Magic zeroes and hidden symmetries

Autor: Nathaniel Craig, Isabel Garcia Garcia, Arkady Vainshtein, Zhengkang Zhang
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal of High Energy Physics, vol 2022, iss 5
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2022)079
Popis: Selection rules arising from accidental or broken symmetries may be sufficiently obscure that their agency is hidden, leading to the appearance of "magic zeroes" -- quantities that are suppressed without apparent recourse to a symmetry explanation. Magic zeroes and their corresponding hidden symmetries may shed new light on parametric hierarchies in the Standard Model and beyond. We identify the hidden symmetry responsible for a recently-discovered magic zero, the vanishing of the putative leading contribution to the anomalous dipole moments of the muon upon integrating out weak doublet and singlet vector-like fermions. Some of the tools involved -- spurion analysis leveraging discrete symmetries of the free theory, field redefinitions, spectator fields, and non-supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems -- may prove useful in the hunt for new magic zeroes and their hidden symmetries.
23 pages + appendix
Databáze: OpenAIRE