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Search for Second Neutral Pion

There is evidence of a second neutral pion from: (1) the anomalous branching ratios in the reactions p-bar p -> pi pi and p-bar d -> pi pi N, and (2) the 1960's results of Tsai-Chu et al. for antinucleon annihilation stars in emulsions. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Perkins

Can a protophobic vector boson explain the ATOMKI anomaly?

In 2016, the ATOMKI collaboration announced [PRL {\bf 116}, 042501 (2016)] observing an unexpected enhancement of the $e^+-e^-$ pair production signal in one of the $^8$Be nuclear transitions induced by an incident proton beam on a $^7$Li…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-28 Xilin Zhang , Gerald A. Miller

Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a pseudoscalar particle in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

A search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a Z boson and a light pseudoscalar particle (a), decaying to a pair of leptons and a pair of photons, respectively, is presented. The search is based on proton-proton collision data at a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-09 CMS Collaboration

Dynamical Evidence For a Fifth Force Explanation of the ATOMKI Nuclear Anomalies

Recent anomalies in $^8$Be and $^4$He nuclear decays can be explained by postulating a fifth force mediated by a new boson $X$. The distributions of both transitions are consistent with the same $X$ mass, 17 MeV, providing kinematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-19 Jonathan L. Feng , Tim M. P. Tait , Christopher B. Verhaaren

Prompt-delayed $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy of neutron-rich $^{119,121}$In isotopes

The fusion and transfer induced fission reaction $^{9}$Be($^{238}$U,~f) with 6.2 MeV/u beam energy, using a unique setup consisting of AGATA, VAMOS++ and EXOGAM detectors, was used to populate through the fission process and study the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-07-31 S. Biswas , A. Lemasson , M. Rejmund , A. Navin , Y. H. Kim , C. Michelagnoli , I. Stefan , R. Banik , P. Bednarczyk , Soumik Bhattacharya , S. Bhattacharyya , E. Clément , H. L. Crawford , G. de France , P. Fallon , G. Frémont , J. Goupil , B. Jacquot , H. J. Li , J. Ljungvall , A. Maj , L. Ménager , V. Morel , R. Palit , R. M. Pérez-Vidal , J. Ropert

Nonmesonic weak decay spectra of light hypernuclei

The nonmesonic weak decay spectra of light hypernuclei have been evaluated in a systematic way. As theoretical framework we adopt the independent particle shell model with three different one-meson-exchange transition potentials. Good…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-07-18 Franjo Krmpotić

Search for a massless particle beyond the Standard Model in the $\Sigma^+\rightarrow p+{\rm invisible}$ decay

A massless particle beyond the Standard Model is searched for in the two-body decay $\Sigma^+\rightarrow p+{\rm invisible}$ using $(1.0087\pm0.0044)\times10^{10}$ $J/\psi$ events collected at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=3.097$ GeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-09 BESIII Collaboration , M. Ablikim , M. N. Achasov , P. Adlarson , O. Afedulidis , X. C. Ai , R. Aliberti , A. Amoroso , Q. An , Y. Bai , O. Bakina , I. Balossino , Y. Ban , H. R. Bao , V. Batozskaya , K. Begzsuren , N. Berger , M. Berlowski , M. Bertani , D. Bettoni , F. Bianchi , E. Bianco , A. Bortone , I. Boyko , R. A. Briere , A. Brueggemann , H. Cai , X. Cai , A. Calcaterra , G. F. Cao , N. Cao , S. A. Cetin , J. F. Chang , G. R. Che , G. Chelkov , C. Chen , C. H. Chen , Chao Chen , G. Chen , H. S. Chen , H. Y. Chen , M. L. Chen , S. J. Chen , S. L. Chen , S. M. Chen , T. Chen , X. R. Chen , X. T. Chen , Y. B. Chen , Y. Q. Chen , Z. J. Chen , Z. Y. Chen , S. K. Choi , G. Cibinetto , F. Cossio , J. J. Cui , H. L. Dai , J. P. Dai , A. Dbeyssi , R. E. de Boer , D. Dedovich , C. Q. Deng , Z. Y. Deng , A. Denig , I. Denysenko , M. Destefanis , F. De Mori , B. Ding , X. X. Ding , Y. Ding , Y. Ding , J. Dong , L. Y. Dong , M. Y. 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A Time Projection Chamber to Search for Feebly Interacting Bosons via Proton Induced Nuclear Reactions

