Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2024

Improved modeling for dark photon detection with dish antennas

Jordan Gué
Aurélien Hees
Peter Wolf
Etienne Savalle
Laurent Chevalier
Pierre Brun
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A vector dark matter candidate, also known as dark photon, would induce an oscillating electric field through kinetic mixing. One detection strategy uses a spherical reflector to focus the induced emission at its center of curvature. First, we investigate the effects of diffraction in this type of experiment from an analytical standpoint, making use of the Kirchhoff integral theorem in the low-curvature dish limit. Next, we estimate the impact of mode matching, in the case of detection by a pyramidal horn antenna. We show that the expected signal intensity can be significantly reduced compared to usual estimates. Our method is applied to the reinterpretation of the SHUKET experiment data, the results of which are shown to be degraded by a factor of ∼50 due to both diffraction and mode matching. The analytical method allows optimizing some experimental parameters to gain sensitivity in future runs. Our results can be applied to any dish antenna experiment using a low-curvature reflector.

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hal-04680174 , version 1 (28-08-2024)

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Jordan Gué, Aurélien Hees, Peter Wolf, Etienne Savalle, Laurent Chevalier, et al.. Improved modeling for dark photon detection with dish antennas. Physical Review D, 2024, 110, pp.035001. ⟨10.1103/physrevd.110.035001⟩. ⟨hal-04680174⟩
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