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most citedQED Meson Description of the X17 and Other Anomalous Particles

46 citations · 152 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

hep-ph2026

Flavor-violating dark matter at MEG-II and Mu3e

Daniele Barducci, Giulio Marino, Paolo Panci +1

We investigate the potential of high-intensity muon experiments such as MEG~II and Mu3e to uncover dark matter (DM) through the lepton-flavor-violating decay . We…

hep-ph2025

Scalar Rayleigh Dark Matter: current bounds and future prospects

Daniele Barducci, Dario Buttazzo, Alessandro Dondarini +4

Dark Matter can interact with electroweak gauge bosons via higher-dimensional operators, in spite of being neutral under gauge interactions, much like neutral atoms interact with p…

hep-ph2025★ 9 cited

On the Atomki nuclear anomaly after the MEG-II result

Daniele Barducci, Davide Germani, Marco Nardecchia +2

Recent experimental results from the Atomki collaboration have reported the observation of anomalous effects in Beryllium, Helium and Carbon nuclear transitions that could hint at…

hep-ph2024★ 11 cited

Illuminating the dark: mono- signals at NA62

D. Barducci, E. Bertuzzo, M. Taoso +2

Dipole interactions between dark sector states or between a Standard Model particle and a dark state can efficiently be searched for via high-intensity fixed-target facilities. We…

hep-ph2024

Neutrino dipole portal at a high energy collider

Daniele Barducci, Alessandro Dondarini

We study the phenomenology of dipole portal operators connecting active and sterile neutrinos at a futuristic muon collider. These operators can be the dominant portal betwee…

hep-ph2023

Probing the dipole portal to heavy neutral leptons via meson decays at the high-luminosity LHC

Daniele Barducci, Wei Liu, Arsenii Titov +2

We consider the dipole portal to sterile neutrinos, also called heavy neutral leptons (HNLs). The dipole interaction with the photon leads to HNL production in meson decays, as wel…

hep-ph2023

A boosted muon collider

Daniele Barducci, Alessandro Strumia

A muon collider could produce the heavier Standard Model particles with a boost, for example in resonant processes such as or . We propose machine config…

hep-ph2023

Perturbative unitarity constraints on generic vector interactions

Daniele Barducci, Marco Nardecchia, Claudio Toni

We study perturbative unitarity constraints on generic interactions between fermion and vector fields, which are allowed to have generic quantum numbers under a $\prod_i SU(N_i) \o…

hep-ph2022★ 22 cited

An updated view on the ATOMKI nuclear anomalies

Daniele Barducci, Claudio Toni

In view of the latest experimental results recently released by the ATOMKI collaboration, we critically re-examine the possible theoretical interpretation of the observed anomalies…

hep-ph2022★ 32 cited

Probing right-handed neutrinos dipole operators

Daniele Barducci, Enrico Bertuzzo, Marco Taoso +1

We consider the minimal see-saw extension of the Standard Model with two right-handed singlet fermions with mass at the GeV scale, augmented by an effective dipole operat…

hep-ph2022★ 46 cited

QED Meson Description of the X17 and Other Anomalous Particles

Cheuk-Yin Wong

The X17 particle, the E38 particle, and the anomalous soft photons are anomalous particles because they do not appear to belong to any known Standard Model families. We propose a Q…

hep-ph2022★ 23 cited

The see-saw portal at future Higgs factories: the role of dimension six operators

Daniele Barducci, Enrico Bertuzzo

We study an extension of the Standard Model with electroweak scale right-handed singlet fermions that induces neutrino masses, plus a generic new physics sector at a higher sca…

hep-ph2021★ 2 cited

Perturbative unitarity constraints on generic Yukawa interactions

Lukas Allwicher, Pere Arnan, Daniele Barducci +1

We study perturbative unitarity constraints on generic Yukawa interactions where the involved fields have arbitrary quantum numbers under an group. W…

hep-ph2021★ 1 cited

Dark Photon bounds in the dark EFT

Daniele Barducci, Enrico Bertuzzo, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona +1

Dark photons are massive abelian gauge bosons that interact with ordinary photons via a kinetic mixing with the hypercharge field strength tensor. This theory is probed by a variet…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 6 cited

Gravitational tests of electroweak relaxation

Daniele Barducci, Enrico Bertuzzo, Martín Arteaga Tupia

We consider a scenario in which the electroweak scale is stabilized via the relaxion mechanism during inflation, focussing on the case in which the back-reaction potential is gener…