Dark photons in a Higgs Stueckelberg model for dark matter

Speaker

Dimiter Hadjimichef (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS)

Description

An extension of the Standard Model (SM) is studied, in which two new vector bosons are introduced, a first boson (Z') coupled to the SM by the usual minimal coupling, producing an enlarged gauge sector in the SM and a second boson field, in the dark sector of the model, remains massless and originates a dark photon, in a hybrid mixing scenario based on a combined Higgs and Stueckelberg mechanisms. An astrophysical application is evaluated obtaining an estimate of the impact on stellar cooling of white dwarfs.

Author

Dimiter Hadjimichef (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS)

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