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Dark photon constraints from a 7.139 GHz cavity haloscope experiment

Dong He¹, Jie Fan², Xin Gao³, Yu Gao⁴, Nick Houston ⁵, Zhongqing Ji⁵, Yirong Jin⁶, Chuang Li⁷, Jinmian Li³ et al. (APEX Collaboration)

Jinmian Li³, Tianjun Li^8,9, Shi-hang Liu¹, Jia-Shu Niu¹⁰, Zhihui Peng¹, Liang Sun², Zheng Sun³, Jia Wang², Puxian Wei¹¹, Lina Wu¹², Zhongchen Xiang², Qiaoli Yang¹¹, Chi Zhang², Wenxing Zhang¹³, Xin Zhang^14,15, Dongning Zheng², Ruifeng Zheng¹¹, and Jian-yong Zhou¹ (APEX Collaboration)

¹Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Department of Physics and Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China
²Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
³College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
⁴Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
⁵Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
⁶Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
⁷College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wuyi University, Nanping 354300, China
⁸CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
⁹School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
¹⁰Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
¹¹College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
¹²School of Sciences, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, P. R. China
¹³Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China
¹⁴National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20A, Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China
¹⁵School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Phys. Rev. D 110, L021101 – Published 16 July, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.L021101

Abstract

The dark photon is a promising candidate for the dark matter which comprises most of the matter in our visible Universe. Via kinetic mixing with the Standard Model it can also be resonantly converted to photons in an electromagnetic cavity, offering novel experimental possibilities for the discovery and study of dark matter. We report the results of a pathfinder dark photon dark matter cavity search experiment performed at Hunan Normal University and the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, representing the first stage of the Axion and dark Photon EXperiment program. Finding no statistically significant excess, we place an upper limit on the kinetic mixing parameter $| χ | < 3.7 \times 10^{- 13}$ around $m_{A} ≃ 29.5 μ eV$ at 90% confidence level. This result exceeds other constraints on dark photon dark matter in this frequency range by roughly an order of magnitude.

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Phys. Rev. D 110, L021101– Published 16 July, 2024

Vol. 110, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2024

Received 14 April 2024
Accepted 5 June 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.L021101

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