Published May 13, 2024
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Detecting boosted dark photons with gaseous detectors
Creators
- 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 dark matter annihilating or decaying into 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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Additional details
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
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; CROSS SECTIONS; DECAY; MIXING RATIO; NEUTRINO OSCILLATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE DECAY; PHOTONS; SIGNALS; SOLAR NEUTRINOS; SPACE; STERILE NEUTRINOS; SUPER-KAMIOKANDE NEUTRINO DETECTOR; WIMPS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NEUTRINO DETECTORS; NEUTRINOS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATIONS; SOLAR PARTICLES; SOLAR RADIATION; STELLAR RADIATION
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- DE-AC52-06NA25396; DE-SC0020262; 2149165
- Notes
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- Funding organization
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development; Los Alamos National Laboratory; U.S. Department of Energy; High Energy Physics; Office of Science; National Science Foundation