Search for dark matter in the hidden-photon sector with a large spherical mirror

Autor:	Experiment, The FUNK, Veberič, Darko, Daumiller, Kai, Döbrich, Babette, Engel, Ralph, Jaeckel, Joerg, Kowalski, Marek, Lindner, Axel, Mathes, Hermann-Josef, Redondo, Javier, Roth, Markus, Schäfer, Christoph M., Ulrich, Ralf
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Zdroj:	PoS(ICRC2015)1191
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	If dark matter consists of hidden-sector photons which kinetically mix with regular photons, a tiny oscillating electric-field component is present wherever we have dark matter. In the surface of conducting materials this induces a small probability to emit single photons almost perpendicular to the surface, with the corresponding photon frequency matching the mass of the hidden photons. We report on a construction of an experimental setup with a large ~14 m2 spherical metallic mirror that will allow for searches of hidden-photon dark matter in the eV and sub-eV range by application of different electromagnetic radiation detectors. We discuss sensitivity and accessible regions in the dark matter parameter space. Comment: 9 pages, proceeding of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), July 30 - August 6, 2015, The Hague, The Netherlands
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02386 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv