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2401.11350
Lucas Kotz
Lucas Kotz
A study of experimental sensitivities to proton parton distributions with xFitter
13 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
null
null
SMU-PHY-23-07
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In collider physics, parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a crucial role in computing theoretical cross sections for scattering reactions. This study explores how different experimental data sets influence extracted PDFs in CTEQ-TEA and MSHT NNLO PDF analyses. To gauge the impact of experimental data, including the HERA and ZEUS combined charm and beauty production, LHCb 7 TeV charm and beauty production, CMS 7 TeV W+c production, and CMS 13 TeV inclusive jets, I utilize the $L_2$ sensitivity statistical indicator in the Hessian framework as a visual representation of their respective impacts. This sensitivity quantifies the statistical pulls on individual data sets against the best-fit PDFs, facilitating the identification of tensions among competing data sets. Using the QCD fitting framework xFitter, I extract the necessary values for plotting $L_2$ sensitivities for ten distinct data sets implemented in the program, employing recent PDF sets from the CTEQ-TEA and MSHT groups. The computed $L_2$ sensitivities estimate the potential impact of the examined data sets.
[ { "created": "Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:13:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Feb 2024 20:58:17 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 5 Jun 2024 20:07:19 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-06-07
[ [ "Kotz", "Lucas", "" ] ]
In collider physics, parton distribution functions (PDFs) play a crucial role in computing theoretical cross sections for scattering reactions. This study explores how different experimental data sets influence extracted PDFs in CTEQ-TEA and MSHT NNLO PDF analyses. To gauge the impact of experimental data, including the HERA and ZEUS combined charm and beauty production, LHCb 7 TeV charm and beauty production, CMS 7 TeV W+c production, and CMS 13 TeV inclusive jets, I utilize the $L_2$ sensitivity statistical indicator in the Hessian framework as a visual representation of their respective impacts. This sensitivity quantifies the statistical pulls on individual data sets against the best-fit PDFs, facilitating the identification of tensions among competing data sets. Using the QCD fitting framework xFitter, I extract the necessary values for plotting $L_2$ sensitivities for ten distinct data sets implemented in the program, employing recent PDF sets from the CTEQ-TEA and MSHT groups. The computed $L_2$ sensitivities estimate the potential impact of the examined data sets.
hep-ph/9904271
Yossi Nir
Yosef Nir
CP Violation in B Decays
50 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX, lectures given at the school on Flavour and Gauge Hierarchies, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese, Corsica, July 20 - August 1, 1998, and at the First Particle Physics Winter School, KIAS, Seoul, Korea, February 22 - 26, 1999
null
null
WIS-99/15/Mar-DPP
hep-ph
null
In the near future, we will have the first significant experimental measurements of CP violation in B decays. These measurements will easily test crucial questions such as whether the Standard Model Kobayashi-Maskawa phase plays a dominant role in CP violation or whether CP is an approximate symmetry in nature. We explain the different types of CP violation in B decays, and the usefulness of measuring them. We use the same formalism to describe the epsilon and epsilon(prime) parameters of the neutral K system and to explain the terms direct and indirect CP violation. We present the Standard Model predictions for the various asymmetries. We argue that certain CP asymmetries in B decays are subject to a very clean theoretical interpretation in terms of fundamental Lagrangian parameters. Within the Standard Model, these asymmetries will provide very accurate measurements of the CKM parameters. In case that deviations from the Standard Model predictions will be found, there is enough information to understand the nature of New Physics that is required to explain them. We demonstrate this statement by analyzing the impact of various Supersymmetric flavor models on CP violation.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Apr 1999 08:04:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Nir", "Yosef", "" ] ]
In the near future, we will have the first significant experimental measurements of CP violation in B decays. These measurements will easily test crucial questions such as whether the Standard Model Kobayashi-Maskawa phase plays a dominant role in CP violation or whether CP is an approximate symmetry in nature. We explain the different types of CP violation in B decays, and the usefulness of measuring them. We use the same formalism to describe the epsilon and epsilon(prime) parameters of the neutral K system and to explain the terms direct and indirect CP violation. We present the Standard Model predictions for the various asymmetries. We argue that certain CP asymmetries in B decays are subject to a very clean theoretical interpretation in terms of fundamental Lagrangian parameters. Within the Standard Model, these asymmetries will provide very accurate measurements of the CKM parameters. In case that deviations from the Standard Model predictions will be found, there is enough information to understand the nature of New Physics that is required to explain them. We demonstrate this statement by analyzing the impact of various Supersymmetric flavor models on CP violation.
1912.11326
Ievgen Dubovyk Dr.
Ievgen Dubovyk, Janusz Gluza and Tord Riemann
Optimizing the Mellin-Barnes Approach to Numerical Multiloop Calculations
Presented by I. Dubovyk at the XLIII International Conference of Theoretical Physics "Matter to the Deepest", Chorz\'ow 2019
Acta Physica Polonica B, Vol. 50 (2019), No 11, 1993
10.5506/APhysPolB.50.1993
KW 19-009
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The status of numerical evaluations of Mellin-Barnes integrals is discussed, in particular, the application of the quasi-Monte Carlo integration package QMC to the efficient calculation of multi-dimensional integrals.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:54:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-12-25
[ [ "Dubovyk", "Ievgen", "" ], [ "Gluza", "Janusz", "" ], [ "Riemann", "Tord", "" ] ]
The status of numerical evaluations of Mellin-Barnes integrals is discussed, in particular, the application of the quasi-Monte Carlo integration package QMC to the efficient calculation of multi-dimensional integrals.
1304.2508
Gautam Bhattacharyya
Gautam Bhattacharyya, Biplob Bhattacherjee, Tsutomu T. Yanagida, Norimi Yokozaki
A natural scenario for heavy colored and light uncolored superpartners
v2: Clarifying remarks added in page 5, results and conclusions unchanged, version to appear in Physics Letters B
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.040
SINP/TNP/2013/06, IPMU-13-0079
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Influenced by the current trend of experimental data, especially from the LHC, we construct a supersymmetric scenario where a natural dynamics makes the squarks and gluino super-heavy (order 10 TeV) while keeping the sleptons and the weak gauginos light (100-500 GeV). The dynamics relies on the interfusion of two underlying ideas: ($i$) gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking with two messenger multiplets, one transforming as a triplet of weak SU(2) and the other as an octet of color SU(3); ($ii$) perturbative gauge coupling unification at the string scale even with these incomplete SU(5) multiplets. Interestingly, the relative magnitude of the triplet and octet messenger scales that ensures gauge unification at the two-loop level also helps to naturally keep the uncolored superpartners light while making the colored ones heavy.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:07:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Aug 2013 08:44:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Bhattacharyya", "Gautam", "" ], [ "Bhattacherjee", "Biplob", "" ], [ "Yanagida", "Tsutomu T.", "" ], [ "Yokozaki", "Norimi", "" ] ]
Influenced by the current trend of experimental data, especially from the LHC, we construct a supersymmetric scenario where a natural dynamics makes the squarks and gluino super-heavy (order 10 TeV) while keeping the sleptons and the weak gauginos light (100-500 GeV). The dynamics relies on the interfusion of two underlying ideas: ($i$) gauge mediation of supersymmetry breaking with two messenger multiplets, one transforming as a triplet of weak SU(2) and the other as an octet of color SU(3); ($ii$) perturbative gauge coupling unification at the string scale even with these incomplete SU(5) multiplets. Interestingly, the relative magnitude of the triplet and octet messenger scales that ensures gauge unification at the two-loop level also helps to naturally keep the uncolored superpartners light while making the colored ones heavy.
hep-ph/0205224
Joel Giedt
Joel Giedt
Optical Unification
9 pages, references added
Mod.Phys.Lett.A18:1625-1633,2003
10.1142/S0217732303011514
LBNL-50358, UCB-PTH-02/23
hep-ph hep-th
null
We discuss string scale unification facilitated by exotic matter with masses at intermediate scales, between the observable sector supersymmetry breaking scale and the string scale. We point out a mechanism by which string scale unification may occur while producing a (lower) virtual unification scale independent of the location of the intermediate scale and the value of the string coupling. The apparent unification obtained by extrapolating low energy gauge couplings is not accidental when this mechanism is invoked; virtual unification is robust.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 May 2002 21:54:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:48:35 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:22:41 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Giedt", "Joel", "" ] ]
We discuss string scale unification facilitated by exotic matter with masses at intermediate scales, between the observable sector supersymmetry breaking scale and the string scale. We point out a mechanism by which string scale unification may occur while producing a (lower) virtual unification scale independent of the location of the intermediate scale and the value of the string coupling. The apparent unification obtained by extrapolating low energy gauge couplings is not accidental when this mechanism is invoked; virtual unification is robust.
hep-ph/9303248
null
M. A. Doncheski and C. S. Kim
Associated $J/\psi + \gamma$ production as a probe of the polarized gluon distribution
16 pages (10 figures available from M.A.D.), MAD/PH/745, SNUTP 93-6, YUMS 93-1
Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 4463-4468
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.4463
null
hep-ph
null
Associated production of $J/\psi$ and a $\gamma$ has recently been proposed as clean probe of the gluon distribution. The same mechanism can be used to probe the polarized gluon content of the proton in polarized proton-proton collisions. We study $J/\psi + \gamma$ production at both polarized fixed target and polarized collider energies.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Mar 1993 20:32:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Doncheski", "M. A.", "" ], [ "Kim", "C. S.", "" ] ]
Associated production of $J/\psi$ and a $\gamma$ has recently been proposed as clean probe of the gluon distribution. The same mechanism can be used to probe the polarized gluon content of the proton in polarized proton-proton collisions. We study $J/\psi + \gamma$ production at both polarized fixed target and polarized collider energies.
hep-ph/0011170
null
I. Hinchliffe (LBNL), N. Kersting (LBNL/UCB)
Flavor Alignment in SUSY GUTs
20 pages, 1 figure
Phys.Rev.D63:115008,2001
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.115008
LBNL-47091
hep-ph
null
A Supersymmetric Grand unified model is constructed based on SO(10)xSO(10) symmetry in which new types of Yukawa matrices couple standard and exotic fermions. Evolution of these couplings from the Grand Unified scale to the electroweak scale causes some of them to be driven to their fixed points. This solves the supersymmetric alignment problem and ensures that there are no observable flavor changing neutral currents mediated by supersymmetric particles. Fermion hierarchy and neutrino mixing constraints are automatically satisfied in this formalism.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:29:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Hinchliffe", "I.", "", "LBNL" ], [ "Kersting", "N.", "", "LBNL/UCB" ] ]
A Supersymmetric Grand unified model is constructed based on SO(10)xSO(10) symmetry in which new types of Yukawa matrices couple standard and exotic fermions. Evolution of these couplings from the Grand Unified scale to the electroweak scale causes some of them to be driven to their fixed points. This solves the supersymmetric alignment problem and ensures that there are no observable flavor changing neutral currents mediated by supersymmetric particles. Fermion hierarchy and neutrino mixing constraints are automatically satisfied in this formalism.
0811.3424
Pavel Fileviez Perez
Pavel Fileviez Perez, Sogee Spinner
Spontaneous R-Parity Breaking and Left-Right Symmetry
4 pages, minor corrections, title changed, to appear in Physics Letters B
Phys.Lett.B673:251-254,2009
10.1016/j.physletb.2009.02.047
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
We propose a simple renormalizable left-right theory where R-parity is spontaneously broken and neutrino masses are generated through the Type I seesaw mechanism and R-parity violation. In this theory R-parity and the gauge symmetry are broken by the sneutrino vacuum expectation values and there is no Majoron problem. The SU(2)_R and R-parity violation scales are determined by the SUSY breaking scale making the model very predictive. We discuss the spectrum and possible tests of the theory through the neutralinos, charginos, Z^' and W_R decays at the Large Hadron Collider.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:59:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:53:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-03-24
[ [ "Perez", "Pavel Fileviez", "" ], [ "Spinner", "Sogee", "" ] ]
We propose a simple renormalizable left-right theory where R-parity is spontaneously broken and neutrino masses are generated through the Type I seesaw mechanism and R-parity violation. In this theory R-parity and the gauge symmetry are broken by the sneutrino vacuum expectation values and there is no Majoron problem. The SU(2)_R and R-parity violation scales are determined by the SUSY breaking scale making the model very predictive. We discuss the spectrum and possible tests of the theory through the neutralinos, charginos, Z^' and W_R decays at the Large Hadron Collider.
hep-ph/9808242
Oleg Veretin
J. Fleischer (Bielefeld U.), A.V. Kotikov (JINR, Dubna), O.L. Veretin (Bielefeld U.)
Analytic two-loop results for selfenergy- and vertex-type diagrams with one non-zero mass
LaTeX, 27 pages + 3 ps figures, uses axodraw.sty, some references revisted
Nucl.Phys.B547:343-374,1999
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00078-4
null
hep-ph
null
For a large class of two-loop selfenergy- and vertex-type diagrams with only one non-zero mass ($M$) and the vertices also with only one non-zero external momentum squared ($q^2$) the first few expansion coefficients are calculated by the large mass expansion. This allows to `guess' the general structure of these coefficients and to verify them in terms of certain classes of `basis elements', which are essentially harmonic sums. Since for this case with only one non-zero mass the large mass expansion and the Taylor series in terms of $q^2$ are identical, this approach yields analytic expressions of the Taylor coefficients, from which the diagram can be easily evaluated numerically in a large domain of the complex $q^2-$plane by well known methods. It is also possible to sum the Taylor series and present the results in terms of polylogarithms.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:29:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:25:35 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Fleischer", "J.", "", "Bielefeld U." ], [ "Kotikov", "A. V.", "", "JINR, Dubna" ], [ "Veretin", "O. L.", "", "Bielefeld U." ] ]
For a large class of two-loop selfenergy- and vertex-type diagrams with only one non-zero mass ($M$) and the vertices also with only one non-zero external momentum squared ($q^2$) the first few expansion coefficients are calculated by the large mass expansion. This allows to `guess' the general structure of these coefficients and to verify them in terms of certain classes of `basis elements', which are essentially harmonic sums. Since for this case with only one non-zero mass the large mass expansion and the Taylor series in terms of $q^2$ are identical, this approach yields analytic expressions of the Taylor coefficients, from which the diagram can be easily evaluated numerically in a large domain of the complex $q^2-$plane by well known methods. It is also possible to sum the Taylor series and present the results in terms of polylogarithms.
2101.02718
Antonio Enrique C\'arcamo Hern\'andez
A. E. C\'arcamo Hern\'andez, Ivan Schmidt
A renormalizable left-right symmetric model with low scale seesaw mechanisms
Major improvements in leptogenesis section, new section on LFV, discussions enlarged, new Figures and references added. 42 pages, 38 Figures. Matches version to be published in NPB
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2022.115696
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We propose a low scale renormalizable left-right symmetric theory that successfully explains the observed SM fermion mass hierarchy, the tiny values for the light active neutrino masses and is consistent with the lepton and baryon asymmetries of the Universe, the muon and electron anomalous magnetic moments as well as the with the constraints arising from the meson oscillations. In the proposed model the top and exotic quarks obtain masses at tree level, whereas the masses of the bottom, charm and strange quarks, tau and muon leptons are generated from a tree level Universal Seesaw mechanism, thanks to their mixings with the charged exotic vector like fermions. The masses for the first generation SM charged fermions arise from a radiative seesaw mechanism at one loop level, mediated by charged vector like fermions and electrically neutral scalars. The light active neutrino masses are produced from a one-loop level inverse seesaw mechanism mediated by electrically neutral scalar singlets and right handed Majorana neutrinos. Our model is also consistent with the experimental constraints arising from the Higgs diphoton decay rate as well as with the constraints arising from charged lepton flavor violation. We also discuss the $Z^{\prime }$ and heavy scalar production at a proton-proton collider.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Jan 2021 19:00:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:32:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 7 Feb 2022 16:01:03 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-03-02
[ [ "Hernández", "A. E. Cárcamo", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Ivan", "" ] ]
We propose a low scale renormalizable left-right symmetric theory that successfully explains the observed SM fermion mass hierarchy, the tiny values for the light active neutrino masses and is consistent with the lepton and baryon asymmetries of the Universe, the muon and electron anomalous magnetic moments as well as the with the constraints arising from the meson oscillations. In the proposed model the top and exotic quarks obtain masses at tree level, whereas the masses of the bottom, charm and strange quarks, tau and muon leptons are generated from a tree level Universal Seesaw mechanism, thanks to their mixings with the charged exotic vector like fermions. The masses for the first generation SM charged fermions arise from a radiative seesaw mechanism at one loop level, mediated by charged vector like fermions and electrically neutral scalars. The light active neutrino masses are produced from a one-loop level inverse seesaw mechanism mediated by electrically neutral scalar singlets and right handed Majorana neutrinos. Our model is also consistent with the experimental constraints arising from the Higgs diphoton decay rate as well as with the constraints arising from charged lepton flavor violation. We also discuss the $Z^{\prime }$ and heavy scalar production at a proton-proton collider.
1412.3133
Sergio Scopetta
Matteo Rinaldi, Sergio Scopetta, Marco Traini, Vicente Vento
Double parton correlations in Light-Front constituent quark model
8 pages, 12 figures, invited talk at the "XLIV ISMD Conference", Bologna, Italy, 8-12 September 2014. Submitted to EPJ Web of Conferences
null
10.1051/epjconf/20159002002
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Double parton distribution functions (dPDF) represent a tool to explore the 3D proton structure. They can be measured in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions and encode information on how partons inside a proton are correlated among each other. dPFDs are studied here in the valence quark region, by means of a constituent quark model, where two particle correlations are present without any additional prescription. This framework allows to understand the dynamical origin of the correlations and to clarify which, among the features of the results, are model independent. Use will be made of a relativistic light-front scheme, able to overcome some drawbacks of the previous calculation. Transverse momentum correlations, due to the exact treatment of the boosts, are predicted and analyzed. The role of spin correlations is also shown. Due to the covariance of the approach, some symmetries of the dPDFs are seen unambigously. For the valence sector, the study of the QCD evolution of the model results, which can be performed safely thanks to the property of good support, has been also completed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:59:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-23
[ [ "Rinaldi", "Matteo", "" ], [ "Scopetta", "Sergio", "" ], [ "Traini", "Marco", "" ], [ "Vento", "Vicente", "" ] ]
Double parton distribution functions (dPDF) represent a tool to explore the 3D proton structure. They can be measured in high energy proton-proton and proton nucleus collisions and encode information on how partons inside a proton are correlated among each other. dPFDs are studied here in the valence quark region, by means of a constituent quark model, where two particle correlations are present without any additional prescription. This framework allows to understand the dynamical origin of the correlations and to clarify which, among the features of the results, are model independent. Use will be made of a relativistic light-front scheme, able to overcome some drawbacks of the previous calculation. Transverse momentum correlations, due to the exact treatment of the boosts, are predicted and analyzed. The role of spin correlations is also shown. Due to the covariance of the approach, some symmetries of the dPDFs are seen unambigously. For the valence sector, the study of the QCD evolution of the model results, which can be performed safely thanks to the property of good support, has been also completed.
hep-ph/0703316
Pietro Colangelo
P. Colangelo, F. De Fazio, F. Jugeau, S. Nicotri
On the light glueball spectrum in a holographic description of QCD
LaTex, 13 pages, 2 figures
Phys.Lett.B652:73-78,2007
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.072
BARI-TH/07-562
hep-ph
null
We investigate the spectra of light scalar and vector glueballs in a holografic description of QCD with a dilaton background bulk field. In particular, we study how the glueball masses depend on the conditions on the dilaton background and on the geometry of the bulk.
[ { "created": "Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:43:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Colangelo", "P.", "" ], [ "De Fazio", "F.", "" ], [ "Jugeau", "F.", "" ], [ "Nicotri", "S.", "" ] ]
We investigate the spectra of light scalar and vector glueballs in a holografic description of QCD with a dilaton background bulk field. In particular, we study how the glueball masses depend on the conditions on the dilaton background and on the geometry of the bulk.
2304.12481
Jianhui Zhang
Jian-Hui Zhang
Double Parton Distributions from Euclidean Lattice
5 pages, 1 figure, typos corrected
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-lat nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that double parton distributions, which are important in describing double parton scattering processes in hadron collisions, can be directly computed from correlations of equal-time nonlocal Euclidean operators on the lattice in the large hadron momentum limit. We demonstrate this by taking the unpolarized color singlet quark double parton distribution as an example, and present a factorization formula connecting the corresponding lightcone and Euclidean correlations. This opens a new possibility of studying multiparton interactions on the Euclidean lattice.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Apr 2023 22:35:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 11 May 2023 05:26:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-05-12
[ [ "Zhang", "Jian-Hui", "" ] ]
We show that double parton distributions, which are important in describing double parton scattering processes in hadron collisions, can be directly computed from correlations of equal-time nonlocal Euclidean operators on the lattice in the large hadron momentum limit. We demonstrate this by taking the unpolarized color singlet quark double parton distribution as an example, and present a factorization formula connecting the corresponding lightcone and Euclidean correlations. This opens a new possibility of studying multiparton interactions on the Euclidean lattice.
hep-ph/9207265
John Collins
John C. Collins
Hard Scattering in QCD with Polarized Beams
37 pages + 4 figures (postscript available), plain TeX, PSU/TH/100
Nucl.Phys. B394 (1993) 169-199
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90105-X
null
hep-ph
null
I show that factorization for hard processes in QCD is also valid when the detected particles are polarized, and that the proof of the theorem determines the operator form for the parton densities. Particular attention is given to the case of transversely polarized incoming hadrons.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:12:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Collins", "John C.", "" ] ]
I show that factorization for hard processes in QCD is also valid when the detected particles are polarized, and that the proof of the theorem determines the operator form for the parton densities. Particular attention is given to the case of transversely polarized incoming hadrons.
hep-ph/0001011
Li De-Ming
De-Min Li, Hong Yu and Qi-Xing Shen
Is $f_1(1420)$ the partner of $f_1(1285)$ in the $^3P_1$ $q\bar{q}$ nonet?
