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hep-ph/9402227
Hubert Simma
G. Kramer, W.F. Palmer, H. Simma
CP Violation and Strong Phases from Penguins in $\bf B^{\pm}\rightarrow VV$ Decays
24 pages, 3 figures (upon request), LaTeX, preprint DESY 93-192
Nucl.Phys.B428:77-97,1994
10.1016/0550-3213(94)90192-9
null
hep-ph
null
We calculate direct CP-violating observables in charged $B\to VV$ decays arising from the interference of amplitudes with different strong and CKM phases. The perturbative strong phases develop at order $\alpha_s$ from absorptive parts of one-loop matrix elements of the next-to-leading logarithm corrected effective Hamiltonian. CPT constraints are maintained. Based on this model, we find that partial rate asymmetries between charge conjugate $B^{\pm}$ decays can be as high as 15-30\% for certain channels with branching ratios in the $10^{-6}$ range. The small values of the coefficients of angular correlations, which we calculated previously to be of order $10^{-2}$, are not significantly degraded by the strong phases. The charge asymmetries of rates and angular distributions would provide unambiguous evidence for direct CP violation.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Feb 1994 13:49:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Kramer", "G.", "" ], [ "Palmer", "W. F.", "" ], [ "Simma", "H.", "" ] ]
We calculate direct CP-violating observables in charged $B\to VV$ decays arising from the interference of amplitudes with different strong and CKM phases. The perturbative strong phases develop at order $\alpha_s$ from absorptive parts of one-loop matrix elements of the next-to-leading logarithm corrected effective Hamiltonian. CPT constraints are maintained. Based on this model, we find that partial rate asymmetries between charge conjugate $B^{\pm}$ decays can be as high as 15-30\% for certain channels with branching ratios in the $10^{-6}$ range. The small values of the coefficients of angular correlations, which we calculated previously to be of order $10^{-2}$, are not significantly degraded by the strong phases. The charge asymmetries of rates and angular distributions would provide unambiguous evidence for direct CP violation.
1704.04711
Danny Marfatia
Jiajun Liao, Danny Marfatia, Kerry Whisnant
Nonstandard interactions in solar neutrino oscillations with Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO
8 pages, 11 figures
Phys. Lett. B 771 : 247-253 (2017)
10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.054
null
hep-ph astro-ph.SR hep-ex nucl-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Measurements of the solar neutrino mass-squared difference from KamLAND and solar neutrino data are somewhat discrepant, perhaps due to nonstandard neutrino interactions in matter. We show that the zenith angle distribution of solar neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande and the energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos at JUNO can conclusively confirm the discrepancy and detect new neutrino interactions.
[ { "created": "Sun, 16 Apr 2017 02:38:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-05-30
[ [ "Liao", "Jiajun", "" ], [ "Marfatia", "Danny", "" ], [ "Whisnant", "Kerry", "" ] ]
Measurements of the solar neutrino mass-squared difference from KamLAND and solar neutrino data are somewhat discrepant, perhaps due to nonstandard neutrino interactions in matter. We show that the zenith angle distribution of solar neutrinos at Hyper-Kamiokande and the energy spectrum of reactor antineutrinos at JUNO can conclusively confirm the discrepancy and detect new neutrino interactions.
hep-ph/0307394
Carola F. Berger
Carola F. Berger (SUNY, Stony Brook and INFN, Turin), George Sterman (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Scaling Rule for Nonperturbative Radiation in a Class of Event Shapes
23 pages, 3 figures, uses JHEP3.cls (included); v2 - version to appear in JHEP
JHEP 0309:058,2003
10.1088/1126-6708/2003/09/058
YITP-SB-03-36
hep-ph
null
We discuss nonperturbative radiation for a recently introduced class of infrared safe event shape weights, which describe the narrow-jet limit. Starting from next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) resummation, we derive an approximate scaling rule that relates the nonperturbative shape functions for these weights to the shape function for the thrust. We argue that the scaling reflects the boost invariance implicit in NLL resummation, and discuss its limitations. In the absence of data analysis for the new event shapes, we compare these predictions to the output of the event generator PYTHIA.
[ { "created": "Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:14:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:12:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Berger", "Carola F.", "", "SUNY, Stony Brook and INFN, Turin" ], [ "Sterman", "George", "", "SUNY, Stony Brook" ] ]
We discuss nonperturbative radiation for a recently introduced class of infrared safe event shape weights, which describe the narrow-jet limit. Starting from next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) resummation, we derive an approximate scaling rule that relates the nonperturbative shape functions for these weights to the shape function for the thrust. We argue that the scaling reflects the boost invariance implicit in NLL resummation, and discuss its limitations. In the absence of data analysis for the new event shapes, we compare these predictions to the output of the event generator PYTHIA.
1009.0476
Stephen Parke
Rodrigo Alonso, Stefan Antusch, Mattias Blennow, Pilar Coloma, Andre de Gouvea, Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, Belen Gavela, Concha Gonzalez-Garcia, Sergio Hortner, Marco Laveder, Tracey Li, Jacobo Lopez-Pavon, Michele Maltoni, Olga Mena, Pasquale Migliozzi, Toshihiko Ota, Sergio Palomares Ruiz, Adam Para, Stephen J. Parke, Nuria Rius, Thomas Schwetz-Mangold, F. J. P. Soler, Michel Sorel, Osamu Yasuda and Walter Winter
Summary report of MINSIS workshop in Madrid
Proceedings of the MINSIS Workshop, Dec 10-11, 2009 in Madrid. 15 pages latex
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent developments on tau detection technologies and the construction of high intensity neutrino beams open the possibility of a high precision search for non-standard {\mu} - {\tau} flavour transition with neutrinos at short distances. The MINSIS - Main Injector Non-Standard Interaction Search- is a proposal under discussion to realize such precision measurement. This document contains the proceedings of the workshop which took place on 10-11 December 2009 in Madrid to discuss both the physics reach as well as the experimental requirements for this proposal.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:02:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-09-03
[ [ "Alonso", "Rodrigo", "" ], [ "Antusch", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Blennow", "Mattias", "" ], [ "Coloma", "Pilar", "" ], [ "de Gouvea", "Andre", "" ], [ "Fernandez-Martinez", "Enrique", "" ], [ "Gavela", "Belen", "" ], [ "Gonzalez-Garcia", "Concha", "" ], [ "Hortner", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Laveder", "Marco", "" ], [ "Li", "Tracey", "" ], [ "Lopez-Pavon", "Jacobo", "" ], [ "Maltoni", "Michele", "" ], [ "Mena", "Olga", "" ], [ "Migliozzi", "Pasquale", "" ], [ "Ota", "Toshihiko", "" ], [ "Ruiz", "Sergio Palomares", "" ], [ "Para", "Adam", "" ], [ "Parke", "Stephen J.", "" ], [ "Rius", "Nuria", "" ], [ "Schwetz-Mangold", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Soler", "F. J. P.", "" ], [ "Sorel", "Michel", "" ], [ "Yasuda", "Osamu", "" ], [ "Winter", "Walter", "" ] ]
Recent developments on tau detection technologies and the construction of high intensity neutrino beams open the possibility of a high precision search for non-standard {\mu} - {\tau} flavour transition with neutrinos at short distances. The MINSIS - Main Injector Non-Standard Interaction Search- is a proposal under discussion to realize such precision measurement. This document contains the proceedings of the workshop which took place on 10-11 December 2009 in Madrid to discuss both the physics reach as well as the experimental requirements for this proposal.
hep-ph/0203205
Roberto Ugoccioni
Alberto Giovannini, Sergio Lupia, Roberto Ugoccioni
Thermodynamics of Clan Production
12 pages, revtex 4, 5 ps figures; to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 094028
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.094028
DFTT 37/2001
hep-ph
null
Scenarios for particle production in the GeV and TeV regions are reviewed. The expected increase with c.m. energy of the average number of clans for the soft component and the decrease for the semihard one indicate possible classical and quantum behaviour of gluons, respectively. Clan thermodynamics, discussed in the paper, appears as the natural framework to deal with such phenomena.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:52:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Giovannini", "Alberto", "" ], [ "Lupia", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Ugoccioni", "Roberto", "" ] ]
Scenarios for particle production in the GeV and TeV regions are reviewed. The expected increase with c.m. energy of the average number of clans for the soft component and the decrease for the semihard one indicate possible classical and quantum behaviour of gluons, respectively. Clan thermodynamics, discussed in the paper, appears as the natural framework to deal with such phenomena.
hep-ph/9903280
Dmitri Kharzeev
R.L. Jaffe and D. Kharzeev
Chi_2 production in polarized pp collisions at RHIC: measuring \Delta G and testing the color octet model
7 pages
Phys.Lett.B455:306-310,1999
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00448-7
MIT-CTP-2838
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th
null
We consider the production and decay of the $\chi_2$ charmonium state in polarized and unpolarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC in the framework of an effective theory based on the QCD multipole expansion. We find that the angular distribution in the decay of the produced charmonium, $\chi_2 \to J/\psi + \gamma$, in the unpolarized case allows us to distinguish clearly between the color singlet and color octet production mechanisms. Once the production mechanism is known, the angular distribution in the polarized case can be used to measure the polarized gluon distribution in the proton, $\Delta G(x)$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:46:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-03-23
[ [ "Jaffe", "R. L.", "" ], [ "Kharzeev", "D.", "" ] ]
We consider the production and decay of the $\chi_2$ charmonium state in polarized and unpolarized $pp$ collisions at RHIC in the framework of an effective theory based on the QCD multipole expansion. We find that the angular distribution in the decay of the produced charmonium, $\chi_2 \to J/\psi + \gamma$, in the unpolarized case allows us to distinguish clearly between the color singlet and color octet production mechanisms. Once the production mechanism is known, the angular distribution in the polarized case can be used to measure the polarized gluon distribution in the proton, $\Delta G(x)$.
0901.3598
Yosuke Takubo
Yosuke Takubo
Analysis of ZHH in the 4-jet mode
4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, proceedings of LCWS08
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Measurement of the cross-section of e+e- -> ZHH offers the information of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, which is important to confirm the mechanism of the electro-weak symmetry breaking. Since there is huge background in the signal region, background rejection is key point to identify ZHH events. In this paper, we study the possibility to observe the ZHH events at ILC by using ZHH -> nu nu HH, resulting 4 jets.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:12:55 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:28:15 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:00:44 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-01-29
[ [ "Takubo", "Yosuke", "" ] ]
Measurement of the cross-section of e+e- -> ZHH offers the information of the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, which is important to confirm the mechanism of the electro-weak symmetry breaking. Since there is huge background in the signal region, background rejection is key point to identify ZHH events. In this paper, we study the possibility to observe the ZHH events at ILC by using ZHH -> nu nu HH, resulting 4 jets.
hep-ph/0203030
Anna M. Stasto
J. Kwiecinski and A.M.Stasto
Geometric scaling and QCD evolution
23 pages, 8 figures, new figures with illustration of the geometric scaling, additional references added
Phys.Rev.D66:014013,2002
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.014013
DFF 383/3/02
hep-ph
null
We study the impact of the QCD DGLAP evolution on the geometric scaling of the gluon distributions which is expected to hold at small x within the saturation models. To this aim we solve the DGLAP evolution equations with the initial conditions provided along the critical line Q^2=Q_s^2(x) where Q_s^2(x) = Q_0^2 x^{-\lambda}and satisfying geometric scaling. Both fixed and running coupling cases are studied. We show that in the fixed coupling case the geometric scaling at low x is stable against the DGLAP evolution for sufficiently large values of the parameter \lambda and in the double logarithmic approximation of the DGLAP evolution this happens for \lambda > 4N_c\alpha_s/\pi. In the running coupling case geometric scaling is found to be approximately preserved at very small x. The residual geometric scaling violation in this case can be approximately factored out and the corresponding form-factor controlling this violation is found.
[ { "created": "Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:12:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:09:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kwiecinski", "J.", "" ], [ "Stasto", "A. M.", "" ] ]
We study the impact of the QCD DGLAP evolution on the geometric scaling of the gluon distributions which is expected to hold at small x within the saturation models. To this aim we solve the DGLAP evolution equations with the initial conditions provided along the critical line Q^2=Q_s^2(x) where Q_s^2(x) = Q_0^2 x^{-\lambda}and satisfying geometric scaling. Both fixed and running coupling cases are studied. We show that in the fixed coupling case the geometric scaling at low x is stable against the DGLAP evolution for sufficiently large values of the parameter \lambda and in the double logarithmic approximation of the DGLAP evolution this happens for \lambda > 4N_c\alpha_s/\pi. In the running coupling case geometric scaling is found to be approximately preserved at very small x. The residual geometric scaling violation in this case can be approximately factored out and the corresponding form-factor controlling this violation is found.
0909.4163
Dan Hooper
Dan Hooper and Kathryn M. Zurek
Pamela, FGST and Sub-Tev Dark Matter
16 pages, 10 figures
Phys.Lett.B691:18-31,2010
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.06.014
FERMILAB-PUB-09-441-A
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
PAMELA's observation that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases rapidly with energy implies the presence of primary sources of energetic electron-positron pairs. Of particular interest is the possibility that dark matter annihilations in the halo of the Milky Way provide this anomalous flux of antimatter. The recent measurement of the cosmic ray electron spectrum by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, however, can be used to constrain the nature of any such dark matter particle. In particular, it has been argued that in order to accommodate the observations of Fermi and provide the PAMELA positron excess, annihilating dark matter particles must be as massive as ~1 TeV or heavier. In this article, we revisit Fermi's electron spectrum measurement within the context of annihilating dark matter, focusing on masses in the range of 100-1000 GeV, and considering effects such as variations in the astrophysical backgrounds from the presence of local cosmic ray accelerators, and the finite energy resolution of the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. When these factors are taken into account, we find that dark matter particles as light as ~300 GeV can be capable of generating the positron fraction observed by PAMELA.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:38:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Hooper", "Dan", "" ], [ "Zurek", "Kathryn M.", "" ] ]
PAMELA's observation that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases rapidly with energy implies the presence of primary sources of energetic electron-positron pairs. Of particular interest is the possibility that dark matter annihilations in the halo of the Milky Way provide this anomalous flux of antimatter. The recent measurement of the cosmic ray electron spectrum by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, however, can be used to constrain the nature of any such dark matter particle. In particular, it has been argued that in order to accommodate the observations of Fermi and provide the PAMELA positron excess, annihilating dark matter particles must be as massive as ~1 TeV or heavier. In this article, we revisit Fermi's electron spectrum measurement within the context of annihilating dark matter, focusing on masses in the range of 100-1000 GeV, and considering effects such as variations in the astrophysical backgrounds from the presence of local cosmic ray accelerators, and the finite energy resolution of the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope. When these factors are taken into account, we find that dark matter particles as light as ~300 GeV can be capable of generating the positron fraction observed by PAMELA.
1706.00205
Egle Tomasi-Gustafsson
Ying Wang, Yury M. Bystritskiy, Azad I. Ahmadov, Egle Tomasi Gustafsson
Antiproton--proton annihilation into light neutral meson pairs within an effective meson theory
20 pages, 9 Figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevC.96.025204
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Antiproton--proton annihilation into light neutral mesons in the few GeV energy domain is investigated in view of a global description of the existing data and predictions for future experiments at PANDA, FAIR. An effective meson model earlier developed, with mesonic and baryonic degrees of freedom in $s$, $t$, and $u$ channels, is applied here to $\pi^0\pi^0$ production. Form factors with logarithmic $s$ and $t(u)$ dependencies are applied. A fair agreement with the existing angular distributions is obtained. Applying SU(3) symmetry, it is straightforward to recover the angular distributions for $ \pi^0\eta$, and $\eta\eta$ production in the same energy range. A good agreement is generally obtained with all existing data.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Jun 2017 08:34:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-09-13
[ [ "Wang", "Ying", "" ], [ "Bystritskiy", "Yury M.", "" ], [ "Ahmadov", "Azad I.", "" ], [ "Gustafsson", "Egle Tomasi", "" ] ]
Antiproton--proton annihilation into light neutral mesons in the few GeV energy domain is investigated in view of a global description of the existing data and predictions for future experiments at PANDA, FAIR. An effective meson model earlier developed, with mesonic and baryonic degrees of freedom in $s$, $t$, and $u$ channels, is applied here to $\pi^0\pi^0$ production. Form factors with logarithmic $s$ and $t(u)$ dependencies are applied. A fair agreement with the existing angular distributions is obtained. Applying SU(3) symmetry, it is straightforward to recover the angular distributions for $ \pi^0\eta$, and $\eta\eta$ production in the same energy range. A good agreement is generally obtained with all existing data.
hep-ph/0602091
Jean-Philippe Lansberg
J.P. Lansberg
J/psi, psi' and Upsilon Production at Hadron Colliders: a review
59 pages, 43 figures, LaTeX, uses ws-ijmpab.cls (included); v2: Published version: a couple of typos corrected and a few references added
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A21:3857-3916,2006
10.1142/S0217751X06033180
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th
null
We give an overview of the present status of knowledge of the production of J/psi, psi' and Upsilon in high-energy hadron collisions. We first present two early models, namely the Colour-Singlet Model (CSM) and the Colour-Evaporation Model (CEM). The first is the natural application of pQCD to quarkonium production and has been shown to fail dramatically to describe data, the second is its phenomenological counterpart and was introduced in the spirit of the quark-hadron duality in the late seventies. Then, we expose the most recent experimental measurements of J/psi, psi' and Upsilon prompt and direct production at nonzero p_T from two high-energy hadron colliders, the Tevatron and RHIC. In a third part, we review six contemporary models describing J/psi, psi' and Upsilon production at nonzero p_T.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:20:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:01:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lansberg", "J. P.", "" ] ]
We give an overview of the present status of knowledge of the production of J/psi, psi' and Upsilon in high-energy hadron collisions. We first present two early models, namely the Colour-Singlet Model (CSM) and the Colour-Evaporation Model (CEM). The first is the natural application of pQCD to quarkonium production and has been shown to fail dramatically to describe data, the second is its phenomenological counterpart and was introduced in the spirit of the quark-hadron duality in the late seventies. Then, we expose the most recent experimental measurements of J/psi, psi' and Upsilon prompt and direct production at nonzero p_T from two high-energy hadron colliders, the Tevatron and RHIC. In a third part, we review six contemporary models describing J/psi, psi' and Upsilon production at nonzero p_T.
1808.06618
Francesco Capozzi
Francesco Capozzi (MPP Munich), Basudeb Dasgupta (TIFR, Mumbai), Alessandro Mirizzi (Bari Univ., INFN Bari), Manibrata Sen (TIFR, Mumbai), G\"unter Sigl (Hamburg Univ.)
Collisional triggering of fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos
7 pages, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091101 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.091101
MPP-2018-206, TIFR/TH/18-27
hep-ph astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, possible near the neutrinosphere, depends on an interesting interplay of collisions and neutrino oscillations. Contrary to naive expectations, the rate of self-induced neutrino oscillations, due to neutrino-neutrino forward scattering, comfortably exceeds the rate of collisions even deep inside the supernova core. Consistently accounting for collisions and oscillations, we present the first calculations to show that collisions can create the conditions for fast flavor conversions of neutrinos, but oscillations can continue without significant damping thereafter. This may have interesting consequences for supernova explosions and the nature of its associated neutrino emission.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:00:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Mar 2019 07:55:30 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-03-13
[ [ "Capozzi", "Francesco", "", "MPP Munich" ], [ "Dasgupta", "Basudeb", "", "TIFR, Mumbai" ], [ "Mirizzi", "Alessandro", "", "Bari Univ., INFN Bari" ], [ "Sen", "Manibrata", "", "TIFR, Mumbai" ], [ "Sigl", "Günter", "", "Hamburg Univ." ] ]
Fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, possible near the neutrinosphere, depends on an interesting interplay of collisions and neutrino oscillations. Contrary to naive expectations, the rate of self-induced neutrino oscillations, due to neutrino-neutrino forward scattering, comfortably exceeds the rate of collisions even deep inside the supernova core. Consistently accounting for collisions and oscillations, we present the first calculations to show that collisions can create the conditions for fast flavor conversions of neutrinos, but oscillations can continue without significant damping thereafter. This may have interesting consequences for supernova explosions and the nature of its associated neutrino emission.
hep-ph/0301103
Claudio Coriano
Alessandro Cafarella and Claudio Corian\'o
The Kinetic Interpretation of the DGLAP Equation, its Kramers-Moyal Expansion and Positivity of Helicity Distributions
38 pages, 27 figures, Dedicated to Prof. Pierre Ramond for his 60th birthday
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A20:4863-4898,2005
10.1142/S0217751X05020951
UFIFT-HEP-03-1
hep-ph
null
According to a rederivation - due to Collins and Qiu - the DGLAP equation can be reinterpreted (in leading order) in a probabilistic way. This form of the equation has been used indirectly to prove the bound $|\Delta f(x,Q)| < f(x,Q)$ between polarized and unpolarized distributions, or positivity of the helicity distributions, for any $Q$. We reanalize this issue by performing a detailed numerical study of the positivity bounds of the helicity distributions. To obtain the numerical solution we implement an x-space based algorithm for polarized and unpolarized distributions to next-to-leading order in $\alpha_s$, which we illustrate. We also elaborate on some of the formal properties of the Collins-Qiu form and comment on the underlying regularization, introduce a Kramers-Moyal expansion of the equation and briefly analize its Fokker-Planck approximation. These follow quite naturally once the master version is given. We illustrate this expansion both for the valence quark distribution $q_V$ and for the transverse spin distribution $h_1$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:14:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:52:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Cafarella", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Corianó", "Claudio", "" ] ]
According to a rederivation - due to Collins and Qiu - the DGLAP equation can be reinterpreted (in leading order) in a probabilistic way. This form of the equation has been used indirectly to prove the bound $|\Delta f(x,Q)| < f(x,Q)$ between polarized and unpolarized distributions, or positivity of the helicity distributions, for any $Q$. We reanalize this issue by performing a detailed numerical study of the positivity bounds of the helicity distributions. To obtain the numerical solution we implement an x-space based algorithm for polarized and unpolarized distributions to next-to-leading order in $\alpha_s$, which we illustrate. We also elaborate on some of the formal properties of the Collins-Qiu form and comment on the underlying regularization, introduce a Kramers-Moyal expansion of the equation and briefly analize its Fokker-Planck approximation. These follow quite naturally once the master version is given. We illustrate this expansion both for the valence quark distribution $q_V$ and for the transverse spin distribution $h_1$.
