Realistic model for a fifth force explaining anomaly in ^8Be^ ^8Be\, e^+ e^- decay

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2017.03.023MaRDI QIDQ529299zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pei-Hong Gu, Xiao-Gang He

Publication date 18 May 2017

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/1606.05171

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Nuclear physics (81V35)

Abstract: A $6.8,sigma$ anomaly has been reported in the opening angle and invariant mass distributions of $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ pairs produced in ${}^{8}Be$ nuclear transitions. It has been shown that a protophobic fifth force mediated by a $17,extrmMeV$ gauge boson $X$ with pure vector current interactions can explain the data through the decay of an excited state to the ground state, ${}^{8}B{e}^{\ast }o{}^{8}Be,X$, and then the followed saturating decay $Xo{e}^{+}{e}^{-}$. In this work we propose a renormalizable model to realize this fifth force. Although axial-vector current interactions also exist in our model, their contributions cancel out in the iso-scalar interaction for ${}^{8}B{e}^{\ast }o{}^{8}Be,X$. Within the allowed parameter space, this model can alleviate the $(g-2{)}_{m}u$ anomaly problem and can be probed by the LHCb experiment. Several other implications are discussed.

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