Latex, 6 pages, to be published in Chin. Phys. lett
Chin.Phys.Lett. 17 (2000) 558-559
10.1103/PhysRevE.67.036402
null
hep-ph
null
Based on a $2\times 2$ mass matrix, the mixing angle of the axial vector states $f_1(1420)$ and $f_1(1285)$ is determined to be $51.5^{\circ}$, and the theoretical results about the decay and production of the two states are presented. The theoretical results are in good agreement with the present experimental results, which suggests that $f_1(1420)$ can be assigned as the partner of $f_1(1285)$ in the $^3P_1$ $q\bar{q}$ nonet. We also suggest that the existence of $f_1(1510)$ needs further experimental confirmation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:20:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-29
[ [ "Li", "De-Min", "" ], [ "Yu", "Hong", "" ], [ "Shen", "Qi-Xing", "" ] ]
Based on a $2\times 2$ mass matrix, the mixing angle of the axial vector states $f_1(1420)$ and $f_1(1285)$ is determined to be $51.5^{\circ}$, and the theoretical results about the decay and production of the two states are presented. The theoretical results are in good agreement with the present experimental results, which suggests that $f_1(1420)$ can be assigned as the partner of $f_1(1285)$ in the $^3P_1$ $q\bar{q}$ nonet. We also suggest that the existence of $f_1(1510)$ needs further experimental confirmation.
2105.04255
Bastian Diaz
Basti\'an D\'iaz S\'aez, Patricio Escalona, Sebasti\'an Norero and Alfonso R. Zerwekh
Fermion Singlet Dark Matter in a Pseudoscalar Dark Matter Portal
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We explore a simple extension to the Standard Model containing two gauge singlets: a Dirac fermion and a real pseudoscalar. In some regions of the parameter space both singlets are stable without the necessity of additional symmetries, then becoming a possible two-component dark matter model. We study the relic abundance production via freeze-out, with the latter determined by annihilations, conversions and semi-annihilations. Experimental constraints from invisible Higgs decay, dark matter relic abundance and direct/indirect detection are studied. We found three viable regions of the parameter space, and the model is sensitive to indirect searches.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 May 2021 10:44:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Oct 2021 12:23:25 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-10-07
[ [ "Sáez", "Bastián Díaz", "" ], [ "Escalona", "Patricio", "" ], [ "Norero", "Sebastián", "" ], [ "Zerwekh", "Alfonso R.", "" ] ]
We explore a simple extension to the Standard Model containing two gauge singlets: a Dirac fermion and a real pseudoscalar. In some regions of the parameter space both singlets are stable without the necessity of additional symmetries, then becoming a possible two-component dark matter model. We study the relic abundance production via freeze-out, with the latter determined by annihilations, conversions and semi-annihilations. Experimental constraints from invisible Higgs decay, dark matter relic abundance and direct/indirect detection are studied. We found three viable regions of the parameter space, and the model is sensitive to indirect searches.
0905.1029
Rudolf Oldeman
R. G. C. Oldeman, M. Meloni, B. Saitta
Resonant antineutrino induced electron capture with low energy bound-beta beams
6 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables
Eur.Phys.J.C65:81-87,2010
10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1209-6
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Antineutrino induced electron capture is a resonant process that can have a larg e cross-section for beams of monochromatic antineutrinos. We calculate the cross-section of this process and investigate an experimental setup where monochromatic antineutrinos are produced from the bound-beta decay of fully ionized radioactive atoms in a storage ring. If the energy between the source and the target is well matched, the cross-sections can be significantly larger than the cross-sections of commonly used non-resonant processes. The rate that can be achieved at a small distance between the source and two targets of $10^3$ kg is up to one interaction per $8 .3\cdot10^{18}$ decaying atoms. For a source-target distance corresponding to the first atmospheric neutrino osc illation maximum, the largest rate is one interaction per $3.2\cdot10^{21}$ decaying atoms, provided that extremely stringent monochromaticity conditions ($10^{-7}$ or better) are achieved in future ion beams.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 May 2009 13:42:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Nov 2009 09:34:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-01-06
[ [ "Oldeman", "R. G. C.", "" ], [ "Meloni", "M.", "" ], [ "Saitta", "B.", "" ] ]
Antineutrino induced electron capture is a resonant process that can have a larg e cross-section for beams of monochromatic antineutrinos. We calculate the cross-section of this process and investigate an experimental setup where monochromatic antineutrinos are produced from the bound-beta decay of fully ionized radioactive atoms in a storage ring. If the energy between the source and the target is well matched, the cross-sections can be significantly larger than the cross-sections of commonly used non-resonant processes. The rate that can be achieved at a small distance between the source and two targets of $10^3$ kg is up to one interaction per $8 .3\cdot10^{18}$ decaying atoms. For a source-target distance corresponding to the first atmospheric neutrino osc illation maximum, the largest rate is one interaction per $3.2\cdot10^{21}$ decaying atoms, provided that extremely stringent monochromaticity conditions ($10^{-7}$ or better) are achieved in future ion beams.
1008.3636
Koji Ishiwata
Koji Ishiwata, Shigeki Matsumoto, Takeo Moroi
Decaying Dark Matter in Supersymmetric Model and Cosmic-Ray Observations
24 pages, 5 figures
JHEP 1012:006,2010
10.1007/JHEP12(2010)006
ICRR-Report 572-2010-5, UT-HET 044, UT-10-14
hep-ph astro-ph.GA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study cosmic-rays in decaying dark matter scenario, assuming that the dark matter is the lightest superparticle and it decays through a R-parity violating operator. We calculate the fluxes of cosmic-rays from the decay of the dark matter and those from the standard astrophysical phenomena in the same propagation model using the GALPROP package. We reevaluate the preferred parameters characterizing standard astrophysical cosmic-ray sources with taking account of the effects of dark matter decay. We show that, if energetic leptons are produced by the decay of the dark matter, the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron can be in good agreements with both PAMELA and Fermi-LAT data in wide parameter region. It is also discussed that, in the case where sizable number of hadrons are also produced by the decay of the dark matter, the mass of the dark matter is constrained to be less than 200-300 GeV in order to avoid the overproduction of anti-proton. We also show that the cosmic gamma-ray flux can be consistent with the results of Fermi-LAT observation if the mass of the dark matter is smaller than nearly 4 TeV.
[ { "created": "Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:44:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:01:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-12-14
[ [ "Ishiwata", "Koji", "" ], [ "Matsumoto", "Shigeki", "" ], [ "Moroi", "Takeo", "" ] ]
We study cosmic-rays in decaying dark matter scenario, assuming that the dark matter is the lightest superparticle and it decays through a R-parity violating operator. We calculate the fluxes of cosmic-rays from the decay of the dark matter and those from the standard astrophysical phenomena in the same propagation model using the GALPROP package. We reevaluate the preferred parameters characterizing standard astrophysical cosmic-ray sources with taking account of the effects of dark matter decay. We show that, if energetic leptons are produced by the decay of the dark matter, the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron can be in good agreements with both PAMELA and Fermi-LAT data in wide parameter region. It is also discussed that, in the case where sizable number of hadrons are also produced by the decay of the dark matter, the mass of the dark matter is constrained to be less than 200-300 GeV in order to avoid the overproduction of anti-proton. We also show that the cosmic gamma-ray flux can be consistent with the results of Fermi-LAT observation if the mass of the dark matter is smaller than nearly 4 TeV.
hep-ph/0512089
Babiker Hassanain mr
Thomas Hambye, Babiker Hassanain, John March-Russell, and Martin Schvellinger
On the Delta I = 1/2 Rule in Holographic QCD
4 pages, 1 figure, numerical factor corrected, references added
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 026003
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.026003
OUTP 05 12P
hep-ph
null
We study the $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule for kaon decays and the $B_K$ parameter for $K^0 - {\bar K}^0$ mixing in a dual 5-dimensional holographic QCD model. We perform, in the chiral limit, computations of the relevant four-point current-current correlators, which depend upon self-interactions among the 5D bulk fields. Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking ($\chi$SB) is realized through boundary conditions on the bulk fields. Numerical results are analyzed in comparison with QCD, chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT) and data, finding reasonable agreement with the experimental values of the $g_8$ and $g_{27}$ parameters describing the $\Delta I =1/2,3/2$ decay channels.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:51:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 4 Apr 2006 09:46:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Hambye", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Hassanain", "Babiker", "" ], [ "March-Russell", "John", "" ], [ "Schvellinger", "Martin", "" ] ]
We study the $\Delta I = 1/2$ rule for kaon decays and the $B_K$ parameter for $K^0 - {\bar K}^0$ mixing in a dual 5-dimensional holographic QCD model. We perform, in the chiral limit, computations of the relevant four-point current-current correlators, which depend upon self-interactions among the 5D bulk fields. Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking ($\chi$SB) is realized through boundary conditions on the bulk fields. Numerical results are analyzed in comparison with QCD, chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT) and data, finding reasonable agreement with the experimental values of the $g_8$ and $g_{27}$ parameters describing the $\Delta I =1/2,3/2$ decay channels.
hep-ph/9702442
Tarakeshwar Dasgupta
Tarakeshwar Dasgupta and Pran Nath
R_b in Supergravity Grand Unification with Non-universal Soft SUSY Breaking
null
Phys.Rev.D56:4194-4197,1997
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.4194
null
hep-ph
null
An analysis of supersymmetric contributions to R_b in supergravity grand unification with non-universal boundary conditions on soft SUSY breaking in the scalar sector is given. Effects on R_b of Planck scale corrections on gaugino masses are also analysed. It is found that there exist regions of the parameter space where positive corrections to R_b of size $\sim 1 \sigma$ can be gotten. The region of the parameter space where enhancement of R_b occurs is identified. Prediction of the full sparticle spectrum for the maximal R_b case is given. The analysis has implications for the discovery of supersymmetric particles at colliders.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Feb 1997 23:02:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-06-02
[ [ "Dasgupta", "Tarakeshwar", "" ], [ "Nath", "Pran", "" ] ]
An analysis of supersymmetric contributions to R_b in supergravity grand unification with non-universal boundary conditions on soft SUSY breaking in the scalar sector is given. Effects on R_b of Planck scale corrections on gaugino masses are also analysed. It is found that there exist regions of the parameter space where positive corrections to R_b of size $\sim 1 \sigma$ can be gotten. The region of the parameter space where enhancement of R_b occurs is identified. Prediction of the full sparticle spectrum for the maximal R_b case is given. The analysis has implications for the discovery of supersymmetric particles at colliders.
1602.01994
Yutaka Sakamura
Yoshio Matsumoto and Yutaka Sakamura
Yukawa couplings in 6D gauge-Higgs unification on $T^2/Z_N$ with magnetic fluxes
36 pages, typos corrected
null
10.1093/ptep/ptw058
KEK-TH-1888
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the Yukawa couplings in 6D gauge-Higgs unification models on $T^2/Z_N$ in the presence of magnetic fluxes. We provide general formulae for them, and numerically evaluate their magnitude in a specific model on $T^2/Z_3$. Thanks to the nontrivial profiles of the zero-mode wave functions, the top quark Yukawa coupling can be reproduced without introducing a large representation of the gauge group for matter fields. However, it is difficult to realize small Yukawa couplings only by the magnetic fluxes and the Wilson-line phases because of the complicated structure of the mode functions on $T^2/Z_N$ ($N=3,4,6$).
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:49:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 May 2016 08:08:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-06-21
[ [ "Matsumoto", "Yoshio", "" ], [ "Sakamura", "Yutaka", "" ] ]
We discuss the Yukawa couplings in 6D gauge-Higgs unification models on $T^2/Z_N$ in the presence of magnetic fluxes. We provide general formulae for them, and numerically evaluate their magnitude in a specific model on $T^2/Z_3$. Thanks to the nontrivial profiles of the zero-mode wave functions, the top quark Yukawa coupling can be reproduced without introducing a large representation of the gauge group for matter fields. However, it is difficult to realize small Yukawa couplings only by the magnetic fluxes and the Wilson-line phases because of the complicated structure of the mode functions on $T^2/Z_N$ ($N=3,4,6$).
2406.18469
Polina Moskvitina
Sascha Caron, Jos\'e Enrique Garc\'ia Navarro, Mar\'ia Moreno Ll\'acer, Polina Moskvitina, Mats Rovers, Adri\'an Rubio J\'imenez, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Zhongyi Zhang
Universal Anomaly Detection at the LHC: Transforming Optimal Classifiers and the DDD Method
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by training a discriminator model on both original and artificially modified datasets. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of our models on the Dark Machines Anomaly Score Challenge channels and a search for 4-top quark events, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach across various final states and beyond the Standard Model scenarios. We compare the performance of the DDD method with the Deep Robust One-Class Classification method (DROCC), which incorporates signals in the training process, and the Deep Support Vector Data Description (DeepSVDD) method, a well established and well performing method for anomaly detection. Results show that the effectiveness of each model varies by signal and channel, with DDD proving to be a very effective anomaly detector. We recommend the combined use of DeepSVDD and DDD for purely unsupervised applications, with the addition of flow models for improved performance when resources allow. Findings suggest that network architectures that excel in supervised contexts, such as the particle transformer with standard model interactions, also perform well as unsupervised anomaly detectors. We also show that with these methods, it is likely possible to recognize 4-top quark production as an anomaly without prior knowledge of the process. We argue that the Large Hadron Collider community can transform supervised classifiers into anomaly detectors to uncover potential new physical phenomena in each search.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:27:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:29:29 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-23
[ [ "Caron", "Sascha", "" ], [ "Navarro", "José Enrique García", "" ], [ "Llácer", "María Moreno", "" ], [ "Moskvitina", "Polina", "" ], [ "Rovers", "Mats", "" ], [ "Jímenez", "Adrián Rubio", "" ], [ "de Austri", "...
In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by training a discriminator model on both original and artificially modified datasets. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of our models on the Dark Machines Anomaly Score Challenge channels and a search for 4-top quark events, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach across various final states and beyond the Standard Model scenarios. We compare the performance of the DDD method with the Deep Robust One-Class Classification method (DROCC), which incorporates signals in the training process, and the Deep Support Vector Data Description (DeepSVDD) method, a well established and well performing method for anomaly detection. Results show that the effectiveness of each model varies by signal and channel, with DDD proving to be a very effective anomaly detector. We recommend the combined use of DeepSVDD and DDD for purely unsupervised applications, with the addition of flow models for improved performance when resources allow. Findings suggest that network architectures that excel in supervised contexts, such as the particle transformer with standard model interactions, also perform well as unsupervised anomaly detectors. We also show that with these methods, it is likely possible to recognize 4-top quark production as an anomaly without prior knowledge of the process. We argue that the Large Hadron Collider community can transform supervised classifiers into anomaly detectors to uncover potential new physical phenomena in each search.
hep-ph/0204337
Pavel Pobylitsa
P.V. Pobylitsa
Positivity bounds on generalized parton distributions in impact parameter representation
8 pages
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 094002
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.094002
null
hep-ph
null
New positivity bounds are derived for generalized (off-forward) parton distributions using the impact parameter representation. These inequalities are stable under the evolution to higher normalization points. The full set of inequalities is infinite. Several particular cases are considered explicitly.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:32:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:23:54 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:08:55 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Pobylitsa", "P. V.", "" ] ]
New positivity bounds are derived for generalized (off-forward) parton distributions using the impact parameter representation. These inequalities are stable under the evolution to higher normalization points. The full set of inequalities is infinite. Several particular cases are considered explicitly.
1502.05250
George Rupp
George Rupp, Eef van Beveren, and Susana Coito
No serious meson spectroscopy without scattering
6 pages, 5 figures (7 plots), appolb style, Talk given by G. Rupp at the "EEF70" Workshop on Unquenched Hadron Spectroscopy: Non-Perturbative Models and Methods of QCD, Coimbra, 1-5 Sept. 2014, Conference no. C14-09-01.4
Acta Phys. Pol. B Proc. Suppl. 8 (2015) 139
10.5506/APhysPolBSupp.8.139
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The principal purpose of meson spectroscopy is to understand the confining force, which is generally assumed to be based on low-energy QCD. This is usually done in the context of quark models that ignore the dynamical effects of quark-pair creation and decay. Very recent lattice calculations confirm much earlier model results showing that neglecting such effects, in the so-called quenched approximation, may give rise to discrepancies of hundreds of MeV, and so distort the meson spectra resulting from quark confinement only. Models attempting to mimic unquenching through a redefinition of the constituent quark mass or screening of the confining potential at larger interquark separations are clearly incapable of accounting for the highly non-perturbative and non-linear effects on mesonic bound-state and resonance poles, as demonstrated with several published examples.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:34:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-03-12
[ [ "Rupp", "George", "" ], [ "van Beveren", "Eef", "" ], [ "Coito", "Susana", "" ] ]
The principal purpose of meson spectroscopy is to understand the confining force, which is generally assumed to be based on low-energy QCD. This is usually done in the context of quark models that ignore the dynamical effects of quark-pair creation and decay. Very recent lattice calculations confirm much earlier model results showing that neglecting such effects, in the so-called quenched approximation, may give rise to discrepancies of hundreds of MeV, and so distort the meson spectra resulting from quark confinement only. Models attempting to mimic unquenching through a redefinition of the constituent quark mass or screening of the confining potential at larger interquark separations are clearly incapable of accounting for the highly non-perturbative and non-linear effects on mesonic bound-state and resonance poles, as demonstrated with several published examples.
0709.1772
Kyungil Kim
Kyung-il Kim, Youngman Kim, Su Houng Lee
Isospin Matter in AdS/QCD
20 pages, 4 figures. This paper is extened version with changed title to be published in JKPS
Journal of the Korean Physical Society 2009 55:1381-1388
null
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study strange and isospin asymmetric matter in a bottom-up AdS/QCD model. We first consider isospin matter, which has served as a good testing ground for nonperturbative QCD. We calculate the isospin chemical potential dependence of hadronic observables such as the masses and the decay constants of the pseudo-scalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons. We discuss a possibility of the charged pion condensation in the matter within the bottom-up AdS/QCD model. Then, we study the properties of the hadronic observables in strange matter. We calculate the deconfinement temperature in strange and isospin asymmetric matter. One of the interesting results of our study is that the critical temperature at a fixed baryon number density increases when the strangeness chemical potential is introduced. This suggests that if matter undergoes a first-order transition to strange matter, the critical temperature shows a sudden jump at the transition point.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:58:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:05:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-27
[ [ "Kim", "Kyung-il", "" ], [ "Kim", "Youngman", "" ], [ "Lee", "Su Houng", "" ] ]
We study strange and isospin asymmetric matter in a bottom-up AdS/QCD model. We first consider isospin matter, which has served as a good testing ground for nonperturbative QCD. We calculate the isospin chemical potential dependence of hadronic observables such as the masses and the decay constants of the pseudo-scalar, vector, and axial-vector mesons. We discuss a possibility of the charged pion condensation in the matter within the bottom-up AdS/QCD model. Then, we study the properties of the hadronic observables in strange matter. We calculate the deconfinement temperature in strange and isospin asymmetric matter. One of the interesting results of our study is that the critical temperature at a fixed baryon number density increases when the strangeness chemical potential is introduced. This suggests that if matter undergoes a first-order transition to strange matter, the critical temperature shows a sudden jump at the transition point.
2101.04956
Guo-Yuan Huang
Guo-yuan Huang, Farinaldo S. Queiroz and Werner Rodejohann
Gauged $L^{}_{\mu}{-}L^{}_{\tau}$ at a muon collider
9 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. D 103, 095005 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.095005
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate the sensitivity of the projected TeV muon collider to the gauged $L^{}_{\mu}$-$L^{}_{\tau}$ model. Two processes are considered: $Z'$-mediated two-body scatterings $\mu^+ \mu^- \to \ell^+ \ell^-$ with $\ell = \mu$ or $\tau$, and scattering with initial state photon emission, $\mu^+ \mu^- \to \gamma Z',~Z' \to \ell \overline{\ell}$, where $\ell$ can be $\mu$, $\tau$ or $\nu_{\mu/\tau}$. We quantitatively study the sensitivities of these two processes by taking into account possible signals and relevant backgrounds in a muon collider experiment with a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 3~{\rm TeV}$ and a luminosity $L=1~{\rm ab^{-1}}$. For two-body scattering one can exclude $Z'$ masses $M^{}_{Z'} \lesssim 100~{\rm TeV}$ with $\mathcal{O}(1)$ gauge couplings. When $M^{}_{Z'} \lesssim 1~{\rm TeV} <\sqrt{s}$, one can exclude $g' \gtrsim 2\times 10^{-2}$. The process with photon emission is more powerful than the two-body scattering if $M^{}_{Z'} < \sqrt{s}$. For instance, a sensitivity of $g' \simeq 4 \times 10^{-3}$ can be achieved at $M^{}_{Z'} = 1~{\rm TeV}$. The parameter spaces favored by the $(g-2)^{}_{\mu}$ and $B$ anomalies with $M^{}_{Z'} > 100~{\rm GeV}$ are entirely covered by a muon collider.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:40:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-05-12
[ [ "Huang", "Guo-yuan", "" ], [ "Queiroz", "Farinaldo S.", "" ], [ "Rodejohann", "Werner", "" ] ]
We investigate the sensitivity of the projected TeV muon collider to the gauged $L^{}_{\mu}$-$L^{}_{\tau}$ model. Two processes are considered: $Z'$-mediated two-body scatterings $\mu^+ \mu^- \to \ell^+ \ell^-$ with $\ell = \mu$ or $\tau$, and scattering with initial state photon emission, $\mu^+ \mu^- \to \gamma Z',~Z' \to \ell \overline{\ell}$, where $\ell$ can be $\mu$, $\tau$ or $\nu_{\mu/\tau}$. We quantitatively study the sensitivities of these two processes by taking into account possible signals and relevant backgrounds in a muon collider experiment with a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 3~{\rm TeV}$ and a luminosity $L=1~{\rm ab^{-1}}$. For two-body scattering one can exclude $Z'$ masses $M^{}_{Z'} \lesssim 100~{\rm TeV}$ with $\mathcal{O}(1)$ gauge couplings. When $M^{}_{Z'} \lesssim 1~{\rm TeV} <\sqrt{s}$, one can exclude $g' \gtrsim 2\times 10^{-2}$. The process with photon emission is more powerful than the two-body scattering if $M^{}_{Z'} < \sqrt{s}$. For instance, a sensitivity of $g' \simeq 4 \times 10^{-3}$ can be achieved at $M^{}_{Z'} = 1~{\rm TeV}$. The parameter spaces favored by the $(g-2)^{}_{\mu}$ and $B$ anomalies with $M^{}_{Z'} > 100~{\rm GeV}$ are entirely covered by a muon collider.
hep-ph/0607122
Joan Rojo
Joan Rojo
The neural network approach to parton distribution functions
Ph. D. Thesis, 163 pages, version with higher resolution figures available from the following website: http://www.ecm.ub.es/~joanrojo/thesis.pdf
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We introduce the neural network approach to the parametrization of parton distributions. After a general introduction, we present in detail our approach to parametrize experimental data, based on a combination of Monte Carlo methods and neural networks. We apply this strategy first in three different cases: the proton structure function, hadronic tau decays and B meson decay spectra. Finally we describe the neural network approach applied to the parametrization of parton distribution functions, and present results on the nonsinglet parton distribution.
