First Direct-Detection Constraints on eV-Scale Hidden-Photon Dark Matter with DAMIC at SNOLAB

Abstract

We present direct detection constraints on the absorption of hidden-photon dark matter with particle masses in the range 1.2-30 eV$c^{-2}$ with the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB. Under the assumption that the local dark matter is entirely constituted of hidden photons, the sensitivity to the kinetic mixing parameter $\kappa$ is competitive with constraints from solar emission, reaching a minimum value of 2.2$\times$$10^{-14}$ at 17 eV$c^{-2}$. These results are the most stringent direct detection constraints on hidden-photon dark matter in the galactic halo with masses 3-12 eV$c^{-2}$ and the first demonstration of direct experimental sensitivity to ionization signals $<$12 eV from dark matter interactions.

arXiv comment5 pages, 5 figures

References in corpus (11)

• WISPy Cold Dark Matter
• Dark Light, Dark Matter and the Misalignment Mechanism
• Bosonic super-WIMPs as keV-scale dark matter
• New stellar constraints on dark photons
• Direct Detection Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter
• Solar constraints on hidden photons re-visited
• Massive hidden photons as lukewarm dark matter
• Absorption of light dark matter in semiconductors
• Search for low-mass WIMPs in a 0.6 kg day exposure of the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB
• Experimental Search for Hidden Photon CDM in the eV mass range with a Dish Antenna
• Measurement of radioactive contamination in the high-resistivity silicon CCDs of the DAMIC experiment

Cited by in corpus (64)

• SENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper-CCD
• Dark matter direct-detection experiments
• The Dark Photon
• First Dark Matter Constraints from a SuperCDMS Single-Charge Sensitive Detector
• Feebly-Interacting Particles:FIPs 2020 Workshop Report
• Single-electron and single-photon sensitivity with a silicon Skipper CCD
• Relic Abundance of Dark Photon Dark Matter
• Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB
• SENSEI: Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Shallow Underground Run Using a Prototype Skipper-CCD
• SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Constraints on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Surface Run
• Detection of Light Dark Matter With Optical Phonons in Polar Materials
• Parametric Resonance Production of Ultralight Vector Dark Matter
• Detecting Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowires
• Direct Detection of Strongly Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter via Electron Recoils
• Searching for Dark Absorption with Direct Detection Experiments
• Directional Detection of Light Dark Matter with Polar Materials
• On the relation between Migdal effect and dark matter-electron scattering in isolated atoms and semiconductors
• Diamond Detectors for Direct Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter
• Results on Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from an 11 kg-day Target Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB
• Solar Neutrinos as a Signal and Background in Direct-Detection Experiments Searching for Sub-GeV Dark Matter With Electron Recoils
• SiC Detectors for Sub-GeV Dark Matter
• A Path to the Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter Using Calorimetric Readout of a Superfluid ${}^4$He Target
• SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from SENSEI at SNOLAB
• Searches for light dark matter using condensed matter systems
• Impact of Resonance on Thermal Targets for Invisible Dark Photon Searches
• Sources of Low-Energy Events in Low-Threshold Dark Matter and Neutrino Detectors
• The Dark $L_{\mu }-L_{\tau }$ Rises via Kinetic Mixing
• DAMIC-M Experiment: Thick, Silicon CCDs to search for Light Dark Matter
• The Dark Side of Flipped Trinification
• MeV Dark Matter Complementarity and the Dark Photon Portal
• Stellar probes of dark sector-photon interactions
• Direct Detection of Dark Matter -- APPEC Committee Report
• EXCEED-DM: Extended Calculation of Electronic Excitations for Direct Detection of Dark Matter
• Plasmon production from dark matter scattering
• Dark Photons in the Solar Basin
• Review on dark matter searches
• Probing Benchmark Models of Hidden-Sector Dark Matter with DAMIC-M
• Charge collection efficiency in back-illuminated Charge-Coupled Devices
• Cosmogenic activation of silicon
• Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a CCD dark matter detector
• Constraints on Dark Matter-Electron Scattering from Molecular Cloud Ionization
• Searching for High Frequency Gravitational Waves with Phonons
• Effective Field Theory for Dark Matter Absorption on Single Phonons
• Dark Matter Direct Detection with Quantum Dots
• Absorption of Axion Dark Matter in a Magnetized Medium
• A Helioscope for Gravitationally Bound Millicharged Particles
• Stealth decaying spin-1 dark matter
• The Impact of the Charge Barrier Height on Germanium (Ge) Detectors with Amorphous-Ge Contacts for Light Dark Matter Searches
• Description of the evolution of inhomogeneities on a Dark Matter halo with the Vlasov equation
• On the Role of Neutrinos Telescopes in the Search for Dark Matter Annihilations in the Sun
• Absorption of Vector Dark Matter Beyond Kinetic Mixing
• A closer look at the $pp$-chain reaction in the Sun: Constraining the coupling of light mediators to protons
• Probing ultra-light dark photon from inverse Compton-like scattering
• Low-Energy Backgrounds in Solid-State Phonon and Charge Detectors
• Ultra light Thomas-Fermi Dark Matter
• Effect on Dark Matter Exclusion Limits from New Silicon Photoelectric Absorption Measurements
• MeV neutrino dark matter: Relic density, lepton flavour violation and electron recoil
• Characterization of the phonon sensor of the CRYOSEL detector with IR photons
• The role of small scale experiments in the direct detection of dark matter
• Tagging and localisation of ionizing events using NbSi transition edge phonon sensors for Dark Matter searches
• Adiabatic Conversion of ALPs into Dark Photon Dark Matter
• The Skipper CCD for low-energy threshold particle experiments above ground
• Impact of the vector dark matter on polarization of the CMB photon
• Sub-GeV Dark Matter Searches with EDELWEISS: New results and prospects