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The MuLan experiment will measure the lifetime of the positive muon to 1ppm. Within the Standard Model framework, this will permit a determination of the Fermi Constant to 0.5ppm. I present an update on our progress and achievements to date.
Lepton collider experiments can search for light technipions in final states made striking by the presence of an energetic photon: $e+e- \to \photon\technipion$. To date, searches have focused on either production through anomalous coupling of the technipions to electroweak gauge bosons or on production through a technivector meson (\technirho, \techniomega) resonance. This paper creates a combined framework in which both contributions are included. This will allow stronger and more accurate limits on technipion production to be set using existing data from LEP or future data from a higher-energy linear collider. We provide explicit formulas and sample calculations (analytic and Pythia) in the framework of the Technicolor Straw Man Model, a model that includes light technihadrons.
In this note we present general expressions at one loop order that can be used to calculate the contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of fundamental, charged Dirac fermions. In particular, we provide the expressions for charged and neutral scalar and charged and neutral gauge boson contributions with general vector and axial couplings to the fermion of interest. The calculations presented in this note were originally derived for use in the author's letter, hep-ph/0108080. We have chosen to document and make available the results and derivations in the hope that they will also be useful to others. Our expressions reproduce the Standard Model electroweak contributions to a_muon in the appropriate mass limits, and are flexible enough to allow us to handle many scenarios of new physics beyond the Standard Model.
We look at a number of simple, but representative, models of extended electroweak gauge structures, and present the general contributions to a_muon from the heavy Z' and W' electroweak gauge bosons. Of the models we have examined, none can explain the observed discrepancy between the current experimental value of a_muon and the Standard Model prediction if we require that the gauge fields explain the discrepancy by themselves. In the context of models with new matter fields as well as the additional gauge fields discussed here, however, the gauge field contributions to a_muon can be a substantial and important part of the discrepancy.
LEPI and LEPII data can be used to constrain technicolor models with light, neutral pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons, Pa. We use published limits on branching ratios and cross sections for final states with photons, large missing energy, jet pairs, and b bbar pairs to constrain the anomalous Pa Z0 Z0, Pa Z0 photon, and Pa photon photon couplings. From these results, we derive bounds on the size of the technicolor gauge group and the number of technifermion doublets in models such as Low-scale Technicolor.
Z' bosons that couple preferentially to the third generation fermions can arise in models with extended weak (SU(2)xSU(2)) or hypercharge (U(1)xU(1)) gauge groups. We show that existing limits on quark-lepton compositeness set by the LEP and Tevatron experiments translate into lower bounds of order a few hundred GeV on the masses of these Z' bosons. Resonances of this mass can be directly produced at the Tevatron. Accordingly, we explore in detail the limits that can be set at Run II using the process p pbar -> Z' -> tau tau -> e mu. We also comment on the possibility of using hadronically-decaying taus to improve the limits.