[ { "created": "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:16:35 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Rojo", "Joan", "" ] ]
We introduce the neural network approach to the parametrization of parton distributions. After a general introduction, we present in detail our approach to parametrize experimental data, based on a combination of Monte Carlo methods and neural networks. We apply this strategy first in three different cases: the proton structure function, hadronic tau decays and B meson decay spectra. Finally we describe the neural network approach applied to the parametrization of parton distribution functions, and present results on the nonsinglet parton distribution.
1312.3348
Dmitri Kharzeev
Dmitri E. Kharzeev
The Chiral Magnetic Effect and Anomaly-Induced Transport
48 pages, 5 figures; minor improvements, final version to appear in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
null
10.1016/j.ppnp.2014.01.002
null
hep-ph cond-mat.mes-hall hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral anomaly creating a collective motion in Dirac sea. Because the chirality imbalance is related to the global topology of gauge fields, the CME current is topologically protected and hence non-dissipative even in the presence of strong interactions. As a result, the CME and related quantum phenomena affect the hydrodynamical and transport behavior of systems possessing chiral fermions, from the quark-gluon plasma to chiral materials. The goal of the present review is to provide an elementary introduction into the main ideas underlying the physics of CME, a historical perspective, and a guide to the rapidly growing literature on this topic.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:18:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:57:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-03-05
[ [ "Kharzeev", "Dmitri E.", "" ] ]
The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral anomaly creating a collective motion in Dirac sea. Because the chirality imbalance is related to the global topology of gauge fields, the CME current is topologically protected and hence non-dissipative even in the presence of strong interactions. As a result, the CME and related quantum phenomena affect the hydrodynamical and transport behavior of systems possessing chiral fermions, from the quark-gluon plasma to chiral materials. The goal of the present review is to provide an elementary introduction into the main ideas underlying the physics of CME, a historical perspective, and a guide to the rapidly growing literature on this topic.
hep-ph/0207360
Jihn E. Kim
Jihn E. Kim
A review of self-tuning solutions of cosmological constant
LaTeX file of 15 pages, including figures. "5th Int. UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe", Marina del Rey, CA, 20-22 Feb. 2002. SNUTP-02/023
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The self-tuning solutions of the cosmological constant is reviewed, with the emphasis on the recent attempts in extra dimensional gravity with a brane boundary.
[ { "created": "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:15:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kim", "Jihn E.", "" ] ]
The self-tuning solutions of the cosmological constant is reviewed, with the emphasis on the recent attempts in extra dimensional gravity with a brane boundary.
hep-ph/9309335
Nathan Seiberg
N. Seiberg
Naturalness Versus Supersymmetric Non-renormalization Theorems
14 pages, RU-93-45
Phys.Lett.B318:469-475,1993
10.1016/0370-2693(93)91541-T
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
We give an intuitive proof of a new non-renormalization theorem in supersymmetric field theories. It applies both perturbatively and non-perturbatively. The superpotential is not renormalized in perturbation theory but receives non-perturbative corrections. However, these non-perturbative corrections are {\it not} generic functions of the fields consistent with the symmetries. Certain invariant terms are not generated. This violation of naturalness has applications to dynamical supersymmetry breaking.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Sep 1993 19:39:30 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Seiberg", "N.", "" ] ]
We give an intuitive proof of a new non-renormalization theorem in supersymmetric field theories. It applies both perturbatively and non-perturbatively. The superpotential is not renormalized in perturbation theory but receives non-perturbative corrections. However, these non-perturbative corrections are {\it not} generic functions of the fields consistent with the symmetries. Certain invariant terms are not generated. This violation of naturalness has applications to dynamical supersymmetry breaking.
1105.4899
Wayne de Paula
O. Oliveira, W. de Paula and T. Frederico
Linking Dynamical Gluon Mass to Chiral Symmetry Breaking via a QCD Low Energy Effective Field Theory
null
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A low energy effective field theory model for QCD with a scalar color octet field is discussed. The model relates the gluon mass, the constituent quark masses and the quark condensate. The gluon mass comes about $\sqrt{N_c}\, \Lambda_{QCD}$ with the quark condensate being proportional to the gluon mass squared. The model suggests that the restoration of chiral symmetry and the deconfinement transition occur at the same temperature and that, near the transition, the critical exponent for the condensate is twice the gluon mass one. The model also favors the decoupling like solution for the gluon propagator.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 May 2011 21:17:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-05-27
[ [ "Oliveira", "O.", "" ], [ "de Paula", "W.", "" ], [ "Frederico", "T.", "" ] ]
A low energy effective field theory model for QCD with a scalar color octet field is discussed. The model relates the gluon mass, the constituent quark masses and the quark condensate. The gluon mass comes about $\sqrt{N_c}\, \Lambda_{QCD}$ with the quark condensate being proportional to the gluon mass squared. The model suggests that the restoration of chiral symmetry and the deconfinement transition occur at the same temperature and that, near the transition, the critical exponent for the condensate is twice the gluon mass one. The model also favors the decoupling like solution for the gluon propagator.
1606.07764
Antonio Pich
Antonio Pich and Antonio Rodr\'iguez S\'anchez
Updated determination of $\alpha_s(m_\tau^2)$ from tau decays
Invited contribution to the MITP workshop on Determination of the Fundamental Parameters in QCD (Mainz, 7-11 March 2016). 15 pages, 8 figures
null
10.1142/S0217732316300329
IFIC/16-36, FTUV/16-0624
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the most recent release of the ALEPH $\tau$ decay data, we present a very detailed phenomenological update of the $\alpha_s(m_\tau^2)$ determination. We have exploited the sensitivity to the strong coupling in many different ways, exploring several complementary methodologies. All determinations turn out to be in excellent agreement, allowing us to extract a very reliable value of the strong coupling. We find $\alpha_{s}^{(n_f=3)}(m_\tau^2) = 0.328 \pm 0.012$ which implies $\alpha_{s}^{(n_f=5)}(M_Z^{2}) = 0.1197\pm 0.0014$. We critically revise previous work, and point out the problems flawing some recent analyses which claim slightly smaller values.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:01:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-10-12
[ [ "Pich", "Antonio", "" ], [ "Sánchez", "Antonio Rodríguez", "" ] ]
Using the most recent release of the ALEPH $\tau$ decay data, we present a very detailed phenomenological update of the $\alpha_s(m_\tau^2)$ determination. We have exploited the sensitivity to the strong coupling in many different ways, exploring several complementary methodologies. All determinations turn out to be in excellent agreement, allowing us to extract a very reliable value of the strong coupling. We find $\alpha_{s}^{(n_f=3)}(m_\tau^2) = 0.328 \pm 0.012$ which implies $\alpha_{s}^{(n_f=5)}(M_Z^{2}) = 0.1197\pm 0.0014$. We critically revise previous work, and point out the problems flawing some recent analyses which claim slightly smaller values.
2112.01395
Fei Gao
Fei Gao, Jan M. Pawlowski
Phase structure of 2+1-flavour QCD and the magnetic equation of state
20 pages, 13 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.094020
null
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We determine the chiral phase structure of $2+1$-flavour QCD in dependence of temperature and the light flavour quark mass with Dyson-Schwinger equations. Specifically, we compute the renormalised chiral condensate and its susceptibility. The latter is used to determine the (pseudo)critical temperature for general light current quark masses. In the chiral limit we obtain a critical temperature of about 141\,MeV. This result is in quantitative agreement with recent functional renormalisation group results in QCD, and is compatible with the respective lattice results. We also compute the order parameter potential of the light chiral condensate and map out the regime in the phase diagram which exhibits quasi-massless modes, and discuss the respective chiral dynamics.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Dec 2021 07:02:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-06-01
[ [ "Gao", "Fei", "" ], [ "Pawlowski", "Jan M.", "" ] ]
We determine the chiral phase structure of $2+1$-flavour QCD in dependence of temperature and the light flavour quark mass with Dyson-Schwinger equations. Specifically, we compute the renormalised chiral condensate and its susceptibility. The latter is used to determine the (pseudo)critical temperature for general light current quark masses. In the chiral limit we obtain a critical temperature of about 141\,MeV. This result is in quantitative agreement with recent functional renormalisation group results in QCD, and is compatible with the respective lattice results. We also compute the order parameter potential of the light chiral condensate and map out the regime in the phase diagram which exhibits quasi-massless modes, and discuss the respective chiral dynamics.
2207.04085
Iv\'an Pacheco
Iv\'an Pacheco and Pablo Roig
Lepton Flavour Violation in Hadron Decays of the Tau Lepton within the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity
36 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables. Improved presentation and more concise phenomenological analysis. Version accepted for publication in JHEP
JHEP09(2022)144
10.1007/JHEP09(2022)144
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We first study the hadronic lepton flavor violating tau decays within the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (including one or two pseudoscalars, or a vector resonance). We consider the case where only T-odd particles and partner fermions contribute, and also its extension including Majorana neutrinos coming from an inverse seesaw. In both cases our mean values lie only one order of magnitude below current upper limits, strengthening the case of searching for these decays in the quest for new physics.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Jul 2022 18:19:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 1 Sep 2022 19:13:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-09-22
[ [ "Pacheco", "Iván", "" ], [ "Roig", "Pablo", "" ] ]
We first study the hadronic lepton flavor violating tau decays within the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (including one or two pseudoscalars, or a vector resonance). We consider the case where only T-odd particles and partner fermions contribute, and also its extension including Majorana neutrinos coming from an inverse seesaw. In both cases our mean values lie only one order of magnitude below current upper limits, strengthening the case of searching for these decays in the quest for new physics.
1706.08994
Gretel Quintero Angulo
G. Quintero Angulo, A. P\'erez Mart\'inez and H. P\'erez Rojas
Thermodynamical properties of a neutral vector boson gas in a constant magnetic field
17 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. C 96, 045810 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevC.96.045810
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The thermodynamical properties of a neutral vector boson gas in a constant magnetic field are studied starting from the spectrum given by Proca formalism. Bose Einstein Condensation (BEC) and magnetization are obtained, for the three and one dimensional cases, in the limit of low temperatures. In three dimensions the gas undergoes a phase transition to an usual BEC in which the critical temperature depends on the magnetic field. In one dimension a diffuse condensate appears as for the charged vector boson gas. In both cases, the condensation is reached not only by decreasing the temperature but also by increasing the magnetic field. In three and one dimensions self-magnetization is possible. The anisotropy in the pressures due to axial symmetry imposed to the system by the magnetic field is also discussed. The astrophysical implications are commented.
[ { "created": "Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:18:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:49:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-10-25
[ [ "Angulo", "G. Quintero", "" ], [ "Martínez", "A. Pérez", "" ], [ "Rojas", "H. Pérez", "" ] ]
The thermodynamical properties of a neutral vector boson gas in a constant magnetic field are studied starting from the spectrum given by Proca formalism. Bose Einstein Condensation (BEC) and magnetization are obtained, for the three and one dimensional cases, in the limit of low temperatures. In three dimensions the gas undergoes a phase transition to an usual BEC in which the critical temperature depends on the magnetic field. In one dimension a diffuse condensate appears as for the charged vector boson gas. In both cases, the condensation is reached not only by decreasing the temperature but also by increasing the magnetic field. In three and one dimensions self-magnetization is possible. The anisotropy in the pressures due to axial symmetry imposed to the system by the magnetic field is also discussed. The astrophysical implications are commented.
hep-ph/9702311
Nico Schoonderwoerd
N. C. J. Schoonderwoerd and B. L. G. Bakker (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Equivalence of renormalized covariant and light-front perturbation theory: I. Longitudinal divergences in the Yukawa model
11 pages, epsf, revtex, contains more elaborate explanation of Forced Instantaneous Loops (FILs)
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.4965
VUTH 97-4
hep-ph hep-th
null
Light-front perturbation theory has been proposed as an alternative to covariant perturbation theory. Light-front perturbation theory is only acceptable if it produces invariant S-matrix elements. Doubts have been raised concerning the equivalence of light-front and covariant perturbation theory. One of the obstacles to a rigorous proof of equivalence is the occurrence of longitudinal divergences not present in covariant perturbation theory. We show in the case of the Yukawa model of fermions interacting with scalar bosons at the one-loop level how to deal with the longitudinal divergences. Invariant S-matrix elements are obtained using our method.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:56:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:45:30 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:22:17 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 09:54:51 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Schoonderwoerd", "N. C. J.", "", "Department of Physics and\n Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands" ], [ "Bakker", "B. L. G.", "", "Department of Physics and\n Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands" ] ]
Light-front perturbation theory has been proposed as an alternative to covariant perturbation theory. Light-front perturbation theory is only acceptable if it produces invariant S-matrix elements. Doubts have been raised concerning the equivalence of light-front and covariant perturbation theory. One of the obstacles to a rigorous proof of equivalence is the occurrence of longitudinal divergences not present in covariant perturbation theory. We show in the case of the Yukawa model of fermions interacting with scalar bosons at the one-loop level how to deal with the longitudinal divergences. Invariant S-matrix elements are obtained using our method.
hep-ph/9809244
Stefano Moretti
S. Moretti (RAL, UK) and K. Odagiri (Cambridge, UK)
The phenomenology of $W^\pm H^\mp$ production at the Large Hadron Collider
17 pages, latex, epsfig, 8 figures (paper also available at http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/theory/papers/ )
Phys.Rev.D59:055008,1999
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.055008
RAL-TR-1998-063, Cavendish-HEP-98/13
hep-ph
null
Barrientos Bendezu' and Kniehl [hep-ph/9807480] recently suggested that $W^\pm H^\mp$ associated production may be a useful channel in the search for the elusive heavy charged Higgs bosons of the 2 Higgs Doublet Model at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate the phenomenology of this mechanism in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with special attention paid to the most likely heavy Higgs decay, $H^\mp\to tb\to b\bar b W^\mp$, and to the irreducible background from top pair production. We find that the semi-leptonic signature `$b\bar b W^+W^-\to b\bar b jj \ell$ + missing momentum' is dominated by top-antitop events, which overwhelm the charged Higgs signal over the heavy mass range that can be probed at the CERN collider
[ { "created": "Thu, 3 Sep 1998 10:16:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Moretti", "S.", "", "RAL, UK" ], [ "Odagiri", "K.", "", "Cambridge, UK" ] ]
Barrientos Bendezu' and Kniehl [hep-ph/9807480] recently suggested that $W^\pm H^\mp$ associated production may be a useful channel in the search for the elusive heavy charged Higgs bosons of the 2 Higgs Doublet Model at the Large Hadron Collider. We investigate the phenomenology of this mechanism in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, with special attention paid to the most likely heavy Higgs decay, $H^\mp\to tb\to b\bar b W^\mp$, and to the irreducible background from top pair production. We find that the semi-leptonic signature `$b\bar b W^+W^-\to b\bar b jj \ell$ + missing momentum' is dominated by top-antitop events, which overwhelm the charged Higgs signal over the heavy mass range that can be probed at the CERN collider
0906.1229
Thomas A. Trainor
Thomas A. Trainor
Is hydrodynamics relevant to RHIC collisions?
19 pages, 17 figures
J.Phys.G37:085004,2010
10.1088/0954-3899/37/8/085004
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The hydrodynamic (hydro) model applied to heavy ion data from the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) in the form of single-particle spectra and correlations seems to indicate that a dense QCD medium nearly opaque to partons, a strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP), is formed in more-central Au-Au collisions, and that the sQGP may have a very small viscosity ("perfect liquid"). Measurements of radial and elliptic flows, with possible coalescence of "constituent quarks" to form hadrons, seem to support the conclusion. However, other measurements provide contradictory evidence. Unbiased angular correlations indicate that a large number of back-to-back jets from initial-state scattered partons with energies as low as 3 GeV survive as "minijet" hadron correlations even in central Au-Au collisions, suggesting near transparency. Two-component analysis of single-particle hadron spectra reveals a corresponding spectrum hard component (parton fragment distribution described by pQCD) which can masquerade as "radial flow" in some spectrum analysis. Reinterpretation of "elliptic flow" as a QCD scattering process resulting in fragmentation is also possible. In this paper I review analysis methods and results in the context of two paradigms: the conventional hydrodynamics/hard-probes paradigm and an alternative quadrupole/minijets paradigm. Based on re-interpretation of fiducial data I argue that hydrodynamics may not be relevant to RHIC collisions. Collision evolution may be dominated by parton scattering and fragmentation, albeit the fragmentation process is strongly modified in more-central A-A collisions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:56:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Trainor", "Thomas A.", "" ] ]
The hydrodynamic (hydro) model applied to heavy ion data from the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) in the form of single-particle spectra and correlations seems to indicate that a dense QCD medium nearly opaque to partons, a strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP), is formed in more-central Au-Au collisions, and that the sQGP may have a very small viscosity ("perfect liquid"). Measurements of radial and elliptic flows, with possible coalescence of "constituent quarks" to form hadrons, seem to support the conclusion. However, other measurements provide contradictory evidence. Unbiased angular correlations indicate that a large number of back-to-back jets from initial-state scattered partons with energies as low as 3 GeV survive as "minijet" hadron correlations even in central Au-Au collisions, suggesting near transparency. Two-component analysis of single-particle hadron spectra reveals a corresponding spectrum hard component (parton fragment distribution described by pQCD) which can masquerade as "radial flow" in some spectrum analysis. Reinterpretation of "elliptic flow" as a QCD scattering process resulting in fragmentation is also possible. In this paper I review analysis methods and results in the context of two paradigms: the conventional hydrodynamics/hard-probes paradigm and an alternative quadrupole/minijets paradigm. Based on re-interpretation of fiducial data I argue that hydrodynamics may not be relevant to RHIC collisions. Collision evolution may be dominated by parton scattering and fragmentation, albeit the fragmentation process is strongly modified in more-central A-A collisions.
2103.14022
Jos\'e Eliel Camargo Molina
Jos\'e Eliel Camargo-Molina, Rikard Enberg, Johan L\"ofgren
A new perspective on the electroweak phase transition in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory
18 pages, 5 figures (version accepted for publication, minor changes)
J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 127 (2021)
10.1007/JHEP10(2021)127
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A first-order Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) could explain the observed baryon-antibaryon asymmetry and its dynamics could yield a detectable gravitational wave signature, while the underlying physics would be within the reach of colliders. The Standard Model, however, predicts a crossover transition. We therefore study the EWPT in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) including dimension-six operators. A first-order EWPT has previously been shown to be possible in the SMEFT. Phenomenology studies have focused on scenarios with a tree-level barrier between minima, which requires a negative Higgs quartic coupling and a new physics scale low enough to raise questions about the validity of the EFT approach. In this work we stress that a first-order EWPT is also possible when the barrier between minima is generated radiatively, the quartic coupling is positive, the scale of new physics is higher, and there is good agreement with experimental bounds. Our calculation is done in a consistent, gauge-invariant way, and we carefully analyze the scaling of parameters necessary to generate a barrier in the potential. We perform a global fit in the relevant parameter space and explicitly find the points with a first-order transition that agree with experimental data. We also briefly discuss the prospects for probing the allowed parameter space using di-Higgs production in colliders.
[ { "created": "Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:58:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:49:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:54:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-10-20
[ [ "Camargo-Molina", "José Eliel", "" ], [ "Enberg", "Rikard", "" ], [ "Löfgren", "Johan", "" ] ]
A first-order Electroweak Phase Transition (EWPT) could explain the observed baryon-antibaryon asymmetry and its dynamics could yield a detectable gravitational wave signature, while the underlying physics would be within the reach of colliders. The Standard Model, however, predicts a crossover transition. We therefore study the EWPT in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) including dimension-six operators. A first-order EWPT has previously been shown to be possible in the SMEFT. Phenomenology studies have focused on scenarios with a tree-level barrier between minima, which requires a negative Higgs quartic coupling and a new physics scale low enough to raise questions about the validity of the EFT approach. In this work we stress that a first-order EWPT is also possible when the barrier between minima is generated radiatively, the quartic coupling is positive, the scale of new physics is higher, and there is good agreement with experimental bounds. Our calculation is done in a consistent, gauge-invariant way, and we carefully analyze the scaling of parameters necessary to generate a barrier in the potential. We perform a global fit in the relevant parameter space and explicitly find the points with a first-order transition that agree with experimental data. We also briefly discuss the prospects for probing the allowed parameter space using di-Higgs production in colliders.