2303.14805
Abdulkadir Senol
A. Senol, H. Denizli and C. Helveci
Sensitivity of anomalous quartic gauge couplings via tri-photon production at FCC-hh
17 pages, 6 figures, some typos corrected and reference added
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A direct investigation of the self-couplings of gauge bosons, completely described by the non-Abelian gauge symmetry of the Standard Model, is extremely valuable in understanding the gauge structure of the SM. Any deviation from the SM predictions on gauge boson self-coupling is to give a hint at the existence of a new physics beyond the SM, which is defined with a modification of the self-interactions using an effective field theory approach. In this paper, we present a detailed Monte Carlo study searching for anomalous quartic gauge dimension-8 couplings related to $\gamma\gamma\gamma\gamma$ and $\gamma\gamma\gamma Z$ vertices at the future hadron-hadron collider (FCC-hh) via tri-photon production at a 100 TeV center of mass energy with an integrated luminosity L$_{int}$=30 ab$^{-1}$. Events that have been parton showered and include detector effects are analyzed with a Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) using a boosted decision tree to help distinguish between signal and background events to achieve the best sensitivities on anomalous quartic gauge couplings. Our obtained results reveal that the limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings $f_{T8}/\Lambda^{4}$ and $f_{T9}/\Lambda^{4}$ at 95\% C.L. without systematic errors are about three orders of magnitude stronger compared to the best current experimental limits reported by the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC. Considering a realistic systematic uncertainty such as 10\% from possible experimental sources, our obtained limits of anomalous quartic couplings get worse by about one order of magnitude compared to those without systematic uncertainty but are still two orders of magnitude better than those recently reported by ATLAS.
[ { "created": "Sun, 26 Mar 2023 20:11:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:31:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:09:25 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-04-26
[ [ "Senol", "A.", "" ], [ "Denizli", "H.", "" ], [ "Helveci", "C.", "" ] ]
A direct investigation of the self-couplings of gauge bosons, completely described by the non-Abelian gauge symmetry of the Standard Model, is extremely valuable in understanding the gauge structure of the SM. Any deviation from the SM predictions on gauge boson self-coupling is to give a hint at the existence of a new physics beyond the SM, which is defined with a modification of the self-interactions using an effective field theory approach. In this paper, we present a detailed Monte Carlo study searching for anomalous quartic gauge dimension-8 couplings related to $\gamma\gamma\gamma\gamma$ and $\gamma\gamma\gamma Z$ vertices at the future hadron-hadron collider (FCC-hh) via tri-photon production at a 100 TeV center of mass energy with an integrated luminosity L$_{int}$=30 ab$^{-1}$. Events that have been parton showered and include detector effects are analyzed with a Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis (TMVA) using a boosted decision tree to help distinguish between signal and background events to achieve the best sensitivities on anomalous quartic gauge couplings. Our obtained results reveal that the limits on anomalous quartic gauge couplings $f_{T8}/\Lambda^{4}$ and $f_{T9}/\Lambda^{4}$ at 95\% C.L. without systematic errors are about three orders of magnitude stronger compared to the best current experimental limits reported by the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC. Considering a realistic systematic uncertainty such as 10\% from possible experimental sources, our obtained limits of anomalous quartic couplings get worse by about one order of magnitude compared to those without systematic uncertainty but are still two orders of magnitude better than those recently reported by ATLAS.
hep-ph/0607275
Andre Peshier
A. Peshier
Rethinking the QCD collisional energy loss
contribution to "Hot Quarks 2006", Villasimius, Italy, 15-20 May 2006
Eur.Phys.J.C49:9-12,2007
10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0063-z
null
hep-ph
null
It is shown that to leading order the collisional energy loss of an energetic parton in the hot quark gluon plasma reads $dE/dx \sim \alpha(m_D^2)T^2$, where the scale of the coupling is determined by the (parametrically soft) Debye screening mass. Compared to previous expressions derived by Bjorken and other authors, $dE^B/dx \sim \alpha^2 T^2 \ln(ET/m_D^2)$, the rectified result takes into account the running of the coupling, as dictated by quantum corrections beyond tree level. As one significant consequence, due to asymptotic freedom, the QCD collisional energy loss becomes independent of the jet energy in the limit $E \gg T$. It is advocated that this resummation improved perturbative result might be useful to (re-)estimate the collisional energy loss for temperatures relevant in heavy ion phenomenology.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:55:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-09-13
[ [ "Peshier", "A.", "" ] ]
It is shown that to leading order the collisional energy loss of an energetic parton in the hot quark gluon plasma reads $dE/dx \sim \alpha(m_D^2)T^2$, where the scale of the coupling is determined by the (parametrically soft) Debye screening mass. Compared to previous expressions derived by Bjorken and other authors, $dE^B/dx \sim \alpha^2 T^2 \ln(ET/m_D^2)$, the rectified result takes into account the running of the coupling, as dictated by quantum corrections beyond tree level. As one significant consequence, due to asymptotic freedom, the QCD collisional energy loss becomes independent of the jet energy in the limit $E \gg T$. It is advocated that this resummation improved perturbative result might be useful to (re-)estimate the collisional energy loss for temperatures relevant in heavy ion phenomenology.
1011.4024
S. Mukherjee Dr.
S.Mukherjee and S.N.Banerjee
The dimensional properties of the hadron
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The statistical model of the hadron as a quarkonium system suggests the dimensional dependence of some of the properties of the hadron like the scaling in its probability density with the anomalous dimension as the exponent,the universality, the power law scaling in transverse momentum in hadron production.Recent experimental findings are found to be in agreement with the corresponding predictions of the model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:56:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-18
[ [ "Mukherjee", "S.", "" ], [ "Banerjee", "S. N.", "" ] ]
The statistical model of the hadron as a quarkonium system suggests the dimensional dependence of some of the properties of the hadron like the scaling in its probability density with the anomalous dimension as the exponent,the universality, the power law scaling in transverse momentum in hadron production.Recent experimental findings are found to be in agreement with the corresponding predictions of the model.
hep-ph/0604215
Hyun Min Lee
Dumitru M. Ghilencea, Hyun Min Lee, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
Higher derivatives and brane-localised kinetic terms in gauge theories on orbifolds
1+45 pages, 2 figures, JHEP style file, version to be published in JHEP
JHEP 0608 (2006) 009
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/009
DESY 06-028, DAMTP-2005-85
hep-ph hep-th
null
We perform a detailed analysis of one-loop corrections to the self-energy of the (off-shell) gauge bosons in six-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories on orbifolds. After discussing the Abelian case in the standard Feynman diagram approach, we extend the analysis to the non-Abelian case by employing the method of an orbifold-compatible one-loop effective action for a classical background gauge field. We find that bulk higher derivative and brane-localised gauge kinetic terms are required to cancel one-loop divergences of the gauge boson self energy. After their renormalisation we study the momentum dependence of both the higher derivative coupling h(k^2) and the {\it effective} gauge coupling g_eff(k^2). For momenta smaller than the compactification scales, we obtain the 4D logarithmic running of g_eff(k^2), with suppressed power-like corrections, while the higher derivative coupling is constant. We present in detail the threshold corrections to the low energy gauge coupling, due to the massive bulk modes. At momentum scales above the compactification scales, the higher derivative operator becomes important and leads to a power-like running of g_eff(k^2) with respect to the momentum scale. The coefficient of this running is at all scales equal to the renormalised coupling of the higher derivative operator which ensures the quantum consistency of the model. We discuss the relation to the similar one-loop correction in the heterotic string, to show that the higher derivative operators are relevant in that case too, since the field theory limit of the one-loop string correction does not commute with the infrared regularisation of the (on-shell) string result.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:18:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:37:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:09:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Ghilencea", "Dumitru M.", "" ], [ "Lee", "Hyun Min", "" ], [ "Schmidt-Hoberg", "Kai", "" ] ]
We perform a detailed analysis of one-loop corrections to the self-energy of the (off-shell) gauge bosons in six-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories on orbifolds. After discussing the Abelian case in the standard Feynman diagram approach, we extend the analysis to the non-Abelian case by employing the method of an orbifold-compatible one-loop effective action for a classical background gauge field. We find that bulk higher derivative and brane-localised gauge kinetic terms are required to cancel one-loop divergences of the gauge boson self energy. After their renormalisation we study the momentum dependence of both the higher derivative coupling h(k^2) and the {\it effective} gauge coupling g_eff(k^2). For momenta smaller than the compactification scales, we obtain the 4D logarithmic running of g_eff(k^2), with suppressed power-like corrections, while the higher derivative coupling is constant. We present in detail the threshold corrections to the low energy gauge coupling, due to the massive bulk modes. At momentum scales above the compactification scales, the higher derivative operator becomes important and leads to a power-like running of g_eff(k^2) with respect to the momentum scale. The coefficient of this running is at all scales equal to the renormalised coupling of the higher derivative operator which ensures the quantum consistency of the model. We discuss the relation to the similar one-loop correction in the heterotic string, to show that the higher derivative operators are relevant in that case too, since the field theory limit of the one-loop string correction does not commute with the infrared regularisation of the (on-shell) string result.
hep-ph/9604311
Boris M. Kastening
Boris Kastening
Four-Loop Vacuum Energy Beta Function in O(N) Symmetric Scalar Theory
16 pages, latex, no figures. Enlarged and updated reference list, minor typographical changes
Phys. Rev. D 54, 3965 (1996)
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.3965
PURD-TH-96-03
hep-ph cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th
null
The beta function of the vacuum energy density is computed at the four-loop level in massive O(N) symmetric phi^4 theory. Dimensional regularization is used in conjunction with the MSbar scheme and all calculations are in momentum space in the massive theory. The result is beta_v = g N/4+g^3 N(N+2)/96+g^4 N(N+2)(N+8)[12 zeta(3)-25]/1296+o(g^5).
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 22:54:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Aug 1996 17:22:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Kastening", "Boris", "" ] ]
The beta function of the vacuum energy density is computed at the four-loop level in massive O(N) symmetric phi^4 theory. Dimensional regularization is used in conjunction with the MSbar scheme and all calculations are in momentum space in the massive theory. The result is beta_v = g N/4+g^3 N(N+2)/96+g^4 N(N+2)(N+8)[12 zeta(3)-25]/1296+o(g^5).
hep-ph/9912488
Gavin Salam
Vito Antonelli, Mrinal Dasgupta, Gavin P. Salam
Resummation of thrust distributions in DIS
25 pages
JHEP 0002:001,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/02/001
Bicocca-FT-99-32, CERN-TH/99-396
hep-ph
null
We calculate the resummed distributions for the thrust in DIS in the limit T->1. Two variants of the thrust are considered: that normalised to Q/2, and that normalised to the energy in the current hemisphere. The results expanded to second order are compared to predictions from the Monte Carlo programs DISENT and DISASTER++. A prescription is given for matching the resummed expressions with the full fixed order calculation.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 14:46:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Antonelli", "Vito", "" ], [ "Dasgupta", "Mrinal", "" ], [ "Salam", "Gavin P.", "" ] ]
We calculate the resummed distributions for the thrust in DIS in the limit T->1. Two variants of the thrust are considered: that normalised to Q/2, and that normalised to the energy in the current hemisphere. The results expanded to second order are compared to predictions from the Monte Carlo programs DISENT and DISASTER++. A prescription is given for matching the resummed expressions with the full fixed order calculation.
2110.11889
Julien Froustey
Julien Froustey, Cyril Pitrou
Primordial neutrino asymmetry evolution with full mean-field effects and collisions
51 pages, 17 figures
JCAP 03 (2022), 065
10.1088/1475-7516/2022/03/065
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Neutrino oscillations and mean-field effects considerably enrich the phenomenology of neutrino evolution in the early Universe. Taking into account these effects, most notably the neutrino self-interaction mean-field contribution, we revisit the problem of the evolution of primordial neutrino asymmetries including for the first time the complete expression for collisions, which describe scattering and annihilations with electrons/positrons and reactions among (anti)neutrinos. We show that a generalisation of the adiabatic transfer of averaged oscillations (ATAO) scheme, a numerical method previously developed without neutrino degeneracy and based on the large separation of time scales in this problem, is sufficient to reach the same accuracy as the full quantum kinetic equation integration, but is notably faster. This approximation highlights the physics of synchronous oscillations at play in the evolution of neutrino chemical potentials, especially in the particular case with only two-neutrino mixing. In particular, it allows to understand what controls the beginning and the amplitude of oscillations, but also why there is a subsequent regime of collective oscillations with larger frequencies. We also find that it is very important to use the full collision term instead of relying on damping-like approximations, in order not to overestimate how collisions reduce these synchronous oscillations. Finally we study qualitatively how mixing parameters affect the final neutrino configuration, and in particular we show that the CP-violating Dirac phase cannot substantially affect the final $N_{\rm eff}$ nor the final electronic (anti)-neutrino spectrum, and thus should not affect cosmological observables.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:16:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:04:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-03-31
[ [ "Froustey", "Julien", "" ], [ "Pitrou", "Cyril", "" ] ]
Neutrino oscillations and mean-field effects considerably enrich the phenomenology of neutrino evolution in the early Universe. Taking into account these effects, most notably the neutrino self-interaction mean-field contribution, we revisit the problem of the evolution of primordial neutrino asymmetries including for the first time the complete expression for collisions, which describe scattering and annihilations with electrons/positrons and reactions among (anti)neutrinos. We show that a generalisation of the adiabatic transfer of averaged oscillations (ATAO) scheme, a numerical method previously developed without neutrino degeneracy and based on the large separation of time scales in this problem, is sufficient to reach the same accuracy as the full quantum kinetic equation integration, but is notably faster. This approximation highlights the physics of synchronous oscillations at play in the evolution of neutrino chemical potentials, especially in the particular case with only two-neutrino mixing. In particular, it allows to understand what controls the beginning and the amplitude of oscillations, but also why there is a subsequent regime of collective oscillations with larger frequencies. We also find that it is very important to use the full collision term instead of relying on damping-like approximations, in order not to overestimate how collisions reduce these synchronous oscillations. Finally we study qualitatively how mixing parameters affect the final neutrino configuration, and in particular we show that the CP-violating Dirac phase cannot substantially affect the final $N_{\rm eff}$ nor the final electronic (anti)-neutrino spectrum, and thus should not affect cosmological observables.
hep-ph/9306269
null
B.Brahmachari, U. Sarkar and K. Sridhar
Non-perturbative unification in the light of LEP results
Latex file 7 pages+1 fig. (ps file appended after the latex file), CERN-TH.6913/93
Mod.Phys.Lett. A8 (1993) 3349-3354
10.1142/S0217732393003779
null
hep-ph
null
We consider an alternative to conventional GUTs originally proposed by Maiani, Parisi and Petronzio, where owing to the existence of extra fermion generations at some intermediate scale, the gauge couplings become large at high energies. We first comment on how the non- supersymmetric version of this scenario is ruled out; we then consider the two-loop evolution of the couplings in the supersymmetric extension of this scenario, and check whether such a scenario is feasible in the light of the precies values of couplings now available from LEP.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Jun 1993 16:23:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Brahmachari", "B.", "" ], [ "Sarkar", "U.", "" ], [ "Sridhar", "K.", "" ] ]
We consider an alternative to conventional GUTs originally proposed by Maiani, Parisi and Petronzio, where owing to the existence of extra fermion generations at some intermediate scale, the gauge couplings become large at high energies. We first comment on how the non- supersymmetric version of this scenario is ruled out; we then consider the two-loop evolution of the couplings in the supersymmetric extension of this scenario, and check whether such a scenario is feasible in the light of the precies values of couplings now available from LEP.
1108.1196
William Shepherd
Arvind Rajaraman, William Shepherd, Tim M.P. Tait and Alexander M. Wijangco
LHC Bounds on Interactions of Dark Matter
20 pages, 11 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.095013
UCI-HEP-TR-2011-15
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive limits on the interactions of dark matter with quarks from ATLAS null searches for jets + missing energy based on ~1 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity, using a model-insensitive effective theory framework. We find that the new limits from the LHC significantly extend limits previously derived from CDF data at the Tevatron. Translated into the parameter space of direct searches, these limits are particularly effective for ~GeV mass WIMPs. Our limits indicate tension with isospin violating models satisfying minimal flavor violation which attempt to reconcile the purported CoGeNT excess with Xenon-100, indicating that either a light mediator or nontrivial flavor structure for the dark sector is necessary for a viable reconciliation of CoGeNT with Xenon.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-29
[ [ "Rajaraman", "Arvind", "" ], [ "Shepherd", "William", "" ], [ "Tait", "Tim M. P.", "" ], [ "Wijangco", "Alexander M.", "" ] ]
We derive limits on the interactions of dark matter with quarks from ATLAS null searches for jets + missing energy based on ~1 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity, using a model-insensitive effective theory framework. We find that the new limits from the LHC significantly extend limits previously derived from CDF data at the Tevatron. Translated into the parameter space of direct searches, these limits are particularly effective for ~GeV mass WIMPs. Our limits indicate tension with isospin violating models satisfying minimal flavor violation which attempt to reconcile the purported CoGeNT excess with Xenon-100, indicating that either a light mediator or nontrivial flavor structure for the dark sector is necessary for a viable reconciliation of CoGeNT with Xenon.
hep-ph/9908504
Alan Kostelecky
Alan Kostelecky and Charles Lane
Constraints on Lorentz violation from clock-comparison experiments
accepted for publication in Physical Review D; scheduled for issue of December 1, 1999
Phys.Rev.D60:116010,1999
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.116010
IUHET 403, March 1999
hep-ph
null
Constraints from clock-comparison experiments on violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry are investigated in the context of a general Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model. The experimental signals are shown to depend on the atomic and ionic species used as clocks. Certain experiments usually regarded as establishing comparable bounds are in this context sensitive to different types of Lorentz violation. Some considerations relevant to possible future measurements are presented. All these experiments are potentially sensitive to Lorentz-violating physics at the Planck scale.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:21:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Kostelecky", "Alan", "" ], [ "Lane", "Charles", "" ] ]
Constraints from clock-comparison experiments on violations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry are investigated in the context of a general Lorentz-violating extension of the standard model. The experimental signals are shown to depend on the atomic and ionic species used as clocks. Certain experiments usually regarded as establishing comparable bounds are in this context sensitive to different types of Lorentz violation. Some considerations relevant to possible future measurements are presented. All these experiments are potentially sensitive to Lorentz-violating physics at the Planck scale.
hep-ph/0407068
Gabriele Bodenmueller
Harald Fritzsch
Does the QCD Scale vary in time?
5 pages, QCD International Conference Montpellier 2-9 July 2003
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.04.149
LMU 20 / 03
hep-ph
null
Last year I talked at this meeting about a possible time dependence of the QCD coupling constant $\alpha_s$. This year I shall look into the problem once more, without fully repeating the arguments given last year. Astrophysical indications that the fine structure constant has undergone a small time variation during the cosmological evolution are discussed within the framework of the standard model of the electroweak and strong interactions and of grand unification. A variation of the electromagnetic coupling constant could either be generated by a corresponding time variation of the unified coupling constant or by a time variation of the unification scale, or by both. The various possibilities, differing substantially in their implications for the variation of low energy physics parameters like the nuclear mass scale, are discussed. The case in which the variation is caused by a time variation of the unification scale is of special interest. It is supported in addition by recent hints towards a time change of the proton-electron mass ratio.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:00:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Fritzsch", "Harald", "" ] ]
Last year I talked at this meeting about a possible time dependence of the QCD coupling constant $\alpha_s$. This year I shall look into the problem once more, without fully repeating the arguments given last year. Astrophysical indications that the fine structure constant has undergone a small time variation during the cosmological evolution are discussed within the framework of the standard model of the electroweak and strong interactions and of grand unification. A variation of the electromagnetic coupling constant could either be generated by a corresponding time variation of the unified coupling constant or by a time variation of the unification scale, or by both. The various possibilities, differing substantially in their implications for the variation of low energy physics parameters like the nuclear mass scale, are discussed. The case in which the variation is caused by a time variation of the unification scale is of special interest. It is supported in addition by recent hints towards a time change of the proton-electron mass ratio.
