scholarly journals Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model in an off-axis DUNE near detector

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Breitbach ◽  
Luca Buonocore ◽  
Claudia Frugiuele ◽  
Joachim Kopp ◽  
Lukas Mittnacht
Keyword(s):  
New Physics ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Primary Target ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Near Detector ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract Next generation neutrino oscillation experiments like DUNE and T2HK are multi-purpose observatories, with a rich physics program beyond oscillation measurements. A special role is played by their near detector facilities, which are particularly well-suited to search for weakly coupled dark sector particles produced in the primary target. In this paper, we demonstrate this by estimating the sensitivity of the DUNE near detectors to the scattering of sub-GeV DM particles and to the decay of sub-GeV sterile neutrinos (“heavy neutral leptons”). We discuss in particular the importance of the DUNE-PRISM design, which allows some of the near detectors to be moved away from the beam axis. At such off-axis locations, the signal-to-background ratio improves for many new physics searches. We find that this leads to a dramatic boost in the sensitivity to boosted DM particles interacting mainly with hadrons, while for boosted DM interacting with leptons, data taken on-axis leads to marginally stronger exclusion limits. Searches for heavy neutral leptons perform equally well in both configurations.

scholarly journals The SHiP physics program

2018 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Giovanni De Lellis
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Tau Neutrino ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
Physics Potential ◽  
The Standard Model

The discovery of the Higgs boson has fully confirmed the Standard Model of particles and fields. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental phenomena, like the existence of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, which deserve an explanation that could come from the discovery of new particles. The SHiP experiment at CERN meant to search for very weakly coupled particles in the few GeV mass domain has been recently proposed. The existence of such particles, foreseen in different theoretical models beyond the Standard Model, is largely unexplored. A beam dump facility using high intensity 400 GeV protons is a copious source of such unknown particles in the GeV mass range. The beam dump is also a copious source of neutrinos and in particular it is an ideal source of tau neutrinos, the less known particle in the Standard Model. Indeed, tau anti-neutrinos have not been directly observed so far. We report the physics potential of such an experiment including the tau neutrino magnetic moment.

scholarly journals Status of Charm Flavor Physics

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (27) ◽  
pp. 5381-5403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Shipsey
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Flavor Physics ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Model Description ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Status

The role of charm in testing the Standard Model description of quark mixing and CP violation through measurements of lifetimes, decay constants and semileptonic form factors is reviewed. Together with Lattice QCD, charm has the potential this decade to maximize the sensitivity of the entire flavor physics program to new physics and pave the way for understanding physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC in the coming decade. The status of indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model through charm mixing, CP-violation and rare decays is also reported.

scholarly journals The MoEDAL Experiment at the LHC - Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 02096
Author(s):  
James Pinfold
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Magnetic Monopole ◽  
Magnetic Charge ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Magnetic Monopoles ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Centre Of Mass ◽  
Mass Energy ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
The Standard Model

MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing messengers of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles, that are predicted to exist in a plethora of models beyond the Standard Model. It started data taking at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, in 2015. MoEDAL’s ground breaking physics program defines a number of scenarios that yield potentially revolutionary insights into such foundational questions as: are there extra dimensions or new symmetries; what is the mechanism for the generation of mass; does magnetic charge exist; and what is the nature of dark matter. MoEDAL’s purpose is to meet such far-reaching challenges at the frontier of the field. We will present an overview of the MoEDAL detector, including the planned MAPP subdetector, as well as MoEDAL’s physics program. The concluding section highlights our first physics results on Magnetic Monopole production, that are the world’s best for Monopoles with multiple magnetic charge.

scholarly journals STATUS OF CHARM FLAVOR PHYSICS

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 5119-5132 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. SHIPSEY
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Flavor Physics ◽  
Form Factors ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Model Description ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Status

The role of charm in testing the Standard Model description of quark mixing and CP violation through measurements of lifetimes, decay constants and semileptonic form factors is reviewed. Together with Lattice QCD, charm has the potential this decade to maximize the sensitivity of the entire flavor physics program to new physics. and pave the way for understanding physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC in the coming decade. The status of indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model through charm mixing, CP-violation and rare decays is also reported.

scholarly journals The SHiP experiment at CERN

2018 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 02016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter M. Bonivento
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
Weakly Coupled ◽  
Physics Potential ◽  
The Standard Model

The discovery of the Higgs boson has fully confirmed the Standard Model of particles and fields. Nevertheless, there are still fundamental phenomena, like the existence of dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, deserving an explanation that could come from the discovery of new particles. Searches for new physics with accelerators are performed at the LHC, looking for high massive particles coupled to matter with ordinary strength. A new experiment at CERN meant to search for very weakly coupled particles in the few GeV mass domain has been recently proposed. The existence of such particles, foreseen in different theoretical models beyond the Standard Model, is largely unexplored. A beam dump facility using high intensity 400 GeV protons is a copious source of such unknown particles in the GeV mass range. The beam dump is also a copious source of neutrinos and in particular it is an ideal source of tau neutrinos, the less known particle in the Standard Model. The neutrino detector can also search for dark matter through its scattering off the electrons. We report the physics potential of the SHiP experiment.