1804.09278
Thomas Roxlo
Thomas Roxlo and Matthew Reece
Opening the black box of neural nets: case studies in stop/top discrimination
null
null
null
null
hep-ph stat.ML
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce techniques for exploring the functionality of a neural network and extracting simple, human-readable approximations to its performance. By performing gradient ascent on the input space of the network, we are able to produce large populations of artificial events which strongly excite a given classifier. By studying the populations of these events, we then directly produce what are essentially contour maps of the network's classification function. Combined with a suite of tools for identifying the input dimensions deemed most important by the network, we can utilize these maps to efficiently interpret the dominant criteria by which the network makes its classification. As a test case, we study networks trained to discriminate supersymmetric stop production in the dilepton channel from Standard Model backgrounds. In the case of a heavy stop decaying to a light neutralino, we find individual neurons with large mutual information with $m_{T2}^{\ell\ell}$, a human-designed variable for optimizing the analysis. The network selects events with significant missing $p_T$ oriented azimuthally away from both leptons, efficiently rejecting $t\overline{t}$ background. In the case of a light stop with three-body decays to $Wb{\widetilde \chi}$ and little phase space, we find neurons that smoothly interpolate between a similar top-rejection strategy and an ISR-tagging strategy allowing for more missing momentum. We also find that a neural network trained on a stealth stop parameter point learns novel angular correlations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:08:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-04-26
[ [ "Roxlo", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Reece", "Matthew", "" ] ]
We introduce techniques for exploring the functionality of a neural network and extracting simple, human-readable approximations to its performance. By performing gradient ascent on the input space of the network, we are able to produce large populations of artificial events which strongly excite a given classifier. By studying the populations of these events, we then directly produce what are essentially contour maps of the network's classification function. Combined with a suite of tools for identifying the input dimensions deemed most important by the network, we can utilize these maps to efficiently interpret the dominant criteria by which the network makes its classification. As a test case, we study networks trained to discriminate supersymmetric stop production in the dilepton channel from Standard Model backgrounds. In the case of a heavy stop decaying to a light neutralino, we find individual neurons with large mutual information with $m_{T2}^{\ell\ell}$, a human-designed variable for optimizing the analysis. The network selects events with significant missing $p_T$ oriented azimuthally away from both leptons, efficiently rejecting $t\overline{t}$ background. In the case of a light stop with three-body decays to $Wb{\widetilde \chi}$ and little phase space, we find neurons that smoothly interpolate between a similar top-rejection strategy and an ISR-tagging strategy allowing for more missing momentum. We also find that a neural network trained on a stealth stop parameter point learns novel angular correlations.
2108.13422
Mariana Carrillo-Gonz\'alez
Mariana Carrillo Gonz\'alez, Natalia Toro
Cosmology and Signals of Light Pseudo-Dirac Dark Matter
48 pages plus appendices, 26 figures
null
null
Imperial/TP/2021/MC/03
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we analyze the cosmological evolution, allowed parameter space, and observational prospects for a dark sector consisting of thermally produced pseudo-Dirac fermions with a small mass splitting, coupled to the Standard Model through a dark photon. This scenario is particularly notable in the context of sub-GeV dark matter, where the mass-off-diagonal leading interaction limits applicability of both CMB energy injection constraints and standard direct detection searches. We present the first general study of the thermal history of pseudo-Dirac DM with splittings from 100 eV to MeV, focusing on the depletion of the heavier "excited" state abundance via scatterings and decays, and on the distinctive signals arising from its small surviving abundance. We analyze CMB energy injection bounds on both DM annihilation and decay, accelerator-based probes, and new line-like direct-detection signals from the excited DM down-scattering on either nuclei or electrons, as well as future search prospects in each channel. We also comment on the relevance of this signal to the few-keV Xenon1T electron excess and on possible diurnal modulation of this signal, and introduce a signal-strength parametrization to facilitate the comparison of future experimental results to theoretical expectations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-09-02
[ [ "González", "Mariana Carrillo", "" ], [ "Toro", "Natalia", "" ] ]
In this paper, we analyze the cosmological evolution, allowed parameter space, and observational prospects for a dark sector consisting of thermally produced pseudo-Dirac fermions with a small mass splitting, coupled to the Standard Model through a dark photon. This scenario is particularly notable in the context of sub-GeV dark matter, where the mass-off-diagonal leading interaction limits applicability of both CMB energy injection constraints and standard direct detection searches. We present the first general study of the thermal history of pseudo-Dirac DM with splittings from 100 eV to MeV, focusing on the depletion of the heavier "excited" state abundance via scatterings and decays, and on the distinctive signals arising from its small surviving abundance. We analyze CMB energy injection bounds on both DM annihilation and decay, accelerator-based probes, and new line-like direct-detection signals from the excited DM down-scattering on either nuclei or electrons, as well as future search prospects in each channel. We also comment on the relevance of this signal to the few-keV Xenon1T electron excess and on possible diurnal modulation of this signal, and introduce a signal-strength parametrization to facilitate the comparison of future experimental results to theoretical expectations.
1409.6132
Andr\'e David
Andr\'e David, Jaana Heikkil\"a and Giovanni Petrucciani
Searching for degenerate Higgs bosons - A profile likelihood ratio method to test for mass-degenerate states in the presence of incomplete data and uncertainties
null
European Physical Journal C 75 (2015) 49
10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3279-y
null
hep-ph physics.data-an
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Using the likelihood ratio test statistic, we present a method which can be employed to test the hypothesis of a single Higgs boson using the matrix of measured signal strengths. This method can be applied in the presence of incomplete data and takes into account uncertainties on the measurements. The p-value against the hypothesis of a single Higgs boson is defined from the expected distribution of the test statistic, generated using pseudo-experiments. The applicability of the likelihood-based test is demonstrated using numerical examples with uncertainties and missing matrix elements.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Sep 2014 10:06:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 4 Feb 2015 11:40:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-02-05
[ [ "David", "André", "" ], [ "Heikkilä", "Jaana", "" ], [ "Petrucciani", "Giovanni", "" ] ]
Using the likelihood ratio test statistic, we present a method which can be employed to test the hypothesis of a single Higgs boson using the matrix of measured signal strengths. This method can be applied in the presence of incomplete data and takes into account uncertainties on the measurements. The p-value against the hypothesis of a single Higgs boson is defined from the expected distribution of the test statistic, generated using pseudo-experiments. The applicability of the likelihood-based test is demonstrated using numerical examples with uncertainties and missing matrix elements.
hep-ph/9411408
Ernest Ma
Ernest Ma (UC Riverside)
Left-Right Gauge Symmetry at the TeV Energy Scale
7 pages (latex), 2nd of 2 talks given at the 7th Adriatic Meeting on Particle Physics, Brijuni, Croatia (September 1994)
null
null
UCRHEP-T138 (November 1994)
hep-ph
null
Two first examples beyond the standard model are given which exhibit left-right symmetry (g_L = g_R) and supersymmetry at a few TeV, together with gauge-coupling unification at around 10^{16} GeV.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Nov 1994 17:17:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ma", "Ernest", "", "UC Riverside" ] ]
Two first examples beyond the standard model are given which exhibit left-right symmetry (g_L = g_R) and supersymmetry at a few TeV, together with gauge-coupling unification at around 10^{16} GeV.
hep-ph/0201004
Jan Kalinowski
Wojciech Krolikowski
Search for fermion universality of the Dirac component of neutrino mass matrix
23 pages, latex, no figures, misprints are corrected, and in order to make the paper more selfcontained some addenda are introduced
Acta Phys.Polon. B33 (2002) 1747-1774
null
IFT-02/01
hep-ph
null
An effective texture is presented for six Majorana neutrinos, three active and three (conventional) sterile, based on a 6x6 mass matrix, whose 3x3 active--sterile component (i.e., Dirac component) is conjectured to get a fermion universal form similar to the constructed previously 3x3 mass matrix for charged leptons and 3x3 mass matrices for up and down quarks. This is true, however, when the bimaximal mixing, specific for neutrinos, is transformed out unitarily from the neutrino mass matrix. The 3x3 active--active component (i.e., lefthanded component) of neutrino 6x6 mass matrix is diagonal and gets degenerate entries. It dominates over the whole neutrino mass matrix. In such a texture, three neutrino masses are nearly degenerate, $ m_1 \simeq m_2 \simeq m_3 $, but their mass-squared differences appear hierarchical, $\Delta m^2_{21} \ll \Delta m^2_{32} \simeq \Delta m^2_{31}$, while the remaining three neutrino masses can be constructed to vanish, $ m_4 = m_5 = m_6 = 0 $, in contrast to the familiar seesaw mechanism.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:06:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:28:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Krolikowski", "Wojciech", "" ] ]
An effective texture is presented for six Majorana neutrinos, three active and three (conventional) sterile, based on a 6x6 mass matrix, whose 3x3 active--sterile component (i.e., Dirac component) is conjectured to get a fermion universal form similar to the constructed previously 3x3 mass matrix for charged leptons and 3x3 mass matrices for up and down quarks. This is true, however, when the bimaximal mixing, specific for neutrinos, is transformed out unitarily from the neutrino mass matrix. The 3x3 active--active component (i.e., lefthanded component) of neutrino 6x6 mass matrix is diagonal and gets degenerate entries. It dominates over the whole neutrino mass matrix. In such a texture, three neutrino masses are nearly degenerate, $ m_1 \simeq m_2 \simeq m_3 $, but their mass-squared differences appear hierarchical, $\Delta m^2_{21} \ll \Delta m^2_{32} \simeq \Delta m^2_{31}$, while the remaining three neutrino masses can be constructed to vanish, $ m_4 = m_5 = m_6 = 0 $, in contrast to the familiar seesaw mechanism.
2103.13370
Peter Stangl
Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Peter Stangl
New Physics in Rare B Decays after Moriond 2021
34 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables. v3: fits with 4 and 6 parameters added, appendix on theory uncertainties added, experimental data updated, numerics updated, discussion extended
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09725-1
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The anomalies in rare $B$ decays endure. We present results of an updated global analysis that takes into account the latest experimental input -- in particular the recent results on $R_K$ and BR$(B_s \to \mu^+\mu^-)$ -- and that qualitatively improves the treatment of theory uncertainties. Fit results are presented for the Wilson coefficients of four-fermion contact interactions. We find that muon specific Wilson coefficients $C_9 \simeq -0.73$ or $C_9 = -C_{10} \simeq -0.39$ continue to give an excellent description of the data. If only theoretically clean observables are considered, muon specific $C_{10} \simeq 0.60$ or $C_9=-C_{10} \simeq -0.35$ improve over the Standard Model by $\sqrt{\Delta \chi^2} \simeq 4.7\sigma$ and $\sqrt{\Delta \chi^2} \simeq 4.6\sigma$, respectively. In various new physics scenarios we provide predictions for lepton flavor universality observables and CP asymmetries that can be tested with more data. We update our previous combination of ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data on BR$(B_s \to \mu^+\mu^-)$ and BR$(B^0\to \mu^+\mu^-)$ taking into account the full two-dimensional non-Gaussian experimental likelihoods.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:46:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:40:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:58:52 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-11-17
[ [ "Altmannshofer", "Wolfgang", "" ], [ "Stangl", "Peter", "" ] ]
The anomalies in rare $B$ decays endure. We present results of an updated global analysis that takes into account the latest experimental input -- in particular the recent results on $R_K$ and BR$(B_s \to \mu^+\mu^-)$ -- and that qualitatively improves the treatment of theory uncertainties. Fit results are presented for the Wilson coefficients of four-fermion contact interactions. We find that muon specific Wilson coefficients $C_9 \simeq -0.73$ or $C_9 = -C_{10} \simeq -0.39$ continue to give an excellent description of the data. If only theoretically clean observables are considered, muon specific $C_{10} \simeq 0.60$ or $C_9=-C_{10} \simeq -0.35$ improve over the Standard Model by $\sqrt{\Delta \chi^2} \simeq 4.7\sigma$ and $\sqrt{\Delta \chi^2} \simeq 4.6\sigma$, respectively. In various new physics scenarios we provide predictions for lepton flavor universality observables and CP asymmetries that can be tested with more data. We update our previous combination of ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb data on BR$(B_s \to \mu^+\mu^-)$ and BR$(B^0\to \mu^+\mu^-)$ taking into account the full two-dimensional non-Gaussian experimental likelihoods.
hep-ph/0001195
Satoshi Oyama
N. I. Kochelev, T. Morii and S. Oyama
Diffractive Lambda_c^+ Productions in Polarized pp Reactions and Polarized Gluon Distribution
9 pages, 5 figures
null
null
KOBE-FHD-99-06
hep-ph
null
To test the model of the polarized gluon distribution $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$ in the proton, we propose a new process, diffractive $\Lambda_c^+$ productions in polarized $pp$ reactions, which will be observed in the forthcoming RHIC and also the proposed HERA-$\vec {\rm N}$ experiments. The spin correlation between the target proton and the $\Lambda_c^+$ produced in the target fragmentation region largely depends on $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$ and thus, the process is quite promising for testing the models of $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:33:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kochelev", "N. I.", "" ], [ "Morii", "T.", "" ], [ "Oyama", "S.", "" ] ]
To test the model of the polarized gluon distribution $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$ in the proton, we propose a new process, diffractive $\Lambda_c^+$ productions in polarized $pp$ reactions, which will be observed in the forthcoming RHIC and also the proposed HERA-$\vec {\rm N}$ experiments. The spin correlation between the target proton and the $\Lambda_c^+$ produced in the target fragmentation region largely depends on $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$ and thus, the process is quite promising for testing the models of $\Delta G(x, Q^2)$.
0812.3735
Harleen Dahiya Dr.
Harleen Dahiya, Neetika Sharma, P.K. Chatley and Manmohan Gupta
Semi-leptonic Octet Baryon Weak Axial-Vector Form Factors in the Chiral Constitutent Quark Model
5 pages, 2 tables. Presented at the 18th International Spin Physics Symposium, University of Virginia, USA, October 6-11, 2008
AIP Conf.Proc.1149:361-364,2009
10.1063/1.3215665
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The weak vector and axial-vector form factors have been investigated for the semi-leptonic octet baryon decays in the chiral constituent quark model with configuration mixing (\chiCQM_{config}). The effects of SU(3) symmetry breaking and configuration mixing have also been investigated and the results are not only in good agreement with existing experimental data but also show improvement over other phenomenological models.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:51:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-08-24
[ [ "Dahiya", "Harleen", "" ], [ "Sharma", "Neetika", "" ], [ "Chatley", "P. K.", "" ], [ "Gupta", "Manmohan", "" ] ]
The weak vector and axial-vector form factors have been investigated for the semi-leptonic octet baryon decays in the chiral constituent quark model with configuration mixing (\chiCQM_{config}). The effects of SU(3) symmetry breaking and configuration mixing have also been investigated and the results are not only in good agreement with existing experimental data but also show improvement over other phenomenological models.
1905.12562
David Kaiser
Rachel Nguyen, Jorinde van de Vis, Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, John T. Giblin, Jr., and David I. Kaiser
Nonlinear Dynamics of Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings
6 pages, 7 figures. References added and minor edits made to match version to be published in Physical Review Letters
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171301 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.171301
Preprint MIT-CTP/5121, Nikhef 2019-016
hep-ph astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the post-inflation dynamics of multifield models involving nonminimal couplings using lattice simulations to capture significant nonlinear effects like backreaction and rescattering. We measure the effective equation of state and typical time-scales for the onset of thermalization, which could affect the usual mapping between predictions for primordial perturbation spectra and measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation. For large values of the nonminimal coupling constants, we find efficient particle production that gives rise to nearly instantaneous preheating. Moreover, the strong single-field attractor behavior that was previously identified persists until the end of preheating, thereby suppressing typical signatures of multifield models. We therefore find that predictions for primordial observables in this class of models retain a close match to the latest observations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 May 2019 16:14:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:21:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-10-30
[ [ "Nguyen", "Rachel", "" ], [ "van de Vis", "Jorinde", "" ], [ "Sfakianakis", "Evangelos I.", "" ], [ "Giblin,", "John T.", "Jr." ], [ "Kaiser", "David I.", "" ] ]
We study the post-inflation dynamics of multifield models involving nonminimal couplings using lattice simulations to capture significant nonlinear effects like backreaction and rescattering. We measure the effective equation of state and typical time-scales for the onset of thermalization, which could affect the usual mapping between predictions for primordial perturbation spectra and measurements of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation. For large values of the nonminimal coupling constants, we find efficient particle production that gives rise to nearly instantaneous preheating. Moreover, the strong single-field attractor behavior that was previously identified persists until the end of preheating, thereby suppressing typical signatures of multifield models. We therefore find that predictions for primordial observables in this class of models retain a close match to the latest observations.
1003.2648
Michael Kr\"amer
Herbi K. Dreiner, Michael Kr\"amer, Jonas M. Lindert, Ben O'Leary
SUSY parameter determination at the LHC using cross sections and kinematic edges
22 pages, 8 figures
JHEP 1004:109,2010
10.1007/JHEP04(2010)109
TTK-10-24
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the determination of supersymmetric parameters at the LHC from a global fit including cross sections and edges of kinematic distributions. For illustration, we focus on a minimal supergravity scenario and discuss how well it can be constrained at the LHC operating at 7 and 14 TeV collision energy, respectively. We find that the inclusion of cross sections greatly improves the accuracy of the SUSY parameter determination, and allows to reliably extract model parameters even in the initial phase of LHC data taking with 7 TeV collision energy and 1/fb integrated luminosity. Moreover, cross section information may be essential to study more general scenarios, such as those with non-universal gaugino masses, and distinguish them from minimal, universal, models.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:27:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Dreiner", "Herbi K.", "" ], [ "Krämer", "Michael", "" ], [ "Lindert", "Jonas M.", "" ], [ "O'Leary", "Ben", "" ] ]
We study the determination of supersymmetric parameters at the LHC from a global fit including cross sections and edges of kinematic distributions. For illustration, we focus on a minimal supergravity scenario and discuss how well it can be constrained at the LHC operating at 7 and 14 TeV collision energy, respectively. We find that the inclusion of cross sections greatly improves the accuracy of the SUSY parameter determination, and allows to reliably extract model parameters even in the initial phase of LHC data taking with 7 TeV collision energy and 1/fb integrated luminosity. Moreover, cross section information may be essential to study more general scenarios, such as those with non-universal gaugino masses, and distinguish them from minimal, universal, models.
1103.5642
Antoni Szczurek
Piotr Lebiedowicz, Roman Pasechnik and Antoni Szczurek
Measurement of exclusive production of scalar $\chi_{c0}$ meson in proton-(anti)proton collisions via $\chi_{c0} \to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ decay
16 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
Phys.Lett.B701:434-444,2011
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.06.017
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a measurement of exclusive production of scalar $\chi_{c}(0^{++})$ meson in the proton-proton collisions at LHC and RHIC and in the proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron via $\chi_{c0} \to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ decay. The corresponding amplitude for exclusive double-diffractive $\chi_{c0}$ meson production was obtained within the $k_{t}$-factorization approach including virtualities of active gluons and the corresponding cross section is calculated with unintegrated gluon distribution functions (UGDFs) known from the literature. The four-body $p p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^-$ reaction constitutes an irreducible background to the exclusive $\chi_{c0}$ meson production. We calculate several differential distributions for $pp(\bar{p}) \to pp(\bar{p})\chi_{c0}$ process including absorptive corrections. The influence of kinematical cuts on the signal-to-background ratio is investigated. Corresponding experimental consequences are discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-07-06
[ [ "Lebiedowicz", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Pasechnik", "Roman", "" ], [ "Szczurek", "Antoni", "" ] ]
We consider a measurement of exclusive production of scalar $\chi_{c}(0^{++})$ meson in the proton-proton collisions at LHC and RHIC and in the proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron via $\chi_{c0} \to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ decay. The corresponding amplitude for exclusive double-diffractive $\chi_{c0}$ meson production was obtained within the $k_{t}$-factorization approach including virtualities of active gluons and the corresponding cross section is calculated with unintegrated gluon distribution functions (UGDFs) known from the literature. The four-body $p p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^-$ reaction constitutes an irreducible background to the exclusive $\chi_{c0}$ meson production. We calculate several differential distributions for $pp(\bar{p}) \to pp(\bar{p})\chi_{c0}$ process including absorptive corrections. The influence of kinematical cuts on the signal-to-background ratio is investigated. Corresponding experimental consequences are discussed.
hep-ph/9205243
Aneesh V. Manohar
Elizabeth Jenkins, Aneesh V. Manohar, and Mark B. Wise
Baryons Containing a Heavy Quark as Solitons
15 pages, uses phyzzx.tex and tables.tex, REVISED VERSION: Some of the results have changed because of a crucial minus sign, CALT-68-1783 and UCSD/PTH 92-17
Nucl.Phys.B396:27-37,1993
10.1016/0550-3213(93)90256-O
null
hep-ph
null
The possibility of interpreting baryons containing a single heavy quark as bound states of solitons (that arise in the nonlinear sigma model) and heavy mesons is explored. Particular attention is paid to the parity of the bound states and to the role of heavy quark symmetry.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 May 1992 17:43:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Jun 1992 18:43:47 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:46:52 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Jenkins", "Elizabeth", "" ], [ "Manohar", "Aneesh V.", "" ], [ "Wise", "Mark B.", "" ] ]
The possibility of interpreting baryons containing a single heavy quark as bound states of solitons (that arise in the nonlinear sigma model) and heavy mesons is explored. Particular attention is paid to the parity of the bound states and to the role of heavy quark symmetry.
hep-ph/0001172
Witold Skiba
Martin Schmaltz (SLAC), Witold Skiba (UC, San Diego)
Minimal Gaugino Mediation
LaTeX, 16 pages, 4 figures, running of the bottom and tau Yukawas included, plots revised
Phys.Rev.D62:095005,2000
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.095005
SLAC-PUB-8325, UCSD/PTH-00-01
hep-ph
null
We propose Minimal Gaugino Mediation as the simplest known solution to the supersymmetric flavor and CP problems. The framework predicts a very minimal structure for the soft parameters at ultra-high energies: gaugino masses are unified and non-vanishing whereas all other soft supersymmetry breaking parameters vanish. We show that this boundary condition naturally arises from a small extra dimension and present a complete model which includes a new extra-dimensional solution to the mu problem. We briefly discuss the predicted superpartner spectrum as a function of the two parameters of the model. The commonly ignored renormalization group evolution above the GUT scale is crucial to the viability of Minimal Gaugino Mediation but does not introduce new model dependence.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:15:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 19 May 2000 00:42:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-05-05
[ [ "Schmaltz", "Martin", "", "SLAC" ], [ "Skiba", "Witold", "", "UC, San Diego" ] ]
We propose Minimal Gaugino Mediation as the simplest known solution to the supersymmetric flavor and CP problems. The framework predicts a very minimal structure for the soft parameters at ultra-high energies: gaugino masses are unified and non-vanishing whereas all other soft supersymmetry breaking parameters vanish. We show that this boundary condition naturally arises from a small extra dimension and present a complete model which includes a new extra-dimensional solution to the mu problem. We briefly discuss the predicted superpartner spectrum as a function of the two parameters of the model. The commonly ignored renormalization group evolution above the GUT scale is crucial to the viability of Minimal Gaugino Mediation but does not introduce new model dependence.
