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Extensions of the Standard Model (SM) gauge group with a new $U(1)_X$ predict an additional gauge boson. Through kinetic mixing with the SM photons featured by a coupling $\epsilon$, the ensuing so-called dark photons $\gamma'$, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-05 Monica D'Onofrio , Oliver Fischer , Zeren Simon Wang

Dark photons are massive abelian gauge bosons that interact with ordinary photons via a kinetic mixing with the hypercharge field strength tensor. This theory is probed by a variety of different experiments and limits are set on a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Daniele Barducci , Enrico Bertuzzo , Giovanni Grilli di Cortona , Gabriel M. Salla

The FASER experiment studies the neutral decay products from LHC collision of 13.6 TeV centre of mass energy at 480m distant away. There could be Beyond Standard Model (BSM) particles such like dark photons or axion like particles etc..,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-10-31 Osamu Sato

Proton-proton collisions at energy-frontier facilities produce an intense flux of high-energy light particles, including neutrinos, in the forward direction. At the LHC, these particles are currently being studied with the far-forward…

We present an analysis of the experimental data for parity-violating electron scattering (PVES) and atomic parity-violation, including the effects of a dark photon. We derive the favored region of dark photon parameter space, which provides…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-26 A. W. Thomas , X. G. Wang

Nonzero neutrino masses guarantee new physics and neutrinos are excellent probes of extreme environments in the Universe. The recent collider neutrino experimental program, including FASER$\nu$ and SND@LHC, along with the planned Forward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Bei Zhou , Pedro Machado

We investigate the potential of future tau neutrino experiments for identifying the $\nu_\tau$ appearance in probing secret neutrino interactions. The reference experiments include the DUNE far detector utilizing the atmospheric data, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-28 Pouya Bakhti , Meshkat Rajaee , Seodong Shin

Most existing and proposed high energy neutrino experiments have excellent muon charge identification capabilities, enabling the distinction of $\nu_\mu$ and $\bar \nu_\mu$ charged current interactions. In contrast, distinguishing electrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-29 Felix Kling , Toni Mäkelä , Josh McFayden

Dark photons coupling to $L_\mu-L_\tau$ lepton number difference are a highly studied light dark matter candidate, with potential to be discovered through their impact on terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments. We re-examine this in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-12 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , James M. Cline , Benoit Laurent , Ushak Rahaman

Massive photon-like particles are predicted in many extensions of the Standard Model. They have interactions similar to the photon, are vector bosons, and can be produced together with photons. The PADME experiment proposes a search for the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-01-09 Mauro Raggi , Venelin Kozhuharov , P. Valente

We consider a dark photon model in which the dark U(1) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken by a vacuum expectation value of a new scalar boson. We focus on the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER) and calculate its sensitivity to the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Takeshi Araki , Kento Asai , Yohei Nakashima , Takashi Shimomura

The Heavy Photon Search experiment (HPS) at Jefferson Laboratory will search for a new $U(1)$ massive gauge boson, or "heavy-photon," mediator of a new fundamental interaction, called "dark-force," that couples to ordinary photons trough…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrea Celentano

New physics has traditionally been expected in the high-$p_T$ region at high-energy collider experiments. If new particles are light and weakly-coupled, however, this focus may be completely misguided: light particles are typically highly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-15 Jonathan L. Feng , Iftah Galon , Felix Kling , Sebastian Trojanowski

Dark photon is a new gauge boson beyond the Standard Model as a kind of dark matter (DM) candidate. Dark photon dark matter (DPDM) interacts with electromagnetic fields via kinetic mixing, implicating an approach to give a constraint with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Tian-Ci Liu , Ming-Xuan Lu , Xiao-Song Hu

We investigate the effects of the transitional magnetic dipole moment of the active-to-heavy-neutrino associated with a new neutral gauge boson $Z'$ on neutrino-nucleon scattering at the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment-$\nu$ (FASER$\nu$). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-31 Kingman Cheung , C. J. Ouseph

New neutrino states \nu_b, sterile under the Standard Model interactions, can be coupled to baryons via the isoscalar vector currents that are much stronger than the Standard Model weak interactions. If some fraction of solar neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Maxim Pospelov

A new exclusion limit for the electromagnetic production of a light U(1) gauge boson {\gamma}' decaying to e^+e^- was determined by the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron. Such light gauge bosons appear in several extensions of the…

There is a growing interest for the search of new light gauge bosons. The small mass of a new boson can turn various kinds of low-energy experiments to a new discovery machine, depending on their couplings to the standard model particles.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Yu Seon Jeong , C. S. Kim , Hye-Sung Lee

The interaction between the dark $U(1)_d$ sector with the visible Standard Model (SM) sector takes place through the kinetic mixing between the dark photon $U(1)_d$ field $Z_d^\mu$ and the SM $U(1)_Y$ gauge field $B_\mu$. After the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-14 Ashok Goyal , Mukesh Kumar , Satendra Kumar , Rafiqul Rahaman