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Dark sector radiation corrections to invisible dark photon production: beyond fixed order

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Pith's one-line read The paper establishes that the quasi-collinear $1/M_X^2$ singularity in the invisible dark photon missing-mass distribution is resummed by a primary Sudakov factor into an integrable, normalized jet-mass line shape, and that including…

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arxiv 2608.12079 v1 pith:ZYQ3KI3B submitted 2026-08-12 hep-ph

Xiangyu Deng , Yi Li , Mengchao Zhang This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords darkphotonAbelianHiggsmodelinvisibleproductionmissingmassdistributionjetSudakovresummationcollineardivergencemono-photonsearch
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The reading

This paper asks what happens to the $M_X^2$ distribution of mono-photon events when the dark photon lives in a dark Abelian Higgs model with a light dark Higgs and a light dark fermion. It shows that the total NLO cross section is infrared-safe after resonance subtraction, but the differential distribution develops a quasi-collinear $1/M_X^2$ divergence in the region where all dark-sector masses are small. It then proves that a primary Sudakov factor, the no-radiation probability of the final-state dark photon, converts this divergence into an integrable, normalized line shape that is the jet mass of the dark photon branch. The result is a resummed prediction that, after matching to fixed order and detector response, changes the inferred kinetic-mixing limits by up to about 14%.

What carries the argument

The central object is the squared missing mass $M_X^2$, interpreted as the jet mass of the invisible dark-photon branch. The load-bearing mechanism is the primary Sudakov factor $\Delta_{\rm pri}$, the no-radiation probability between the hard scale $Q_{\rm hard}^2\sim s$ and the measured scale $M_X^2$, which multiplies the fixed-order singular distribution and converts $(M_X^2)^{-1}$ into an integrable $(M_X^2)^{-1+a_{\rm pri}}$ endpoint enhancement. The secondary Sudakov factor treats soft radiation from the daughters of the primary splitting, with an angular-ordering constraint that enforces the dipole cancellation removing the would-be double-log contribution. An additive matching formula, fixed order plus resummed minus the singular overlap, joins the low-$M_X^2$ resummed region to the high-$M_X^2$ hard region.

