Potential for the discovery of the protophobic boson at the STCF Althaf M., Triparno Bandyopadhyay Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026 A bstract We study the morphology of the main drift chamber (MDC) to be built around the collision point of the proposed Super tau-charm facility (STCF), to check its suitability for discovering the 17 MeV protophobic boson (X17 boson), hypothesised as a solution to the persistent ATOMKI nuclear-transition anomalies. Using the TrackEff framework, we perform detector-level simulations of the STCF MDC, and evaluate displaced-vertex sensitivities towards the protophobic boson, across the relevant mass-coupling parameter space. We study benchmark scenarios with visible and dark decay channels to perform likelihood-based significance estimates in order to determine the 5 σ discovery reach for the protophobic boson. We find that STCF can potentially discover the protophobic boson while tolerating ~ 10 4 background events for specific regions of the parameter space. Our analysis establishes the first feasibility study of displaced light-boson searches at the STCF, motivating a full Geant-4 simulation.
The E6 route to multicomponent dark matter Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Rinku Maji European Physical Journal C, 2025 We present a framework of dark- and visible-sector unification in the E 6 embedding of the standard model. The demand for consistently getting the standard model leads to the existence of the dark-sector. We show that the hierarchy of vevs typifying unified models leads to multicomponent dark matter at the IR. The symmetry breaking itself categorises the matter content into dark- and visible-sector particles, the categorisation being uniform across different breaking chains. We discuss the stability of the dark matter particles and compare them to existing phenomenological models of dark matter. The central results follow from symmetry and hierarchy arguments. We present an indicative set of models of gauge coupling unification, to show that the framework can be embedded in realistic models of E 6 .
A twisted tale of the transverse-mass tail Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Ankita Budhraja, Samadrita Mukherjee, Tuhin S. Roy Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 We propose a tantalizing possibility that misinterpretation of the reconstructed missing momentum may have yielded the observed discrepancies among measurements of the W-mass in different collider experiments. We introduce a proof-of-principle scenario characterized by a new physics particle, which can be produced associated with the W-boson in hadron collisions and contributes to the net missing momentum observed in a detector. We show that these exotic events pass the selection criteria imposed by various collaborations at reasonably high rates. Consequently, in the presence of even a handful of these events, a fit based on the ansatz that the missing momentum is primarily due to neutrinos (as it happens in the Standard Model), yields a W-boson mass that differs from its true value. Moreover, the best fit mass depends on the nature of the collider and the center-of-mass energy of collisions. We construct a barebones model that demonstrates this possibility quantitatively while satisfying current constraints. Interestingly, we find that the nature of the new physics particle and its interactions appear as a variation of the physics of Axion-like particles after a field redefinition.
Flavor physics with generalized ALP-quark couplings Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Subhajit Ghosh, Tuhin S. Roy Physical Review D, 2022 : A light axion-like particle or an ALP not just gives rise to interesting and spectacular signals of new physics as final states in meson decays, it necessarily leaves tell-tale signatures in processes that involve standard model (SM) fields only (i.e., SM processes). These effects result in the violation of the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass relation, modified form factors, altered integrated and differential rates for various SM transitions etc. This suggests that in the presence of a low lying state, such as an ALP, extraction of masses, mixing angles, and form factors in an entirely data-driven way from meson-physics observables is a highly non-trivial exercise. However, once done correctly, these same observables may, in turn, provide important (indirect) bounds on ALP physics, which remain robust even in the limits where new physics effects conspire to weaken the bounds from direct searches. Starting with a generalized ALP-quark Lagrangian (where restrictions due to parity are removed) we demonstrate this approach by focussing on K + (cid:96) 3 decays, where we derive (indirect) bounds on ALP physics using NA48/2 data and lattice results. We also find sum rules which not just show deviations in the presence of an ALP, but also give hints towards the specific nature of the ALP physics itself. by NA48/2 collaboration to fit the truth level distribution against the observed distribution. We combine this multi-variable fit with the constraints set by the independent measurements of the total decay rates to bound ξ 2 α (2) K + π 0 and ξ 2 β (2) K + π 0 . The data consist of bin-by-bin event distributions of the differential decay rate with respect to the pion and the lepton energies ( E π , E µ ), for 4 . 4 × 10 6 and 2 . 3 × 10 6 reconstructed events corresponding to K + e 3 and K + µ 3 respectively. Using the data for K + µ 3 , we draw the binned Dalitz distribution for the residual events, defined as the differences between accepted events and SM predictions. We show this in the bottom-left panel of Figure 3. The diagonal panels show the distributions of excess events with 1 σ experimental error-bars with respect to E π (bottom-right) and E µ (top-left), after marginalizing over the E µ and E π bins respectively. On the top-right panel, we show the 2D distribution of excess NP events with ξ 2 β (2) K + π 0 = 0 . 06 , ξ 2 α (2) K + π 0 = 0. The binned and marginalized distributions of the excess BSM events are shown in the panels containing the corresponding marginal distributions for the data. Although the residual fluctuations show a slight systematic excess in Figure 3, the excess becomes consistent with the SM prediction when the theory error is taken into account. The data corresponding to the differential rate for K + µ 3 is the primary source of constraint for ξ 2 β (2) K + π 0 . We note, both ξ 2 β (2) K + π 0 and ξ 2 α (2) K + π 0 appear in the same footing as the relative factor between q µ and Q µ in the amplitude in eq. The exact form of this factor is:
Displaced searches for light vector bosons at Belle II Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sokratis Trifinopoulos Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 With a design luminosity of 50 ab−1 and detectors with tracking capabilities extending beyond 1 m, the Belle II experiment is the perfect laboratory for the search of particles that couple weakly to the Standard Model and have a characteristic decay length of a few centimetres and more. We show that for models of dark photons and other light vector bosons, Belle II will be successful in probing regions of parameter space which are as of now unexplored by any experiment. In addition, for models where the vector boson couples sub-dominantly to the electron and quarks as compared to muons, e.g. in the Lμ−Lτ model, Belle II will probe regions of mass and couplings compatible with the anomalous magnetic moment of muon. We discuss these results and derive the projected sensitivity of Belle II for a handful of other models. Finally, even with the currently accumulated data, ∼ 200 fb−1, Belle II should be able to cover regions of parameter space pertaining to the X(17) boson postulated to solve the ATOMKI anomaly.
Signatures of generalized ALP interactions in SM decays of mesons 20th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation Fpcp 2022, 2022
Sifting through the SM for the hints of an ALP Proceedings of Science, 2022
Notes on a Z′ Triparno Bandyopadhyay, Gautam Bhattacharyya, Dipankar Das, Amitava Raychaudhuri Springer Proceedings in Physics, 2021