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Peer-reviewedCC BYJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Indirect searches for dark photon-photon tridents in celestial objects

  • Tim Linden1
  • Thong T. Q. Nguyen2,1
  • Tim M. P. Tait3
  1. 1Stockholm University and The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Alba Nova, 10691 Stockholm,
  2. 2Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei 11529,
  3. 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575,
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Abstract

We model and constrain the unique indirect detection signature produced by dark matter particles that annihilate through a U(1) gauge symmetry into dark photons that subsequently decay into three-photon final states. We focus on scenarios where the dark photon is long-lived, and show that γ-ray probes of celestial objects can set strong constraints on the dark matter/baryon scattering cross section that in many cases surpass the power of current direct detection constraints, and in some cases even peer into the neutrino fog.

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BibTeX
@article{linden2026indirect,
  title = {{Indirect searches for dark photon-photon tridents in celestial objects}},
  author = {Tim Linden and Thong T. Q. Nguyen and Tim M. P. Tait},
  journal = {Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
  year = {2026},
  month = aug,
  doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2026/08/056},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2026/08/056},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Indirect searches for dark photon-photon tridents in celestial objects
AU  - Tim Linden
AU  - Thong T. Q. Nguyen
AU  - Tim M. P. Tait
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/08/01
JO  - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
DO  - 10.1088/1475-7516/2026/08/056
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2026/08/056
AB  - We model and constrain the unique indirect detection signature produced by dark matter particles that annihilate through a U(1) gauge symmetry into dark photons that subsequently decay into three-photon final states. We focus on scenarios where the dark photon is long-lived, and show that γ-ray probes of celestial objects can set strong constraints on the dark matter/baryon scattering cross section that in many cases surpass the power of current direct detection constraints, and in some cases even peer into the neutrino fog.
SN  - 1475-7508
SN  - 1475-7516
ER  -