1304.1787
Jeremie Quevillon
Abdelhak Djouadi and Jeremie Quevillon
The MSSM Higgs sector at a high $M_{SUSY}$: reopening the low tan$\beta$ regime and heavy Higgs searches
36 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, pdflatex; v2: quality of figures improved, typos corrected and references added
JHEP 1310 (2013) 028
10.1007/JHEP10(2013)028
LPT Orsay 13-26
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
One of the main implications of the LHC discovery of a Higgs boson with a mass $M_h \approx 126$ GeV is that the scale of supersymmetry-breaking in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) might be rather high, $M_S \gg M_Z$. In this paper, we consider the high $M_S$ regime and study the spectrum of the extended Higgs sector of the MSSM, including the LHC constraints on the mass and the rates of the observed light $h$ state. In particular, we show that in a simplified model that approximates the important radiative corrections, the unknown scale $M_S$ (and some other leading SUSY parameters) can be traded against the measured value of $M_h$. One would be then essentially left with only two free parameters to describe the Higgs sector, tan$\beta$ and the pseudoscalar Higgs mass $M_A$, even at higher orders. The main phenomenological consequence of these high $M_S$ values is to reopen the low tan$\beta$ region, tan$\beta \lsim 3-5$, which was for a long time buried under the LEP constraint on the lightest $h$ mass when a low SUSY scale was assumed. We show that, in this case, the heavier MSSM neutral $H/A$ and charged $H^\pm$ states can be searched for in a variety of interesting final states such as decays into gauge and lighter Higgs bosons (in pairs on in mixed states) and decays into heavy top quarks. Examples of sensitivity on the $[tan\beta, M_A]$ parameter space at the LHC in these channels are given.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Apr 2013 19:07:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:13:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-04-18
[ [ "Djouadi", "Abdelhak", "" ], [ "Quevillon", "Jeremie", "" ] ]
One of the main implications of the LHC discovery of a Higgs boson with a mass $M_h \approx 126$ GeV is that the scale of supersymmetry-breaking in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) might be rather high, $M_S \gg M_Z$. In this paper, we consider the high $M_S$ regime and study the spectrum of the extended Higgs sector of the MSSM, including the LHC constraints on the mass and the rates of the observed light $h$ state. In particular, we show that in a simplified model that approximates the important radiative corrections, the unknown scale $M_S$ (and some other leading SUSY parameters) can be traded against the measured value of $M_h$. One would be then essentially left with only two free parameters to describe the Higgs sector, tan$\beta$ and the pseudoscalar Higgs mass $M_A$, even at higher orders. The main phenomenological consequence of these high $M_S$ values is to reopen the low tan$\beta$ region, tan$\beta \lsim 3-5$, which was for a long time buried under the LEP constraint on the lightest $h$ mass when a low SUSY scale was assumed. We show that, in this case, the heavier MSSM neutral $H/A$ and charged $H^\pm$ states can be searched for in a variety of interesting final states such as decays into gauge and lighter Higgs bosons (in pairs on in mixed states) and decays into heavy top quarks. Examples of sensitivity on the $[tan\beta, M_A]$ parameter space at the LHC in these channels are given.
0906.4562
Diego Becciolini
Diego Becciolini, Michele Redi and Andrea Wulzer
AdS/QCD: The Relevance of the Geometry
25 pages + appendix. v2 minor changes and Refs. added
JHEP 1001:074,2010
10.1007/JHEP01(2010)074
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the relevance of the metric and of the geometry in five-dimensional models of hadrons. Generically, the metric does not affect strongly the results and even flat space agrees reasonably well with the data. Nevertheless, we observe a preference for a decreasing warp factor, for example AdS space. The Sakai-Sugimoto model reduces to one of these models and the level of agreement is similar to the one of flat space. We also consider the discrete version of the five-dimensional models, obtained by dimensional deconstruction. We find that essentially all the relevant features of "holographic" models of QCD can be reproduced with a simple 3-site model describing only the states below the cut-off of the theory.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:22:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:24:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-03-19
[ [ "Becciolini", "Diego", "" ], [ "Redi", "Michele", "" ], [ "Wulzer", "Andrea", "" ] ]
We investigate the relevance of the metric and of the geometry in five-dimensional models of hadrons. Generically, the metric does not affect strongly the results and even flat space agrees reasonably well with the data. Nevertheless, we observe a preference for a decreasing warp factor, for example AdS space. The Sakai-Sugimoto model reduces to one of these models and the level of agreement is similar to the one of flat space. We also consider the discrete version of the five-dimensional models, obtained by dimensional deconstruction. We find that essentially all the relevant features of "holographic" models of QCD can be reproduced with a simple 3-site model describing only the states below the cut-off of the theory.
0903.3890
Bastian Kubis
Martin Hoferichter, Bastian Kubis, Ulf-G. Mei{\ss}ner
Isospin breaking in the pion-nucleon scattering lengths
7 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Lett.B678:65-71,2009
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.05.068
HISKP-TH-09/11, FZJ-IKP-TH-2009-9
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze isospin breaking through quark mass differences and virtual photons in the pion-nucleon scattering lengths in all physical channels in the framework of covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:50:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-06-25
[ [ "Hoferichter", "Martin", "" ], [ "Kubis", "Bastian", "" ], [ "Meißner", "Ulf-G.", "" ] ]
We analyze isospin breaking through quark mass differences and virtual photons in the pion-nucleon scattering lengths in all physical channels in the framework of covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory.
2003.07638
Takaaki Nomura
Chuan-Hung Chen, Takaaki Nomura
Electron and muon $g-2$, radiative neutrino mass, and $\ell' \to \ell \gamma$ in a $U(1)_{e-\mu}$ model
24 pages, 7 figures, version accepted for publication in NPB
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2021.115314
KIAS-P20012
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A nonconventional $U(1)_{e-\mu}$ gauge model is proposed to explain the unexpected anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and muon (lepton $g-2$), where only the right-handed electron and muon in the standard model carry the $U(1)_{e-\mu}$ charge. Although the light lepton masses are suppressed when the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken, they can be generated through the Yukawa couplings to newly introduced particles, such as vector-like lepton doublets and singlet, and scalar singlets. It is found that the same Yukawa couplings combined with the new scalar couplings to the Higgs can induce the radiative lepton-flavor violation processes $\ell' \to \ell \gamma$ and lepton $g-2$, where the lepton $g-2$ is proportional to $m_{\ell}$. When Majorana fermions and a scalar singlet are further added into the model, the active neutrinos can obtain masses via the radiative seesaw mechanism. When the bounds from the $m_e$ and $m_\mu$ and the neutrino data are satisfied, we find that the electron $g-2$ can reach an order of $-10^{-12}$, and the muon $g-2$ can be an order of $10^{-9}$. In addition, when the $\mu\to e \gamma$ decay is suppressed, the resulting branching ratio for $\tau\to e \gamma$ can be of $O(10^{-8})$, and that for $\tau\to \mu \gamma$ can be as large as the current upper limit.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:54:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:33:18 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:35:12 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 2021 02:54:02 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2021-02-24
[ [ "Chen", "Chuan-Hung", "" ], [ "Nomura", "Takaaki", "" ] ]
A nonconventional $U(1)_{e-\mu}$ gauge model is proposed to explain the unexpected anomalous magnetic moments of the electron and muon (lepton $g-2$), where only the right-handed electron and muon in the standard model carry the $U(1)_{e-\mu}$ charge. Although the light lepton masses are suppressed when the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken, they can be generated through the Yukawa couplings to newly introduced particles, such as vector-like lepton doublets and singlet, and scalar singlets. It is found that the same Yukawa couplings combined with the new scalar couplings to the Higgs can induce the radiative lepton-flavor violation processes $\ell' \to \ell \gamma$ and lepton $g-2$, where the lepton $g-2$ is proportional to $m_{\ell}$. When Majorana fermions and a scalar singlet are further added into the model, the active neutrinos can obtain masses via the radiative seesaw mechanism. When the bounds from the $m_e$ and $m_\mu$ and the neutrino data are satisfied, we find that the electron $g-2$ can reach an order of $-10^{-12}$, and the muon $g-2$ can be an order of $10^{-9}$. In addition, when the $\mu\to e \gamma$ decay is suppressed, the resulting branching ratio for $\tau\to e \gamma$ can be of $O(10^{-8})$, and that for $\tau\to \mu \gamma$ can be as large as the current upper limit.
1708.07802
Estela A. Garces
E. A. Garc\'es, M. Hern\'andez Villanueva, G. L\'opez Castro, P. Roig
Effective-field theory analysis of the $\tau^- \to \eta^{(\prime)} \pi^- \nu_\tau$ decays
23 pages, 8 multiple figures and one table. Extended discussion of the hadronization of the tensor current and improved presentation of the plots. Accepted for publication in JHEP
J. High Energ. Phys. (2017) 2017: 27
10.1007/JHEP12(2017)027
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The rare $\tau^- \to \eta^{(\prime)} \pi^- \nu_\tau$ decays, which are suppressed by $G$-parity in the Standard Model (SM), can be sensitive to the effects of new interactions. We study the sensitivity of different observables of these decays in the framework of an effective field theory that includes the most general interactions between SM fields up to dimension six, assuming massless neutrinos. Owing to the strong suppression of the SM isospin breaking amplitudes, we find that the different observables would allow to set constraints on scalar interactions that are stronger than those coming from other low-energy observables.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:33:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:58:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-12-11
[ [ "Garcés", "E. A.", "" ], [ "Villanueva", "M. Hernández", "" ], [ "Castro", "G. López", "" ], [ "Roig", "P.", "" ] ]
The rare $\tau^- \to \eta^{(\prime)} \pi^- \nu_\tau$ decays, which are suppressed by $G$-parity in the Standard Model (SM), can be sensitive to the effects of new interactions. We study the sensitivity of different observables of these decays in the framework of an effective field theory that includes the most general interactions between SM fields up to dimension six, assuming massless neutrinos. Owing to the strong suppression of the SM isospin breaking amplitudes, we find that the different observables would allow to set constraints on scalar interactions that are stronger than those coming from other low-energy observables.
hep-ph/0210310
Artem V. Lipatov
A.V. Lipatov (Physical Department, Moscow State University), N.P. Zotov (SINP, Moscow State University)
Inelastic J/psi production at HERA in the colour singlet model with k_T-factorization
14 pages, 10 figures
Eur.Phys.J.C27:87-99,2003
10.1140/epjc/s2002-01106-2
null
hep-ph
null
In the framework of k_T-factorization QCD approach and the colour singlet model we consider J/\psi inelastic photo- and leptoproduction processes at HERA. We investigate the dependences of the single differential and double differential cross section on different forms of the unintegrated gluon distribution. The z and p_T dependences of the spin aligment parameter \alpha are presented also. Our theoretical predictions agree well with recent data taken by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA. It is shown that experimental study of the polarization J/\psi mesons at low Q^2 < 1 GeV^2 is an additional test of BFKL gluon dynamics.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:14:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:34:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-01-07
[ [ "Lipatov", "A. V.", "", "Physical Department, Moscow State University" ], [ "Zotov", "N. P.", "", "SINP, Moscow State University" ] ]
In the framework of k_T-factorization QCD approach and the colour singlet model we consider J/\psi inelastic photo- and leptoproduction processes at HERA. We investigate the dependences of the single differential and double differential cross section on different forms of the unintegrated gluon distribution. The z and p_T dependences of the spin aligment parameter \alpha are presented also. Our theoretical predictions agree well with recent data taken by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA. It is shown that experimental study of the polarization J/\psi mesons at low Q^2 < 1 GeV^2 is an additional test of BFKL gluon dynamics.
hep-ph/9906533
Yulik Khriplovich
I.B. Khriplovich
Electric dipole moments, present and future
9 pages, latex, no figures, plenary talk at PANIC99, Uppsala, June 1999
Nucl.Phys. A663 (2000) 147-154
10.1016/S0375-9474(99)00582-5
null
hep-ph nucl-th physics.acc-ph
null
Upper limits on the electric dipole moments (EDM) of elementary particles and atoms are presented, and their physical implications are discussed. The bounds following from the neutron and atomic experiments are comparable. In particular, they strongly constrain P odd, T even interactions. The nuclear EDMs can be studied at ion storage rings, with the expected sensitivity much better than $10^{-24} e$ cm. It would be a serious progress in the studies of the CP violation.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:57:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Khriplovich", "I. B.", "" ] ]
Upper limits on the electric dipole moments (EDM) of elementary particles and atoms are presented, and their physical implications are discussed. The bounds following from the neutron and atomic experiments are comparable. In particular, they strongly constrain P odd, T even interactions. The nuclear EDMs can be studied at ion storage rings, with the expected sensitivity much better than $10^{-24} e$ cm. It would be a serious progress in the studies of the CP violation.
1412.2938
Alexander Kurilin
Alexander V. Kurilin
Chargino production via Z-Boson Decay in a Strong Electromagnetic Field
7 pages, 2 figures
Chinese Physics Letters, 2016, Volume: 33, Issue: 03, Pages: 31301-1...31301-3
10.1088/0256-307X/33/3/031301
MTI 0412-2014
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the framework of MSSM the probability of $Z^0$-boson decay to charginos in a strong electromagnetic field, $Z^0\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-}$, is analyzed. The method of calculations employs exact solutions of relativistic wave equations for charginos in a crossed electromagnetic field. Analytic expression for the decay width $\Gamma(Z^{0}\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-})$ is obtained at an arbitrary value of the parameter $\varkappa=e m_Z^{-3}\sqrt{-(F_{\mu\nu}q^\nu)^2}$, which characterizes the external-field strength $F_{\mu\nu}$ and $Z^0$-boson momentum $q^{\nu}$. The process $Z^0\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-}$ is forbidden in vacuum for the case of relatively heavy charginos: $M_{\chi^{\pm}} > m_Z/2$. However in an intense electromagnetic background this reaction could take place in the region of superstrong fields ($\varkappa > 1$).
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Dec 2014 12:28:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:47:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-04-28
[ [ "Kurilin", "Alexander V.", "" ] ]
In the framework of MSSM the probability of $Z^0$-boson decay to charginos in a strong electromagnetic field, $Z^0\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-}$, is analyzed. The method of calculations employs exact solutions of relativistic wave equations for charginos in a crossed electromagnetic field. Analytic expression for the decay width $\Gamma(Z^{0}\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-})$ is obtained at an arbitrary value of the parameter $\varkappa=e m_Z^{-3}\sqrt{-(F_{\mu\nu}q^\nu)^2}$, which characterizes the external-field strength $F_{\mu\nu}$ and $Z^0$-boson momentum $q^{\nu}$. The process $Z^0\rightarrow \chi ^{+} \chi ^{-}$ is forbidden in vacuum for the case of relatively heavy charginos: $M_{\chi^{\pm}} > m_Z/2$. However in an intense electromagnetic background this reaction could take place in the region of superstrong fields ($\varkappa > 1$).
hep-ph/0610113
Alexandre Kisselev
A.V. Kisselev
RS model with a small curvature and gravity effects in e+e- annihilation into leptons at the LC
23 pages, 13 figures, Appendix and one reference are added
JHEP 0703:006,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/006
null
hep-ph hep-ex
null
The Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a small curvature is considered. The mass spectrum of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons in such a scheme is similar (although not equivalent) to that in a model with one extra dimension in a flat metric. The gravity effects in the processes $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-$ and $e^+e^- \to\mu^+\mu^-$ at the collision energy 1 TeV are presented. Our calculations are based on the previously obtained formula for virtual graviton contributions which takes into account both a discrete character of the mass spectrum and nonzero widths of the KK gravitons.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:57:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:28:50 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:57:29 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:45:16 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Kisselev", "A. V.", "" ] ]
The Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a small curvature is considered. The mass spectrum of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons in such a scheme is similar (although not equivalent) to that in a model with one extra dimension in a flat metric. The gravity effects in the processes $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-$ and $e^+e^- \to\mu^+\mu^-$ at the collision energy 1 TeV are presented. Our calculations are based on the previously obtained formula for virtual graviton contributions which takes into account both a discrete character of the mass spectrum and nonzero widths of the KK gravitons.
0901.0233
Wei-Min Yang
Wei-Min Yang and Hong-Huan Liu
The New Extended Left-Right Symmetric Grand Unified Model with SO(3) Family Symmetry
24 pages, 4 figures; to revise the old manuscript and add some new contents
Nucl.Phys.B820:364-384,2009
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2009.05.028
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We suggest a new left-right symmetric grand unified model by extending Pati-Salam group to contain an isospin SU(2) and a flavor SO(3) subgroup, where the superheavy fermions are introduced as a mirror to the low-energy standard model fermions. The model undergoes three steps to break to the SM by means of the specified Higgs multiplets. The model few parameters can elegantly accommodate whole mass spectra for all the particles at the electroweak scale, especially, two different flavor mixing for the quark and lepton sectors are reproduced in agreement with the current experimental data very well. The strong CP violation is excellently explained. The matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe is successfully implemented through the B-L violating decays of the superheavy gauge bosons. The model also predicts that the lightest right-handed Majorana neutrino, whose mass is about several hundred GeVs and energy is about $10^{16}$ GeV, is possibly a candidate for the dark matter.
[ { "created": "Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:42:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 17 Jan 2009 06:10:19 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:03:35 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-07-22
[ [ "Yang", "Wei-Min", "" ], [ "Liu", "Hong-Huan", "" ] ]
We suggest a new left-right symmetric grand unified model by extending Pati-Salam group to contain an isospin SU(2) and a flavor SO(3) subgroup, where the superheavy fermions are introduced as a mirror to the low-energy standard model fermions. The model undergoes three steps to break to the SM by means of the specified Higgs multiplets. The model few parameters can elegantly accommodate whole mass spectra for all the particles at the electroweak scale, especially, two different flavor mixing for the quark and lepton sectors are reproduced in agreement with the current experimental data very well. The strong CP violation is excellently explained. The matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe is successfully implemented through the B-L violating decays of the superheavy gauge bosons. The model also predicts that the lightest right-handed Majorana neutrino, whose mass is about several hundred GeVs and energy is about $10^{16}$ GeV, is possibly a candidate for the dark matter.
1902.11288
Yu Jia
Feng Feng, Yu Jia, Wen-Long Sang
Optimized predictions for $W \to B_c + \gamma$ by combining light-cone and NRQCD approaches
16 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The rare process of $W$ radiative decay into the $B_c$ meson can serve as an interesting play ground for testing two influential perturbative QCD approaches: non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) and ligh-cone (LC) factorization. Since the $B_c$ meson is a genuine heavy quarkonium which is composed of two different species of heavy quarks, it is natural to employ NRQCD factorization to tackle this exclusive quarkonium production process; on the other hand, since the mass of the $W$ boson is much greater than that of the $B_c$, the collinear factorization is also a viable approach. To fully disentangle the contributions from several distinct scales $M_W$, $m_Q$, $m_Q v$ ($v$ represents the typical velocity of the $c/\bar{b}$ quarks inside $B_c$), and $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$, we carry out a joint analysis that combines both light-cone and NRQCD factorization approaches, and compute the order-$\alpha_s$ correction to $W \to B_c+\gamma$. With the aid of the celebrated Efremov-Radyushkin-Brodsky-Lepage (ERBL) evolution equation, we resum the leading collinear logarithms $\alpha_s \ln\! {M_W\over m_Q}$ to all orders in $\alpha_s$. We also explore some phenomenological implications of our predictions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:47:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-03-01
[ [ "Feng", "Feng", "" ], [ "Jia", "Yu", "" ], [ "Sang", "Wen-Long", "" ] ]
The rare process of $W$ radiative decay into the $B_c$ meson can serve as an interesting play ground for testing two influential perturbative QCD approaches: non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD) and ligh-cone (LC) factorization. Since the $B_c$ meson is a genuine heavy quarkonium which is composed of two different species of heavy quarks, it is natural to employ NRQCD factorization to tackle this exclusive quarkonium production process; on the other hand, since the mass of the $W$ boson is much greater than that of the $B_c$, the collinear factorization is also a viable approach. To fully disentangle the contributions from several distinct scales $M_W$, $m_Q$, $m_Q v$ ($v$ represents the typical velocity of the $c/\bar{b}$ quarks inside $B_c$), and $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$, we carry out a joint analysis that combines both light-cone and NRQCD factorization approaches, and compute the order-$\alpha_s$ correction to $W \to B_c+\gamma$. With the aid of the celebrated Efremov-Radyushkin-Brodsky-Lepage (ERBL) evolution equation, we resum the leading collinear logarithms $\alpha_s \ln\! {M_W\over m_Q}$ to all orders in $\alpha_s$. We also explore some phenomenological implications of our predictions.
