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

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 118, Issue 14, Pages -

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.141803

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Funding

  1. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago [NSF PHY-1125897, PHY-1506208]
  2. Kavli Foundation
  3. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
  4. Institut Lagrange de Paris Laboratoire d'Excellence - French state [ANR-10-LABX-63, ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02]
  5. Swiss National Science Foundation [200021_ 153654]
  6. Swiss Canton of Zurich
  7. Mexico's Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia [240666]
  8. Direccion General de Asuntos del Personal Academico-Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica Grants) [IB100413, IN112213]
  9. Brazil Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior
  10. Brazil Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
  11. Brazil Fundacco de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro
  12. Canada Foundation for Innovation
  13. Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
  14. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [200021_153654] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
  15. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  16. Division Of Physics [1125897] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
  17. Division Of Physics
  18. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1506208] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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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. is competitive with constraints from solar emission, reaching a minimum value of 2.2 x 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.

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