The ALPs from the Top: Searching for long lived axion-like particles from exotic top decays
Adrian Carmona,
Fatemeh Elahi,
Christiane Scherb
et al.
Abstract:We propose a search for long lived axion-like particles (ALPs) in exotic top decays. Flavour-violating ALPs appear as low energy effective theories for various new physics scenarios such as t-channel dark sectors or Froggatt-Nielsen models. In this case the top quark may decay to an ALP and an up-or charm-quark. For masses in the few GeV range, the ALP is long lived across most of the viable parameter space, suggesting a dedicated search. We propose to search for these long lived ALPs in t t events, using one … Show more
“…Flavor physics experiments have received more and more attention from the phenomenological community. [22,[24][25][26][47][48][49][50] Strong limits on the ALP couplings in Equation ( 1) can be derived, for example, through the study of the K → 𝜋a decay. In large part of the literature a flavor universal ALP-fermion coupling, often dubbed c aΦ , is assumed.…”
Axion–Like–Particles are among the most economical and well motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In this work ALP production from hadronic and leptonic meson decays are studied. The hadronization part of these decay amplitudes have been obtained using Brodsky–Lepage method or LQCD, at needs. In particular, the general expressions for ALP emission in mesonic s– and t–channel tree–level processes are thoroughly discussed, for pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Accordingly, the calculation of the decay amplitudes for MI→MF0.16ema$M_I\rightarrow M_F \,a$ and M→ℓνa$M\rightarrow \ell \nu a$ are presented. Finally, bounds on the (low–energy effective Lagrangian) ALP–fermion couplings are derived, from present and future flavor experiments.
“…Flavor physics experiments have received more and more attention from the phenomenological community. [22,[24][25][26][47][48][49][50] Strong limits on the ALP couplings in Equation ( 1) can be derived, for example, through the study of the K → 𝜋a decay. In large part of the literature a flavor universal ALP-fermion coupling, often dubbed c aΦ , is assumed.…”
Axion–Like–Particles are among the most economical and well motivated extensions of the Standard Model. In this work ALP production from hadronic and leptonic meson decays are studied. The hadronization part of these decay amplitudes have been obtained using Brodsky–Lepage method or LQCD, at needs. In particular, the general expressions for ALP emission in mesonic s– and t–channel tree–level processes are thoroughly discussed, for pseudoscalar and vector mesons. Accordingly, the calculation of the decay amplitudes for MI→MF0.16ema$M_I\rightarrow M_F \,a$ and M→ℓνa$M\rightarrow \ell \nu a$ are presented. Finally, bounds on the (low–energy effective Lagrangian) ALP–fermion couplings are derived, from present and future flavor experiments.
“…Many of those couplings are constrained by data collected at low-energy and flavour facilities [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] colliders including LEP [34][35][36][37] and the LHC [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] or in astrophysical events [49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Some couplings have been shown to be only testable in Higgs physics, particularly through yet unexplored decays of the Higgs boson.…”
We investigate the interactions of a light scalar with the Higgs boson and second-generation fermions, which trigger new rare decays of the Higgs boson into 4µ, 2µ2γ, 6µ and 4µ2j. We recast current LHC searches to constrain these decays and develop new collider analyses for those channels which are only poorly tested by existing studies. With the currently collected data we can probe branching ratios as small as 1.5 × 10 −5 , 8.7 × 10 −5 , 5.7 × 10 −8 and 1.6 × 10 −7 , respectively. For the High-Luminosity LHC run, considered here to involve 3 ab −1 of integrated luminosity, these numbers go down to 1.3 × 10 −5 , 2.0 × 10 −6 , 3.0 × 10 −9 and 5.4 × 10 −9 , respectively. We also comment on other channels that remain still unexplored.
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