0709.4044
Frank J. Petriello
Achilleas Lazopoulos, Kirill Melnikov, Frank Petriello
NLO QCD corrections to the production of t-tbar-Z in gluon fusion
9 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:034021,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.034021
null
hep-ph hep-ex
null
We compute the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to the partonic process gg -> t-tbar-Z at the LHC. This partonic channel is the dominant component of the scattering process pp -> t-tbar-Z, which will be important for measuring the t-tbar-Z electroweak couplings. The O(alpha_s) corrections increase the total cross section by up to 75% for reasonable choices of the renormalization and factorization scales. Inclusion of these contributions descreases the residual scale dependence of the cross section coming from uncalculated higher order terms to +-5%.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:39:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lazopoulos", "Achilleas", "" ], [ "Melnikov", "Kirill", "" ], [ "Petriello", "Frank", "" ] ]
We compute the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to the partonic process gg -> t-tbar-Z at the LHC. This partonic channel is the dominant component of the scattering process pp -> t-tbar-Z, which will be important for measuring the t-tbar-Z electroweak couplings. The O(alpha_s) corrections increase the total cross section by up to 75% for reasonable choices of the renormalization and factorization scales. Inclusion of these contributions descreases the residual scale dependence of the cross section coming from uncalculated higher order terms to +-5%.
hep-ph/9712504
Vladimir Anisovich
V. V. Anisovich
The lightest scalar glueball
48 pages, LaTeX, 25 PostScript figures, epsfig.sty. Submitted to Russian Journal Uspekhi Fiz. Nauk (Phys-Uspekhi)
Phys.Usp.41:419-439,1998; Usp.Fiz.Nauk 168:481-502,1998
10.1070/PU1998v041n05ABEH000390
null
hep-ph
null
Recently performed investigations of meson spectra allow us to determine the resonance structure for the waves $IJ^{PC}=00^{++}$, $10^{++}$, $02^{++}$, $12^{++}$ = $IJ^P= 1/2 0^+$ in the mass region up to 1900 MeV, thus establishing the meson multiplets $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$. Experimental data demonstrate that there are five scalar/isoscalar states in this mass region. Four of them are $q\bar q$ states, that is, members of the $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$ nonets, while the fifth state is an extra one not accomodated by $q \bar q$ systematics; it has the properties of the lightest scalar glueball. Analysis of the $00^{++}$-wave performed within the framework of the dispersion relation technique allows us to reconstruct the mixing of a pure gluonium with neighbouring scalar $q \bar q$ states belonging to $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$ nonets: three scalar mesons share the gluonium state between each other -- those are two comparatively narrow resonances $f_0(1300)$ and $f_0(1500)$ and a broad resonance $f_0(1530^{+90}_{-250})$. The broad state is a descendant of the gluonium, keeping about 40-50% of its component.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:06:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Anisovich", "V. V.", "" ] ]
Recently performed investigations of meson spectra allow us to determine the resonance structure for the waves $IJ^{PC}=00^{++}$, $10^{++}$, $02^{++}$, $12^{++}$ = $IJ^P= 1/2 0^+$ in the mass region up to 1900 MeV, thus establishing the meson multiplets $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$. Experimental data demonstrate that there are five scalar/isoscalar states in this mass region. Four of them are $q\bar q$ states, that is, members of the $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$ nonets, while the fifth state is an extra one not accomodated by $q \bar q$ systematics; it has the properties of the lightest scalar glueball. Analysis of the $00^{++}$-wave performed within the framework of the dispersion relation technique allows us to reconstruct the mixing of a pure gluonium with neighbouring scalar $q \bar q$ states belonging to $1^3P_0q\bar q$ and $2^3P_0q\bar q$ nonets: three scalar mesons share the gluonium state between each other -- those are two comparatively narrow resonances $f_0(1300)$ and $f_0(1500)$ and a broad resonance $f_0(1530^{+90}_{-250})$. The broad state is a descendant of the gluonium, keeping about 40-50% of its component.
hep-ph/9307315
null
Howard D. Trottier
$\Upsilon$ decay into charmonium and the color octet mechanism
13 Pages (regular LaTeX document). Includes three postscript figures
Phys.Lett. B320 (1994) 145-151
10.1016/0370-2693(94)90838-9
SFU HEP-104-93
hep-ph
null
A factorization theorem for $P$-wave quarkonium production, recently derived by Bodwin, Braaten, Yuan and Lepage, is applied to $\Upsilon \to \chi_{cJ} + X$, where $\chi_{cJ}$ labels the ${}^3 P_J$ charmonium states. The widths for $\chi_{cJ}$ production through color-singlet $P$-wave and color-octet $S$-wave $c \bar c$ subprocesses are computed each to leading order in $\alpha_s$. Experimental data on $\Upsilon \to J / \psi + X$ is used to obtain an upper bound on a nonperturbative parameter (related to the probability for color-octet $S$-wave $c \bar c$ hadronization into $P$-wave charmonium) that enters into the factorization theorem. The bound obtained here adds to the limited information so far available on the color-octet mechanism for $P$-wave quarkonium production.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Jul 1993 22:35:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Trottier", "Howard D.", "" ] ]
A factorization theorem for $P$-wave quarkonium production, recently derived by Bodwin, Braaten, Yuan and Lepage, is applied to $\Upsilon \to \chi_{cJ} + X$, where $\chi_{cJ}$ labels the ${}^3 P_J$ charmonium states. The widths for $\chi_{cJ}$ production through color-singlet $P$-wave and color-octet $S$-wave $c \bar c$ subprocesses are computed each to leading order in $\alpha_s$. Experimental data on $\Upsilon \to J / \psi + X$ is used to obtain an upper bound on a nonperturbative parameter (related to the probability for color-octet $S$-wave $c \bar c$ hadronization into $P$-wave charmonium) that enters into the factorization theorem. The bound obtained here adds to the limited information so far available on the color-octet mechanism for $P$-wave quarkonium production.
1511.07604
Shi Pi
Jinn-Ouk Gong, Chengcheng Han, and Shi Pi
Trail of the Higgs in the primordial spectrum
17 pages, 2 figues
null
null
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the effects of the Higgs directly coupled to the inflaton on the primordial power spectrum. The quadratic coupling between the Higgs and the inflaton stabilizes the Higgs in the electroweak vacuum during inflation by inducing a large effective mass for the Higgs, which also leads to oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum due to the oscillating classical background. Meanwhile, the features from quantum fluctuations exhibit simple monotonic k-dependence and are subleading compared to the classical contributions. We also comment on the collider searches.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:08:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-12-04
[ [ "Gong", "Jinn-Ouk", "" ], [ "Han", "Chengcheng", "" ], [ "Pi", "Shi", "" ] ]
We study the effects of the Higgs directly coupled to the inflaton on the primordial power spectrum. The quadratic coupling between the Higgs and the inflaton stabilizes the Higgs in the electroweak vacuum during inflation by inducing a large effective mass for the Higgs, which also leads to oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum due to the oscillating classical background. Meanwhile, the features from quantum fluctuations exhibit simple monotonic k-dependence and are subleading compared to the classical contributions. We also comment on the collider searches.
2107.00016
Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez
Andrew Cheek, Lucien Heurtier, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Jessica Turner
Primordial Black Hole Evaporation and Dark Matter Production: II. Interplay with the Freeze-In/Out Mechanism
21 pages, 13 figures, code available at https://github.com/earlyuniverse/ulysses Added clarifying comments. Matches published version
Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) 015023
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.015023
FERMILAB-PUB-21-305-T, NUHEP-TH/21-07, CP3-21-42, IPPP/21/01
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study how the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) can affect the production of dark matter (DM) particles through thermal processes. We consider fermionic DM interacting with Standard Model particles via a spin-1 mediator in the context of a Freeze-Out or Freeze-In mechanism. We show that when PBHs evaporate after dominating the Universe's energy density, PBHs act as a source of DM and continuously inject entropy into the visible sector that can affect the thermal production in three qualitatively different ways. We compute the annihilation cross-sections which account for the interactions between and within the PBH produced and thermally produced DM populations, and establish a set of Boltzmann equations which we solve to obtain the correct relic abundance in those different regimes and confront the results with a set of different cosmological constraints. We provide analytic formulae to calculate the relic abundance for the Freeze-Out and Freeze-In mechanism in a PBH dominated early Universe. We identify regions of the parameter space where the PBHs dilute the relic density and thermalization occurs. Furthermore, we have made our code that numerically solves the Boltzmann equations publicly available.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 29 Jan 2022 14:12:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-02-01
[ [ "Cheek", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Heurtier", "Lucien", "" ], [ "Perez-Gonzalez", "Yuber F.", "" ], [ "Turner", "Jessica", "" ] ]
We study how the evaporation of primordial black holes (PBHs) can affect the production of dark matter (DM) particles through thermal processes. We consider fermionic DM interacting with Standard Model particles via a spin-1 mediator in the context of a Freeze-Out or Freeze-In mechanism. We show that when PBHs evaporate after dominating the Universe's energy density, PBHs act as a source of DM and continuously inject entropy into the visible sector that can affect the thermal production in three qualitatively different ways. We compute the annihilation cross-sections which account for the interactions between and within the PBH produced and thermally produced DM populations, and establish a set of Boltzmann equations which we solve to obtain the correct relic abundance in those different regimes and confront the results with a set of different cosmological constraints. We provide analytic formulae to calculate the relic abundance for the Freeze-Out and Freeze-In mechanism in a PBH dominated early Universe. We identify regions of the parameter space where the PBHs dilute the relic density and thermalization occurs. Furthermore, we have made our code that numerically solves the Boltzmann equations publicly available.
hep-ph/0601155
Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi
Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi
Secondary particles spectra in the decay of a polarized top quark with anomalous $tWb$ coupling
9 pages, 5 figures
J.Phys.G34:39-46,2007
10.1088/0954-3899/34/1/003
null
hep-ph
null
Analytic expression for energy and angular dependence of a secondary charged lepton in the decay of a polarized top quark with anomalous $tWb$ couplings in the presence of all anomalous couplings are derived. The angular distribution of the b-quark is derived as well. It is presented that the charged lepton spin correlation coefficient is not very sensitive to the anomalous couplings. However, the b-quark spin correlation coefficient is sensitive to anomalous couplings and could be used as a powerful tool for searching of non-SM coupling.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:23:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:41:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:36:53 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Najafabadi", "Mojtaba Mohammadi", "" ] ]
Analytic expression for energy and angular dependence of a secondary charged lepton in the decay of a polarized top quark with anomalous $tWb$ couplings in the presence of all anomalous couplings are derived. The angular distribution of the b-quark is derived as well. It is presented that the charged lepton spin correlation coefficient is not very sensitive to the anomalous couplings. However, the b-quark spin correlation coefficient is sensitive to anomalous couplings and could be used as a powerful tool for searching of non-SM coupling.
2401.01639
Pritam Das
Debasish Borah, Pritam Das, Satyabrata Mahapatra, Narendra Sahu
Light thermal dark matter via type-I seesaw portal
39 pages, 18 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a minimal scenario for light thermal dark matter (DM) in sub-GeV to GeV ballpark by incorporating a scalar singlet DM in a type-I seesaw scenario extended by an additional Higgs doublet $\phi_2$. The latter permits efficient annihilation of light scalar DM into leptonic final states including right-handed neutrinos (RHN). While DM annihilation into charged lepton final states is kept either suppressed or in a kinematically forbidden ballpark to avoid cosmic microwave background (CMB) bounds, the RHN, active neutrino final states remain safe from such bounds even if they are allowed kinematically. We discuss the interplay of forbidden and non-forbidden channels in generating light thermal DM relic while incorporating constraints from cosmology as well as laboratory experiments. The model can also explain the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, W-mass anomaly and saturate experimental bounds on charged lepton flavour violation and DM direct detection while offering tantalising detection prospects of the lightest RHN, the mass of which is kept in the same ballpark as DM.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Jan 2024 09:29:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-01-04
[ [ "Borah", "Debasish", "" ], [ "Das", "Pritam", "" ], [ "Mahapatra", "Satyabrata", "" ], [ "Sahu", "Narendra", "" ] ]
We propose a minimal scenario for light thermal dark matter (DM) in sub-GeV to GeV ballpark by incorporating a scalar singlet DM in a type-I seesaw scenario extended by an additional Higgs doublet $\phi_2$. The latter permits efficient annihilation of light scalar DM into leptonic final states including right-handed neutrinos (RHN). While DM annihilation into charged lepton final states is kept either suppressed or in a kinematically forbidden ballpark to avoid cosmic microwave background (CMB) bounds, the RHN, active neutrino final states remain safe from such bounds even if they are allowed kinematically. We discuss the interplay of forbidden and non-forbidden channels in generating light thermal DM relic while incorporating constraints from cosmology as well as laboratory experiments. The model can also explain the anomalous magnetic moment of muon, W-mass anomaly and saturate experimental bounds on charged lepton flavour violation and DM direct detection while offering tantalising detection prospects of the lightest RHN, the mass of which is kept in the same ballpark as DM.
1207.3343
Howard Baer
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger, Peisi Huang, Azar Mustafayev and Xerxes Tata
Radiative natural SUSY with a 125 GeV Higgs boson
5 pages including 3 figures; minor typos/references added for version 2
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.161802
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has been argued that requiring low electroweak fine-tuning (EWFT) along with a (partial) decoupling solution to the SUSY flavor and CP problems leads to a sparticle mass spectra characterized by light Higgsinos at 100-300 GeV, sub-TeV third generation scalars, gluinos at a few TeV and multi-TeV first/second generation scalars (natural SUSY). We show that by starting with multi-TeV first/second and third generation scalars and trilinear soft breaking terms, the natural SUSY spectrum can be generated radiatively via renormalization group running effects. Using the complete 1-loop effective potential to calculate EWFT, significantly heavier third generation squarks can be allowed even with low EWFT. The large negative trilinear term and heavier top squarks allow for a light Higgs scalar in the ~125 GeV regime.
[ { "created": "Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:56:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:47:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Baer", "Howard", "" ], [ "Barger", "Vernon", "" ], [ "Huang", "Peisi", "" ], [ "Mustafayev", "Azar", "" ], [ "Tata", "Xerxes", "" ] ]
It has been argued that requiring low electroweak fine-tuning (EWFT) along with a (partial) decoupling solution to the SUSY flavor and CP problems leads to a sparticle mass spectra characterized by light Higgsinos at 100-300 GeV, sub-TeV third generation scalars, gluinos at a few TeV and multi-TeV first/second generation scalars (natural SUSY). We show that by starting with multi-TeV first/second and third generation scalars and trilinear soft breaking terms, the natural SUSY spectrum can be generated radiatively via renormalization group running effects. Using the complete 1-loop effective potential to calculate EWFT, significantly heavier third generation squarks can be allowed even with low EWFT. The large negative trilinear term and heavier top squarks allow for a light Higgs scalar in the ~125 GeV regime.
1601.02934
Marco Chianese Mr
Marco Chianese, Gennaro Miele, Stefano Morisi, Edoardo Vitagliano
Low energy IceCube data and a possible Dark Matter related excess
6 pages, 4 figures. References added and clumpiness factor included in case of dark matter annihilation
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.03.084
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this Letter we focus our attention on the IceCube events in the energy range between 60 and 100 TeV, which show an order 2-sigma excess with respect to a power-law with spectral index 2. We analyze the possible origin of such an excess by comparing the distribution of the arrival directions of IceCube events with the angular distributions of simply distributed astrophysical galactic/extragalactic sources, as well as with the expected flux coming from DM interactions (decay and annihilation) for different DM profiles. The statistical analysis performed seems to disfavor the correlation with the galactic plane, whereas rules out the DM annihilation scenario only in case of small clumpiness effect. The small statistics till now collected does not allow to scrutinize the cases of astrophysical isotropic distribution and DM decay scenarios. For this reason we perform a forecast analysis in order to stress the role of future Neutrino Telescopes.
[ { "created": "Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:10:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:07:46 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 23 Mar 2016 16:22:11 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-05-04
[ [ "Chianese", "Marco", "" ], [ "Miele", "Gennaro", "" ], [ "Morisi", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Vitagliano", "Edoardo", "" ] ]
In this Letter we focus our attention on the IceCube events in the energy range between 60 and 100 TeV, which show an order 2-sigma excess with respect to a power-law with spectral index 2. We analyze the possible origin of such an excess by comparing the distribution of the arrival directions of IceCube events with the angular distributions of simply distributed astrophysical galactic/extragalactic sources, as well as with the expected flux coming from DM interactions (decay and annihilation) for different DM profiles. The statistical analysis performed seems to disfavor the correlation with the galactic plane, whereas rules out the DM annihilation scenario only in case of small clumpiness effect. The small statistics till now collected does not allow to scrutinize the cases of astrophysical isotropic distribution and DM decay scenarios. For this reason we perform a forecast analysis in order to stress the role of future Neutrino Telescopes.
1708.08912
Michael E. Peskin
Tim Barklow, Keisuke Fujii, Sunghoon Jung, Robert Karl, Jenny List, Tomohisa Ogawa, Michael E. Peskin, and Junping Tian
Improved Formalism for Precision Higgs Coupling Fits
34 pages, 4 figures; v4: clarifications and new references added; v5, additional references added
Phys. Rev. D 97, 053003 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.053003
DESY 17-120 / KEK preprint 2017-22 / SLAC-PUB-17129
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Future e+e- colliders give the promise of model-independent determinations of the couplings of the Higgs boson. In this paper, we present an improved formalism for extracting Higgs boson couplings from e+e- data, based on the Effective Field Theory description of corrections to the Standard Model. We apply this formalism to give projections of Higgs coupling accuracies for stages of the International Linear Collider and for other proposed e+e- colliders.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:58:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:41:48 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Sep 2017 21:09:16 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 8 Feb 2018 01:21:42 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Feb 2018 02:23:13 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2018-03-28
[ [ "Barklow", "Tim", "" ], [ "Fujii", "Keisuke", "" ], [ "Jung", "Sunghoon", "" ], [ "Karl", "Robert", "" ], [ "List", "Jenny", "" ], [ "Ogawa", "Tomohisa", "" ], [ "Peskin", "Michael E.", "" ], [ "Tian", "Junping", "" ] ]
Future e+e- colliders give the promise of model-independent determinations of the couplings of the Higgs boson. In this paper, we present an improved formalism for extracting Higgs boson couplings from e+e- data, based on the Effective Field Theory description of corrections to the Standard Model. We apply this formalism to give projections of Higgs coupling accuracies for stages of the International Linear Collider and for other proposed e+e- colliders.
0906.3745
Tao Liu
Vernon Barger, Lisa L. Everett, Jing Jiang, Paul Langacker, Tao Liu and Carlos E.M. Wagner
$b \to s$ Transitions in Family-dependent $U(1)^\prime$ Models
36 pages, 11 figures
JHEP 0912:048,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/048
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze flavor-changing-neutral-current (FCNC) effects in the $b\to s$ transitions that are induced by family non-universal $U(1)'$ gauge symmetries. After systematically developing the necessary formalism, we present a correlated analysis for the $\Delta B =1, 2$ processes. We adopt a model-independent approach in which we only require family-universal charges for the first and second generations and small fermion mixing angles. We analyze the constraints on the resulting parameter space from $B_s - \bar B_s$ mixing and the time-dependent CP asymmetries of the penguin-dominated $B_d \to (\pi, \phi, \eta', \rho, \omega, f_0)K_S$ decays. Our results indicate that the currently observed discrepancies in some of these modes with respect to the Standard Model predictions can be consistently accommodated within this general class of models.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:57:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-01-06
[ [ "Barger", "Vernon", "" ], [ "Everett", "Lisa L.", "" ], [ "Jiang", "Jing", "" ], [ "Langacker", "Paul", "" ], [ "Liu", "Tao", "" ], [ "Wagner", "Carlos E. M.", "" ] ]
We analyze flavor-changing-neutral-current (FCNC) effects in the $b\to s$ transitions that are induced by family non-universal $U(1)'$ gauge symmetries. After systematically developing the necessary formalism, we present a correlated analysis for the $\Delta B =1, 2$ processes. We adopt a model-independent approach in which we only require family-universal charges for the first and second generations and small fermion mixing angles. We analyze the constraints on the resulting parameter space from $B_s - \bar B_s$ mixing and the time-dependent CP asymmetries of the penguin-dominated $B_d \to (\pi, \phi, \eta', \rho, \omega, f_0)K_S$ decays. Our results indicate that the currently observed discrepancies in some of these modes with respect to the Standard Model predictions can be consistently accommodated within this general class of models.
1512.05544
Patrick Janot
Patrick Janot
Direct measurement of alpha_QED(mZ) at the FCC-ee
Version 4: Corrigendum added (2 pages). Accepted for publication in JHEP
JHEP 1602 (2016) 053
10.1007/JHEP02(2016)053
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
When the measurements from the FCC-ee become available, an improved determination of the standard-model "input" parameters will be needed to fully exploit the new precision data towards either constraining or fitting the parameters of beyond-the-standard-model theories. Among these input parameters is the electromagnetic coupling constant estimated at the Z mass scale, alpha_QED(mZ). The measurement of the muon forward-backward asymmetry at the FCC-ee, just below and just above the Z pole, can be used to make a direct determination of alpha_QED(mZ) with an accuracy deemed adequate for an optimal use of the FCC-ee precision data.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:49:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:13:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:55:18 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:02:24 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2017-11-22
[ [ "Janot", "Patrick", "" ] ]
When the measurements from the FCC-ee become available, an improved determination of the standard-model "input" parameters will be needed to fully exploit the new precision data towards either constraining or fitting the parameters of beyond-the-standard-model theories. Among these input parameters is the electromagnetic coupling constant estimated at the Z mass scale, alpha_QED(mZ). The measurement of the muon forward-backward asymmetry at the FCC-ee, just below and just above the Z pole, can be used to make a direct determination of alpha_QED(mZ) with an accuracy deemed adequate for an optimal use of the FCC-ee precision data.
1802.10509
Adith Ramamurti
Adith Ramamurti, Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed
Are there monopoles in the quark-gluon plasma?
8 pages, 1 figure
Phys. Rev. D 97, 114028 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.114028
null
hep-ph hep-th nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Monopole-like objects have been identified in multiple lattice studies, and there is now a significant amount of literature on their importance in phenomenology. Some analytic indications of their role, however, are still missing. The 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles, originally derived in the Georgi-Glashow model, are an important dynamical ingredient in theories with extended supersymmetry ${\cal N} = 2,\,4$, and help explain the issues related with electric-magnetic duality. There is no such solution in QCD-like theories without scalar fields. However, all of these theories have instantons and their finite-$T$ constituents known as instanton-dyons (or instanton-monopoles). The latter leads to semiclassical partition functions, which for ${\cal N} = 2,\,4$ theories were shown to be identical ("Poisson dual") to the partition function for monopoles. We show how, in a pure gauge theory, the semiclassical instanton-based partition function can also be Poisson-transformed into a partition function, interpreted as the one of moving and rotating monopoles.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:19:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-07-04
[ [ "Ramamurti", "Adith", "" ], [ "Shuryak", "Edward", "" ], [ "Zahed", "Ismail", "" ] ]
Monopole-like objects have been identified in multiple lattice studies, and there is now a significant amount of literature on their importance in phenomenology. Some analytic indications of their role, however, are still missing. The 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles, originally derived in the Georgi-Glashow model, are an important dynamical ingredient in theories with extended supersymmetry ${\cal N} = 2,\,4$, and help explain the issues related with electric-magnetic duality. There is no such solution in QCD-like theories without scalar fields. However, all of these theories have instantons and their finite-$T$ constituents known as instanton-dyons (or instanton-monopoles). The latter leads to semiclassical partition functions, which for ${\cal N} = 2,\,4$ theories were shown to be identical ("Poisson dual") to the partition function for monopoles. We show how, in a pure gauge theory, the semiclassical instanton-based partition function can also be Poisson-transformed into a partition function, interpreted as the one of moving and rotating monopoles.
1808.03102
Pok Man Lo
Anton Andronic, Peter Braun-Munzinger, Bengt Friman, Pok Man Lo, Krzysztof Redlich, Johanna Stachel
The thermal proton yield anomaly in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC and its resolution
7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PLB
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.052
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a resolution of the discrepancy between the proton yield predicted by the statistical hadronization approach and data on hadron production in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions at the LHC. Applying the S-matrix formulation of statistical mechanics to include pion-nucleon interactions, we reexamine their contribution to the proton yield, taking resonance widths and the presence of nonresonant correlations into account. The effect of multi-pion-nucleon interactions is estimated using lattice QCD results on the baryon-charge susceptibility. We show that a consistent implementation of these features in the statistical hadronization model, leads to a reduction of the predicted proton yield, which then quantitatively matches data of the ALICE collaboration for Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Aug 2018 11:49:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:32:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-04-03
[ [ "Andronic", "Anton", "" ], [ "Braun-Munzinger", "Peter", "" ], [ "Friman", "Bengt", "" ], [ "Lo", "Pok Man", "" ], [ "Redlich", "Krzysztof", "" ], [ "Stachel", "Johanna", "" ] ]
We propose a resolution of the discrepancy between the proton yield predicted by the statistical hadronization approach and data on hadron production in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions at the LHC. Applying the S-matrix formulation of statistical mechanics to include pion-nucleon interactions, we reexamine their contribution to the proton yield, taking resonance widths and the presence of nonresonant correlations into account. The effect of multi-pion-nucleon interactions is estimated using lattice QCD results on the baryon-charge susceptibility. We show that a consistent implementation of these features in the statistical hadronization model, leads to a reduction of the predicted proton yield, which then quantitatively matches data of the ALICE collaboration for Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.
hep-ph/9710422
Borut Bajc
B. Bajc, S. Fajfer, R.J. Oakes and T.N. Pham
Resonant and nonresonant D+ -> K- pi+ l+ nu(l) semileptonic decays
17 pages, 3 Postscript figures, standard Latex, extended revision, title, abstract and text (especially Sec. IV) changed, results unchanged
Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 054009
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.054009
IJS-TP-97/14, DTP/97/88, NUHEP-TH-97-15, CPT-S565.1097
hep-ph
null
We analyse the semileptonic decay D+ -> K- pi+ l+ nu(l) using an effective Lagrangian developed previously to describe the decays D -> P l nu(l) and D -> V l nu(l). Light vector mesons are included in the model which combines the heavy quark effective Lagrangian and chiral perturbation theory approach. The nonresonant and resonant contributions are compared. With no new parameters the model correctly reproduces the measured ratio Gamma(nres)/Gamma(nres + res). We also present useful nonresonant decay distributions. Finally, a similar model, but with a modified current which satisfies the soft pion theorems at the expense of introducing another parameter, is analyzed and the results of the models are compared.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Oct 1997 09:24:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:10:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Bajc", "B.", "" ], [ "Fajfer", "S.", "" ], [ "Oakes", "R. J.", "" ], [ "Pham", "T. N.", "" ] ]
We analyse the semileptonic decay D+ -> K- pi+ l+ nu(l) using an effective Lagrangian developed previously to describe the decays D -> P l nu(l) and D -> V l nu(l). Light vector mesons are included in the model which combines the heavy quark effective Lagrangian and chiral perturbation theory approach. The nonresonant and resonant contributions are compared. With no new parameters the model correctly reproduces the measured ratio Gamma(nres)/Gamma(nres + res). We also present useful nonresonant decay distributions. Finally, a similar model, but with a modified current which satisfies the soft pion theorems at the expense of introducing another parameter, is analyzed and the results of the models are compared.
1410.6107
Alma D. Rojas
Alma D. Rojas
Non-diagonal charged lepton mass matrix, the TBM and non-zero $\theta_{13}$
6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2014), 2-9 July 2014, Valencia, Spain
null
null
IFIC/14-71
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Assuming that the neutrino mass matrix is diagonalized by the TBM, we looked for the charged lepton mass matrix textures which render a lepton mixing matrix consistent with data. We were interested in the textures with the maximum number of zeros, so, we explored the cases of real matrices with three (and also four zeros) and found which of them provide solutions in agreement with data. We present the successful Yukawa textures and obtained the relative sizes of their non-zero entries. We found some interesting relations among the entries of these textures in terms of the charged lepton masses.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:59:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-10-23
[ [ "Rojas", "Alma D.", "" ] ]
Assuming that the neutrino mass matrix is diagonalized by the TBM, we looked for the charged lepton mass matrix textures which render a lepton mixing matrix consistent with data. We were interested in the textures with the maximum number of zeros, so, we explored the cases of real matrices with three (and also four zeros) and found which of them provide solutions in agreement with data. We present the successful Yukawa textures and obtained the relative sizes of their non-zero entries. We found some interesting relations among the entries of these textures in terms of the charged lepton masses.
1202.5444
Mustafa Savci
T. M. Aliev, M. Savci (Physics Department, Middle East Technical University-Ankara-Turkey)
Lepton polarization effects in "Lambda_b -> Lambda l+l-" decay in family non-universal Z' model
15 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX formatted
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.013
metu-phys-hep-010-14
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Possible manifestation of the family non-universal Z' boson effects in lepton polarization in rare, exclusive baryonic "Lambda_b -> Lambda l+l-" decay is examined. It is observed that the double lepton polarizations P_TT and P_NN are sensitive to the Z' contribution. Moreover, it is found that the zero position of the polarized forward-backward asymmetry A_FB^LL is shifted to the left compared to the standard model prediction. Therefore, determination of the zero value of A_FB^LL is quite an efficient tool for establishing new Z' boson, but also in discriminating various scenarios of the considered family non-universal Z' model.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:18:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-04
[ [ "Aliev", "T. M.", "", "Physics Department, Middle East Technical\n University-Ankara-Turkey" ], [ "Savci", "M.", "", "Physics Department, Middle East Technical\n University-Ankara-Turkey" ] ]
Possible manifestation of the family non-universal Z' boson effects in lepton polarization in rare, exclusive baryonic "Lambda_b -> Lambda l+l-" decay is examined. It is observed that the double lepton polarizations P_TT and P_NN are sensitive to the Z' contribution. Moreover, it is found that the zero position of the polarized forward-backward asymmetry A_FB^LL is shifted to the left compared to the standard model prediction. Therefore, determination of the zero value of A_FB^LL is quite an efficient tool for establishing new Z' boson, but also in discriminating various scenarios of the considered family non-universal Z' model.
1901.08844
M.I. Vyazovsky
M.A. Braun and M.I. Vyazovsky (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia)
Gluon emission at small longitudinal momenta in the QCD effective action approach
20 pages, 13 figures; to be published in Eur.Phys.Jour. C
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6897-y
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the framework of the QCD effective action the vertices of gluon emission in interaction of reggeons are studied in the limit of small longitudinal momenta of the emitted gluon. It is found that the vertices drastically simplify in this limit so that the gluon becomes emitted from a single reggeon coupled to the projectile and target via multireggeon vertices. Contribution from this kinematical region is studied for double and 2x2 elementary collisions inside the composite projectile and target.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:54:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 10 Mar 2019 21:21:35 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 5 May 2019 08:05:32 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-05-22
[ [ "Braun", "M. A.", "", "Saint-Petersburg State University,\n Russia" ], [ "Vyazovsky", "M. I.", "", "Saint-Petersburg State University,\n Russia" ] ]
In the framework of the QCD effective action the vertices of gluon emission in interaction of reggeons are studied in the limit of small longitudinal momenta of the emitted gluon. It is found that the vertices drastically simplify in this limit so that the gluon becomes emitted from a single reggeon coupled to the projectile and target via multireggeon vertices. Contribution from this kinematical region is studied for double and 2x2 elementary collisions inside the composite projectile and target.
hep-ph/9610527
Nils A. Tornqvist
Nils A. Tornqvist and Matts Roos (University of Helsinki)
Reply to the Comment by Harada, Sannino and Schechter on "Confirmation of the Sigma Meson"
2 pages, RevTeX, No Figures
Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2333
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2333
null
hep-ph
null
We reply to the comment of Harada, Sannino and Schechter (hep-ph/9609428) on our recent paper in the Phys. Rev. Letters on the sigma meson. This concerns the question, raised by Isgur and Speth in another comment, of whether a detailed crossing symmetric form is necessary to understand the data. The discussion gives further support on the existence of the broad sigma near 500 MeV.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 16:01:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Tornqvist", "Nils A.", "", "University of Helsinki" ], [ "Roos", "Matts", "", "University of Helsinki" ] ]
We reply to the comment of Harada, Sannino and Schechter (hep-ph/9609428) on our recent paper in the Phys. Rev. Letters on the sigma meson. This concerns the question, raised by Isgur and Speth in another comment, of whether a detailed crossing symmetric form is necessary to understand the data. The discussion gives further support on the existence of the broad sigma near 500 MeV.
1607.04235
Michal Praszalowicz
Michal Praszalowicz
Saturation and geometrical scaling in small systems
6 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at Excited QCD, Costa da Caparica, Portugal, March 6-12, 2016
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Saturation and geometrical scaling (GS) of gluon distributions are a consequence of the non-linear evolution equations of QCD. We argue that in pp GS holds for the inelastic cross-section rather than for the multiplicity distributions. We also discuss possible fluctuations of the proton saturation scale in pA collisions at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:28:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-07-15
[ [ "Praszalowicz", "Michal", "" ] ]
Saturation and geometrical scaling (GS) of gluon distributions are a consequence of the non-linear evolution equations of QCD. We argue that in pp GS holds for the inelastic cross-section rather than for the multiplicity distributions. We also discuss possible fluctuations of the proton saturation scale in pA collisions at the LHC.
0712.2442
Marc Schumann
M. Schumann, M. Kreuz, M. Deissenroth, F. Glueck, J. Krempel, B. Maerkisch, D. Mund, A. Petoukhov, T. Soldner, H. Abele
Measurement of the Proton Asymmetry Parameter C in Neutron Beta Decay
4 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Rev.Lett.100:151801,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.151801
null
hep-ph
null
The proton asymmetry parameter C in neutron decay describes the correlation between neutron spin and proton momentum. In this Letter, the first measurement of this quantity is presented. The result C=-0.2377(26) agrees with the Standard Model expectation. The coefficient C provides an additional parameter for new and improved Standard Model tests. From a differential analysis of the same data (assuming the Standard Model), we obtain lambda=-1.275(16) as ratio of axial-vector and vector coupling constant.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:13:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Schumann", "M.", "" ], [ "Kreuz", "M.", "" ], [ "Deissenroth", "M.", "" ], [ "Glueck", "F.", "" ], [ "Krempel", "J.", "" ], [ "Maerkisch", "B.", "" ], [ "Mund", "D.", "" ], [ "Petoukhov", "A.", "" ], [ "Soldner", "T.", "" ], [ "Abele", "H.", "" ] ]
The proton asymmetry parameter C in neutron decay describes the correlation between neutron spin and proton momentum. In this Letter, the first measurement of this quantity is presented. The result C=-0.2377(26) agrees with the Standard Model expectation. The coefficient C provides an additional parameter for new and improved Standard Model tests. From a differential analysis of the same data (assuming the Standard Model), we obtain lambda=-1.275(16) as ratio of axial-vector and vector coupling constant.
hep-ph/0611342
Alex Bernardini
Alex E. Bernardini
The construction of Dirac wave packets for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field
10 pages
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 46 (2007) 1562-1569
10.1007/s10773-006-9292-z
null
hep-ph
null
We shall proceed with the construction of normalizable Dirac wave packets for {\em fermionic} particles (neutrinos) with dynamics governed by a ``modified'' Dirac equation with a non-minimal coupling with an external magnetic field. We are not only interested on the analytic solutions of the ``modified'' Dirac wave equation but also on the construction of Dirac wave packets which can be used for describing the dynamics of some observable physical quantities which are relevant in the context of the quantum oscillation phenomena. To conclude, we discuss qualitatively the applicability of this formal construction in the treatment of chiral (and flavor) oscillations in the theoretical context of neutrino physics.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:55:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Bernardini", "Alex E.", "" ] ]
We shall proceed with the construction of normalizable Dirac wave packets for {\em fermionic} particles (neutrinos) with dynamics governed by a ``modified'' Dirac equation with a non-minimal coupling with an external magnetic field. We are not only interested on the analytic solutions of the ``modified'' Dirac wave equation but also on the construction of Dirac wave packets which can be used for describing the dynamics of some observable physical quantities which are relevant in the context of the quantum oscillation phenomena. To conclude, we discuss qualitatively the applicability of this formal construction in the treatment of chiral (and flavor) oscillations in the theoretical context of neutrino physics.
hep-ph/0503080
C. Pallis
C. Pallis
Quintessential Kination and Cold Dark Matter Abundance
Published version
JCAP 0510:015,2005
10.1088/1475-7516/2005/10/015
null
hep-ph astro-ph
null
The generation of a kination-dominated phase by a quintessential exponential model is investigated and the parameters of the model are restricted so that a number of observational constraints (originating from nucleosynthesis, the present acceleration of the universe and the dark-energy-density parameter) are satisfied. The decoupling of a thermal cold dark matter particle during the period of kination is analyzed, the relic density is calculated both numerically and semi-analytically and the results are compared with each other. It is argued that the enhancement, with respect to the standard paradigm, of the cold dark matter abundance can be expressed as a function of the quintessential density parameter at the onset of nucleosynthesis. We find that values of the latter quantity close to its upper bound require the thermal-averaged cross section times the velocity of the cold relic to be almost three orders of magnitude larger than this needed in the standard scenario so as compatibility with the cold dark matter constraint is achieved.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:36:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:03:53 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:44:33 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-07-19
[ [ "Pallis", "C.", "" ] ]
The generation of a kination-dominated phase by a quintessential exponential model is investigated and the parameters of the model are restricted so that a number of observational constraints (originating from nucleosynthesis, the present acceleration of the universe and the dark-energy-density parameter) are satisfied. The decoupling of a thermal cold dark matter particle during the period of kination is analyzed, the relic density is calculated both numerically and semi-analytically and the results are compared with each other. It is argued that the enhancement, with respect to the standard paradigm, of the cold dark matter abundance can be expressed as a function of the quintessential density parameter at the onset of nucleosynthesis. We find that values of the latter quantity close to its upper bound require the thermal-averaged cross section times the velocity of the cold relic to be almost three orders of magnitude larger than this needed in the standard scenario so as compatibility with the cold dark matter constraint is achieved.
hep-ph/0107305
null
Yasuhiro Daikoku
Muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment in the $\mu$-problem solvable extra U(1) models
22 pages, latex, 14 figures
null
null
KANAZAWA-01-08
hep-ph
null
The recent measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment shows 2.6$\sigma$ deviation of $a_\mu$ from the standard model prediction which can be explained by a chargino-sneutrino loop correction in the supersymmetric models. In this paper we consider extra U(1) models where the $\mu$ parameter is radiatively generated. This model predicts the sign of $\mu$ is positive in wide parameter regions. But even the 2$\sigma$ constraint causes a serious contradiction to the experimental bound of the extra neutral gauge boson mass. Although a minimal supergravity scenario is ruled out, a very small window is remained as an allowed region for a no-scale model with non-universal gaugino masses.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:27:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Daikoku", "Yasuhiro", "" ] ]
The recent measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment shows 2.6$\sigma$ deviation of $a_\mu$ from the standard model prediction which can be explained by a chargino-sneutrino loop correction in the supersymmetric models. In this paper we consider extra U(1) models where the $\mu$ parameter is radiatively generated. This model predicts the sign of $\mu$ is positive in wide parameter regions. But even the 2$\sigma$ constraint causes a serious contradiction to the experimental bound of the extra neutral gauge boson mass. Although a minimal supergravity scenario is ruled out, a very small window is remained as an allowed region for a no-scale model with non-universal gaugino masses.
2402.15847
Jingwei Lian
Junjie Cao, Xinglong Jia, Jingwei Lian
Unified Interpretation of Muon g-2 anomaly, 95 GeV Diphoton, and $b\bar{b}$ Excesses in the General Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
38 pages, 7 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate three intriguing anomalies within the framework of the General Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. These anomalies include a significant deviation of the experimental results for the muon anomalous magnetic moment from its Standard Model prediction, with a confidence level of $5.1\sigma$; a joint observation by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations of a diphoton excess with a local significance of $3.1 \sigma$ in the invariant mass distribution around 95.4 GeV; and a reported excess in the $b\bar{b}$ production at LEP with a local significance of $2.3 \sigma$. Through analytical and numerical analyses, we provide unified interpretations across an extensive parameter space that remain consistent with current experimental restrictions from data on the Higgs boson at 125 GeV, B-physics measurements, dark matter observables, as well as existing searches for supersymmetry and extra Higgs bosons. We attribute the muon anomaly to loops involving muon-smuon-neutralino and muon-sneutrino-chargino interactions, while attributing the diphoton and $b \bar{b}$ excesses to the resonant production of a singlet-dominated scalar. These proposed solutions are poised for experimental tests at the high-luminosity LHC and future linear colliders.
[ { "created": "Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:30:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-02-27
[ [ "Cao", "Junjie", "" ], [ "Jia", "Xinglong", "" ], [ "Lian", "Jingwei", "" ] ]
We investigate three intriguing anomalies within the framework of the General Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. These anomalies include a significant deviation of the experimental results for the muon anomalous magnetic moment from its Standard Model prediction, with a confidence level of $5.1\sigma$; a joint observation by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations of a diphoton excess with a local significance of $3.1 \sigma$ in the invariant mass distribution around 95.4 GeV; and a reported excess in the $b\bar{b}$ production at LEP with a local significance of $2.3 \sigma$. Through analytical and numerical analyses, we provide unified interpretations across an extensive parameter space that remain consistent with current experimental restrictions from data on the Higgs boson at 125 GeV, B-physics measurements, dark matter observables, as well as existing searches for supersymmetry and extra Higgs bosons. We attribute the muon anomaly to loops involving muon-smuon-neutralino and muon-sneutrino-chargino interactions, while attributing the diphoton and $b \bar{b}$ excesses to the resonant production of a singlet-dominated scalar. These proposed solutions are poised for experimental tests at the high-luminosity LHC and future linear colliders.
hep-ph/0408324
Seung Woo Ham
S. W. Ham and S. K. Oh
Electroweak phase transition in the standard model with a dimension-six Higgs operator at one-loop level
12 pages, 1 table, 4 figures
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 093007
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.093007
null
hep-ph
null
The possibility of a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition by means of a dimension-six Higgs operator in the Higgs potential of the standard model is studied at finite temperature at the one-loop level. Exact calculation of the one-loop effective Higgs potential at finite temperature suggests that for the Higgs boson with its mass between 115 and 132 GeV the strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is possible if a dimension-six operator is present.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:08:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:54:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Ham", "S. W.", "" ], [ "Oh", "S. K.", "" ] ]
The possibility of a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition by means of a dimension-six Higgs operator in the Higgs potential of the standard model is studied at finite temperature at the one-loop level. Exact calculation of the one-loop effective Higgs potential at finite temperature suggests that for the Higgs boson with its mass between 115 and 132 GeV the strongly first-order electroweak phase transition is possible if a dimension-six operator is present.
