Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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[1];
[2];
[1]
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
- University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); German Research Foundation (DFG); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2234263
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 2229878; OSTI ID: 2331450
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011842; AC02-05CH11231; SC0022345; PHY-1915314; PHY-1607611; EXC2094-390783311
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2023; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Axions and ALPs; Specific BSM Phenomenology
Citation Formats
Co, Raymond T., Kumar, Soubhik, and Liu, Zhen. Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states. United States: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep02(2023)111.
Co, Raymond T., Kumar, Soubhik, & Liu, Zhen. Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2023)111
Co, Raymond T., Kumar, Soubhik, and Liu, Zhen. Fri .
"Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2023)111. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2234263.
@article{osti_2234263,
title = {Searches for heavy QCD axions via dimuon final states},
author = {Co, Raymond T. and Kumar, Soubhik and Liu, Zhen},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep02(2023)111},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 2023,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2023},
month = {Fri Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2023}
}
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