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Bonnefoy Q, Grojean C, Kley J. Shift-Invariant Orders of an Axionlike Particle. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:111803. [PMID: 37001067 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.111803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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It is generally believed that global symmetries, in particular, axion shift symmetries, can only be approximate. This motivates one to quantify the breaking of the shift invariance that characterizes the flavorful effective couplings of an axionlike particle to standard model fermions. We identify a minimal set of Jarlskog-like flavor invariants that vanish if and only if the axion is shift symmetric. Therefore, they represent order parameters for the breaking of the axion shift symmetry. We illustrate properties of the invariants by matching to a UV model, studying the CP transformation of the invariants, calculating their renormalization group evolution, and investigating similar conditions in the low-energy effective field theory below the electroweak scale. Finally, we discuss the order parameter associated to the nonperturbative shift-breaking induced by the axion-gluons coupling, which is also flavorful.
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- Quentin Bonnefoy
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Al Ali H, Arkani-Hamed N, Banta I, Benevedes S, Buttazzo D, Cai T, Cheng J, Cohen T, Craig N, Ekhterachian M, Fan J, Forslund M, Garcia IG, Homiller S, Koren S, Koszegi G, Liu Z, Lu Q, Lyu KF, Mariotti A, McCune A, Meade P, Ojalvo I, Oktem U, Redigolo D, Reece M, Sala F, Sundrum R, Sutherland D, Tesi A, Trott T, Tully C, Wang LT, Wang M. The muon Smasher's guide. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 85:084201. [PMID: 35413691 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac6678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We lay out a comprehensive physics case for a future high-energy muon collider, exploring a range of collision energies (from 1 to 100 TeV) and luminosities. We highlight the advantages of such a collider over proposed alternatives. We show how one can leverage both the point-like nature of the muons themselves as well as the cloud of electroweak radiation that surrounds the beam to blur the dichotomy between energy and precision in the search for new physics. The physics case is buttressed by a range of studies with applications to electroweak symmetry breaking, dark matter, and the naturalness of the weak scale. Furthermore, we make sharp connections with complementary experiments that are probing new physics effects using electric dipole moments, flavor violation, and gravitational waves. An extensive appendix provides cross section predictions as a function of the center-of-mass energy for many canonical simplified models.
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- Hind Al Ali
- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Institute for Fundamental Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America
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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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- Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China
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- Theoretische Natuurkunde and IIHE/ELEM, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and International Solvay Institutes, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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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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- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States of America
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- LPTHE, CNRS & Sorbonne Universite, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America
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- INFN Sezione di Trieste, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy
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- INFN Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, United States of America
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Prospects for Probing Axionlike Particles at a Future Hadron Collider through Top Quark Production. UNIVERSE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/universe8060301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments that intend to search for new physics beyond the SM. We discuss the reach of future pp collider FCC-hh in probing the ALP model parameters through top quark pair production associated with ALP (tt¯+ALP) in a model-independent approach. The search is performed in the semi-leptonic decay mode of tt¯ and the analysis is performed using a parametric simulation of the detector response for a projected integrated luminosity of 30ab−1. It is shown that tt¯+ALP production at the FCC-hh is a promising channel with significant sensitivity to probe the ALP coupling with gluons. The ALP coupling with gluons obtained from HL-LHC and other experiments is presented for comparison.
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Borsato M, Cid Vidal X, Tsai Y, Vázquez Sierra C, Zurita J, Alonso-Álvarez G, Boyarsky A, Brea Rodríguez A, Buarque Franzosi D, Cacciapaglia G, Casais Vidal A, Du M, Elor G, Escudero M, Ferretti G, Flacke T, Foldenauer P, Hajer J, Henry L, Ilten P, Kamenik J, Kishor Jashal B, Knapen S, Kostiuk I, Redi FL, Low M, Liu Z, Oyanguren Campos A, Polycarpo E, Ramos M, Ramos Pernas M, Salvioni E, Rangel MS, Schäfer R, Sestini L, Soreq Y, Tran VQ, Timiryasov I, van Veghel M, Westhoff S, Williams M, Zupan J. Unleashing the full power of LHCb to probe stealth new physics. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 85:024201. [PMID: 34942603 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ac4649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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In this paper, we describe the potential of the LHCb experiment to detect stealth physics. This refers to dynamics beyond the standard model that would elude searches that focus on energetic objects or precision measurements of known processes. Stealth signatures include long-lived particles and light resonances that are produced very rarely or together with overwhelming backgrounds. We will discuss why LHCb is equipped to discover this kind of physics at the Large Hadron Collider and provide examples of well-motivated theoretical models that can be probed with great detail at the experiment.
