Dark photon constraints from CMB temperature anisotropies

Autor(en)
Andres Aramburo-Garcia, Kyrylo Bondarenko, Alexey Boyarsky, Pavlo Kashko, Josef Pradler, Anastasia Sokolenko, Roi Kugel, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye
Abstrakt

The resonant conversion, within the inter-galactic medium, of regular photons into dark photons amplifies the anisotropy observed in the CMB, thereby imposing stringent constraints on the existence of light dark photons. In this study, we investigate the impact of light dark photons, with masses in the range 3 × 10-15 eV < mA ' < 3 × 10-12 eV on the power spectrum of temperature anisotropies within the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation utilizing the state-of-the-art large-volume FLAMINGO cosmological simulations. Our results show that using full Planck data, one can expect the existing constraints on the dark photon mixing parameter in this mass range to improve by an order of magnitude.

Organisation(en)
Teilchenphysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Leiden University, Stockholm University, Inter-University Institute for High Energies, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), University of Chicago
Journal
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Band
2024
Anzahl der Seiten
15
ISSN
1475-7516
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/11/049
Publikationsdatum
11-2024
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103034 Teilchenphysik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/14dbd0b3-7193-456d-ac22-79af8cff3ccd