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Po-Yan Tseng

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arXiv2021

Axion-like particles, two-Higgs-doublet models, leptoquarks, and the electron and muon g-2

Data from the Muon g-2 experiment and measurements of the fine structure constant suggest that the anomalous magnetic moments of the muon and electron are at odds with standard model expectations. We survey the ability of axion-like-particles, two-Higgs-doublet models and leptoquarks to explain the discrepancies. We find that accounting for other constraints, all scenarios except the Type-I, Type-II and Type-Y two-Higgs-doublet models fit the data well.

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arXiv2021

Search for new light vector boson using $J/Ψ$ at BESIII and Belle II

We investigate various search strategies for light vector boson $X$ in $\mathcal{O}(10)~{\rm MeV}$ mass range using $J/Ψ$ associated channels at BESIII and Belle II: (i) $J/Ψ\to η_c X$ with $10^{10} J/Ψ$s at BESIII, (ii) $J/Ψ(η_c +X) +\ell \bar{\ell}$ production at Belle~II, and (iii) $J/Ψ+X$ with the displaced vertex in $X\to e^+e^-$ decay are analyzed and the future sensitivities at Belle II with 50 ${\rm ab}^{-1}$ luminosity are comprehensively studied. By requiring the displaced vertex to be within the beam pipe, the third method results in nearly background-free analysis, and the vector boson-electron coupling and the vector boson mass can be probed in the unprecedented range, $10^{-4}\leq |\varepsilon_e| \leq 10^{-3}$ and $9~{\rm MeV}\leq m_X\leq 100 {\rm MeV}$ with 50 ${\rm ab}^{-1}$ at Belle II. This covers the favored signal region of $^8{\rm Be}^*$ anomaly recently reported by Atomki experiment with $m_X \simeq 17~{\rm MeV}$.

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arXiv2021

Stellar cooling, inelastic dark matter, and XENON

We consider a novel scenario of dark photon-mediated inelastic dark matter to explain the white dwarf cooling excess suggested by its luminosity function, and the excess in electron recoil events at XENON1T. In the Sun, the dark photon $A'$ is produced mainly via thermal processes, and the heavier dark matter $χ_2$ is produced by the scattering of halo dark matter $χ_1$ with electrons. The XENON1T signal arises primarily by solar $A'$ scattering, and $A'$ emission by white dwarfs accommodates the extra cooling while maintaining consistency with other stellar cooling observations. A tritium component in the XENON1T detector is also required. We show for parameters that explain the XENON1T data, but not the white dwarf cooling anomaly, that a second signal peak may be buried in the XENON1T data and revealable at XENONnT. However, the parameters that give the double peak in the spectrum are incompatible with constraints from horizontal branch stars.

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arXiv2021

Cosmic-Neutrino-Boosted Dark Matter ($ν$BDM)

A novel mechanism of boosting dark matter by cosmic neutrinos is proposed. The new mechanism is so significant that the arriving flux of dark matter in the mass window $1~{\rm keV} \lesssim m_{\rm DM} \lesssim 1~{\rm MeV}$ on Earth can be enhanced by two to four orders of magnitude compared to one only by cosmic electrons. Thereby we firstly derive conservative but still stringent bounds and future sensitivity limits for such cosmic-neutrino-boosted dark matter ($ν$BDM) from advanced underground experiments such as Borexino, PandaX, XENON1T, and JUNO.

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arXiv2020

Gravitational wave signals of dark matter freeze-out

We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves which accompany the sudden freeze-out of dark matter triggered by a cosmological first order phase transition that endows dark matter with mass. We consider models that produce the measured dark matter relic abundance via (1) bubble filtering, and (2) inflation and reheating, and show that gravitational waves from these mechanisms are detectable at future interferometers.

