Aug 24 – 28, 2026
京都大学基礎物理学研究所
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Decaying MeV-Scale Dark Matter:Gamma-Ray Decays at the $e^-e^+$ Threshold

Aug 26, 2026, 3:45 PM
2h
パナソニックホール (京都大学基礎物理学研究所)

パナソニックホール

京都大学基礎物理学研究所

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ショーンパトリック ケンプ (Kavli iPMU)

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When the mass of an unstable particle is close to twice the electron mass, long-range electromagnetic interactions between the electron and positron in the loop become important. In this threshold region, the conventional perturbative expansion breaks down due to singular terms enhanced by the Coulomb interaction, and a non-perturbative treatment is required. In this work, we investigate threshold effects in particle decays into photons mediated by an electron loop. To incorporate the non-perturbative dynamics of the electron–positron pair, we employ a non-relativistic effective field theory framework and resum the Coulomb interaction to all orders.

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