hep-ph/0304278
Ahmed Ali
A. Ali (CERN) and A.Ya. Parkhomenko (Univ. Bern)
An Analysis of the Inclusive Decay $\Upsilon (1S) \to \eta^\prime X$ and Constraints on the $\eta^\prime$-Meson Distribution Amplitudes
23 pages, 8 figures; use epsfig.sty; Typos corrected, numerical analysis further refined; added an equation; to appear in the European Physical Journal C
Eur.Phys.J.C30:183-195,2003
10.1140/epjc/s2003-01260-y
CERN-TH/2003-096; BUTP-2003/09
hep-ph hep-ex
null
We calculate the $\eta^\prime$-meson energy spectrum in the decay $\Upsilon (1S) \to \eta^\prime g g g \to \eta^\prime X$ in the leading-order perturbative QCD in the static quark limit for the Orthoquarkonium. Our principal result is the extraction of parameters of the $\eta^\prime g^* g$ effective vertex function (EVF) involving a virtual and a real gluon from the available data on the hard part of the $\eta^\prime$-meson energy spectrum. The perturbative QCD based framework provides a good description of the available CLEO data, allowing to constrain the lowest Gegenbauer coefficients $B^{(q)}_2$ and $B^{(g)}_2$ of the quark-antiquark and gluonic distribution amplitudes of the $\eta^\prime$-meson. The resulting constraints are combined with the existing ones on these coefficients from an analysis of the $\eta-\gamma$ and $\eta^\prime-\gamma$ transition form factors and the requirement of positivity of the EVF, yielding $B^{(q)}_2(\mu_0^2) = -0.008 \pm 0.054$ and $B^{(g)}_2(\mu_0^2) = 4.6 \pm 2.5$ for $\mu_0^2 = 2$ GeV$^2$. This reduces significantly the current uncertainty on these coefficients. The resulting EFV $F_{\eta^\prime g^* g} (p^2, 0, m_{\eta^\prime}^2)$, including the $\eta^\prime$-meson mass effects, is presented.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:01:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:15:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-09-13
[ [ "Ali", "A.", "", "CERN" ], [ "Parkhomenko", "A. Ya.", "", "Univ. Bern" ] ]
We calculate the $\eta^\prime$-meson energy spectrum in the decay $\Upsilon (1S) \to \eta^\prime g g g \to \eta^\prime X$ in the leading-order perturbative QCD in the static quark limit for the Orthoquarkonium. Our principal result is the extraction of parameters of the $\eta^\prime g^* g$ effective vertex function (EVF) involving a virtual and a real gluon from the available data on the hard part of the $\eta^\prime$-meson energy spectrum. The perturbative QCD based framework provides a good description of the available CLEO data, allowing to constrain the lowest Gegenbauer coefficients $B^{(q)}_2$ and $B^{(g)}_2$ of the quark-antiquark and gluonic distribution amplitudes of the $\eta^\prime$-meson. The resulting constraints are combined with the existing ones on these coefficients from an analysis of the $\eta-\gamma$ and $\eta^\prime-\gamma$ transition form factors and the requirement of positivity of the EVF, yielding $B^{(q)}_2(\mu_0^2) = -0.008 \pm 0.054$ and $B^{(g)}_2(\mu_0^2) = 4.6 \pm 2.5$ for $\mu_0^2 = 2$ GeV$^2$. This reduces significantly the current uncertainty on these coefficients. The resulting EFV $F_{\eta^\prime g^* g} (p^2, 0, m_{\eta^\prime}^2)$, including the $\eta^\prime$-meson mass effects, is presented.
hep-ph/0503239
Francesco Becattini
Francesco Becattini (University of Florence and INFN)
Production of multiply heavy flavoured baryons from Quark Gluon Plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions
4 pages. Published version with minor corrections
Phys.Rev.Lett. 95 (2005) 022301
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.022301
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
It is argued that in heavy ion collisions at LHC there could be a sizeable production of baryons containing two or three heavy quarks from statistical coalescence. This production mechanism is peculiar of Quark Gluon Plasma and the predicted rates, in heavy ion collisions at LHC energy, exceed those from a purely hadronic scenario, particularly for Xi_bc and Omega_ccc. Thus, besides the interest in the discovery of these new states, enhanced ratios of these baryons over singly heavy flavoured hadrons, like B or D, in heavy ion collisions with respect to pp at the same energy, would be a clear indication of kinetic equilibration of heavy quarks in the Quark Gluon Plasma.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:25:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:49:53 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:22:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Becattini", "Francesco", "", "University of Florence and INFN" ] ]
It is argued that in heavy ion collisions at LHC there could be a sizeable production of baryons containing two or three heavy quarks from statistical coalescence. This production mechanism is peculiar of Quark Gluon Plasma and the predicted rates, in heavy ion collisions at LHC energy, exceed those from a purely hadronic scenario, particularly for Xi_bc and Omega_ccc. Thus, besides the interest in the discovery of these new states, enhanced ratios of these baryons over singly heavy flavoured hadrons, like B or D, in heavy ion collisions with respect to pp at the same energy, would be a clear indication of kinetic equilibration of heavy quarks in the Quark Gluon Plasma.
hep-ph/9501273
null
C. Adam
THE DYSON-SCHWINGER EQUATION FOR A MODEL WITH INSTANTONS - THE SCHWINGER MODEL
LATEX file 11 pages, no figures
Czech.J.Phys.46:893-904,1996
10.1007/BF01795138
UWThPh-1994-39
hep-ph hep-th
null
Using the exact path integral solution of the Schwinger model -- a model where instantons are present -- the Dyson-Schwinger equation is shown to hold by explicit computation. It turns out that the Dyson-Schwinger equation separately holds for every instanton sector. This is due to Theta-invariance of the Schwinger model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:19:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-17
[ [ "Adam", "C.", "" ] ]
Using the exact path integral solution of the Schwinger model -- a model where instantons are present -- the Dyson-Schwinger equation is shown to hold by explicit computation. It turns out that the Dyson-Schwinger equation separately holds for every instanton sector. This is due to Theta-invariance of the Schwinger model.
hep-ph/0702108
Tomohito Maeda
Kunio Takamatsu
Comments on the "Reply" presented in hep-ph/0701058v1
5 pages, no figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Comments are presented on the analyses of $\pi\pi$/$K\pi$ scattering and production processes in relation with the combined fit and Adler zero concerning the hep-ph/0701058v1.
[ { "created": "Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:17:31 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Takamatsu", "Kunio", "" ] ]
Comments are presented on the analyses of $\pi\pi$/$K\pi$ scattering and production processes in relation with the combined fit and Adler zero concerning the hep-ph/0701058v1.
1702.07273
Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Fortin
Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Fortin, Nicolas Giasson, Luc Marleau
Anarchy and Neutrino Physics
1+22 pages, 8 figures, typos fixed, added reference
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2017)131
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The neutrino sector of a seesaw-extended Standard Model is investigated under the anarchy hypothesis. The previously derived probability density functions for neutrino masses and mixings, which characterize the type I-III seesaw ensemble of $N\times N$ complex random matrices, are used to extract information on the relevant physical parameters. For $N=2$ and $N=3$, the distributions of the light neutrino masses, as well as the mixing angles and phases, are obtained using numerical integration methods. A systematic comparison with the much simpler type II seesaw ensemble is also performed to point out the fundamental differences between the two ensembles. It is found that the type I-III seesaw ensemble is better suited to accommodate experimental data. Moreover, the results indicate a strong preference for the mass splitting associated to normal hierarchy. However, since all permutations of the singular values are found to be equally probable for a particular mass splitting, predictions regarding the hierarchy of the mass spectrum remains out of reach in the framework of anarchy.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:03:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:01:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:34:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-02-01
[ [ "Fortin", "Jean-François", "" ], [ "Giasson", "Nicolas", "" ], [ "Marleau", "Luc", "" ] ]
The neutrino sector of a seesaw-extended Standard Model is investigated under the anarchy hypothesis. The previously derived probability density functions for neutrino masses and mixings, which characterize the type I-III seesaw ensemble of $N\times N$ complex random matrices, are used to extract information on the relevant physical parameters. For $N=2$ and $N=3$, the distributions of the light neutrino masses, as well as the mixing angles and phases, are obtained using numerical integration methods. A systematic comparison with the much simpler type II seesaw ensemble is also performed to point out the fundamental differences between the two ensembles. It is found that the type I-III seesaw ensemble is better suited to accommodate experimental data. Moreover, the results indicate a strong preference for the mass splitting associated to normal hierarchy. However, since all permutations of the singular values are found to be equally probable for a particular mass splitting, predictions regarding the hierarchy of the mass spectrum remains out of reach in the framework of anarchy.
0912.0502
Grigory Volovik
G.E. Volovik
Topological invariants for Standard Model: from semi-metal to topological insulator
8 pages, 4 figures, JETP Lett. style, version published in JETP Letters
JETP Lett.91:55-61,2010
10.1134/S0021364010020013
null
hep-ph cond-mat.str-el
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider topological invariants describing semimetal (gapless) and insulating (gapped) states of the quantum vacuum of Standard Model and possible quantum phase transitions between these states.
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2014-11-20
[ [ "Volovik", "G. E.", "" ] ]
We consider topological invariants describing semimetal (gapless) and insulating (gapped) states of the quantum vacuum of Standard Model and possible quantum phase transitions between these states.
hep-ph/9910505
Martin Beneke
M. Beneke (CERN)
QCD factorization for exclusive, non-leptonic B decays
4 pages, LaTeX, Talk presented at the `International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics' (EPS99), 15-21 July 1999, Tampere, Finland
null
null
CERN-TH/99-319
hep-ph
null
Exclusive, non-leptonic, two-body decays of B mesons simplify greatly in the heavy quark limit. In this talk I discuss the factorized structure that holds in this limit and some of its consequences: (a) naive factorization is recovered in a certain limit; (b) `non-factorizable' effects are hard and can be calculated; (c) strong interaction phases vanish in the heavy quark limit (and can be calculated as well). As an illustration, I compute the penguin contribution to the decay $B_d\to\pi^+\pi^-$ and its effect on the determination of $\sin 2\alpha$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:23:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Beneke", "M.", "", "CERN" ] ]
Exclusive, non-leptonic, two-body decays of B mesons simplify greatly in the heavy quark limit. In this talk I discuss the factorized structure that holds in this limit and some of its consequences: (a) naive factorization is recovered in a certain limit; (b) `non-factorizable' effects are hard and can be calculated; (c) strong interaction phases vanish in the heavy quark limit (and can be calculated as well). As an illustration, I compute the penguin contribution to the decay $B_d\to\pi^+\pi^-$ and its effect on the determination of $\sin 2\alpha$.
hep-ph/0211022
Hector DE Vega
D. Boyanovsky, H. J. de Vega, M. Simionato
Large scale magnetogenesis from a non-equilibrium phase transition in the radiation dominated era
LaTex, 25 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 123505
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.123505
null
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We study the generation of large scale primordial magnetic fields by a cosmological phase transition during the radiation dominated era. The setting is a theory of N charged scalar fields coupled to an abelian gauge field, that undergoes a phase transition at a critical temperature much larger than the electroweak scale. The dynamics after the transition features two distinct stages: a spinodal regime dominated by linear long-wavelength instabilities, and a scaling stage in which the non-linearities and backreaction of the scalar fields are dominant. This second stage describes the growth of horizon sized domains. We implement a recently introduced formulation to obtain the spectrum of magnetic fields that includes the dissipative effects of the plasma. We find that large scale magnetogenesis is very efficient during the scaling regime. The ratio between the energy density on scales larger than L and that in the background radiation r(L,T) = rho_B(L,T)/rho_{cmb}(T) is r(L,T) \sim 10^{-34} at the Electroweak scale and r(L,T) \sim 10^{-14} at the QCD scale for L \sim 1 Mpc. The resulting spectrum is insensitive to the magnetic diffusion length. We conjecture that a similar mechanism could be operative after the QCD chiral phase transition.
[ { "created": "Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:41:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:49:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Boyanovsky", "D.", "" ], [ "de Vega", "H. J.", "" ], [ "Simionato", "M.", "" ] ]
We study the generation of large scale primordial magnetic fields by a cosmological phase transition during the radiation dominated era. The setting is a theory of N charged scalar fields coupled to an abelian gauge field, that undergoes a phase transition at a critical temperature much larger than the electroweak scale. The dynamics after the transition features two distinct stages: a spinodal regime dominated by linear long-wavelength instabilities, and a scaling stage in which the non-linearities and backreaction of the scalar fields are dominant. This second stage describes the growth of horizon sized domains. We implement a recently introduced formulation to obtain the spectrum of magnetic fields that includes the dissipative effects of the plasma. We find that large scale magnetogenesis is very efficient during the scaling regime. The ratio between the energy density on scales larger than L and that in the background radiation r(L,T) = rho_B(L,T)/rho_{cmb}(T) is r(L,T) \sim 10^{-34} at the Electroweak scale and r(L,T) \sim 10^{-14} at the QCD scale for L \sim 1 Mpc. The resulting spectrum is insensitive to the magnetic diffusion length. We conjecture that a similar mechanism could be operative after the QCD chiral phase transition.
hep-ph/0109047
Sergey Troshin
S. M. Troshin, N. E. Tyurin
Unitarity constraints and role of geometrical effects in deep-inelastic scattering and vector-meson electroproduction
21 pages, 8 figures, journal version, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. C
Eur.Phys.J.C22:667-675,2002
10.1007/s100520100843
null
hep-ph
null
Deep-inelastic scattering at low Bjorken x and elastic vector meson electroproduction are analyzed on the basis of the off-shell s-channel unitarity. We discuss behavior of the total cross-section of virtual photon-proton scattering and obtain, in particular, that the exponent in the power-like dependence of $\sigma^{tot}_{\gamma^* p}$ is related to the interaction radius of a constituent quark. The explicit mass dependence of the exponent in the power energy behavior of the vector meson electroproduction has been obtained. Angular distributions at large momentum transfers are considered. The energy dependence of the total cross-section of $\gamma^*\gamma^*$-interactions is also obtained.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:57:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 8 Sep 2001 11:10:52 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:57:30 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-09-13
[ [ "Troshin", "S. M.", "" ], [ "Tyurin", "N. E.", "" ] ]
Deep-inelastic scattering at low Bjorken x and elastic vector meson electroproduction are analyzed on the basis of the off-shell s-channel unitarity. We discuss behavior of the total cross-section of virtual photon-proton scattering and obtain, in particular, that the exponent in the power-like dependence of $\sigma^{tot}_{\gamma^* p}$ is related to the interaction radius of a constituent quark. The explicit mass dependence of the exponent in the power energy behavior of the vector meson electroproduction has been obtained. Angular distributions at large momentum transfers are considered. The energy dependence of the total cross-section of $\gamma^*\gamma^*$-interactions is also obtained.
hep-ph/9504423
Tord Riemann
D. Bardin, P. Christova, L. Kalinovskaya and T. Riemann
Complete O($\alpha$) QED corrections to the process $ep \to eX$ in mixed variables
10 pages, latex, 5 figures, 2 tables, a uuencoded file containing the latex file and figures is available via anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.ifh.de/pub/preprint/desy95-085.uu Section 3, 2 figures and 2 tables have been added. The revised version will appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B357 (1995) 456-463
10.1016/0370-2693(95)00932-B
DESY 95-085
hep-ph
null
The complete set of ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ QED corrections with soft photon exponentiation to the process $ep \rightarrow eX$ in mixed variables ($y=y_h,Q^2=Q_l^2$) is calculated in the quark parton model, including the lepton-quark interference and the quarkonic corrections which were unknown so far. The interference corrections amount to few percent or less and become negligible at small $x$. The leading logarithmic terms proportional to $\ln(Q^2/m_q^2)$ from radiation off quarks are discussed and the non-logarithmic quarkonic corrections found to be negligible for almost all experimentally accessible $x$ and $y$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Apr 1995 13:10:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Jul 1995 09:29:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Bardin", "D.", "" ], [ "Christova", "P.", "" ], [ "Kalinovskaya", "L.", "" ], [ "Riemann", "T.", "" ] ]
The complete set of ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ QED corrections with soft photon exponentiation to the process $ep \rightarrow eX$ in mixed variables ($y=y_h,Q^2=Q_l^2$) is calculated in the quark parton model, including the lepton-quark interference and the quarkonic corrections which were unknown so far. The interference corrections amount to few percent or less and become negligible at small $x$. The leading logarithmic terms proportional to $\ln(Q^2/m_q^2)$ from radiation off quarks are discussed and the non-logarithmic quarkonic corrections found to be negligible for almost all experimentally accessible $x$ and $y$.
hep-ph/0610292
Grzegorz Wilk
Grzegorz Wilk
Fluctuations, correlations and non-extensivity
Minireview presented at XXXVI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamica, September 2-8, 2006, Paraty (RJ), Brazil; to be published in Braz. J. Phys. (2007). Some misprints corrected
Braz.J.Phys.37:714-716,2007
10.1590/S0103-97332007000500009
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
The present status of investigations on fluctuations and correlations seen in high energy multiparticle production processes made using the notion of nonextensivity is reviewed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:50:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:09:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:39:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2011-08-04
[ [ "Wilk", "Grzegorz", "" ] ]
The present status of investigations on fluctuations and correlations seen in high energy multiparticle production processes made using the notion of nonextensivity is reviewed.
2204.04702
Shuo Yang
Chong-Xing Yue, Shuo Yang, Han Wang and Nan Zhang
Prospects for detecting axion-like particles via the decay $Z\rightarrow af\bar{f}$ at future $Z$ factories
16 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.115027
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the prospects for detecting axion-like particles (ALPs, dubbed as "a") via the decay $Z\rightarrow a f\bar{f}$ at future $Z$ factories. Considering the decay channels $a\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $a\rightarrow b \bar{b}$ , four types of signals $\mu^+ \mu^- /E$, $b b /E$, $e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $e^+ e^- b b$ are explored. We demonstrate that these channels are promising for detecting ALPs at $Z$ factories and obtain the sensitivity bounds on the couplings $g_{aZZ}$ and $g_{a\gamma Z}$.
[ { "created": "Sun, 10 Apr 2022 14:49:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-07-13
[ [ "Yue", "Chong-Xing", "" ], [ "Yang", "Shuo", "" ], [ "Wang", "Han", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Nan", "" ] ]
We investigate the prospects for detecting axion-like particles (ALPs, dubbed as "a") via the decay $Z\rightarrow a f\bar{f}$ at future $Z$ factories. Considering the decay channels $a\rightarrow \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $a\rightarrow b \bar{b}$ , four types of signals $\mu^+ \mu^- /E$, $b b /E$, $e^+ e^- \mu^+ \mu^-$ and $e^+ e^- b b$ are explored. We demonstrate that these channels are promising for detecting ALPs at $Z$ factories and obtain the sensitivity bounds on the couplings $g_{aZZ}$ and $g_{a\gamma Z}$.
1905.00201
Arindam Das
Arindam Das, Srubabati Goswami, Vishnudath K. N., Takaaki Nomura
Constraining a general U(1)$^\prime$ inverse seesaw model from vacuum stability, dark matter and collider
typos fixed, references added, results unchanged
Phys. Rev. D 101, 055026 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.055026
KIAS-P19026, OU-HET-1004
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider a class of gauged $U(1)$ extensions of the Standard Model (SM), where the light neutrino masses are generated by an inverse seesaw mechanism. In addition to the three right handed neutrinos, we add three singlet fermions and demand an extra $Z_2$ symmetry under which, the third generations of both of the neutral fermions are odd, which in turn gives us a stable dark matter candidate. We express the $U(1)$ charges of all the fermions in terms of the U(1) charges of the standard model Higgs and the new complex scalar. We study the bounds on the parameters of the model from vacuum stability, perturbative unitarity, dark matter relic density and direct detection constraints. We also obtain the collider constraints on the $Z'$ mass and the $U(1)'$ gauge coupling. Finally we compare all the bounds on the $Z'$ mass versus the $U(1)'$ gauge coupling plane.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 May 2019 06:52:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 18 May 2019 10:04:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-03-25
[ [ "Das", "Arindam", "" ], [ "Goswami", "Srubabati", "" ], [ "N.", "Vishnudath K.", "" ], [ "Nomura", "Takaaki", "" ] ]
We consider a class of gauged $U(1)$ extensions of the Standard Model (SM), where the light neutrino masses are generated by an inverse seesaw mechanism. In addition to the three right handed neutrinos, we add three singlet fermions and demand an extra $Z_2$ symmetry under which, the third generations of both of the neutral fermions are odd, which in turn gives us a stable dark matter candidate. We express the $U(1)$ charges of all the fermions in terms of the U(1) charges of the standard model Higgs and the new complex scalar. We study the bounds on the parameters of the model from vacuum stability, perturbative unitarity, dark matter relic density and direct detection constraints. We also obtain the collider constraints on the $Z'$ mass and the $U(1)'$ gauge coupling. Finally we compare all the bounds on the $Z'$ mass versus the $U(1)'$ gauge coupling plane.
