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Massless Gauge Bosons other than the Photon

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

Gauge bosons associated with unbroken gauge symmetries, under which all standard model fields are singlets, may interact with ordinary matter via higher-dimensional operators. A complete set of dimension-six operators involving a massless U(1) field, gamma-prime, and standard model fields is presented. The mu to e gamma-prime decay, primordial nucleosynthesis, star cooling and other phenomena set lower limits on the scale of chirality-flip operators in the 1 - 15 TeV range, if the operators have coefficients given by the corresponding Yukawa couplings. Simple renormalizable models induce gamma-prime interactions with leptons or quarks at two loops, and may provide a cold dark matter candidate.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0411004,
  title  = {Massless Gauge Bosons other than the Photon},
  author = {Bogdan A. Dobrescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0411004},
  year   = {2008}
}

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