4 papers
New Bounds on Heavy QCD Axions from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Tae Hyun Jung, Takemichi Okui, Kohsaku Tobioka +1
We study Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) constraints on heavy QCD axions. BBN offers a powerful probe of new physics that modifies the neutron-to-proton ratio during the process, th…
Dynamics of the Fermion-Rotor System
Vazha Loladze, Takemichi Okui, David Tong
We explore the dynamics of the fermion-rotor system, a simple impurity model in d=1+1 dimensions that consists of a collection of purely right-moving fermions interacting with a qu…
Irreducible Bhabha background in the detection of muonium-antimuonium conversion
Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Kevin Liguori, Takemichi Okui +1
Experiments such as MACS and the proposed MACE study muonium-antimuonium conversion by the energies of the final-state . The and from an antimuonium decay tend t…
Neutrino properties from muonium-antimuonium mixing
Mitrajyoti Ghosh, Kevin Liguori, Takemichi Okui +1
The nature of neutrino mass -- whether neutrinos are Dirac or Majorana particles -- remains one of the central open questions in particle physics. While observation of neutrinoless…