Cosmological constraint on dark photon from N eff

Abstract 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 decoupling era at T = O(1) MeV, the decay and annihil...

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Main Authors: Masahiro Ibe, Shin Kobayashi, Yuhei Nakayama, Satoshi Shirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-04-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP04(2020)009