{"id":4748,"date":"2018-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2018\/01\/01\/rare-z-boson-decays-to-a-hidden-sector\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T09:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:02:26","slug":"rare-z-boson-decays-to-a-hidden-sector","status":"publish","type":"physics_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/publications\/rare-z-boson-decays-to-a-hidden-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare <em>Z<\/em> Boson Decays to a Hidden Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"authors\">Nikita Blinov, Eder Izaguirre, and Brian Shuve*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"doc-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/pub-099.pdf\">Rare <em>Z<\/em> Boson Decays to a Hidden Sector (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"journal\"><span class=\"journal-title\">Physical Review D<\/span> <strong data-vol=\"97\">97<\/strong> <span id=\"journal-year\">(2018)<\/span> <span id=\"journal-pages\" data-pages=\"15009\">15009<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We demonstrate that rare decays of the Standard Model ( Z ) boson can be used to discover and characterize the nature of new hidden-sector particles. We propose new searches for these particles in soft, high-multiplicity leptonic final states at the Large Hadron Collider. The proposed searches are sensitive to low-mass particles produced in ( Z ) decays, and we argue that these striking signatures can shed light on the hidden-sector couplings and mechanism for mass generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Blinov, Eder Izaguirre, and Brian Shuve* Rare Z Boson Decays to a Hidden Sector (PDF) Physical Review D 97 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","publication_author":[23],"class_list":["post-4748","physics_publications","type-physics_publications","status-publish","hentry","publication_author-shuve"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_publications"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_author?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}