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- M Borsato
- Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, United States of America
- Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 46556, United States of America
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV), Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Physics & McGill Space Institute, McGill University, 3600 Rue University, Montréal, QC, H3A 2T8, Canada
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- Intituut-Lorentz, Leiden University, 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fysikgården, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
- Physics Department, University of Gothenburg, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- University of Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69001 Lyon, France
- Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis (IP2I) de Lyon, CNRS/UMR5822, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, United States of America
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- Physik-Department, Technische Universität, München, James-Franck-Straße, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fysikgården, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34126, Republic of Korea
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- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, Belgium
- Department of Physics, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstraße 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
- Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-UV), Valencia, Spain
- INFN Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, United States of America
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- Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Theoretical Physics Department, Fermilab, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
- Center for High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- CAFPE and Departamento de Física Teórica y del Cosmos, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Fuentenueva, E-18071 Granada, Spain
- Laboratório de Instrumentaçao e Física Experimental de Partículas, Departamento de Física da Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Padova Division, Padova, Italy
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- Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
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- Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, 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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Cobal M, De Dominicis C, Fabbrichesi M, Gabrielli E, Magro J, Mele B, Panizzo G. Z
-boson decays into an invisible dark photon at the LHC, HL-LHC, and future lepton colliders. Int J Clin Exp Med 2020. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.035027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Flores M, Gross C, Kim JS, Lebedev O, Mondal S. Multi-Higgs boson probes of the dark sector. Int J Clin Exp Med 2020. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.102.015004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Hook A, Kumar S, Liu Z, Sundrum R. High Quality QCD Axion and the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:221801. [PMID: 32567887 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.221801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The QCD axion provides an elegant solution to the strong CP problem. While the minimal realization is vulnerable to the so-called "axion quality problem," we will consider a more robust realization in the presence of a mirror sector related to the standard model by a (softly broken) Z_{2} symmetry. We point out that the resulting "heavy" axion, while satisfying all theoretical and observational constraints, has a large and uncharted parameter space, which allows it to be probed at the LHC as a long-lived particle (LLP). The small defining axionic coupling to gluons results in a challenging hadronic decay signal which we argue can be distinguished against the background in such a long-lived regime, and yet, the same coupling allows for sufficient production at the hadron colliders thanks to the large gluon-parton luminosity. Our study opens up a new window towards accelerator observable axions and, more generally, singly produced LLPs.
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- Anson Hook
- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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Bauer M, Neubert M, Renner S, Schnubel M, Thamm A. Axionlike Particles, Lepton-Flavor Violation, and a New Explanation of a_{μ} and a_{e}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:211803. [PMID: 32530685 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.211803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Axionlike particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavor-violating couplings can be probed in exotic muon and tau decays. The sensitivity of different experiments depends strongly on the ALP mass and its couplings to leptons and photons. For ALPs that can be resonantly produced, the sensitivity of three-body decays such as μ→3e and τ→3μ exceeds by many orders of magnitude that of radiative decays like μ→eγ and τ→μγ. Searches for these two types of processes are therefore highly complementary. We discuss experimental constraints on ALPs with a single dominant lepton-flavor-violating coupling. Allowing for one or more such couplings offers qualitatively new ways to explain the anomalies related to the magnetic moments of the muon or the electron. The explanation of both anomalies requires lepton-flavor-nonuniversal or lepton-flavor-violating ALP couplings.
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- Martin Bauer
- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
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- PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
- Department of Physics and LEPP, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Gavela MB, No JM, Sanz V, de Trocóniz JF. Nonresonant Searches for Axionlike Particles at the LHC. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:051802. [PMID: 32083910 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.051802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We propose a new collider probe for axionlike particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: nonresonant searches that take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs can participate as off shell mediators in the s channel of 2→2 scattering processes at colliders like the LHC. We exemplify the power of this novel type of search by deriving new limits on ALP couplings to gauge bosons via the processes pp→ZZ, pp→γγ, and pp→jj using run 2 CMS public data, probing previously unexplored areas of the ALP parameter space. In addition, we propose future nonresonant searches involving the ALP coupling to other electroweak bosons and/or the Higgs particle.
