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| author | Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Dror, Jeff A. Giffin, Pierce Gori, Stefania Jackson, Ollie Luong, Khai Schwendimann, Patrick Seo, Se Rang |
| author_facet | Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Dror, Jeff A. Giffin, Pierce Gori, Stefania Jackson, Ollie Luong, Khai Schwendimann, Patrick Seo, Se Rang |
| contents | We study the sensitivity of past and future stopped-pion experiments to light, invisible dark sector particles produced in exotic pion decays. We consider two-body decays involving sterile neutrinos, $π^+ \to \ell^+ N$, as well as three-body decays $π^+ \to \ell^+ ν_\ell X$, with $X$ an invisible scalar, axion-like particle, or dark vector. We recast existing limits from the PIENU experiment and project the reach of the planned PIONEER experiment using detailed simulations based on the current detector design. We find that PIONEER can improve bounds on exotic pion branching ratios by at least one order of magnitude below current limits. We compare the projected sensitivities with complementary constraints from lepton anomalous magnetic moments, mono-photon searches, and beam-dump experiments, identifying weak-violating axion-like particles as a particularly well-motivated benchmark. Our results establish PIONEER as a powerful and complementary probe of light, invisible dark sectors. |
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| spellingShingle | Exploring Invisible New Physics with Exotic Pion Decays Altmannshofer, Wolfgang Dror, Jeff A. Giffin, Pierce Gori, Stefania Jackson, Ollie Luong, Khai Schwendimann, Patrick Seo, Se Rang High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We study the sensitivity of past and future stopped-pion experiments to light, invisible dark sector particles produced in exotic pion decays. We consider two-body decays involving sterile neutrinos, $π^+ \to \ell^+ N$, as well as three-body decays $π^+ \to \ell^+ ν_\ell X$, with $X$ an invisible scalar, axion-like particle, or dark vector. We recast existing limits from the PIENU experiment and project the reach of the planned PIONEER experiment using detailed simulations based on the current detector design. We find that PIONEER can improve bounds on exotic pion branching ratios by at least one order of magnitude below current limits. We compare the projected sensitivities with complementary constraints from lepton anomalous magnetic moments, mono-photon searches, and beam-dump experiments, identifying weak-violating axion-like particles as a particularly well-motivated benchmark. Our results establish PIONEER as a powerful and complementary probe of light, invisible dark sectors. |
| title | Exploring Invisible New Physics with Exotic Pion Decays |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06254 |