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

Chiles, Jeff; Charaev, Ilya; Lasenby, Robert; Baryakhtar, Masha; Huang, Junwu; Roshko, Alexana; Burton, George; Colangelo, Marco; Van Tilburg, Ken; Arvanitaki, Asimina; Nam, Sae Woo; Berggren, Karl K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.231802

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

Journal Article · Fri Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.231802· OSTI ID:1871857

Chiles, Jeff;

; Lasenby, Robert;

;

; Roshko, Alexana;

;

; Arvanitaki, Asimina; Nam, Sae Woo; Berggren, Karl K.

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 × 10^-6 counts/s. We find no evidence for dark photon dark matter in the mass range of ~ 0.7–0.8 eV with kinetic mixing ε ≳ 10^-12, 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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Research Organization:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; SC0019129; SC0022348

OSTI ID:: 1871857

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1980291

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Vol. 128 Journal Issue: 23; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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