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M. Palmiotto

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Leptonic flavour transfer: a new window on flavour gauge symmetries

New flavour non-abelian gauge groups, which may arise as part of a fundamental theory of flavour, can lead to distinctive flavour-transfer processes. When restricted to the lepton sector, such processes partially mimic the standard charged current interactions at low energy. We explicitly study such constructions with various flavour structures, and investigate systematically all relevant accelerator-based constraints, exploring specific experimental signatures for these models. In the absence of flavour-breaking spurions, constraints from heavy lepton lifetime are found to dominate over most of the parameter space, with specific parts still open for future ee-collider searches. Numerical predictions are obtained using the \texttt{MARTY} framework, allowing us to consistently explore both the light- and heavy-mediator regimes. Finally, using \darkpack, we also assessed that extensions of such models could be compatible with dark matter relic density bounds.

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Revisiting the averaged annihilation rate of thermal relics at low temperature

We derive a low-temperature expansion of the formula to compute the average annihilation rate $\langle σv \rangle$ for dark matter in $\mathbb{Z}_2$-symmetric models, both in the absence and the presence of mass degeneracy in the spectrum near the dark matter candidate. We show that the result obtained in the absence of mass degeneracy is compatible with the analytic formulae in the literature, and that it has a better numerical behaviour for low temperatures. We also provide as ancillary files two Wolfram Mathematica notebooks which perform the two expansions at any order.

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