First Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter with a madmax Prototype
We report the first result from a dark photon dark matter search in the mass range from 78.62 to 83.95 μeV/c^{2} with a dielectric haloscope prototype for madmax (Magnetized Disc and Mirror Axion eXperiment). Putative dark photons would convert to detectable photons within a stack consisting of three sapphire disks and a mirror. The emitted power of this system is received by an antenna and successively digitized using a low-noise receiver. No significant signal attributable to dark photons has been observed above the expected background. Assuming unpolarized dark photon dark matter with a local density of ρ_{χ}=0.3 GeV cm^{3} we exclude a dark photon to photon mixing parameter χ>2.7×10^{-12} over the full mass range and χ>1.1×10^{-13} at a mass of 80.57 μeV/c^{2} with a 95% confidence level. This is the first physics result from a madmax prototype and exceeds previous constraints on χ in this mass range by up to almost three orders of magnitude.
Authors
- S. Knirck (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5714-4545)
- C. Diaconu
- Vipul Dabhi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9479-8943)
- Leandro Stefanazzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-1981)
- D. Kreikemeyer-Lorenzo
- E. Öz
- G. Raffelt
- D. Bergermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-6289)
- J. Egge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2852-3447)
- J. Redondo
- E. Garutti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0634-5539)
- M. Kramer
- Gia Dvali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6252-3411)
- Gabe Hoshino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4864-3104)
- J. Schaffran
- A. Martini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1161-4983)
- A. Ringwald
- Johannes Diehl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9408-7116)
- C. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1605-2273)
- C. Krieger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5647-2117)
- F. Steffen
- P. Pralavorio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2452-6715)
- J. Jochum
- G. Wieching (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-1840)
- Norhan A. Salama
- A. Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2711-8984)
- S. Martens
- S. Heyminck
- I. Usherov
- C. Strandhagen
- Gustavo Cancelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6926-4010)
- A. Lindner
- A. Caldwell
- D. Leppla-Weber
- Hua Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4952-5505)
- Akira Miyazaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-128X)
- Martın Di Federico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9873-2597)
- S. Roset
- P. Karst
- F. Gallo
- Béla Majorovits (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0409-2785)
- A. Ivanov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9270-5643)
- M. Ekmedžić
- Janet L. Maldonado
- B. Ary dos Santos Garcia
- Fabrice Hubaut (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0113-2465)
Institutions
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Physics (DE)
- Centre de physique des particules de Marseille (FR)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (FR)
- Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (FR)
- Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (DE)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-04-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.151004
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 20.57
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Gobierno de Aragón
- Office of Science
- European Regional Development Fund
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- High Energy Physics
- Fermilab