Abstract
The visible and dark sectors of particle physics can be connected via the kinetic mixing between the ordinary (γ) and hidden photon (γ′). If the latter is light its production in high energy collisions of ordinary particles occurs via the γ − γ′ oscillations similarly to the neutrino processes. Generically, the experiments are insensitive to mass of the hidden photon, if it is lighter than 1 MeV, and it does not decay into e+e−-pair. Still, one can use the missing energy and scattering off the detector as signatures to search for light hidden photon. Presence of media suppresses production of the light vectors making the experiments insensitive to the entire model. In media the light hidden photon production is typically suppressed due to the dump of the γ − γ′ oscillations making the experiments insensitive to the entire model. We present analytic formulas for the light hidden photon production, propagation and detection valid for searches at colliders and beam-target experiments and apply them to estimate the impact on the sensitivities of NA64, FASER, MATHUSLA, SHiP, T2K, DUNE and NA62 for the background-free case.
Highlights
Where mX is the hidden photon mass emerged presumably due to the Higgs mechanism operating in the hidden sector
The kinetic mixing with the ordinary photon in (1.1) solely defines the hidden photon phenomenology associated with the SM particles: Xμ can be produced by a virtual photon and can decay into the SM particles via a virtual photon wherever kinematically allowed
We investigated the production, propagation and detection of very light stable hidden photons, which can oscillate into visible photons due to kinetic mixing, in accelerator type of experiments
Summary
Where mX is the hidden photon mass emerged presumably due to the Higgs mechanism operating in the hidden sector. In many cases they can extend the limits to this region, and our formulas will help to do it We discuss their applicability and prospects of these experiments to explore the models with the light hidden photon.
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