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Kinetic Mixing at Strong Coupling

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-02-14 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A common feature of many string-motivated particle physics models is additional strongly coupled U(1)'s. In such sectors, electric and magnetic states have comparable mass, and integrating out modes also charged under U(1) hypercharge generically yields CP preserving electric kinetic mixing and CP violating magnetic kinetic mixing terms. Even though these extra sectors are strongly coupled, we show that in the limit where the extra sector has approximate N = 2 supersymmetry, we can use formal methods from Seiberg-Witten theory to compute these couplings. We also calculate various quantities of phenomenological interest such as the cross section for scattering between visible sector states and heavy extra sector states, as well as the effects of supersymmetry breaking induced from coupling to the MSSM.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06635,
  title  = {Kinetic Mixing at Strong Coupling},
  author = {Michele Del Zotto and Jonathan J. Heckman and Piyush Kumar and Arada Malekian and Brian Wecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06635},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v2: 45 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected, references added

R2 v1 2026-06-22T15:28:31.959Z