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In the framework of an nonuniversal $U(1)'$ extension of the standard model, we propose an scalar candidate for cold dark matter which exhibits interactions with ordinary matter through Higgs and gauge bosons. Using limits from low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-07 R. Martinez , J. Nisperuza , F. Ochoa , J. P. Rubio

In this paper we explore the potential of Ultra-peripheral Collisions in the LHC to investigate new physics, focusing specifically on the production of new charged vector bosons ${V}^{\pm}$ that decay into heavy neutral leptons $N_{L}$ in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Y. M. Oviedo-Torres , Sebastian Tapia , J. Zamora-Saa

Dark matter is a focused issue in galactic evolution and cosmology. Axion is a viable particle candidate for dark matter. Its interaction with photon is an effective way to detect it, e.g., pseudoscalar-photon interaction will generate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-05-27 Hsien-Hao Mei , Wei-Tou Ni , Sheng-Jui Chen , Sheau-shi Pan

Anomalous couplings of the Higgs boson are searched for through the processes e^+ e^- -> H gamma, e^+ e^- -> e^+ e^- H and e^+ e^- -> HZ. The mass range 70 GeV < m_H < 190 GeV is explored using 602 pb^-1 of integrated luminosity collected…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 L3 Collaboration

A search is conducted for a new beyond-the-Standard-Model boson using events where a Higgs boson with mass 125 GeV decays to four leptons ($\ell =$ $e$ or $\mu$). This decay is presumed to occur via an intermediate state which contains one…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-07-25 ATLAS Collaboration

We investigate the sensitivity of proposed CEPC and FCC-ee with a center-of-mass energy of 240 GeV to long-lived dark photons heavier than 2 GeV that are pair-produced via the prompt decays of a light scalar mixed with the Standard-Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Kingman Cheung , Fei-Tung Chung , Zeren Simon Wang

We present a novel quantum sensing approach to search for axion-electron interactions around the axion mass of 6 \mueV. In this region, laboratory searches are relatively scarce, and our direct experiment measuring the axion-electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hongliang Wu , Yuchen Han , Zhengtao Wang , Dezhi Zheng , Yeliang Wang , Liu Yang , Zhiwei Wang , Bo Zhang , Dmitry Budker , Jun Zhang

Nuclear power plants are not only vital sources of clean energy but also powerful facilities for probing new physics beyond the Standard Model. Due to the intense gamma-ray flux and an appropriate energy conditions, they are particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Wei Dai , Yuanlin Gong , Guanhua Gu , Liangliang Su , Li Wang , Lei Wu , Yongcheng Wu , Litao Yang

A search for a new heavy boson produced via gluon-fusion in the four-lepton channel with missing transverse momentum or jets is performed. The search uses proton-proton collision data equivalent to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-13 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for the axioelectric absorption of 5.5-MeV solar axions produced in the $p+d\rightarrow \rm{^3He}+\gamma(5.5 \rm{MeV})$ reaction was performed with two BGO detectors placed inside a low-background setup. A model independent limit…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-11-21 A. V. Derbin , A. S. Kayunov , V. N. Muratova

The search for lepton flavor violation (LFV) is a powerful probe to look for new physics beyond the Standard Model. We explored the possibility of searches for LFV $Z$ boson couplings to electron and muon pairs at the upcoming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-04 Anjan Kumar Barik , Atri Dey , Tousik Samui

A search is presented for the production of new heavy quarks that decay to a $Z$ boson and a third-generation Standard Model quark. In the case of a new charge +2/3 quark ($T$), the decay targeted is $T \rightarrow Zt$, while the decay…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-05 ATLAS Collaboration

New gauge bosons with Standard Model-like couplings to leptons are constrained by collider searches to be heavier than approximately ~1 TeV. A Z' boson with suppressed couplings to leptons, however, could be much lighter and possess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper , Joachim Kopp , Ethan Neil

Recently, the ATOMKI experiment has reported new evidence for the excess of $e^+ e^-$ events with a mass $\sim$17 MeV in the nuclear transitions of $^4$He, that they previously observed in measurements with $^8$Be. These observations could…

The CAST (CERN Axion Solar Telescope) experiment is searching for axions, an hypothetical particle that emerges as a possible solution to the well known CP violation problem in strong interactions. CAST is using a decommissioned LHC dipole…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. Galan

Searching for new particles beyond the standard model is crucial for understanding several fundamental conundrums in physics and astrophysics. Amongst them, axions or similar hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons would mediate electron-nucleon…

We propose a search for photoproduction of leptophobic bosons that couple to quarks at the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab. We study in detail a new gauge boson that couples to baryon number $B$, and estimate that $\gamma p \to p B$ will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Cristiano Fanelli , Mike Williams

We examine the sensitivity of the process e+e- -> nu nubar gamma to extra gauge bosons, Z' and W', which arise in various extensions of the standard model. The process is found to be sensitive to W' masses up to several TeV, depending on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen Godfrey , Pat Kalyniak , Basim Kamal , Arnd Leike

The aim of the proposed CERN Gamma Factory is to produce $\sim 10^{17}$ photons per second with energies up to 400 MeV. The photon beam intensity is expected to be a factor of $\mathcal{O}(10^7)$ larger than that of the presently available…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-28 Reuven Balkin , Mieczyslaw W. Krasny , Teng Ma , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq