Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
STEPHEN PHILLIPS hostreviews.co.uk / UNSPLASH

Mixing and Oscillations in Nearly Degenerate Vector Bosons

Prisco Lo Chiatto , ITP, Universität Mainz

We extend the phenomenology of mixing and oscillation to U (1) vector bosons. Extracting constraints on kinetic mixing between a new U (1)' gauge boson hiding under the Standard Model Z boson resonance requires the formalism of non-Hermitian two-point correlation functions at 1-loop order, whose phenomenology is reminiscent of neutral kaons in the SM. After updating the collider constraints on Z' bosons with kinetic mixing in the narrow mass window around the Z boson, we discuss the novel phenomenology of Z' regeneration and motivate searches for displaced vertices from Z' decays. The time evolution of the highly mixed state also exhibits the quantum Zeno phenomenon.

Physik an der TeV-Skala
14 Dec 2023, 11:00
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Phil12;SR105

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