# The 58th Winter Nuclear & Particle Physics Conference 2021

9-12 February 2021
Virtual Meeting
America/Toronto timezone

## Sub-GeV Dark Vector Bosons and their Impacts on Cosmology

10 Feb 2021, 11:45
15m
Virtual Meeting

#### Virtual Meeting

Physics Beyond the Standard Model

### Speaker

Mr John Coffey (University of Victoria)

### Description

The purpose of this presentation is to recognize the effects of electromagnetic energy injection into the early Universe from decaying sub-GeV dark vectors. Decay widths and energy spectra for the most prominent channels in the sub-GeV region are calculated for various dark vector models. The models include the kinetic mixing of the dark photon with the Standard Model photon, $U(1)_{A'}$ , a dark vector boson which couples to the baryon minus the lepton current, $U(1)_{B-L}$, and the last three are dark vector bosons which couple one lepton's current minus a different lepton's current, $U(1)_{L_i - L_j}$ where $i , j = e, \mu, \tau$. Measurements from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background are used to constrain the lifetime, mass and coupling constant of the dark vectors.