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Bhaskar Dutta

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arXiv2019

Neutrino Non-Standard Interactions: A Status Report

This report summarizes the present status of neutrino non-standard interactions (NSI). After a brief overview, several aspects of NSIs are discussed, including connection to neutrino mass models, model-building and phenomenology of large NSI with both light and heavy mediators, NSI phenomenology in both short- and long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, neutrino cross-sections, complementarity of NSI with other low- and high-energy experiments, fits with neutrino oscillation and scattering data, DUNE sensitivity to NSI, effective field theory of NSI, as well as the relevance of NSI to dark matter and cosmology. We also discuss the open questions and interesting future directions that can be pursued by the community at large. This report is based on talks and discussions during the Neutrino Theory Network NSI workshop held at Washington University in St. Louis from May 29-31, 2019 (https://indico.cern.ch/event/812851/)

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arXiv2019

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering in multi-ton scale dark matter experiments: Classification of vector and scalar interactions new physics signals

We classify new physics signals in coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$ν$NS) processes induced by $^8$B solar neutrinos in multi-ton xenon dark matter (DM) detectors. Our analysis focuses on vector and scalar interactions in the effective and light mediator limits after considering the constraints emerging from the recent COHERENT data and neutrino masses. In both cases we identify a region where measurements of the event spectrum alone suffice to establish whether the new physics signal is related with vector or scalar couplings. We identify as well a region where measurements of the recoil spectrum are required so to establish the nature of the new interaction, and categorize the spectral features that enable distinguishing the vector from the scalar case. We demonstrate that measurements of the isospin nature of the new interaction and thereby removal of isospin related degeneracies are possible by combining independent measurements from two different detectors. We also comment on the status of searches for vector and scalar interactions for on-going multi-ton year xenon experiments.

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arXiv2019

A sub-GeV dark matter model

We propose an extension of the Standard Model gauge symmetry by the gauge group $U(1)_{T3R}$ in order to address the Yukawa coupling hierarchy between the third generation fermions and the first two generation fermions of the SM. We assume that only the right-handed fermions of the first two generations are charged under the $U(1)_{T3R}$. In addition to the new dark gauge boson, we have a dark scalar particle whose vacuum expectation value (vev) breaks the $U(1)_{T3R}$ symmetry down to $Z_2$ symmetry and also explains the hierarchy problem. A vev of $\cal O$(GeV) is required to explain the mass parameters of the light flavor sector naturally. The dark matter (DM) particle arising from the model naturally has mass in the $\mathcal {O}$(1-100) MeV range. The model satisfies all the current constraints. We discuss the various prospects of the direct detection of the dark matter. We get both elastic and inelastic spin independent DM-nucleon scattering. The dark matter obtains the correct thermal relic density by annihilation.

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arXiv2019

Bounds on Cosmic Ray-Boosted Dark Matter in Simplified Models and its Corresponding Neutrino-Floor

We study direct detection bounds on cosmic ray-upscattered dark matter in simplified models including light mediators. We find that the energy dependence in the scattering cross section is significant, and produces stronger bounds than previously found (which assumed constant cross sections) by many orders of magnitude at low DM mass. Finally, we compute the "neutrino-floor" that will limit future direct detection searches for cosmic ray-upscattered dark matter. While we focus on vector interactions for illustration, we emphasize that the energy dependence is critical in determining accurate bounds on any particle physics model of Dark Matter-CR interactions from experimental data on this scenario.

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arXiv2019

Three-loop neutrino masses via new massive gauge bosons from $E_6$ GUT

We propose an $SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_N \times U(1)_Y$ model arising from $E_6$ grand unified theory. We show that the tiny neutrino masses in this model can be generated at the three-loop involving the $SU(2)_N$ gauge bosons. With Yukawa couplings around 0.01 or larger and TeV-scale $SU(2)_N$ gauge bosons, we show that the neutrino oscillation data can be explained naturally by presenting a concrete benchmark set of input parameters. All new particles are around the TeV scale. Thus our model can be tested at the ongoing/future collider experiments.

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arXiv2019

Searching for Beyond the Standard Model Physics with COHERENT Energy and Timing Data

We search for beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics by combining COHERENT energy and timing data. Focusing on light, $\lesssim$ GeV mediators, we find the data favor a $\sim 10-1000$ MeV mediator as compared to the Standard Model (SM) best fit at the $\lesssim 2σ$ level. The best-fit coupling range is $g \sim 10^{-5}-10^{-3}$. The timing data provides statistical information on the neutrino flavor distributions that is not attainable from the nuclear recoil energies alone. This result accounts for uncertainty in the effective size of the neutron distribution, and highlights the power of including uncertainties on experimental backgrounds, nuclear structure, and BSM physics.

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arXiv2019

Neutrino physics with dark matter detectors

Direct dark matter detection experiments will soon be sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources, including the Sun, the atmosphere, and supernova. This sets an important benchmark for these experiments, and opens up a new window in neutrino physics and astrophysics. The detection of these neutrinos will be complementary to accelerator and reactor-based experiments which study neutrinos over the same energy range. Here we review the physics and astrophysics that can be extracted from the detection of these neutrinos, highlighting the potential for identifying new physics in the form of light mediators that arise from kinetic mixing and hidden sectors, and $\sim$ eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We discuss how the physics reach of these experiments will complement searches for new physics at the LHC and dedicated neutrino experiments.

