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Cosmological constraints on very dark photons
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 90
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2014.
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Abstract
- We explore the cosmological consequences of kinetically mixed dark photons with a mass between 1 MeV and 10 GeV, and an effective electromagnetic fine structure constant as small as $10^{-38}$. We calculate the freeze-in abundance of these dark photons in the early Universe and explore the impact of late decays on BBN and the CMB. This leads to new constraints on the parameter space of mass $m_V$ vs kinetic mixing parameter $\kappa$.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 11 figures, references added
- Subjects :
- Physics
Big Bang
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Ultimate fate of the universe
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Cosmic microwave background
FOS: Physical sciences
Lambda-CDM model
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Dark photon
Universe
Physical cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
Big Bang nucleosynthesis
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15502368 and 15507998
- Volume :
- 90
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....218f88dbff4b15f6fee7fe6a89f2120c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.90.035022