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Title: Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

Heavy QCD axions are well-motivated extensions of the QCD axion that address the quality problem while still solving the strong CP problem. Owing to the gluon coupling, critical for solving the strong CP problem, these axions can be produced in significant numbers in beam dump and collider environments for axion decay constants as large as PeV, relevant for addressing the axion quality problem. In addition, if these axions have leptonic couplings, they can give rise to long-lived decay into lepton pairs, in particular, dominantly into muons above the dimuon threshold and below the GeV scale in a broad class of axion models. Considering existing constraints, primarily from rare meson decays, we demonstrate that current and future neutrino facilities and long-lived particle searches have the potential to probe significant parts of the heavy QCD axion parameter space via dimuon final states.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011842; AC02-05CH11231; SC0022345; PHY-1915314; PHY-1607611; EXC2094-390783311
OSTI ID:
2234263
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2229878; OSTI ID: 2331450
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2023, Issue 2; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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