We investigate the phenomenology of the dark Z boson, Zd, which is
associated with a new Abelian gauge symmetry and couples to the standard model
particles via kinetic mixing ε and mass mixing εZ.
We examine two cases: (i) Zd is lighter than the Z boson, and (ii) Zd
is heavier than that. In the first case, it is known that Zd causes a
deviation in the weak mixing angle at low energies from the standard model
prediction. We study the prediction in the model and compare it with the latest
experimental data. In the second case, the Z-Zd mixing enhances the W
boson mass. We investigate the effect of Zd on various electroweak
observables including the W boson mass using the S, T, and U
parameters. We point out an interesting feature: in the limit ε→0, the equation S=−U holds independently of the mass of Zd and the
size of εZ, while ∣S∣≫∣U∣ in many new physics models. We
find that the dark Z boson with a mass of O(100)GeV with a
relatively large mass mixing can reproduce the CDF result within 2σ
while avoiding all other experimental constraints. Such dark Z bosons are
expected to be tested at future high-energy colliders.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, more references and discussions are
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