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The Physics of the Dark Photon

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The dark photon is a new gauge boson whose existence has been conjectured. The names para-  [1], hidden-sector, secluded photon and U-boson  [2] have also being used to indicate the same particle. The dark photon is dark because it arises from a symmetry of a hypothetical dark sector comprising particles completely neutral under the SM interactions. The neutrality of ordinary matter makes it blind to this new gauge boson which is accordingly invisible and therefore characterized as dark.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The literature on the subject is already very extensive, see, for example,  [42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64].

    Interacting dark matter can form bound states. The phenomenology of such atomic dark matter [51] has been discussed in the literature, see [59] and references therein.

  2. 2.

    In addition, the dark Higgs field breaking the U(1) symmetry can provide yet another dark matter candidate  [85].

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Fabbrichesi, M., Gabrielli, E., Lanfranchi, G. (2021). Introduction. In: The Physics of the Dark Photon. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62519-1_1

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