1307.1349
Matteo Fael
Matteo Fael, Thomas Gehrmann
Probing top quark electromagnetic dipole moments in single-top-plus-photon production
11 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. v2: version published in PRD, references added and 1 figure updated
Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 033003
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.033003
ZU-TH 14/13, DFPD-13-TH-13, LPN13-040
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The production of a single top quark in association with an isolated photon probes the electromagnetic coupling structure of the top quark. We investigate the sensitivity of kinematical distributions at the LHC in single-top-plus-photon production in view of a detection of anomalous electric and magnetic dipole moments of the top quark.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Jul 2013 14:30:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:21:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-08-27
[ [ "Fael", "Matteo", "" ], [ "Gehrmann", "Thomas", "" ] ]
The production of a single top quark in association with an isolated photon probes the electromagnetic coupling structure of the top quark. We investigate the sensitivity of kinematical distributions at the LHC in single-top-plus-photon production in view of a detection of anomalous electric and magnetic dipole moments of the top quark.
1307.2280
Vitaliy D. Rusov
N.O. Chudak, K.K. Merkotan, D.A. Ptashynskyy, O.S. Potiyenko, M.A. Deliyergiyev, A.V. Tykhonov, G.O. Sokhrannyi, O.V. Zharova, O.D. Berezovs'kyi, V.V. Voitenko, Yu.V. Volkotrub, I.V. Sharph, V.D. Rusov
Internal States of Hadrons in Relativistic Reference Frames
14 pages (v2: minor corrections in the References; v3: list of authors fixed; v4: a number of text improvements; v5: a revised version of the paper; v6: paper was reconfigured, appendix added)
Ukr. J. Phys. 2016, Vol. 61, N 12, p.1033-1047
10.15407/ujpe61.12.1033
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The internal state of a composite particle and its transformation, when changing from the reference frame, where this composite particle is at rest, to a reference frame, where it moves relativistically, have been considered. It is supposed that the internal state of the composite particle in its rest frame can be considered in the non-relativistic approximation. This internal state is shown to remain the same, when changing from one inertial reference frame to another one. In other words, a particle that is spherically symmetric in its rest frame does not change its form in any other reference frame and does not undergo the Lorentz contraction in the direction of motion of any reference frame with respect to the rest one. A possible application of the results obtained to describe the scattering of hadrons considered as bound states of quarks has been discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:32:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:28:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:02:39 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:11:47 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:17:36 GMT", "version": "v5" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:28:13 GMT", "version": "v6" } ]
2017-03-22
[ [ "Chudak", "N. O.", "" ], [ "Merkotan", "K. K.", "" ], [ "Ptashynskyy", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Potiyenko", "O. S.", "" ], [ "Deliyergiyev", "M. A.", "" ], [ "Tykhonov", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Sokhrannyi", "G. O.", "" ], [ "Zharova", "O. V.", "" ], [ "Berezovs'kyi", "O. D.", "" ], [ "Voitenko", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Volkotrub", "Yu. V.", "" ], [ "Sharph", "I. V.", "" ], [ "Rusov", "V. D.", "" ] ]
The internal state of a composite particle and its transformation, when changing from the reference frame, where this composite particle is at rest, to a reference frame, where it moves relativistically, have been considered. It is supposed that the internal state of the composite particle in its rest frame can be considered in the non-relativistic approximation. This internal state is shown to remain the same, when changing from one inertial reference frame to another one. In other words, a particle that is spherically symmetric in its rest frame does not change its form in any other reference frame and does not undergo the Lorentz contraction in the direction of motion of any reference frame with respect to the rest one. A possible application of the results obtained to describe the scattering of hadrons considered as bound states of quarks has been discussed.
2007.15001
Nicholas Rodd Dr
Christian W. Bauer, Nicholas L. Rodd, Bryan R. Webber
Dark Matter Spectra from the Electroweak to the Planck Scale
8+24 pages, 3+12 figures, updated to published version. Spectra available at https://github.com/nickrodd/HDMSpectra
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2021)121
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the decay spectrum for dark matter (DM) with masses above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, all the way to the Planck scale. For an arbitrary hard process involving a decay to the unbroken standard model, we determine the prompt distribution of stable states including photons, neutrinos, positrons, and antiprotons. These spectra are a crucial ingredient in the search for DM via indirect detection at the highest energies as being probed in current and upcoming experiments including IceCube, HAWC, CTA, and LHAASO. Our approach improves considerably on existing methods. For example, we include all relevant electroweak interactions. The importance of these effects grow with DM mass, and by an EeV our spectra can differ by orders of magnitude from existing results.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:36:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-07-07
[ [ "Bauer", "Christian W.", "" ], [ "Rodd", "Nicholas L.", "" ], [ "Webber", "Bryan R.", "" ] ]
We compute the decay spectrum for dark matter (DM) with masses above the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking, all the way to the Planck scale. For an arbitrary hard process involving a decay to the unbroken standard model, we determine the prompt distribution of stable states including photons, neutrinos, positrons, and antiprotons. These spectra are a crucial ingredient in the search for DM via indirect detection at the highest energies as being probed in current and upcoming experiments including IceCube, HAWC, CTA, and LHAASO. Our approach improves considerably on existing methods. For example, we include all relevant electroweak interactions. The importance of these effects grow with DM mass, and by an EeV our spectra can differ by orders of magnitude from existing results.
1510.03392
Patrick Draper
Abdelhamid Albaid, Michael Dine, and Patrick Draper
Strong CP and SUZ$_2$
18 pp, v2: refs added
null
10.1007/JHEP12(2015)046
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Solutions to the strong CP problem typically introduce new scales associated with the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. Absent any anthropic argument for small $\bar\theta$, these scales require stabilization against ultraviolet corrections. Supersymmetry offers a tempting stabilization mechanism, since it can solve the "big" electroweak hierarchy problem at the same time. One family of solutions to strong CP, including generalized parity models, heavy axion models, and heavy $\eta^\prime$ models, introduces $\mathbb{Z}_2$ copies of (part of) the Standard Model and an associated scale of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-breaking. We review why, without additional structure such as supersymmetry, the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-breaking scale is unacceptably tuned. We then study "SUZ$_2$" models, supersymmetric theories with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ copies of the MSSM. We find that the addition of SUSY typically destroys the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ protection of $\bar\theta=0$, even at tree level, once SUSY and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ are broken. In theories like supersymmetric completions of the twin Higgs, where $\mathbb{Z}_2$ addresses the little hierarchy problem but not strong CP, two axions can be used to relax $\bar\theta$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:53:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 05:46:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-01-27
[ [ "Albaid", "Abdelhamid", "" ], [ "Dine", "Michael", "" ], [ "Draper", "Patrick", "" ] ]
Solutions to the strong CP problem typically introduce new scales associated with the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. Absent any anthropic argument for small $\bar\theta$, these scales require stabilization against ultraviolet corrections. Supersymmetry offers a tempting stabilization mechanism, since it can solve the "big" electroweak hierarchy problem at the same time. One family of solutions to strong CP, including generalized parity models, heavy axion models, and heavy $\eta^\prime$ models, introduces $\mathbb{Z}_2$ copies of (part of) the Standard Model and an associated scale of $\mathbb{Z}_2$-breaking. We review why, without additional structure such as supersymmetry, the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-breaking scale is unacceptably tuned. We then study "SUZ$_2$" models, supersymmetric theories with $\mathbb{Z}_2$ copies of the MSSM. We find that the addition of SUSY typically destroys the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ protection of $\bar\theta=0$, even at tree level, once SUSY and $\mathbb{Z}_2$ are broken. In theories like supersymmetric completions of the twin Higgs, where $\mathbb{Z}_2$ addresses the little hierarchy problem but not strong CP, two axions can be used to relax $\bar\theta$.
2302.10215
Peter Arnold
Peter Arnold, Omar Elgedawy, and Shahin Iqbal
The LPM effect in sequential bremsstrahlung: gluon shower development
[65 pages, 21 figures]
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We give details of our study of whether high-energy gluon showers inside a QCD medium can be treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes $g \to gg$, or whether there is significant quantum overlap between where one splitting ends and the next begins (neglecting effects that can be absorbed into an effective value of the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ that characterizes the medium). The study is carried out by imagining in-medium gluon shower development in the simplest theoretical situation, which includes imagining a very large, static, homogeneous medium and taking the large $N_{\rm c}$ limit. Along the way, we also show how in-medium shower evolution can be written in terms of a "net" splitting rate $[d\Gamma/dx]_{\rm net}$, and we provide a moderately simple analytic fit to our numerical results for the overlap effects included in that rate, which we hope may be of use to others wishing to study possible consequences of overlapping splittings.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:00:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-02-23
[ [ "Arnold", "Peter", "" ], [ "Elgedawy", "Omar", "" ], [ "Iqbal", "Shahin", "" ] ]
We give details of our study of whether high-energy gluon showers inside a QCD medium can be treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes $g \to gg$, or whether there is significant quantum overlap between where one splitting ends and the next begins (neglecting effects that can be absorbed into an effective value of the jet quenching parameter $\hat q$ that characterizes the medium). The study is carried out by imagining in-medium gluon shower development in the simplest theoretical situation, which includes imagining a very large, static, homogeneous medium and taking the large $N_{\rm c}$ limit. Along the way, we also show how in-medium shower evolution can be written in terms of a "net" splitting rate $[d\Gamma/dx]_{\rm net}$, and we provide a moderately simple analytic fit to our numerical results for the overlap effects included in that rate, which we hope may be of use to others wishing to study possible consequences of overlapping splittings.
hep-ph/0604270
Rachel Jeannerot
Rachel Jeannerot (Leiden U.)
Grand unified models and cosmology
Ph.D.Thesis (Cambridge U., 1996). 97 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The cosmological consequences of particle physics grand unified theories (GUTs) are studied. Cosmological models are implemented in realistic particle physics models. Models consistent from both particle physics and cosmological considerations are selected. (...)
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:18:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Jeannerot", "Rachel", "", "Leiden U." ] ]
The cosmological consequences of particle physics grand unified theories (GUTs) are studied. Cosmological models are implemented in realistic particle physics models. Models consistent from both particle physics and cosmological considerations are selected. (...)
hep-ph/0302190
Gabrijela
Glennys R. Farrar and Gabrijela Zaharijas
Non-binding of Flavor-Singlet Hadrons to Nuclei
10 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Lett. B559 (2003) 223-228; Erratum-ibid. B575 (2003) 349-357
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00331-9
null
hep-ph
null
Strongly attractive color forces in the flavor singlet channel may lead to a stable H dibaryon. Here we show that an H or other compact, flavor singlet hadron is unlikely to bind to nuclei, so that bounds on exotic isotopes do not exclude their stability. Remarkably, a stable H appears to evade other experimental constraints as well, when account is taken of its expected compact spatial wavefunction.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:27:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Farrar", "Glennys R.", "" ], [ "Zaharijas", "Gabrijela", "" ] ]
Strongly attractive color forces in the flavor singlet channel may lead to a stable H dibaryon. Here we show that an H or other compact, flavor singlet hadron is unlikely to bind to nuclei, so that bounds on exotic isotopes do not exclude their stability. Remarkably, a stable H appears to evade other experimental constraints as well, when account is taken of its expected compact spatial wavefunction.
1601.06598
Heikki M\"antysaari
T. Lappi and H. M\"antysaari
Next-to-leading order Balitsky-Kovchegov equation with resummation
10 pages, 8 figures. RevTex. v2: small clarifications to text, published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 93, 094004 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.094004
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We solve the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order accuracy including a resummation of large single and double transverse momentum logarithms to all orders. We numerically determine an optimal value for the constant under the large transverse momentum logarithm that enables including a maximal amount of the full NLO result in the resummation. When this value is used the contribution from the $\alpha_s^2$ terms without large logarithms is found to be small at large saturation scales and at small dipoles. Close to initial conditions relevant for phenomenological applications these fixed order corrections are shown to be numerically important.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:29:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2016 16:02:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-05-06
[ [ "Lappi", "T.", "" ], [ "Mäntysaari", "H.", "" ] ]
We solve the Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation at next-to-leading order accuracy including a resummation of large single and double transverse momentum logarithms to all orders. We numerically determine an optimal value for the constant under the large transverse momentum logarithm that enables including a maximal amount of the full NLO result in the resummation. When this value is used the contribution from the $\alpha_s^2$ terms without large logarithms is found to be small at large saturation scales and at small dipoles. Close to initial conditions relevant for phenomenological applications these fixed order corrections are shown to be numerically important.
2306.03138
Oleksandr Tomalak
Vincenzo Cirigliano, Wouter Dekens, Emanuele Mereghetti, Oleksandr Tomalak
Effective field theory for radiative corrections to charged-current processes I: Vector coupling
40 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. D 108 (2023) 053003
10.1103/PhysRevD.108.053003
LA-UR-22-21034, INT-PUB-23-015
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat nucl-ex nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study radiative corrections to low-energy charged-current processes involving nucleons, such as neutron beta decay and (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering within a top-down effective-field-theory approach. We first match the Standard Model to the low-energy effective theory valid below the weak scale and, using renormalization group equations with anomalous dimensions of $\mathcal{O}(\alpha, \alpha \alpha_s, \alpha^2)$, evolve the resulting effective coupling down to the hadronic scale. Here, we first match to heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory and subsequently, below the pion-mass scale, to a pionless effective theory, evolving the effective vector coupling with anomalous dimensions of $\mathcal{O}(\alpha, \alpha^2)$ all the way down to the scale of the electron mass, relevant for beta decays. We thus provide a new evaluation of the ``inner" radiative corrections to the vector coupling constant and to the neutron decay rate, discussing differences with the previous literature. Using our new result for the radiative corrections, we update the extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ud}$ from the neutron decay.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Jun 2023 18:00:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Sep 2023 21:27:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-09-08
[ [ "Cirigliano", "Vincenzo", "" ], [ "Dekens", "Wouter", "" ], [ "Mereghetti", "Emanuele", "" ], [ "Tomalak", "Oleksandr", "" ] ]
We study radiative corrections to low-energy charged-current processes involving nucleons, such as neutron beta decay and (anti)neutrino-nucleon scattering within a top-down effective-field-theory approach. We first match the Standard Model to the low-energy effective theory valid below the weak scale and, using renormalization group equations with anomalous dimensions of $\mathcal{O}(\alpha, \alpha \alpha_s, \alpha^2)$, evolve the resulting effective coupling down to the hadronic scale. Here, we first match to heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory and subsequently, below the pion-mass scale, to a pionless effective theory, evolving the effective vector coupling with anomalous dimensions of $\mathcal{O}(\alpha, \alpha^2)$ all the way down to the scale of the electron mass, relevant for beta decays. We thus provide a new evaluation of the ``inner" radiative corrections to the vector coupling constant and to the neutron decay rate, discussing differences with the previous literature. Using our new result for the radiative corrections, we update the extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{ud}$ from the neutron decay.
2104.06958
Andrey Pikelner
Andrey Pikelner
Three-loop vertex integrals at symmetric point
14 pages, many figures
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2021)083
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This paper provides details of the massless three-loop three-point integrals calculation at the symmetric point. Our work aimed to extend known two-loop results for such integrals to the three-loop level. Obtained results can find their application in regularization-invariant symmetric point momentum-subtraction (RI/SMOM) scheme QCD calculations of renormalization group functions and various composite operator matrix elements. To calculate integrals, we solve differential equations for auxiliary integrals by transforming the system to the $\varepsilon$-form. Calculated integrals are expressed through the basis of functions with uniform transcendental weight. We provide expansion up to the transcendental weight six for the basis functions in terms of harmonic polylogarithms with six-root of unity argument.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:33:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-06-17
[ [ "Pikelner", "Andrey", "" ] ]
This paper provides details of the massless three-loop three-point integrals calculation at the symmetric point. Our work aimed to extend known two-loop results for such integrals to the three-loop level. Obtained results can find their application in regularization-invariant symmetric point momentum-subtraction (RI/SMOM) scheme QCD calculations of renormalization group functions and various composite operator matrix elements. To calculate integrals, we solve differential equations for auxiliary integrals by transforming the system to the $\varepsilon$-form. Calculated integrals are expressed through the basis of functions with uniform transcendental weight. We provide expansion up to the transcendental weight six for the basis functions in terms of harmonic polylogarithms with six-root of unity argument.
hep-ph/9905553
Alexander Yelkhovsky
Gregory Adkins, Kirill Melnikov and Alexander Yelkhovsky
Virtual annihilation contribution to orthopositronium decay rate
2 pages, no figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevA.60.3306
TTP-99-24
hep-ph
null
Order alpha^2 contribution to the orthopositronium decay rate due to one-photon virtual annihilation is found to be delta Gamma = (alpha/pi)^2 (pi^2 ln(alpha) - 0.8622(9))Gamma_LO.
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 May 1999 04:15:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Adkins", "Gregory", "" ], [ "Melnikov", "Kirill", "" ], [ "Yelkhovsky", "Alexander", "" ] ]
Order alpha^2 contribution to the orthopositronium decay rate due to one-photon virtual annihilation is found to be delta Gamma = (alpha/pi)^2 (pi^2 ln(alpha) - 0.8622(9))Gamma_LO.
0911.1465
Daniel G. Figueroa
Daniel G. Figueroa
Preheating the Universe from the Standard Model Higgs
10 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the "Invisible Universe International Conference", Paris 2009
AIP Conf.Proc.1241:578-587,2010
10.1063/1.3462688
IFT-UAM/CSIC-09-54
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss Preheating after an inflationary stage driven by the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that Preheating is driven by a complex process in which perturbative and non-perturbative effects occur simultaneously. The Higgs field, initially an oscillating coherent condensate, produces non-perturbatively W and Z gauge fields. These decay very rapidly into fermions, thus preventing gauge bosons to accumulate and, consequently, blocking the usual parametric resonance. The energy transferred into the fermionic species is, nevertheless, not enough to reheat the Universe, and resonant effects are eventually developed. Soon after resonance becomes effective, also backreaction from the gauge bosons into the Higgs condensate becomes relevant. We have determined the time evolution of the energy distribution among the remnant Higgs condensate and the non-thermal distribution of the SM fermions and gauge fields, until the moment in which backreaction becomes important. Beyond backreaction our approximations break down and numerical simulations and theoretical considerations beyond this work are required, in order to study the evolution of the system until thermalization.
[ { "created": "Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:22:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Figueroa", "Daniel G.", "" ] ]
We discuss Preheating after an inflationary stage driven by the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field non-minimally coupled to gravity. We find that Preheating is driven by a complex process in which perturbative and non-perturbative effects occur simultaneously. The Higgs field, initially an oscillating coherent condensate, produces non-perturbatively W and Z gauge fields. These decay very rapidly into fermions, thus preventing gauge bosons to accumulate and, consequently, blocking the usual parametric resonance. The energy transferred into the fermionic species is, nevertheless, not enough to reheat the Universe, and resonant effects are eventually developed. Soon after resonance becomes effective, also backreaction from the gauge bosons into the Higgs condensate becomes relevant. We have determined the time evolution of the energy distribution among the remnant Higgs condensate and the non-thermal distribution of the SM fermions and gauge fields, until the moment in which backreaction becomes important. Beyond backreaction our approximations break down and numerical simulations and theoretical considerations beyond this work are required, in order to study the evolution of the system until thermalization.
1010.3883
Dario Schalla
Alexander Lenz, Heinrich P\"as and Dario Schalla
Constraints on fourth generation Majorana neutrinos
6 pages, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS2010), Valencia (Spain), July 19th - 23rd, 2010
J.Phys.Conf.Ser.259:012096,2010
10.1088/1742-6596/259/1/012096
DO-TH-10/13
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the possibility of a fourth sequential generation in the lepton sector. Assuming neutrinos to be Majorana particles and starting from a recent - albeit weak - evidence for a non-zero admixture of a fourth generation neutrino from fits to weak lepton and meson decays we discuss constraints from neutrinoless double beta decay, radiative lepton decay and like-sign di-lepton production at hadron colliders.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:42:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-01-27
[ [ "Lenz", "Alexander", "" ], [ "Päs", "Heinrich", "" ], [ "Schalla", "Dario", "" ] ]
We investigate the possibility of a fourth sequential generation in the lepton sector. Assuming neutrinos to be Majorana particles and starting from a recent - albeit weak - evidence for a non-zero admixture of a fourth generation neutrino from fits to weak lepton and meson decays we discuss constraints from neutrinoless double beta decay, radiative lepton decay and like-sign di-lepton production at hadron colliders.
