How dark is the $\nu_R$-philic dark photon?
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2021-04-21 v2
Abstract
We consider a generic dark photon that arises from a hidden gauge symmetry imposed on right-handed neutrinos (). Such a -philic dark photon is naturally dark due to the absence of tree-level couplings to normal matter. However, loop-induced couplings to charged leptons and quarks are inevitable, provided that mix with left-handed neutrinos via Dirac mass terms. We investigate the loop-induced couplings and find that the -philic dark photon is not inaccessibly dark, which could be of potential importance to future dark photon searches at SHiP, FASER, Belle-II, LHC 14 TeV, etc.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2012.09980,
title = {How dark is the $\nu_R$-philic dark photon?},
author = {Garv Chauhan and Xun-Jie Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09980},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
22 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, FASER bound updated, JHEP published version