Dark Photon Light Relics: Resonant Conversion Epochs in a Plasma History with a Temperature Ceiling
Resonance temperatures are 1.00e-05 eV for a mass of 10^-6 eV, 1.00e-01 eV for 10^-2 eV, and 1.00e+03 eV for 100 eV. Even the largest of these is only a fraction 3.54e-20 of the ceiling at the middle mass, and the ceiling itself is 2.82e+18 eV, set by the bound density of 9.72e+54 g per cubic centimetre. Extrapolating the linear relation, resonant production closes only for masses near 10^17 eV, far above any mass for which the dark photon would act as a light relic. Within the entire light-relic program, the resonant channel is therefore fully available in the bounced history. This study is computed from stated assumptions and published comparison values; it is not a measurement.
Authors
- William Alexander Aldred (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1215-577X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-11-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.24138477
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00