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Detecting boosted dark photons with gaseous detectors

  • 1. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 2. Center for Neutrino Physics, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24601, USA
  • 3. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

Description

We search for indirect signals of O(keV) dark matter annihilating or decaying into O(eV) dark photons. These dark photons will be highly boosted, predominantly transversely polarized, have decay lengths larger than the Milky Way, and can be absorbed by neutrino or dark matter experiments at a rate dependent on the photon-dark photon kinetic mixing parameter and the optical properties of the experiment. We show that current experiments cannot probe new parameter space, but future large-scale gaseous detectors with low backgrounds (i.e., CYGNUS, NEXT, PANDAX-III) may be sensitive to this signal when the annihilation cross section is especially large.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.095015;
arXiv
arXiv:2402.00941;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/100007000; 10.13039/100008902; 10.13039/100000015; 10.13039/100006208; 10.13039/100006132; 10.13039/100000001;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review D
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
10 pgs.
ISSN
1089-4918