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Dark-photon search using data from CRESST-II Phase 2

Abstract:
Identifying the nature and origin of dark matter is one of the major challenges for modern astro and particle physics. Direct dark-matter searches aim at an observation of dark-matter particles interacting within detectors. The focus of several such searches is on interactions with nuclei as provided e.g. byWeakly Interacting Massive Particles. However, there is a variety of dark-matter candidates favoring interactions with electrons rather than with nuclei. One example are dark photons, i.e., long-lived vector particles with a kinetic mixing to standard-model photons. In this work we present constraints on this kinetic mixing based on data from CRESST-II Phase 2 corresponding to an exposure before cuts of 52 kg-days. These constraints improve the existing ones for dark-photon masses between 0.3 and 0.7 keV/c2.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4878-6

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Publisher:
Springer
Journal:
European Physical Journal C More from this journal
Volume:
77
Issue:
5
Pages:
299
Publication date:
2017-05-01
Acceptance date:
2017-04-29
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EISSN:
1434-6052
ISSN:
1434-6044


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pubs:696709
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uuid:1af7f4ff-b43f-44e7-a0e3-c374c32a1c45
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696709
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2017-05-22

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