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Goudzovski E, Redigolo D, Tobioka K, Zupan J, Alonso-Álvarez G, Alves DSM, Bansal S, Bauer M, Brod J, Chobanova V, D'Ambrosio G, Datta A, Dery A, Dettori F, Dobrescu BA, Döbrich B, Egana-Ugrinovic D, Elor G, Escudero M, Fabbrichesi M, Fornal B, Fox PJ, Gabrielli E, Geng LS, Gligorov VV, Gorbahn M, Gori S, Grinstein B, Grossman Y, Guadagnoli D, Homiller S, Hostert M, Kelly KJ, Kitahara T, Knapen S, Krnjaic G, Kupsc A, Kvedaraitė S, Lanfranchi G, Marfatia D, Camalich JM, Santos DM, Massri K, Meade P, Moulson M, Nanjo H, Neubert M, Pospelov M, Renner S, Schacht S, Schnubel M, Shi RX, Shuve B, Spadaro T, Soreq Y, Stamou E, Sumensari O, Tammaro M, Terol-Calvo J, Thamm A, Tung YC, Wang D, Yamamoto K, Ziegler R. New physics searches at kaon and hyperon factories. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2023; 86:016201. [PMID: 36279851 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac9cee] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Rare meson decays are among the most sensitive probes of both heavy and light new physics. Among them, new physics searches using kaons benefit from their small total decay widths and the availability of very large datasets. On the other hand, useful complementary information is provided by hyperon decay measurements. We summarize the relevant phenomenological models and the status of the searches in a comprehensive list of kaon and hyperon decay channels. We identify new search strategies for under-explored signatures, and demonstrate that the improved sensitivities from current and next-generation experiments could lead to a qualitative leap in the exploration of light dark sectors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Evgueni Goudzovski
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 59100 Sesto F.No, Italy
- Editors
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- Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States of America
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
- Editors
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States of America
- Editors
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- CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- McGill University Department of Physics & McGill Space Institute, 3600 Rue University, Montréal, QC, H3 2T8, Canada
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- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545,United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States of America
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- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics Durham University, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States of America
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- IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- INFN Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, ed. 6 via Cintia, 80126, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, 108 Lewis Hall, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677-1848, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, LEPP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States of America
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- Fermilab, Particle Theory Department, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, United States of America
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- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence & Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität, München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL 33161,United States of America
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- Fermilab, Particle Theory Department, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, United States of America
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- INFN Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- Department of Physics, University of Trieste, Strada Costiera 11-34151, Trieste, Italy
- Laboratory of High Energy and Computational Physics, NICPB, Rävala pst 10, 10143 Tallinn, Estonia
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- School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- LPNHE, Sorbonne Université, Paris Diderot Sorbonne Paris Cité, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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- Theoretical Physics Division, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom
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- Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, LEPP, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON N2J 2W9, Canada
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455,United States of America
- William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America
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- CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- Fermilab, Particle Theory Department, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, United States of America
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- Institute for Advanced Research & Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
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- CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America
- Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720,United States of America
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, United States of America
- University of Chicago, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chicago, IL,United States of America
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL,United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
- National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States of America
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2505 Correa Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822, United States of America
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Vía Láctea, s/n E38205-La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Astrofísica-La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- CERN, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794,United States of America
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence & Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455,United States of America
- William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America
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- CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL,United Kingdom
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- PRISMA + Cluster of Excellence & Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- School of Physics, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
- School of Space and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- Harvey Mudd College, 301 Platt Blvd., Claremont, CA 91711, United States of America
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- INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, 00044 Frascati RM, Italy
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- Physics Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, C/ Vía Láctea, s/n E38205-La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Universidad de La Laguna, Departamento de Astrofísica-La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
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- School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Rd, Da'an District, Taipei City, 10617, Taiwan
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- School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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- Core of Research for the Energetic Universe, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526,Japan
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- Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Alexandrou C, Finkenrath J, Funcke L, Jansen K, Kostrzewa B, Pittler F, Urbach C. Ruling Out the Massless Up-Quark Solution to the Strong CP Problem by Computing the Topological Mass Contribution with Lattice QCD. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:232001. [PMID: 33337203 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.232001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The infamous strong CP problem in particle physics can in principle be solved by a massless up quark. In particular, it was hypothesized that topological effects could substantially contribute to the observed nonzero up-quark mass without reintroducing CP violation. Alternatively to previous work using fits to chiral perturbation theory, in this Letter, we bound the strength of the topological mass contribution with direct lattice QCD simulations, by computing the dependence of the pion mass on the dynamical strange-quark mass. We find that the size of the topological mass contribution is inconsistent with the massless up-quark solution to the strong CP problem.
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- Constantia Alexandrou
- Department of Physics, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
- Computation-Based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Computation-Based Science and Technology Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, 20 Konstantinou Kavafi Street, 2121 Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada
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- NIC, DESY Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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- Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany
- Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany
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