Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter

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dc.contributor.authorAn, Haipeng
dc.contributor.authorPospelov, Maxim
dc.contributor.authorPradler, Josef
dc.contributor.authorRitz, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-22T16:16:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-22T16:16:43Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractDark 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 minimal model of dark matter comprised of long-lived vector states V (dark photons) in the 0.01−100 keV mass range. The absence of an ionization signal in direct detection experiments such as XENON10 and XENON100 places a very strong constraint on the dark photon mixing angle, down to O(10 −15), assuming that dark photons comprise the dominant fraction of dark matter. This sensitivity to dark photon dark matter exceeds the indirect bounds derived from stellar energy loss considerations over a significant fraction of the available mass range. We also revisit indirect constraints from V → 3γ decay and show that limits from modifications to the cosmological ionization history are comparable to the updated limits from the diffuse γ-ray flux.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHA is supported by the Walter Burke Institute at Caltech and by DOE Grant DE-SC0011632. The work of MP and AR is supported in part by NSERC, Canada, and research at the Perimeter Institute is supported in part by the Government of Canada through NSERC and by the Province of Ontario through MEDT. JP is supported by the New Frontiers program of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAn, H., Pospelov, M., Pradler, J. & Ritz, A. (2015). Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter. Physics Letters B, 747, 331-338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/9388
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPhysics Letters Ben_US
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleDirect detection constraints on dark photon dark matteren_US
dc.typePostprinten_US

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