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Edges and Endpoints in 21-cm Observations from Resonant Photon Production

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arxiv 2009.03899 v1 pith:VBR5Y7P3 submitted 2020-09-08 astro-ph.CO hep-ph

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We introduce a novel class of signatures---spectral edges and endpoints---in 21-cm measurements resulting from interactions between the standard and dark sectors. Within the context of a kinetically mixed dark photon, we demonstrate how resonant dark photon-to-photon conversions can imprint distinctive spectral features in the observed 21-cm brightness temperature, with implications for current, upcoming, and proposed experiments targeting the cosmic dawn and the dark ages. These signatures open up a qualitatively new way to look for physics beyond the Standard Model using 21-cm observations.

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