2012/11/21 by Sarah Andreas, Andreas, Sarah
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.5160
4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the "8th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs", Chicago USA, 18 - 22 July 2012
arxiv created 2012/11/21 · arxiv updated 2012/11/26
Recently there has been much interest in hidden sectors, especially in the context of dark matter and dark forces, since they are a common feature of beyond standard model scenarios like string theory and SUSY and additionally exhibit interesting phenomenological aspects. Various laboratory experiments place limits on the so-called hidden photon and continuously further probe and constrain the parameter space; an updated overview is presented here. Furthermore, for several hidden sector models with light dark matter we study the viability with respect to the relic abundance and direct detection experiments.