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We consider the hypothetical possibility of neutral gauge bosons~($Z^\prime$) with flavor-specific leptophilic couplings. For such {\it New Physics}~(NP) interactions, the current experimental constraints are much relaxed in the heavy mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-27 Bibhabasu De , Amitabha Dey

We investigate the effects of anomalous neutral triple gauge couplings in $ZZ$ and $Z\gamma$ production processes, followed by the leptonic decay of the $Z$ boson, at a lepton collider with center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=250$~GeV and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-27 Amir Subba , Ritesh K. Singh

We consider the complete leading-order -- dimension five -- effective linear Lagrangian for ALPs. The full set of one-loop contributions to ALP-SM effective couplings are derived, including all finite corrections. A few phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Jesús Bonilla

In this article, we study the implications of the coupling between Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs) and Leptons to cosmology, in particular, the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We show that the BBN, through the constraint on the effective number…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Diptimoy Ghosh , Divya Sachdeva

The weak decays $K^\pm\to\pi^\pm a$ offer a powerful probe of axion-like particles (ALPs). In this work, we provide a comprehensive analysis of these processes within chiral perturbation theory, extending existing calculations by including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-16 Claudia Cornella , Anne Mareike Galda , Matthias Neubert , Daniel Wyler

We bound anomalous gauge boson couplings using LEP data for the $Z\rightarrow {\overline f} f$ partial widths. We use an effective field theory formalism to compute the one-loop corrections resulting from non-standard model three and four…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dawson , G. Valencia

We construct a new gauged $U(1)_\ell$ lepton number model which is anomaly-free for each SM generation. The active neutrino masses are radiatively generated with a minimal scalar sector. The phenomenology and collider signals are studied.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 We-Fu Chang , John N. Ng

In this paper, we explore the interactions between light axion-like particles (ALPs) and top quarks, gluons, and W-bosons. Utilizing high-energy probes at the LHC, we probe these couplings in the context of single top quark production…

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

The couplings of axion-like particles (ALPs) to Standard Model fermions are proportional to the fermion masses, making the interaction with the top quark particularly significant. In this study, we consider an ALP that is a mixture of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-25 Subhadip Bisal

We calculate new constraints on extra neutrino interactions via light Abelian vector bosons, where the boson mass arises from Stuckelberg mechanism. We use the requirement that $Z$, $W$, and kaon decays, as well as electron-neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-20 Ranjan Laha , Basudeb Dasgupta , John F. Beacom

In this paper we study axion-like particles (ALPs) with lepton-flavour-violating (LFV) couplings in the mass regime above the muon threshold, $m_a>m_\mu$, where the strong bound from the exotic muon decay $\mu\to ea$ no longer apply and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Marco Ardu , Lorenzo Calibbi , Marco Fedele , Federico Mescia

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of axion-like particles (ALPs) produced in core-collapse supernovae (ccSNe) through interactions with electrons and muons, both of which have a non-negligible abundance in the SN…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , M. C. David Marsh , Eike Ravensburg

The neutral anomalies in $B$ decays are analysed in terms of the tree-level exchange of an axion-like-particle (ALP), within the effective field theory framework. The complete two-dimensional parameter space for ALP couplings to electrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 J. Bonilla , A. de Giorgi , B. Gavela , L. Merlo , M. Ramos

Axion-like particles (ALPs), which are gauge-singlets under the Standard Model (SM), appear in many well-motivated extensions of the SM. Describing the interactions of ALPs with SM fields by means of an effective Lagrangian, we discuss ALP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Martin Bauer , Matthias Neubert , Andrea Thamm

Ultraviolet completions for axion-like particles (ALPs) lighter than the neutral pion generically induce ALP-neutral pion mixing, and are therefore sensitive to direct constraints on the mixing angle. For ALPs below the pion mass, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-13 Wolfgang Altmannshofer , Stefania Gori , Dean J. Robinson

There is limited information about the interaction strength of a scalar dark matter candidate with hadrons and leptons for a scalar particle mass exceeding $10^{-3}$ eV while its interaction with photon is well studied. The scalar-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

New light particles produced in supernovae can lead to additional energy loss and a consequent deficit in neutrino production in conflict with the neutrinos observed from Supernova 1987A (SN1987A). Contrary to the majority of previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Djuna Croon , Gilly Elor , Rebecca K. Leane , Samuel D. McDermott

We discuss constraints on soft CP-violating couplings of axion-like particles with photon and fermions by using data on electric dipole moments of Standard Model particles. In particular, for the ALP leptophilic scenario we derive bounds on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-29 D. V. Kirpichnikov , Valery E. Lyubovitskij , Alexey S. Zhevlakov

The vertex corrections to the leptonic partial widths of the $Z$ induced by leptoquarks that couple leptons to the top quark are considered. We obtain stringent bounds on the parameter space of the masses and Yukawa couplings of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Gautam Bhattacharyya , John Ellis , K. Sridhar

Studies of axion-like particles (ALPs) commonly focus on a single type of interaction, for example couplings only to photons. Most ALP models however predict correlations between different couplings, which change the phenomenology in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Fatih Ertas , Felix Kahlhoefer