Searching for new physics at μ →e facilities with μ+ and π+ decays at rest

Richard J. Hill; Ryan Plestid; Jure Zupan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.035025

Searching for new physics at μ →e facilities with μ+ and π+ decays at rest

Richard J. Hill
, Ryan Plestid
, Jure Zupan

Physics And Astronomy

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We investigate the ability of μ→e facilities, Mu2e and COMET, to probe, or discover, new physics with their detector validation datasets. The validation of the detector response may be performed using a dedicated run with μ+, collecting data below the Michel edge, Ee≲52 MeV; an alternative strategy using π+→e+νe may also be considered. We focus primarily on a search for a monoenergetic e+ produced via two-body decays μ+→e+X or π+→e+X, with X a light new physics particle. Mu2e can potentially explore new parameter space beyond present astrophysical and laboratory constraints for a set of well motivated models including axionlike particles with flavor violating couplings (μ+→e+a), massive Z′ bosons (μ+→Z′e+), and heavy neutral leptons (π+→e+N). The projected sensitivities presented herein can be achieved in a matter of days.

Idioma original	English
Número de artículo	035025
Publicación	Physical Review D
Volumen	109
N.º	3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.035025
Estado	Published - feb 1 2024

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This work began from a series of discussions with Shihua Huang, David Koltick, and Pavel Murat. We acknowledge their contributions at various stages of this work and thank them for helping us understand the challenges that must be overcome at an experiment such as Mu2e. We thank Michael Hedges for his work on the calibration at Mu2e. We thank Diego Redigolo for useful discussions and feedback regarding massless axion searches, Lorenzo Calibbi for suggestions for tau lepton searches for ALPs, and Matheus Hostert for suggestions on HNL induced CLFV couplings. We thank Matheus Hostert and Diego Redigolo for feedback on an early version of this manuscript. We thank Robert Bernstein, Stefano Miscetti, and the broader Mu2e Collaboration for detailed feedback on the final version of this work and coordination with Ref. . We thank Yoshi Kuno for communications regarding COMET, and Robert Schrock for clarifications on HNL mixing limits. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0019095. This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. J. Z. acknowledges support in part by the DOE Grants No. DE-SC0011784 and No. DE-SC1019775, and the NSF Grant No. OAC-2103889. R. P. acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0011632 and the Neutrino Theory Network Program Grant under Award No. DE-AC02-07CHI11359, and by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics. Part of this research was performed at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics which is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958 and at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. PHY-1607611. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award No. DE-SC0011632.

Financiadores	Número del financiador
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Office of Science Programs
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
Institute for High Energy Physics	DE-SC0019095
U.S. Department of Energy	DE-SC1019775, DE-SC0011784
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	DE-AC02-07CH11359
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	DE-SC0011632, OAC-2103889, PHY-1748958, PHY-1607611, DE-AC02-07CHI11359

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