Microwave background constraints on mixing of photons with hidden photons

被引：114

作者：

Mirizzi, Alessandro ^{[1
]}

Redondo, Javier ^{[2
]}

Sigl, Guenter ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Phys Werner Heisenberg Inst, D-80805 Munich, Germany

[2] DESY, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany

[3] Univ Hamburg, Inst Theoret Phys 2, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2009年 / 03期

关键词：

cosmology of theories beyond the SM; CMBR theory; NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS; SECTOR PHOTONS; SEARCH; MATTER; PARTICLES; LIMITS;

D O I：

10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/026

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Various extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of hidden photons kinetically mixing with the ordinary photon. This mixing leads to oscillations between photons and hidden photons, analogous to the observed oscillations between different neutrino flavors. In this context, we derive new bounds on the photon-hidden photon mixing parameters using the high precision cosmic microwave background spectral data collected by the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer instrument on board of the Cosmic Background Explorer. Requiring the distortions of the CMB induced by the photon-hidden photon mixing to be smaller than experimental upper limits, this leads to a bound on the mixing angle chi(0) less than or similar to 10(-7) - 10(-5) for hidden photon masses between 10(-14) eV and 10(-7) eV. This low-mass and low-mixing region of the hidden photon parameter space was previously unconstrained.

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