Microwave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons

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dc.creatorMirizzi, Alessandro
dc.creatorRedondo, Javier
dc.creatorSigl, Guenter
dc.date2008-12-30
dc.date2009-03-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:57:25Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:57:25Z
dc.descriptionVarious 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 < 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.
dc.descriptionRevised version (16 pages, 4 eps figures). Matches the one published on JCAP. Minor changes: typos removed, references clarified, Figure 3 slightly modified to take into account the new experimental bounds on photon-hidden photon mixing by LIPSS experiment (arXiv:0810.4189 [hep-ex], our Ref. [39])
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0014
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0014
dc.identifierJCAP 0903:026,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1475-7516/2009/03/026
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/224923
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.subjectCosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
dc.titleMicrowave Background Constraints on Mixing of Photons with Hidden Photons
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