Dark photon limits
These plots appeared in the paper Caputo et al. 2021 so if you use them for whatever reason, please cite this paper too
@article{Caputo:2021eaa,
author = "Caputo, Andrea and O'Hare, Ciaran A. J. and Millar, Alexander J. and Vitagliano, Edoardo",
title = "{Dark photon limits: a cookbook}",
eprint = "2105.04565",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ph",
reportNumber = "NORDITA-2021-036",
month = "5",
year = "2021"
}
Basic plot
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Haloscope closeup
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FIPs White paper version
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European particle physics strategy version
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Data files and references
Combined limits
- Combined DP haloscopes (without axion haloscopes): limit
- Combined DP haloscopes (rescaled from axion limit): limit
- photon-DP transitions: limit
- Stellar bounds: limit
Combined projections
- Combined DP LSW projections projection
- Combined DP haloscopes projections: limit
Tests of coulomb law/photon mass
- Atomic spectroscopy: limit, reference
- AFM limit, reference
- Cavendish-like experiments limit, reference
- Plimpton-Lawton experiment limit, reference
Light-shining through walls/Helioscopes
- Aharonov-Bohm: projection, reference
- ALPS: limit, reference
- ALPS-II: projection, reference
- CAST: limit, reference
- CROWS: limit, reference
- DarkSRF: limit, reference
- HINODE: limit, reference
- IAXO (Modified for longitudinal mode): limit, reference
- LSW-AMDX: limit, reference
- LSW-CERN: limit, reference
- LSW-SPring-8: limit, reference
- LSW-UWA: limit, reference
- SHIPS: limit, reference
- STAX: projection, reference
Experimental searches for DPDM
All files are true to their original sources, i.e. without any rescaling
- APEX: limit, reference
- ALPHA: projection, reference
- AMAILS: limit, reference
- BREAD: projection, reference
- BRASS-p: limit, reference
- DAMIC: limit, reference
- Dandelion: projection, reference
- DarkSide-50: limit, reference
- Dark E-field Pilot: limit, projection, reference
- Dark E-field (2024): limit, reference
- DM-Radio: limit, reference
- DM-Pathfinder: limit, reference
- DOSUE-RR (2022): limit, reference
- DOSUE-RR (2023): limit, reference
- FAST radio antenna: limit, reference
- FUNK: limit, reference
- GigaBREAD: limit, reference
- Hefei haloscope: limit, reference
- LAMPOST (limit): limit, reference
- LAMPOST (projection): projection, reference
- LOFAR (solar corona): limit, reference
- LZ: projection, reference
- MADMAX: projection, reference
- MADMAX: limit, reference
- MuDHI: limit, reference
- ORPHEUS: limit, reference
- QUALIPHIDE: limit, reference
- Quantum cyclotron: limit, reference
- SENSEI: limit, reference
- SHUKET: limit, reference
- SNIPE Hunt: limit, reference
- SQuAD (Superconducting Qubit): limit, reference
- SQMS: limit, reference
- SHANHE: limit, reference
- SUPAX: limit, reference
- SuperCDMS: limit, reference
- SuperCDMS: projection, reference
- SuperMAG (1 min): limit, reference1, reference2
- SuperMAG (1 sec): limit, reference
- Tokyo (Knirck et al.): limit, reference
- Tokyo (Suzuki et al.): limit, reference
- Tokyo (Tomita et al.): limit, reference
- WISPDMX: limit, reference
- WSi Nanowire: limit, reference
- Xenon100: limit, reference
- Xenon1T S2 only: limit, reference
- Xenon1T S1+S2: limit, reference
- XENON1T (DM, single electron): limit, reference
- XENON1T (Solar DPs, S2): limit, reference
- XENON1T (Solar DPs, single electron): limit, reference
- XENONnT: limit, reference
Updated Experimental searches for DPDM
These have been recast using the scheme detailed in arXiv:2105.04565 so they all assume the fixed polarisation scenario for the DP polarisation distribution around the Earth. They also all assume 0.45 GeV/cm^3 for the DM density and are defined as exclusion limits at 95% CL.
- ADMX 2009: limit
- ADMX 2018: limit
- ADMX 2019-1: limit
- ADMX 2019-2: limit
- ADMX 2021: limit
- ADMX 2024: limit
- ADMX Sidecar: limit
- ADMX SLIC: limit
- CAPP-1: limit
- CAPP-2: limit
- CAPP-3: limit
- CAPP-4: limit
- CAPP-5: limit
- CAPP-6: limit
- CAPP-7: limit
- CAPP-8: limit
- CAPP-MAX: limit
- CAST-CAPP: limit
- Dark E-field: limit
- DM Pathfinder: limit
- FUNK: limit
- HAYSTAC Phase I: limit
- HAYSTAC Phase II-a/b: limit
- HAYSTAC Phase II-c/d: limit
- ORGAN-1a: limit reference
- QUAX: limit
- QUAX2: limit
- QUAX3: limit
- QUAX4: limit
- QUAX5: limit
- SHUKET: limit
- SQuAD: limit
- Tokyo (Suzuki et al.): limit
- Tokyo (Knirck et al.): limit
- Tokyo (Tomita et al.): limit
- WISPDMX: limit
Reactor neutrinos
Astrophysical bounds
- Earth: limit, reference
- Crab Nebula gamma rays (2008, DP-photon oscillations): limit, reference
- Crab Nebula gamma rays (2020, photons scattering off DPDM): limit, reference
- Horizontal branch: limit, reference
- Globular clusters (R + R2 + TRGB): limit, reference
- Jupiter/Juno mission: limit, reference
- Neutron Star Cooling (Cas A + NS1987A): limit, reference
- Solar temperature/luminosity: limit, reference
- Solar luminosity (global fit): limit, reference
- Red giants: limit, reference
Cosmological bounds on (non-DM) Dark photons
- Complete COBE/FIRAS bound combined: limit
- COBE/FIRAS (Caputo et al.): limit, reference
- COBE/FIRAS (Witte et al.): limit, reference
- COBE/FIRAS Spectral distortions (Chluba et al.): limit, reference
- COBE/FIRAS Spectral distortions (Arsenadze et al.): limit, reference
- Planck + unWISE: limit, reference
Cosmological/Astrophysical bounds on Dark Photons as Dark Matter (DPDM)
- Arias et al.: limit, reference
- Blazars: limit, reference
- Witte et al. (homogeneous plasma): limit, reference
- Witte et al. (inhomogeneous plasma): limit, reference
- Caputo et al. (HeII reionisation): limit, reference
- Lyman-Alpha (Trost et al.): limit, reference
- Gas cloud heating: limit, reference
- ISM: limit, reference
- JWST: limit, reference
- LeoT: limit, reference
- Parker Solar Probe: limit, reference
- INTEGRAL: limit, reference1, reference2
Black hole superradiance
- Cardoso et al: reference