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Dark Photon Limits from Patchy Dark Screening of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Fiona McCarthy1,2,3, Dalila Pîrvu4,5, J. Colin Hill6, Junwu Huang4, Matthew C. Johnson4,7, and Keir K. Rogers8

  • 1DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
  • 2Kavli Institute for Cosmology Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom
  • 3Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA
  • 4Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 5Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
  • 6Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 7Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada
  • 8Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 141003 – Published 3 October, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.141003

Abstract

Dark photons that kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon give rise to new spectral anisotropies (patchy dark screening) in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) due to conversion of photons to dark photons within large-scale structure. We utilize predictions for this patchy dark screening signal to provide the tightest constraints to date on the dark photon kinetic mixing parameter [ϵ≲4.5×10−8 (95% confidence level)] over the mass range 10−13  eV≲mA′≲10−11  eV, almost an order of magnitude stronger than previous limits, by applying state-of-the-art component separation techniques to the cross-correlation of Planck CMB and unWISE galaxy survey data.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 141003– Published 3 October, 2024
  • Received 13 June 2024
  • Revised 29 August 2024
  • Accepted 3 September 2024
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