What would settle it

Measure the mono-photon missing-mass spectrum in a high-statistics $e^+e^-$ run at $\sqrt{s}=10$ GeV with $m_{A'}\ll\sqrt{s}$ and known $\alpha'$: the resummed prediction makes the cumulative distribution scale as $(M_X^2/Q_{\rm hard}^2)^{a_{\rm pri}}$, with $a_{\rm pri}=(\alpha'/\pi)(Q_S^2/12+Q_\chi^2/3)$, whereas the fixed-order prediction would show the unintegrated $a_{\rm pri}/M_X^2$ power law down to the detector resolution.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the fixed-order quasi-collinear NLO distribution, $$ \frac{1}{\sigma_0}\frac{d\sigma_{\rm NLO}}{$dM_X^{2}$} \simeq \frac{a_{\rm pri}}{$M_X^{2}$}, \qquad a_{\rm pri} = \frac{\$\alpha$'}{\pi}\left(\frac{$Q_S^{2}$}{12}+\frac{Q_\$chi^{2}$}{3}\right), $$ is converted by the primary Sudakov factor $\Delta_{\rm pri}(Q_{\rm hard}^2,M_X^2)=\exp[-a_{\rm pri}\ln(Q_{\rm hard}^2/M_X^2)]$ into the integrable, normalized line shape $$ \frac{1}{\sigma_0}\frac{d\sigma_{\rm pri}^{\rm resum}}{$dM_X^{2}$} = \frac{a_{\rm pri}}{$M_X^{2}$}\,\exp\!\left[-a_{\rm pri}\ln\frac{Q_{\rm hard}^2}{$M_X^{2}$}\right]. $$ The same coefficient $a_{\rm pri}$ controls the singularity and the exponent because the primary splitting kernels $P_{T\to Ls}(z)=z(1-z)$ and $P_{T\to\chi\bar\chi}(z)=z^2+(1-z)^2$ have no soft endpoint pole. Secondary radiation from the daughter system is suppressed by a dipole angular-ordering cancellation, so the secondary factor $C_{\rm sec}$ is within about 2% of unity even at $\alpha'=0.5$. After additive matching to the fixed-order hard region and convolution with detector response, the predicted spectrum shifts recast kinetic-mixing limits by up to about 14%.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is the strong mass hierarchy $m_{A'}^2, m_s^2, m_\chi^2 \ll M_X^2 \ll Q_{\rm hard}^2 \sim s$, which lets every dark-sector particle be treated as massless in the collinear region; if the dark Higgs or dark photon is not light compared with the measured missing mass, the $1/M_X^2$ enhancement stops controlling the distribution and the resummed line shape no longer applies.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The $M_X^2$ distribution is integrable and normalized after the primary Sudakov resummation, so every finite bin of the missing-mass spectrum is a well-defined prediction even though the fixed-order distribution diverges as $1/M_X^2$.
  • Secondary soft radiation modifies the line shape by less than about 2% even at $\alpha'=0.5$, so the leading-log primary-resummed result is already a good approximation for the endpoint region.
  • Dark-sector radiation broadens the reconstructed missing-mass signal, which generally weakens the mono-photon constraint on the kinetic-mixing parameter: up to about 10% for equal dark charges and up to about 14% for charge assignments $(Q_S,Q_\chi)=(1/4,1)$ at $\alpha'=0.5$.
  • The matched particle-level distribution, which combines the resummed low-$q$ region with the fixed-order high-$q$ region and subtracts the singular overlap, connects smoothly to the hard region and can be convolved with detector response.
  • The same primary radiation coefficient $a_{\rm pri}$ controls both the fixed-order singularity and the resummation exponent, so the shape and the rate correction are tied to the same combination of dark-sector charges.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A high-statistics measurement of the mono-photon $M_X^2$ spectrum at a future $e^+e^-$ collider could extract the combination $Q_S^2/12+Q_\chi^2/3$ from the shape alone, separating the dark-sector coupling structure from the overall kinetic-mixing scale.
  • The factorization $d\sigma_{\gamma+X}\simeq d\sigma_{\gamma+A'^*}\times dP_{A'\to X}$ should apply to other invisible dark-sector final states with a collinear tail, such as invisible dark Higgs or $Z'$ production, so the machinery developed here is a template for resumming those line shapes.
  • The size of the recast shift depends on identifying $Q_{\rm hard}^2$ with $s$; varying $Q_{\rm hard}^2$ over a plausible range would bracket an additional systematic uncertainty on the 14% estimate that the paper does not quantify.
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Summary. The paper studies e+e- -> gamma A' production in a dark Abelian Higgs model with a light dark fermion chi, computing NLO virtual and real corrections from the dark Higgs and chi sectors. It shows that the inclusive NLO cross section is IR-safe after resonance subtraction, identifies a quasi-collinear 1/M_X^2 enhancement in the differential missing-mass-squared distribution, and resums it with a primary plus secondary Sudakov treatment to obtain an integrable, normalized line shape. The matched particle-level distribution is then convolved with a Crystal-Ball detector response and used in a simplified recast of the BaBar mono-photon search, with the result that dark-sector radiation can modify the inferred epsilon limit by up to about 14% for alpha'=0.5.

