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2307.10769
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Ulrich Heinz, and Thomas Schaefer
Fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation using a maximum entropy distribution
30 pages, 19 figures (added new references; a couple of minor corrections made in text)
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Using the recently developed ``Maximum Entropy'' (or ``least biased'') distribution function to truncate the moment hierarchy arising from kinetic theory, we formulate a far-from-equilibrium macroscopic theory that provides the possibility of describing both free-streaming and hydrodynamic regimes of heavy-ion collisions within a single framework. Unlike traditional hydrodynamic theories that include viscous corrections to finite order, the present formulation incorporates contributions to all orders in shear and bulk inverse Reynolds numbers, allowing it to handle large dissipative fluxes. By considering flow profiles relevant for heavy-ion collisions (Bjorken and Gubser flows), we demonstrate that the present approach provides excellent agreement with underlying kinetic theory throughout the fluid's evolution and, especially, in far-off-equilibrium regimes where traditional hydrodynamics breaks down.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:57:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Aug 2023 22:34:43 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-03
[ [ "Chattopadhyay", "Chandrodoy", "" ], [ "Heinz", "Ulrich", "" ], [ "Schaefer", "Thomas", "" ] ]
Using the recently developed ``Maximum Entropy'' (or ``least biased'') distribution function to truncate the moment hierarchy arising from kinetic theory, we formulate a far-from-equilibrium macroscopic theory that provides the possibility of describing both free-streaming and hydrodynamic regimes of heavy-ion collisions within a single framework. Unlike traditional hydrodynamic theories that include viscous corrections to finite order, the present formulation incorporates contributions to all orders in shear and bulk inverse Reynolds numbers, allowing it to handle large dissipative fluxes. By considering flow profiles relevant for heavy-ion collisions (Bjorken and Gubser flows), we demonstrate that the present approach provides excellent agreement with underlying kinetic theory throughout the fluid's evolution and, especially, in far-off-equilibrium regimes where traditional hydrodynamics breaks down.
1210.4192
Francesco Giacosa
Francesco Giacosa and Giuseppe Pagliara
Spectral function of a scalar boson coupled to fermions
25 pages, 6 figures
Phys. Rev. D 88, 025010 (2013)
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.025010
null
hep-ph hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the calculation of the spectral function of an unstable scalar boson coupled to fermions as resulting from the resummation of the one loop diagrams in the scalar particle self energy. We work with a large but finite high-energy cutoff: in this way, the spectral function of the scalar field is always correctly normalized to unity, independently on the value of the cutoff. We show that this high energy cutoff affects the Breit-Wigner width of the unstable particle: the larger the cutoff, the smaller is the width at fixed coupling. Thus, the existence of a high energy cutoff (alias minimal length), and for instance the possible opening of new degrees of freedom beyond that energy scale, could then be in principle proven by measuring, at lower energy scales, the line shape of the unstable scalar state. Although the Lagrangian here considered represents only a toy-model, we discuss possible future extensions of our work which could be relevant for particle physics phenomenology.
[ { "created": "Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:56:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:19:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-08-27
[ [ "Giacosa", "Francesco", "" ], [ "Pagliara", "Giuseppe", "" ] ]
We present the calculation of the spectral function of an unstable scalar boson coupled to fermions as resulting from the resummation of the one loop diagrams in the scalar particle self energy. We work with a large but finite high-energy cutoff: in this way, the spectral function of the scalar field is always correctly normalized to unity, independently on the value of the cutoff. We show that this high energy cutoff affects the Breit-Wigner width of the unstable particle: the larger the cutoff, the smaller is the width at fixed coupling. Thus, the existence of a high energy cutoff (alias minimal length), and for instance the possible opening of new degrees of freedom beyond that energy scale, could then be in principle proven by measuring, at lower energy scales, the line shape of the unstable scalar state. Although the Lagrangian here considered represents only a toy-model, we discuss possible future extensions of our work which could be relevant for particle physics phenomenology.
1112.1958
Kresimir Kumericki
Kresimir Kumericki, Dieter Mueller, Andreas Schafer
Parametrizing Compton form factors with neural networks
LaTeX, 6 pages, 3 figures, Presented by K.K. at Ringberg HERA workshop
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2012.03.020
null
hep-ph physics.data-an
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a method, based on neural networks, of revealing Compton form factors in the deeply virtual region. We compare this approach to standard least-squares model fitting both for a simplified toy case and for HERMES data.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Dec 2011 21:01:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Kumericki", "Kresimir", "" ], [ "Mueller", "Dieter", "" ], [ "Schafer", "Andreas", "" ] ]
We describe a method, based on neural networks, of revealing Compton form factors in the deeply virtual region. We compare this approach to standard least-squares model fitting both for a simplified toy case and for HERMES data.
1806.08254
Marc P. Bellon
Marc P. Bellon and Pierre J. Clavier
Analyticity domain of a Quantum Field Theory and Accelero-summation
6 pages
null
10.1007/s11005-019-01172-0
null
hep-ph hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
From 't Hooft's argument, one expects that the analyticity domain of an asymptotically free quantum field theory is horned shaped. In the usual Borel summation, the function is obtained through a Laplace transform and thus has a much larger analyticity domain. However, if the summation process goes through the process called acceleration by Ecalle, one obtains such a horn shaped analyticity domain. We therefore argue that acceleration, which allows to go beyond standard Borel summation, must be an integral part of the toolkit for the study of exactly renormalisable quantum field theories. We sketch how this procedure is working and what are its consequences.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:09:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-05-01
[ [ "Bellon", "Marc P.", "" ], [ "Clavier", "Pierre J.", "" ] ]
From 't Hooft's argument, one expects that the analyticity domain of an asymptotically free quantum field theory is horned shaped. In the usual Borel summation, the function is obtained through a Laplace transform and thus has a much larger analyticity domain. However, if the summation process goes through the process called acceleration by Ecalle, one obtains such a horn shaped analyticity domain. We therefore argue that acceleration, which allows to go beyond standard Borel summation, must be an integral part of the toolkit for the study of exactly renormalisable quantum field theories. We sketch how this procedure is working and what are its consequences.
hep-ph/0301205
Ji-Feng Yang
Ji-Feng Yang, Jie Zhou and Chen Wu (ECNU, Shanghai)
Numerical evaluation of a two loop diagram in the cutoff regularization
6 pages, revtex, to appear in Comm. Theor. Phys
Commun.Theor.Phys. 40 (2003) 461-465
10.1088/0253-6102/40/4/461
null
hep-ph hep-th nucl-th
null
The sunset diagram of $\lambda\phi^4$ theory is evaluated numerically in cutoff scheme and a nonzero finite term (in accordance with dimensional regularization (DR) result) is found in contrast to published calculations. This finding dramatically reduces the critical couplings for symmetry breaking in the two loop effective potential discussed in our previous work.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:50:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Aug 2003 04:10:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-01-17
[ [ "Yang", "Ji-Feng", "", "ECNU, Shanghai" ], [ "Zhou", "Jie", "", "ECNU, Shanghai" ], [ "Wu", "Chen", "", "ECNU, Shanghai" ] ]
The sunset diagram of $\lambda\phi^4$ theory is evaluated numerically in cutoff scheme and a nonzero finite term (in accordance with dimensional regularization (DR) result) is found in contrast to published calculations. This finding dramatically reduces the critical couplings for symmetry breaking in the two loop effective potential discussed in our previous work.
0901.2818
Thorsten Renk
Thorsten Renk
A comparison study of medium-modified QCD shower evolution scenarios
15 pages, 10 figures, minor changes
Phys.Rev.C79:054906,2009
10.1103/PhysRevC.79.054906
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The computation of hard processes in hadronic collisions is a major success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). In such processes, pQCD not only predicts the hard reaction itself, but also the subsequent evolution in terms of parton branching and radiation, leading to a parton shower and ultimately to an observable jet of hadrons. If the hard process occurs in a heavy-ion collision, a large part of this evolution takes place in the soft medium created along with the hard reaction. An observation of jets in heavy-ion collision thus allows a study of medium-modified QCD shower evolution. In vacuum, Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are well established tools to describe such showers. For jet studies in heavy-ion collisions, MC models for in-medium showers are currently being developed. However, the shower-medium interaction depends on the nature of the microscopic degrees of freedom of the medium created in a heavy-ion collision which is the very object one would like to investigate. This paper presents a study in comparison between three different possible implementations for the shower-medium interaction, two of them based on medium-induced pQCD radiation, one of them a medium-induced drag force, and shows for which observables differences between the three scenarios become visible. We find that while single hadron observables such as R_AA are incapable of differentiating between the scenarios, jet observables such as the longiudinal momentum spectrum of hadrons in the jet show the potential to do so.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:13:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:19:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-01-15
[ [ "Renk", "Thorsten", "" ] ]
The computation of hard processes in hadronic collisions is a major success of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). In such processes, pQCD not only predicts the hard reaction itself, but also the subsequent evolution in terms of parton branching and radiation, leading to a parton shower and ultimately to an observable jet of hadrons. If the hard process occurs in a heavy-ion collision, a large part of this evolution takes place in the soft medium created along with the hard reaction. An observation of jets in heavy-ion collision thus allows a study of medium-modified QCD shower evolution. In vacuum, Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations are well established tools to describe such showers. For jet studies in heavy-ion collisions, MC models for in-medium showers are currently being developed. However, the shower-medium interaction depends on the nature of the microscopic degrees of freedom of the medium created in a heavy-ion collision which is the very object one would like to investigate. This paper presents a study in comparison between three different possible implementations for the shower-medium interaction, two of them based on medium-induced pQCD radiation, one of them a medium-induced drag force, and shows for which observables differences between the three scenarios become visible. We find that while single hadron observables such as R_AA are incapable of differentiating between the scenarios, jet observables such as the longiudinal momentum spectrum of hadrons in the jet show the potential to do so.
0809.1927
Matthias Steinhauser
Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, Matthias Steinhauser
Fermionic contributions to the three-loop static potential
12 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett.B668:293-298,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.08.070
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the three-loop corrections to the static potential which are induced by a closed fermion loop. For the reduction of the occurring integrals a combination of the Gr\"obner and Laporta algorithm has been used and the evaluation of the master integrals has been performed with the help of the Mellin-Barnes technique. The fermionic three-loop corrections amount to 2% of the tree-level result for top quarks, 8% for bottom quarks and 27% for the charm quark system.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:20:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Smirnov", "Alexander V.", "" ], [ "Smirnov", "Vladimir A.", "" ], [ "Steinhauser", "Matthias", "" ] ]
We consider the three-loop corrections to the static potential which are induced by a closed fermion loop. For the reduction of the occurring integrals a combination of the Gr\"obner and Laporta algorithm has been used and the evaluation of the master integrals has been performed with the help of the Mellin-Barnes technique. The fermionic three-loop corrections amount to 2% of the tree-level result for top quarks, 8% for bottom quarks and 27% for the charm quark system.