2102.02313
Prolay Krishna Chanda
Prolay Chanda and James Unwin
Decoupling of Asymmetric Dark Matter During an Early Matter Dominated Era
24 pages, 7 figures v2: Matches version published in JCAP
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In models of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) the relic density is set by a particle asymmetry in an analogous manner to the baryons. Here we explore the scenario in which ADM decouples from the Standard Model thermal bath during an early period of matter domination. We first present a model independent analysis for a generic ADM candidate with s-wave annihilation cross section with fairly general assumptions regarding the origin of the early matter dominated period. We contrast our results to those from conventional ADM models which assume radiation domination during decoupling. Subsequently, we examine an explicit example of this scenario in the context of an elegant SO(10) implementation of ADM in which the matter dominated era is due to a long lived heavy right-handed neutrino. In the concluding remarks we discuss the prospects for superheavy ADM in this setting.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Feb 2021 22:27:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Jun 2021 21:47:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-06-24
[ [ "Chanda", "Prolay", "" ], [ "Unwin", "James", "" ] ]
In models of Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) the relic density is set by a particle asymmetry in an analogous manner to the baryons. Here we explore the scenario in which ADM decouples from the Standard Model thermal bath during an early period of matter domination. We first present a model independent analysis for a generic ADM candidate with s-wave annihilation cross section with fairly general assumptions regarding the origin of the early matter dominated period. We contrast our results to those from conventional ADM models which assume radiation domination during decoupling. Subsequently, we examine an explicit example of this scenario in the context of an elegant SO(10) implementation of ADM in which the matter dominated era is due to a long lived heavy right-handed neutrino. In the concluding remarks we discuss the prospects for superheavy ADM in this setting.
0805.4393
Monika Blanke
Monika Blanke, Andrzej J. Buras, Stefan Recksiegel, Cecilia Tarantino
The Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity Facing CP-Violation in B_s - anti-B_s Mixing
21 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. Version with full resolution plots available at http://users.physik.tu-muenchen.de/mblanke/LHT-2008.pdf. Note added on the omitted term in Z-penguin contribution. For an updated analysis see arXiv:0906.5454
null
null
TUM-HEP-689/08, MPP-2008-50, RM3-TH/08-1
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The non-minimal flavour violating interactions of mirror quarks and new heavy gauge bosons in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) give rise to naturally large CP-violating effects in the B_s system. In view of a large new CP phase in B_s - anti-B_s mixing hinted by the CDF and D0 data and the recent UTfit analysis, we update our 2006 analysis of particle-antiparticle mixing and rare K and B decays in the LHT model, using the most recent values of a number of input parameters and performing a more careful error analysis. We find that the CP-asymmetry S_{psi phi} can easily reach values ~ 0.15-0.20, compared to the SM value ~ 0.04, while higher values are rather unlikely though not excluded. Large enhancements are also possible in the branching ratios for K_L -> pi0 nu anti-nu, K+ -> pi+ nu anti-nu and K_L -> pi0 l+ l- with much more modest effects in B_{s,d} -> mu+ mu-. We perform a detailed study of correlations between the latter decays and S_{psi phi} as well as of the correlation between S_{psi phi} and S_{psi K_S}. We also point out that the possible tension between epsilon_K and the tree level CKM determination recently hinted by various analyses can easily be resolved in the LHT model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 May 2008 17:37:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:08:13 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-01-15
[ [ "Blanke", "Monika", "" ], [ "Buras", "Andrzej J.", "" ], [ "Recksiegel", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Tarantino", "Cecilia", "" ] ]
The non-minimal flavour violating interactions of mirror quarks and new heavy gauge bosons in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity (LHT) give rise to naturally large CP-violating effects in the B_s system. In view of a large new CP phase in B_s - anti-B_s mixing hinted by the CDF and D0 data and the recent UTfit analysis, we update our 2006 analysis of particle-antiparticle mixing and rare K and B decays in the LHT model, using the most recent values of a number of input parameters and performing a more careful error analysis. We find that the CP-asymmetry S_{psi phi} can easily reach values ~ 0.15-0.20, compared to the SM value ~ 0.04, while higher values are rather unlikely though not excluded. Large enhancements are also possible in the branching ratios for K_L -> pi0 nu anti-nu, K+ -> pi+ nu anti-nu and K_L -> pi0 l+ l- with much more modest effects in B_{s,d} -> mu+ mu-. We perform a detailed study of correlations between the latter decays and S_{psi phi} as well as of the correlation between S_{psi phi} and S_{psi K_S}. We also point out that the possible tension between epsilon_K and the tree level CKM determination recently hinted by various analyses can easily be resolved in the LHT model.
1402.1426
Ana M. Teixeira
A.M. Teixeira, A. Abada, A. J. R. Figueiredo and J. C. Romao
Lepton flavour violation at high energies: the LHC and a Linear Collider
6 pages, 6 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the "Linear Collider Workshop - LC13", ECT* Trento, 16 - 20 September 2013
Nuovo Cim. C037 (2014) 02, 19-24
10.1393/ncc/i2014-11731-5
PCCF RI 14-02, LPT Orsay 14-08, CFTP/14-001
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss several manifestations of charged lepton flavour violation at high energies. Focusing on a supersymmetric type I seesaw, considering constrained and semi-constrained supersymmetry breaking scenarios, we analyse different observables, both at the LHC and at a future Linear Collider. We further discuss how the synergy between low- and high-energy observables can shed some light on the underlying mechanism of lepton flavour violation.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:36:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-03-03
[ [ "Teixeira", "A. M.", "" ], [ "Abada", "A.", "" ], [ "Figueiredo", "A. J. R.", "" ], [ "Romao", "J. C.", "" ] ]
We discuss several manifestations of charged lepton flavour violation at high energies. Focusing on a supersymmetric type I seesaw, considering constrained and semi-constrained supersymmetry breaking scenarios, we analyse different observables, both at the LHC and at a future Linear Collider. We further discuss how the synergy between low- and high-energy observables can shed some light on the underlying mechanism of lepton flavour violation.
1012.1114
Georgios Gounaris
G.J. Gounaris, J. Layssac and F.M. Renard
The processes of gluon fusion producing chargino or neutralino pairs at high energies
Extended version to appear in International Journal of Modern Physics A 21 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A26:1253-1272,2011
10.1142/S0217751X11052888
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
According to the helicity conservation (HCns) theorem, the sum of the helicities should be conserved, in any 2-to-2 processes in MSSM with R-parity conservation, at high energies; i.e. all amplitudes violating this rule, must vanish asymptotically. The realization of HCns in gluon-fusion to charginos or neutralinos is studied, at the one loop electroweak order (EW), and simple high energy expressions are derived for the non-vanishing helicity conserving (HC) amplitudes. These are very similar to the corresponding expressions for $gg \to W^+W^-, ZZ, \gamma Z, \gamma\gamma $ derived before. Asymptotic relations among observable unpolarized cross sections for many such processes are then obtained, some of which may hold at LHC-type energies.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:16:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:20:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-09-23
[ [ "Gounaris", "G. J.", "" ], [ "Layssac", "J.", "" ], [ "Renard", "F. M.", "" ] ]
According to the helicity conservation (HCns) theorem, the sum of the helicities should be conserved, in any 2-to-2 processes in MSSM with R-parity conservation, at high energies; i.e. all amplitudes violating this rule, must vanish asymptotically. The realization of HCns in gluon-fusion to charginos or neutralinos is studied, at the one loop electroweak order (EW), and simple high energy expressions are derived for the non-vanishing helicity conserving (HC) amplitudes. These are very similar to the corresponding expressions for $gg \to W^+W^-, ZZ, \gamma Z, \gamma\gamma $ derived before. Asymptotic relations among observable unpolarized cross sections for many such processes are then obtained, some of which may hold at LHC-type energies.
hep-ph/0409325
Namit Mahajan
S. Dev and Sanjeev Kumar
Constraints on the Neutrino Parameters from the `Rise-up' in the Boron Neutrino Spectrum at Low Energies
Latex 10pages including 3 postscript figures
Mod.Phys.Lett. A20 (2005) 2083
10.1142/S0217732305017032
null
hep-ph
null
The rise-up in boron neutrino spectrum at low energies has been studied within the framework of `pure LMA' scenario. Indirect bounds on the spectral `upturn' have been obtained from the available solar neutrino data. These bounds have been used to demonstrate the efficacy of the precision measurements of the `upturn' for further constraining the neutrino parameter space allowed by SNO salt phase data. The sterile neutrino flux has been constrained in the light of the recent 766.3 Ty KamLAND spectral data.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:40:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Dev", "S.", "" ], [ "Kumar", "Sanjeev", "" ] ]
The rise-up in boron neutrino spectrum at low energies has been studied within the framework of `pure LMA' scenario. Indirect bounds on the spectral `upturn' have been obtained from the available solar neutrino data. These bounds have been used to demonstrate the efficacy of the precision measurements of the `upturn' for further constraining the neutrino parameter space allowed by SNO salt phase data. The sterile neutrino flux has been constrained in the light of the recent 766.3 Ty KamLAND spectral data.
0912.1437
Kenji Maeda
Tetsuo Hatsuda, Kenji Maeda
Quantum Phase Transitions in Dense QCD
32 pages, 10 figures. To appear as Chapter 25 in "Developments in Quantum Phase Transitions" ed. L. D. Carr (Taylor and Francis, 2010)
null
10.1201/b10273-31
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature, $T$, and quark chemical potential, $\mu$, has a rich phase structure: at low $T$ and low $\mu$, the Nambu-Goldstone (NG) phase with nearly massless pions is realized by the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry through condensation of quark-anti-quark pairs, while, at low $T$ and high $\mu$, a Fermi liquid of deconfined quarks is expected to appear as a consequence of asymptotic freedom. Furthermore, in such a cold quark matter, condensation of quark-quark pairs leads to the color superconductivity (CSC). At high $T$ for arbitrary $\mu$, all the condensates melt away and a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is realized. The experimental exploration of thermal phase transition from the NG phase to QGP is being actively pursued in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), and will be continued in the future at LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The quantum phase transition from the NG phase to the CSC at low $T$ is also relevant to heavy-ion collisions at moderate energies, and is of interest in the interiors of neutron stars and possible quark stars. In this Chapter, after a brief introduction to the basic properties of QCD, the current status of the QCD phase structure and associated quantum phase transitions will be summarized with particular emphasis on the symmetry realization of each phase. Possible connection between the physics of QCD and that of ultracold atoms is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:07:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-14
[ [ "Hatsuda", "Tetsuo", "" ], [ "Maeda", "Kenji", "" ] ]
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at finite temperature, $T$, and quark chemical potential, $\mu$, has a rich phase structure: at low $T$ and low $\mu$, the Nambu-Goldstone (NG) phase with nearly massless pions is realized by the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry through condensation of quark-anti-quark pairs, while, at low $T$ and high $\mu$, a Fermi liquid of deconfined quarks is expected to appear as a consequence of asymptotic freedom. Furthermore, in such a cold quark matter, condensation of quark-quark pairs leads to the color superconductivity (CSC). At high $T$ for arbitrary $\mu$, all the condensates melt away and a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is realized. The experimental exploration of thermal phase transition from the NG phase to QGP is being actively pursued in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), and will be continued in the future at LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The quantum phase transition from the NG phase to the CSC at low $T$ is also relevant to heavy-ion collisions at moderate energies, and is of interest in the interiors of neutron stars and possible quark stars. In this Chapter, after a brief introduction to the basic properties of QCD, the current status of the QCD phase structure and associated quantum phase transitions will be summarized with particular emphasis on the symmetry realization of each phase. Possible connection between the physics of QCD and that of ultracold atoms is also discussed.
1804.08437
Juan Herrero-Garcia
Juan Herrero-Garcia, Andre Scaffidi, Martin White and Anthony G. Williams
Time-dependent rate of multicomponent dark matter: Reproducing the DAMA/LIBRA phase-2 results
8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Title and abstract changed, matches published version in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 98, 123007 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.123007
ADP-18-12/T1060
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The current paradigm for dark matter direct detection is to assume that the dark sector is solely composed of a single particle species. In this short paper, we make the observation that dark matter comprising both a light and a heavy component that modulate out of phase leads to interesting phenomenology in annual modulation experiments. For an illustrative example, we use the recently released DAMA/LIBRA phase-2 results with a lower energy threshold. Immediately after, it was argued that a one-component spin-independent dark matter explanation of the observed annual modulation is strongly disfavored or excluded unless isospin-violating couplings are invoked. We show that a simple two-component extension can reproduce the observed spectrum without the need to invoke fine-tuned couplings. Using the publicly available DAMA/LIBRA data, we perform a fit of the DAMA/LIBRA energy spectrum of the annual modulation amplitude to a scenario with two dark matter components. We also take into account how gravitational focusing affects the phases of the light and a heavy components differently, which leads to nontrivial effects in the total time-dependent rate. Our results show that there exists a unique solution in agreement with the data in the simplest case of isospin-conserving couplings with equal cross sections. The distinctive features found in this work are crucial for a dark matter interpretation of any observed annual modulation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:54:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:40:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:04:22 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:49:23 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2019-01-17
[ [ "Herrero-Garcia", "Juan", "" ], [ "Scaffidi", "Andre", "" ], [ "White", "Martin", "" ], [ "Williams", "Anthony G.", "" ] ]
The current paradigm for dark matter direct detection is to assume that the dark sector is solely composed of a single particle species. In this short paper, we make the observation that dark matter comprising both a light and a heavy component that modulate out of phase leads to interesting phenomenology in annual modulation experiments. For an illustrative example, we use the recently released DAMA/LIBRA phase-2 results with a lower energy threshold. Immediately after, it was argued that a one-component spin-independent dark matter explanation of the observed annual modulation is strongly disfavored or excluded unless isospin-violating couplings are invoked. We show that a simple two-component extension can reproduce the observed spectrum without the need to invoke fine-tuned couplings. Using the publicly available DAMA/LIBRA data, we perform a fit of the DAMA/LIBRA energy spectrum of the annual modulation amplitude to a scenario with two dark matter components. We also take into account how gravitational focusing affects the phases of the light and a heavy components differently, which leads to nontrivial effects in the total time-dependent rate. Our results show that there exists a unique solution in agreement with the data in the simplest case of isospin-conserving couplings with equal cross sections. The distinctive features found in this work are crucial for a dark matter interpretation of any observed annual modulation.
hep-ph/9606349
James M. Johnson
Suraj N. Gupta, James M. Johnson and Wayne W. Repko
Relativistic two-photon and two-gluon decay rates of heavy quarkonia
15 pages, RevTeX, PostScript available at http://gluon.physics.wayne.edu/wsuhep/jim/predecay.ps
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 2075-2080
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.2075
null
hep-ph
null
The decay rates of $c\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ through two-photon or two-gluon annihilations are obtained by using totally relativistic decay amplitudes and a sophisticated quantum-chromodynamic potential model for heavy quarkonia. Our results for the photonic and gluonic widths of the 1S0, 3P0, and the 3P2 states are in excellent agreement with the available experimental data. The procedures and mathematical techniques used by us for the treatment of the fermion-antifermion bound states are also applicable to other decay processes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Jun 1996 17:42:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Gupta", "Suraj N.", "" ], [ "Johnson", "James M.", "" ], [ "Repko", "Wayne W.", "" ] ]
The decay rates of $c\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ through two-photon or two-gluon annihilations are obtained by using totally relativistic decay amplitudes and a sophisticated quantum-chromodynamic potential model for heavy quarkonia. Our results for the photonic and gluonic widths of the 1S0, 3P0, and the 3P2 states are in excellent agreement with the available experimental data. The procedures and mathematical techniques used by us for the treatment of the fermion-antifermion bound states are also applicable to other decay processes.
hep-ph/9303241
null
Lawrence Hall and Steven Weinberg
Flavor Changing Scalar Interactions
18 pages. UTTG-22-92; LBL 33016; UCB 92/36
Phys.Rev.D48:979-983,1993
10.1103/PhysRevD.48.R979
null
hep-ph
null
The smallness of fermion masses and mixing angles has recently been been attributed to approximate global $U(1)$ symmetries, one for each fermion type. The parameters associated with these symmetry breakings are estimated here directly from observed masses and mixing angles. It turns out that although flavor changing reaction rates may be acceptably small in electroweak theories with several scalar doublets without imposing any special symmetries on the scalars themselves, such theories generically yield too much CP violation in the neutral kaon mass matrix. Hence in these theories CP must also be a good approximate symmetry. Such models provide an alternative mechanism for CP violation and have various interesting phenomenological features.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Mar 1993 01:47:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-12-30
[ [ "Hall", "Lawrence", "" ], [ "Weinberg", "Steven", "" ] ]
The smallness of fermion masses and mixing angles has recently been been attributed to approximate global $U(1)$ symmetries, one for each fermion type. The parameters associated with these symmetry breakings are estimated here directly from observed masses and mixing angles. It turns out that although flavor changing reaction rates may be acceptably small in electroweak theories with several scalar doublets without imposing any special symmetries on the scalars themselves, such theories generically yield too much CP violation in the neutral kaon mass matrix. Hence in these theories CP must also be a good approximate symmetry. Such models provide an alternative mechanism for CP violation and have various interesting phenomenological features.
hep-ph/0508051
Rodolfo A. Diaz
Rodolfo A. Diaz, R. Martinez, F. Ochoa
331 vector-like models with mirror fermions as a possible solution for the discrepancy in the b-quark asymmetries, and for the neutrino mass and mixing pattern
12 pages, 6 tables, LaTeX2e
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
A general study of the fermionic structure of the 331 models with \beta arbitrary shows the possibility of obtaining 331 vector-like models with mirror fermions. On one hand, the existence of mirror fermions gives a possible way to fit the discrepancy in the bottom quark asymmetries from the prediction of the standard model. On the other hand, the vector-like nature of the model permits to address the problem of the fermion mass hierarchy, and in particular the problem of the neutrino mass and mixing pattern. Specifically, we consider a model with four families and \beta =-1/\sqrt{3} where the additional family corresponds to a mirror fermion of the third generation of the Standard Model. We also show how to generate ansatzs about the mass matrices of the fermions according to the phenomenology. In particular, it is possible to get a natural fit for the neutrino hierarchical masses and mixing angles. Moreover, by means of the mixing between the third quark family and its mirror fermion, a possible solution for the A_{FB}^{b} discrepancy is obtained.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:01:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Diaz", "Rodolfo A.", "" ], [ "Martinez", "R.", "" ], [ "Ochoa", "F.", "" ] ]
A general study of the fermionic structure of the 331 models with \beta arbitrary shows the possibility of obtaining 331 vector-like models with mirror fermions. On one hand, the existence of mirror fermions gives a possible way to fit the discrepancy in the bottom quark asymmetries from the prediction of the standard model. On the other hand, the vector-like nature of the model permits to address the problem of the fermion mass hierarchy, and in particular the problem of the neutrino mass and mixing pattern. Specifically, we consider a model with four families and \beta =-1/\sqrt{3} where the additional family corresponds to a mirror fermion of the third generation of the Standard Model. We also show how to generate ansatzs about the mass matrices of the fermions according to the phenomenology. In particular, it is possible to get a natural fit for the neutrino hierarchical masses and mixing angles. Moreover, by means of the mixing between the third quark family and its mirror fermion, a possible solution for the A_{FB}^{b} discrepancy is obtained.
hep-ph/0312017
Gilberto Colangelo
Gilberto Colangelo
Hadronic contributions to a_\mu below one GeV
7 pages, 3 figures, talk given at the SIGHAD 03 Workshop in Pisa, 8-10 October 2003
null
10.1016/S0920-5632(04)00027-1
null
hep-ph
null
I present a method for evaluating the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution below 1 GeV to a_\mu which relies on analyticity, unitarity and chiral symmetry, as well as on data. The main advantage is that in the region just above threshold, where data are either scarce or have large errors, these theoretical constraints are particularly strong, and therefore allow us to reduce the uncertainties with respect to a purely data-based evaluation. Some preliminary numerical results are presented as illustration of the method.
[ { "created": "Mon, 1 Dec 2003 13:02:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Colangelo", "Gilberto", "" ] ]
I present a method for evaluating the hadronic vacuum polarization contribution below 1 GeV to a_\mu which relies on analyticity, unitarity and chiral symmetry, as well as on data. The main advantage is that in the region just above threshold, where data are either scarce or have large errors, these theoretical constraints are particularly strong, and therefore allow us to reduce the uncertainties with respect to a purely data-based evaluation. Some preliminary numerical results are presented as illustration of the method.
2307.10282
Philipp Schreiner
Axel Maas, Philipp Schreiner
The manifestly gauge-invariant spectrum of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
11 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Formal field theory requires, even in the presence of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect, to maintain manifest non-perturbative gauge invariance. The Fr\"ohlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism allows nonetheless an augmented perturbative treatment. We perform such an augmented tree-level analysis for the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that, as for the standard model, corrections to standard perturbation theory are only sub-leading.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:01:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-07-21
[ [ "Maas", "Axel", "" ], [ "Schreiner", "Philipp", "" ] ]
Formal field theory requires, even in the presence of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect, to maintain manifest non-perturbative gauge invariance. The Fr\"ohlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism allows nonetheless an augmented perturbative treatment. We perform such an augmented tree-level analysis for the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that, as for the standard model, corrections to standard perturbation theory are only sub-leading.
