Phenomenological implications on a hidden sector from the Festina Lente bound
Abstract
We apply the Festina Lente (FL) bound on a hidden sector with gauge symmetries. Since the FL bound puts a lower bound on masses of particles charged under the gauge symmetries, it is possible to constrain the hidden sector even with a tiny coupling to the Standard Model. In particular, we focus on the phenomenological implications of the FL bound on milli-charged particles, which naturally arise when kinetic mixing between the photon and the hidden photon is allowed. It turns out that the milli-charged particle with the mass meV is prohibited by the FL bound in the case of a single hidden , independent of the value of kinetic mixing. This bound is crucial when bosonic dark matter is taken in consideration in this framework: the fuzzy bosonic dark matter models requesting minuscule masses are ruled out by the FL bound if the longevity of dark matter is protected by the hidden gauge symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.2206.00890,
title = {Phenomenological implications on a hidden sector from the Festina Lente bound},
author = {Kayoung Ban and Dhong Yeon Cheong and Hiroshi Okada and Hajime Otsuka and Jong-Chul Park and Seong Chan Park},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00890},
year = {2023}
}