2103.05269
Sarka Todorova PhD
\v{S}\'arka Todorova-Nov\'a
Baryon production in the quantized fragmentation of helical QCD string
11 pages, 7 figures
Phys. Rev. D 104, 034012 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.034012
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Baryon production is studied within the framework of quantized fragmentation of QCD string. Baryons appear in the model in a fairly intuitive way, with help of causally connected string breakups. A simple helical approximation of QCD flux tube with parameters constrained by mass spectrum of light mesons is sufficient to reproduce masses of light baryons.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Mar 2021 07:32:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:54:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-08-25
[ [ "Todorova-Nová", "Šárka", "" ] ]
Baryon production is studied within the framework of quantized fragmentation of QCD string. Baryons appear in the model in a fairly intuitive way, with help of causally connected string breakups. A simple helical approximation of QCD flux tube with parameters constrained by mass spectrum of light mesons is sufficient to reproduce masses of light baryons.
hep-ph/0102055
Heui-Seol Roh
Heui-Seol Roh
Matter Mass Generation and Theta Vacuum: Dynamical Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
REVTEX, 5 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
This work proposes a stringent concept of matter mass generation and Theta vacuum in the context of local gauge theory for the strong force under the constraint of the flat universe. The matter mass is generated as the consequence of dynamical spontaneous symmetry breaking (DSSB) of gauge symmetry and discrete symmetries, which is motivated by the parameter Theta representing the surface term. Matter mass generation introduces the typical features of constituent particle mass, dual Meissner effect, and hyperfine structure. The Theta term plays important roles on the DSSB of the gauge group and on the quantization of the matter and vacuum space. The Theta vacuum exhibits the intrinsic principal number and intrinsic angular momentum for intrinsic space quantization in analogy with the extrinsic principal number and extrinsic angular momentum for extrinsic space quantization.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:27:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Roh", "Heui-Seol", "" ] ]
This work proposes a stringent concept of matter mass generation and Theta vacuum in the context of local gauge theory for the strong force under the constraint of the flat universe. The matter mass is generated as the consequence of dynamical spontaneous symmetry breaking (DSSB) of gauge symmetry and discrete symmetries, which is motivated by the parameter Theta representing the surface term. Matter mass generation introduces the typical features of constituent particle mass, dual Meissner effect, and hyperfine structure. The Theta term plays important roles on the DSSB of the gauge group and on the quantization of the matter and vacuum space. The Theta vacuum exhibits the intrinsic principal number and intrinsic angular momentum for intrinsic space quantization in analogy with the extrinsic principal number and extrinsic angular momentum for extrinsic space quantization.
hep-ph/0007314
Christer Friberg
Christer Friberg and Torbj\"orn Sj\"ostrand (Lund university, Sweden)
Total Cross Sections and Event Properties from Real to Virtual Photons
1+34 pages, LaTeX2e, 24 eps figures, submitted to J. High Energy Phys
JHEP 0009:010,2000
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/09/010
LU TP 00-29
hep-ph
null
A model for total cross sections with virtual photons is presented. In particular gamma*-p and gamma*-gamma* cross sections are considered. Our approach extends on a model for photoproduction, where the total cross section is subdivided into three distinct event classes: direct, VMD and anomalous. With increasing photon virtuality, the latter two decrease in importance. Instead Deep Inelastic Scattering dominates, with the direct class being the O(alpha_s) correction thereof. Hence, the model provides a smooth transition between the two regions. By the breakdown into different event classes, one may aim for a complete picture of all event properties.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:47:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Friberg", "Christer", "", "Lund university, Sweden" ], [ "Sjöstrand", "Torbjörn", "", "Lund university, Sweden" ] ]
A model for total cross sections with virtual photons is presented. In particular gamma*-p and gamma*-gamma* cross sections are considered. Our approach extends on a model for photoproduction, where the total cross section is subdivided into three distinct event classes: direct, VMD and anomalous. With increasing photon virtuality, the latter two decrease in importance. Instead Deep Inelastic Scattering dominates, with the direct class being the O(alpha_s) correction thereof. Hence, the model provides a smooth transition between the two regions. By the breakdown into different event classes, one may aim for a complete picture of all event properties.
1108.4512
Wei-Min Yang
Wei-Min Yang, Qi Wang, Jin-Jin Zhong
A Model of Fermion Masses and Flavor Mixings with Family Symmetry $SU(3)\otimes U(1)$
14 pages, 1 figure, to make a few of corrections to the old version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1011.4573
Commun.Theor.Phys. 57 (2012) 71-77
10.1088/0253-6102/57/1/12
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The family symmetry $SU(3)\otimes U(1)$ is proposed to solve flavor problems about fermion masses and flavor mixings. It's breaking is implemented by some flavon fields at the high-energy scale. In addition a discrete group $Z_{2}$ is introduced to generate tiny neutrino masses, which is broken by a real singlet scalar field at the middle-energy scale. The low-energy effective theory is elegantly obtained after all of super-heavy fermions are integrated out and decoupling. All the fermion mass matrices are regularly characterized by four fundamental matrices and thirteen parameters. The model can perfectly fit and account for all the current experimental data about the fermion masses and flavor mixings, in particular, it finely predicts the first generation quark masses and the values of $\theta^{\,l}_{13}$ and $J_{CP}^{\,l}$ in neutrino physics. All of the results are promising to be tested in the future experiments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:43:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:23:07 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Yang", "Wei-Min", "" ], [ "Wang", "Qi", "" ], [ "Zhong", "Jin-Jin", "" ] ]
The family symmetry $SU(3)\otimes U(1)$ is proposed to solve flavor problems about fermion masses and flavor mixings. It's breaking is implemented by some flavon fields at the high-energy scale. In addition a discrete group $Z_{2}$ is introduced to generate tiny neutrino masses, which is broken by a real singlet scalar field at the middle-energy scale. The low-energy effective theory is elegantly obtained after all of super-heavy fermions are integrated out and decoupling. All the fermion mass matrices are regularly characterized by four fundamental matrices and thirteen parameters. The model can perfectly fit and account for all the current experimental data about the fermion masses and flavor mixings, in particular, it finely predicts the first generation quark masses and the values of $\theta^{\,l}_{13}$ and $J_{CP}^{\,l}$ in neutrino physics. All of the results are promising to be tested in the future experiments.
0711.1077
Markus Diehl
Markus Diehl
Implications of HERA measurements for LHC
11 pages, talk presented at the XXIII International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energy (LP07). v2: references added
null
null
DESY 07-194
hep-ph
null
I discuss the theoretical understanding of key measurements at HERA and their relevance for physics at LHC, focusing on recent developments for structure functions and for diffraction.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:01:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:13:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-11-10
[ [ "Diehl", "Markus", "" ] ]
I discuss the theoretical understanding of key measurements at HERA and their relevance for physics at LHC, focusing on recent developments for structure functions and for diffraction.
1712.06384
Hrayr Matevosyan
Hrayr H. Matevosyan, Aram Kotzinian, Anthony W. Thomas
Accessing Quark Helicity through Dihadron Studies
5 pages, 1 figure. V3: Updated to version published in PRL with minor revisions of the text and an added reference
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 252001 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.252001
ADP-17-42/T1048
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a new proposal to study the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF), which describe the correlations of the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark with the transverse momenta of the produced hadron pair. Recent experimental searches for this DiFF via azimuthal asymmetries in back-to-back hadron pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation by the ${\tt BELLE}$ Collaboration did not yield a signal. Here we propose a new way to access this DiFF in $e^+e^-$ annihilation, motivated by the recently recalculated cross section of this reaction, which explains why there was in fact no signal for the ${\tt BELLE}$ Collaboration to see. In this new approach the azimuthal asymmetry is weighted by the virtual photon's transverse momentum square multiplying sine and cosine functions of difference of azimuthal angles of relative and total momentum for each pair. The integration over the virtual photon's transverse momentum has the effect of separating the convolution between the helicity-dependent DiFFs in the quark and antiquark jets and results in a nonzero collinear expression containing Fourier moments of helicity-dependent DiFFs. A second new measurement is also proposed for two-hadron production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, where the asymmetry is weighted in a similar way for a single pair. This results in a collinear factorized form of the asymmetry, which includes the quark helicity parton distribution function and the same helicity-dependent DiFF as in $e^+e^-$ production and will allow us to check the universality of this DiFF.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Dec 2017 13:26:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Dec 2017 13:17:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:00:00 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-07-12
[ [ "Matevosyan", "Hrayr H.", "" ], [ "Kotzinian", "Aram", "" ], [ "Thomas", "Anthony W.", "" ] ]
We present a new proposal to study the helicity-dependent dihadron fragmentation functions (DiFF), which describe the correlations of the longitudinal polarization of a fragmenting quark with the transverse momenta of the produced hadron pair. Recent experimental searches for this DiFF via azimuthal asymmetries in back-to-back hadron pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation by the ${\tt BELLE}$ Collaboration did not yield a signal. Here we propose a new way to access this DiFF in $e^+e^-$ annihilation, motivated by the recently recalculated cross section of this reaction, which explains why there was in fact no signal for the ${\tt BELLE}$ Collaboration to see. In this new approach the azimuthal asymmetry is weighted by the virtual photon's transverse momentum square multiplying sine and cosine functions of difference of azimuthal angles of relative and total momentum for each pair. The integration over the virtual photon's transverse momentum has the effect of separating the convolution between the helicity-dependent DiFFs in the quark and antiquark jets and results in a nonzero collinear expression containing Fourier moments of helicity-dependent DiFFs. A second new measurement is also proposed for two-hadron production in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering, where the asymmetry is weighted in a similar way for a single pair. This results in a collinear factorized form of the asymmetry, which includes the quark helicity parton distribution function and the same helicity-dependent DiFF as in $e^+e^-$ production and will allow us to check the universality of this DiFF.
2106.05192
Muslem Rahimi
Marzia Bordone, Muslem Rahimi, K. Keri Vos
Lepton flavour violation in rare $\Lambda_b$ decays
26 pages, 4 figures; v3 is conformal with published version
Eur.Phys.J.C (2021) 81
10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09531-9
P3H-21-039, SI-HEP-2021-17, Nikhef-2021-012
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Lepton flavour violation (LFV) naturally occurs in many new physics models, specifically in those explaining the $B$ anomalies. While LFV has already been studied for mesonic decays, it is important to consider also baryonic decays mediated by the same quark transition. In this paper, we study LFV in the baryonic $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda \ell_1 \ell_2$ using for the first time a full basis of New Physics operators. We present expected bounds on the branching ratio in a model-independent framework and using two specific new physics models. Finally, we point out the interplay and orthogonality between the baryonic and mesonic LFV searches.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jun 2021 16:32:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:51:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:38:13 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-09-15
[ [ "Bordone", "Marzia", "" ], [ "Rahimi", "Muslem", "" ], [ "Vos", "K. Keri", "" ] ]
Lepton flavour violation (LFV) naturally occurs in many new physics models, specifically in those explaining the $B$ anomalies. While LFV has already been studied for mesonic decays, it is important to consider also baryonic decays mediated by the same quark transition. In this paper, we study LFV in the baryonic $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda \ell_1 \ell_2$ using for the first time a full basis of New Physics operators. We present expected bounds on the branching ratio in a model-independent framework and using two specific new physics models. Finally, we point out the interplay and orthogonality between the baryonic and mesonic LFV searches.
