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A coupling of a dark photon A′ from a U(1)A′ with the standard model (SM) particles can be generated through kinetic mixing represented by a parameter ϵ. A non-zero ϵ also induces a mixing between A′ and Z if dark photon mass mA′ is not zero. This mixing can be large when mA′ is close to mZ even if the parameter ϵ is small. Many efforts have been made to constrain the parameter ϵ for a low dark photon mass mA′ compared with the Z boson mass mZ . We study the search for dark photon in e+e− → γA′ → γμ+μ− for a dark photon mass mA′ as large as kinematically allowed at future e+e− colliders. For large mA′, care should be taken to properly treat possible large mixing between A′ and Z. We obtain sensitivities to the parameter ϵ for a wide range of dark photon mass at planed e+e− colliders, such as Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), International Linear Collider (ILC) and Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee). For the dark photon mass 20 GeV ≲ mA′ ≲ 330 GeV, the 2σ exclusion limits on the mixing parameter are ϵ ≲ 10−3-10−2. The CEPC with \( \sqrt{s}=240 \) GeV and FCC-ee with \( \sqrt{s}=160 \) GeV are more sensitive than the constraint from current LHCb measurement once the dark photon mass mA′ ≳ 50 GeV. For mA′ ≳ 220 GeV, the sensitivity at the FCC-ee with \( \sqrt{s}=350 \) GeV and 1.5 ab−1 is better than that at the 13 TeV LHC with 300 fb−1, while the sensitivity at the CEPC with \( \sqrt{s}=240 \) GeV and 5ab−1 can be even better than that at 13TeV LHC with 3ab−1 for mA′ ≳ 180 GeV. We also comment on sensitivities of e+e− → γA′ with dark photon decay into several other channels at future e+e− colliders.
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He, M., He, XG., Huang, CK. et al. Search for a heavy dark photon at future e+e− colliders. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 139 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2018)139
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