New Energy-Loss Constraints on Dark Sectors from Deeply Inelastic Scattering with Initial State Radiation
Abstract
We employ the joint QED and QCD factorization of deeply inelastic, electron-proton scattering with generic initial state radiation to probe the possibility of exotic particle emission -- i.e., of weakly coupled particles originating from a dark or hidden sector -- through anomalous energy loss. We leverage this possibility through the consideration of phase-space-limited kinematic regions, for which the emission of an additional, undetected particle can particularly impact the associated cross-section. In this first paper, as a proof of principle, we focus on radiation from the incoming electron, considering the modification of the lepton distribution function from the emission of particles, that could have spin of up to 2 and various, well-motivated electron couplings. We illustrate the sensitivity of our approach through the computation of the modified cross-sections for the emission of MeV-GeV mass-scale, spin 0 particles in kinematics chosen for their sensitivity to initial state electron radiation and suitable to the forward-backward detection sensitivity of the ePIC detector at the EIC.
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BibTeX
@misc{cammarota2026energyloss,
title = {{New Energy-Loss Constraints on Dark Sectors from Deeply Inelastic Scattering with Initial State Radiation}},
author = {Justin Cammarota and John Carlton and Susan Gardner},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2606.28500},
eprint = {2606.28500},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28500},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - New Energy-Loss Constraints on Dark Sectors from Deeply Inelastic Scattering with Initial State Radiation
AU - Justin Cammarota
AU - John Carlton
AU - Susan Gardner
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2606.28500
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28500
AB - We employ the joint QED and QCD factorization of deeply inelastic, electron-proton scattering with generic initial state radiation to probe the possibility of exotic particle emission -- i.e., of weakly coupled particles originating from a dark or hidden sector -- through anomalous energy loss. We leverage this possibility through the consideration of phase-space-limited kinematic regions, for which the emission of an additional, undetected particle can particularly impact the associated cross-section. In this first paper, as a proof of principle, we focus on radiation from the incoming electron, considering the modification of the lepton distribution function from the emission of particles, that could have spin of up to 2 and various, well-motivated electron couplings. We illustrate the sensitivity of our approach through the computation of the modified cross-sections for the emission of MeV-GeV mass-scale, spin 0 particles in kinematics chosen for their sensitivity to initial state electron radiation and suitable to the forward-backward detection sensitivity of the ePIC detector at the EIC.
ER -