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arXiv2019

Neutrino scattering and B anomalies from hidden sector portals

We examine current constraints on and the future sensitivity to the strength of couplings between quarks and neutrinos in the presence of a form factor generated from loop effects of hidden sector particles that interact with quarks via new interactions. We consider models associated with either vector or scalar interactions of quarks and leptons generated by hidden sector dynamics. We study constraints on these models using data from coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering and solar neutrino experiments and demonstrate how these new interactions may be discovered by utilizing the recoil spectra. We show that our framework can be naturally extended to explain the lepton universality violating neutral current B decay anomalies, and that in a model framework the constraints from neutrino scattering can have implications for these anomalies.

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arXiv2019

Electron g-2 with flavor violation in MSSM

The muon $g-2$ anomaly is a long-standing discrepancy from its standard model prediction. The recent improved measurement of the fine structure constant makes the electron $g-2$ anomaly very interesting for both sign and magnitude in comparison to the muon $g-2$ anomaly. In order to explain both muon and electron $g-2$ anomalies, we introduce flavor violation in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) as a low energy theory. The lepton flavor violating process $τ\to eγ$ is one the major constraints to explain both $g-2$ anomalies simultaneously emerging from flavor violating terms. We show various mass spectra of sleptons, neutralinos, and charginos, consistent with the LHC results, to explain both anomalies after satisfying the flavor violation constraint.

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arXiv2019

Yukawa Unification with Four Higgs Doublets in Supersymmetric GUT

We discuss the Yukawa coupling unification, a very interesting prediction of the grand unified theory, in the context of scenarios with more than one pair of Higgs doublet since the current LHC constraint has become a problem for the Yukawa unification scenarios with just one pair of Higgs doublet. More than one pair of Higgs doublets can easily arise in missing partner mechanism which solves the doublet-triplet splitting problem. In such a scenario, the Yukawa unification occurs at a medium $\tanβ$ value, e.g., $\sim$ 30, which corresponds to much smaller threshold corrections compared to usual large $\tanβ$ scenario for $t-b-τ$ unification in the context of SO(10) and $b-τ$ unification in the context of SU(5) models. Further, we show that an additional Higgs doublet pair lowers the sensitivity of the radiative symmetry breaking of the electroweak vacuum.

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arXiv2019

Catching p via s wave with indirect detection

For many dark matter models, the annihilation cross section to two-body final states is difficult to probe with current experiments because the dominant annihilation channel is velocity or helicity suppressed. The inclusion of gauge boson radiation for three-body final states can lift the helicity suppression, allowing a velocity-independent cross section to dominate the annihilation process, and providing an avenue to constrain these models. Here we examine experimental constraints on dark matter that annihilates to two leptons plus a bremsstrahlung boson, $\bar{\ell}+\ell+γ/W/Z$. We consider experimental constraints on photon final states from Fermi-LAT using both diffuse photon data and data from dwarf spheroidal galaxies, and compare to the implied constraints from 21 cm measurements. Diffuse photon line searches are generally the strongest over the entire mass regime. We in particular highlight the model in which dark matter annihilates to two neutrinos and a photon, and show that these models are more strongly constrained through photon measurements than through existing neutrino bounds.

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A Theory of $R(D^*,D)$ Anomaly With Right-Handed Currents

We present an ultraviolet complete theory for the $R(D^*)$ and $R(D)$ anomaly in terms of a low mass $W_R^\pm$ gauge boson of a class of left-right symmetric models. These models, which are based on the gauge symmetry $SU(3)_c \times SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L}$, utilize vector-like fermions to generate quark and lepton masses via a universal seesaw mechanism. A parity symmetric version as well as an asymmetric version are studied. A light sterile neutrino emerges naturally in this setup, which allows for new decay modes of $B$-meson via right-handed currents. We show that these models can explain $R(D^*)$ and $R(D)$ anomaly while being consistent with LHC and LEP data as well as low energy flavor constraints arising from $K_L-K_S, B_{d,s}-\bar{B}_{d,s}$, $D-\bar{D}$ mixing, etc., but only for a limited range of the $W_R$ mass: $1.2\, (1.8)~{\rm TeV} \leq M_{W_R}\leq 3~ {\rm TeV}$ for parity asymmetric (symmetric) Yukawa sectors. The light sterile neutrinos predicted by the model may be relevant for explaining the MiniBoone and LSND neutrino oscillation results. The parity symmetric version of the model provides a simple solution to the strong CP problem without relying on the axion. It also predicts an isospin singlet top partner with a mass $M_T = (1.5-2.5)$ TeV.

