Dark Photon mediated Inelastic Dark Matter in Cosmology, Astrophysics and Colliders

arXiv:2602.18051 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex · Submitted 2026-02-20 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, hep-ex

Submitted: 2026-02-20

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: 25 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Appendix with new figure added with scan of full parameter space. Typos corrected, references added, minor changes in the text

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Long Lived Particles — 1× in this paper
• Standard Model — 1× in this paper

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