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arXiv2020

Leptonic New Force and Cosmic-ray Boosted Dark Matter for the XENON1T Excess

The recently reported excess in XENON1T is explained by new leptonic forces, which are free from gauge anomalies. We focus on two scenarios with and without dark matter. In Scenario #1, the gauge boson of gauged lepton number U(1)$_{L_e-L_j}$, $j=μ$ or $τ$ provides non-standard interaction between solar neutrino and electron that enhances the number of electron recoil events in the XENON1T detector. In Scenario #2, the new gauge boson exclusively couples to electron and dark matter, then cosmic-ray electrons can transfer their momenta to dark matter in halo. The boosted dark matter generates the electron recoil signals of ${\cal O}(1)$ keV. The dark matter, aided by the new gauge interaction, efficiently heats up a neutron star in our Galaxy more than $\sim1500$ K as a neutron star captures the halo dark matter. Therefore, we propose to utilize the future infrared telescope to test our scenario.

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arXiv2020

Heating neutron stars with GeV dark matter

An old neutron star (NS) may capture halo dark matter (DM) and get heated up by the deposited kinetic energy, thus behaving like a thermal DM detector with sensitivity to a wide range of DM masses and a variety of DM-quark interactions. Near future infrared telescopes will measure NS temperatures down to a few thousand Kelvin and probe NS heating by DM capture. We focus on GeV-mass Dirac fermion DM (which is beyond the reach of current DM direct detection experiments) in scenarios in which the DM capture rate can saturate the geometric limit. For concreteness, we study (1) a model that invokes dark decays of the neutron to explain the neutron lifetime anomaly, and (2) a framework of DM coupled to quarks through a vector current portal. In the neutron dark decay model a NS can have a substantial DM population, so that the DM capture rate can reach the geometric limit through DM self-interactions even if the DM-neutron scattering cross section is tiny. We find NS heating to have greater sensitivity than multi-pion signatures in large underground detectors for the neutron dark decay model, and sub-GeV gamma-ray signatures for the quark vector portal model.

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arXiv2020

Vector-like Quark Interpretation for the CKM Unitarity Violation, Excess in Higgs Signal Strength, and Bottom Quark Forward-Backward Asymmetry

Due to a recent more precise evaluation of $V_{ud}$ and $V_{us}$, the unitarity condition of the first row in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix: $|V_{ud}|^2 + |V_{us}|^2 + |V_{ub}|^2 = 0.99798 \pm 0.00038$ now stands at a deviation more than $4σ$ from unity. Furthermore, a mild excess in the overall Higgs signal strength appears at about $2σ$ above the standard model (SM) prediction, as well as the long-lasting discrepancy in the forward-backward asymmetry ${\cal A}_{\rm FB}^b$ in $Z\to b\bar b$ at LEP. Motivated from the above three anomalies we investigate an extension of the SM with vector-like quarks (VLQs) associated with the down-quark sector, with the goal of alleviating the tension among these datasets. We perform global fits of the model under the constraints coming from the unitarity condition of the first row of the CKM matrix, the $Z$-pole observables ${\cal A}_{\rm FB}^b$, $R_b$ and $Γ_{\rm had}$, Electro-Weak precision observables $ΔS$ and $ΔT$, $B$-meson observables $B_d^0$-$\overline{B}_d^0$ mixing, $B^+ \to π^+ \ell^+ \ell^-$ and $B^0 \to μ^+ μ^-$, and direct searches for VLQs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our results suggest that adding VLQs to the SM provides better agreement than the SM.

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arXiv2020

Light gauge boson interpretation for $(g-2)_μ$ and the $K_L \rightarrow π^0 + \text{(invisible)}$ anomaly at the J-PARC KOTO experiment

We discuss a list of possible light gauge boson interpretations for the long-standing experimental anomaly in $(g-2)_μ$ and also recent anomalous excess in $K_L \rightarrow π^0 + \text{(invisible)}$ events at the J-PARC KOTO experiment. We consider two models: $i$) $L_μ- L_τ$ gauge boson with heavy vector-like quarks and $ii$) $(L_μ- L_τ) + ε(B_3 - L_τ)$ gauge boson in the presence of right-handed neutrinos. When the light gauge boson has mass close to the neutral pion in order to satisfy the Grossman-Nir bound, the models successfully explain the anomalies simultaneously while satisfying all known experimental constraints. We extensively provide the future prospect of suggested models.