1212.5560
Lorenzo Basso Dr
L. Basso, O. Fischer and J. J. van der Bij
A singlet-triplet extension for the Higgs search at LEP and LHC
12 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1209/0295-5075/101/51004
FR-PHENO-2012-39
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a simple extension of the standard model, containing a scalar singlet and a triplet fermion. The model can explain the possible enhancement in the decay $H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ at the LHC together with the excess found in the Higgs boson search at LEP2. The structure of the model is motivated by a recent argument, that was used to explain the number of fermion generations. For the sake of completenes we also considered the contributions from higher multiplets.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:05:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-12
[ [ "Basso", "L.", "" ], [ "Fischer", "O.", "" ], [ "van der Bij", "J. J.", "" ] ]
We describe a simple extension of the standard model, containing a scalar singlet and a triplet fermion. The model can explain the possible enhancement in the decay $H \rightarrow \gamma \gamma$ at the LHC together with the excess found in the Higgs boson search at LEP2. The structure of the model is motivated by a recent argument, that was used to explain the number of fermion generations. For the sake of completenes we also considered the contributions from higher multiplets.
2308.01550
Mariola Klusek-Gawenda
P. Jucha, M. Klusek-Gawenda and A. Szczurek
Light-by-light scattering in ultraperipheral collisions of heavy ions with future FoCal and ALICE 3 detectors
20 pages, 19 Figures, 3 Tables; misprint corrected, 2 figures added
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We discuss possible future studies of photon-photon (light-by-light) scattering using a planned FoCal and ALICE 3 detectors. We include different mechanisms of $\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$ scattering, such as double-hadronic photon fluctuations, $t/u$-channel neutral pion exchange or resonance excitations ($\gamma \gamma \to R$) and deexcitation ($R \to \gamma \gamma$). The broad range of (pseudo)rapidities and lower cuts on transverse momenta open a necessity to consider not only dominant box contributions but also other subleading contributions. Here we include low mass resonant $R = \pi^0$, $\eta$, $\eta'$ contributions. The resonance contributions give intermediate photon transverse momenta. However, these contributions can be eliminated by imposing windows on di-photon invariant mass. We study and quantify individual box contributions (leptonic, quarkish). The electron/positron boxes dominate at low $M_{\gamma \gamma}<1$ GeV di-photon invariant masses. The PbPb$\to$PbPb$\gamma \gamma$ cross section is calculated within equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. Several differential distributions are presented and discussed. We consider four different kinematic regions. We predict cross section in the (mb-b) range for typical ALICE 3 cuts, a few orders of magnitude larger than for the current ATLAS or CMS experiments. We also consider the two-$\pi^0$ background which can, in principle, be eliminated at the new kinematical range for the ALICE 3 measurements by imposing dedicated cuts on di-photon transverse momentum and\or so-called vector asymmetry.
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2023-08-22
[ [ "Jucha", "P.", "" ], [ "Klusek-Gawenda", "M.", "" ], [ "Szczurek", "A.", "" ] ]
We discuss possible future studies of photon-photon (light-by-light) scattering using a planned FoCal and ALICE 3 detectors. We include different mechanisms of $\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$ scattering, such as double-hadronic photon fluctuations, $t/u$-channel neutral pion exchange or resonance excitations ($\gamma \gamma \to R$) and deexcitation ($R \to \gamma \gamma$). The broad range of (pseudo)rapidities and lower cuts on transverse momenta open a necessity to consider not only dominant box contributions but also other subleading contributions. Here we include low mass resonant $R = \pi^0$, $\eta$, $\eta'$ contributions. The resonance contributions give intermediate photon transverse momenta. However, these contributions can be eliminated by imposing windows on di-photon invariant mass. We study and quantify individual box contributions (leptonic, quarkish). The electron/positron boxes dominate at low $M_{\gamma \gamma}<1$ GeV di-photon invariant masses. The PbPb$\to$PbPb$\gamma \gamma$ cross section is calculated within equivalent photon approximation in the impact parameter space. Several differential distributions are presented and discussed. We consider four different kinematic regions. We predict cross section in the (mb-b) range for typical ALICE 3 cuts, a few orders of magnitude larger than for the current ATLAS or CMS experiments. We also consider the two-$\pi^0$ background which can, in principle, be eliminated at the new kinematical range for the ALICE 3 measurements by imposing dedicated cuts on di-photon transverse momentum and\or so-called vector asymmetry.
0908.2158
D. Delepine
David Delepine, Vannia Gonzalez Macias (Departamento de fisica, Universitad de Guanajuato), Shaaban Khalil (Centre for Theoretical Physics, The British University in Egypt), Gabriel Lopez Castro (CINVESTAV)
A new strategy for probing the Majorana neutrino CP violating phases and masses
4 pages, 1 figure
AIP Conf.Proc.1361:395-397,2011
10.1063/1.3622737
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a new strategy for detecting the CP-violating phases and the effective mass of muon Majorana neutrinos by measuring observables associated with neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays. Within the generic framework of quantum field theory, we compute the non-factorizable probability for producing a pair of same-charged muons in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays as a distinctive signature of $\nu_{\mu}-\bar{\nu_{\mu}}$ oscillations. We show that an intense neutrino beam through a long baseline experiment is favored for probing the Majorana phases. Using the neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability reported by MINOS collaboration, a new stringent bound on the effective muon-neutrino mass is derived.
[ { "created": "Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:19:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-09-28
[ [ "Delepine", "David", "", "Departamento de fisica,\n Universitad de Guanajuato" ], [ "Macias", "Vannia Gonzalez", "", "Departamento de fisica,\n Universitad de Guanajuato" ], [ "Khalil", "Shaaban", "", "Centre for Theoretical Physics,\n The British University in Egypt" ], [ "Castro", "Gabriel Lopez", "", "CINVESTAV" ] ]
We propose a new strategy for detecting the CP-violating phases and the effective mass of muon Majorana neutrinos by measuring observables associated with neutrino-antineutrino oscillations in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays. Within the generic framework of quantum field theory, we compute the non-factorizable probability for producing a pair of same-charged muons in $\pi^{\pm}$ decays as a distinctive signature of $\nu_{\mu}-\bar{\nu_{\mu}}$ oscillations. We show that an intense neutrino beam through a long baseline experiment is favored for probing the Majorana phases. Using the neutrino-antineutrino oscillation probability reported by MINOS collaboration, a new stringent bound on the effective muon-neutrino mass is derived.
1911.03919
Clemens Heuson
Clemens Heuson
Relations for Massive Spinors
8 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recently introduced massive spinors are written as 2-vectors consisting of two massless spinors with opposite helicities. With this notation a couple of relations between them can be derived easily, entirely avoiding the spinor indices. The high energy limit of three point amplitudes is discussed shortly. Finally we add some comments on recursion relations with massive particles.
[ { "created": "Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:20:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:36:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-10-29
[ [ "Heuson", "Clemens", "" ] ]
Recently introduced massive spinors are written as 2-vectors consisting of two massless spinors with opposite helicities. With this notation a couple of relations between them can be derived easily, entirely avoiding the spinor indices. The high energy limit of three point amplitudes is discussed shortly. Finally we add some comments on recursion relations with massive particles.
2405.10419
Emilse Cabrera Capera
Emilse Cabrera, Arman Esmaili and Alexander A. Quiroga
Limits on the parameter space of (3+2) sterile neutrino scenario by IceCube data
18 pages, 8 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The neutrino sector of the standard model of particles can contain more than one sterile neutrino states. Generally, existence of more sterile states leads to better, or at least equally good, fit to the short baseline anomalous data due to the larger number of parameters and interferences which create features in the oscillation pattern. However, for experiments like IceCube, where the sterile states distort the oscillation pattern of high energy atmospheric neutrinos through parametric and MSW resonances, addition of more sterile states leads to a more intense effect. Although the limits on one additional sterile neutrino state by IceCube data have been studied in the literature, bounds on the models with more sterile states are lacking. We analyze the one-year data set of atmospheric neutrinos collected by IceCube during the 2011-2012 and derive the limits on the parameter space of (3+2) scenario with two sterile neutrino states, taking into account the relevant systematic and statistical uncertainties and atmospheric neutrino flux variants. To facilitate the joint analysis of IceCube and short baseline data, we provide the table of $\chi^2$ values from IceCube's data analysis as function of the parameters.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 May 2024 19:44:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-05-20
[ [ "Cabrera", "Emilse", "" ], [ "Esmaili", "Arman", "" ], [ "Quiroga", "Alexander A.", "" ] ]
The neutrino sector of the standard model of particles can contain more than one sterile neutrino states. Generally, existence of more sterile states leads to better, or at least equally good, fit to the short baseline anomalous data due to the larger number of parameters and interferences which create features in the oscillation pattern. However, for experiments like IceCube, where the sterile states distort the oscillation pattern of high energy atmospheric neutrinos through parametric and MSW resonances, addition of more sterile states leads to a more intense effect. Although the limits on one additional sterile neutrino state by IceCube data have been studied in the literature, bounds on the models with more sterile states are lacking. We analyze the one-year data set of atmospheric neutrinos collected by IceCube during the 2011-2012 and derive the limits on the parameter space of (3+2) scenario with two sterile neutrino states, taking into account the relevant systematic and statistical uncertainties and atmospheric neutrino flux variants. To facilitate the joint analysis of IceCube and short baseline data, we provide the table of $\chi^2$ values from IceCube's data analysis as function of the parameters.
hep-ph/0311143
C. Boehm
C. Boehm, P. Fayet, J. Silk
Light and Heavy Dark Matter Particles
5 pages
Phys.Rev.D69:101302,2004
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.101302
null
hep-ph
null
It has recently been pointed out that the 511 keV emission line detected by Integral/SPI from the bulge of our galaxy could be explained by annihilations of light Dark Matter particles into e^+ e^-. If such a signature is confirmed, then one might expect a conflict with the interpretation of very high energy gamma rays if they also turn out to be due to Dark Matter annihilations. Here, we propose a way to accomodate the existence of both signals being produced by Dark Matter annihilations through the existence of two stable (neutral) Dark Matter particles, as is possible in theories inspired from N=2 supersymmetry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:41:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-02-20
[ [ "Boehm", "C.", "" ], [ "Fayet", "P.", "" ], [ "Silk", "J.", "" ] ]
It has recently been pointed out that the 511 keV emission line detected by Integral/SPI from the bulge of our galaxy could be explained by annihilations of light Dark Matter particles into e^+ e^-. If such a signature is confirmed, then one might expect a conflict with the interpretation of very high energy gamma rays if they also turn out to be due to Dark Matter annihilations. Here, we propose a way to accomodate the existence of both signals being produced by Dark Matter annihilations through the existence of two stable (neutral) Dark Matter particles, as is possible in theories inspired from N=2 supersymmetry.
hep-ph/9801328
Sean Fleming
Sean Fleming (U. Toronto) and Thomas Mehen (Cal. Tech.)
Photoproduction of h_c
Revtex file 8 pages, 1 figure. Macros needed: epsf,floats,rotate Minor typos changed, and reference added. Version to be published in Phys.Rev.D
Phys.Rev. D58 (1998) 037503
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.037503
CALT-68-2154, UTPT-97-24
hep-ph
null
Using the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the total cross section for the photoproduction of h_c mesons. We include color-octet and color-singlet mechanisms as well as next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections. The theoretical prediction depends on two nonperturbative matrix elements that are not well determined from existing data on charmonium production. For reasonable values of these matrix elements, the cross section is large enough that the h_c may be observable at the E831 experiment and at the HERA experiments.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Jan 1998 15:36:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 May 1998 18:25:37 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 4 May 1998 15:41:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Fleming", "Sean", "", "U. Toronto" ], [ "Mehen", "Thomas", "", "Cal. Tech." ] ]
Using the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the total cross section for the photoproduction of h_c mesons. We include color-octet and color-singlet mechanisms as well as next-to-leading order perturbative QCD corrections. The theoretical prediction depends on two nonperturbative matrix elements that are not well determined from existing data on charmonium production. For reasonable values of these matrix elements, the cross section is large enough that the h_c may be observable at the E831 experiment and at the HERA experiments.
hep-ph/0202268
Antonio O. Bouzas
Antonio O. Bouzas, Ruben Flores-Mendieta
One-loop vertex integrals in heavy-particle effective theories
10 pages, Latex, to appear in J. Phys. G
J.Phys.G28:1179-1190,2002
10.1088/0954-3899/28/6/302
null
hep-ph
null
We give a complete analytical computation of three-point one-loop integrals with one heavy propagator, up to the third tensor rank, for arbitrary values of external momenta and masses.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:32:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bouzas", "Antonio O.", "" ], [ "Flores-Mendieta", "Ruben", "" ] ]
We give a complete analytical computation of three-point one-loop integrals with one heavy propagator, up to the third tensor rank, for arbitrary values of external momenta and masses.
hep-ph/0703254
Cecilia Tarantino
Monika Blanke, Andrzej J. Buras, Stefan Recksiegel, Cecilia Tarantino and Selma Uhlig
Littlest Higgs Model with T-Parity Confronting the New Data on D^0-\bar D^0 Mixing
13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Note added on the omitted term in Z-penguin contribution. For an updated analysis see arXiv:0906.5454
Phys.Lett.B657:81-86,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.10.008
TUM-HEP-666/07, MPP-2007-33
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by the first experimental evidence of meson oscillations in the D system, we study D^0 - \bar D^0 mixing in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity, we investigate its role in constraining the model parameters and its impact on the most interesting flavour observables. We find that the experimental data are potentially strongly constraining but at present limited by large theoretical uncertainties in the long-distance Standard Model contribution to D^0 - \bar D^0 mixing.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:13:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:25:26 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:01:00 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-01-15
[ [ "Blanke", "Monika", "" ], [ "Buras", "Andrzej J.", "" ], [ "Recksiegel", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Tarantino", "Cecilia", "" ], [ "Uhlig", "Selma", "" ] ]
Motivated by the first experimental evidence of meson oscillations in the D system, we study D^0 - \bar D^0 mixing in the Littlest Higgs model with T-parity, we investigate its role in constraining the model parameters and its impact on the most interesting flavour observables. We find that the experimental data are potentially strongly constraining but at present limited by large theoretical uncertainties in the long-distance Standard Model contribution to D^0 - \bar D^0 mixing.
hep-ph/9310248
JiangLiu
Jiang Liu and Gino Segr\`e
Unstable particle mixing and CP violation in weak decays
16 pages in LaTeX, UPR-0582T
Phys.Rev.D49:1342-1349,1994
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1342
null
hep-ph
null
We discuss unstable particle mixing in CP-violating weak decays. It is shown that for a completely degenerate system unstable particle mixing does not introduce a CP-violating partial rate difference, and that when the mixings are small only the off-diagonal mixings are relevant. Also, in the absence of mixing, unstable particle wave function renormalization does not introduce any additional effect. An illustrative example is given to heavy scalar decays with arbitrary mixing.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Oct 1993 13:45:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Liu", "Jiang", "" ], [ "Segrè", "Gino", "" ] ]
We discuss unstable particle mixing in CP-violating weak decays. It is shown that for a completely degenerate system unstable particle mixing does not introduce a CP-violating partial rate difference, and that when the mixings are small only the off-diagonal mixings are relevant. Also, in the absence of mixing, unstable particle wave function renormalization does not introduce any additional effect. An illustrative example is given to heavy scalar decays with arbitrary mixing.
hep-ph/0410311
Denis A. Suprun
Denis A. Suprun
Phenomenology of charmless hadronic B decays
Talk presented at the Sixth International Conference on Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons, IIT, Chicago, June 27 - July 3, 2004
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2005.01.035
null
hep-ph
null
The decays of $B$ mesons to a pair of charmless pseudoscalar mesons ($PP$ decays) or to a vector and pseudoscalar meson ($VP$ decays) have been analyzed within the framework of flavor SU(3) symmetry and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation. Separate $PP$ and $VP$ fits proved to be successful in describing the experimental data (branching ratios, CP asymmetries and time-dependent parameters). Decay magnitudes and relative weak and strong phases have been extracted from the fits. Values of the weak phase $\gamma$ were found to be consistent with the current indirect bounds from other analyses of CKM parameters.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:10:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Suprun", "Denis A.", "" ] ]
The decays of $B$ mesons to a pair of charmless pseudoscalar mesons ($PP$ decays) or to a vector and pseudoscalar meson ($VP$ decays) have been analyzed within the framework of flavor SU(3) symmetry and the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism of CP violation. Separate $PP$ and $VP$ fits proved to be successful in describing the experimental data (branching ratios, CP asymmetries and time-dependent parameters). Decay magnitudes and relative weak and strong phases have been extracted from the fits. Values of the weak phase $\gamma$ were found to be consistent with the current indirect bounds from other analyses of CKM parameters.
hep-ph/0007001
Neal Weiner
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Lawrence Hall, Hitoshi Murayama, David Smith, Neal Weiner
Neutrino Masses at v^{3/2}
Minor revisions, 4 pages, RevTeX
null
null
UCB-PTH-00/19,LBNL-46181
hep-ph
null
Theories in which neutrino masses are generated by a conventional see-saw mechanism generically yield masses which are O(v^2) in units where M_{Pl}=1, which is naively too small to explain the results from SuperKamiokande. In supersymmetric theories with gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking, the fundamental small parameter is not v/M_{Pl}, but m_I/M_{Pl}, where m_I is the scale of supersymmetry breaking in the hidden sector. We note that m_I^3/M_{Pl}^2 is only slightly too large to explain SuperKamiokande, and present two models that achieve neutrino masses at this order in m_I, one of which has an additional suppression lambda_tau^2, while the other has additional suppression arising from a loop factor. The latter model shares a great deal of phenomenology with a class of models previously explored, including the possibility of viable sneutrino dark matter.
[ { "created": "Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:31:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:18:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Arkani-Hamed", "Nima", "" ], [ "Hall", "Lawrence", "" ], [ "Murayama", "Hitoshi", "" ], [ "Smith", "David", "" ], [ "Weiner", "Neal", "" ] ]
Theories in which neutrino masses are generated by a conventional see-saw mechanism generically yield masses which are O(v^2) in units where M_{Pl}=1, which is naively too small to explain the results from SuperKamiokande. In supersymmetric theories with gravity mediated supersymmetry breaking, the fundamental small parameter is not v/M_{Pl}, but m_I/M_{Pl}, where m_I is the scale of supersymmetry breaking in the hidden sector. We note that m_I^3/M_{Pl}^2 is only slightly too large to explain SuperKamiokande, and present two models that achieve neutrino masses at this order in m_I, one of which has an additional suppression lambda_tau^2, while the other has additional suppression arising from a loop factor. The latter model shares a great deal of phenomenology with a class of models previously explored, including the possibility of viable sneutrino dark matter.
1603.01028
St\'ephane Peign\'e
St\'ephane Munier, St\'ephane Peign\'e, Elena Petreska
Medium-induced gluon radiation in hard forward parton scattering in the saturation formalism
25 pages, 2 figures
Phys. Rev. D 95, 014014 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.95.014014
CPHT-RR009.032016
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We derive the medium-induced, coherent gluon radiation spectrum associated with the hard forward scattering of an energetic parton off a nucleus, in the saturation formalism and within the Gaussian approximation for the relevant correlators of Wilson lines. The calculation reproduces the simple expression for the spectrum previously obtained in the opacity expansion formalism, and rigorously specifies its validity range. The connection between the calculations in the opacity expansion and saturation formalisms is made apparent. This study may serve as a first step in order to implement consistently induced coherent energy loss and gluon shadowing in `saturation-based models' of hadron nuclear suppression in proton-nucleus collisions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:55:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-01-18
[ [ "Munier", "Stéphane", "" ], [ "Peigné", "Stéphane", "" ], [ "Petreska", "Elena", "" ] ]
We derive the medium-induced, coherent gluon radiation spectrum associated with the hard forward scattering of an energetic parton off a nucleus, in the saturation formalism and within the Gaussian approximation for the relevant correlators of Wilson lines. The calculation reproduces the simple expression for the spectrum previously obtained in the opacity expansion formalism, and rigorously specifies its validity range. The connection between the calculations in the opacity expansion and saturation formalisms is made apparent. This study may serve as a first step in order to implement consistently induced coherent energy loss and gluon shadowing in `saturation-based models' of hadron nuclear suppression in proton-nucleus collisions.
hep-ph/0111420
Ismd31
Georgios D. Stavropoulos
QCD Processes at the LHC
4 pages, 4 figures in eps, talk given at XXXI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Sept 1-7, 2001, Datong China. URL http://ismd31.ccnu.edu.cn/
null
10.1142/9789812778048_0049
null
hep-ph
null
The study of QCD processes at the LHC will serve two main goals. First the predictions of QCD will be tested and precision measurements will be performed. Second QCD processes represent a major part of the background to other Standard Model processes and signals of new physics at the LHC and thus need to be understood precisely in the new kinematic region available here. Furthermore, the production cross-sections for almost all processes are controlled by QCD.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:31:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Stavropoulos", "Georgios D.", "" ] ]
The study of QCD processes at the LHC will serve two main goals. First the predictions of QCD will be tested and precision measurements will be performed. Second QCD processes represent a major part of the background to other Standard Model processes and signals of new physics at the LHC and thus need to be understood precisely in the new kinematic region available here. Furthermore, the production cross-sections for almost all processes are controlled by QCD.