0712.2394
Tiago Barreiro
T. Barreiro, B. de Carlos, E. J. Copeland and N. J. Nunes
Moduli evolution in the presence of thermal corrections
7 pages, 5 figures. Added content, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D78:063502,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063502
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the effect of thermal corrections on the evolution of moduli in effective Supergravity models. This is motivated by previous results in the literature suggesting that these corrections could alter and, even, erase the presence of a minimum in the zero temperature potential, something that would have disastrous consequences in these particular models. We show that, in a representative sample of flux compactification constructions, this need not be the case, although we find that the inclusion of thermal corrections can dramatically decrease the region of initial conditions for which the moduli are stabilised. Moreover, the bounds on the reheating temperature coming from demanding that the full, finite temperature potential, has a minimum can be considerably relaxed given the slow pace at which the evolution proceeds.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:04:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:50:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-02-20
[ [ "Barreiro", "T.", "" ], [ "de Carlos", "B.", "" ], [ "Copeland", "E. J.", "" ], [ "Nunes", "N. J.", "" ] ]
We study the effect of thermal corrections on the evolution of moduli in effective Supergravity models. This is motivated by previous results in the literature suggesting that these corrections could alter and, even, erase the presence of a minimum in the zero temperature potential, something that would have disastrous consequences in these particular models. We show that, in a representative sample of flux compactification constructions, this need not be the case, although we find that the inclusion of thermal corrections can dramatically decrease the region of initial conditions for which the moduli are stabilised. Moreover, the bounds on the reheating temperature coming from demanding that the full, finite temperature potential, has a minimum can be considerably relaxed given the slow pace at which the evolution proceeds.
1305.3729
Alan Cornell
Ammar Abdalgabar and A. S. Cornell
Evolution of Yukawa Couplings and Quark Flavour Mixings in the 5D MSSM
6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings for the Kruger2012 workshop
null
10.1088/1742-6596/455/1/012050
WITS-CTP-111
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The evolution equations of the Yukawa couplings and quark mixings are derived for the one-loop renormalization group equations in the 5D Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model on an {$S^1 / Z_2$} orbifold. Different possibilities for the matter fields are discussed such as the cases of bulk propagating or brane localised fields. We discuss in both cases the evolution of the mass ratios and the implications for the mixing angles.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 May 2013 09:25:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Abdalgabar", "Ammar", "" ], [ "Cornell", "A. S.", "" ] ]
The evolution equations of the Yukawa couplings and quark mixings are derived for the one-loop renormalization group equations in the 5D Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model on an {$S^1 / Z_2$} orbifold. Different possibilities for the matter fields are discussed such as the cases of bulk propagating or brane localised fields. We discuss in both cases the evolution of the mass ratios and the implications for the mixing angles.
hep-ph/9607485
null
J.A. Coarasa, David Garcia, Jaume Guasch, Ricardo A. Jimenez, Joan Sola
Quantum effects on $t\to H^{+} b$ in the MSSM: a window to ``virtual'' supersymmetry?
60 pages, LaTeX, 25 figs included as a separate file, full postscript version avaliable at ftp://ftp.ifae.es/preprint/ft/uabft397.ps . In this improved version we give an extended discussion of our renormalization framework and of the numerical analysis. Two additional figures are included. Some missprints have been corrected
Eur.Phys.J.C2:373-392,1998
10.1007/s100520050148
UAB-FT-397
hep-ph
null
We analyze the one-loop effects (strong and electroweak) on the unconventional top quark decay mode $t\rightarrow H^{+} b$ within the MSSM. The results are presented in the on-shell renormalization scheme with a physically well motivated definition of $\tan\beta$. The study of this process at the quantum level is useful to unravel the potential supersymmetric nature of the charged Higgs emerging from that decay. As compared with the standard mode $t\rightarrow W^{+} b$, the corrections to $t\rightarrow H^{+} b$ are large, slowly decoupling and persist at a sizeable level even for all sparticle masses well above the LEP 200 discovery range. As a matter of fact, the potential size of the SUSY effects, which amount to corrections of several ten percent, could counterbalance the standard QCD corrections and even make them to appear with the ``wrong'' sign. Therefore, if the charged Higgs decay of the top quark is kinematically allowed -a possibility which is not excluded by the recent measurements of the branching ratio $BR(t\rightarrow W^{+} b)$ at the Tevatron - it could be an invaluable laboratory to search for ``virtual'' supersymmetry. While a first significant test of these effects could possibly be performed at the upgraded Tevatron, a more precise verification would most likely be carried out in future experiments at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 22:15:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:24:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Coarasa", "J. A.", "" ], [ "Garcia", "David", "" ], [ "Guasch", "Jaume", "" ], [ "Jimenez", "Ricardo A.", "" ], [ "Sola", "Joan", "" ] ]
We analyze the one-loop effects (strong and electroweak) on the unconventional top quark decay mode $t\rightarrow H^{+} b$ within the MSSM. The results are presented in the on-shell renormalization scheme with a physically well motivated definition of $\tan\beta$. The study of this process at the quantum level is useful to unravel the potential supersymmetric nature of the charged Higgs emerging from that decay. As compared with the standard mode $t\rightarrow W^{+} b$, the corrections to $t\rightarrow H^{+} b$ are large, slowly decoupling and persist at a sizeable level even for all sparticle masses well above the LEP 200 discovery range. As a matter of fact, the potential size of the SUSY effects, which amount to corrections of several ten percent, could counterbalance the standard QCD corrections and even make them to appear with the ``wrong'' sign. Therefore, if the charged Higgs decay of the top quark is kinematically allowed -a possibility which is not excluded by the recent measurements of the branching ratio $BR(t\rightarrow W^{+} b)$ at the Tevatron - it could be an invaluable laboratory to search for ``virtual'' supersymmetry. While a first significant test of these effects could possibly be performed at the upgraded Tevatron, a more precise verification would most likely be carried out in future experiments at the LHC.
1809.09115
Vedran Brdar
Vedran Brdar, Alexei Yu. Smirnov
Low Scale Left-Right Symmetry and Naturally Small Neutrino Mass
22 pages, 3 figures; comments and references added
JHEP 1902 (2019) 045
10.1007/JHEP02(2019)045
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the low scale ($10$ - $100$ TeV) left-right symmetric model with "naturally" small neutrino masses generated through the inverse seesaw mechanism. The Dirac neutrino mass terms are taken to be similar to the masses of charged leptons and quarks in order to satisfy the quark-lepton similarity condition. The inverse seesaw implies the existence of fermion singlets $S$ with Majorana mass terms as well as the "left" and "right" Higgs doublets. These doublets provide the portal for $S$ and break the left-right symmetry. The inverse seesaw allows to realize a scenario in which the large lepton mixing originates from the Majorana mass matrix of $S$ fields which has certain symmetry. The model contains heavy pseudo-Dirac fermions, formed by $S$ and the right-handed neutrinos, which have masses in the $1$ GeV - $100$ TeV range and can be searched for at current and future colliders such as LHC and FCC-ee as well as in SHiP and DUNE experiments. Their contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay is unobservable. The radiative corrections to the mass of the Higgs boson and the possibility for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe are discussed. Modification of the model with two singlets ($S_L$ and $S_R$) per generation can provide a viable keV-scale dark matter candidate.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:38:44 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:00:52 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-02-14
[ [ "Brdar", "Vedran", "" ], [ "Smirnov", "Alexei Yu.", "" ] ]
We consider the low scale ($10$ - $100$ TeV) left-right symmetric model with "naturally" small neutrino masses generated through the inverse seesaw mechanism. The Dirac neutrino mass terms are taken to be similar to the masses of charged leptons and quarks in order to satisfy the quark-lepton similarity condition. The inverse seesaw implies the existence of fermion singlets $S$ with Majorana mass terms as well as the "left" and "right" Higgs doublets. These doublets provide the portal for $S$ and break the left-right symmetry. The inverse seesaw allows to realize a scenario in which the large lepton mixing originates from the Majorana mass matrix of $S$ fields which has certain symmetry. The model contains heavy pseudo-Dirac fermions, formed by $S$ and the right-handed neutrinos, which have masses in the $1$ GeV - $100$ TeV range and can be searched for at current and future colliders such as LHC and FCC-ee as well as in SHiP and DUNE experiments. Their contribution to neutrinoless double beta decay is unobservable. The radiative corrections to the mass of the Higgs boson and the possibility for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe are discussed. Modification of the model with two singlets ($S_L$ and $S_R$) per generation can provide a viable keV-scale dark matter candidate.
hep-ph/0202141
null
Prem P. Srivastava (Fermilab and UERJ), Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC)
A Unitary and Renormalizable Theory of the Standard Model in Ghost-Free Light-Cone Gauge
Latex, 36 pages
Phys.Rev.D66:045019,2002
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.045019
SLAC-PUB-9137, FERMILAB-Pub-02/020-T
hep-ph hep-th nucl-th
null
Light-front (LF) quantization in light-cone (LC) gauge is used to construct a unitary and simultaneously renormalizable theory of the Standard Model. The framework derived earlier for QCD is extended to the Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam (GWS) model of electroweak interaction theory. The Lorentz condition is automatically satisfied in LF-quantized QCD in the LC gauge for the free massless gauge field. In the GWS model, with the spontaneous symmetry breaking present, we find that the 't Hooft condition accompanies the LC gauge condition corresponding to the massive vector boson. The two transverse polarization vectors for the massive vector boson may be chosen to be the same as found in QCD. The non-transverse and linearly independent third polarization vector is found to be parallel to the gauge direction. The corresponding sum over polarizations in the Standard model, indicated by $K_{\mu\nu}(k),$ has several simplifying properties similar to the polarization sum $D_{\mu\nu}(k)$ in QCD. The framework is ghost-free, and the interaction Hamiltonian of electroweak theory can be expressed in a form resembling that of covariant theory, except for few additional instantaneous interactions which can be treated systematically. The LF formulation also provides a transparent discussion of the Goldstone Boson (or Electroweak) Equivalence Theorem, as the illustrations show.
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:40:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-11
[ [ "Srivastava", "Prem P.", "", "Fermilab and UERJ" ], [ "Brodsky", "Stanley J.", "", "SLAC" ] ]
Light-front (LF) quantization in light-cone (LC) gauge is used to construct a unitary and simultaneously renormalizable theory of the Standard Model. The framework derived earlier for QCD is extended to the Glashow, Weinberg, and Salam (GWS) model of electroweak interaction theory. The Lorentz condition is automatically satisfied in LF-quantized QCD in the LC gauge for the free massless gauge field. In the GWS model, with the spontaneous symmetry breaking present, we find that the 't Hooft condition accompanies the LC gauge condition corresponding to the massive vector boson. The two transverse polarization vectors for the massive vector boson may be chosen to be the same as found in QCD. The non-transverse and linearly independent third polarization vector is found to be parallel to the gauge direction. The corresponding sum over polarizations in the Standard model, indicated by $K_{\mu\nu}(k),$ has several simplifying properties similar to the polarization sum $D_{\mu\nu}(k)$ in QCD. The framework is ghost-free, and the interaction Hamiltonian of electroweak theory can be expressed in a form resembling that of covariant theory, except for few additional instantaneous interactions which can be treated systematically. The LF formulation also provides a transparent discussion of the Goldstone Boson (or Electroweak) Equivalence Theorem, as the illustrations show.
2308.14538
Sa Wang
Sa Wang, Yao Li, Shuwan Shen, Ben-Wei Zhang, Enke Wang
Production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton in high-energy nuclear collisions
11 pages, 8 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This paper presents a theoretical study on the production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton (HFL) in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC. The pp-baseline is calculated by the FONLL program, which matches the next-to-leading order pQCD calculation with the next-to-leading-log large-$p_T$ resummation. The in-medium propagation of heavy quarks is driven by the modified Langevin equations, which consider both the elastic and inelastic partonic interactions. We propose a method to separate the respective influence of the five factors, such as pp-spectra, the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects, in-medium energy loss (E-loss), fragmentation functions (FFs), and decay channels, which may contribute to the larger $R_{AA}$ of HFL $\leftarrow b$ compared to that of HFL $\leftarrow c$ in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Based on quantitative analysis, we demonstrate that different decay channels of charm- and bottom-hadrons play an important role at $p_T<$5 GeV, while the mass-dependent E-loss dominates the higher $p_T$ region. It is also found that the influences of the CNM effects and FFs are insignificant, while different initial pp-spectra of charm and bottom quarks have a considerable impact at $p_T>$ 3 GeV. Furthermore, we explore the path-length dependence of jet quenching by comparing the HFL $R_{AA}$ in two different collision systems. Our investigations show smaller HFL $R_{AA}$ in Pb+Pb than that in Xe+Xe within the same centrality bin, which is consistent with the ALICE data. The longer propagation time and more effective energy loss of heavy quarks in Pb+Pb collisions play critical roles in the stronger yield suppression of the HFL compared to that in Xe+Xe. In addition, we observe a scaling behaviour of the HFL $R_{AA}$ in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 12:49:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-08-29
[ [ "Wang", "Sa", "" ], [ "Li", "Yao", "" ], [ "Shen", "Shuwan", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Ben-Wei", "" ], [ "Wang", "Enke", "" ] ]
This paper presents a theoretical study on the production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton (HFL) in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC. The pp-baseline is calculated by the FONLL program, which matches the next-to-leading order pQCD calculation with the next-to-leading-log large-$p_T$ resummation. The in-medium propagation of heavy quarks is driven by the modified Langevin equations, which consider both the elastic and inelastic partonic interactions. We propose a method to separate the respective influence of the five factors, such as pp-spectra, the cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects, in-medium energy loss (E-loss), fragmentation functions (FFs), and decay channels, which may contribute to the larger $R_{AA}$ of HFL $\leftarrow b$ compared to that of HFL $\leftarrow c$ in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Based on quantitative analysis, we demonstrate that different decay channels of charm- and bottom-hadrons play an important role at $p_T<$5 GeV, while the mass-dependent E-loss dominates the higher $p_T$ region. It is also found that the influences of the CNM effects and FFs are insignificant, while different initial pp-spectra of charm and bottom quarks have a considerable impact at $p_T>$ 3 GeV. Furthermore, we explore the path-length dependence of jet quenching by comparing the HFL $R_{AA}$ in two different collision systems. Our investigations show smaller HFL $R_{AA}$ in Pb+Pb than that in Xe+Xe within the same centrality bin, which is consistent with the ALICE data. The longer propagation time and more effective energy loss of heavy quarks in Pb+Pb collisions play critical roles in the stronger yield suppression of the HFL compared to that in Xe+Xe. In addition, we observe a scaling behaviour of the HFL $R_{AA}$ in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb collisions.
hep-ph/0703295
Hee-Jung Lee
Hee-Jung Lee
Light scalar mesons as tetraquarks within QCD Sum Rules
4 pages, 1 figure, Talk at the Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) 2006, "New frontiers in QCD", Kyoto, Japan
Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.168:190-193,2007
10.1143/PTPS.168.190
null
hep-ph
null
We examine the interpretation of the light scalar meson nonet as tetraquark states using QCD sum rules. With the interpolating current for the tetraquark states composed of scalar diquark and scalar antidiquark, first, we construct the QCD sum rules by means of the operator product expansion up to the operators of dimension 8 and show that there is no evidence of the coupling of the tetraquark states to the light scalar meson nonet. In order to have a stable sum rule, we propose a "good" interpolating current for the tetraquarks based on chirality arguments which includes scalar and pseudoscalar diquark--antidiquarks with equal weights. In particular, for the lowest tetraquark $\sigma$--meson, we perform detail analysis of the QCD sum rule and obtain mass for the $\sigma(600)$ around 780 MeV.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:25:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lee", "Hee-Jung", "" ] ]
We examine the interpretation of the light scalar meson nonet as tetraquark states using QCD sum rules. With the interpolating current for the tetraquark states composed of scalar diquark and scalar antidiquark, first, we construct the QCD sum rules by means of the operator product expansion up to the operators of dimension 8 and show that there is no evidence of the coupling of the tetraquark states to the light scalar meson nonet. In order to have a stable sum rule, we propose a "good" interpolating current for the tetraquarks based on chirality arguments which includes scalar and pseudoscalar diquark--antidiquarks with equal weights. In particular, for the lowest tetraquark $\sigma$--meson, we perform detail analysis of the QCD sum rule and obtain mass for the $\sigma(600)$ around 780 MeV.
hep-ph/9703259
Hitoshi Murayama
Nima Arkani-Hamed and Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
Can The Supersymmetric Flavor Problem Decouple?
LaTeX, 10 pages, three EPS figures
Phys.Rev.D56:6733-6737,1997
10.1103/PhysRevD.56.R6733
LBNL-4-0077, UCB-PTH-97/01
hep-ph
null
It has been argued that the squarks and sleptons of the first and second generations can be relatively heavy without destabilizing the weak scale, thereby improving the situation with too-large flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) and CP violating processes. In theories where the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters are generated at a high scale (such as the Planck scale), we show that such a mass spectrum tends to drive the scalar top mass squared $m_{\tilde{Q}_3}^2$ negative from two-loop renormalization group evolution. Even ignoring CP violation and allowing $O(\lambda) \sim .22$ alignment, the first two generation scalars must be heavier than 22 TeV to suppress FCNC. This in turn requires the boundary condition on $m_{\tilde{Q}_3} > 4 TeV$ to avoid negative $m_{\tilde{Q}_3}^2$ at the weak scale. Some of the models in the literature employing the anomalous U(1) in string theory are excluded by our analysis.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Mar 1997 00:21:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-29
[ [ "Arkani-Hamed", "Nima", "", "UC Berkeley, LBNL" ], [ "Murayama", "Hitoshi", "", "UC Berkeley, LBNL" ] ]
It has been argued that the squarks and sleptons of the first and second generations can be relatively heavy without destabilizing the weak scale, thereby improving the situation with too-large flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) and CP violating processes. In theories where the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters are generated at a high scale (such as the Planck scale), we show that such a mass spectrum tends to drive the scalar top mass squared $m_{\tilde{Q}_3}^2$ negative from two-loop renormalization group evolution. Even ignoring CP violation and allowing $O(\lambda) \sim .22$ alignment, the first two generation scalars must be heavier than 22 TeV to suppress FCNC. This in turn requires the boundary condition on $m_{\tilde{Q}_3} > 4 TeV$ to avoid negative $m_{\tilde{Q}_3}^2$ at the weak scale. Some of the models in the literature employing the anomalous U(1) in string theory are excluded by our analysis.
2405.01712
Magno Machado
L.S. Moriggi, G.S. Ramos, M.V.T. Machado
Multiplicity dependence of the $p_T$-spectra for charged particles and its relationship with partonic entropy
11 pages, 7 figures. Version to be published in Physical Review D
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate the multiplicity dependence of the transverse momentum $p_T$ spectra of hadrons produced in high-energy collisions. We propose that the partonic distribution be parameterized by its non-extensive entropy and the parton saturation scale $Q_s(x)$. These two variables can be identified from the produced charged hadron distributions and provide important information on the gluon dynamics at the moment of interaction. From this perspective we interpret data from different ALICE multiplicity classes at $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}= 5.02$ TeV. A multiplicity dependent scaling function is presented and the dependence of the interaction area on multiplicity is also investigated.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 May 2024 20:17:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 8 Jul 2024 22:37:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-10
[ [ "Moriggi", "L. S.", "" ], [ "Ramos", "G. S.", "" ], [ "Machado", "M. V. T.", "" ] ]
We investigate the multiplicity dependence of the transverse momentum $p_T$ spectra of hadrons produced in high-energy collisions. We propose that the partonic distribution be parameterized by its non-extensive entropy and the parton saturation scale $Q_s(x)$. These two variables can be identified from the produced charged hadron distributions and provide important information on the gluon dynamics at the moment of interaction. From this perspective we interpret data from different ALICE multiplicity classes at $\sqrt{s}= 13$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}= 5.02$ TeV. A multiplicity dependent scaling function is presented and the dependence of the interaction area on multiplicity is also investigated.
hep-ph/0210348
Anders Tranberg
J. Smit and A. Tranberg
Chern-Simons number asymmetry from CP-violation during tachyonic preheating
5 pages, 10 figures, to appear in the proceedings of SEWM2002. Modified presentation of final result. Results unchanged
null
10.1142/9789812704498_0071
ITFA-2002-45
hep-ph hep-lat
null
We consider the creation of non-zero Chern-Simons number in a model of the early Universe, where the Higgs field experiences a fast quench at the end of inflation. We perform numerical lattice simulations in the Abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions and in the SU(2)-Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions with an added effective CP-violating term. We also comment on the appropriate choice of vacuum initial conditions for classical simulations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:49:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:34:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Smit", "J.", "" ], [ "Tranberg", "A.", "" ] ]
We consider the creation of non-zero Chern-Simons number in a model of the early Universe, where the Higgs field experiences a fast quench at the end of inflation. We perform numerical lattice simulations in the Abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions and in the SU(2)-Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions with an added effective CP-violating term. We also comment on the appropriate choice of vacuum initial conditions for classical simulations.
2002.00036
Gongjun Choi
Gongjun Choi, Motoo Suzuki, Tsutomu T. Yanagida
Degenerate Sub-keV Fermion Dark Matter from a Solution to the Hubble Tension
7 pages, 2 figures, version published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 101, 075031 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.101.075031
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.GA
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a dark sector model addressing both the Hubble tension and the core-cusp problem. The model is based on a hidden Abelian gauge symmetry group with some chiral fermions required by the anomaly cancellation conditions, producing a candidate for the decaying fermion dark matter as a solution to the Hubble tension. Moreover, the sub-keV mass regime and the thermal history of the dark sector help the dark matter candidate resolve the core-cusp problem occurring in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:47:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:47:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-22
[ [ "Choi", "Gongjun", "" ], [ "Suzuki", "Motoo", "" ], [ "Yanagida", "Tsutomu T.", "" ] ]
We present a dark sector model addressing both the Hubble tension and the core-cusp problem. The model is based on a hidden Abelian gauge symmetry group with some chiral fermions required by the anomaly cancellation conditions, producing a candidate for the decaying fermion dark matter as a solution to the Hubble tension. Moreover, the sub-keV mass regime and the thermal history of the dark sector help the dark matter candidate resolve the core-cusp problem occurring in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology.
