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The discrepancy between the muon $g-2$ measurement and the Standard Model prediction points to new physics around or below the weak scale. It is tantalizing to consider the loop effects of a heavy axion (in the general sense, also known as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , JiJi Fan , Matthew Reece , Chen Sun

A measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen yields a charge radius of the proton that is smaller than the CODATA value by about 5 standard deviations. We explore the possibility that new scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, and tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-12 Vernon Barger , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Wai-Yee Keung , Danny Marfatia

We study a model with a vector dark matter (DM) candidate interacting with the SM charged leptons through a scalar portal. The dark matter candidate acquires mass when the complex scalar breaks an abelian gauge symmetry spontaneously. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-22 Karim Ghorbani

Motivated by the ATOMKI anomalies in 8Be and 4He transitions, we study X17-induced Lamb shifts and hyperfine splittings in muonic atoms with stable nuclei up to Z <= 15. The bound-state problem is solved within the Gaussian Expansion Method…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Xiaoxuan Lin , Qian Wu , Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

Dark photons are predicted by various new physics models, and are being intensively studied in a variety of experiments. In the first part of this paper, we obtain partial wave unitarity constraints on the dark photon parameter space from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We study the influence of leptophilic dark matter interactions on decays of muons and ground state mesons in existing experiments. We consider a secluded dark sector exclusively interacting with leptons via either a (leptophilic) scalar or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Gerrit Bickendorf , Manuel Drees

The idea that dark-matter interactions with Standard-Model particles may be mediated by new bosons with masses in the MeV-to-GeV range took off several years ago. Constraints on such models were soon calculated based on older measurements.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-25 Abner Soffer

We study a lepton portal dark matter model, motivated by the deviation of the $W$ boson mass reported by the CDF collaboration. We introduce vector-like leptons and a scalar dark matter (DM) which exclusively couples to the extra leptons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-20 Junichiro Kawamura , Shohei Okawa , Yuji Omura

The MUonE experiment, that aims to provide a precise measurement of the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon $g-2$ via elastic muon-electron scattering, has also the potential to explore the parameter space of light new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Giovanni Grilli di Cortona , Enrico Nardi

In light of the excess in the low-energy electron recoil events reported by XENON1T, many new physics scenarios have been proposed as a possible origin of the excess. One possible explanation is that the excess is a result of a fast moving…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 R. Primulando , J. Julio , P. Uttayarat

PandaX-II has analyzed their complete data set of the electron recoil energy spectrum and has confirmed the XENON1T (1-7) keV excess, although the excess was also found compatible with the total background. Treating the background as well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-07 Amir N. Khan

The Lepton Portal Dark Matter model, in which dark matter states only coupling to the charged leptons, can explain the excess of the muon anomalous magnetic moment measured by the Muon $g - 2$ experiment. In this paper, we demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-08 Yang Bai , Joshua Berger

The muon g-2 discrepancy between theory and experiment may be explained by a light vector boson Z_d that couples to the electromagnetic current via kinetic mixing with the photon. We illustrate how the existing electron g-2, pion Dalitz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-14 Hooman Davoudiasl , Hye-Sung Lee , William J. Marciano

We analyze two minimal supersymmetric constrained models with low-energy vector-like matter preserving gauge coupling unification. In one we add to the MSSM spectrum a pair of 5-plets of SU(5), in the other a pair of 10-plets. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-23 Arghya Choudhury , Luc Darmé , Leszek Roszkowski , Enrico Maria Sessolo , Sebastian Trojanowski

We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Patrick deNiverville , Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

The long-standing muon $g-2$ anomaly has been confirmed recently at the Fermilab. The combined discrepancy from Fermilab and Brookhaven results shows a difference from the theory at a significance of 4.2 $\sigma$. In addition, the LHC has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-04 Wen Yin

New unification theories predict Large Extra Dimensions (LEDs). If that is the case, gravity would be stronger at short ranges than what Newtonian gravity predicts. LEDs could also have effects at atomic level. In this paper we propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Li zhigang , Wei-Tou Ni , Antonio Pulido Paton

We propose a new possibility of using the coherently enhanced neutrino pair emission to probe light-mediator interactions between electron and neutrinos. With typical momentum transfer at the atomic $\mathcal O(1$\,eV) scale, this process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-06 Shao-Feng Ge , Pedro Pasquini

Muons are puzzling physicists since their discovery when they were first thought to be the meson predicted by Yukawa to mediate the strong force. The recent results at Fermilab on the muon g-2 anomaly puts the muonic sector once more under…