Speaker
Chien-Yi Chen
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
Light beyond-Standard-Model particles X in the MeV-100 MeV mass range can be produced in the nuclear and hadronic reactions, but would have to decay electromagnetically. We show that the simple and well-understood low-energy hadronic processes can be used as a tool to study X production and decay. In particular, the pion capture process can be used in a new experimental set-up to search for anomalies in the angular distribution of the lepton pair, which could signal the appearance of dark photons, axion-like particles and other exotic states. This process can be used to decisively test the hypothesis of a new particle produced in the 7Li+p reaction.
Authors
Chien-Yi Chen
(Northwestern University)
David McKeen
(TRIUMF)
Prof.
Maxim Pospelov
(University of Victoria and Perimeter Institute)
Chien-Yi Chen
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Dr
Chien-Yi Chen
Dr
Chien-Yi Chen
(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria;Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