Significance. If the Sudakov treatment is accepted, the paper provides the first analytic resummed M_X^2 prediction for invisible dark-photon production in this model, together with an explicit inclusive IR-safety check and a transparent matching/recast pipeline. The derivations in Eqs. (44)-(53), the collinear coefficient in Eq. (67), and the normalized endpoint distribution in Eq. (79) are internally consistent, and the paper does not fit parameters to data. The main phenomenological claim is, however, sensitive to the choice of hard scale and to the treatment of intermediate dark-photon masses, so the numerical conclusion is not yet fully robust.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section V.A and Section VI.D (Eqs. (78), (116), (122))] The hard scale Q_hard^2 is identified with s (Eq. (71)) without a specified value or uncertainty band, but the kinematic endpoint of the BaBar LowM selection is qmax = s - 2 E_cut^gamma sqrt(s) ~ 48 GeV^2 at sqrt(s)=10.58 GeV, not s ~ 112 GeV^2. The primary-resummed distribution r_resum(q) = C_sec (a_pri/q)(q/Q_hard^2)^{a_pri} and the normalization beta_peak in Eq. (122) depend on Q_hard^2. For alpha'=0.5, a_pri ~ 0.066, and changing Q_hard^2 from 112 to 48 GeV^2 changes the integrated Sudakov weight below q2 by roughly (48/112)^{a_pri} ~ 0.945, a 5.5% effect of the same order as the claimed limit shifts in Table IV. The manuscript should either adopt qmax as the hard scale or provide a scale-variation band for epsilon'/epsilon_0 before the ~14% statement can be considered robust.
  2. [Section VI.D (Figs. 4-5, Eq. (121))] The recast uses the massless matched spectrum only for mA' <= 0.1 GeV and the finite-mass NLO distribution for mA' >= 0.5 GeV. For mA' >= 0.5 GeV, m_A'^2 >= 0.25 GeV^2, so the hierarchy m_A'^2 << M_X^2 in Eq. (71) is not satisfied in the low-M_X tail, and the fixed-order quasi-collinear 1/M_X^2 divergence is left un-resummed in exactly the mass region displayed in Fig. 5. Since the low-M_X tail feeds the binned likelihood through Eq. (128), the plotted limit ratios for mA' ≳ 0.5 GeV rest on an un-resummed distribution. Please either extend the resummation with a mass-dependent low-scale cutoff or restrict the resummed limit claim to the massless regime and clearly label the high-mass extension as an un-resummed estimate.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section VI.A] For the BaBar LowM selection, qmax = s - 2 E_cut^gamma sqrt(s) is approximately 48.5 GeV^2 at sqrt(s)=10.58 GeV, not 40 GeV^2; the numerical values used in the text and Table IV should be made consistent.
  2. [Eq. (119)] With sqrt(s)=10.58 GeV, q1=0.01 s = 1.12 GeV^2 and q2=0.10 s = 11.2 GeV^2; if the rounded values 1 and 10 GeV^2 are intended, this should be stated explicitly.
  3. [Section VI.C] The statement that the final conclusion is insensitive to q_det is not demonstrated; a short scan over q_det or an argument based on the detector resolution would support this claim.
  4. [Section VI.D] The recast uses digitized BaBar background expectations from a fitted curve without propagating the digitization uncertainty; a validation against the official bin-by-bin workspace or an estimate of the digitization error would improve the robustness of S_fit and epsilon'/epsilon_0.
  5. [Section V.C] The leading-log treatment of the secondary Sudakov factor replaces the sum constraint on t_sec,i/zeta_i by individual constraints (Eq. (90)) and relies on angular ordering; the numerical precision quoted for C_sec in Table I should be accompanied by an estimate of the uncertainty from these approximations.

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No circularity: the resummed M_X^2 line shape follows from the paper's own NLO singular coefficient via standard exponentiation; self-citations are context or consistency checks, not load-bearing.

full rationale

The derivation chain is self-contained. The singular coefficient a_pri is derived in Sec. IVB from the paper's own real-emission amplitudes (Eqs. (64), (66), (67)), not imported from a fit. The splitting kernels cited from [70] are checked against this coefficient in Eq. (77), so the Sudakov exponent is an internal consistency check rather than an input assumed from prior work. Equation (78) defines the no-emission probability, and Eq. (79) multiplies the same singular term by it; the normalization follows from the exponential form, not from data. The secondary Sudakov factor C_sec is obtained as a dimensionless integral (Eq. (106)) after an explicit derivation that Q_hard cancels (Eqs. (103)-(105)), so the claimed M_X-independence of the secondary correction is derived rather than assumed. The matching in Eqs. (117)-(122) uses K_NLO as an overall normalization; it does not fit the shape. The Q_hard^2 ~ s identification in Eq. (71) is a scale choice with a possible uncertainty band (especially under the BaBar LowM cut with q_max ~ 40 GeV^2), which is a correctness or robustness concern, not circularity. The self-citations [70,83] provide earlier context, splitting kernels, and a loop formula, but the KLN cancellation and the resummed line shape are re-derived or verified within this paper, so no load-bearing step reduces to its own input.

