The physics of the dark photon : a primer / Marco Fabbrichesi, Emidio Gabrielli, Gaia Lanfranchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabbrichesi, Marco, author.

Gabrielli, Emidio, author.

Lanfranchi, Gaia, author.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in physics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bosons.

Photons.

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Interacting boson models.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2021]

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book is about the dark photon which is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured. Due to its interaction with the ordinary, visible photon, such a particle can be experimentally detected via specific signatures. In this book, the authors review the physics of the dark photon from the theoretical and experimental point of view. They discuss the difference between the massive and the massless case, highlighting how the two phenomena arise from the same vector portal between the dark and the visible sector. A review of the cosmological and astrophysical observations is provided, together with the connection to dark matter physics. Then, a perspective on current and future experimental limits on the parameters of the massless and massive dark photon is given, as well as the related bounds on milli-charged fermions. The book is intended for graduate students and young researchers who are embarking on dark photon research, and offers them a clear and up-to-date introduction to the subject.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Massless and Massive Dark Photons

1.1.1 Kinetic Mixing: Electric or Hyper-Charge?

1.1.2 Embedding in a NonAbelian Group

1.2 UV Models

1.2.1 Massive Dark Photon: Origin and Size of the Mixing Parameter

1.2.2 Massless Dark Photon: Higher-Order Operators

1.3 Dark Matter and the Dark Photon

1.3.1 Massless Dark Photon and Galaxy Dynamics

1.3.2 Massless Dark Photon and Dark-Matter Relic Density

1.3.3 Massive Dark Photon and Light Dark Matter

1.3.4 Massive Dark Photon as Dark Matter

References

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based upon print version of record.

Other Format:

Print version: Fabbrichesi, Marco The Physics of the Dark Photon : A Primer

ISBN:

9783030625191

3030625192

OCLC:

1224369673

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