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We study the search prospect of long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) pair produced in decays of axionlike particles (ALPs) at the proposed Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF), focusing on the center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=3.773$ GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Xiaokun Li , Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaorong Zhou

We propose a new strategy to probe heavy neutrinos with non-universal fermion couplings at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) using a novel production mechanism and machine-learning algorithms. Focusing on proton--proton collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-15 Yin-Fa Shen , Alfredo Gurrola , Francesco Romeo , Denis Rathjens , Andres Flórez

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) have been an interesting topic for experimental particle physics in the past few years. A study has been performed within the framework of the multi-instrument DUNE near detector complex, specifically regarding…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-10-11 Zahra Ghorbani Moghaddam

The future muon collider has the potential to discover feebly interacting particles in a wide range of masses above the electroweak scale. It is particularly suitable to search for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), as their production cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-18 Oleksii Mikulenko , Mariia Marinichenko

We examine the low-energy signatures of axion-like particles (ALPs) in lepton flavor violating (LFV) processes. By using a dimension-5 effective Lagrangian, we compute the most general ALP contributions to LFV decays of leptons and mesons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-22 Claudia Cornella , Paride Paradisi , Olcyr Sumensari

In the ALP model, lepton flavor violation (LFV) can arise from off-diagonal ALP-lepton couplings ($g_{a\ell_i\ell_j}$), which are absent in the Standard Model. We focus on ALP production via gluon fusion ($pp \to a$) at the Large Hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Xiaochu Zheng , Ruitian Li , Jing Li , Hao Sun

A search is performed for long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), produced through the decay of a $W$ boson along with a muon or electron. Two channels are explored: a leptonic channel, in which the HNL decays into two leptons and a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-25 ATLAS Collaboration

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a broad class of pseudo-scalar bosons that generically arise from broken symmetries in extensions of the standard model. In many scenarios, ALPs can mix with photons in regions with high magnetic fields.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Sunniva Jacobsen , Tim Linden , Katherine Freese

Assuming ALPs couple to gluons only, they can be produced via the $p p \to a j$ process and decay into two jets at the LHC. When the coupling parameter, $C_{\tilde{G}} / f_a$, is small, the lifetime of ALPs can be long enough leading to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-01 Filmon Andom Ghebretinsaea , Zeren Simon Wang , Kechen Wang

We investigate the prospects for discovering axion-like particles (ALPs) via a light-by-light (LBL) scattering at two colliders, the future circular collider (FCC-ee) and circular electron-positron collider (CEPC). The promising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Hua-Ying Zhang , Chong-Xing Yue , Yu-Chen Guo , Shuo Yang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are predicted by many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). When ALP mass lies in the range of MeV to GeV, the cosmology and astrophysics will be largely irrelevant. In this work, we investigate such light ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Daohan Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Mengchao Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and Higgs bosons can interact in scalar sectors beyond the Standard Model, leading the Higgs boson to decay into pairs of gluons and photons through the ALP interaction and giving rise to resonances in the decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Alexandre Alves , A. G. Dias , D. D. Lopes

We review and revise phenomenology of the GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). We extend the previous analyses by including more channels of HNLs production and decay and provide with more refined treatment, including QCD corrections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-12 Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dmitry Gorbunov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We propose a new collider probe for axion-like particles (ALPs), and more generally for pseudo-Goldstone bosons: non-resonant searches which take advantage of the derivative nature of their interactions with Standard Model particles. ALPs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 M. B. Gavela , J. M. No , V. Sanz , J. F. de Trocóniz

We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) with leptons from their loop-level impact on the ALP couplings to electroweak (EW) gauge bosons via the signal process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma \gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Xiao-Chen Sun

Axion-like particles (ALPs) provide a promising direction in the search for new physics, while a wide range of models incorporate ALPs. We point out that future neutrino experiments, such as DUNE, possess competitive sensitivity to ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 Vedran Brdar , Bhaskar Dutta , Wooyoung Jang , Doojin Kim , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi , Adrian Thompson , Jaehoon Yu

In this paper, a model inspired by Grand Unification principles featuring three generations of vector-like fermions, new Higgs doublets and a rich neutrino sector at the low scale is presented. Using the state-of-the-art Deep Learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Felipe F. Freitas , João Gonçalves , António P. Morais , Roman Pasechnik

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries incorporated in the Standard Model (SM) Lagrangian in many models beyond the SM. The existence of a light ALP is plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shirin Chenarani , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

The tau lepton plays important role in the correlation between the low-energy neutrino oscillation data and the lepton flavor structure in heavy neutrino decay. We investigate the lepton flavor signatures with tau lepton at hadron collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Chengcheng Han , Tong Li , Chang-Yuan Yao

We suggest a new class of tests for searching for lepton flavor non-universality (LFNU) using ratio observables and based on correlations among the underlying LFNU new physics (NP) effects in several (seemingly independent) di-lepton and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-09 Yoav Afik , Shaouly Bar-Shalom , Jonathan Cohen , Amarjit Soni , Jose Wudka