Detecting ultralight bosonic dark matter via absorption in superconductors
Abstract
Superconducting targets have recently been proposed for the direct detection of dark matter as light as a keV, via elastic scattering off conduction electrons in Cooper pairs. Detecting such light dark matter requires sensitivity to energies as small as the superconducting gap of O(meV). Here we show that these same superconducting devices can detect much lighter DM, of meV to eV mass, via dark matter absorption on a conduction electron, followed by emission of an athermal phonon. Lastly, we demonstrate the power of this setup for relic kinetically mixed hidden photons, pseudoscalars, and scalars, showing that the reach can exceed current astrophysical and terrestrial constraints with only a moderate exposure.
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1430672
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1263721
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 94; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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Hochberg, Yonit, Lin, Tongyan, and Zurek, Kathryn M. Detecting ultralight bosonic dark matter via absorption in superconductors. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.015019.
Hochberg, Yonit, Lin, Tongyan, & Zurek, Kathryn M. Detecting ultralight bosonic dark matter via absorption in superconductors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.015019
Hochberg, Yonit, Lin, Tongyan, and Zurek, Kathryn M. Mon .
"Detecting ultralight bosonic dark matter via absorption in superconductors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.015019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1430672.
@article{osti_1430672,
title = {Detecting ultralight bosonic dark matter via absorption in superconductors},
author = {Hochberg, Yonit and Lin, Tongyan and Zurek, Kathryn M.},
abstractNote = {Superconducting targets have recently been proposed for the direct detection of dark matter as light as a keV, via elastic scattering off conduction electrons in Cooper pairs. Detecting such light dark matter requires sensitivity to energies as small as the superconducting gap of O(meV). Here we show that these same superconducting devices can detect much lighter DM, of meV to eV mass, via dark matter absorption on a conduction electron, followed by emission of an athermal phonon. Lastly, we demonstrate the power of this setup for relic kinetically mixed hidden photons, pseudoscalars, and scalars, showing that the reach can exceed current astrophysical and terrestrial constraints with only a moderate exposure.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.94.015019},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 1,
volume = 94,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jul 18 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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