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Probing Hidden Sectors with St\"uckelberg U(1) Gauge Fields

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-08-13 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We propose a framework in which visible matter interacts with matter from a hidden sector through mass mixings of St\"uckelberg U(1) gauge fields. In contrast to other Z' mediation scenarios, our setup has the added appealing features that (i) the choice of Z's can be significantly broadened without necessarily introducing unwanted exotic matter and (ii) there can be sizable tree-level interactions between the visible and hidden sectors. String theory embeddings of this scenario and their phenomenological features are briefly discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1401.5880,
  title  = {Probing Hidden Sectors with St\"uckelberg U(1) Gauge Fields},
  author = {Wan-Zhe Feng and Gary Shiu and Pablo Soler and Fang Ye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5880},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections and title change to match with published version

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