Implications of the dark axion portal for SHiP and FASER and the advantages of monophoton signals

Abstract

We investigate the implications of the dark axion portal interaction, the axion-photon-dark photon vertex, for the future experiments SHiP and FASER. We also study the phenomenology of the combined vector portal (kinetic mixing of the photon and dark photon) and dark axion portal. The muon $g-2$ discrepancy is unfortunately not solved even with the two portals, but the low-energy beam dump experiments with monophoton detection capability can open new opportunities in light dark sector searches using the combined portals.

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures. v2 added an additional reference. v3 version published in Phys. Rev. D. Added discussion of MATHUSLA, REDTOP and NA62