New constraints on dark matter from superconducting nanowires
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01586v3
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:36:31 GMT
- Title: New constraints on dark matter from superconducting nanowires
- Authors: Yonit Hochberg, Benjamin V. Lehmann, Ilya Charaev, Jeff Chiles, Marco
Colangelo, Sae Woo Nam and Karl K. Berggren
- Abstract summary: We report on a 180-hour measurement of a tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire device with a mass of 4.3 nanograms.
We use this to place new constraints on dark matter--electron interactions.
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- Abstract: Superconducting nanowires, a mature technology originally developed for
quantum sensing, can be used as a target and sensor with which to search for
dark matter interactions with electrons. Here we report on a 180-hour
measurement of a tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire device with a mass
of 4.3 nanograms. We use this to place new constraints on dark matter--electron
interactions, including the strongest terrestrial constraints to date on
sub-MeV (sub-eV) dark matter that interacts with electrons via scattering
(absorption) processes.
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