban Basu Thakur , Byeong Ho Eom , Henry G. LeDuc , Shibo Shu , Andrew D. Beyer , Peter K. Day

Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated relics that might compose the cosmological dark matter and source anomalous time-dependent magnetic fields. We report on terrestrial bounds from the Noble And Alkali Spin Detectors for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-26 Itay M. Bloch , Roy Shaham , Yonit Hochberg , Eric Kuflik , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

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

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

In dark matter axion searches, quantum uncertainty manifests as a fundamental noise source, limiting the measurement of the quadrature observables used for detection. We use vacuum squeezing to circumvent the quantum limit in a search for a…

Ultraprecise mechanical sensors offer an exciting avenue for testing new physics. While many of these sensors are tailored to detect inertial forces, magnetically levitated (Maglev) systems are particularly interesting, in that they are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Gerard Higgins , Saarik Kalia , Zhen Liu

Existence of dark matter indicates the presence of unknown fundamental laws of nature. Ultralight axion-like particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates, emerging naturally from theories of physics at ultrahigh energies. We report…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-01-11 Alexander V. Gramolin , Deniz Aybas , Dorian Johnson , Janos Adam , Alexander O. Sushkov

Detection mechanisms for low mass bosonic dark matter candidates, such the axion or hidden photon, leverage potential interactions with electromagnetic fields, whereby the dark matter (of unknown mass) on rare occasion converts into a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-04-14 Akash V. Dixit , Srivatsan Chakram , Kevin He , Ankur Agrawal , Ravi K. Naik , David I. Schuster , Aaron Chou

The dark photon is a new hypothetical gauge boson arising in extensions of the Standard Model, and constitutes a compelling dark matter candidate. As dark photon dark matter (DPDM), it can interact with electromagnetic fields via kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Júlia G. Mamprim , Aion Viana , Vitor de Souza

The origin of non-baryonic Dark Matter remains elusive despite ongoing sensitive searches for heavy, thermally produced dark matter particles. Recently, it has been shown, that non-thermally produced vector bosons (sometimes called hidden…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-10-09 Le Hoang Nguyen , Andrei Lobanov , Dieter Horns

"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

We search for the dark photon dark matter (DPDM) using a cryogenic millimeter-wave receiver. DPDM has a kinetic coupling with electromagnetic fields with a coupling constant of $\chi$, and is converted into ordinary photons at the surface…

Dark photon is a new gauge boson beyond the Standard Model as a kind of dark matter (DM) candidate. Dark photon dark matter (DPDM) interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing, implicating an approach to give a constraint with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Tian-Ci Liu , Ming-Xuan Lu , Xiao-Song Hu

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 demonstrate that nuclear magnetic resonance based searches for dark matter (DM) have intrinsic and powerful sensitivity to dark photons and the axion-photon coupling. The reason is conceptually straightforward. An instrument such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-23 Carl Beadle , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Jacob M. Leedom , Nicholas L. Rodd

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…

We propose detecting dark photons (DP), a major candidate for wave dark matter, through polarimetry. The DP can modify Maxwell's equations due to its kinetic mixing with regular photons, inducing an oscillating component in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Fiesta Ting Yan Leung , Tao Liu , Sida Lu , Jing Ren , Cheuk Kan Kelvin Yue , Kaifeng Zheng

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

We establish new experiments to search for dark matter based on a model of a light scalar field with a dilaton-like coupling to the electromagnetic field, which is strongly motivated by superstring theory. We estimate the power of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-06 V. V. Flambaum , B. T. McAllister , I. B. Samsonov , M. E. Tobar