0907.5603
Maurice Benayoun
M. Benayoun, P. David, L. DelBuono, O. Leitner
A Global Treatment Of VMD Physics Up To The phi: II. tau Decay and Hadronic Contributions To g-2
43 pages, scope enlarged, model extended, same conclusions. Accepted for publication in EPJ-C
Eur.Phys.J.C68:355-379,2010
10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1389-0
LPNHE 2009-006
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Relying on the Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) model equipped with a mechanism breaking the U(3)/SU(3)/SU(2) symmetries and generating a dynamical vector meson mixing, it has been shown that a global fit successfully describes the cross sections for the e+ e- -> pi+ pi-, e+ e- -> (pi0/eta) gamma and e+ e- -> pi0 pi+ pi- annihilation channels. One extends this global fit in order to include also the dipion spectra from the tau decay, taking into account all reported information on their statistical and systematic errors. A model accounting for lineshape distortions of the rho+- spectrum relative to rho0 is also examined when analyzing the tau data behavior within the global fit framework. One shows that a successful account for e+ e- annihilation data and tau spectra can be simultaneously reached. Then, issues related with non--perturbative hadronic contributions to the muon g-2 are examined in details. It is shown that all e+ e- data considered together allow for improved and motivated estimates for the a_mu(pi+ pi-), the pi+ pi- loop contribution to the muon g-2; for instance, integrated between 0.630 and 0.958 GeV, we find a_mu(pi+ pi-)= 359.62 +- 1.62 (in units of 10^{-10}), a 40% improvement of the current uncertainty. The effects of the various tau samples in the context of a global fit procedure leads to conclude that different lineshape distortions are revealed by the ALEPH, BELLE and CLEO data samples. Relying on global fits to the data quoted above, one also provides motivated estimates of the pi+ pi-, pi0 gamma, eta gamma and pi0 pi+ pi- contributions to a_mu up to 1 GeV with the smallest possible uncertainties. These estimates are based on various global fit configurations, each yielding a good probability.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:53:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:24:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:08:58 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Benayoun", "M.", "" ], [ "David", "P.", "" ], [ "DelBuono", "L.", "" ], [ "Leitner", "O.", "" ] ]
Relying on the Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) model equipped with a mechanism breaking the U(3)/SU(3)/SU(2) symmetries and generating a dynamical vector meson mixing, it has been shown that a global fit successfully describes the cross sections for the e+ e- -> pi+ pi-, e+ e- -> (pi0/eta) gamma and e+ e- -> pi0 pi+ pi- annihilation channels. One extends this global fit in order to include also the dipion spectra from the tau decay, taking into account all reported information on their statistical and systematic errors. A model accounting for lineshape distortions of the rho+- spectrum relative to rho0 is also examined when analyzing the tau data behavior within the global fit framework. One shows that a successful account for e+ e- annihilation data and tau spectra can be simultaneously reached. Then, issues related with non--perturbative hadronic contributions to the muon g-2 are examined in details. It is shown that all e+ e- data considered together allow for improved and motivated estimates for the a_mu(pi+ pi-), the pi+ pi- loop contribution to the muon g-2; for instance, integrated between 0.630 and 0.958 GeV, we find a_mu(pi+ pi-)= 359.62 +- 1.62 (in units of 10^{-10}), a 40% improvement of the current uncertainty. The effects of the various tau samples in the context of a global fit procedure leads to conclude that different lineshape distortions are revealed by the ALEPH, BELLE and CLEO data samples. Relying on global fits to the data quoted above, one also provides motivated estimates of the pi+ pi-, pi0 gamma, eta gamma and pi0 pi+ pi- contributions to a_mu up to 1 GeV with the smallest possible uncertainties. These estimates are based on various global fit configurations, each yielding a good probability.
0804.4025
Duc Ninh Le
Le Duc Ninh
Yukawa corrections to Higgs production associated with two bottom quarks at the LHC
3 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the proceedings of 43rd Rencontres de Moriond EW, La Thuile, Italy, 1-8 March 2008
null
null
LAPTH-Conf-1248/08
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the leading one-loop Yukawa corrections to the process pp-> b anti-b H in the Standard Model. We find that the next-to-leading order correction to the cross section is small about -4% if the Higgs mass is 120GeV. However, the appearance of leading Landau singularity when $M_H > 2M_W$ can lead to a large correction at the next-to-next-to-leading order level for a Higgs mass around 160GeV.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:21:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-04-28
[ [ "Ninh", "Le Duc", "" ] ]
We investigate the leading one-loop Yukawa corrections to the process pp-> b anti-b H in the Standard Model. We find that the next-to-leading order correction to the cross section is small about -4% if the Higgs mass is 120GeV. However, the appearance of leading Landau singularity when $M_H > 2M_W$ can lead to a large correction at the next-to-next-to-leading order level for a Higgs mass around 160GeV.
1809.05362
Grzegorz Wilk
M. Rybczy\'nski, G. Wilk and Z. W{\l}odarczyk
Intriguing feature of multiplicity distributions
Invited talk presented at XLVIII International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD2018), 3 to 7 September 2018, Singapore; 10 pages, 6 figures. To be published in EPJ Web of Conferences
EPJ Web of Conf. 206, 03002 (2019)
10.1051/epjconf/201920603002
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Multiplicity distributions, P(N), provide valuable information on the mechanism of the production process. We argue that the observed P(N) contain more information (located in the small N region) than expected and used so far. We demonstrate that it can be retrieved by analysing specific combinations of the experimentally measured values of P(N) which we call {it modified combinants, Cj, and which show distinct oscillatory behavior, not observed in the usual phenomenological forms of the P(N) used to fit data. We discuss the possible sources of these oscillations and their impact on our understanding of the multiparticle production mechanism.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:37:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-06-06
[ [ "Rybczyński", "M.", "" ], [ "Wilk", "G.", "" ], [ "Włodarczyk", "Z.", "" ] ]
Multiplicity distributions, P(N), provide valuable information on the mechanism of the production process. We argue that the observed P(N) contain more information (located in the small N region) than expected and used so far. We demonstrate that it can be retrieved by analysing specific combinations of the experimentally measured values of P(N) which we call {it modified combinants, Cj, and which show distinct oscillatory behavior, not observed in the usual phenomenological forms of the P(N) used to fit data. We discuss the possible sources of these oscillations and their impact on our understanding of the multiparticle production mechanism.
1310.5157
Simonetta Liuti
Aurore Courtoy, Gary R. Goldstein, J. Osvaldo Gonzalez Hernandez, Simonetta Liuti and Abha Rajan
On the Observability of the Quark Orbital Angular Momentum Distribution
10 pages, 3 figures; version published in Physics Letters B
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2014.02.017
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We argue that due to Parity constraints, the helicity combination of the purely momentum space counterparts of the Wigner distributions -- the generalized transverse momentum distributions -- that describes the configuration of an unpolarized quark in a longitudinally polarized nucleon, can enter the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude only through matrix elements involving a final state interaction. The relevant matrix elements in turn involve light cone operators projections in the transverse direction, or they appear in the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude at twist three. Orbital angular momentum or the spin structure of the nucleon was a major reason for these various distributions and amplitudes to have been introduced. We show that the twist three contributions associated to orbital angular momentum %to deeply virtual Compton scattering provide observables related to orbital angular momentum and are related to the target-spin asymmetry in deeply virtual Compton scattering, already measured at HERMES.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:21:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:25:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Courtoy", "Aurore", "" ], [ "Goldstein", "Gary R.", "" ], [ "Hernandez", "J. Osvaldo Gonzalez", "" ], [ "Liuti", "Simonetta", "" ], [ "Rajan", "Abha", "" ] ]
We argue that due to Parity constraints, the helicity combination of the purely momentum space counterparts of the Wigner distributions -- the generalized transverse momentum distributions -- that describes the configuration of an unpolarized quark in a longitudinally polarized nucleon, can enter the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude only through matrix elements involving a final state interaction. The relevant matrix elements in turn involve light cone operators projections in the transverse direction, or they appear in the deeply virtual Compton scattering amplitude at twist three. Orbital angular momentum or the spin structure of the nucleon was a major reason for these various distributions and amplitudes to have been introduced. We show that the twist three contributions associated to orbital angular momentum %to deeply virtual Compton scattering provide observables related to orbital angular momentum and are related to the target-spin asymmetry in deeply virtual Compton scattering, already measured at HERMES.
2105.09277
Aris Spourdalakis
Matthew Inglis-Whalen, Michael Luke, Jyotirmoy Roy and Aris Spourdalakis
Factorization of Power Corrections in the Drell-Yan Process in EFT
29 pages, 1 figure, v2: minor edits, journal version
Phys. Rev. D 104, 076018 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076018
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We examine the quark-induced Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading power (NLP) in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Using an approach with no explicit soft or collinear modes, we discuss the factorization of the differential cross section in the small-$q_T$ hierarchy with $q^2\gg q_T^2\gg\Lambda_{\mathrm{QCD}}^2$. We show that the cross section may be written in terms of matrix elements of power-suppressed operators $T_{(i,j)}$, which contribute to $O(q_T^2/q^2)$ coefficients of the usual parton distribution functions. We derive a factorization for this observable at NLP which allows the large logarithms in each of the relevant factors to be resummed. We discuss the cancellation of rapidity divergences and the overlap subtractions required to eliminate double counting at next-to-leading power.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 May 2021 17:41:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:27:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-10-22
[ [ "Inglis-Whalen", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Luke", "Michael", "" ], [ "Roy", "Jyotirmoy", "" ], [ "Spourdalakis", "Aris", "" ] ]
We examine the quark-induced Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading power (NLP) in Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. Using an approach with no explicit soft or collinear modes, we discuss the factorization of the differential cross section in the small-$q_T$ hierarchy with $q^2\gg q_T^2\gg\Lambda_{\mathrm{QCD}}^2$. We show that the cross section may be written in terms of matrix elements of power-suppressed operators $T_{(i,j)}$, which contribute to $O(q_T^2/q^2)$ coefficients of the usual parton distribution functions. We derive a factorization for this observable at NLP which allows the large logarithms in each of the relevant factors to be resummed. We discuss the cancellation of rapidity divergences and the overlap subtractions required to eliminate double counting at next-to-leading power.
hep-ph/9504216
Steve Godfrey
M. Cvetic and S. Godfrey
Discovery and Identification of Extra Gauge Bosons
34 pages, Latex file using equations.sty and psfig.sty, 6 postcript figures (uuencoded) added with figures command. Full postcript version, complete with embedded figures is available at ftp://ftp.physics.carleton.ca/pub/theory/godfrey/ocip9502.ps . Summary of the Working Subgroup on Extra Gauge Bosons of the DPF Long-Range Planning Study, to be published in "Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Beyond the Standard Model", eds T. Barklow, S. Dawson, H. Haber, and J. Seigrist
null
10.1142/9789812830265_0007
OCIP/C-95-2, UPR-648-T
hep-ph
null
The discovery potential and diagnostic abilities of proposed future colliders for new heavy neutral ($Z'$) and charged ($W'$) gauge bosons are summarized. Typical bounds achievable on $M_{Z',W'}$ at the TEVATRON, DI-TEVATRON, LHC, 500 GeV NLC, and 1 TeV NLC are $\sim$1~TeV, $\sim$2~TeV, $\sim$4~TeV, 1--3~TeV, and 2--6~TeV, respectively. For $M_{Z'} \sim$1 TeV the LHC will have the capability to determine the magnitude of normalized $Z'$ quark and lepton couplings to around $10-20\%$, while the NLC would allow for determination of the couplings (including their signs) with a factor of 2 larger error-bars, provided heavy flavor tagging and longitudinal polarization of the electron beam is available.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Apr 1995 14:36:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-11-03
[ [ "Cvetic", "M.", "" ], [ "Godfrey", "S.", "" ] ]
The discovery potential and diagnostic abilities of proposed future colliders for new heavy neutral ($Z'$) and charged ($W'$) gauge bosons are summarized. Typical bounds achievable on $M_{Z',W'}$ at the TEVATRON, DI-TEVATRON, LHC, 500 GeV NLC, and 1 TeV NLC are $\sim$1~TeV, $\sim$2~TeV, $\sim$4~TeV, 1--3~TeV, and 2--6~TeV, respectively. For $M_{Z'} \sim$1 TeV the LHC will have the capability to determine the magnitude of normalized $Z'$ quark and lepton couplings to around $10-20\%$, while the NLC would allow for determination of the couplings (including their signs) with a factor of 2 larger error-bars, provided heavy flavor tagging and longitudinal polarization of the electron beam is available.
hep-ph/0304059
Igor Shovkovy
V. P. Gusynin, V. A. Miransky and I. A. Shovkovy
Large N dynamics in QED in a magnetic field
4 pages, REVTeX
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 107703
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.107703
null
hep-ph
null
The expression for the dynamical mass of fermions in QED in a magnetic field is obtained for a large number of the fermion flavor N in the framework of 1/N expansion. The existence of a threshold value N_{thr}, dividing the theories with essentially different dynamics, is established. For the number of flavors N << N_{thr}, the dynamical mass is very sensitive to the value of the coupling constant \alpha_b, related to the magnetic scale \mu = |eB|. For N of order N_{thr} or larger, a dynamics similar to that in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with cutoff of order |eB| and the dimensional coupling constant G \sim 1/(N|eB|) takes place. In this case, the value of the dynamical mass is essentially \alpha_b independent (the dynamics with an infrared stable fixed point). The value of N_{thr} separates a weak coupling dynamics (with \tilde{\alpha}_b \equiv N\alpha_b << 1) from a strong coupling one (with \tilde{\alpha}_b \gtrsim 1) and is of order 1/\alpha_b.
