22–26 Apr 2024
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Europe/Zurich timezone

Riding the dark matter wave: Novel limits on general dark photons from LISA Pathfinder

22 Apr 2024, 15:18
3m
Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Saupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany
Lightning Talk + Poster Afternoon Session

Speaker

Jonas Frerick

Description

I demonstrate the possibility to perform a parametrically improved search for gauged baryon ($B$) and baryon minus lepton ($B-L$) Dark Photon Dark Matter (DPDM) using auxiliary channel data from LISA Pathfinder. In particular I point out the use of the measurement of the differential movement between the test masses (TMs) and the space craft (SC) which is nearly as sensitive as the tracking between the two TMs. TMs and SC are made from different materials and therefore have different charge-to-mass ratios for both $B-L$ and $B$. Thus, the surrounding DPDM field induces a relative acceleration of nearly constant frequency. For the case of $B-L$, I show that LISA Pathfinder can constrain previously unexplored parameter space, providing the world leading limits in the mass range $4\cdot 10^{-19}\,\text{eV}

Author

Jonas Frerick

Co-authors

Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Joerg Jaeckel (ITP Heidelberg) Kai Ronald Schmidt-Hoberg (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

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