2301.12546
Howard Baer
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger and Robert Wiley Deal
Dark matter and dark radiation from the early universe with a modulus coupled to the PQMSSM
40 pages including 29 .png figures
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2023)083
OU-HEP-230204
hep-ph astro-ph.HE
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The supersymmetrized DFSZ axion model is especially compelling in that it contains 1. the SUSY solution to the gauge hierarchy problem, 2. the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong CP problem and 3. the Kim-Nilles solution to the SUSY mu problem. In a string setting, where a discrete R-symmetry ({\bf Z}_{24}^R for example) may emerge from the compactification process, a high-quality accidental axion (accion) can emerge from the accidental, approximate remnant global U(1)_{PQ} symmetry where the decay constant f_a is linked to the SUSY breaking scale, and is within the cosmological sweet zone. In this setup, one also expects the presence of stringy remnant moduli fields \phi_i. Here, we consider the situation of a single light modulus \phi coupled to the PQMSSM in the early universe, with mixed axion plus higgsino-like WIMP dark matter. We evaluate dark matter and dark radiation production via nine coupled Boltzmann equations and assess the severity of the cosmological moduli problem (CMP) along with dark matter and dark radiation production rates. We find that typically the light modulus mass should be m_{\phi}>~ 10^4 TeV to avoid the moduli-induced dark matter overproduction problem. If one is able to (anthropically) tune the modulus field amplitude, we find a value of \phi_0 <~ 10^{-7}m_P would be required to solve the overall CMP.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Jan 2023 21:29:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-07-05
[ [ "Baer", "Howard", "" ], [ "Barger", "Vernon", "" ], [ "Deal", "Robert Wiley", "" ] ]
The supersymmetrized DFSZ axion model is especially compelling in that it contains 1. the SUSY solution to the gauge hierarchy problem, 2. the Peccei-Quinn (PQ) solution to the strong CP problem and 3. the Kim-Nilles solution to the SUSY mu problem. In a string setting, where a discrete R-symmetry ({\bf Z}_{24}^R for example) may emerge from the compactification process, a high-quality accidental axion (accion) can emerge from the accidental, approximate remnant global U(1)_{PQ} symmetry where the decay constant f_a is linked to the SUSY breaking scale, and is within the cosmological sweet zone. In this setup, one also expects the presence of stringy remnant moduli fields \phi_i. Here, we consider the situation of a single light modulus \phi coupled to the PQMSSM in the early universe, with mixed axion plus higgsino-like WIMP dark matter. We evaluate dark matter and dark radiation production via nine coupled Boltzmann equations and assess the severity of the cosmological moduli problem (CMP) along with dark matter and dark radiation production rates. We find that typically the light modulus mass should be m_{\phi}>~ 10^4 TeV to avoid the moduli-induced dark matter overproduction problem. If one is able to (anthropically) tune the modulus field amplitude, we find a value of \phi_0 <~ 10^{-7}m_P would be required to solve the overall CMP.
1907.02910
Riccardo Catena
Riccardo Catena, K{\aa}re Fridell and Martin B. Krauss
Non-relativistic Effective Interactions of Spin 1 Dark Matter
24 pages, 2 figures and 2 tables
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2019)030
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 dark matter (DM) with the aim of identifying features in the phenomenology of DM-quark interactions which are specific to vector DM. In the case of DM-quark interactions mediated by a spin 1 particle, we find two DM-nucleon interaction operators arising from the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 DM that are specific to spin 1 DM, and which were not considered in previous studies. They are quadratic in the momentum transfer, linear in a symmetric combination of polarisation vectors for the DM particle, and arise from simplified models which do not generate momentum transfer independent operators as leading interactions in the non-relativistic expansion of DM-nucleon scattering amplitudes. Within these simplified models, the new operators cannot be neglected when computing DM signals at direct detection experiments. For example, we find that nuclear recoil energy spectra computed by including or neglecting the new operators can differ by up to one order of magnitude for nuclear recoil energies larger than about 20 keV and DM masses below $50$ GeV. Furthermore, the shape of the expected nuclear recoil spectra depends significantly on whether the new operators are taken into account or not. Finally, neglecting the contribution to DM direct detection signals from the new operators leads to inaccurate conclusions when assessing the compatibility of a future direct detection signal with CMB constraints on the DM relic density, especially when the number of signal events is small, e.g. $\mathcal{O}(1)$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 5 Jul 2019 16:16:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-09-04
[ [ "Catena", "Riccardo", "" ], [ "Fridell", "Kåre", "" ], [ "Krauss", "Martin B.", "" ] ]
We investigate the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 dark matter (DM) with the aim of identifying features in the phenomenology of DM-quark interactions which are specific to vector DM. In the case of DM-quark interactions mediated by a spin 1 particle, we find two DM-nucleon interaction operators arising from the non-relativistic reduction of simplified models for spin 1 DM that are specific to spin 1 DM, and which were not considered in previous studies. They are quadratic in the momentum transfer, linear in a symmetric combination of polarisation vectors for the DM particle, and arise from simplified models which do not generate momentum transfer independent operators as leading interactions in the non-relativistic expansion of DM-nucleon scattering amplitudes. Within these simplified models, the new operators cannot be neglected when computing DM signals at direct detection experiments. For example, we find that nuclear recoil energy spectra computed by including or neglecting the new operators can differ by up to one order of magnitude for nuclear recoil energies larger than about 20 keV and DM masses below $50$ GeV. Furthermore, the shape of the expected nuclear recoil spectra depends significantly on whether the new operators are taken into account or not. Finally, neglecting the contribution to DM direct detection signals from the new operators leads to inaccurate conclusions when assessing the compatibility of a future direct detection signal with CMB constraints on the DM relic density, especially when the number of signal events is small, e.g. $\mathcal{O}(1)$.
1010.0171
Daniele Dominici
Elena Accomando, Stefania De Curtis, Daniele Dominici and Luca Fedeli
Z' production at the LHC in the four-site Higgsless model
Latex file, 33 pages, 12 figures
Phys.Rev.D83:015012,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.015012
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the phenomenology of the neutral gauge sector of the four-site Higgsless model, based on the SU(2)_L x SU(2)_1 x SU(2)_2 x U(1)_Y gauge symmetry, at present colliders. The model predicts the existence of two neutral and four charged extra gauge bosons, Z_{1,2} and W^\pm_{1,2}. We expand and update a previous study, by concentrating on the neutral sector. We derive new limits on Z_{1,2}-boson masses and couplings from recent direct searches at the Tevatron. We moreover estimate the discovery potential at the Tevatron with a project luminosity L=10 fb^{-1}, and at the 7 TeV LHC with L=1 fb^{-1}. In contrast to other Higgsless theories characterized by almost fermiophobic extra gauge bosons, the four-site model allows sizeable Z_{1,2}-boson couplings to SM fermions. Owing to this feature, we find that in the next two years the extra Z_{1,2}-bosons could be discovered in the favoured Drell-Yan channel at the 7 TeV LHC for Z_{1,2} masses in the TeV region, depending on model parameters.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:29:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-02-25
[ [ "Accomando", "Elena", "" ], [ "De Curtis", "Stefania", "" ], [ "Dominici", "Daniele", "" ], [ "Fedeli", "Luca", "" ] ]
We study the phenomenology of the neutral gauge sector of the four-site Higgsless model, based on the SU(2)_L x SU(2)_1 x SU(2)_2 x U(1)_Y gauge symmetry, at present colliders. The model predicts the existence of two neutral and four charged extra gauge bosons, Z_{1,2} and W^\pm_{1,2}. We expand and update a previous study, by concentrating on the neutral sector. We derive new limits on Z_{1,2}-boson masses and couplings from recent direct searches at the Tevatron. We moreover estimate the discovery potential at the Tevatron with a project luminosity L=10 fb^{-1}, and at the 7 TeV LHC with L=1 fb^{-1}. In contrast to other Higgsless theories characterized by almost fermiophobic extra gauge bosons, the four-site model allows sizeable Z_{1,2}-boson couplings to SM fermions. Owing to this feature, we find that in the next two years the extra Z_{1,2}-bosons could be discovered in the favoured Drell-Yan channel at the 7 TeV LHC for Z_{1,2} masses in the TeV region, depending on model parameters.
1403.5404
Nan Jiang
Nan Jiang, Xiao-Lin Chen, Shi-Lin Zhu
Mass and axial charge of heavy baryons
null
Phys. Rev. D 90, 074011 (2014)
10.1103/PhysRevD.90.074011
null
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the antitriplet and sextet heavy baryon systems with $J^P= \frac{1}{2}^+, \frac{3}{2}^+$ in the framework of the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We first calculate the chiral corrections to the heavy baryon mass from the SU(3) flavor breaking effect up to $O(p^3)$. Then we extend the same formalism to calculate the chiral corrections to the axial charges of the heavy baryons in the isospin symmetry limit.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:39:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 12 Oct 2014 09:51:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-10-15
[ [ "Jiang", "Nan", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xiao-Lin", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Shi-Lin", "" ] ]
We investigate the antitriplet and sextet heavy baryon systems with $J^P= \frac{1}{2}^+, \frac{3}{2}^+$ in the framework of the heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We first calculate the chiral corrections to the heavy baryon mass from the SU(3) flavor breaking effect up to $O(p^3)$. Then we extend the same formalism to calculate the chiral corrections to the axial charges of the heavy baryons in the isospin symmetry limit.
0906.2584
Xin-Bing Huang
Xin-Bing Huang
Massive Gauge Bosons in Yang-Mills Theory without Higgs Mechanism
14 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Two kinds of Yang-Mills fields are found upon the concepts of mass eigenstate and nonmass eigenstate. The Yang-Mills fields of the first kind were proposed by Yang and Mills, which couple to the mass eigenstates with the same rest mass, whose gauge bosons are massless. I find that there are second kind of Yang-Mills fields, which are constructed on a five-dimensional manifold. Only the nonmass eigenstates couple to the Yang-Mills fields of the second kind, which are the nonmass eigenstates as well and composed of mass eigenstates of gauge bosons. The mass eigenstates of the Yang-Mills fields of the second kind live in the four-dimensional spacetime, the corresponding gauge bosons of which may be massive. The SU(2)\times U(1) gauge fields of the second kind are studied carefully, whose gauge bosons, which are the mass eigenstates, are the W^{\pm}, Z^{0} and photon fields. The rest masses of W^{\pm} and Z^{0} obtained are the same as that given by the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model of electroweak interactions. It is discussed that this model should be renormalizable.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:51:25 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-06-16
[ [ "Huang", "Xin-Bing", "" ] ]
Two kinds of Yang-Mills fields are found upon the concepts of mass eigenstate and nonmass eigenstate. The Yang-Mills fields of the first kind were proposed by Yang and Mills, which couple to the mass eigenstates with the same rest mass, whose gauge bosons are massless. I find that there are second kind of Yang-Mills fields, which are constructed on a five-dimensional manifold. Only the nonmass eigenstates couple to the Yang-Mills fields of the second kind, which are the nonmass eigenstates as well and composed of mass eigenstates of gauge bosons. The mass eigenstates of the Yang-Mills fields of the second kind live in the four-dimensional spacetime, the corresponding gauge bosons of which may be massive. The SU(2)\times U(1) gauge fields of the second kind are studied carefully, whose gauge bosons, which are the mass eigenstates, are the W^{\pm}, Z^{0} and photon fields. The rest masses of W^{\pm} and Z^{0} obtained are the same as that given by the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model of electroweak interactions. It is discussed that this model should be renormalizable.
1807.11507
Geraldine Servant
Geraldine Servant
The Serendipity of Electroweak Baryogenesis
ArXiv version of the contribution to the "Higgs cosmology" issue published in Philosophical Transactions A, associated with the Theo Murphy meeting which took place at the Royal Society Kavli Centre at Chicheley Hall on March 27-28 2017. 12 pages, 6 figures
Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond. A376 (2018) no.2114, 20170124
10.1098/rsta.2017.0124
DESY 18-131
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The origin of the matter antimatter asymmetry of the universe remains unexplained in the Standard Model of particle physics. The origin of the flavour structure is another major puzzle of the theory. In this article, we report on recent work attempting to link the two themes through the appealing framework of electroweak baryogenesis. We show that Yukawa couplings of Standard Model fermions can be the source of CP-violation for electroweak baryogenesis if they vary at the same time as the Higgs is acquiring its vacuum expectation value, offering new avenues for electroweak baryogenesis. The advantage of this approach is that it circumvents the usual severe bounds from Electric Dipole moments. These ideas apply if the mechanism explaining the flavour structure of the Standard Model is connected to electroweak symmetry breaking, as motivated for instance in Randall-Sundrum or Composite Higgs models. We compute the resulting baryon asymmetry for different configurations of the Yukawa coupling variation across the bubble wall, and show that it can naturally be of the right order.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2018 18:03:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-08-08
[ [ "Servant", "Geraldine", "" ] ]
The origin of the matter antimatter asymmetry of the universe remains unexplained in the Standard Model of particle physics. The origin of the flavour structure is another major puzzle of the theory. In this article, we report on recent work attempting to link the two themes through the appealing framework of electroweak baryogenesis. We show that Yukawa couplings of Standard Model fermions can be the source of CP-violation for electroweak baryogenesis if they vary at the same time as the Higgs is acquiring its vacuum expectation value, offering new avenues for electroweak baryogenesis. The advantage of this approach is that it circumvents the usual severe bounds from Electric Dipole moments. These ideas apply if the mechanism explaining the flavour structure of the Standard Model is connected to electroweak symmetry breaking, as motivated for instance in Randall-Sundrum or Composite Higgs models. We compute the resulting baryon asymmetry for different configurations of the Yukawa coupling variation across the bubble wall, and show that it can naturally be of the right order.
2203.09522
Gil Peled
Gil Peled, Tomer Volansky
Constraining Dark Matter Inside Stars Using Spectroscopic Binaries and a Modified Mass-Luminosity Relation
7 pages, 2 figures; appendix: 10 pages, 2 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph astro-ph.SR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The presence of a dissipative dark matter (DM) sector may allow for the trapping of a significant DM mass inside stars, either during structure formation or by accretion over their lifetime, influencing stellar behavior well into the Main Sequence stage. Motivated by this scenario, we place an upper bound on the fractional DM mass within current-day Main Sequence stars. Using double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2 stars), gravitational masses are extracted and contrasted with luminous masses, derived using a modified mass-luminosity relation which accounts for the effect of DM. High-accuracy mass and luminosity data from a sample of 486 binary stars in the $0.18 < M/M_\odot < 31$ mass range are partitioned into appropriate mass domains and analyzed. A 95% C.L. upper limit of sub-5% is found for the subset of 263 stars in the $1 < M/M_\odot < 2.4$ regime.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-03-21
[ [ "Peled", "Gil", "" ], [ "Volansky", "Tomer", "" ] ]
The presence of a dissipative dark matter (DM) sector may allow for the trapping of a significant DM mass inside stars, either during structure formation or by accretion over their lifetime, influencing stellar behavior well into the Main Sequence stage. Motivated by this scenario, we place an upper bound on the fractional DM mass within current-day Main Sequence stars. Using double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2 stars), gravitational masses are extracted and contrasted with luminous masses, derived using a modified mass-luminosity relation which accounts for the effect of DM. High-accuracy mass and luminosity data from a sample of 486 binary stars in the $0.18 < M/M_\odot < 31$ mass range are partitioned into appropriate mass domains and analyzed. A 95% C.L. upper limit of sub-5% is found for the subset of 263 stars in the $1 < M/M_\odot < 2.4$ regime.
1504.00505
Fei Wang
Fei Wang, Wenyu Wang, Jin Min Yang
Reconcile muon g-2 anomaly with LHC data in SUGRA with generalized gravity mediation
14 pages, 7 figures; minor changes; references added; version accepted by JHEP
JHEP 1506 (2015) 079
10.1007/JHEP06(2015)079
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
From generalized gravity mediation we build a SUGRA scenario in which the gluino is much heavier than the electroweak gauginos at the GUT scale. We find that such a non-universal gaugino scenario with very heavy gluino at the GUT scale can be naturally obtained with proper high dimensional operators in the framework of SU(5) GUT. Then, due to the effects of heavy gluino, at the weak scale all colored sparticles are heavy while the uncolored sparticles are light, which can explain the Brookhaven muon g-2 measurement while satisfying the collider constraints (both the 125 GeV Higgs mass and the direct search limits of sparticles) and dark matter requirements. We also find that, in order to explain the muon g-2 measurement, the neutralino dark matter is lighter than 200 GeV in our scenario, which can be mostly covered by the future Xenon1T experiment.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:29:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 29 May 2015 14:55:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-24
[ [ "Wang", "Fei", "" ], [ "Wang", "Wenyu", "" ], [ "Yang", "Jin Min", "" ] ]
From generalized gravity mediation we build a SUGRA scenario in which the gluino is much heavier than the electroweak gauginos at the GUT scale. We find that such a non-universal gaugino scenario with very heavy gluino at the GUT scale can be naturally obtained with proper high dimensional operators in the framework of SU(5) GUT. Then, due to the effects of heavy gluino, at the weak scale all colored sparticles are heavy while the uncolored sparticles are light, which can explain the Brookhaven muon g-2 measurement while satisfying the collider constraints (both the 125 GeV Higgs mass and the direct search limits of sparticles) and dark matter requirements. We also find that, in order to explain the muon g-2 measurement, the neutralino dark matter is lighter than 200 GeV in our scenario, which can be mostly covered by the future Xenon1T experiment.
hep-ph/0412065
Mikhail Tokarev V.
J.V.Ilic (1), G.P.Skoro (2), M.V.Tokarev (3)
Jet Energy Density in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High Energies
11 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, Presented at the XVII International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems "Relativistic Nuclear Physics & Quantum Chromodynamics", Dubna, Russia, September 27 - October 2, 2004
null
10.1134/S154747710602004X
null
hep-ph
null
The average particle multiplicity density dN/deta is the dynamical quantity which reflects some regularities of particle production in low-pT range. The quantity is an important ingredient of z-scaling. Experimental results on charged particle density are available for pp, pA and AA collisions while experimental properties of the jet density are still an open question. The goal of this work is to find the variable which will reflect the main features of the jet production in low transverse energy range and play the role of the scale factor for the scaling function psi(z) and variable z in data z-presentation. The appropriate candidate is the variable we called "scaled jet energy density". Scaled jet energy density is the probability to have a jet with defined ET in defined xT and pseudorapidity regions. The PYTHIA6.2 Monte Carlo generator is used for calculation of scaled jet energy density in proton-proton collisions over a high energy range (sqrt s = 200-14000 GeV) and at eta = 0. The properties of the new variable are discussed and sensitivity to "physical scenarios" applied in the standard Monte Carlo generator is noted. The results of scaled jet energy density at LHC energies are presented and compared with predictions based on z-scaling.
[ { "created": "Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:49:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-10-31
[ [ "Ilic", "J. V.", "" ], [ "Skoro", "G. P.", "" ], [ "Tokarev", "M. V.", "" ] ]
The average particle multiplicity density dN/deta is the dynamical quantity which reflects some regularities of particle production in low-pT range. The quantity is an important ingredient of z-scaling. Experimental results on charged particle density are available for pp, pA and AA collisions while experimental properties of the jet density are still an open question. The goal of this work is to find the variable which will reflect the main features of the jet production in low transverse energy range and play the role of the scale factor for the scaling function psi(z) and variable z in data z-presentation. The appropriate candidate is the variable we called "scaled jet energy density". Scaled jet energy density is the probability to have a jet with defined ET in defined xT and pseudorapidity regions. The PYTHIA6.2 Monte Carlo generator is used for calculation of scaled jet energy density in proton-proton collisions over a high energy range (sqrt s = 200-14000 GeV) and at eta = 0. The properties of the new variable are discussed and sensitivity to "physical scenarios" applied in the standard Monte Carlo generator is noted. The results of scaled jet energy density at LHC energies are presented and compared with predictions based on z-scaling.
hep-ph/9609477
Maria Krawczyk
Maria Krawczyk (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw)
Higgs Search at HERA
12 pages, including 5 figure; Contribution to "Future Physics at HERA" Workshop, 1995-1996, Hamburg, DESY
null
null
IFT 21/96
hep-ph
null
Present data do not rule out a light neutral Higgs particle with mass below 40--50 GeV in the framework of 2HDM with $ tan \beta \sim $ 20-30. The promising possibility of searching for a light Higgs particle in such a scenario in photoproduction at HERA collider is discussed. For the MSSM there is only a very small chance to observe the Higgs sector, and only for limited mass range $\sim$ 45-50 GeV and with large $ tan \beta$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:19:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Krawczyk", "Maria", "", "Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of\n Warsaw" ] ]
Present data do not rule out a light neutral Higgs particle with mass below 40--50 GeV in the framework of 2HDM with $ tan \beta \sim $ 20-30. The promising possibility of searching for a light Higgs particle in such a scenario in photoproduction at HERA collider is discussed. For the MSSM there is only a very small chance to observe the Higgs sector, and only for limited mass range $\sim$ 45-50 GeV and with large $ tan \beta$.
hep-ph/9302314
Jutta Kunz
Sylvie Braibant, Yves Brihaye and Jutta Kunz
Sphalerons at finite temperature
14 pages, plain tex, 5 figures appended as postscript files at the end of the paper. MONS-93/01, THU-93/01
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A8 (1993) 5563-5574
10.1142/S0217751X93002198
null
hep-ph
null
We construct the sphaleron for several temperature dependent effective potentials. We determine the sphaleron energy as a function of temperature and demonstrate that the sphaleron energy at a given temperature $T$ is well approximated by the sphaleron energy at temperature zero scaled by the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs field at temperatures $T$ and zero. We address the cosmological upper bound on the Higgs mass.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 Feb 1993 15:27:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Braibant", "Sylvie", "" ], [ "Brihaye", "Yves", "" ], [ "Kunz", "Jutta", "" ] ]
We construct the sphaleron for several temperature dependent effective potentials. We determine the sphaleron energy as a function of temperature and demonstrate that the sphaleron energy at a given temperature $T$ is well approximated by the sphaleron energy at temperature zero scaled by the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the Higgs field at temperatures $T$ and zero. We address the cosmological upper bound on the Higgs mass.
2402.02703
Jun He Prof.
