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Radiative quarkonia decays offer an ideal setting for probing Axion-Like Particle (ALP) interactions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of ALP production mechanisms through the e+e− → γa process at B- and Charm-factories, alongside an analysis of potential ALP decay channels. We derive constraints on ALP couplings to Standard Model (SM) fields, based on recent experimental results on quarkonia decays by the Belle II and BESIII collaborations. The analysis distinguishes between “invisible” and “visible” ALP decay scenarios. The “invisible” scenario, characterised by a mono-γ plus missing-energy signature, enables stringent limits on ALP-photon and ALP-quark (b or c) couplings. Moreover, extensive research at flavour factories has explored various “visible” ALP decays into SM final states, which depend on a larger set of ALP-SM couplings. To streamline the “visible” ALP scenario, we introduce additional theoretical assumptions, such as universal ALP-fermion couplings, or we adopt specific benchmark ALP models, aiming to minimise the number of independent variables in our analysis.
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The authors would like to thank Stefano Lacaprara, Michael De Nuccio and Giovanni Verza for useful suggestions and discussions. This work received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreements n. 860881 — HIDDeN, n. 101086085 — ASYMMETRY and by the INFN Iniziative Specifica APINE. This work was also partially supported by the Italian MUR Departments of Excellence grant 2023-2027 “Quantum Frontiers”. The work of LDL is supported by the European Union — NextGenerationEU and by the University of Padua under the 2021 STARS Grants@Unipd programme (CPV-Axion — Discovering the CP-violating axion) as well as by the European Union — Next Generation EU and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) via the PRIN 2022 project n. 2022K4B58X — AxionOrigins.
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Di Luzio, L., Guerrera, A.W.M., Ponce Díaz, X. et al. Axion-like particles in radiative quarkonia decays. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 217 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2024)217
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