Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter
Abstract
Dark 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 0.01–100KeV 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 Ο(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. As a result, 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.
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- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1198549
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1455205
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011632
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physics Letters. B
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Journal Volume: 747 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
An, Haipeng, Pospelov, Maxim, Pradler, Josef, and Ritz, Adam. Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter. Netherlands: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018.
An, Haipeng, Pospelov, Maxim, Pradler, Josef, & Ritz, Adam. Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018
An, Haipeng, Pospelov, Maxim, Pradler, Josef, and Ritz, Adam. Wed .
"Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018.
@article{osti_1198549,
title = {Direct detection constraints on dark photon dark matter},
author = {An, Haipeng and Pospelov, Maxim and Pradler, Josef and Ritz, Adam},
abstractNote = {Dark 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 0.01–100KeV 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 Ο(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. As a result, 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.},
doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018},
journal = {Physics Letters. B},
number = C,
volume = 747,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.018
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