2025/11/04 by Cheung, Kingman, Chung, Fei-Tung, Wang, Zeren Simon
Physics and Astronomy · #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2511.02318
openalex publication_date 2025/11/04 · openalex created_date 2025/11/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate the sensitivity of proposed CEPC and FCC-ee with a center-of-mass energy of 240 GeV to long-lived dark photons heavier than 2 GeV that are pair-produced via the prompt decays of a light scalar mixed with the Standard-Model Higgs boson. We compute the production and decay rates of both the light scalar and the dark photon, and develop two search strategies targeting displaced vertices within the inner tracker of the main detectors. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we evaluate the signal acceptance and projected sensitivity for each strategy. Our results show that, for the scalar-Higgs mixing angle set at 10-2 just below the current upper limit, the proposed searches at CEPC and FCC-ee can probe dark-photon kinetic-mixing parameter several orders of magnitude below existing bounds, for dark photons lighter than half the dark-scalar mass.