2015/07/24 by G. Pignol, Pignol, G., B. Clément +8
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Space Physics (physics.space-ph) #astro-ph.CO #physics.space-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.06875
arxiv created 2015/07/24 · openalex publication_date 2015/07/24 · arxiv updated 2015/07/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The dark photon, an new hypothetical light spin 1 field, constitutes a well-motivated dark matter candidate. It manifests as an oscillating electric field with a fixed direction, which can be observed in magnetometric records. In this letter, we use magnetometer data from the Voyager probes to look for the dark photon in the 10-24 eV to 10-19 eV mass range, corresponding to frequencies between 10-9 Hz and 10-4 Hz. We also discuss the sensitivity of possible future SQUID magnetometry experiments.