Hidden Photon Dark Matter Search with a Large Metallic Mirror
Abstract
If Dark Matter is composed of hidden-sector photons that kinetically mix with photons of the visible sector, then Dark Matter has a tiny oscillating electric field component. Its presence would lead to a small amount of visible radiation being emitted from a conducting surface, with the photon frequency given approximately by the mass of the hidden photon. Here, we report on experimental efforts that have started recently to search for such hidden photon Dark Matter in the (sub-)eV regime with a prototype mirror for the Auger fluorescence detector at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2014
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1410.0200
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1410.0200
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1410.0200D
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures. Contributed to the 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs at CERN, June 29 to July 4, 2014