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We present a search for fundamental constant oscillations in the range $20$~kHz-$100$ MHz, that may arise within models for ultralight dark matter (UDM). Using two independent, significantly upgraded optical-spectroscopy apparatus, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Oleg Tretiak , Xue Zhang , Nataniel L. Figueroa , Dionysios Antypas , Andrea Brogna , Abhishek Banerjee , Gilad Perez , Dmitry Budker

Dark photons, hypothesized to be sufficiently light and/or weakly interacting, offer a compelling candidate for dark matter. Their decay into three photons, referred to as the "dark photon trident" process, becomes the dominant channel when…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Thong T. Q. Nguyen

We perform the first search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particle. A sub-millimeter permanent magnet is levitated in a superconducting trap with a measured force sensitivity of $0.2\,\mathrm{fN/\sqrt{Hz}}$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Dorian W. P. Amaral , Dennis G. Uitenbroek , Tjerk H. Oosterkamp , Christopher D. Tunnell

The dark (or hidden) photon is a massive U(1) gauge boson theorized as a dark force mediator and as a dark matter candidate. Dark photons can be detected with axion cavity haloscopes by probing for a power excess caused by the dark photon's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Sumita Ghosh , Liz Ruddy , Michael J. Jewell , Alexander F. Leder , Reina H. Maruyama

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

The dark photon, an new hypothetical light spin 1 field, constitutes a well-motivated dark matter candidate. It manifests as an oscillating electric field with a fixed direction, which can be observed in magnetometric records. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-27 G. Pignol , B. Clement , M. Guigue , D. Rebreyend , B. Voirin

This Letter reports results from a haloscope search for dark matter axions with masses between 2.66 and 2.81 $\mu$eV. The search excludes the range of axion-photon couplings predicted by plausible models of the invisible axion. This…

We present a novel approach to detect millicharged dark matter (mDM) by using a high-sensitivity magnetometer coupled with the resonant and broadband readout circuits. In the external magnetic field, the interaction between mDM and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-15 Yuanlin Gong , Hongliang Tian , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

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 report on the first results of the Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultralight Coherent darK matter (NASDUCK) collaboration. We search for the interactions of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with atomic spins using an earth-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Itay M. Bloch , Gil Ronen , Roy Shaham , Ori Katz , Tomer Volansky , Or Katz

We report new experimental results on the search for dark photons based on a near-quantum-limited haloscope equipped with a superconducting cavity. The loaded quality factor of the superconducting cavity is $6\times10^{5}$, so that the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-22 Runqi Kang , Man Jiao , Yu Tong , Yang Liu , Youpeng Zhong , Yi-Fu Cai , Jingwei Zhou , Xing Rong , Jiangfeng Du

Axions are a well-motivated dark matter candidate, with a host of experiments around the world searching for direct evidence of their existence. The ORGAN Experiment is a type of axion detector known as an axion haloscope, which takes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-08 Ben T. McAllister , Aaron Quiskamp , Ciaran O'Hare , Paul Altin , Eugene Ivanov , Maxim Goryachev , Michael Tobar

Measurements in the radio regime embrace a number of effective approaches for WISP searches, often covering unique or highly complementary ranges of the parameter space compared to those explored in other research domains. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-19 Dieter Horns , Axel Lindner , Andrei Lobanov , Andreas Ringwald

This paper presents the first search for dark matter axions with mass in the ranges 76.56 to 76.82 $\mu$eV and 79.31 to 79.53 $\mu$eV using a prototype setup for the MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment (MADMAX). The experimental…

We show the first results of a new cavity based haloscope searching for dark photons with masses around $34~\mu\text{eV}$. Dark photons are hypothetical vector particles and a compelling dark matter candidate. Having the same quantum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-08-17 Tim Schneemann , Kristof Schmieden , Matthias Schott

The nature of dark matter is unknown and calls for a systematical search. For axion dark matter, such a search relies on finding feeble random noise arising from the weak coupling between dark matter and microwave haloscopes. We model such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

Mirror dark matter, a hidden-sector counterpart to the Standard Model with identical particle content, could be detectable through photon-mirror-photon kinetic mixing $(\epsilon)$. We present new constraints from CDEX-10 low-energy recoil…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 M. Tousif Raza

We report on a search for dark matter axion conversion photons from the magnetosphere of the Galactic Center magnetar PSR J1745-2900 using spectra obtained from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array. No significant spectral features are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 Jeremy Darling

Ultralight axion-like particles can contribute to the dark matter near the Sun, leading to a distinct, stochastic signature in terrestrial experiments. We search for such particles through their neutron-spin coupling by re-analyzing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Junyi Lee , Mariangela Lisanti , William A. Terrano , Michael Romalis