scholarly journals Developments in Rare Kaon Decay Physics

2000 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.R. Barker ◽  
S.H. Kettell

▪ Abstract  We review the current status of the field of rare kaon decays. The study of rare kaon decays has played a key role in the development of the standard model, and the field continues to have significant impact. The two areas of greatest import are the search for physics beyond the standard model and the determination of fundamental standard-model parameters. Due to the exquisite sensitivity of rare kaon decay experiments, searches for new physics can probe very high mass scales. Studies of the K → π ν[Formula: see text] modes in particular, where the first event has recently been seen, will permit tests of the standard-model picture of quark mixing and CP violation.

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 409-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
KEITH A. OLIVE ◽  
SEAN T. SCULLY

The current status of big bang nucleosynthesis is reviewed with an emphasis on the comparison between the observational determination of the light element abundances of D , 3 He , 4 He and 7 Li and the predictions from theory. In particular, we present new analyses for 4 He and 7 Li . Implications for physics beyond the standard model are also discussed. In addition, limits on the effective number of neutrino flavors are updated.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhiro Okada ◽  
Luca Panizzi

This work provides an overview on the current status of phenomenology and searches for heavy vector-like quarks, which are predicted in many models of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Searches at Tevatron and at the LHC, here listed and shortly described, have not found any evidence for new heavy fermionic states (either chiral or vector-like) and have therefore posed strong bounds on their masses: depending on specific assumptions on the interactions and on the observed final state, vector-like quarks with masses up to roughly 400–600 GeV have been excluded by all experiments. In order to be as simple and model independent as possible, the chosen framework for the phenomenological analysis is an effective model with the addition of a vector-like quark representation (singlet, doublet, or triplet underSU(2)L) which couples through Yukawa interactions with all SM families. The relevance of different observables for the determination of bounds on mixing parameters is then discussed and a complete overview of possible two body final states for every vector-like quark is provided, including their subsequent decay into SM particles. A list and short description of phenomenological analyses present in the literature are also provided for reference purposes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Bharucha ◽  
Diogo Boito ◽  
Cédric Méaux

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.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Maxim Khlopov

A.D. Sakharov’s legacy in now standard model of the Universe is not reduced to baryosynthesis but extends to the foundation of cosmoparticle physics, which studies the fundamental relationship of cosmology and particle physics. Development of cosmoparticle physics involves cross-disciplinary physical, astrophysical and cosmological studies of physics Beyond the Standard model (BSM) of elementary particles. To probe physical models for inflation, baryosynthesis and dark matter cosmoparticle physics pays special attention to model dependent messengers of the corresponding models, making their tests possible. Positive evidence for such exotic phenomena as nuclear interacting dark atoms, primordial black holes or antimatter globular cluster in our galaxy would provide the selection of viable BSM models determination of their parameters.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (supp01b) ◽  
pp. 888-890
Author(s):  
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BRUCE KNUTESON

We present a quasi-model-independent search for physics beyond the standard model. We define final states to be studied, and construct a rule that identifies a set of variables appropriate for any particular final state. A new algorithm ("Sleuth") searches for regions of excess in the space of those variables and quantifies the significance of any detected excess. After demonstrating the sensititvity of the method, we apply it to the semi-inclusive channel eμX collected in ≈108 pb -1 of [Formula: see text] collisions at [Formula: see text] at the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. We find no evidence of new high pT physics in this sample.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (03) ◽  
pp. 1330006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. J. AJALTOUNI ◽  
E. DI SALVO

This review paper stresses the possible connection between time-reversal violation and new physics processes beyond the standard model. In particular, this violation is proposed as an alternative to CP violation in the search for such unkown processes. Emphasis is put on the weak decays of heavy hadrons, especially beauty ones. Specific methods for extracting useful parameters from experimental data are elaborated in order to test TR symmetry. These methods could be used successfully in the analysis of the LHC data.


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Truong Trong Thuc ◽  
Le Tho Hue ◽  
Dinh Phan Khoi ◽  
Nguyen Thanh Phong

Lepton flavor violating (cLFV) decays of charged leptons such as \(\tau\rightarrow \mu\gamma\), \(\tau\rightarrow e\gamma\), \(\mu\rightarrow e\gamma\),..., are now the subjects of experiments as signals of new Physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In the limit of the unitary gauge, we prove that contributions from one loop corrections to the above decays are very small in the framework of the economical 3-3-1 model.


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