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New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope

Jeff Chiles, Ilya Charaev, Robert Lasenby, Masha Baryakhtar, Junwu Huang, Alexana Roshko, George Burton, Marco Colangelo, Ken Van Tilburg, Asimina Arvanitaki, Sae Woo Nam, and Karl K. Berggren
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231802 – Published 10 June 2022
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Abstract

Uncovering the nature of dark matter is one of the most important goals of particle physics. Light bosonic particles, such as the dark photon, are well-motivated candidates: they are generally long-lived, weakly interacting, and naturally produced in the early universe. In this work, we report on Light A Multilayer Periodic Optical SNSPD Target, a proof-of-concept experiment searching for dark photon dark matter in the eV mass range, via coherent absorption in a multilayer dielectric haloscope. Using a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), we achieve efficient photon detection with a dark count rate of 6×106counts/s. We find no evidence for dark photon dark matter in the mass range of 0.70.8eV with kinetic mixing ε1012, improving existing limits in ε by up to a factor of 2. With future improvements to SNSPDs, our architecture could probe significant new parameter space for dark photon and axion dark matter in the meV to 10 eV mass range.

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  • Received 22 October 2021
  • Revised 29 April 2022
  • Accepted 13 May 2022
  • Corrected 22 December 2022
  • Corrected 29 September 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.231802

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Particles & Fields

Corrections

29 September 2022

Correction: Reference [53] and its citation in the penultimate paragraph were missing and have been inserted.

22 December 2022

Second Correction: A missing support statement has been added to the Acknowledgments section.

Authors & Affiliations

Jeff Chiles1,*,‡, Ilya Charaev2,3,†,‡, Robert Lasenby4, Masha Baryakhtar5, Junwu Huang6, Alexana Roshko1, George Burton1, Marco Colangelo2, Ken Van Tilburg7,8, Asimina Arvanitaki6, Sae Woo Nam1, and Karl K. Berggren2

  • 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
  • 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 3University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
  • 4Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
  • 6Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 7New York University CCPP, New York, New York 10003, United States
  • 8Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, New York, New York 10010, USA

  • *jeffrey.chiles@nist.gov
  • charaev@mit.edu.
  • These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Vol. 128, Iss. 23 — 10 June 2022

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