Rare boson decays to a hidden sector
Abstract
We demonstrate that rare decays of the Standard Model Z boson can be used to discover and characterize the nature of new hidden-sector particles. We propose new searches for these particles in soft, high-multiplicity leptonic final states at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed searches are sensitive to low-mass particles produced in Z decays, and we argue that these striking signatures can shed light on the hidden-sector couplings and mechanism for mass generation.
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1417414
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1424741; OSTI ID: 1426440
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-203342-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; PRVDAQ; 015009
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-76SF00515; PHY-1607761
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review. D.
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 97 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Standard Model; decays; Z; couplings; particle physics; leptonic; boson
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Blinov, Nikita, Izaguirre, Eder, and Shuve, Brian. Rare Z boson decays to a hidden sector. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.015009.
Blinov, Nikita, Izaguirre, Eder, & Shuve, Brian. Rare Z boson decays to a hidden sector. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.015009
Blinov, Nikita, Izaguirre, Eder, and Shuve, Brian. Thu .
"Rare Z boson decays to a hidden sector". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.015009.
@article{osti_1417414,
title = {Rare Z boson decays to a hidden sector},
author = {Blinov, Nikita and Izaguirre, Eder and Shuve, Brian},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate that rare decays of the Standard Model Z boson can be used to discover and characterize the nature of new hidden-sector particles. We propose new searches for these particles in soft, high-multiplicity leptonic final states at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed searches are sensitive to low-mass particles produced in Z decays, and we argue that these striking signatures can shed light on the hidden-sector couplings and mechanism for mass generation.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.97.015009},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 1,
volume = 97,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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FIG. 1: Feynman diagram illustrating dark Higgs (hD) and dark photon (A') production in rare Z boson decays. The dark photons in hD decay can be on- or off-shell.
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