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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 U(1)U(1) gauge symmetry imposed on right-handed neutrinos (νR\nu_{R}). Such a νR\nu_{R}-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 νR\nu_{R} mix with left-handed neutrinos via Dirac mass terms. We investigate the loop-induced couplings and find that the νR\nu_{R}-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

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