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Illuminating the Hidden Sector of String Theory by Shining Light through a Magnetic Field

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Many models of physics beyond the Standard Model predict minicharged particles to which current and near future low-energy experiments are highly sensitive. Such minicharges arise generically from kinetic-mixing in theories containing at least two U(1) gauge factors. Here, we point out that the required multiple U(1) factors, the size of kinetic-mixing, and suitable matter representations to allow for a detection in the near future occur naturally in the context of string theory embeddings of the Standard Model. A detection of minicharged particles in a low energy experiment would likely be a signal of an underlying string theory and may provide a means of testing it.

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The Dark Photon

hep-ph · 2020-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

The paper surveys theoretical motivations, experimental searches, and bounds on the dark photon as a kinetically mixed gauge boson from a dark sector, covering both massive and massless cases along with related milli-charged fermion constraints.

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  • Holographic Entanglement Anisotropy as a Dark Deformation RG Probe in Hyperscaling-Violating $p$-Wave Superfluids hep-th · 2026-06-23 · conditional · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    Strip entanglement anisotropy S⊥−S∥ classifies dark portals in HSV p-wave superfluids into rigid rescalings versus width-running kinetic deformations with short-width W² decoupling.

  • The Dark Photon hep-ph · 2020-05-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 36 · internal anchor

    The paper surveys theoretical motivations, experimental searches, and bounds on the dark photon as a kinetically mixed gauge boson from a dark sector, covering both massive and massless cases along with related milli-charged fermion constraints.