[ { "created": "Sun, 6 Apr 2003 16:30:55 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Gusynin", "V. P.", "" ], [ "Miransky", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Shovkovy", "I. A.", "" ] ]
The expression for the dynamical mass of fermions in QED in a magnetic field is obtained for a large number of the fermion flavor N in the framework of 1/N expansion. The existence of a threshold value N_{thr}, dividing the theories with essentially different dynamics, is established. For the number of flavors N << N_{thr}, the dynamical mass is very sensitive to the value of the coupling constant \alpha_b, related to the magnetic scale \mu = |eB|. For N of order N_{thr} or larger, a dynamics similar to that in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with cutoff of order |eB| and the dimensional coupling constant G \sim 1/(N|eB|) takes place. In this case, the value of the dynamical mass is essentially \alpha_b independent (the dynamics with an infrared stable fixed point). The value of N_{thr} separates a weak coupling dynamics (with \tilde{\alpha}_b \equiv N\alpha_b << 1) from a strong coupling one (with \tilde{\alpha}_b \gtrsim 1) and is of order 1/\alpha_b.
hep-ph/0501220
Ulrich Jentschura
U. D. Jentschura and J. Evers
Some Recent Advances in Bound-State Quantum Electrodynamics
12 pages, nrc1 LaTeX style
Can.J.Phys.83:375-386,2005
10.1139/p05-018
null
hep-ph
null
We discuss recent progress in various problems related to bound-state quantum electrodynamics: the bound-electron g factor, two-loop self-energy corrections and the laser-dressed Lamb shift. The progress relies on various advances in the bound-state formalism, including ideas inspired by effective field theories such as Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics. Radiative corrections in dynamical processes represent a promising field for further investigations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:56:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-08-17
[ [ "Jentschura", "U. D.", "" ], [ "Evers", "J.", "" ] ]
We discuss recent progress in various problems related to bound-state quantum electrodynamics: the bound-electron g factor, two-loop self-energy corrections and the laser-dressed Lamb shift. The progress relies on various advances in the bound-state formalism, including ideas inspired by effective field theories such as Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics. Radiative corrections in dynamical processes represent a promising field for further investigations.
1505.03595
Ernany Rossi Schmitz
B. L. S\'anchez-Vega and E. R. Schmitz
Fermionic dark matter and neutrino masses in a $\mathcal{B-L}$ model
29 pages, 5 figures
Phys. Rev. D 92, 053007 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.053007
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we present a common framework for neutrino mass and dark matter. Specifically, we work with a local $\mathcal{B-L}$ extension of the standard model which has three right-handed neutrinos, $n_{R_{i}}$, and some extra scalars, $\Phi$, $\phi_{i}$ besides the standard model fields. The $n_{R_{i}}$'s have non-standard $\mathcal{B-L}$ quantum numbers and thus these couple to different scalars. This model has the attractive property that an almost automatic $Z_2$ symmetry acting only on a fermionic field, $n_{R3}$, is present. Taking advantage of this $Z_2$ symmetry, we study both the neutrino mass generation via a natural see-saw mechanism in low energy and the possibility of $n_{R3}$ to be a DM candidate. For this last purpose, we study its relic abundance and its compatibility with the current direct detection experiments.
[ { "created": "Thu, 14 May 2015 01:51:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-09-23
[ [ "Sánchez-Vega", "B. L.", "" ], [ "Schmitz", "E. R.", "" ] ]
In this work we present a common framework for neutrino mass and dark matter. Specifically, we work with a local $\mathcal{B-L}$ extension of the standard model which has three right-handed neutrinos, $n_{R_{i}}$, and some extra scalars, $\Phi$, $\phi_{i}$ besides the standard model fields. The $n_{R_{i}}$'s have non-standard $\mathcal{B-L}$ quantum numbers and thus these couple to different scalars. This model has the attractive property that an almost automatic $Z_2$ symmetry acting only on a fermionic field, $n_{R3}$, is present. Taking advantage of this $Z_2$ symmetry, we study both the neutrino mass generation via a natural see-saw mechanism in low energy and the possibility of $n_{R3}$ to be a DM candidate. For this last purpose, we study its relic abundance and its compatibility with the current direct detection experiments.
hep-ph/0701266
V\'eronique Pag\'e
Veronique Page
Non-thermal right-handed sneutrino dark matter and the Omega_DM/Omega_b problem
11 pages, 2 figures, 2 typos added, 1 reference added, minor corrections in section 3
JHEP 0704:021,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/021
null
hep-ph
null
We argue that the superpartner of the Dirac right-handed neutrino is a prime candidate for dark matter created from a 'mattergenesis' mechanism. We show that due to the smallness of the Yukawa couplings, a right-handed sneutrino density created in the early Universe would not be erased by annihilations, which remain out of thermal equilibrium. It would also not be drowned by a later, additional production of right-handed sneutrinos, as the relic density of the non-thermal right-handed sneutrinos is found to be generally negligible compared to the observed dark matter density. Mild constraints on sneutrino masses and trilinear SUSY-breaking couplings are obtained. Possible mattergenesis scenarios are also mentioned
[ { "created": "Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:42:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Feb 2007 14:49:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:41:15 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:17:49 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2010-10-27
[ [ "Page", "Veronique", "" ] ]
We argue that the superpartner of the Dirac right-handed neutrino is a prime candidate for dark matter created from a 'mattergenesis' mechanism. We show that due to the smallness of the Yukawa couplings, a right-handed sneutrino density created in the early Universe would not be erased by annihilations, which remain out of thermal equilibrium. It would also not be drowned by a later, additional production of right-handed sneutrinos, as the relic density of the non-thermal right-handed sneutrinos is found to be generally negligible compared to the observed dark matter density. Mild constraints on sneutrino masses and trilinear SUSY-breaking couplings are obtained. Possible mattergenesis scenarios are also mentioned
hep-ph/0307126
Xiong Zhaohua
Junjie Cao, Zhaohua Xiong, Jin Min Yang
Lepton flavor violating Z-decays in supersymmetric see-saw model
8 pages,4 ps files, to appear in EPJC
Eur.Phys.J. C32 (2004) 245-252
10.1140/epjc/s2003-01391-1
null
hep-ph
null
In supersymmetric see-saw model, the large flavor mixings of sleptons induce the lepton flavor violating (LFV) interactions $\ell_I \bar\ell_J V$ ($V=\gamma, Z$), which give rise to various LFV processes. In this work we examine the induced LFV decays $Z\to\ell_I \bar\ell_J$. Subject to the constraints from the existing neutrino oscillation data and the experimental bounds on the decays $\ell_J\to\ell_I\gamma$, these LFV $Z$-decays are found to be sizable, among which the largest-rate channel $Z\to \tau \bar{\mu}$ can ocuur with a branching ratio of $10^{-8}$ and may be accessible at the LHC or GiagZ experiment.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jul 2003 06:11:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Oct 2003 09:44:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Cao", "Junjie", "" ], [ "Xiong", "Zhaohua", "" ], [ "Yang", "Jin Min", "" ] ]
In supersymmetric see-saw model, the large flavor mixings of sleptons induce the lepton flavor violating (LFV) interactions $\ell_I \bar\ell_J V$ ($V=\gamma, Z$), which give rise to various LFV processes. In this work we examine the induced LFV decays $Z\to\ell_I \bar\ell_J$. Subject to the constraints from the existing neutrino oscillation data and the experimental bounds on the decays $\ell_J\to\ell_I\gamma$, these LFV $Z$-decays are found to be sizable, among which the largest-rate channel $Z\to \tau \bar{\mu}$ can ocuur with a branching ratio of $10^{-8}$ and may be accessible at the LHC or GiagZ experiment.
2405.08494
Cheng Li
Cheng Li and Gudrid Moortgat-Pick
Determination of CP-violating $HZZ$ interaction with polarised beams at the ILC
V2: Adding the references and correcting the definition of effective CP-odd fraction $f_{cp}$
null
null
DESY-24-068
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We study possible CP-violation effects of the 125 GeV Higgs to $Z$ boson coupling at the 250 GeV ILC with transverse and longitudinal beam polarisation via the process $e^+ e^- \rightarrow HZ \rightarrow H \mu^-\mu^+$. We explore the azimuthal angular distribution of the muon pair from the $Z$ boson decay, and constructe CP-odd observables sensitive to CP-violation effects, where we derived this observable both by analytical calculations and by $\mathtt{Whizard}$ simulations. Particularly, we can construct two CP-odd observables with the help of transversely-polarised initial beams and improve the statistical significance of CP-violation effects by combining two measurements. We defined the asymmetries between the signal regions with different signs of the CP-odd observables, and determine the CP-violation effect by comparing with the SM 95% C.L. upper bound. In this paper, we setup a scenario which assumes that the total cross-section is always fixed while CP-violation is varying, and such a scenario helps us to determine the intrinsic CP-mixing angle limit around $|\xi_{CP}|\sim 0.03$ with (90%, 40%) polarised electron-positron beams and 5 ab$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity. In addition, we determine the CP-odd coupling limit $|\widetilde{c}_{HZZ}|\sim 0.01$ as well, where we suppose that the SM tree-level cross-section is fixed and the CP-violation is the varying additional contribution. Comparing with the analysis with unpolarised beams, the sensitivity to the CP-violation effect can be improved by transverse or longitudinal polarisation.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 May 2024 10:39:37 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 28 May 2024 01:53:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-05-29
[ [ "Li", "Cheng", "" ], [ "Moortgat-Pick", "Gudrid", "" ] ]
We study possible CP-violation effects of the 125 GeV Higgs to $Z$ boson coupling at the 250 GeV ILC with transverse and longitudinal beam polarisation via the process $e^+ e^- \rightarrow HZ \rightarrow H \mu^-\mu^+$. We explore the azimuthal angular distribution of the muon pair from the $Z$ boson decay, and constructe CP-odd observables sensitive to CP-violation effects, where we derived this observable both by analytical calculations and by $\mathtt{Whizard}$ simulations. Particularly, we can construct two CP-odd observables with the help of transversely-polarised initial beams and improve the statistical significance of CP-violation effects by combining two measurements. We defined the asymmetries between the signal regions with different signs of the CP-odd observables, and determine the CP-violation effect by comparing with the SM 95% C.L. upper bound. In this paper, we setup a scenario which assumes that the total cross-section is always fixed while CP-violation is varying, and such a scenario helps us to determine the intrinsic CP-mixing angle limit around $|\xi_{CP}|\sim 0.03$ with (90%, 40%) polarised electron-positron beams and 5 ab$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity. In addition, we determine the CP-odd coupling limit $|\widetilde{c}_{HZZ}|\sim 0.01$ as well, where we suppose that the SM tree-level cross-section is fixed and the CP-violation is the varying additional contribution. Comparing with the analysis with unpolarised beams, the sensitivity to the CP-violation effect can be improved by transverse or longitudinal polarisation.
