Dark photon production via $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow \gamma A'$

Abstract

The dark photon is a new gauge boson which arises from an extra U'(1) gauge symmetry. In this paper, a novel dark photon production mechanism based on MeV-scale $\gamma$-$\gamma$ collider is considered: $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow \gamma A'$. With the aid of PACKAGE-X, differential cross section of $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow \gamma A'$ is obtained, as a function of the kinetic mixing parameter $\varepsilon$ and dark photon mass $m_{A'}$. Taking the light-by-light scattering as background, the constraints on the dark photon parameter space for different time intervals in a MeV-scale $\gamma$-$\gamma$ collider are also given.