Search for Hidden photons with Sumico
Yoshizumi Inoue, Tetsuya Mizumoto, Ryosuke Ohta, Tomoki Horie, Jun'ya, Suzuki, Makoto Minowa
TL;DR
This study used a specialized detector setup to search for solar hidden photons within a specific energy range, setting new limits on their possible mixing with regular photons.
Contribution
It presents the first search for hidden photons using a Sumico detector with a dedicated add-on, establishing new constraints on photon-hidden photon mixing.
Findings
No evidence of hidden photons was observed.
New upper limits on the photon-hidden photon mixing parameter were established.
The experiment covered a hidden photon mass range of 0.001-1 eV.
Abstract
We searched for solar hidden photons in the visible photon energy range using a hidden photon detector add-on attached to Sumico. It consists of a parabolic mirror of dia. 0.5m and f=1m installed in a vacuum chamber, and a low noise photomultiplier tube at the focal point. No evidence for the existence of hidden photons was found in the latest measurement giving a new limit on the photon-hidden photon mixing parameter in the hidden photon mass range 0.001-1eV.
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Taxonomy
TopicsDark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena · Random lasers and scattering media · Quantum Information and Cryptography