Collider probes of axion-like particles
Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP decays into SM particles at one-loop order, including for th...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) Kapitel/Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2017
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Arxiv
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| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00443
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| Verfasserangaben: | Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert and Andrea Thamm |
| Zusammenfassung: | Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP decays into SM particles at one-loop order, including for the first time a calculation of the $a\to\pi\pi\pi$ decay rates for ALP masses below a few GeV. We argue that, if the ALP couples to at least some SM particles with couplings of order $(0.01-1) \mbox{TeV}^{-1}$, its mass must be above 1 MeV. Taking into account the possibility of a macroscopic ALP decay length, we show that large regions of so far unconstrained parameter space can be explored by searches for the exotic, on-shell Higgs and $Z$ decays |
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