We propose a new Time Projection Chamber particle detector (TPC) to search for the existence of feebly-interacting bosons and to investigate the existence of the X17 boson, proposed by the ATOMKI group to explain anomalous results in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-28 Martin Sevior , Michael Baker , Lindsey Bignell , Catalina Curceanu , Jackson T. H. Dowie , Tibor Kibedi , David Jamieson , Andrew Stuchbery , Andrea Thamm , Martin White

Search for a new charged particle in the mass range of 2-100 MeV

In the theory of electroweak interactions, there is no prohibition on the existence of particles with a mass other than that of an electron, muon and tauon. The task is to search for a new particle in the mass range of 2-100 MeV. The search…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-12 M. H. Anikina , V. A. Nikitin , V. C. Rikhvitsky

Search for new heavy neutral bosons decaying into a dilepton pair with the CMS detector at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV

Several theories beyond the Standard Model predict the existence of new heavy neutral bosons. Such particles could be produced in significant amounts at the LHC and their decay into a dilepton pair provides a clean signature with low…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Laurent Thomas

An Update on the Hypothetical X17 Particle

Recently, when examining the differential internal pair creation coefficients of $^8$Be, $^4$He and $^{12}$C nuclei, we observed peak-like anomalies in the angular correlation of the e$^+$e$^-$ pairs. This was interpreted as the creation…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-09-26 A. J. Krasznahorky , A. Krasznahorkay , M. Csatlós , J. Timár , M. Begala , A. Krakó , I. Rajta , I. Vajda , N. J. Sas

Anomalous pairing vibration in neutron-rich Sn isotopes beyond the N=82 magic number

Two-neutron transfer associated with the pair correlation in superfluid neutron-rich nuclei is studied with focus on low-lying $0^+$ states in Sn isotopes beyond the N=82 magic number. We describe microscopically the two-neutron addition…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Hirotaka Shimoyama , Masayuki Matsuo

Unusual Transition Patterns in Bose-Einstein Condensation

We analyze the possible transition patterns exhibited by an effective non-relativistic field model describing interacting binary homogeneous dilute Bose gases whose overall potential is repulsive. We evaluate the temperature dependence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus B. Pinto , Rudnei O. Ramos , Frederico F. de Souza Cruz

A New Higgs Boson with Electron-Muon Flavor-Violating Couplings

Recently, the CMS Collaboration performed a search on a new resonance decaying to $e^\pm\mu^\mp$ in the mass range of 110 GeV to 160 GeV. The search also hints a possible excess at 146 GeV with a $3.8\sigma~(2.8\sigma)$ of local (global)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-21 R. Primulando , J. Julio , N. Srimanobhas , P. Uttayarat

Quantum Phase Transitions in Odd-Mass Nuclei

Quantum shape-phase transitions in odd-even nuclei are investigated in the framework of the interacting boson-fermion model. Classical and quantum analysis show that the presence of the odd fermion strongly influences the location and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-05 A. Leviatan , D. Petrellis , F. Iachello

Observation of the E(38)-boson

The first results of the search for the E(38)-boson are presented. The search was conducted in the effective mass spectra of photon pairs produced in the d(2.0 GeV/n) + C, d(3.0 GeV/n) + Cu and p(4.6 GeV) + C reactions. The experimental…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-09-27 Kh. U. Abraamyan , A. B. Anisimov , M. I. Baznat , K. K. Gudima , M. A. Nazarenko , S. G. Reznikov , A. S. Sorin

Model-independent search for pair production of new bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

The results of a model-independent search for the pair production of new bosons within a mass range of 0.21 $\lt$ $m$ $\lt$ 60 GeV, are presented. This study utilizes events with a four-muon final state. We use two data sets, comprising…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-01-08 CMS Collaboration

Exploration of the Tensor Structure of the Higgs Boson Coupling to Weak Bosons in $e^+e^-$ Collisions

Probing signatures of anomalous interactions of the Higgs boson with pairs of weak vector bosons is an important goal of an $e^+e^-$ collider commissioned as a Higgs factory. We perform a detailed analysis of such potential of a collider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Gilad Amar , Shankha Banerjee , Stefan von Buddenbrock , Alan S. Cornell , Tanumoy Mandal , Bruce Mellado , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson in final states with two muons and two nearby tracks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV

A search is presented for pairs of light pseudoscalar bosons, in the mass range from 4 to 15 GeV, produced from decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. The decay modes considered are final states that arise when one of the pseudoscalars decays…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-12-06 CMS Collaboration

Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to two bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV

A model-independent search for a narrow resonance produced in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and decaying to a pair of 125 GeV Higgs bosons that in turn each decays into bottom quark-antiquark pairs is performed by the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-09-15 CMS Collaboration