1511.08787
Gilly Elor
Gilly Elor, Nicholas L. Rodd, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Wei Xue
Model-Independent Indirect Detection Constraints on Hidden Sector Dark Matter
Published version. Added analysis on interplay between indirect detection bounds and the Galactic Center GeV excess. Added antiproton ratio bounds
JCAP 1606 (2016) no.06, 024
10.1088/1475-7516/2016/06/024
MIT-CTP/4742
hep-ph astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
If dark matter inhabits an expanded "hidden sector", annihilations may proceed through sequential decays or multi-body final states. We map out the potential signals and current constraints on such a framework in indirect searches, using a model-independent setup based on multi-step hierarchical cascade decays. While remaining agnostic to the details of the hidden sector model, our framework captures the generic broadening of the spectrum of secondary particles (photons, neutrinos, e+e- and antiprotons) relative to the case of direct annihilation to Standard Model particles. We explore how indirect constraints on dark matter annihilation limit the parameter space for such cascade/multi-particle decays. We investigate limits from the cosmic microwave background by Planck, the Fermi measurement of photons from the dwarf galaxies, and positron data from AMS-02. The presence of a hidden sector can change the constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section by up to an order of magnitude in either direction (although the effect can be much smaller). We find that generally the bound from the Fermi dwarfs is most constraining for annihilations to photon-rich final states, while AMS-02 is most constraining for electron and muon final states; however in certain instances the CMB bounds overtake both, due to their approximate independence of the details of the hidden sector cascade. We provide the full set of cascade spectra considered here as publicly available code with examples at http://web.mit.edu/lns/research/CascadeSpectra.html.
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:44:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 1 Jul 2016 13:41:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-07-05
[ [ "Elor", "Gilly", "" ], [ "Rodd", "Nicholas L.", "" ], [ "Slatyer", "Tracy R.", "" ], [ "Xue", "Wei", "" ] ]
If dark matter inhabits an expanded "hidden sector", annihilations may proceed through sequential decays or multi-body final states. We map out the potential signals and current constraints on such a framework in indirect searches, using a model-independent setup based on multi-step hierarchical cascade decays. While remaining agnostic to the details of the hidden sector model, our framework captures the generic broadening of the spectrum of secondary particles (photons, neutrinos, e+e- and antiprotons) relative to the case of direct annihilation to Standard Model particles. We explore how indirect constraints on dark matter annihilation limit the parameter space for such cascade/multi-particle decays. We investigate limits from the cosmic microwave background by Planck, the Fermi measurement of photons from the dwarf galaxies, and positron data from AMS-02. The presence of a hidden sector can change the constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section by up to an order of magnitude in either direction (although the effect can be much smaller). We find that generally the bound from the Fermi dwarfs is most constraining for annihilations to photon-rich final states, while AMS-02 is most constraining for electron and muon final states; however in certain instances the CMB bounds overtake both, due to their approximate independence of the details of the hidden sector cascade. We provide the full set of cascade spectra considered here as publicly available code with examples at http://web.mit.edu/lns/research/CascadeSpectra.html.
0803.0218
Thorsten Renk
Thorsten Renk
Angular variation of hard back-to-back hadron suppression in heavy-ion collisions
8 pages, 5 figures
Phys.Rev.C78:034904,2008
10.1103/PhysRevC.78.034904
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The basic idea of jet tomography is to infer information about the density evolution of the medium created in heavy-ion (A-A) collisions by studying the suppression of hard probes in an A-A environment as compared to the baseline process known from p-p collisions. The suppression of back-to-back correlations in heavy-ion collisions allows, due to a different geometrical bias, a view into the medium which is qualitatively different from the one offered by single hadron suppression. A control parameter for the suppression corresponding to a systematic variation of in-medium pathlengths and density can be obtained by studying collisions at finite impact parameter b. A systematic variation of pathlength can then be introduced by studying the suppression pattern as a function of the angle phi with the reaction plane. Using a 3-d hydrodynamical evolution model for the medium and a Monte-Carlo model which has been shown to successfully reproduce the measured suppression of back-to-back correlations in central collisions of Au-Au at 200 AGeV, we compute the suppression as a function of phi for b of 2.4 fm. 4.5 fm, 6.3 fm and 7.5 fm. Given that this involves variations in both control parameters b and phi a comparison with data should eventually allow to place strong constraints on the combination of energy loss model and medium evolution model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:33:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:43:28 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Renk", "Thorsten", "" ] ]
The basic idea of jet tomography is to infer information about the density evolution of the medium created in heavy-ion (A-A) collisions by studying the suppression of hard probes in an A-A environment as compared to the baseline process known from p-p collisions. The suppression of back-to-back correlations in heavy-ion collisions allows, due to a different geometrical bias, a view into the medium which is qualitatively different from the one offered by single hadron suppression. A control parameter for the suppression corresponding to a systematic variation of in-medium pathlengths and density can be obtained by studying collisions at finite impact parameter b. A systematic variation of pathlength can then be introduced by studying the suppression pattern as a function of the angle phi with the reaction plane. Using a 3-d hydrodynamical evolution model for the medium and a Monte-Carlo model which has been shown to successfully reproduce the measured suppression of back-to-back correlations in central collisions of Au-Au at 200 AGeV, we compute the suppression as a function of phi for b of 2.4 fm. 4.5 fm, 6.3 fm and 7.5 fm. Given that this involves variations in both control parameters b and phi a comparison with data should eventually allow to place strong constraints on the combination of energy loss model and medium evolution model.
1904.00036
Juan Helo
Juan Carlos Helo, Martin Hirsch and Toshihiko Ota
Proton decay at 1-loop
13 pages, 7 figures
Phys. Rev. D 99, 095021 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.095021
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Proton decay is usually discussed in the context of grand unified theories. However, as is well-known, in the standard model effective theory proton decay appears in the form of higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. Here, we study systematically the 1-loop decomposition of the $d=6$ $B+L$ violating operators. We exhaustively list the possible 1-loop ultra-violet completions of these operators and discuss that, in general, two distinct classes of models appear. Models in the first class need an additional symmetry in order to avoid tree-level proton decay. These models necessarily contain a neutral particle, which could act as a dark matter candidate. For models in the second class the loop contribution dominates automatically over the tree-level proton decay, without the need for additional symmetries. We also discuss possible phenomenology of two example models, one from each class, and their possible connections to neutrino masses, LHC searches and dark matter.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:23:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-05-29
[ [ "Helo", "Juan Carlos", "" ], [ "Hirsch", "Martin", "" ], [ "Ota", "Toshihiko", "" ] ]
Proton decay is usually discussed in the context of grand unified theories. However, as is well-known, in the standard model effective theory proton decay appears in the form of higher dimensional non-renormalizable operators. Here, we study systematically the 1-loop decomposition of the $d=6$ $B+L$ violating operators. We exhaustively list the possible 1-loop ultra-violet completions of these operators and discuss that, in general, two distinct classes of models appear. Models in the first class need an additional symmetry in order to avoid tree-level proton decay. These models necessarily contain a neutral particle, which could act as a dark matter candidate. For models in the second class the loop contribution dominates automatically over the tree-level proton decay, without the need for additional symmetries. We also discuss possible phenomenology of two example models, one from each class, and their possible connections to neutrino masses, LHC searches and dark matter.
1703.07486
Paulo Victor Recchia Gomes Silva
D.A. Fagundes, M.J. Menon, P.V.R.G. Silva
Bounds on the rise of total cross section from LHC7 and LHC8 data
14 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables, one appendix added (discussing some TOTEM data at 8 TeV), minor corrections, few comments added. Matches version accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. A
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2017.06.057
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent measurements of the proton-proton total cross section $\sigma_{tot}$ at 7 and 8 TeV by the TOTEM and ATLAS Collaborations are characterized by some discrepant values: the TOTEM data suggest a rise of the cross section with the energy faster than the ATLAS data. Attempting to quantify these different behaviors, we develop new analytical fits to $\sigma_{tot}$ and $\rho$ data from $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ scattering in the energy region 5 GeV - 8 TeV. The dataset comprises all the accelerator data below 7 TeV and we consider three ensembles by adding: either only the TOTEM data (T), or only the ATLAS data (A), or both sets (T+A). For the purposes, we use our previous RRPL$\gamma$ parametrization for $\sigma_{tot}(s)$, consisting of two Reggeons (RR), one critical Pomeron (P) and a leading log-raised-to-gamma (L$\gamma$) contribution (with $\gamma$ as a free fit parameter), analytically connected to $\rho(s)$ through singly-subtracted derivative dispersion relations and energy scale fixed at the physical threshold. The data reductions with ensembles T and A present good agreement with the experimental data analyzed and cannot be distinguished on statistical grounds. The quality of the fit is not as good with ensemble T+A. The fit results provide $\gamma \sim 2.3 \pm 0.1$ (T), $2.0 \pm 0.2$ (A), $2.1 \pm 0.2$ (T+A), with $\chi^2/\mathrm{DOF} \sim 1.07$ (T), $1.09$ (A), $1.14$ (T+A), suggesting extrema bounds for $\gamma$ given by 1.8 and 2.4. Fits with $\gamma = 2$ (fixed) are also developed and discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Mar 2017 02:02:05 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 May 2017 13:24:01 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:56:05 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-07-11
[ [ "Fagundes", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Menon", "M. J.", "" ], [ "Silva", "P. V. R. G.", "" ] ]
Recent measurements of the proton-proton total cross section $\sigma_{tot}$ at 7 and 8 TeV by the TOTEM and ATLAS Collaborations are characterized by some discrepant values: the TOTEM data suggest a rise of the cross section with the energy faster than the ATLAS data. Attempting to quantify these different behaviors, we develop new analytical fits to $\sigma_{tot}$ and $\rho$ data from $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ scattering in the energy region 5 GeV - 8 TeV. The dataset comprises all the accelerator data below 7 TeV and we consider three ensembles by adding: either only the TOTEM data (T), or only the ATLAS data (A), or both sets (T+A). For the purposes, we use our previous RRPL$\gamma$ parametrization for $\sigma_{tot}(s)$, consisting of two Reggeons (RR), one critical Pomeron (P) and a leading log-raised-to-gamma (L$\gamma$) contribution (with $\gamma$ as a free fit parameter), analytically connected to $\rho(s)$ through singly-subtracted derivative dispersion relations and energy scale fixed at the physical threshold. The data reductions with ensembles T and A present good agreement with the experimental data analyzed and cannot be distinguished on statistical grounds. The quality of the fit is not as good with ensemble T+A. The fit results provide $\gamma \sim 2.3 \pm 0.1$ (T), $2.0 \pm 0.2$ (A), $2.1 \pm 0.2$ (T+A), with $\chi^2/\mathrm{DOF} \sim 1.07$ (T), $1.09$ (A), $1.14$ (T+A), suggesting extrema bounds for $\gamma$ given by 1.8 and 2.4. Fits with $\gamma = 2$ (fixed) are also developed and discussed.
