WISP Dark Matter eXperiment and Prospects for Broadband Dark Matter Searches in the $1\,\mu$eV--$10\,$meV Mass Range
Abstract
Light cold dark matter consisting of weakly interacting slim (or sub-eV) particles (WISPs) has been in the focus of a large number of studies made over the past two decades. The QCD axion and axion-like particles with masses in the $0.1\,\mu$eV--$100\,$meV are strong candidates for the dark matter particle, together with hidden photons with masses below $\lesssim 100\,$meV. This motivates several new initiatives in the field, including the WISP Dark Matter eXperiment (WISPDMX) and novel conceptual approaches for broad-band WISP searches using radiometry measurements in large volume chambers. First results and future prospects for these experiments are discussed in this contribution.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2014
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1410.6302
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1410.6302
- Bibcode:
- 2014arXiv1410.6302H
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Experiment;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
- E-Print:
- Proceedings of the 10th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs, and WISPs