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Cosmological constraints on very dark photons

Authors :
Adam Ritz
Josef Pradler
Maxim Pospelov
Anthony Fradette
Source :
Physical Review D. 90
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2014.

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

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