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The possibility that the accurately known value of the Z width might furnish information about the coupling of two neutrinos to the Majoron (Nambu-Goldstone boson of spontaneous lepton number violation) is proposed and investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Moussa , S. Nasri , F. Sannino , J. Schechter

In models where the suppression of the tree level couplings of fermions with Goldstone bosons is not protected by symmetry, the loop-induced couplings can in general dominate over the tree couplings. We demonstrate this by calculating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Darwin Chang , Jiang Liu , Palash B. Pal

Within framework of the $\mu$ from $\nu$ Supersymmetric Standard Model ($\mu\nu$SSM), three exotic right-handed neutrino superfields induce new sources for lepton-flavor violation. In this work, we investigate muon conversion to electron in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-26 Hai-Bin Zhang , Tai-Fu Feng , Guo-Hui Luo , Zhao-Feng Ge , Shu-Min Zhao

The coherent conversion of a muon to an electron in a nuclear field has been one of the most powerful methods for searching for charged lepton flavor violation. Recent advancements have significantly enhanced the sensitivity of $\mu…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-16 Nicholas Cutsail , Johan Vonk , Vivek Singh , Yury G Kolomensky

We discuss the prospects of probing the $L_\mu - L_\tau$ gauge boson at the MUonE experiment. The $L_\mu - L_\tau$ gauge boson $Z^\prime$ with a mass of $\lesssim 200$ MeV, which can explain the discrepancy between the measured value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Kento Asai , Koichi Hamaguchi , Natsumi Nagata , Shih-Yen Tseng , Juntaro Wada

The origin of the excess of low-energy events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment remains a mystery, despite exhaustive investigations of backgrounds and a series of null measurements from complementary experiments. One intriguing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Christian Herwig , Joshua Isaacson , Bo Jayatilaka , Pedro A. N. Machado , Allie Reinsvold Hall , Murtaza Safdari

It is well known that the matter can significantly alter the picture of neutrino oscillation \cite{W} or neutrino decay \cite{BV}. Here we show that the presence of dense matter induces also the decay of {\it massless} majoron, a Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Zurab G. Berezhiani , Anna Rossi

Fundamental mechanisms for Majoron emitting neutrinoless double beta decay in SU(3)_C x G_W x U(1) models, for electroweak flavor chiral extensions, G_W = SU(3)_L and SU(4)_L are pointed out. Both kinds of known Majoron emitting processes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Pisano , S. Shelly Sharma

We present a detailed discussion of the lepton flavour and number violating conversion of bound muons into positrons. This process is a viable alternative to neutrinoless double beta decay and, given that experiments on ordinary $\mu^-$-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-15 Tanja Geib , Alexander Merle

Searches for new physics using muons are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to muon number non-conserving processes, like the decay muon-->e+gamma and muon-electron conversion in muonic atoms. Also, experimental determinations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrzej Czarnecki

A new upper limit for the probability of spontaneous muonium to antimuonium conversion was established at ${\rm P_{M\bar{M}}} \leq 8.2 \cdot 10^{-11}$ (90%C.L.) in 0.1~T magnetic field, which implies consequences for speculative extensions…

The search for charged-lepton flavor violation in muon capture on nuclei is a powerful probe of heavy new physics. A smoking gun signal for $\mu \rightarrow e$ conversion is a monochromatic electron with energy almost equal to the muon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-08 Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Jure Zupan

We analyze the decays to muons of a light dilaton produced via vector boson fusion at the LHC. We investigate models in which the electroweak symmetry breaking is triggered by a spontaneously broken, approximately conformal sector. Taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-07 Natascia Vignaroli

Contact interactions of a muon, an electron and two photons can contribute to the decay $\mu \to e \gamma \gamma$, but also to the conversion of a muon into an electron in the electric field of a nucleus. We calculate the $\mu \to e$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-06 Sacha Davidson , Yoshitaka Kuno , Yuichi Uesaka , Masato Yamanaka

The spontaneous breaking of the global lepton number, an accidental symmetry in the Standard Model of particle physics, results in a massless goldstone boson, the Majoron, which can be taken as a cold dark matter candidate with properties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Wei Chao , Ying-Quan Peng

The MUonE experiment aims at providing a new independent evaluation of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. The proposed method is based on the measurement of the running of the QED coupling in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 A. Gurgone

We discuss a possibility that baryon number $B$ is spontaneously broken at low scales, of the order of MeV or even smaller, so that the neutron-antineutron oscillation can be induced at the experimentally accessible level. An associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Zurab Berezhiani

A new exclusion limit for the electromagnetic production of a light U(1) gauge boson {\gamma}' decaying to e^+e^- was determined by the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron. Such light gauge bosons appear in several extensions of the…

The upper bounds from the ATLAS and CMS experiments on the decay rate of the Higgs boson to two muons provide the strongest constraint on an imaginary part of the muon Yukawa coupling. This bound is more than an order of magnitude stronger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Elina Fuchs , Marta Losada , Yosef Nir , Yehonatan Viernik