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We have investigated the impact of long-range forces induced by unparticle operators of scalar, vector and tensor nature coupled to fermions in the interpretation of solar neutrinos and KamLAND data. If the unparticle couplings to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , P. C. Holanda , R. Zukanovich Funchal

We place limits on scalar and vector unparticle couplings to electrons and neutrinos using data from reactor neutrino experiments originally designed to search for neutrino magnetic moment. Upper bounds on Standard Model lepton-scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. Balantekin , K. O. Ozansoy

Unparticles ($\U$) interact weakly with particles. The direct signature of unparticles will be in the form of missing energy. We study constraints on unparticle interactions using totally invisible decay modes of $Z$, vector quarkonia $V$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-06 Shao-Long Chen , Xiao-Gang He , Ho-Chin Tsai

We study supersymmetric QCD in the conformal window as a laboratory for unparticle physics, and analyze couplings between the unparticle sector and the Higgs sector. These couplings can lead to the unparticle sector being pushed away from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Patrick J. Fox , Arvind Rajaraman , Yuri Shirman

We study the cosmological constraints on unparticle interactions and the temperature of the Universe for the case where unparticle states can be modelled as continuous mass particles with lifetime > 1s. By considering thermal background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 John McDonald

Unparticles from hidden conformal sectors provide qualitatively new possibilities for physics beyond the standard model. In the theoretical framework of minimal models, we clarify the relation between energy scales entering various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Myron Bander , Jonathan L. Feng , Arvind Rajaraman , Yuri Shirman

Following Georgi's unparticle scheme, we examine the effective couplings between neutrinos and unparticle operators. As an immediate consequence, neutrinos become unstable and can decay into the unparticle stuff. Assuming the dimension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shun Zhou

Present and upcoming neutrino experiments can have considerable sensitivity to dark sectors that interact feebly with the Standard Model. We consider dark sectors interacting with the SM through irrelevant portals that are motivated on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-28 Marco Costa , Rashmish K. Mishra , Sonali Verma

The existence of an unparticle sector, weakly coupled to the standard model, would have a profound impact on supernova (SN) physics. Emission of energy into the unparticle sector from the core of SN1987A would have significantly shortened…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Steen Hannestad , Georg Raffelt , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We consider the possible existence of a SM-neutral and light dark sector coupled to the visible sector through irrelevant portal interactions. Scenarios of this kind are motivated by dark matter and arise in various extensions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Roberto Contino , Kevin Max , Rashmish K. Mishra

If new physics were capable to push the neutrino-nucleon inelastic cross section three orders of magnitude beyond the standard-model (SM) prediction, then ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos would have already been observed at neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 R. Horvat , D. Kekez , J. Trampetic

Unparticle cosmology gives an unconventional outlook on the dark sector of cosmology, increasingly challenging $\Lambda\mbox{CDM}$ by $H_0$-tension. This model derives from a finite temperature broken conformal symmetry of radiation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-31 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Maryam Aghaei Abchouyeh

Despite the fact that the solar neutrino flux is now well-understood in the context of matter-affected neutrino mixing, we find that it is not yet possible to set a strong and model-independent bound on solar neutrino decays. If neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell

We examine the potential of constraining possible nondecoupling effects of heavy neutrinos and Higgs bosons at LEP and SLC that may show up in the nonoblique part of the $Zl_il_j$ couplings. We analyze this type of new-physics interactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Apostolos Pilaftsis

Recently H. Georgi suggested that a scale invariant unparticle ${\mathcal{U}}$ sector with an infrared fixed point at high energy can couple with the SM matter via a higher-dimensional operator suppressed by a high cut-off scale. Intense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Prasanta Kumar Das

Many scenarios of new physics predict the existence of neutrino Non-Standard Interactions, new vector contact interactions between neutrinos and first generation fermions beyond the Standard Model. We obtain model-independent constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Jorge Terol-Calvo , Mariam Tórtola , Avelino Vicente

The unparticle is proposed by Georgi as a conceptual new physics beyond the standard model to describe the low energy sector of a nontrivial scale invariant sector of an effective theory. We consider the neutrino decay in unparticle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-30 Debasish Majumdar

We use stellar dynamics arguments to constrain the relevant parameters of ungravity inspired models. We show that resulting bounds do constrain the parameters of the theory of unparticles, as far as its energy scale satisfies the condition…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 O. Bertolami , J. Paramos , P. Santos

We study the effects of fermiophobic scalar/pseudo-scalar oblique corrections on bound state energy levels in muonic atoms. To make the treatment sufficiently general we will consider Unparticle scalars/pseudo-scalars which couple only to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Arun M. Thalapillil

We discuss a constraint on the scale $\Lambda_{\rm NC}$ of noncommutative (NC) gauge field theory arising from consideration of the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) of light elements. The propagation of neutrinos in the NC background…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Raul Horvat , Josip Trampetic
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