Seminars and Journal Clubs

A dark seesaw at low scales: applications to the MiniBooNE and (g-2) puzzles

by Dr Matheus Hostert (University of Minnesota)

Europe/Brussels
E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349)

Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve)

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Description

We consider the possibility that heavy neutrinos of low-scale seesaw mechanisms couple to a dark photon in the hidden sector.
These models contain a rather unexplored set of signatures, and as I will discuss, may provide a solution to the 4.8 sigma excess of electron-like events at MiniBooNE. We will see that the dark photon in this model is a semi-visible particle, which is the last type of explanation to the muon (g-2) puzzle based on kinetic  mixing that is allowed by data. I will end with a discussion of the future searches for the semi-visible dark sector at kaon, neutrino, and e+e- collider experiments.