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We propose a model realizes that a semi-visible dark photon which can contribute to the anomalous magnetic moment ($g-2$) of both electron and muon. In this model, the electron $g-2$ is deviated from the Standard Model (SM) prediction by…

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We present a phenomenology study probing pair production of supersymmetric charginos and neutralinos ("electroweakinos") with the vector boson fusion (VBF) topology in proton-proton collisions at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In…

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The dark photon is a new gauge boson that naturally arises in many beyond the Standard Model theoretical models, featuring interactions that resemble quantum electrodynamics. Due to this feature, it is often considered the portal between…

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Current ton-scale dark matter direct detection experiments have reached an important milestone with the detection of solar neutrinos. In this paper, we show that these data can be used to determine a critical parameter of the Standard Model…

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We consider cosmological tests of a scalar-vector-tensor gravitational model, in which the dark energy is included in the total action through a gauge invariant, electromagnetic type contribution. The ground state of dark energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-08 Zoltán Keresztes , László Á. Gergely , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang

In this work we fit the available binned data of the differential decay distribution of the exclusive $B \to K^{(*)} \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B_s \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays to the mass and mixing parameters of a light dark vector boson model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Lopamudra Mukherjee

A new U(1) gauge symmetry is the simplest extension of the Standard Model and has various theoretical and phenomenological motivations. In this paper, we study the cosmological constraint on the MeV scale dark photon. After the neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-30 Masahiro Ibe , Shin Kobayashi , Yuhei Nakayama , Satoshi Shirai

The vector boson fusion (VBF) event topology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) allows efficient suppression of dijet backgrounds and is therefore a promising target for new physics searches. We consider dark matter models which interact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 James Brooke , Matthew R. Buckley , Patrick Dunne , Bjoern Penning , John Tamanas , Miha Zgubic

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus (CE$\nu$NS) and elastic neutrino-electron scattering (E$\nu$ES) data are exploited to constrain ``chiral'' $U(1)_{X}$ gauged models with light vector mediator mass. These models fall under a distinct class…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Anirban Majumdar , Dimitrios K. Papoulias , Hemant Prajapati , Rahul Srivastava

Any neutral boson such as a dark photon or dark Higgs that is part of a non-standard sector of particles can mix with its standard model counterpart. When very weakly mixed with the Standard Model, these particles are produced in the early…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Joshua Berger , Karsten Jedamzik , Devin G. E. Walker

We present the constraints on the parameters of several light boson mediator models obtained from the analysis of the current data of the COHERENT CE$\nu$NS experiment. We consider a variety of vector boson mediator models: the so-called…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti , Y. F. Li , E. Picciau , C. A. Ternes , Y. Y. Zhang

We describe an experiment to search for a new vector boson A' with weak coupling alpha' > 6 x 10^{-8} alpha to electrons (alpha=e^2/4pi) in the mass range 65 MeV < m_A' < 550 MeV. New vector bosons with such small couplings arise naturally…

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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

Vector boson fusion (VBF) processes offer a promising avenue to study the non-colored sectors of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC. A feasibility study for searching for the chargino/neutralino system in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Bhaskar Dutta , Alfredo Gurrola , Will Johns , Teruki Kamon , Paul Sheldon , Kuver Sinha

We investigate an extension of the $\Lambda$CDM model where the dark matter (DM) is coupled to photons, inducing a nonconservation of the numbers of particles for both species, where the DM particles are allowed to dilute throughout the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-21 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh Kumar Yadav

Various extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of hidden photons kinetically mixing with the ordinary photon. This mixing leads to oscillations between photons and hidden photons, analogous to the observed oscillations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-30 Alessandro Mirizzi , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

Solar neutrinos induce elastic neutrino-electron scattering in dark matter direct detection experiments, resulting in detectable event rates at current facilities. We analyze recent data from the XENONnT, LUX-ZEPLIN, and PandaX-4T…

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The possibility of explaining the current value of the muon anomalous magnetic moment in models with an additional U(1) gauge symmetry that has kinetic mixing with hypercharge are increasingly constrained by dark photon searches at electron…

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We study the framework of $U(1)_X$ models with kinetic mixing and/or mass mixing terms. We give general and exact analytic formulas and derive limits on a variety of $U(1)_X$ models that induce new physics contributions to neutrino-electron…

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