Quark flavor phenomenology of the QCD axion
APS, 2020
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Axion models with generation-dependent Peccei-Quinn charges can lead to flavor-changing neutral currents, thus motivating QCD axion searches at precision flavor experiments. We rigorously derive limits on the most general effective flavor-violating couplings from current measurements and assess their discovery potential. For two-body decays, we use available experimental data to derive limits on q→q′a decay rates for all flavor transitions. Axion contributions to neutral-meson mixing are calculated in a systematic way using chiral perturbation theory and operator product expansion. We also discuss in detail baryonic decays and three-body meson decays, which can lead to the best search strategies for some of the couplings. For instance, a strong limit on the Λ→na transition can be derived from the supernova SN 1987A. In the near future, dedicated searches for q→q′a decays at ongoing experiments could potentially test Peccei-Quinn breaking scales up to 1012 GeV at NA62 or KOTO and up to 109 GeV at Belle II or BES III.
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Quark flavor phenomenology of the QCD axion
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Camalich, Jorge Martin ; Pospelov, Maxim ; Vuong, Pham Ngoc Hoa ; Ziegler, Robert ; Zupan, Jure |
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Veröffentlichung: | APS, 2020 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
Umfang: | 24 |
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.015023 |
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