Friday, September 28, 2012

1209.6083 (Sarah Andreas et al.)

New Limits on Hidden Photons from Past Electron Beam Dumps    [PDF]

Sarah Andreas, Carsten Niebuhr, Andreas Ringwald
Hidden sectors with light extra U(1) gauge bosons, so called hidden photons, have recently attracted some attention because they are a common feature of physics beyond the Standard Model like string theory and SUSY and additionally are phenomenologically of great interest regarding recent astrophysical observations. The hidden photon is already constrained by various laboratory experiments and presently searched for in running as well as upcoming experiments. We summarize the current status of limits on hidden photons from past electron beam dump experiments including two new limits from such experiments at KEK and Orsay that have so far not been considered. All our limits take into account the experimental acceptances obtained from Monte Carlo simulations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6083

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