2007.00351
Akanksha Bhardwaj
Akanksha Bhardwaj, Juhi Dutta, Partha Konar, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and Santosh Kumar Rai
Boosted jet techniques for a supersymmetric scenario with gravitino LSP
accepted for publication in JHEP
JHEP 10 (2020) 083
10.1007/JHEP10(2020)083
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Search for compressed supersymmetry at multi-TeV scale, in the presence of a light gravitino dark matter, can get sizable uplift while looking into the associated fat-jets with missing transverse momenta as a signature of the boson produced in the decay process of much heavier next-to-lightest sparticle. We focus on the hadronic decay of the ensuing Higgs and/or $Z$ boson giving rise to at least two fat-jets and $\slashed{E}_T$ in the final state. We perform a detailed background study adopting a multivariate analysis using a boosted decision tree to provide a robust investigation to explore the discovery potential for such signal at 14 TeV LHC considering different benchmark points satisfying all the theoretical and experimental constraints. This channel provides the best discovery prospects with most of the benchmarks discoverable within an integrated luminosity of $\mathcal{L}=200$ fb$^{-1}$. Kinematic observables are investigated in order to distinguish between compressed and uncompressed spectra having similar event yields.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Jul 2020 09:40:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Sep 2020 13:52:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-10-27
[ [ "Bhardwaj", "Akanksha", "" ], [ "Dutta", "Juhi", "" ], [ "Konar", "Partha", "" ], [ "Mukhopadhyaya", "Biswarup", "" ], [ "Rai", "Santosh Kumar", "" ] ]
Search for compressed supersymmetry at multi-TeV scale, in the presence of a light gravitino dark matter, can get sizable uplift while looking into the associated fat-jets with missing transverse momenta as a signature of the boson produced in the decay process of much heavier next-to-lightest sparticle. We focus on the hadronic decay of the ensuing Higgs and/or $Z$ boson giving rise to at least two fat-jets and $\slashed{E}_T$ in the final state. We perform a detailed background study adopting a multivariate analysis using a boosted decision tree to provide a robust investigation to explore the discovery potential for such signal at 14 TeV LHC considering different benchmark points satisfying all the theoretical and experimental constraints. This channel provides the best discovery prospects with most of the benchmarks discoverable within an integrated luminosity of $\mathcal{L}=200$ fb$^{-1}$. Kinematic observables are investigated in order to distinguish between compressed and uncompressed spectra having similar event yields.
hep-ph/0511054
Misak Sargsian
Misak Sargsian (FIU) and Mark Strikman (PSU)
Model independent method for determination of the DIS structure of free neutron
15 pages, 4 eps figures
Phys.Lett.B639:223-231,2006
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.05.091
FIU-NUPAR-110405
hep-ph
null
We present a model independent procedure for extracting deep-inelastic structure function of "free'' neutron from the electron - deuteron scattering with protons produced in the target fragmentation region of the reaction. This procedure is based on the extrapolation of t, which describes the invariant momentum transfered to the proton, to the unphysical region corresponding to the mass of the struck neutron. We demonstrate that the impulse approximation diagram of the reaction has a pole at this limit with a residue being proportional to the "free" neutron structure function. The method is analogous to that of Chew and Low for extraction of the ``free'' pion-pion and neutron-neutron cross sections from p(pion,p)X and d(n,n)pn reactions respectively. We demonstrate that in the extrapolation the final state interaction amplitudes are smooth functions of $t$ and have negligible contribution in the extracted ``free'' nucleon structure function. We also estimate the range of the recoil nucleon momenta which could be used for successful extrapolation procedure.
[ { "created": "Sat, 5 Nov 2005 01:01:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Sargsian", "Misak", "", "FIU" ], [ "Strikman", "Mark", "", "PSU" ] ]
We present a model independent procedure for extracting deep-inelastic structure function of "free'' neutron from the electron - deuteron scattering with protons produced in the target fragmentation region of the reaction. This procedure is based on the extrapolation of t, which describes the invariant momentum transfered to the proton, to the unphysical region corresponding to the mass of the struck neutron. We demonstrate that the impulse approximation diagram of the reaction has a pole at this limit with a residue being proportional to the "free" neutron structure function. The method is analogous to that of Chew and Low for extraction of the ``free'' pion-pion and neutron-neutron cross sections from p(pion,p)X and d(n,n)pn reactions respectively. We demonstrate that in the extrapolation the final state interaction amplitudes are smooth functions of $t$ and have negligible contribution in the extracted ``free'' nucleon structure function. We also estimate the range of the recoil nucleon momenta which could be used for successful extrapolation procedure.
2107.00604
Bernat Capdevila
Marzia Bordone, Bernat Capdevila, Paolo Gambino
Three loop calculations and inclusive $V_{cb}$
6 pages, 1 figure
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136679
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the impact of the recent $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ calculations of the semileptonic width of the $b$ quark and of the relation between pole and kinetic heavy quark masses by Fael et al. on the inclusive determination of $|V_{cb}|$. The most notable effect is a reduction of the uncertainty. Our final result is $|V_{cb}|=42.16(51)\, 10^{-3}$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Jul 2021 16:52:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:55:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-10-04
[ [ "Bordone", "Marzia", "" ], [ "Capdevila", "Bernat", "" ], [ "Gambino", "Paolo", "" ] ]
We discuss the impact of the recent $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ calculations of the semileptonic width of the $b$ quark and of the relation between pole and kinetic heavy quark masses by Fael et al. on the inclusive determination of $|V_{cb}|$. The most notable effect is a reduction of the uncertainty. Our final result is $|V_{cb}|=42.16(51)\, 10^{-3}$.
hep-ph/9910263
Johan Bijnens
Johan Bijnens
The $\Delta I=1/2$ rule and other matrix elements
Talk presented at EPS HEP99, Tampere, Finland, July 15-21,1999; uses hep99.cls and hep990.clo
null
null
LU TP 99-29
hep-ph
null
Recent work by J.Prades and myself on $K\to\pi\pi$ is described. The method we use to consistently connect long and short distances is described and numerical results for the $\Delta I=1/2$ rule and on $B_6$, the parameter relevant for the strong part of $\epsilon'/\epsilon$, are given in the chiral limit.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:37:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Bijnens", "Johan", "" ] ]
Recent work by J.Prades and myself on $K\to\pi\pi$ is described. The method we use to consistently connect long and short distances is described and numerical results for the $\Delta I=1/2$ rule and on $B_6$, the parameter relevant for the strong part of $\epsilon'/\epsilon$, are given in the chiral limit.
1907.10483
Jen-Chieh Peng
Jen-Chieh Peng, Wen-Chen Chang, Randall Evan McClellan, and Oleg Teryaev
Lepton angular distribution of Z boson production and jet discrimination
5 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1708.05807
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134895
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
High precision data of lepton angular distributions in inclusive $Z$ boson production, reported by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, showed pronounced transverse momentum ($q_T$) dependencies of the $A_0$ and $A_2$ coefficients. Violation of the Lam-Tung relation, $A_0 = A_2$, was also found. An intuitive understanding of these results can be obtained from a geometric approach. We predict that $A_0$ and $A_2$ for $Z$ plus single gluon-jet events are very different from that of $Z$ plus single quark-jet events, allowing a new experimental tool for checking various algorithms which attempt to discriminate quark jets from gluon jets. We also predict that the Lam-Tung relation would be more severely violated for the $Z$ plus multiple-jet data than what has been observed so far for inclusive $Z$ production data. These predictions can be readily tested using existing LHC data.
[ { "created": "Sat, 20 Jul 2019 21:35:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-10-02
[ [ "Peng", "Jen-Chieh", "" ], [ "Chang", "Wen-Chen", "" ], [ "McClellan", "Randall Evan", "" ], [ "Teryaev", "Oleg", "" ] ]
High precision data of lepton angular distributions in inclusive $Z$ boson production, reported by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, showed pronounced transverse momentum ($q_T$) dependencies of the $A_0$ and $A_2$ coefficients. Violation of the Lam-Tung relation, $A_0 = A_2$, was also found. An intuitive understanding of these results can be obtained from a geometric approach. We predict that $A_0$ and $A_2$ for $Z$ plus single gluon-jet events are very different from that of $Z$ plus single quark-jet events, allowing a new experimental tool for checking various algorithms which attempt to discriminate quark jets from gluon jets. We also predict that the Lam-Tung relation would be more severely violated for the $Z$ plus multiple-jet data than what has been observed so far for inclusive $Z$ production data. These predictions can be readily tested using existing LHC data.
hep-ph/0408102
David G. Cerdeno
D.G. Cerdeno, C. Hugonie, D.E. Lopez-Fogliani, C. Munoz, A.M. Teixeira
Theoretical predictions for the direct detection of neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM
Final version to appear in JHEP. References added. LaTeX, 53 pages, 23 figures
JHEP0412:048,2004
10.1088/1126-6708/2004/12/048
DESY 04-129, IFIC/04-44, FTUAM 04/17, IFT-UAM/CSIC-04-42
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We analyse the direct detection of neutralino dark matter in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. After performing a detailed analysis of the parameter space, taking into account all the available constraints from LEPII, we compute the neutralino-nucleon cross section, and compare the results with the sensitivity of detectors. We find that sizable values for the detection cross section, within the reach of dark matter detectors, are attainable in this framework. For example, neutralino-proton cross sections compatible with the sensitivity of present experiments can be obtained due to the exchange of very light Higgses with $m_{h_1^0}\lsim 70$ GeV. Such Higgses have a significant singlet composition, thus escaping detection and being in agreement with accelerator data. The lightest neutralino in these cases exhibits a large singlino-Higgsino composition, and a mass in the range $50\lsim m_{\tilde\chi_1^0}\lsim 100$ GeV.
[ { "created": "Sat, 7 Aug 2004 18:46:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:13:14 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Jan 2005 03:13:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cerdeno", "D. G.", "" ], [ "Hugonie", "C.", "" ], [ "Lopez-Fogliani", "D. E.", "" ], [ "Munoz", "C.", "" ], [ "Teixeira", "A. M.", "" ] ]
We analyse the direct detection of neutralino dark matter in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. After performing a detailed analysis of the parameter space, taking into account all the available constraints from LEPII, we compute the neutralino-nucleon cross section, and compare the results with the sensitivity of detectors. We find that sizable values for the detection cross section, within the reach of dark matter detectors, are attainable in this framework. For example, neutralino-proton cross sections compatible with the sensitivity of present experiments can be obtained due to the exchange of very light Higgses with $m_{h_1^0}\lsim 70$ GeV. Such Higgses have a significant singlet composition, thus escaping detection and being in agreement with accelerator data. The lightest neutralino in these cases exhibits a large singlino-Higgsino composition, and a mass in the range $50\lsim m_{\tilde\chi_1^0}\lsim 100$ GeV.
1708.09024
Knut Bakke
R. L. L. Vitoria, H. Belich and K. Bakke
Coulomb-type interaction under Lorentz symmetry breaking effects
10 pages, no figure
Advances in High Energy Physics 2017, 6893084 (2017)
10.1155/2017/6893084
null
hep-ph hep-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Based on models of confinement of quarks, we analyse a relativistic scalar particle subject to a scalar potential proportional to the inverse of the radial distance and under the effects of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry. We show that the effects of the Lorentz symmetry breaking can induced a harmonic-type potential. Then, we solve the Klein-Gordon equation analytically and discuss the influence of the background of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry on the relativistic energy levels.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:55:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-09-11
[ [ "Vitoria", "R. L. L.", "" ], [ "Belich", "H.", "" ], [ "Bakke", "K.", "" ] ]
Based on models of confinement of quarks, we analyse a relativistic scalar particle subject to a scalar potential proportional to the inverse of the radial distance and under the effects of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry. We show that the effects of the Lorentz symmetry breaking can induced a harmonic-type potential. Then, we solve the Klein-Gordon equation analytically and discuss the influence of the background of the violation of the Lorentz symmetry on the relativistic energy levels.
