TY - JOUR
T1 - Probing a secluded U(1) at B factories
AU - Batell, Brian
AU - Pospelov, Maxim
AU - Ritz, Adam
PY - 2009/6/15
Y1 - 2009/6/15
N2 - A secluded U(1)S gauge field, kinetically mixed with standard model hypercharge, provides a "portal" mediating interactions with a hidden sector at the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of weakly interacting massive particle dark matter. The U(1)S symmetry-breaking scale may naturally be suppressed relative to the weak scale, and so this sector is efficiently probed by medium-energy e+e- colliders. We study the collider signatures of the minimal U(1)S model, focusing on the reach of B-factory experiments such as BABAR and BELLE. In particular, we show that Higgs strahlung in the secluded sector can lead to multilepton signatures, which probe the natural range for the kinetic mixing angle κ∼10-2-10-3 over a large portion of the kinematically accessible parameter space.
AB - A secluded U(1)S gauge field, kinetically mixed with standard model hypercharge, provides a "portal" mediating interactions with a hidden sector at the renormalizable level, as recently exploited in the context of weakly interacting massive particle dark matter. The U(1)S symmetry-breaking scale may naturally be suppressed relative to the weak scale, and so this sector is efficiently probed by medium-energy e+e- colliders. We study the collider signatures of the minimal U(1)S model, focusing on the reach of B-factory experiments such as BABAR and BELLE. In particular, we show that Higgs strahlung in the secluded sector can lead to multilepton signatures, which probe the natural range for the kinetic mixing angle κ∼10-2-10-3 over a large portion of the kinematically accessible parameter space.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.115008
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.115008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67649870597
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 79
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 11
M1 - 115008
ER -