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most citedThe last Complex WIMPs standing

64 citations · 158 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

hep-ph2026

A Dispersive Look at Rare -meson Semileptonic Decays

Marco Ciuchini, Marco Fedele, Ayan Paul +5

Rare semileptonic flavour-changing neutral current transitions provide stringent tests of the Standard Model. Their interpretation is limited by hadronic uncertainties, n…

hep-ph2026

Constraints on a Light Leptophilic Scalar from Dark-Sector Couplings

Marco Graziani, Giacomo Landini, Federico Mescia +2

We study a minimal framework where a Majorana fermion dark matter particle interacts with a light scalar mediator coupled mainly to electrons. We examine both freeze-out and freeze…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 2 cited

MuCol Milestone Report No. 7: Consolidated Parameters

Rebecca Taylor, Antoine Chancé, Dario Augusto Giove +459

This document is comprised of a collection of consolidated parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. These consolidated parameters follow on from the October 2024 Prelimin…

hep-ph2025

Multiple dispersive bounds. II) Sub-threshold branch-cuts

Silvano Simula, Ludovico Vittorio

We apply the strategy proposed in the companion paper [1] for dealing with multiple dispersive bounds, to the case of sub-threshold branch-cuts, which is a topic addressed extensiv…

hep-ph2025

Multiple dispersive bounds. I) The z-expansion

Silvano Simula, Ludovico Vittorio

We propose the implementation of two ingredients in the phenomenological applications of the unitary approach based on the -expansion of hadronic form factors, commonly referred…

physics.acc-ph2025★ 1 cited

The Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +450

Muons offer a unique opportunity to build a compact high-energy electroweak collider at the 10 TeV scale. A Muon Collider enables direct access to the underlying simplicity of the…

hep-ph2025

Probing the general axion-nucleon interaction in water Cherenkov experiments

Mael Cavan-Piton, Diego Guadagnoli, Axel Iohner +2

We consider an axion flux on Earth consistent with emission from the Supernova explosion SN 1987A. Using Chiral Perturbation Theory augmented with an axion, we calculate the energy…

hep-ph2024

Probing QCD Axions or Axion-like Particles in three-body Decays

Mael Cavan-Piton, Diego Guadagnoli, Axel Iohner +2

Two-body decays like rank among the most constraining collider probes for new, low-mass, feebly interacting pseudoscalar particles . We explore an alternative class o…

physics.acc-ph2024

MuCol Milestone Report No. 5: Preliminary Parameters

Carlotta Accettura, Simon Adrian, Rohit Agarwal +391

This document is comprised of a collection of updated preliminary parameters for the key parts of the muon collider. The updated preliminary parameters follow on from the October 2…

hep-ph2024

Looking for WIMPs through the neutrino fogs

Itay M. Bloch, Salvatore Bottaro, Diego Redigolo +1

We revisit the expected sensitivity of large-scale xenon detectors to Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs). Assuming current primary noise sources can be mitigated, we find…

hep-ph2024

Unitarity constraints and the dispersive matrix

Guido Martinelli, Silvano Simula, Ludovico Vittorio

We present updated estimates of and based on all the available theoretical and experimental data on semileptonic decay…

hep-ph2024★ 19 cited

Axion emission from strange matter in core-collapse SNe

Mael Cavan-Piton, Diego Guadagnoli, Micaela Oertel +2

The duration of the neutrino burst from the supernova event SN 1987A is known to be sensitive to exotic sources of cooling, such as axions radiated from the dense and hot hadronic…

hep-ph2023★ 17 cited

Insights on the current semi-leptonic -decay discrepancies -- and how can help

Diego Guadagnoli, Camille Normand, Silvano Simula +1

, measured at high as a partially reconstructed decay, can probe the origin of the existing discrepancies in semi-leptonic and decays.…

hep-ph2023★ 24 cited

Discriminating form factors via polarization observables and asymmetries

Marco Fedele, Monika Blanke, Andreas Crivellin +4

Form factors are crucial theory input in order to extract from decays, to calculate the Standard Model prediction for and to ass…

hep-ph2023

From in lattice QCD to at high

Diego Guadagnoli, Camille Normand, Silvano Simula +1

We use a recent lattice determination of the vector and axial form factors at high squared momentum transfer to infer their counterparts. To this end,…

physics.acc-ph2023

Towards a Muon Collider

Carlotta Accettura, Dean Adams, Rohit Agarwal +294

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions a…

hep-ph2022★ 4 cited

New UTfit Analysis of the Unitarity Triangle in the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa scheme

UTfit Collaboration, Marcella Bona, Marco Ciuchini +14

Flavour mixing and CP violation as measured in weak decays and mixing of neutral mesons are a fundamental tool to test the Standard Model (SM) and to search for new physics. New an…

hep-ph2022

The DM approach to semileptonic heavy-to-heavy and heavy-to-light decays

G. Martinelli, M. Naviglio, S. Simula +1

We present the results of the application of the Dispersion Matrix approach to semileptonic heavy-to-heavy and heavy-to-light -meson decays. This method allows to determine the…

hep-ph2022

, LFU and symmetry breaking in decays using Lattice QCD and Unitarity

Guido Martinelli, Manuel Naviglio, Silvano Simula +1

We present an application of the unitarity-based dispersion matrix (DM) approach to the extraction of the CKM matrix element from the experimental data on the exclusive…

hep-ph2022★ 64 cited

The last Complex WIMPs standing

Salvatore Bottaro, Dario Buttazzo, Marco Costa +4

We continue the study of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) started in [arXiv:2107.09688], focusing on a single complex electroweak -plet with non-zero hypercharge adde…

hep-lat2022★ 7 cited

A lattice QCD perspective on weak decays of b and c quarks Snowmass 2022 White Paper

Peter A. Boyle, Bipasha Chakraborty, Christine T. H. Davies +32

Lattice quantum chromodynamics has proven to be an indispensable method to determine nonperturbative strong contributions to weak decay processes. In this white paper for the Snowm…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

The physics case of a 3 TeV muon collider stage

Jorge De Blas, Dario Buttazzo, Rodolfo Capdevilla +131

In the path towards a muon collider with center of mass energy of 10 TeV or more, a stage at 3 TeV emerges as an appealing option. Reviewing the physics potential of such muon coll…

hep-ph2022

Muon Collider Physics Summary

Chiara Aimè, Aram Apyan, Mohammed Attia Mahmoud +122

The perspective of designing muon colliders with high energy and luminosity, which is being investigated by the International Muon Collider Collaboration, has triggered a growing i…

hep-ph2022

Exclusive semileptonic and decays through unitarity and lattice QCD

G. Martinelli, S. Simula, L. Vittorio

The Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element is obtained from exclusive semileptonic and decays adopting the…