Constraining dark photons and their connection to 21 cm cosmology with CMB data
arXiv:2002.08942 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135420
Abstract
In the inhomogeneous Universe, the cosmological conversion of dark photons into ordinary photons (and vice versa) may happen at a great number of resonance redshifts. This alters the CMB observed energy spectrum and degree of small-scale anisotropies. We utilize results from the EAGLE simulation to obtain the conversion probability along random line-of-sights to quantify these effects. We then apply our results to the case where dark photons are sourced by dark matter decay and their high-redshift conversion into ordinary photons modify the global 21 cm signal expected from the cosmic dawn era. Concretely, we show that a significant portion of the parameter space for which a converted population of photons in the Rayleigh-Jeans tail of the CMB explains the absorption strength observed by EDGES, is ruled out from the brightness temperature measurements of COBE/FIRAS and the CMB anisotropy measurements of Planck and SPT.
9 pages, 7 figures; numerical bug in Fig. 6 fixed; conclusions unchanged; references added
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