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蟹状星云甚高能量γ射线对隐光子的新约束

New Constraints on Hidden Photons using Very High Energy Gamma-Rays from the Crab Nebula

Hannes-Sebastian Zechlin, Dieter Horns, Javier Redondo

摘要:

粒子物理学的标准模型的扩展,特别是那些基于弦论的扩展,经常预言在一个隐藏的扇区中有一个新的U(1)规范对称性。相应的规范玻色子,称为隐藏光子,自然地通过规范动力学混合与普通光子相互作用,导致光子-隐藏光子振荡。在这个框架中,人们期望光子消失作为隐藏光子的质量和混合角的函数,从理论上松散地约束。已经进行或计划进行几个实验来约束质量混合平面。在这方面的贡献,我们得到新的约束条件隐藏的光子参数,使用非常高的能量从蟹状星云,其宽带光谱特性很好地理解探测到的伽马射线。非常高能量的伽马射线观测提供了在以前未探索的能量和距离尺度上提供宽质量范围内的边界的可能性。使用现有的数据,采取了几个切伦科夫望远镜,我们讨论我们的结果在当前的约束条件下,并考虑使用天体物理数据来搜索隐藏的光子签名的可能性。

英文摘要:

Extensions of the standard model of particle physics, in particular those based on string theory, often predict a new U(1) gauge symmetry in a hidden sector. The corresponding gauge boson, called hidden photon, naturally interacts with the ordinary photon via gauge kinetic mixing, leading to photon - hidden photon oscillations. In this framework, one expects photon disappearance as a function of the mass of the hidden photon and the mixing angle, loosely constrained from theory. Several experiments have been carried out or are planned to constrain the mass-mixing plane. In this contribution we derive new constraints on the hidden photon parameters, using very high energy gamma-rays detected from the Crab Nebula, whose broad-band spectral characteristics are well understood. The very high energy gamma-ray observations offer the possibility to provide bounds in a broad mass range at a previously unexplored energy and distance scale. Using existing data that were taken with several Cherenkov telescopes, we discuss our results in the context of current constraints and consider the possibilities of using astrophysical data to search for hidden photon signatures.

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