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arXiv2019

Search for muon-philic new light gauge boson at Belle II

Motivated by the long-lasting $3.5σ$ discrepancy in the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, we consider a new muon-specific force mediated by a light gauge boson, $X$, with mass $m_X < 2m_μ$ and the coupling constant $g_X \sim (10^{-4}, 10^{-3})$. We show that the Belle~II experiment has a robust chance to probe such a light boson in $e^+ e^- \to μ^+ μ^- + X$ channel and cover the most interesting parameter space explaining the discrepancy with the planned target luminosity, $\int dt \ {\cal L}=50~{\rm ab^{-1}}$. The clean signal of muon-pair plus missing energy at Belle II can be a smoking gun for the new gauge boson. We expect that the (invisibly decaying) muon-philic light ($m_X \leq 2 m_μ$) gauge boson can be probed down to $g_X \geq 1.5 \times 10^{-4} \ (4.6 \times 10^{-4}, \ 2.3 \times 10^{-4})$ for 50 (1, 10) ab${}^{-1}$ search.

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arXiv2019

New Emerging Results in Higgs Precision Analysis Updates 2018 after Establishment of Third-Generation Yukawa Couplings

We perform global fits of the Higgs boson couplings to all the 7 TeV, 8 TeV, and 13 TeV data available up to the Summer 2018. New measurements at 13 TeV extend to include the Higgs signal strengths exclusively measured in associated Higgs production with top-quark pair and the third-generation Yukawa couplings now have been established. Some important consequences emerge from the global fits. (i) The overall average signal strength of the Higgs boson stands at $2σ$ above the SM value ($μ= 1.10 \pm 0.05 $). (ii) For the first time the bottom-quark Yukawa coupling shows a preference of the positive sign to the negative one. (iii) The negative top-quark Yukawa coupling is completely ruled out unless there exist additional particles running in the $H$-$γ$-$γ$ loop with contributions equal to two times the SM top-quark contribution within about 10 \%. (iv) The branching ratio for nonstandard decays of the Higgs boson is now below 8.4\% at the 95\% confidence level.

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arXiv2019

Annihilation signatures of neutron dark decay models in neutron oscillation and proton decay searches

We point out that two models that reconcile the neutron lifetime anomaly via dark decays of the neutron, also predict dark matter-neutron ($\barχ-n$) annihilation that may be observable in neutron-antineutron oscillation and proton decay searches at Super-Kamiokande, Hyper-Kamiokande and DUNE. We study signatures of $\barχn\to γπ^0$ (or multi-$π^0$) and $\barχn\to ϕγπ^0$ (or $ϕ+$multi-$π^0$), where $ϕ$ is an almost massless boson in one of the two models.

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arXiv2019

Light Fermionic WIMP Dark Matter with Light Scalar Mediator

A light fermionic weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter is investigated by studying its minimal renormalizable model, where it requires a scalar mediator to have an interaction between the WIMP and standard model particles. We perform a comprehensive likelihood analysis of the model involving the latest but robust constraints and those will be obtained in the near future. In addition, we pay particular attention to properly take the kinematically equilibrium condition into account. It is shown that near-future experiments and observations such as low-mass direct dark matter detections, flavor experiments and CMB observations play important roles to test the model. Still, a wide parameter region will remain even if no WIMP and mediator signals are detected there. We also show that precise Higgs boson measurements at future lepton colliders will significantly test this remaining region.

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arXiv2019

Vector-like Quark Interpretation of Excess in Higgs Signal Strength

There is a $+2σ$ deviation in the average Higgs-signal strength for all the $7+8+13$ TeV data up to Summer 2018. We find that a slight reduction of the bottom-Yukawa coupling can fit the data better than the standard model. We suggest an extension with a vector-like quark doublet, of which the right-handed component of $b'$ mixes nonnegligibly with the standard model $b$ quark. We show that the mixing would induce a reduction of the bottom Yukawa coupling. Simultaneously, the coupling of the $Z$ boson to the right-handed $b$ quark increases, which could reduce the forward-backward asymmetry of bottom production at LEP and bring it closer to the experimental value.

