Effective theory tower for $\mu\rightarrow e$ conversion

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العنوان: Effective theory tower for $\mu\rightarrow e$ conversion
المؤلفون: Haxton, Wick, McElvain, Kenneth, Menzo, Tony, Rule, Evan, Zupan, Jure
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear Theory
الوصف: We present theoretical predictions for $\mu \rightarrow e$ conversion rates using a tower of effective field theories connecting the UV to nuclear physics scales. The interactions in nuclei are described using a recently developed nonrelativistic effective theory (NRET) that organizes contributions according to bound nucleon and muon velocities, $\vec{v}_N$ and $\vec{v}_\mu$, with $|\vec{v}_N| > |\vec{v}_\mu|$. To facilitate the top-down matching, we enlarge the set of Lorentz covariant nucleon-level interactions mapped onto the NRET operators to include those mediated by tensor interactions, in addition to the scalar and vector interactions already considered previously, and then match NRET nonperturbatively onto the Weak Effective Theory (WET). At the scale $\mu \approx 2$ GeV WET is formulated in terms of $u$, $d$, $s$ quarks, gluons and photons as the light degrees of freedom, along with the flavor-violating leptonic current. We retain contributions from WET operators up to dimension 7, which requires the full set of 26 NRET operators. The results are encoded in the open-source Python- and Mathematica-based software suite MuonBridge, which we make available to the theoretical and experimental communities interested in $\mu \rightarrow e$ conversion.
Comment: 60 pages, 7 figures, 7 tables, to be submitted to JHEP
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13818
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2406.13818
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv