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High-intensity muon beams could enable a muonium-based search for ultralight axions through resonant quantum transitions between hyperfine states. Combining theoretical calculations with simulation results, we demonstrate that such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-19 Feng Fang , Kim Siang Khaw , Ce Zhang , Qiaoli Yang , Liangwen Chen , Jie Yang , Lei Yang , Zhiyu Sun

A persistence of several anomalies in muon physics, such as the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the muonic hydrogen Lamb shift, hints at new light particles beyond the Standard Model. We address a subset of these models that have a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-08 Chien-Yi Chen , Maxim Pospelov , Yi-Ming Zhong

The NA64 electron beam program comprises of a high sensitivity search for visible and invisible decays of the hypothetical dark photon, $A'$, with a goal to either observe the sub-GeV Dark Matter mediator or exclude most of the model…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-09-11 Dipanwita Banerjee

High-energy muon beam dump experiments are powerful probes of new physics models beyond the Standard Model, particularly those involving flavor-dependent interactions. We demonstrate the potential of muon beam dump by placing strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Haotian Li , Zuowei Liu , Ningqiang Song

Experiments with muons ($\mu^{+}$) and muonium atoms ($\mu^{+}e^{-}$) offer several promising possibilities for testing fundamental symmetries. Examples of such experiments include search for muon electric dipole moment, measurement of muon…

We propose here a set of new methods to directly detect light mass dark matter through its scattering with abundant atmospheric muons or accelerator beams. Firstly, we plan to use the free cosmic-ray muons interacting with dark matter in a…

A proposal submitted to the FNAL PAC is described to search for light sub-GeV WIMP dark matter at MiniBooNE. The possibility to steer the beam past the target and into an absorber leads to a significant reduction in neutrino background,…

We investigate the potential of short-baseline experiments in order to measure the dispersion relation of the (muon) neutrino, with a prospect of eventually measuring the neutrino mass. As a byproduct, the experiment would help to constrain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-27 U. D. Jentschura , D. Horvath , S. Nagy , I. Nandori , Z. Trocsanyi , B. Ujvari

We propose here a set of new methods involving probing and knocking with muons (PKMu). There is a wealth of rich physics to explore with GeV muon beams. Examples include but not limited to: muon scattering can occur at large angles,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Leyun Gao , Cheng-en Liu , Qite Li , Chen Zhou , Qiang Li , Liangwen Chen , Xueheng Zhang , Yu Xu , Zhiyu Sun

Models of gauged $U(1)_{L_\mu-L_\tau}$ can provide a solution to the long-standing discrepancy between the theoretical prediction for the muon anomalous magnetic moment and its measured value. The extra contribution is due to a new light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-18 Dorian Warren Praia do Amaral , David G. Cerdeno , Patrick Foldenauer , Elliott Reid

In a broad class of consistent models, MeV to few-GeV dark matter interacts with ordinary matter through weakly coupled GeV-scale mediators. We show that a suitable meter-scale (or smaller) detector situated downstream of an electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

In addition to vector ($V$) type new particles extensively discussed previously, both CP-even ($S$) and CP-odd ($P$) spin-0 Dark Matter (DM) mediators can couple to muons and be produced in the bremsstrahlung reaction $\mu^- + N \rightarrow…

Ultralight scalar dark matter may induce apparent oscillations of the muon mass, which may be directly probed via temporal shifts in the spectra of muonium and muonic atoms. Existing datasets and ongoing spectroscopy measurements with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-10 Yevgeny V. Stadnik

The recent measurement of the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen allows for the most precise extraction of the charge radius of the proton which is currently in conflict with other determinations based on $e-p$ scattering and hydrogen…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Savely G. Karshenboim , David McKeen , Maxim Pospelov

Rare kaon decays are excellent probes of light, new weakly-coupled particles. If such particles $X$ couple preferentially to muons, they can be produced in $K\to \mu \nu X$ decays. In this letter we evaluate the future sensitivity for this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-11 Gordan Krnjaic , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Diego Redigolo , Kohsaku Tobioka

In light of the recent Muon $g-2$ experiment data from Fermilab, we investigate the implications of a gauged $L_{\mu} - L_{\tau}$ model for high energy neutrino telescopes. It has been suggested that a new gauge boson at the MeV scale can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-24 Jose Alonso Carpio , Kohta Murase , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

Medium-energy electron beam-dump experiments provide an intense sources of secondary muons. These particles can be used to search for muon-coupling light dark scalars that may explain the $(g-2)_\mu$ anomaly. We applied this idea to SLAC…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-26 L. Marsicano , M. Battaglieri , A. Celentano , R. De Vita , Yi-Ming Zhong

New light, weakly-coupled particles are commonly invoked to address the persistent $\sim 4\sigma$ anomaly in $(g-2)_\mu$ and serve as mediators between dark and visible matter. If such particles couple predominantly to heavier generations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-02 Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic , Nhan Tran , Andrew Whitbeck

The detection of ultralight dark matter through interactions with nucleons, electrons, and photons has been explored in depth. In this work we propose to use precision muon experiments, specifically muon g-2 and electric dipole moment…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Ryan Janish , Harikrishnan Ramani