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Naturally light hidden photons in LARGE volume string compactifications

Mark Goodsell et al JHEP11(2009)027   doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/027  Help

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Mark Goodsella,c, Joerg Jaeckelb, Javier Redondoc,d and Andreas Ringwaldc
a LPTHE, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris CEDEX 05, France
b Institute for Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
c Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
d Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Föhringer Ring 6, D-80805 München, Germany
E-mail: mark.goodsell@desy.de, joerg.jaeckel@durham.ac.uk, redondo@mppmu.mpg.de and andreas.ringwald@desy.de

Abstract. Extra ``hidden'' U(1) gauge factors are a generic feature of string theory that is of particular phenomenological interest. They can kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon and are thereby accessible to a wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological observations and laboratory experiments. In this paper we investigate the masses and the kinetic mixing of hidden U(1)s in LARGE volume compactifications of string theory. We find that in these scenarios the hidden photons can be naturally light and that their kinetic mixing with the ordinary electromagnetic photon can be of a size interesting for near future experiments and observations.

Key words: Strings and branes phenomenology; Supersymmetry Phenomenology

E-print number: 0909.0515
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Received 15 September 2009, accepted for publication 18 October 2009
Published 6 November 2009

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