CMB Spectral Distortions from an Axion-Dark Photon-Photon Interaction
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| author | Hook, Anson Marques-Tavares, Gustavo Ristow, Clayton |
| author_facet | Hook, Anson Marques-Tavares, Gustavo Ristow, Clayton |
| contents | The presence of a plethora of light spin 0 and spin 1 fields is motivated in a number of BSM scenarios, such as the axiverse. The study of the interactions of such light bosonic fields with the Standard Model has focused mostly on interactions involving only one such field, such as the axion ($ϕ$) coupling to photons, $ϕF \tilde F$, or the kinetic mixing between photon and the dark photon, $ F F_D$. In this work, we continue the exploration of interactions involving two light BSM fields and the standard model, focusing on the mixed axion-photon-dark-photon interaction $ϕF \tilde F_D$. If either the axion or dark photon are dark matter, we show that this interaction leads to conversion of the CMB photons into a dark sector particle, leading to a distortion in the CMB spectrum. We present the details of these unique distortion signatures and the resulting constraints on the $ϕF \tilde F_D$ coupling. In particular, we find that for a wide range of masses, the constraints from these effect are stronger than on the more widely studied axion-photon coupling. |
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| spellingShingle | CMB Spectral Distortions from an Axion-Dark Photon-Photon Interaction Hook, Anson Marques-Tavares, Gustavo Ristow, Clayton High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics The presence of a plethora of light spin 0 and spin 1 fields is motivated in a number of BSM scenarios, such as the axiverse. The study of the interactions of such light bosonic fields with the Standard Model has focused mostly on interactions involving only one such field, such as the axion ($ϕ$) coupling to photons, $ϕF \tilde F$, or the kinetic mixing between photon and the dark photon, $ F F_D$. In this work, we continue the exploration of interactions involving two light BSM fields and the standard model, focusing on the mixed axion-photon-dark-photon interaction $ϕF \tilde F_D$. If either the axion or dark photon are dark matter, we show that this interaction leads to conversion of the CMB photons into a dark sector particle, leading to a distortion in the CMB spectrum. We present the details of these unique distortion signatures and the resulting constraints on the $ϕF \tilde F_D$ coupling. In particular, we find that for a wide range of masses, the constraints from these effect are stronger than on the more widely studied axion-photon coupling. |
| title | CMB Spectral Distortions from an Axion-Dark Photon-Photon Interaction |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13135 |