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Detecting Boosted Dark Photons with Gaseous Detectors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-05-24 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We search for indirect signals of O\mathscr{O}(keV) dark matter annihilating or decaying into O\mathscr{O}(eV) dark photons. These dark photons will be highly boosted and 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 can not 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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@article{arxiv.2402.00941,
  title  = {Detecting Boosted Dark Photons with Gaseous Detectors},
  author = {Michael L. Graesser and R. Andrew Gustafson and Kate Hildebrandt and Varun Mathur and Ian M. Shoemaker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.00941},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages

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