Light weakly coupled axial forces: models, constraints, and projections

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)002zbMATH Open1380.81247arXiv1609.09072OpenAlexW2524175726MaRDI QIDQ682880FDOQ682880

Authors: Yonatan Kahn, Gordan Krnjaic, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Timothy M. P. Tait 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the landscape of constraints on MeV-GeV scale, hidden U(1) forces with nonzero axial-vector couplings to Standard Model fermions. While the purely vector-coupled dark photon, which may arise from kinetic mixing, is a well-motivated scenario, several MeV-scale anomalies motivate a theory with axial couplings which can be UV-completed consistent with Standard Model gauge invariance. Moreover, existing constraints on dark photons depend on products of various combinations of axial and vector couplings, making it difficult to isolate the effects of axial couplings for particular flavors of SM fermions. We present a representative renormalizable, UV-complete model of a dark photon with adjustable axial and vector couplings, discuss its general features, and show how some UV constraints may be relaxed in a model with nonrenormalizable Yukawa couplings at the expense of fine-tuning. We survey the existing parameter space and the projected reach of planned experiments, briefly commenting on the relevance of the allowed parameter space to low-energy anomalies in pi^0 and 8-Be* decay.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09072

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zbMATH Keywords

beyond standard modelgauge symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50)

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• Axial vector \(Z^{\prime}\) and anomaly cancellation

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