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arXiv:2404.13226v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We explore the possibility of detecting the couplings of axion-like particle (ALP) with leptons from their loop-level impact on the ALP couplings to electroweak (EW) gauge bosons via the signal process $e^+ e^- \to \gamma \gamma /E$ at the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) and obtain prospective sensitivities to the ALP-lepton couplings. Our numerical results show that the CEPC with the center of mass energy $\sqrt{s}=240$ GeV and the integrated luminosity $\mathcal{L}=$ $5.6$ ab$^{-1}$ might be sensitive for probing the ALP-lepton couplings in the ALP mass range from $10$ GeV to $130$ GeV, where the prospective sensitivities to the ALP-neutrino coupling $Tr(g_{a\nu\nu})/f_a$ can be as low as $0.016$ GeV$^{-1}$ and $0.0031$ GeV$^{-1}$ for $c_{R}=0$ and $c_{R}=c_{L}$, and to the ALP-charged lepton coupling $Tr(g_{a\ell\ell})/f_a$ can be as low as $0.035$ GeV$^{-1}$ for $c_{L}=0$. We find that the prospective sensitivities given by the CEPC are not covered by the current exclusion regions in some ALP mass intervals. The CEPC has the potential for exploring the ALP-neutrino couplings via some promising processes induced by the ALP-EW gauge boson couplings in the future.
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