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Constraints on the dark photon from deep inelastic scattering

A. W. Thomas, X. G. Wang, and A. G. Williams

  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics and CSSM, Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia

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Phys. Rev. D 105, L031901 – Published 4 February, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L031901

Abstract

We investigate constraints on the dark photon arising from an analysis of deep inelastic scattering data. We perform extractions of parton distribution functions with and without a dark photon being present and allow the dark photon mixing parameter and mass to vary. We also include the effects of vector-meson dominance to ensure the correct photoproduction limit. By considering the variation of the total χ2 arising from such extractions, we infer exclusion limits on the kinetic mixing parameter of the dark photon for dark photon mass up to 80 GeV.

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Phys. Rev. D 105, L031901– Published 4 February, 2022
  • Received 16 November 2021
  • Accepted 22 January 2022
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