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Title: Serendipity in dark photon searches

Abstract

Searches for dark photons provide serendipitous discovery potential for other types of vector particles. We develop a framework for recasting dark photon searches to obtain constraints on more general theories, which includes a data-driven method for determining hadronic decay rates. We demonstrate our approach by deriving constraints on a vector that couples to the B-L current, a leptophobic B boson that couples directly to baryon number and to leptons via B-γ kinetic mixing, and on a vector that mediates a protophobic force. Our approach can easily be generalized to any massive gauge boson with vector couplings to the Standard Model fermions, and software to perform any such recasting is provided at https://gitlab.com/philten/darkcast.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Theoretical Physics
  3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Lab. for Nuclear Science
  4. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland). Theoretical Physics Dept.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); European Research Council (ERC)
OSTI Identifier:
1505823
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0015476; PHY-1607225; 669668-NEO-NAT-ERC-AdG-2014
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; phenomenological models

Citation Formats

Ilten, Philip, Soreq, Yotam, Williams, Mike, and Xue, Wei. Serendipity in dark photon searches. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep06(2018)004.
Ilten, Philip, Soreq, Yotam, Williams, Mike, & Xue, Wei. Serendipity in dark photon searches. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2018)004
Ilten, Philip, Soreq, Yotam, Williams, Mike, and Xue, Wei. Fri . "Serendipity in dark photon searches". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2018)004. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505823.
@article{osti_1505823,
title = {Serendipity in dark photon searches},
author = {Ilten, Philip and Soreq, Yotam and Williams, Mike and Xue, Wei},
abstractNote = {Searches for dark photons provide serendipitous discovery potential for other types of vector particles. We develop a framework for recasting dark photon searches to obtain constraints on more general theories, which includes a data-driven method for determining hadronic decay rates. We demonstrate our approach by deriving constraints on a vector that couples to the B-L current, a leptophobic B boson that couples directly to baryon number and to leptons via B-γ kinetic mixing, and on a vector that mediates a protophobic force. Our approach can easily be generalized to any massive gauge boson with vector couplings to the Standard Model fermions, and software to perform any such recasting is provided at https://gitlab.com/philten/darkcast.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep06(2018)004},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 2018,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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