Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments
Abstract
We consider the absorption by bound electrons of dark matter in the form of dark photons and axion-like particles, as well as of dark photons from the Sun, in current and next-generation direct detection experiments. Experiments sensitive to electron recoils can detect such particles with masses between a few eV to more than 10 keV. For dark photon dark matter, we update a previous bound based on XENON10 data and derive new bounds based on data from XENON100 and CDMSlite. We find these experiments to disfavor previously allowed parameter space. Moreover, we derive sensitivity projections for SuperCDMS at SNOLAB for silicon and germanium targets, as well as for various possible experiments with scintillating targets (cesium iodide, sodium iodide, and gallium arsenide). The projected sensitivity can probe large new regions of parameter space. For axion-like particles, the same current direction detection data improves on previously known direct-detection constraints but does not bound new parameter space beyond known stellar cooling bounds. However, projected sensitivities of the upcoming SuperCDMS SNOLAB using germanium can go beyond these and even probe parameter space consistent with possible hints from the white dwarf luminosity function. We find similar results for dark photons from the sun. For allmore »
- Authors:
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- Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv (Israel). Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy
- Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Tel Aviv Univ., Tel Aviv (Israel). Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy ; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1426146
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008061
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2017; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Dark matter; Dark matter and Double Beta Decay (experiments)
Citation Formats
Bloch, Itay M., Essig, Rouven, Tobioka, Kohsaku, Volansky, Tomer, and Yu, Tien-Tien. Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2017)087.
Bloch, Itay M., Essig, Rouven, Tobioka, Kohsaku, Volansky, Tomer, & Yu, Tien-Tien. Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)087
Bloch, Itay M., Essig, Rouven, Tobioka, Kohsaku, Volansky, Tomer, and Yu, Tien-Tien. Fri .
"Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)087. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1426146.
@article{osti_1426146,
title = {Searching for dark absorption with direct detection experiments},
author = {Bloch, Itay M. and Essig, Rouven and Tobioka, Kohsaku and Volansky, Tomer and Yu, Tien-Tien},
abstractNote = {We consider the absorption by bound electrons of dark matter in the form of dark photons and axion-like particles, as well as of dark photons from the Sun, in current and next-generation direct detection experiments. Experiments sensitive to electron recoils can detect such particles with masses between a few eV to more than 10 keV. For dark photon dark matter, we update a previous bound based on XENON10 data and derive new bounds based on data from XENON100 and CDMSlite. We find these experiments to disfavor previously allowed parameter space. Moreover, we derive sensitivity projections for SuperCDMS at SNOLAB for silicon and germanium targets, as well as for various possible experiments with scintillating targets (cesium iodide, sodium iodide, and gallium arsenide). The projected sensitivity can probe large new regions of parameter space. For axion-like particles, the same current direction detection data improves on previously known direct-detection constraints but does not bound new parameter space beyond known stellar cooling bounds. However, projected sensitivities of the upcoming SuperCDMS SNOLAB using germanium can go beyond these and even probe parameter space consistent with possible hints from the white dwarf luminosity function. We find similar results for dark photons from the sun. For all cases, direct-detection experiments can have unprecedented sensitivity to dark-sector particles.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP06(2017)087},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 2017,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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