Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment

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Hauptverfasser: Kalia, Saarik, Liu, Zhen, Giaccone, Bianca, Melnychuk, Oleksandr, Pilipenko, Roman, Berlin, Asher, Hook, Anson, Belomestnykh, Sergey, Contreras-Martinez, Crispin, Frolov, Daniil, Khabiboulline, Timergali, Pischalnikov, Yuriy, Posen, Sam, Pronitchev, Oleg, Yakovlev, Vyacheslav, Grassellino, Anna, Harnik, Roni, Romanenko, Alexander
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author Kalia, Saarik
Liu, Zhen
Giaccone, Bianca
Melnychuk, Oleksandr
Pilipenko, Roman
Berlin, Asher
Hook, Anson
Belomestnykh, Sergey
Contreras-Martinez, Crispin
Frolov, Daniil
Khabiboulline, Timergali
Pischalnikov, Yuriy
Posen, Sam
Pronitchev, Oleg
Yakovlev, Vyacheslav
Grassellino, Anna
Harnik, Roni
Romanenko, Alexander
author_facet Kalia, Saarik
Liu, Zhen
Giaccone, Bianca
Melnychuk, Oleksandr
Pilipenko, Roman
Berlin, Asher
Hook, Anson
Belomestnykh, Sergey
Contreras-Martinez, Crispin
Frolov, Daniil
Khabiboulline, Timergali
Pischalnikov, Yuriy
Posen, Sam
Pronitchev, Oleg
Yakovlev, Vyacheslav
Grassellino, Anna
Harnik, Roni
Romanenko, Alexander
contents We report the refined dark-photon exclusion bound from Dark SRF's pathfinder run. Our new result is driven by improved theoretical modeling of frequency instability in high-quality resonant experiments. Our analysis leads to a constraint that is an order of magnitude stronger than previously reported (corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio that is four orders of magnitude larger). This result represents the world-leading constraint on non-dark-matter dark photons over a wide range of masses below $6\,\rm μeV$ and translates to the best laboratory-based limit on the photon mass $m_γ<2.9\times 10^{-48}\,\rm g$.
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spellingShingle Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment
Kalia, Saarik
Liu, Zhen
Giaccone, Bianca
Melnychuk, Oleksandr
Pilipenko, Roman
Berlin, Asher
Hook, Anson
Belomestnykh, Sergey
Contreras-Martinez, Crispin
Frolov, Daniil
Khabiboulline, Timergali
Pischalnikov, Yuriy
Posen, Sam
Pronitchev, Oleg
Yakovlev, Vyacheslav
Grassellino, Anna
Harnik, Roni
Romanenko, Alexander
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We report the refined dark-photon exclusion bound from Dark SRF's pathfinder run. Our new result is driven by improved theoretical modeling of frequency instability in high-quality resonant experiments. Our analysis leads to a constraint that is an order of magnitude stronger than previously reported (corresponding to a signal-to-noise ratio that is four orders of magnitude larger). This result represents the world-leading constraint on non-dark-matter dark photons over a wide range of masses below $6\,\rm μeV$ and translates to the best laboratory-based limit on the photon mass $m_γ<2.9\times 10^{-48}\,\rm g$.
title Improved Dark Photon Sensitivity from the Dark SRF Experiment
topic High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02427