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arXiv2019

Phenomenology of A Little Higgs Pseudo-Axion

In models where the Higgs is realized as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) of some global symmetry breaking, there are often remaining pNGBs of some $U(1)$ groups (called `pseudo-axions'), which could lead to smoking gun signatures of such scenarios and provide important clues on the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. As a concrete example, we investigate the phenomenology of the pseudo-axion in the anomaly-free Simplest Little Higgs (SLH) model. After clarifying a subtle issue related to the effect of symmetric vector-scalar-scalar (VSS) vertices (e.g. $Z_μ(H\partial^μη+η\partial^μH)$), we show that for natural region in the parameter space, the SLH pseudo-axion is top-philic, decaying almost exclusively to a pair of top quarks. The direct and indirect (i.e. via heavy particle decay) production of such a pseudo-axion at the $14\,\mbox{TeV}$ (HL-)LHC turn out to suffer from either large backgrounds or small rates, making its detection quite challenging. A $pp$ collider with higher energy and luminosity, such as the $27\,\mbox{TeV}$ HE-LHC, or even the $100\,\mbox{TeV}$ FCC-hh or SppC, is therefore motivated to capture the trace of such a pNGB.

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arXiv2018

Muon g-2 and rare top decays in up-type specific variant axion models

The invisible variant axion models (VAM's) offer a very attractive solution for the strong CP problem without the domain wall problem. We consider the up-type specific variant axion models and examine their compatibility with the muon $g-2$ anomaly and the constraints from lepton flavor universality, several flavor observables, and top quark measurements. We find that the combined $χ^2$ fit favors the parameters $m_A\sim 15$ GeV and $\tanβ\sim 40$, the same as the type-X 2HDM. Moreover, we find that there are no conflict with any flavor observables as long as the mixing angle $ρ_u$ is sufficiently small. In particular, a small nonzero mixing angle $ρ_u \sim π/100$ is slightly favored by the observed $B_s \to μμ$ branching ratio. The up-specific VAM predicts the flavor-violating top rare decay $t\to uA$ followed by $A \to ττ$, which would provide a smoking gun signature at the LHC. We show that current searches of $A$ already impose some constraints on the parameter space but are not sensitive to the most interesting light $m_A$ region. We propose an efficient search strategy that employs di-tau tagging using jet substructure information, and demonstrate that it can enhance the sensitivity on $BR(t \to uA)$, especially in the light $m_A$ region. This model also predicts the flavor-violating decay of heavy Higgs bosons, such as $H \to t u$, that would suppress the $H \to ττ/μμ$ decays. We also examine the up-specific VAM with the muon-specific lepton sector and the down-type specific VAM's as interesting alternative scenarios.

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arXiv2018

$CP$ violating mode of the stoponium decay into $Zh$

We show that a novel decay mode $Zh$ of the bound state of stop-anti-stop pair in the ground state $^1S_0(\widetilde t_1\widetilde t_1^*)$ may have a significant branching ratio if the $CP$ violating mixing appears in the stop sector, even after we apply the stringent constraint from the measurement of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron. We show that the branching ratio can be as large as 10% in some parameter space that it may be detectable at the LHC.

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arXiv2017

Interpreting the 3 TeV $WH$ Resonance as a $W'$ boson

Motivated by a local $3.2-3.4$ sigma resonance in $WH$ and $ZH$ in the ATLAS Run 2 data, we attempt to interpret the excess in terms of a $W'$ boson in a $SU(2)_1 \times SU(2)_2 \times U(1)_X$ model. We stretch the deviation from the alignment limit of the Equivalence Theorem, so as to maximize $WH$ production while keeping the $WZ$ production rate below the experimental limit. We found a viable though small region of parameter space that satisfies all existing constraints on $W' \to jj, t \bar b, WZ$, as well as the precision Higgs data. The cross section of $W' \to WH$ that we obtain is about $5-6$ fb.

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