1–5 Jul 2024
Bologna, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

The Chiral Lagrangian of CP-Violating Axion-Like Particles

2 Jul 2024, 16:40
5m
Aula Giorgio Prodi - San Giovanni in Monte, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)

Aula Giorgio Prodi - San Giovanni in Monte, University of Bologna

Bologna, Italy

Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2, 40124 Bologna BO

Speaker

Gabriele Levati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

CP-violating probes are among the most promising and yet relatively unexplored ways to look for Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) and to investigate their phenomenology. With this work we construct the most general effective Chiral Lagrangian describing the interactions of a light CP-violating ALP $\phi$ with mesons, baryons, leptons and photons at energies below the QCD confinement scale ($m_\phi < E < Λ_{\text{QCD}}$), both in a 2-flavors setting and in a 3-flavors one.
Starting from the most general dimension-5, $SU(3)_{c} × U(1)_{\text{em}}$ invariant effective Lagrangian for a CP-violating ALP at the electroweak (EW) scale, we provide the running of its Wilson coefficients down to the QCD one, where we discuss the matching conditions onto its chiral counterpart. We then report the minimal set of Jarlskog invariants measuring in a basis-independent way the amount of CP violation introduced by the theory at low energies, which can then be bounded by experiments and directly related to the Wilson coefficients of the EW-scale Lagrangian. The Feynman rules for the low-energy theory can be extracted directly from the FeynRules model we have constructed, which can be employed as well for future dedicated phenomenological analyses.

Title of the Poster/Talk The Chiral Lagrangian of CP-Violating Axion-Like Particles
Related Papers/Preprints arXiv:2311.12158, https://inspirehep.net/literature/2724864

Primary author

Gabriele Levati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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