New Laboratory Constraints on Neutrinophilic Mediators
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| author | Dev, P. S. Bhupal Kim, Doojin Sathyan, Deepak Sinha, Kuver Zhang, Yongchao |
| author_facet | Dev, P. S. Bhupal Kim, Doojin Sathyan, Deepak Sinha, Kuver Zhang, Yongchao |
| contents | Neutrinophilic mediators are well-motivated messenger particles that can probe some of the least known sectors of fundamental physics involving nonstandard interactions of neutrinos with themselves and potentially with dark matter. In particular, light mediators coupling to the active neutrinos will induce new decay modes of the Standard Model mesons (e.g., $π^\pm, K^\pm \to \ell^\pm + ν+ ϕ$), charged leptons (e.g., $τ^\pm \to π^\pm + ν+ ϕ$), and gauge bosons (e.g., $Z \to ν+ \barν+ ϕ$). A common lore is that these decays suffer from infrared divergences in the limit of the vanishing mediator mass, i.e., $m_ϕ\to 0$. Here, we show that including the 1-loop contributions of these mediators to the standard 2-body decays (e.g., $π^\pm,\,K^\pm \to \ell^\pm + ν$, etc.), the infrared divergence from the 3-body decay cancels out exactly by virtue of the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem. Including these cancellation effects, we then update the existing laboratory constraints on neutrinophilic scalar mediators, thereby extending the limits far beyond the decaying parent particle mass and excluding a wider range of parameter space. These new ``physical'' limits derived here have significant implications for the future detection prospects of nonstandard neutrino (self-)interactions. |
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| spellingShingle | New Laboratory Constraints on Neutrinophilic Mediators Dev, P. S. Bhupal Kim, Doojin Sathyan, Deepak Sinha, Kuver Zhang, Yongchao High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment Neutrinophilic mediators are well-motivated messenger particles that can probe some of the least known sectors of fundamental physics involving nonstandard interactions of neutrinos with themselves and potentially with dark matter. In particular, light mediators coupling to the active neutrinos will induce new decay modes of the Standard Model mesons (e.g., $π^\pm, K^\pm \to \ell^\pm + ν+ ϕ$), charged leptons (e.g., $τ^\pm \to π^\pm + ν+ ϕ$), and gauge bosons (e.g., $Z \to ν+ \barν+ ϕ$). A common lore is that these decays suffer from infrared divergences in the limit of the vanishing mediator mass, i.e., $m_ϕ\to 0$. Here, we show that including the 1-loop contributions of these mediators to the standard 2-body decays (e.g., $π^\pm,\,K^\pm \to \ell^\pm + ν$, etc.), the infrared divergence from the 3-body decay cancels out exactly by virtue of the Kinoshita-Lee-Nauenberg theorem. Including these cancellation effects, we then update the existing laboratory constraints on neutrinophilic scalar mediators, thereby extending the limits far beyond the decaying parent particle mass and excluding a wider range of parameter space. These new ``physical'' limits derived here have significant implications for the future detection prospects of nonstandard neutrino (self-)interactions. |
| title | New Laboratory Constraints on Neutrinophilic Mediators |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Experiment |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12738 |