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arXiv2018

Prospects for discovery and spin discrimination of dark matter in Higgs portal DM models and their extensions at 100 TeV $pp$ collider

We study the discovery and discriminating prospects of the Higgs portal dark matter (DM) models for scalar, fermion and vector DM and their extensions in proton-proton ($pp$) collisions. The $t\bar{t}+$DM associated production in dileptonic final states is considered, in which the stransverse mass of two leptons is found to be effective in suppressing the Standard Model backgrounds along with the missing transverse energy and the angle between two leptons. The distributions of missing transverse energy and polar angle between two leptons are used for a discrimination of the spin nature of DM. For the proposed benchmark points, the discovery/exclusion can be made with an integrated luminosity less than 1 ab$^{-1}$ given a 1\% systematic uncertainty, while the spin discrimination require integrated luminosity of a few O(10) ab$^{-1}$ given a 0.5\% systematic uncertainty. The DM phenomenology is also discussed. A consistent DM candidate can be obtained either by extending our model where the Higgs portal couples to excited dark states that decay into DM, or modifying the coupling form into pseudoscalar.

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arXiv2018

Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE$ν$NS) as a probe of $Z'$ through kinetic and mass mixing effects

We examine the current constraints and future sensitivity of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$ν$NS) experiments to mixing scenarios involving a $Z^\prime$ which interacts via portals with the Standard Model. We contrast the results against those from fixed target, atomic parity violation, and solar neutrino experiments. We demonstrate a significant dependence of the experimental reach on the $Z'$ coupling non-universality and the complementarity of CE$ν$NS to existing searches.

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arXiv2018

Probing a simplified, $W^{\prime}$ model of $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies using $b$-tags, $τ$ leptons and missing energy

We study the LHC sensitivity to a $W'$ produced via bottom and charm quarks and decaying to $τ$ flavor leptons in the mass range 200-1000 GeV. We show that the extra $b$ quarks necessitated by the production mechanism can improve the background rejection compared to an inclusive analysis relying solely on $τ$-tagging and $E_{T}^{\text{miss}}$. We present prospective limits on the couplings and compare them to the best fit to the $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies in $B$ meson decays.

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arXiv2018

Bottom-quark Fusion Processes at the LHC for Probing $Z^{\prime}$ Models and B-meson Decay Anomalies

We investigate models of a heavy neutral gauge boson Z' which could explain anomalies in B meson decays reported by the LHCb experiment. In these models, the Z' boson couples mostly to third generation fermions. We show that bottom quarks arising from gluon splitting can fuse into Z' as an essential production mechanism at the LHC, thereby allowing to probe these models. The study is performed within a generic framework for explaining the B anomalies that can be accommodated in well motivated models. The flavor violating b s coupling associated with Z' in such models produces lower bound on the production cross-section which gives rise to a cross-section range for such scenarios for the LHC to probe. Results are presented in Z' -> $μμ$ decays with at least one bottom-tagged jet in its final state. Some parts of the model parameter space become constrained by the existing dimuon-resonance searches by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. However, the requirement of one or two additional bottom-tagged jets in the final state would allow for probing a larger region of the parameter space of the models at the ongoing LHC program.

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arXiv2018

A cosmological pathway to testable leptogenesis

Leptogenesis could have occurred at temperatures much lower than generally thought, if the cosmological history of the Universe underwent a period of accelerated expansion, as is predicted for example in a class of scalar-tensor theories of gravitation. We discuss how non-standard cosmologies can open new pathways for low scale leptogenesis. Within these scenarios, direct tests of leptogenesis could also provide information on the very early times Universe evolution, corresponding to temperatures larger than the TeV.

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arXiv2018

21cm Limits on Decaying Dark Matter and Primordial Black Holes

Recently the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionization Signature (EDGES) reported the detection of a 21cm absorption signal stronger than astrophysical expectations. In this paper we study the impact of radiation from dark matter (DM) decay and primordial black holes (PBH) on the 21cm radiation temperature in the reionization epoch, and impose a constraint on the decaying dark matter and PBH energy injection in the intergalactic medium, which can heat up neutral hydrogen gas and weaken the 21cm absorption signal. We consider decay channels DM$\rightarrow e^+e^-, γγ$, $μ^+μ^-$, $b\bar{b}$ and the $10^{15-17}$g mass range for primordial black holes, and require the heating of the neutral hydrogen does not negate the 21cm absorption signal. For $e^+e^-$, $γγ$ final states and PBH cases we find strong 21cm bounds that can be more stringent than the current extragalactic diffuse photon bounds. For the DM$\rightarrow e^+e^-$ channel, the lifetime bound is $τ_{\rm DM}> 10^{27}$s for sub-GeV dark matter. The bound is $τ_{\rm DM}\ge 10^{26}$s for sub-GeV DM$\rightarrow γγ$ channel and reaches $10^{27}$s at MeV DM mass. For $b\bar{b}$ and $μ^+μ^-$ cases, the 21 cm constraint is better than all the existing constraints for $m_{\rm DM}<20$ GeV where the bound on $τ_{\rm DM}\ge10^{26}$s. For both DM decay and primordial black hole cases, the 21cm bounds significantly improve over the CMB damping limits from Planck data.

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