2009/03/02 by Brian Batell, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ph #hep-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.79.115008
published as Phys.Rev.D79:115008,2009 · 14 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2009/03/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A secluded U(1) gauge field, kinetically mixed with Standard Model hypercharge, provides a `portal' mediating interactions with a hidden sector at the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of WIMP dark matter. The secluded U(1) symmetry-breaking scale may naturally be suppressed relative to the weak scale, and so this sector is efficiently probed by medium energy electron-positron colliders. We study the collider signatures of the minimal secluded U(1) model, focusing on the reach of B-factory experiments such as BaBar and BELLE. In particular, we show that Higgs-strahlung in the secluded sector can lead to multi-lepton signatures which probe the natural range for the kinetic mixing angle of 10^(-2)-10^(-3) over a large portion of the kinematically accessible parameter space.