Shu-Yi Kong, Jun-Tao Zhu, Shu Chen, Jun He
Production of open-charm pentaquark molecules in decay $B^0 \rightarrow \bar{D}^0 p \bar{p}$
8 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This study explores the production of open-charm pentaquark molecular states, specifically $N\bar{D}^*$ and $\bar{N}\bar{D}^*$, within the $B^0 \rightarrow \bar{D}^0 p \bar{p}$ decay process. We analyze the invariant mass spectrum of $p\bar{D}^0$ and $\bar{p}\bar{D}^0$, incorporating the rescattering process calculated using a quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. Our findings suggest the potential identification of the isoscalar $\bar{N}\bar{D}^*$ molecule with $3/2^+$, serving as the antiparticle partner of the $\Lambda_c(2940)$, in the $\bar{p}\bar{D}^0$ mass distribution. Additionally, distinctive signals of the isovector $N\bar{D}^*$ molecule with $1/2^-$ may emerge in the $p\bar{D}^0$ invariant mass distribution. We highlight the significance of the three-body decay of the bottom meson as a valuable avenue for studying open-charm molecules and advocate for increased attention and more precise experimental measurements of the $B^0 \rightarrow \bar{D}^0 p \bar{p}$ process.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2024 03:32:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-02-06
[ [ "Kong", "Shu-Yi", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Jun-Tao", "" ], [ "Chen", "Shu", "" ], [ "He", "Jun", "" ] ]
This study explores the production of open-charm pentaquark molecular states, specifically $N\bar{D}^*$ and $\bar{N}\bar{D}^*$, within the $B^0 \rightarrow \bar{D}^0 p \bar{p}$ decay process. We analyze the invariant mass spectrum of $p\bar{D}^0$ and $\bar{p}\bar{D}^0$, incorporating the rescattering process calculated using a quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation approach. Our findings suggest the potential identification of the isoscalar $\bar{N}\bar{D}^*$ molecule with $3/2^+$, serving as the antiparticle partner of the $\Lambda_c(2940)$, in the $\bar{p}\bar{D}^0$ mass distribution. Additionally, distinctive signals of the isovector $N\bar{D}^*$ molecule with $1/2^-$ may emerge in the $p\bar{D}^0$ invariant mass distribution. We highlight the significance of the three-body decay of the bottom meson as a valuable avenue for studying open-charm molecules and advocate for increased attention and more precise experimental measurements of the $B^0 \rightarrow \bar{D}^0 p \bar{p}$ process.
1410.2616
Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin
P-H. Beauchemin, V.A. Bednyakov, G.I. Lykasov, Yu.Yu. Stepanenko
Search for intrinsic charm in vector boson production accompanied by heavy flavor jets
14 pages, 11 figures
Phys. Rev. D 92, 034014 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.034014
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Up to now, the existence of intrinsic (or valence-like) heavy quark component of the proton distribution functions has not yet been confirmed or rejected. The LHC with pp-collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7-13 TeV can supply us with extra unique information concerning this hypothesis. On the basis of our theoretical studies, it is demonstrated that investigations of the intrinsic heavy quark contributions look very promising in processes like $pp \rightarrow Z/W + c(b) + X$. A ratio of $Z+$ heavy jets over $W+$ heavy jets differential cross section as a function of the leading jet transverse momentum is proposed to maximize the sensitivity to the intrinsic charm component of the proton.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Oct 2014 20:36:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-08-19
[ [ "Beauchemin", "P-H.", "" ], [ "Bednyakov", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Lykasov", "G. I.", "" ], [ "Stepanenko", "Yu. Yu.", "" ] ]
Up to now, the existence of intrinsic (or valence-like) heavy quark component of the proton distribution functions has not yet been confirmed or rejected. The LHC with pp-collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7-13 TeV can supply us with extra unique information concerning this hypothesis. On the basis of our theoretical studies, it is demonstrated that investigations of the intrinsic heavy quark contributions look very promising in processes like $pp \rightarrow Z/W + c(b) + X$. A ratio of $Z+$ heavy jets over $W+$ heavy jets differential cross section as a function of the leading jet transverse momentum is proposed to maximize the sensitivity to the intrinsic charm component of the proton.
hep-ph/0410223
Riccardo Barbieri
Riccardo Barbieri
Searching for new physics at future accelerators
9 pages, plenary talk at ICHEP2004, Beijing, August 2004, typos corrected, added references
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A20 (2005) 5184-5192
10.1142/S0217751X05028697
null
hep-ph
null
I overview the status of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking problem, paying special attention to the possible signals of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and at a Linear Collider)
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:25:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:56:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Barbieri", "Riccardo", "" ] ]
I overview the status of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking problem, paying special attention to the possible signals of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and at a Linear Collider)
hep-ph/9301247
null
E.Kh. Akhmedov, S.T. Petcov and A.Yu. Smirnov
Pontecorvo's Original Oscillations Revisited
LaTeX, 14 pages, 1 figure (not included but available upon request by fax or ordinary mail), SISSA 9/93/EP, IC/93/10
Phys.Lett.B309:95-102,1993
10.1016/0370-2693(93)91510-T
null
hep-ph
null
We show that a left-handed neutrino $\nu_L$ can oscillate into its $CP$- conjugated state $\bar{\nu}_R$ with maximal amplitude, in direct analogy with $K^0-\bar{K}^0$ oscillations. Peculiarities of such oscillations under different conditions are studied.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Jan 1993 11:08:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Akhmedov", "E. Kh.", "" ], [ "Petcov", "S. T.", "" ], [ "Smirnov", "A. Yu.", "" ] ]
We show that a left-handed neutrino $\nu_L$ can oscillate into its $CP$- conjugated state $\bar{\nu}_R$ with maximal amplitude, in direct analogy with $K^0-\bar{K}^0$ oscillations. Peculiarities of such oscillations under different conditions are studied.
1112.4937
Eberhard Klempt
A. V. Anisovich, R. Beck, E. Klempt, V. A. Nikonov, A. V. Sarantsev, and U. Thoma
Properties of baryon resonances from a multichannel partial wave analysis
12 pages, 8 Tables
null
10.1140/epja/i2012-12015-8
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Properties of nucleon and $\Delta$ resonances are derived from a multichannel partial wave analysis. The statistical significance of pion and photo-induced inelastic reactions off protons are studied in a multichannel partial-wave analysis.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:37:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Anisovich", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Beck", "R.", "" ], [ "Klempt", "E.", "" ], [ "Nikonov", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Sarantsev", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Thoma", "U.", "" ] ]
Properties of nucleon and $\Delta$ resonances are derived from a multichannel partial wave analysis. The statistical significance of pion and photo-induced inelastic reactions off protons are studied in a multichannel partial-wave analysis.
1006.1448
Cai-Dian Lu
Cai-Dian Lu and Wei Wang
Study light scalar meson property from heavy meson decays
5 pages, talk given at 45th Rencontres de Moriond QCD and High Energy Interactions, March 2010, La Thuile and XIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, Florida, 2009
AIP Conf.Proc.1257:257-261,2010
10.1063/1.3483328
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the SU(3) symmetry limit, the ratio $R\equiv\frac{{\cal B}(D^+\to f_0l^+\nu)+ {\cal B}(D^+\to \sigma l^+\nu)}{{\cal B}(D^+\to a_0^0l^+\nu)}$ is equal to 1 if the scalar mesons are $\bar qq$ states, while it is 3 if these mesons are tentraquark states. This ratio provides a model-independent way to distinguish the descriptions for light scalar mesons . It also applies to the $B^-\to Sl^-\bar\nu$ and $\bar B^0\to J/\psi(\eta_c) S$ decays. The SU(3) symmetry breaking effect is found to be under control, which will not spoil our method. The branching fractions of the $D^+\to S l^+\nu$, $B^-\to S l^-\bar\nu$ and $\bar B^0\to J/\psi(\eta_c) S$ decays roughly have the order $10^{-4}$, $10^{-5}$ and $10^{-6}$, respectively. The B factory experiments and ongoing BEPC-II experiments are able to measure these channels and accordingly to provide the detailed information of the scalar meson inner structure.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Jun 2010 04:14:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-21
[ [ "Lu", "Cai-Dian", "" ], [ "Wang", "Wei", "" ] ]
In the SU(3) symmetry limit, the ratio $R\equiv\frac{{\cal B}(D^+\to f_0l^+\nu)+ {\cal B}(D^+\to \sigma l^+\nu)}{{\cal B}(D^+\to a_0^0l^+\nu)}$ is equal to 1 if the scalar mesons are $\bar qq$ states, while it is 3 if these mesons are tentraquark states. This ratio provides a model-independent way to distinguish the descriptions for light scalar mesons . It also applies to the $B^-\to Sl^-\bar\nu$ and $\bar B^0\to J/\psi(\eta_c) S$ decays. The SU(3) symmetry breaking effect is found to be under control, which will not spoil our method. The branching fractions of the $D^+\to S l^+\nu$, $B^-\to S l^-\bar\nu$ and $\bar B^0\to J/\psi(\eta_c) S$ decays roughly have the order $10^{-4}$, $10^{-5}$ and $10^{-6}$, respectively. The B factory experiments and ongoing BEPC-II experiments are able to measure these channels and accordingly to provide the detailed information of the scalar meson inner structure.
1605.07357
Fabio Siringo
Fabio Siringo
Analytic structure of QCD propagators in Minkowski space
Some comments on BRST invariance and some new references are added in the new version
Phys. Rev. D 94, 114036 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.114036
null
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Analytical functions for the propagators of QCD, including a set of chiral quarks, are derived by a one-loop massive expansion in the Landau gauge, deep in the infrared. By analytic continuation, the spectral functions are studied in Minkowski space, yielding a direct proof of positivity violation and confinement from first principles.The dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry is described on the same footing of gluon mass generation, providing a unified picture. While dealing with the exact Lagrangian, the expansion is based on massive free-particle propagators, is safe in the infrared and is equivalent to the standard perturbation theory in the UV. By dimensional regularization, all diverging mass terms cancel exactly without including mass counterterms that would spoil the gauge and chiral symmetry of the Lagrangian. Universal scaling properties are predicted for the inverse dressing functions and shown to be satisfied by the lattice data. Complex conjugated poles are found for the gluon propagator, in agreement with the i-particle scenario.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 May 2016 10:11:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 5 Oct 2016 19:00:57 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 1 Jan 2017 18:54:20 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-01-04
[ [ "Siringo", "Fabio", "" ] ]
Analytical functions for the propagators of QCD, including a set of chiral quarks, are derived by a one-loop massive expansion in the Landau gauge, deep in the infrared. By analytic continuation, the spectral functions are studied in Minkowski space, yielding a direct proof of positivity violation and confinement from first principles.The dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry is described on the same footing of gluon mass generation, providing a unified picture. While dealing with the exact Lagrangian, the expansion is based on massive free-particle propagators, is safe in the infrared and is equivalent to the standard perturbation theory in the UV. By dimensional regularization, all diverging mass terms cancel exactly without including mass counterterms that would spoil the gauge and chiral symmetry of the Lagrangian. Universal scaling properties are predicted for the inverse dressing functions and shown to be satisfied by the lattice data. Complex conjugated poles are found for the gluon propagator, in agreement with the i-particle scenario.
1807.04120
Tyler Gorda
Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Paul Romatschke, Saga S\"appi, and Aleksi Vuorinen
NNNLO pressure of cold quark matter: leading logarithm
8 pages with appendix, 2 figures; v3: Added footnote to point out minus sign error in final result
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202701 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.202701
CERN-TH-2018-230, HIP-2018-13/TH
hep-ph astro-ph.HE nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
At high baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$, the equation of state of QCD allows a weak-coupling expansion in the QCD coupling $\alpha_s$. The result is currently known up to and including the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) $\alpha_s^2$. Starting at this order, the computations are complicated by the modification of particle propagation in a dense medium, which necessitates non-perturbative treatment of the scale $\alpha_s^{1/2} \mu_B$. In this work, we apply a Hard-Thermal-Loop scheme for capturing the contributions of this scale to the weak-coupling expansion, and use it to determine the leading-logarithm contribution to NNNLO: $\alpha_s^3 \ln^2 \alpha_s$. This result is the first improvement to the equation of state of massless cold quark matter in 40 years. The new term is negligibly small, and thus significantly increases our confidence in the applicability of the weak-coupling expansion.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:35:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:59:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:58:38 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-04-22
[ [ "Gorda", "Tyler", "" ], [ "Kurkela", "Aleksi", "" ], [ "Romatschke", "Paul", "" ], [ "Säppi", "Saga", "" ], [ "Vuorinen", "Aleksi", "" ] ]
At high baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$, the equation of state of QCD allows a weak-coupling expansion in the QCD coupling $\alpha_s$. The result is currently known up to and including the full next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) $\alpha_s^2$. Starting at this order, the computations are complicated by the modification of particle propagation in a dense medium, which necessitates non-perturbative treatment of the scale $\alpha_s^{1/2} \mu_B$. In this work, we apply a Hard-Thermal-Loop scheme for capturing the contributions of this scale to the weak-coupling expansion, and use it to determine the leading-logarithm contribution to NNNLO: $\alpha_s^3 \ln^2 \alpha_s$. This result is the first improvement to the equation of state of massless cold quark matter in 40 years. The new term is negligibly small, and thus significantly increases our confidence in the applicability of the weak-coupling expansion.
hep-ph/0402050
Hiroaki Abuki
Hiroaki Abuki
Role of Strange Quark Mass in Pairing Phenomena in QCD
10 pages, talk at the KIAS-APCTP International Symposium on Astro-Hadron Physics "Compact Stars: Quest for New States of Dense Matter"
null
10.1142/9789812702524_0011
YITP-04-09
hep-ph
null
We study the dynamical effect of strange quark mass as well as kinematical one on the color-flavor unlocking transition using a NJL model. Paying a special attention to the multiplicity of gap parameters, we derive an exact formula of the effective potential for 5-gap parameters. Based on this, we discuss that the unlocking transition might be of second order rather than of first order as is predicted by a simple kinematical criterion for the unlocking.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:27:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Abuki", "Hiroaki", "" ] ]
We study the dynamical effect of strange quark mass as well as kinematical one on the color-flavor unlocking transition using a NJL model. Paying a special attention to the multiplicity of gap parameters, we derive an exact formula of the effective potential for 5-gap parameters. Based on this, we discuss that the unlocking transition might be of second order rather than of first order as is predicted by a simple kinematical criterion for the unlocking.
0912.5138
Hua-Xing Chen
Hua-Xing Chen, Atsushi Hosaka, Hiroshi Toki, and Shi-Lin Zhu
Light Scalar Meson sigma(600) in QCD Sum Rule with Continuum
9 pages, 7 figures, comments and suggestions welcome
Phys.Rev.D81:114034,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.114034
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
The light scalar meson sigma(600) is known to appear at low excitation energy with very large width on top of continuum states. We investigate it in the QCD sum rule as an example of resonance structures appearing above the corresponding thresholds. We use all the possible local tetraquark currents by taking linear combinations of five independent local ones. We ought to consider the pi-pi continuum contribution in the phenomenological side of the QCD sum rule in order to obtain a good sum rule signal. We study the stability of the extracted mass against the Borel mass and the threshold value and find the sigma(600) mass at 530 MeV +- 40 MeV. In addition we find the extracted mass has an increasing tendency with the Borel mass, which is interpreted as caused by the width of the resonance.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:35:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:33:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-06-25
[ [ "Chen", "Hua-Xing", "" ], [ "Hosaka", "Atsushi", "" ], [ "Toki", "Hiroshi", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Shi-Lin", "" ] ]
The light scalar meson sigma(600) is known to appear at low excitation energy with very large width on top of continuum states. We investigate it in the QCD sum rule as an example of resonance structures appearing above the corresponding thresholds. We use all the possible local tetraquark currents by taking linear combinations of five independent local ones. We ought to consider the pi-pi continuum contribution in the phenomenological side of the QCD sum rule in order to obtain a good sum rule signal. We study the stability of the extracted mass against the Borel mass and the threshold value and find the sigma(600) mass at 530 MeV +- 40 MeV. In addition we find the extracted mass has an increasing tendency with the Borel mass, which is interpreted as caused by the width of the resonance.
2406.17853
Alessandro Lella
Alessandro Lella, Francesca Calore, Pierluca Carenza, Alessandro Mirizzi
Constraining gravitational-wave backgrounds from conversions into photons in the Galactic magnetic field
14 pages, 6 figures
null
null
LAPTH-036/24
hep-ph astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
High-frequency gravitational waves ($f \gtrsim 1$ MHz) may provide a unique signature for the existence of exotic physics. The lack of current and future gravitational-wave experiments sensitive at those frequencies leads to the need of employing different indirect techniques. Notably, one of the most promising one is constituted by graviton-photon conversions in magnetic fields. In this work, we focus on conversions of a gravitational-wave background into photons inside the Milky-Way magnetic field, taking into account the state-of-the-art models for both regular and turbulent components. We discuss how graviton-to-photon conversions may lead to imprints in the cosmic photon background spectrum in the range of frequencies $f\sim10^{9}-10^{26}\,$Hz, where the observed photon flux is widely explained by astrophysics emission models. Hence, the absence of any significant evidence for a diffuse photon flux induced by graviton-photon conversions allows us to set stringent constraints on the gravitational-wave strain $h_c$, strengthening current astrophysical bounds by $\sim1-2$ orders of magnitude in the whole range of frequencies considered.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-06-27
[ [ "Lella", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Calore", "Francesca", "" ], [ "Carenza", "Pierluca", "" ], [ "Mirizzi", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
High-frequency gravitational waves ($f \gtrsim 1$ MHz) may provide a unique signature for the existence of exotic physics. The lack of current and future gravitational-wave experiments sensitive at those frequencies leads to the need of employing different indirect techniques. Notably, one of the most promising one is constituted by graviton-photon conversions in magnetic fields. In this work, we focus on conversions of a gravitational-wave background into photons inside the Milky-Way magnetic field, taking into account the state-of-the-art models for both regular and turbulent components. We discuss how graviton-to-photon conversions may lead to imprints in the cosmic photon background spectrum in the range of frequencies $f\sim10^{9}-10^{26}\,$Hz, where the observed photon flux is widely explained by astrophysics emission models. Hence, the absence of any significant evidence for a diffuse photon flux induced by graviton-photon conversions allows us to set stringent constraints on the gravitational-wave strain $h_c$, strengthening current astrophysical bounds by $\sim1-2$ orders of magnitude in the whole range of frequencies considered.
2008.12554
Fu-Hu Liu
Yang-Ming Tai, Pei-Pin Yang, Fu-Hu Liu
An analysis of transverse momentum spectra of various jets produced in high energy collisions
18 pages, 11 figures. Advances in High Energy Physics, accepted
Advances in High Energy Physics 2021, 8832892 (2021) (16 pages)
10.1155/2021/8832892
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
With the framework of the multi-source thermal model, we analyze the experimental transverse momentum spectra of various jets produced in different collisions at high energies. Two energy sources, a projectile participant quark and a target participant quark, are considered. Each energy source (each participant quark) is assumed to contribute to the transverse momentum distribution to be the TP-like function, i.e. a revised Tsallis--Pareto-type function. The contribution of the two participant quarks to the transverse momentum distribution is then the convolution of two TP-like functions. The model distribution can be used to fit the experimental spectra measured by different collaborations. The related parameters such as the entropy index-related, effective temperature, and revised index are then obtained. The trends of these parameters are useful to understand the characteristic of high energy collisions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:41:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:59:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-14
[ [ "Tai", "Yang-Ming", "" ], [ "Yang", "Pei-Pin", "" ], [ "Liu", "Fu-Hu", "" ] ]
With the framework of the multi-source thermal model, we analyze the experimental transverse momentum spectra of various jets produced in different collisions at high energies. Two energy sources, a projectile participant quark and a target participant quark, are considered. Each energy source (each participant quark) is assumed to contribute to the transverse momentum distribution to be the TP-like function, i.e. a revised Tsallis--Pareto-type function. The contribution of the two participant quarks to the transverse momentum distribution is then the convolution of two TP-like functions. The model distribution can be used to fit the experimental spectra measured by different collaborations. The related parameters such as the entropy index-related, effective temperature, and revised index are then obtained. The trends of these parameters are useful to understand the characteristic of high energy collisions.
2206.01577
Michael Trott
Michael Trott
The geometric SMEFT
7 pages (Extended version of MoriondEW 2022 contribution)
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Effective field theories, like the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), are defined by a chosen field content and a set of symmetries, up to a cut off scale $\Lambda$. Usually, in order to perform calculations, gauge independent field re-definitions consistent with the symmetries of the theory are then used to redefine the fields. This procedure results in a fixed (non-redundant) operator basis, that is not itself field re-definition invariant. Recently, an alternative approach of identifying and calculating with field space geometry has been developed. Field redefinition invariants, characterising field space geometry, appear in observables in amplitude perturbations, and have an expansion in terms of local operators. In the case of the SMEFT, calculating via the geometric approach is known as the geoSMEFT. This approach makes it much easier to calculate at high orders in $1/\Lambda$ in the SMEFT, and can directly result in a complete characterisation of an amplitude perturbation in the $1/\Lambda$ expansion. Using the geoSMEFT, several consistent and complete $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ results are now known. We define the geoSMEFT and demonstrate its use in some examples.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 Jun 2022 13:59:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-06-06
[ [ "Trott", "Michael", "" ] ]
Effective field theories, like the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), are defined by a chosen field content and a set of symmetries, up to a cut off scale $\Lambda$. Usually, in order to perform calculations, gauge independent field re-definitions consistent with the symmetries of the theory are then used to redefine the fields. This procedure results in a fixed (non-redundant) operator basis, that is not itself field re-definition invariant. Recently, an alternative approach of identifying and calculating with field space geometry has been developed. Field redefinition invariants, characterising field space geometry, appear in observables in amplitude perturbations, and have an expansion in terms of local operators. In the case of the SMEFT, calculating via the geometric approach is known as the geoSMEFT. This approach makes it much easier to calculate at high orders in $1/\Lambda$ in the SMEFT, and can directly result in a complete characterisation of an amplitude perturbation in the $1/\Lambda$ expansion. Using the geoSMEFT, several consistent and complete $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ results are now known. We define the geoSMEFT and demonstrate its use in some examples.