2301.04059
Luca Rottoli
Luca Rottoli, Paolo Torrielli, Alessandro Vicini
Determination of the $W$-boson mass at hadron colliders
6 pages, 5 figures. Final version published in EPJC
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12128-z
ZU-TH 01/23, TIF-UNIMI-2023-1
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We introduce an observable relevant for the determination of the $W$-boson mass $m_W$ at hadron colliders. This observable is defined as an asymmetry around the jacobian peak of the charged-lepton transverse-momentum distribution in the charged-current Drell-Yan process. We discuss the observable's theoretical prediction, presenting results at different orders in QCD, and showing its perturbative stability. Its definition as a single scalar number and its linear sensitivity to $m_W$ allow a clean extraction of the latter and a straightforward discussion of the associated theoretical systematics: a perturbative QCD uncertainty of ${\cal O}(\pm 5)$ MeV on $m_W$ can be established by means of this observable, relying solely on charged-current Drell-Yan information. Owing to its relatively inclusive nature, the observable displays desirable properties also from the experimental viewpoint, especially for the unfolding of detector effects. We show that a measurement of this observable can lead to a competitive experimental error on $m_W$ at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:22:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:38:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-04-15
[ [ "Rottoli", "Luca", "" ], [ "Torrielli", "Paolo", "" ], [ "Vicini", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
We introduce an observable relevant for the determination of the $W$-boson mass $m_W$ at hadron colliders. This observable is defined as an asymmetry around the jacobian peak of the charged-lepton transverse-momentum distribution in the charged-current Drell-Yan process. We discuss the observable's theoretical prediction, presenting results at different orders in QCD, and showing its perturbative stability. Its definition as a single scalar number and its linear sensitivity to $m_W$ allow a clean extraction of the latter and a straightforward discussion of the associated theoretical systematics: a perturbative QCD uncertainty of ${\cal O}(\pm 5)$ MeV on $m_W$ can be established by means of this observable, relying solely on charged-current Drell-Yan information. Owing to its relatively inclusive nature, the observable displays desirable properties also from the experimental viewpoint, especially for the unfolding of detector effects. We show that a measurement of this observable can lead to a competitive experimental error on $m_W$ at the LHC.
2306.03008
Di Zhang
Di Zhang
Renormalization Group Equations for the SMEFT Operators up to Dimension Seven
42 pages, references added, and the version accepted for publication in JHEP
null
null
TUM-HEP 1460/23
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper, we propose a Green's basis and also a new physical basis for dimension-seven (dim-7) operators, which are suitable for the matching of ultraviolet models onto the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) and the deviation of renormalization group equations (RGEs) for dim-7 operators in the SMEFT. The reduction relations to convert operators in the Green's basis to those in the physical basis are achieved as well, where some redundant dim-6 operators in the Green's basis are involved if the dim-5 operator exists. Working in these two bases for dim-7 operators and with the help of the reduction relations, we work out the one-loop RGEs resulting from the mixing among different dimensional operators for the dim-5 and dim-7 operators up to $\mathcal{O} \left( \Lambda^{-3} \right)$ in the SMEFT. These new results complete the previous results for RGEs of the dim-5 and dim-7 operators and hence can be used for a consistent one-loop analysis of the SMEFT at $\mathcal{O} \left( \Lambda^{-3} \right)$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Jun 2023 16:19:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:08:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-10-18
[ [ "Zhang", "Di", "" ] ]
In this paper, we propose a Green's basis and also a new physical basis for dimension-seven (dim-7) operators, which are suitable for the matching of ultraviolet models onto the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) and the deviation of renormalization group equations (RGEs) for dim-7 operators in the SMEFT. The reduction relations to convert operators in the Green's basis to those in the physical basis are achieved as well, where some redundant dim-6 operators in the Green's basis are involved if the dim-5 operator exists. Working in these two bases for dim-7 operators and with the help of the reduction relations, we work out the one-loop RGEs resulting from the mixing among different dimensional operators for the dim-5 and dim-7 operators up to $\mathcal{O} \left( \Lambda^{-3} \right)$ in the SMEFT. These new results complete the previous results for RGEs of the dim-5 and dim-7 operators and hence can be used for a consistent one-loop analysis of the SMEFT at $\mathcal{O} \left( \Lambda^{-3} \right)$.
0704.1674
Thomas A. Trainor
Thomas A. Trainor and David T. Kettler
The azimuth structure of nuclear collisions -- I
27 pages, 12 figures
Int.J.Mod.Phys.E17:1219-1272,2008
10.1142/S0218301308010465
null
hep-ph
null
We describe azimuth structure commonly associated with elliptic and directed flow in the context of 2D angular autocorrelations for the purpose of precise separation of so-called nonflow (mainly minijets) from flow. We extend the Fourier-transform description of azimuth structure to include power spectra and autocorrelations related by the Wiener-Khintchine theorem. We analyze several examples of conventional flow analysis in that context and question the relevance of reaction plane estimation to flow analysis. We introduce the 2D angular autocorrelation with examples from data analysis and describe a simulation exercise which demonstrates precise separation of flow and nonflow using the 2D autocorrelation method. We show that an alternative correlation measure based on Pearson's normalized covariance provides a more intuitive measure of azimuth structure.
[ { "created": "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:08:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Trainor", "Thomas A.", "" ], [ "Kettler", "David T.", "" ] ]
We describe azimuth structure commonly associated with elliptic and directed flow in the context of 2D angular autocorrelations for the purpose of precise separation of so-called nonflow (mainly minijets) from flow. We extend the Fourier-transform description of azimuth structure to include power spectra and autocorrelations related by the Wiener-Khintchine theorem. We analyze several examples of conventional flow analysis in that context and question the relevance of reaction plane estimation to flow analysis. We introduce the 2D angular autocorrelation with examples from data analysis and describe a simulation exercise which demonstrates precise separation of flow and nonflow using the 2D autocorrelation method. We show that an alternative correlation measure based on Pearson's normalized covariance provides a more intuitive measure of azimuth structure.
hep-ph/0607276
Sebastian Sapeta
K.Golec-Biernat, S.Sapeta
Heavy flavour production in DGLAP improved saturation model
16 pages, 7 figures; typos corrected, references added, final Phys.Rev. D version
Phys.Rev.D74:054032,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.054032
null
hep-ph
null
The charm and beauty quark production in deep inelastic scattering at low values of the Bjorken variable x is considered in the DGLAP improved saturation model. After fitting parameters of the model to the structure function F_2, the heavy quark contributions Fc_2 and Fb_2 are predicted. A good description of the data is found. Predictions for the longitudinal structure function F_L and the diffractive structure function FD_2 are also presented.
[ { "created": "Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:41:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:19:35 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:09:39 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-03-25
[ [ "Golec-Biernat", "K.", "" ], [ "Sapeta", "S.", "" ] ]
The charm and beauty quark production in deep inelastic scattering at low values of the Bjorken variable x is considered in the DGLAP improved saturation model. After fitting parameters of the model to the structure function F_2, the heavy quark contributions Fc_2 and Fb_2 are predicted. A good description of the data is found. Predictions for the longitudinal structure function F_L and the diffractive structure function FD_2 are also presented.
1201.0687
Juergen Berges
J. Berges, D. Sexty
Bose condensation far from equilibrium
4 pages, 5 figures, PRL version, minor changes
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.161601
null
hep-ph cond-mat.quant-gas nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The formation of Bose condensates far from equilibrium can play an important role in our understanding of collision experiments of heavy nuclei or for the evolution of the early universe. In the relativistic quantum world particle number changing processes can counteract Bose condensation, and there is a considerable debate about the relevance of this phenomenon in this context. We show that the involved question of Bose condensation from initial over-population can be answered for the example of scalar field theories. Condensate formation occurs as a consequence of an inverse particle cascade with a universal power-law spectrum. This particle transport towards low momenta is part of a dual cascade, in which energy is also transfered by weak wave turbulence towards higher momenta. To highlight the importance of number changing processes for the subsequent decay of the condensate, we also compare to non-relativistic theories with exact number conservation. We discuss the relevance of these results for nonabelian gauge theories.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:26:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Mar 2012 07:41:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Berges", "J.", "" ], [ "Sexty", "D.", "" ] ]
The formation of Bose condensates far from equilibrium can play an important role in our understanding of collision experiments of heavy nuclei or for the evolution of the early universe. In the relativistic quantum world particle number changing processes can counteract Bose condensation, and there is a considerable debate about the relevance of this phenomenon in this context. We show that the involved question of Bose condensation from initial over-population can be answered for the example of scalar field theories. Condensate formation occurs as a consequence of an inverse particle cascade with a universal power-law spectrum. This particle transport towards low momenta is part of a dual cascade, in which energy is also transfered by weak wave turbulence towards higher momenta. To highlight the importance of number changing processes for the subsequent decay of the condensate, we also compare to non-relativistic theories with exact number conservation. We discuss the relevance of these results for nonabelian gauge theories.
hep-ph/9711337
Michelangelo Mangano
M.L. Mangano
Two lectures on heavy quark production in hadronic collisions
39 pages, Latex, epsfig, 36 figures. Presented at the International School of Physics `E. Fermi', Course CXXXVII, Heavy flavour physics: a probe of Nature's grand design
null
null
CERN-TH/97-328
hep-ph
null
These lectures present a pedagogical introduction to the physics of heavy-flavour production in hadronic collisions. The first lecture gives the theoretical background, with a discussion of leading-order calculations and of the effects of next-to-leading-order corrections. The origin and implications of the large logarithmic corrections appearing at this order are presented in an elementary way. The second lecture provides a survey of current experimental data on charm and bottom production, and describes their comparison with theoretical predictions. We emphasize the role played by some non-perturbative effects in the determination of charm distributions, and study the theoretical systematic uncertainties which affect our predictions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Nov 1997 16:50:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Mangano", "M. L.", "" ] ]
These lectures present a pedagogical introduction to the physics of heavy-flavour production in hadronic collisions. The first lecture gives the theoretical background, with a discussion of leading-order calculations and of the effects of next-to-leading-order corrections. The origin and implications of the large logarithmic corrections appearing at this order are presented in an elementary way. The second lecture provides a survey of current experimental data on charm and bottom production, and describes their comparison with theoretical predictions. We emphasize the role played by some non-perturbative effects in the determination of charm distributions, and study the theoretical systematic uncertainties which affect our predictions.
hep-ph/0606295
Yuji Koike
Yuji Koike, Junji Nagashima (Niigata Univ.) and Werner Vogelsang (BNL)
Q_T-Resummation for Polarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering
Talk presented at DIS2006. 4 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1142/9789812706706_0183
BNL-NT-06/22
hep-ph
null
We study the transverse-momentum distribution of hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. We consider cross sections for various combinations of the polarizations of the initial lepton and nucleon or the produced hadron, for which we perform the resummation of large double-logarithmic perturbative corrections arising at small transverse momentum. We present phenomenological results for the process $ep\to e\pi X$ for the typical kinematics in the COMPASS experiment. We discuss the impact of the perturbative resummation and of estimated non-perturbative contributions on the corresponding cross sections and their spin asymmetry.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:23:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Koike", "Yuji", "", "Niigata Univ." ], [ "Nagashima", "Junji", "", "Niigata Univ." ], [ "Vogelsang", "Werner", "", "BNL" ] ]
We study the transverse-momentum distribution of hadrons produced in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. We consider cross sections for various combinations of the polarizations of the initial lepton and nucleon or the produced hadron, for which we perform the resummation of large double-logarithmic perturbative corrections arising at small transverse momentum. We present phenomenological results for the process $ep\to e\pi X$ for the typical kinematics in the COMPASS experiment. We discuss the impact of the perturbative resummation and of estimated non-perturbative contributions on the corresponding cross sections and their spin asymmetry.
