Gauge coupling unification with hidden photon, and minicharged dark matter

We show that gauge coupling unification is realized with a greater accuracy in the presence of a massless hidden photon which has a large kinetic mixing with hypercharge. We solve the renormalization group equations at two-loop level and find that the GUT unification scale is around 1016.5GeV which...

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Main Authors: Ryuji Daido, Fuminobu Takahashi, Norimi Yokozaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317301363