Eta decay and muonic puzzles

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2019.114638MaRDI QIDQ2295507zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 13 February 2020

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01028

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle decays (81U90) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: New physics motivated by muonic puzzles (proton radius and muon $g-2$ discrepancies) is studied. Using a light scalar boson $phi$, assuming Yukawa interactions, accounts for these muonic puzzles simultaneously. Our previous work limits the existence of such a scalar boson's mass $m_{p}hi$ from about 160 keV to 60 MeV. We improve this result by including the influence of all of the possible particles that couple to the $phi$ in computing the decay rate. Doing this involves including the strong interaction physics, involving quarks, necessary to compute the $etapiphi$ vertex function. The Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, which accounts for the spontaneous symmetry breaking that yields the constituent mass is employed to represent the relevant strong-interaction physics. We use the $etapiphi$ vertex function to reanalyze the electron beam dump experiments. The result is that the allowed range of $m_{p}hi$ lies between about 160 keV and 3.5 MeV. This narrow range represents an inviting target for ruling out or discovering this scalar boson. A possible UV completion of our phenomenological model is discussed.

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