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Neutrino-electron scattering experiments can explore the potential presence of a light gauge boson A′ which arises from an additional U(1)B−L group, or a dark photon A′ which arises from a dark sector and has kinetic mixing with the SM hypercharge gauge field. We generically call it a dark photon. In this study, we investigate the effect of the dark photon on neutrino-electron scattering νe− → νe− at the newly proposed forward physics experiments such as FASERν, FASERν2, SND@LHC and FLArE(10 tons). We estimate the anticipated sensitivities to the U(1)B−L gauge coupling in a wide range of the dark photon mass MA′. We compare the sensitivities of the proposed forward physics experiments with the current limits from TEXONO, GEMMA, BOREXINO, LSND, and CHARM II as well as NA64e experiments. We also extend the calculation to obtain the sensitivities on the kinetic mixing parameter ϵ in a wide range of dark photon mass MA′. We demonstrate that the sensitivities do not improve for MA′ < 1 GeV at the Forward Physics Facilities.
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Cheung, K., Ouseph, C.J. Sensitivities on dark photon from the forward physics experiments. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 196 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)196
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