First Results from a Broadband Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter in the 44 to 52 μeV range with a coaxial dish antenna

We present first results from a dark photon dark matter search in the mass range from 44 to 52 μ eV (10.7 - 12.5 GHz) using a room-temperature dish antenna setup called GigaBREAD. Dark photon dark matter converts to ordinary photons on a cylindrical metallic emission surface with area 0.5 m^2 and is focused by a novel parabolic reflector onto a horn antenna. Signals are read out with a low-noise receiver system. A first data taking run with 24 days of data does not show evidence for dark photon dark matter in this mass range, excluding dark photon - photon mixing parameters χ≳ 10^-12 in this range at 90 existing constraints by about two orders of magnitude and is the most stringent bound on dark photons in this range below 49 μeV.