Search for Dark Photons with Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities

Romanenko, Alexander; Harnik, Roni; Pilipenko, Roman; Pischalnikov, Yuriy; Liu, Zhen; Melnychuk, Oleksandr; Giaccone, Bianca; Pronitchev, Oleg; Khabiboulline, T.; Frolov, Daniil; Posen, S.; Belomestnykh, S.; Berlin, Asher; Hook, Anson

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.130.261801

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“…Similar limits with superconducting resonators are indicated as darkSRF. [42] ALPS [43] shows the previous limit of laser LSW while ALPSIIb [44] is a predicted limit from the upgraded experiment on-going at DESY with infrared lasers and 100 m resonators. Importantly, even a low-power experiment in Stage A can address the region complementary to the [37,38] Stages A, B, and C show low-power search, high-power search, and single photon search, respectively.…”

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Millimeter‐Wave WISP Search with Coherent Light‐Shining‐Through‐a‐Wall Toward the STAX Project

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A dark photon is one of the simplest extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics and can be a dark matter candidate. Dark photons kinetically mix with ordinary photons. The mass range from 10−4 to 10−3 eV of such dark photons is underconstrained by laboratory‐based experiments and a new search is therefore motivated. In this mass range, dark photons behave like waves rather than particles and the corresponding electromagnetic waves are in the millimeter‐wave range. The technical difficulties of the millimeter waves have prevented so far dark photon experiments in this mass range. The use of coherent millimeter waves to search for dark photons in a Light‐Shining‐through‐a‐Wall (LSW) experiment is proposed. The merits and limitations of coherent wave detection are clarified and the potential of single photon sensors at microwaves is investigated. Development of millimeter‐wave technology is not only limited to dark photons. Technically, an experiment for dark photons by using electromagnetic waves resembles that for axions, another light dark matter candidate, with static magnetic fields. This paper represents an essential step toward axion LSW in the millimeter‐wave range (Sub‐THz‐AXion experiment; STAX) as a potential successor of an on‐going experiment in infrared.

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Millimeter‐Wave WISP Search with Coherent Light‐Shining‐Through‐a‐Wall Toward the STAX Project

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“…A wider view of the 100 MHz–10 GHz landscape of dark photon kinetic mixing limits, as they relate to the ORGAN Phase 1a limits (top right of plot). Green colors are used for limits which are set by dedicated searches for dark photons specifically, [ 70,77–83 ] while red colors are for re‐casted axion limits. [ 36,38,40–42,47,49,84–96 ] We assume the fixed‐polarization scenario throughout in this case, and rescale limits to the same common assumed dark matter density of 0.45 GeV cm −3 .…”

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Limits on Dark Photons, Scalars, and Axion‐Electromagnetodynamics with the ORGAN Experiment

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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 form of a cryogenic resonant cavity embedded in a strong magnetic field. ORGAN recently completed Phase 1a, a scan for axions ≈65 µeV, and placed the most stringent limits to date on the dark matter axion–photon coupling in this region, . It has been shown that axion haloscopes such as ORGAN are automatically sensitive to other kinds of dark matter candidates, such as dark photons, scalar field/dilaton dark matter, and exotic axion–electromagnetic couplings motivated by quantum electromagnetodynamics. The exclusion limits placed on these various dark matter candidates are computed by ORGAN 1a, and sensitivity for some future ORGAN phases are projected. In particular, the dark photon limits are the most sensitive to date in some regions of the parameter space.

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“…em = 30MV/m, T = 4 K, and t ≃ 1 year. We also show current experimental regions that have been already ruled out by Dark-SRF Pathfinder [36], CROWS [37], and XENON1T [50], these bounds were adapted from Ref. [46] In Fig.…”

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“…For completeness, it is worth noticing that a dark photons for the sufficiently small masses below ≲ 1 eV have been probed with the SM photon regeneration facilities such as DarkSRF [36], CROWS [37], ADMX [38], and microwave cavity experiment [39]. The latter facilities are referred to light-shining-through-wall (LSW) experiments.…”

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The Search for the Axion-Like Particles with Two Radio-Frequency Cavities

2022

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We address the radio frequency (RF) cavity experiment for probing dark photons which is a modification of the light-shining-through-thin-wall (LSthinW) setup with a relatively thin conducting barrier between cylindrical emitter and hollow receiver. The regarding experimental facility allows to probe dark photons effectively even in the off-shell regime, i. e. when dark photons mass exceeds the driven frequency of the emitter cavity, that is pumped by electromagnetic mode. We compare the sensitivity of two concrete setup configurations: two cylindrical cavities placed to each other by an end-caps, and nested geometry of the cavities in which the cylindrical receiver is encapsulated into the emitter. We show that for a certain range of dark photon mass the nested configuration can provide an enhanced sensitivity if one compares that with a separated emitter setup.

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Search for Dark Photons with Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavities

Cited by 21 publications

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Millimeter‐Wave WISP Search with Coherent Light‐Shining‐Through‐a‐Wall Toward the STAX Project

Millimeter‐Wave WISP Search with Coherent Light‐Shining‐Through‐a‐Wall Toward the STAX Project

Limits on Dark Photons, Scalars, and Axion‐Electromagnetodynamics with the ORGAN Experiment

The Search for the Axion-Like Particles with Two Radio-Frequency Cavities

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