2018/01/31 by Philip Ilten, Yotam Soreq, Mike Williams +1 · 299 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark matter #Dark photon #Gauge boson #Lepton #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Photon #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Serendipity #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Vector boson #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep06(2018)004
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2018(6) (Springer Nature) · 33 pages, 11 figures
openalex created_date 2018/01/26 · openalex publication_date 2018/06/01 · arxiv created 2018/07/09 · arxiv updated 2018/07/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A bstract 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 .