Constraints on Hidden Photons Produced in Nuclear Reactors

Danilov, M.; Demidov, S.V.; Gorbunov, D.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.122.041801

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“…For detailed discussion of various limits, see e.g. [6,7,29,30]. One may argue that the bounds from stellar cooling are considerably more stringent than those from any expected direct searches.…”

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Light hidden photon production in high energy collisions

Demidov

Gninenko

Gorbunov

2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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The visible and dark sectors of particle physics can be connected via the kinetic mixing between the ordinary (γ) and hidden photon (γ ). If the latter is light its production in high energy collisions of ordinary particles occurs via the γ − γ oscillations similarly to the neutrino processes. Generically, the experiments are insensitive to mass of the hidden photon, if it is lighter than 1 MeV, and it does not decay into e + e − -pair. Still, one can use the missing energy and scattering off the detector as signatures to search for light hidden photon. Presence of media suppresses production of the light vectors making the experiments insensitive to the entire model. In media the light hidden photon production is typically suppressed due to the dump of the γ −γ oscillations making the experiments insensitive to the entire model.We present analytic formulas for the light hidden photon production, propagation and detection valid for searches at colliders and beam-target experiments and apply them to estimate the impact on the sensitivities of NA64, FASER, MATHUSLA, SHiP, T2K, DUNE and NA62 for the background-free case.

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“…[5]). In particular, applying oscillations to describe the hidden photon behavior in a nuclear reactor it has been recently found [6] that, generically, there are no chances to produce too light hidden photon there. The reason is that the visible photon either gets absorbed or scatters in media before oscillating into the hidden photon.…”

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Light hidden photon production in high energy collisions

Demidov

Gninenko

Gorbunov

2019

J. High Energ. Phys.

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“…Second, photon can be absorbed in matter, and in water the absorption length for E γ ∼ 1 − 10 MeV is about 1/Γ 10 cm , that is smaller than the reactor size. At the distance exceeding absorption length, L 1/Γ, the probability to observe the hidden photon approaches [3,7]…”

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“…Within the oscillation approach one can analyze the results of neutrino reactor experiments and place the limit on model parameters given the full consistency of these results with neutrino oscillations. The investigation [3] revealed that mostly sensitive experiment is TEX-ONO [8], which allows one to constrain the model parameter space as depicted in Fig. 4.…”

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“…Moreover, there are many concrete beyond the SM theories which suggest such theoretical motivations. The present talk is partly based on some finished papers [2,3] and work in progress [4], and aimed at stimulating collaborations of the relevant intensity frontier experiments (TEXONO, NEOS, DANSS, NA64, SHiP, DUNE, T2K, MicroBooNE, etc) to perform searches for the light hidden photons following the theoretical analysis presented below, which accounts for oscillations between photon and hidden photon very similar to neutrino oscillation phenomena.…”

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Oscillations to hidden photon in reactor and accelerator experiments

Gorbunov

2018

EPJ Web Conf.

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Possible connection between visible and hidden Worlds of particle physics is provided by the vector portal interaction, that is kinetic mixing between ordinary (visible) and hidden photons. If sufficiently light, the hidden photon can be produced (and absorbed) by ordinary matter in a Compton-like processes, which naively are insensitive to the hidden photon mass. In this talk we study the evolution of the two vector boson system, which exhibits oscillations similar to the well-known neutrino oscillations. We show that, provided by the environment matter, this quantum phenomenon significantly suppresses the hidden photon production in particle collisions. The ordinary photon is effectively massive in the media. The suppression is important for hidden photon lighter than photon in the corresponding media (detector, beam dump material etc) and grows with decrease of the hidden photon mass making all the accelerator and reactor experiments absolutely insensitive to the models with light photons. The dedicated study is required for the case of the degenerate photon and hidden photon, when, on the contrary, the hidden photon production can be amplified with respect to the Compton process.

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