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In hidden-sector models, axion-like particles (ALPs) can couple to heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), leading to rich phenomenologies. We study ALPs produced from $D$- and $B$-meson decays via quark-flavor-violating couplings, and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang , Wei Liu

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are two well-motivated classes of particles beyond the Standard Model. It is intriguing to explore the new detection opportunities that may arise if both particle types coexist.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Marta Burgos Marcos , Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) with masses around the electroweak scale are expected to be rather long-lived particles, as a result of the observed smallness of the active neutrino masses. In this work, we study long-lived HNLs in $N_R$SMEFT,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

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 study the phenomenology of heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC in effective field theory, concentrating on $d=6$ operators with top quarks. Depending on the operator choice and HNL mass, the HNLs will be produced either from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Julian Günther , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

Interest in searches for heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) at the LHC has increased considerably in the past few years. In the minimal scenario, HNLs are produced and decay via their mixing with active neutrinos in the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-17 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) and heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are both well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model. As ALPs couple to on-shell fermions proportionally to their masses, processes involving both types of particles may give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Arturo de Giorgi , Luca Merlo , Jean-Loup Tastet

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are often among the hypothetical ingredients behind nonzero neutrino masses. If sufficiently light, they can be produced and detected in fixed-target-like experiments. We show that if the HNLs belong to a richer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Asli M Abdullahi , André de Gouvêa , Bhaskar Dutta , Ian M. Shoemaker , Zahra Tabrizi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated examples of light, weakly coupled particles in theories beyond the Standard Model. In this work, we study long-lived ALPs coupled exclusively to leptons in the mass range between $2 m_e$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Yohei Ema , Patrick J. Fox , Matheus Hostert , Tony Menzo , Maxim Pospelov , Anupam Ray , Jure Zupan

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated extensions of the standard model (SM) that appear in numerous new physics scenarios. In this paper, we concentrate on searches for long-lived ALPs predicted by the photophobic scenario at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chong-Xing Yue , Xin-Yang Li , Shuo Yang , Mei-Shu-Yu Wang

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 consider the dipole portal to sterile neutrinos, also called heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). The dipole interaction with the photon leads to HNL production in meson decays, as well as triggers the HNL decay into an active neutrino and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-05 Daniele Barducci , Wei Liu , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang , Yu Zhang

In the framework of the low-energy effective field theory of the Standard Model extended with heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), we calculate the production rates of HNLs from meson decays triggered by dimension-six operators. We consider both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-25 Rebeca Beltrán , Giovanna Cottin , Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Arsenii Titov , Zeren Simon Wang

Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are constrained by requirements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) as their decays significantly impact the formation of the primordial elements. We propose here a model where the primary decay channel for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Frank F. Deppisch , Tomás E. Gonzalo , Chayan Majumdar , Zhong Zhang

Recently Gligorov $\textit{et al.}$ [arXiv:1810.03636] proposed to build a cylindrical detector named '$\texttt{AL3X}$' close to the $\texttt{ALICE}$ experiment at interaction point (IP) 2 of the LHC, aiming for discovery of long-lived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Daniel Dercks , Herbert K. Dreiner , Martin Hirsch , Zeren Simon Wang

We discuss the potential of using detectors aimed for searching long-lived particles~(LLP) at the high-luminosity LHC run, to probe the neutrino dipole models. This is achieved by taking the heavy neutral leptons~(HNL) of the models as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Wei Liu , Yu Zhang

Axion-like particles (ALPs) appear from spontaneous global symmetry breaking in many extensions of the Standard Model (SM). In this paper, we find bounds on ALP ($a$) model parameters at the LHC from the ALP production associated with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Javad Ebadi , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons associated with spontaneously broken global symmetries emerging in many extensions of the Standard Model. Assuming the most general effective Lagrangian up to dimension-5…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-08 Gholamhossein Haghighat , Daruosh Haji Raissi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

Long-lived light particles (LLLPs) appear in many extensions of the standard model. LLLPs are usually motivated by the observed small neutrino masses, by dark matter or both. Typical examples for fermionic LLLPs (a.k.a. heavy neutral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 Juan Carlos Helo , Martin Hirsch , Zeren Simon Wang

Axionlike particles (ALPs) emerge from spontaneously broken global symmetries in high energy extensions of the Standard Model (SM). This causes ALPs to be among the objectives of future experiments which intend to search for new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-23 Yasaman Hosseini , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi
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