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Altmannshofer W, Dror JA, Gori S. New Opportunities for Detecting Axion-Lepton Interactions. Phys Rev Lett 2023; 130:241801. [PMID: 37390414 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.241801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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We revisit the theory and constraints on axionlike particles (ALPs) interacting with leptons. We clarify some subtleties in the constraints on ALP parameter space and find several new opportunities for ALP detection. We identify a qualitative difference between weak-violating and weak-preserving ALPs, which dramatically change the current constraints due to possible "energy enhancements" in various processes. This new understanding leads to additional opportunities for ALP detection through charged meson decays (e.g., π^{+}→e^{+}νa, K^{+}→e^{+}νa) and W boson decays. The new bounds impact both weak-preserving and weak-violating ALPs and have implications for the QCD axion and addressing experimental anomalies using ALPs.
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- Wolfgang Altmannshofer
- Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
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The anomalies in rare B decays endure. We present results of an updated global analysis that takes into account the latest experimental input - in particular the recent results on R K and BR ( B s → μ + μ - ) - and that qualitatively improves the treatment of theory uncertainties. Fit results are presented for the Wilson coefficients of four-fermion contact interactions. We find that muon specific Wilson coefficients C 9 ≃ - 0.73 or C 9 = - C 10 ≃ - 0.39 continue to give an excellent description of the data. If only theoretically clean observables are considered, muon specific C 10 ≃ 0.60 or C 9 = - C 10 ≃ - 0.35 improve over the Standard Model by Δ χ 2 ≃ 4.7 σ and Δ χ 2 ≃ 4.6 σ , respectively. In various new physics scenarios we provide predictions for lepton flavor universality observables and CP asymmetries that can be tested with more data. We update our previous combination of ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data on BR ( B s → μ + μ - ) and BR ( B 0 → μ + μ - ) taking into account the full two-dimensional non-Gaussian experimental likelihoods.
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- Wolfgang Altmannshofer
- Department of Physics and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
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- Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Alekhin S, Altmannshofer W, Asaka T, Batell B, Bezrukov F, Bondarenko K, Boyarsky A, Choi KY, Corral C, Craig N, Curtin D, Davidson S, de Gouvêa A, Dell'Oro S, deNiverville P, Bhupal Dev PS, Dreiner H, Drewes M, Eijima S, Essig R, Fradette A, Garbrecht B, Gavela B, Giudice GF, Goodsell MD, Gorbunov D, Gori S, Grojean C, Guffanti A, Hambye T, Hansen SH, Helo JC, Hernandez P, Ibarra A, Ivashko A, Izaguirre E, Jaeckel J, Jeong YS, Kahlhoefer F, Kahn Y, Katz A, Kim CS, Kovalenko S, Krnjaic G, Lyubovitskij VE, Marcocci S, Mccullough M, McKeen D, Mitselmakher G, Moch SO, Mohapatra RN, Morrissey DE, Ovchynnikov M, Paschos E, Pilaftsis A, Pospelov M, Reno MH, Ringwald A, Ritz A, Roszkowski L, Rubakov V, Ruchayskiy O, Schienbein I, Schmeier D, Schmidt-Hoberg K, Schwaller P, Senjanovic G, Seto O, Shaposhnikov M, Shchutska L, Shelton J, Shrock R, Shuve B, Spannowsky M, Spray A, Staub F, Stolarski D, Strassler M, Tello V, Tramontano F, Tripathi A, Tulin S, Vissani F, Winkler MW, Zurek KM. A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case. Rep Prog Phys 2016; 79:124201. [PMID: 27775925 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/12/124201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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This paper describes the physics case for a new fixed target facility at CERN SPS. The SHiP (search for hidden particles) experiment is intended to hunt for new physics in the largely unexplored domain of very weakly interacting particles with masses below the Fermi scale, inaccessible to the LHC experiments, and to study tau neutrino physics. The same proton beam setup can be used later to look for decays of tau-leptons with lepton flavour number non-conservation, [Formula: see text] and to search for weakly-interacting sub-GeV dark matter candidates. We discuss the evidence for physics beyond the standard model and describe interactions between new particles and four different portals-scalars, vectors, fermions or axion-like particles. We discuss motivations for different models, manifesting themselves via these interactions, and how they can be probed with the SHiP experiment and present several case studies. The prospects to search for relatively light SUSY and composite particles at SHiP are also discussed. We demonstrate that the SHiP experiment has a unique potential to discover new physics and can directly probe a number of solutions of beyond the standard model puzzles, such as neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry of the Universe, dark matter, and inflation.
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- Sergey Alekhin
- Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany. Institute for High Energy Physics, 142281 Protvino, Moscow region, Russia
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Altmannshofer W, Gori S, Pospelov M, Yavin I. Neutrino trident production: a powerful probe of new physics with neutrino beams. Phys Rev Lett 2014; 113:091801. [PMID: 25215977 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.113.091801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The production of a μ+ μ- pair from the scattering of a muon neutrino off the Coulomb field of a nucleus, known as neutrino trident production, is a subweak process that has been observed in only a couple of experiments. As such, we show that it constitutes an exquisitely sensitive probe in the search for new neutral currents among leptons, putting the strongest constraints on well-motivated and well-hidden extensions of the standard model gauge group, including the one coupled to the difference of the lepton number between the muon and tau flavor, Lμ-Lτ. The new gauge boson Z', increases the rate of neutrino trident production by inducing additional (μγαμ)(νγ(α)ν) interactions, which interfere constructively with the standard model contribution. Existing experimental results put significant restrictions on the parameter space of any model coupled to muon number Lμ, and disfavor a putative resolution to the muon g-2 discrepancy via the loop of Z' for any mass mZ'≳400 MeV. The reach to the models' parameter space can be widened with future searches of the trident production at high-intensity neutrino facilities such as the LBNE.
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- Wolfgang Altmannshofer
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5 and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8P 5C2
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street N, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 2Y5 and Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street W. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L8
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