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Shaoyang Qin

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Disentangle RG Running Parameters with Medium-Baseline Reactor Experiments

We study how the renormalization group running beta functions of mixing angles and leptonic CP phases affect the slow and fast oscillation modes at JUNO. While the slow mode is modulated by the solar parameters, its amplitude can also be affected by the solar angle beta function $\beta_s$ and its phase by the Majorana CP phase counterpart $\beta_{\rm M1}$. On the other hand, the fast mode also receives corrections from the beta functions of the Dirac CP phase $\delta_D$ and the Majorana CP phase $\delta_{\rm M3}$. Since the fast mode is essentially the one measuring the neutrino mass ordering, the RG running effect can then interfere to deteriorate the sensitivity. Fortunately, the JUNO-TAO near detector can provide supplementary measurements of the RG running parameters to restore the mass ordering sensitivity. Since the rephasing phases $\delta_{\rm M1}$ and $\delta_{\rm M3}$ can be shifted by a vector-like rephasing for Dirac neutrinos, their running is physical only in the Majorana case. In consolidated, the mild preference for a nonzero $\beta_{\rm M1}$ by the current JUNO data thus hints the Majorana nature of neutrinos.

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Testing axion couplings to leptons in $Z$ decays at future $e^+e^-$ colliders

We study the possibility of probing the existence of a light, invisible, axion-like particle (ALP) $a$ in leptonic decays of the $Z$ boson at the proposed high-energy $e^+e^-$ colliders, CEPC and FCC-ee. Both projects plan to run at the $Z$ pole, collecting $10^{12}-10^{13}$ visible $Z$ decays. We show that, searching for the emission of an invisible ALP from leptons in leptonic $Z$ decays, this enormous statistics could allow to constrain the ALP couplings to leptons at an unprecedented level for laboratory experiments. In particular, within a Monte Carlo simulation framework, we estimate that CEPC/FCC-ee can be sensitive to the coupling of an invisible ALP to muons up to $f_a/C^A_{μμ} \approx 1$ TeV - where $f_a$ is the ALP decay constant - corresponding to ${\rm BR}(Z \to μ^+μ^-\,a) \approx 3\times 10^{-11}$.

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