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- M B Gavela
- Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Fisica Teorica, IFT-UAM/CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Fisica Teorica, IFT-UAM/CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, BN1 9QH Brighton, United Kingdom
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- Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Curtin D, Drewes M, McCullough M, Meade P, Mohapatra RN, Shelton J, Shuve B, Accomando E, Alpigiani C, Antusch S, Carlos Arteaga-Velázquez J, Batell B, Bauer M, Blinov N, Salomé Caballero-Mora K, Hyeok Chang J, Chun EJ, Co RT, Cohen T, Cox P, Craig N, Csáki C, Cui Y, D'Eramo F, Delle Rose L, Bhupal Dev PS, Dienes KR, Dror JA, Essig R, Evans JA, Evans JL, Fernández Tellez A, Fischer O, Flacke T, Fradette A, Frugiuele C, Fuchs E, Gherghetta T, Giudice GF, Gorbunov D, Gupta RS, Hagedorn C, Hall LJ, Harris P, Carlos Helo J, Hirsch M, Hochberg Y, Hook A, Ibarra A, Ipek S, Jung S, Knapen S, Kuflik E, Liu Z, Lombardo S, Lubatti HJ, McKeen D, Molinaro E, Moretti S, Nagata N, Neubert M, Miguel No J, Olaiya E, Perez G, Peskin ME, Pinner D, Pospelov M, Reece M, Robinson DJ, Rodríguez Cahuantzi M, Santonico R, Schlaffer M, Shepherd-Themistocleous CH, Spray A, Stolarski D, Subieta Vasquez MA, Sundrum R, Thamm A, Thomas B, Tsai Y, Tweedie B, West SM, Young C, Yu F, Zaldivar B, Zhang Y, Zurek K, Zurita J. Long-lived particles at the energy frontier: the MATHUSLA physics case. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2019; 82:116201. [PMID: 31185458 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ab28d6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We examine the theoretical motivations for long-lived particle (LLP) signals at the LHC in a comprehensive survey of standard model (SM) extensions. LLPs are a common prediction of a wide range of theories that address unsolved fundamental mysteries such as naturalness, dark matter, baryogenesis and neutrino masses, and represent a natural and generic possibility for physics beyond the SM (BSM). In most cases the LLP lifetime can be treated as a free parameter from the [Formula: see text]m scale up to the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis limit of [Formula: see text] m. Neutral LLPs with lifetimes above [Formula: see text]100 m are particularly difficult to probe, as the sensitivity of the LHC main detectors is limited by challenging backgrounds, triggers, and small acceptances. MATHUSLA is a proposal for a minimally instrumented, large-volume surface detector near ATLAS or CMS. It would search for neutral LLPs produced in HL-LHC collisions by reconstructing displaced vertices (DVs) in a low-background environment, extending the sensitivity of the main detectors by orders of magnitude in the long-lifetime regime. We study the LLP physics opportunities afforded by a MATHUSLA-like detector at the HL-LHC, assuming backgrounds can be rejected as expected. We develop a model-independent approach to describe the sensitivity of MATHUSLA to BSM LLP signals, and compare it to DV and missing energy searches at ATLAS or CMS. We then explore the BSM motivations for LLPs in considerable detail, presenting a large number of new sensitivity studies. While our discussion is especially oriented towards the long-lifetime regime at MATHUSLA, this survey underlines the importance of a varied LLP search program at the LHC in general. By synthesizing these results into a general discussion of the top-down and bottom-up motivations for LLP searches, it is our aim to demonstrate the exceptional strength and breadth of the physics case for the construction of the MATHUSLA detector.
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- David Curtin
- Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
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Aloni D, Fanelli C, Soreq Y, Williams M. Photoproduction of Axionlike Particles. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:071801. [PMID: 31491097 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.071801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2019] [Revised: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We explore the sensitivity of photon-beam experiments to axionlike particles (ALPs) with QCD-scale masses whose dominant coupling to the standard model is either to photons or gluons. We introduce a novel data-driven method that eliminates the need for knowledge of nuclear form factors or the photon-beam flux when considering coherent Primakoff production off a nuclear target, and show that data collected by the PrimEx experiment in 2004 could improve the sensitivity to ALPs with 0.03≲m_{a}≲0.3 GeV by an order of magnitude. Furthermore, we explore the potential sensitivity of running the GlueX experiment with a nuclear target and its planned PrimEx -like calorimeter. For the case where the dominant coupling is to gluons, we study photoproduction for the first time, and predict the future sensitivity of the GlueX experiment using its nominal proton target. Finally, we set world-leading limits for both the ALP-gluon coupling and the ALP-photon coupling based on public mass plots.
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- Daniel Aloni
- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
- Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
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- Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Ebadi J, Khatibi S, Mohammadi Najafabadi M. New probes for axionlike particles at hadron colliders. Int J Clin Exp Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.015016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Dillon BM, King B. ALP production through non-linear Compton scattering in intense fields. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2018; 78:775. [PMID: 30956563 PMCID: PMC6413628 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6207-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 09/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We derive production yields for massive pseudo-scalar and scalar axion-like-particles (ALPs), through non-linear Compton scattering of an electron in the background of low- and high-intensity electromagnetic fields. In particular, we focus on electromagnetic fields from Gaussian plane wave laser pulses. A detailed study of the angular distributions and effects of the scalar and pseudo-scalar masses is presented. It is shown that ultra-relativistic seed electrons can be used to produce scalars and pseudo-scalars with masses up to the order of the electron mass. We briefly discuss future applications of this work towards lab-based searches for light beyond-the-Standard-Model particles.
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- Barry M. Dillon
- Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4 8AA UK
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- Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, PL4 8AA UK
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Cacciapaglia G, Ferretti G, Flacke T, Serôdio H. Revealing timid pseudo-scalars with taus at the LHC. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. C, PARTICLES AND FIELDS 2018; 78:724. [PMID: 30839775 PMCID: PMC6191168 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6183-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A light pseudo-scalar that is copiously produced at the LHC may still be allowed by present searches. While masses above 65 GeV are effectively covered by di-photon searches, the lower mass window can be tested by a new search for boosted di-tau resonances. We test this strategy on a set of composite Higgs models with top partial compositeness, where most models can be probed with an integrated luminosity below 300 fb - 1 .
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- Giacomo Cacciapaglia
- Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR5822, IPNL, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Fysikgården 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 34126 Korea
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- Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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