scholarly journals Recent Progress in Search for Dark Sector Signatures

Open Physics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 281-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maksym Deliyergiyev
Keyword(s):  
New Physics ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Dark Sector ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
High Energies ◽  
Systematic Uncertainties ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

AbstractMany difficulties are encountered when attempting to pinpoint a common origin for several observed astrophysical anomalies, and when assessing their tension with existing exclusion limits. These include systematic uncertainties affecting the operation of the detectors, our knowledge of their response, astrophysical uncertainties, and the broad range of particle couplings that can mediate interaction with a detector target. Particularly interesting astrophysical evidence has motivated a search for dark-photon, and focused our attention on a Hidden Valleys model with a GeV-scale dark sector that produces exciting signatures. Results from recent underground experiments are also considered.There is a ‘light’ hidden sector (dark sector), present in many models of new physics beyond the Standard Model, which contains a colorful spectrum of new particles. Recently, it has been shown that this spectrum can give rise to unique signatures at colliders when the mass scale in the hidden sector is well below a TeV; as in Hidden Valleys, Stueckelberg extensions, and Unparticle models. These physics models produce unique signatures of collimated leptons at high energies. By studying these ephemeral particles we hope to trace the history of the Universe. Our present theories lead us to believe that there is something new just around the corner, which should be accessible at the energies made available by modern colliders.

scholarly journals Sterile neutrinos with altered dispersion relations as an explanation for neutrino anomalies

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Döring ◽  
Heinrich Päs ◽  
Philipp Sicking ◽  
Thomas J. Weiler
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Neutrino Oscillation ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Dispersion Relations ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model

AbstractRecently the MiniBooNE Collaboration has confirmed its anomalous excess in $$\overset{\scriptscriptstyle (-)}{\nu }_\mu \rightarrow \overset{\scriptscriptstyle (-)}{\nu }_e$$ ν ( - ) μ → ν ( - ) e neutrino oscillation data. Combined with long-standing results from the LSND experiment this amounts to a $$6.1\,\sigma $$ 6.1 σ evidence for new physics beyond the Standard Model. In this paper we develop a framework with 3 active and 3 sterile neutrinos with altered dispersion relations that provides a mechanism to explain these anomalies without being in conflict with the absence of anomalous neutrino disappearance in other neutrino oscillation experiments.

scholarly journals Neutrino beam-dump experiment with FASER at the LHC

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Jodłowski ◽  
Sebastian Trojanowski
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Neutrino Interaction ◽  
Neutrino Beam ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Beam Dump ◽  
High Energies ◽  
Physics Program ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Oppositely Charged

Abstract The neutrino physics program at the LHC, which will soon be initiated by the FASER experiment, will provide unique opportunities for precision studies of neutrino interaction vertices at high energies. This will also open up the possibility to search for beyond the standard model (BSM) particles produced in such interactions in the specific high-energy neutrino beam-dump experiment. In this study, we illustrate the prospects for such searches in models with the dipole or Z′ portal to GeV-scale heavy neutral leptons. To this end, we employ both the standard signature of new physics that consists of a pair of oppositely-charged tracks appearing in the decay vessel, and the additional types of searches. These include high-energy photons and single scattered electrons. We show that such a variety of experimental signatures could significantly extend the sensitivity reach of the future multi-purpose FASER 2 detector during the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC.

scholarly journals Disentangling QCD and new physics in D → πℓ+ℓ−

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Bharucha ◽  
Diogo Boito ◽  
Cédric Méaux
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Branching Ratio ◽  
Branching Ratios ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Operator Product ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Spectral Functions ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Model Independent ◽  
Weak Annihilation

Abstract In this paper we consider the decay D+ → π+ℓ+ℓ−, addressing in particular the resonance contributions as well as the relatively large contributions from the weak annihilation diagrams. For the weak annihilation diagrams we include known results from QCD factorisation at low q2 and at high q2, adapting the existing calculation for B decays in the Operator Product Expansion. The hadronic resonance contributions are obtained through a dispersion relation, modelling the spectral functions as towers of Regge-like resonances in each channel, as suggested by Shifman, imposing the partonic behaviour in the deep Euclidean. The parameters of the model are extracted using e+e− → (hadrons) and τ → (hadrons) + ντ data as well as the branching ratios for the resonant decays D+ → π+R(R → ℓ+ℓ−), with R = ρ, ω, and ϕ. We perform a thorough error analysis, and present our results for the Standard Model differential branching ratio as a function of q2. Focusing then on the observables FH and AFB, we consider the sensitivity of this channel to effects of physics beyond the Standard Model, both in a model independent way and for the case of leptoquarks.

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