Probing light dark scalars with future experiments
Abstract We investigate a dark sector containing a pair of light non-degenerate scalar particles, with masses in the MeV-GeV range, coupled to the visibile sector through heavier mediators. The heaviest dark state is long-lived, and its decays offer new testable signals. We analyze the prospects for...
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doaj-16ec1a7d366548e1aa9ec44f3508764a2021-04-04T11:07:30ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792021-03-012021313510.1007/JHEP03(2021)272Probing light dark scalars with future experimentsEnrico Bertuzzo0Marco Taoso1Instituto de Física, Universidade de São PauloI.N.F.N. sezione di TorinoAbstract We investigate a dark sector containing a pair of light non-degenerate scalar particles, with masses in the MeV-GeV range, coupled to the visibile sector through heavier mediators. The heaviest dark state is long-lived, and its decays offer new testable signals. We analyze the prospects for detection with the proposed beam-dump facility SHiP, and the proposed LHC experiments FASER and MATHUSLA. Moreover, we consider bounds from the beam-dump experiment CHARM and from colliders (LEP, LHC and BaBar). We present our results both in terms of an effective field theory, where the heavy mediators have been integrated out, and of a simplified model containing a vector boson mediator, which can be heavy ≳ O 1 $$ \mathcal{O}(1) $$ TeV, or light O 10 $$ \mathcal{O}(10) $$ GeV. We show that future experiments can test large portions of the parameter space currently unexplored, and that they are complementary to future High-Luminosity LHC searches.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)272Beyond Standard ModelCosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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Probing light dark scalars with future experiments |
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Probing light dark scalars with future experiments |
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Abstract We investigate a dark sector containing a pair of light non-degenerate scalar particles, with masses in the MeV-GeV range, coupled to the visibile sector through heavier mediators. The heaviest dark state is long-lived, and its decays offer new testable signals. We analyze the prospects for detection with the proposed beam-dump facility SHiP, and the proposed LHC experiments FASER and MATHUSLA. Moreover, we consider bounds from the beam-dump experiment CHARM and from colliders (LEP, LHC and BaBar). We present our results both in terms of an effective field theory, where the heavy mediators have been integrated out, and of a simplified model containing a vector boson mediator, which can be heavy ≳ O 1 $$ \mathcal{O}(1) $$ TeV, or light O 10 $$ \mathcal{O}(10) $$ GeV. We show that future experiments can test large portions of the parameter space currently unexplored, and that they are complementary to future High-Luminosity LHC searches. |
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Beyond Standard Model Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2021)272 |
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