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We estimate the values of Yukawa couplings of a light pseudoscalar A with a mass of about 17 MeV, which would explain the 8 Be anomaly observed in the Atomki pair spectrometer experiment. The resulting couplings of A to up and down type quarks are about 0.3 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson. Then constraints from K and B decays require that loop contributions to flavour changing vertices cancel at least at the 10% level. Constraints from beam dump experiments require the coupling of A to electrons to be larger than about 4 times the coupling of the standard Higgs boson, leading to a short enough A life time consistent with an explanation of the anomaly.
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Ellwanger, U., Moretti, S. Possible explanation of the electron positron anomaly at 17 MeV in 8 Be transitions through a light pseudoscalar. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 39 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)039
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