Possible explanation of the electron positron anomaly at 17 MeV in 8Be transitions through a light pseudoscalar
Possible explanation of the electron positron anomaly at 17 MeV in 8Be transitions through a light pseudoscalar
We estimate the values of Yukawa couplings of a light pseudoscalar A with a mass of about 17 MeV, which would explain the $^8Be$ anomaly observed in the Atomki pair spectrometer experiment. The resulting couplings of A to up and down type quarks are about 0.3 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson. Then constraints from K and B decays require that loop contributions to flavour changing vertices cancel at least at the 10% level. Constraints from beam dump experiments require the coupling of A to electrons to be larger than about 4 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson, leading to a short enough A life time consistent with an explanation of the anomaly.
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Ellwanger, Ulrich
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Moretti, Stefano
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Ellwanger, Ulrich
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Moretti, Stefano
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Ellwanger, Ulrich and Moretti, Stefano
(2016)
Possible explanation of the electron positron anomaly at 17 MeV in 8Be transitions through a light pseudoscalar.
Journal of High Energy Physics, 11, [039].
(doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2016)039).
Abstract
We estimate the values of Yukawa couplings of a light pseudoscalar A with a mass of about 17 MeV, which would explain the $^8Be$ anomaly observed in the Atomki pair spectrometer experiment. The resulting couplings of A to up and down type quarks are about 0.3 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson. Then constraints from K and B decays require that loop contributions to flavour changing vertices cancel at least at the 10% level. Constraints from beam dump experiments require the coupling of A to electrons to be larger than about 4 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson, leading to a short enough A life time consistent with an explanation of the anomaly.
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 October 2016
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12 pages, discussion of nuclear shell model corrected,
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