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A Hunt for Magnetic Signatures of Hidden-Photon and Axion Dark Matter in the Wilderness

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arxiv 2306.11575 v2 pith:YYBYJKPT submitted 2023-06-20 hep-ph astro-ph.CO

A Hunt for Magnetic Signatures of Hidden-Photon and Axion Dark Matter in the Wilderness

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Earth can act as a transducer to convert ultralight bosonic dark matter (axions and hidden photons) into an oscillating magnetic field with a characteristic pattern across its surface. Here we describe the first results of a dedicated experiment, the Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt), that aims to detect such dark-matter-induced magnetic-field patterns by performing correlated measurements with a network of magnetometers in relatively quiet magnetic environments (in the wilderness far from human-generated magnetic noise). Our experiment constrains parameter space describing hidden-photon and axion dark matter with Compton frequencies in the 0.5-5.0 Hz range. Limits on the kinetic-mixing parameter for hidden-photon dark matter represent the best experimental bounds to date in this frequency range.

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