Assumptions & free parameters 8 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The model has several hand-picked benchmark parameters and a few scale choices. The central derivation does not fit any number to data, but the final recast depends on Q_hard, q_det, and matching scales that are not derived from first principles.

free parameters (8)
  • alpha' = 0.1, 0.3, 0.5
    Dark gauge coupling chosen for benchmarks; enters all dark radiation rates and the Sudakov exponent.
  • Q_S, Q_chi = (1,1), (1,1/4), (1/4,1)
    Dark U(1)' charge assignments chosen for benchmarks; enter primary and secondary splitting coefficients.
  • r = m_A'^2/m_s^2 = 1
    Mass ratio fixed to 1 in numerical benchmarks; the IR-safety analysis assumes fixed r as m_A' goes to zero.
  • mu (renormalization scale) = 10 GeV
    Appears in the UV logarithms of virtual corrections; chosen equal to sqrt(s) in benchmarks.
  • E_cut_gamma = 1 GeV (Sec. III), 3 GeV (BaBar recast)
    Photon energy cut defines q_cut^2 and selects the BaBar LowM region; changes the real-emission phase space.
  • Q_hard^2 = not specified; effectively ~ s = 100 GeV^2
    Hard scale in the Sudakov exponent and matched distribution; the paper only says it is of order s.
  • q_det = 0.01 GeV^2
    Unresolved boundary below which the detector is assumed not to resolve the splitting; sets the delta-function coefficient beta_peak.
  • q1, q2 matching scales = q1 = 0.01s = 1 GeV^2, q2 = 0.10s = 10 GeV^2
    Chosen switching scales in the additive matching formula; no sensitivity study is shown.
assumptions (5)
  • standard math Perturbative QFT and Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg cancellation of IR logarithms in inclusive cross sections
    Used throughout Sec. III C as unproved background for the real-virtual cancellation.
  • domain assumption Factorization of the process into e+e- -> gamma A'* production times A'* -> X splitting (Eq. 72)
    Assumed at leading power in the massless-collinear limit; this is the basis of the Sudakov treatment.
  • domain assumption Angular ordering and dipole coherence for secondary radiation from the chi-chibar or (A'_L, s) pair
    Invoked in Sec. V B to impose theta_i < theta and to justify suppression of wide-angle emission.
  • ad hoc to paper Resonance subtraction for the chi channel does not remove genuine NLO radiation
    The pole-profile subtraction (Eqs. 31-35) is a scheme choice; it changes the split between sigma0 and sigma_R^(chi), though not the total rate.
  • domain assumption Dark sector parameters satisfy m_chi << m_A', m_s << sqrt(s), and the Higgs portal is negligible
    Needed for fully invisible decays and for the massless hierarchy in Eq. (71) that generates the collinear enhancement.
invented entities (1)
  • Light dark fermion chi
    purpose: Main invisible decay channel of the dark photon, generating the chi-chibar real-emission and loop contributions.
    Introduced in Eq. (1) as an ingredient of the model to make A' decays invisible; there is no direct experimental evidence for it.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Dark sector radiation corrections to invisible dark photon production: beyond fixed order},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/ZYQ3KI3B}},
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abstract

In this work we study invisible dark photon production at electron-positron colliders in a dark Abelian Higgs model at NLO (next-to-leading-order), and the physical distribution of squared missing mass $M_X^2$. We show that the fixed order correction to the total cross section for the process $e^+e^-\to \gamma A'$, with $A'$ the dark photon, is infrared-safe, but the corresponding differential distribution of $M_X^2$ reveals a quasi-collinear $1/M_X^2$ divergence when the masses of dark sector particles are much smaller than the hard scale. By using the Sudakov resummation method, we obtain an integrable, normalized distribution of $M_X^2$, which is actually the ``jet mass'' of the dark photon branch. We also discuss how these dark sector corrections impact the invisible dark photon search at electron-positron colliders.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Numerical illustration of the fixed-order NLO correction in the resonance-subtracted scheme. All curves [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_1.png] view at source ↗
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