Towards a UV model of kinetic mixing and portal matter
Abstract
The nature of dark matter (DM) and how it might interact with the particles of the Standard Model (SM) is an ever-growing mystery. It is possible that the existence of new “dark sector” forces, yet undiscovered, are the key to solving this fundamental problem, and one might hope that in the future such forces might even be “unified” with the ones we already know in some UV-complete framework. In this paper, following a bottom-up approach, we attempt to take the first steps in the construction of such a framework. The much-discussed possibility of the kinetic mixing (KM) of the “dark photon” with the hypercharge gauge boson of the SM via loops of portal matter (PM) fields, charged in both sectors, offers an attractive starting point for these efforts. Given the anticipated finite strength of the KM in a UV-complete theory, the absence of anomalies, and the lifetime constraints on the PM fields arising from cosmic microwave background and nucleosynthesis constraints, PM must behave as vector-like copies of the known SM fermion fields, such as those which appear naturally in, e.g., -type models. Within such a setup, the SM and their corresponding partner PM fields would be related by a new gauge symmetry. With this observation as a springboard, we construct a generalization of these ideas where is augmented by an additional factor so that the light dark photon is the result of a symmetry breaking analogous to the SM, i.e., , but with now also broken at the scale. While SM fields are singlets, as in the conventional dark photon approach, they transform nontrivially under the full gauge group. This approach leads to numerous interesting signatures, both at low energies and at colliders, and can be viewed as an initial step in the construction of a more UV-complete framework.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1594203
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1604933
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-17472
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 015014
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 101 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Rueter, Thomas D., and Rizzo, Thomas G. Towards a UV model of kinetic mixing and portal matter. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015014.
Rueter, Thomas D., & Rizzo, Thomas G. Towards a UV model of kinetic mixing and portal matter. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015014
Rueter, Thomas D., and Rizzo, Thomas G. Fri .
"Towards a UV model of kinetic mixing and portal matter". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015014.
@article{osti_1594203,
title = {Towards a UV model of kinetic mixing and portal matter},
author = {Rueter, Thomas D. and Rizzo, Thomas G.},
abstractNote = {The nature of dark matter (DM) and how it might interact with the particles of the Standard Model (SM) is an ever-growing mystery. It is possible that the existence of new “dark sector” forces, yet undiscovered, are the key to solving this fundamental problem, and one might hope that in the future such forces might even be “unified” with the ones we already know in some UV-complete framework. In this paper, following a bottom-up approach, we attempt to take the first steps in the construction of such a framework. The much-discussed possibility of the kinetic mixing (KM) of the “dark photon” with the hypercharge gauge boson of the SM via loops of portal matter (PM) fields, charged in both sectors, offers an attractive starting point for these efforts. Given the anticipated finite strength of the KM in a UV-complete theory, the absence of anomalies, and the lifetime constraints on the PM fields arising from cosmic microwave background and nucleosynthesis constraints, PM must behave as vector-like copies of the known SM fermion fields, such as those which appear naturally in, e.g., E6-type models. Within such a setup, the SM and their corresponding partner PM fields would be related by a new SU(2)I gauge symmetry. With this observation as a springboard, we construct a generalization of these ideas where SU(2)I is augmented by an additional U(1)IY factor so that the light dark photon is the result of a symmetry breaking analogous to the SM, i.e., SU(2)I×U(1)IY→U(1)D, but with U(1)D now also broken at the ≲GeV scale. While SM fields are U(1)D singlets, as in the conventional dark photon approach, they transform nontrivially under the full SU(2)I×U(1)IY gauge group. This approach leads to numerous interesting signatures, both at low energies and at colliders, and can be viewed as an initial step in the construction of a more UV-complete framework.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015014},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 1,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Fri Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.015014
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