hep-ph/9401301
Peter Cho
Peter Cho and Mark B. Wise
Comment on $D_s^* \to D_s \pi^0$ Decay
7 pages with 2 figures not included but available upon request, CALT-68-1914
Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 6228-6231
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.6228
null
hep-ph
null
We calculate the rate for $D_s^* \rightarrow D_s \pi^0$ decay using Chiral Perturbation Theory. This isospin violating process results from $\pi^0$ - $\eta$ mixing, and its amplitude is proportional to $(m_d - m_u)/\bigl(m_s-(m_u+m_d)/2 \bigr)$. Experimental information on the branching ratio for $D_s^* \rightarrow D_s \pi^0$ can provide insight into the pattern of $SU(3)$ violation in radiative $D^*$ decays.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Jan 1994 01:32:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Cho", "Peter", "" ], [ "Wise", "Mark B.", "" ] ]
We calculate the rate for $D_s^* \rightarrow D_s \pi^0$ decay using Chiral Perturbation Theory. This isospin violating process results from $\pi^0$ - $\eta$ mixing, and its amplitude is proportional to $(m_d - m_u)/\bigl(m_s-(m_u+m_d)/2 \bigr)$. Experimental information on the branching ratio for $D_s^* \rightarrow D_s \pi^0$ can provide insight into the pattern of $SU(3)$ violation in radiative $D^*$ decays.
hep-ph/9711302
Thomas Hahn
A. Denner, T. Hahn
Radiative Corrections to W^+W^- \to W^+W^- in the Electroweak Standard Model
24 pages, LaTeX, uses axodraw, epsfig. Statement clarified
Nucl.Phys.B525:27-50,1998
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00287-9
PSI-PR-97-31, KA-TP-16-1997
hep-ph
null
The cross-section for W^+W^- \to W^+W^- with arbitrarily polarized W bosons is calculated within the Electroweak Standard Model including the complete virtual and soft-photonic O(alpha) corrections. We show the numerical importance of the radiative corrections for the dominating polarized cross-sections and for the unpolarized cross-section. The numerical accuracy of the equivalence theorem is investigated in O(alpha) by comparing the cross-section for purely longitudinal W bosons obtained from the equivalence theorem and from the direct calculation. We point out that the instability of the W boson, which is inherent in the one-loop corrections, prevents a consistent calculation of radiative corrections to the scattering of on-real-mass-shell longitudinal W bosons beyond O(alpha).
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:17:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:01:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Denner", "A.", "" ], [ "Hahn", "T.", "" ] ]
The cross-section for W^+W^- \to W^+W^- with arbitrarily polarized W bosons is calculated within the Electroweak Standard Model including the complete virtual and soft-photonic O(alpha) corrections. We show the numerical importance of the radiative corrections for the dominating polarized cross-sections and for the unpolarized cross-section. The numerical accuracy of the equivalence theorem is investigated in O(alpha) by comparing the cross-section for purely longitudinal W bosons obtained from the equivalence theorem and from the direct calculation. We point out that the instability of the W boson, which is inherent in the one-loop corrections, prevents a consistent calculation of radiative corrections to the scattering of on-real-mass-shell longitudinal W bosons beyond O(alpha).
1303.5696
Krzysztof Rolbiecki
Krzysztof Rolbiecki and Kazuki Sakurai
Light stops emerging in WW cross section measurements?
16 pages, 5 figures, minor revision, discussion of asymmetry expanded, to appear in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP09(2013)004
DESY-13-052
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent ATLAS and CMS measurements show a slight excess in the WW cross section measurement. While still consistent with the Standard Model within 1-2 sigma, the excess could be also a first hint of physics beyond the Standard Model. We argue that this effect could be attributed to the production of scalar top quarks within supersymmetric models. The stops of mstop_1 ~ 200 GeV has the right pair-production cross section and under some assumptions can significantly contribute to the final state of two leptons and missing energy. We scan this region of parameter space to identify stop mass range preferred by the WW cross section measurements. Taking one sample benchmark point we show that it can be consistent with low energy observables and Higgs sector measurements and propose a method to distinguish supersymmetric signal from the Standard Model contribution.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:33:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:12:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Rolbiecki", "Krzysztof", "" ], [ "Sakurai", "Kazuki", "" ] ]
Recent ATLAS and CMS measurements show a slight excess in the WW cross section measurement. While still consistent with the Standard Model within 1-2 sigma, the excess could be also a first hint of physics beyond the Standard Model. We argue that this effect could be attributed to the production of scalar top quarks within supersymmetric models. The stops of mstop_1 ~ 200 GeV has the right pair-production cross section and under some assumptions can significantly contribute to the final state of two leptons and missing energy. We scan this region of parameter space to identify stop mass range preferred by the WW cross section measurements. Taking one sample benchmark point we show that it can be consistent with low energy observables and Higgs sector measurements and propose a method to distinguish supersymmetric signal from the Standard Model contribution.
2008.10251
Javier Relancio
J.M. Carmona, J.L. Cort\'es, L. Pereira, J.J. Relancio
Bounds on Relativistic Deformed Kinematics from the Physics of the Universe Transparency
14 pages, paper published in Symmetry
Symmetry 2020, 12(8), 1298
10.3390/sym12081298
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze the kinematics of electron-positron production in a photon-photon interaction when one has a modification of the special relativistic kinematics as a power expansion in the inverse of a new high-energy scale. We derive the equation for the threshold energy of this reaction to first order in this expansion, including the effects due to a modification of the energy-momentum conservation equation. In contrast with the Lorentz invariance violation case, a scale of the order of a few TeV is found to be compatible with the observations of very high-energy cosmic gamma rays in the case of a modification compatible with the relativity principle.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Aug 2020 08:31:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-08-25
[ [ "Carmona", "J. M.", "" ], [ "Cortés", "J. L.", "" ], [ "Pereira", "L.", "" ], [ "Relancio", "J. J.", "" ] ]
We analyze the kinematics of electron-positron production in a photon-photon interaction when one has a modification of the special relativistic kinematics as a power expansion in the inverse of a new high-energy scale. We derive the equation for the threshold energy of this reaction to first order in this expansion, including the effects due to a modification of the energy-momentum conservation equation. In contrast with the Lorentz invariance violation case, a scale of the order of a few TeV is found to be compatible with the observations of very high-energy cosmic gamma rays in the case of a modification compatible with the relativity principle.
2101.09910
Chao Shi
Chao Shi, Ya-Ping Xie, Ming Li, Xurong Chen and Hong-Shi Zong
The light front wave functions and diffractive electroproduction of vector mesons
10 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L091902
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We determine the leading Fock-state light front wave functions (LF-LFWFs) of the $\rho$ and J/$\psi$ mesons, for the first time from the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations (DS-BSEs) approach. A unique advantage of this method is that it renders a direct extraction of LF-LFWFs in presence of a number of higher Fock-states. Modulated by the current quark mass and driven by the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB), we find the $\rho$ and $J/\psi$ LF-LFWFs different in profile, i.e., the former are broadly distributed in $x$ (the longitudinal light-cone momentum fraction of meson carried by quark) while the latter are narrow. Moreover, the $\rho$ LF-LFWFs contribute less than 50% to the total Fock-state normalization, suggesting considerable higher Fock-states in $\rho$. We then use these LF-LFWFs to study the diffractive $\rho$ and $J/\psi$ electroproduction within the dipole picture. The calculated cross section shows general agreement with HEAR data, except for growing discrepancy in $\rho$ production at low photon virtuality. Our work provides a first dipole picture analysis on diffractive $\rho$ electroproduction that confronts the parton nature of the light (anti)quarks.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jan 2021 06:37:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:55:17 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 2 May 2021 01:01:24 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-11-17
[ [ "Shi", "Chao", "" ], [ "Xie", "Ya-Ping", "" ], [ "Li", "Ming", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xurong", "" ], [ "Zong", "Hong-Shi", "" ] ]
We determine the leading Fock-state light front wave functions (LF-LFWFs) of the $\rho$ and J/$\psi$ mesons, for the first time from the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations (DS-BSEs) approach. A unique advantage of this method is that it renders a direct extraction of LF-LFWFs in presence of a number of higher Fock-states. Modulated by the current quark mass and driven by the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB), we find the $\rho$ and $J/\psi$ LF-LFWFs different in profile, i.e., the former are broadly distributed in $x$ (the longitudinal light-cone momentum fraction of meson carried by quark) while the latter are narrow. Moreover, the $\rho$ LF-LFWFs contribute less than 50% to the total Fock-state normalization, suggesting considerable higher Fock-states in $\rho$. We then use these LF-LFWFs to study the diffractive $\rho$ and $J/\psi$ electroproduction within the dipole picture. The calculated cross section shows general agreement with HEAR data, except for growing discrepancy in $\rho$ production at low photon virtuality. Our work provides a first dipole picture analysis on diffractive $\rho$ electroproduction that confronts the parton nature of the light (anti)quarks.
hep-ph/0408033
Harmen J. Warringa
Jens O. Andersen, Daniel Boer, Harmen J. Warringa
Thermodynamics of O(N) sigma models: 1/N corrections
11 pages, 5 figures, revtex
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 116007
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.116007
null
hep-ph
null
The thermodynamics of the O(N) linear and nonlinear sigma models in 3+1 dimensions is studied. We calculate the pressure to next-to-leading order in the 1/N expansion and show that at this order, temperature-independent renormalization is only possible at the minimum of the effective potential. The 1/N expansion is found to be a good expansion for N as low as 4, which is the case relevant for low-energy QCD phenomenology. We consider the cases with and without explicit symmetry breaking. We show that previous next-to-leading order calculations of the pressure are either breaking down in the temperatures of interest, or based on unjustifiable high-energy approximations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:09:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Andersen", "Jens O.", "" ], [ "Boer", "Daniel", "" ], [ "Warringa", "Harmen J.", "" ] ]
The thermodynamics of the O(N) linear and nonlinear sigma models in 3+1 dimensions is studied. We calculate the pressure to next-to-leading order in the 1/N expansion and show that at this order, temperature-independent renormalization is only possible at the minimum of the effective potential. The 1/N expansion is found to be a good expansion for N as low as 4, which is the case relevant for low-energy QCD phenomenology. We consider the cases with and without explicit symmetry breaking. We show that previous next-to-leading order calculations of the pressure are either breaking down in the temperatures of interest, or based on unjustifiable high-energy approximations.
1006.0131
Archil Kobakhidze
Robert Foot, Archil Kobakhidze and Raymond R. Volkas
Stable mass hierarchies and dark matter from hidden sectors in the scale-invariant standard model
v2: minor changes, reference added, published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D82:035005,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.035005
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Scale invariance may be a classical symmetry which is broken radiatively. This provides a simple way to stabilise the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking against radiative corrections. But for such a theory to be fully realistic, it must actually incorporate a hierarchy of scales, including the Planck and the neutrino mass scales in addition to the electroweak scale. The dark matter sector and the physics responsible for baryogenesis may or may not require new scales, depending on the scenario. We develop a generic way of using hidden sectors to construct a technically-natural hierarchy of scales in the framework of classically scale-invariant theories. We then apply the method to generate the Planck mass and to solve the neutrino mass and dark matter problems through what may be termed the "scale-invariant standard model". The model is perturbatively renormalisable for energy scales up to the Planck mass.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:34:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 7 Aug 2010 14:54:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-21
[ [ "Foot", "Robert", "" ], [ "Kobakhidze", "Archil", "" ], [ "Volkas", "Raymond R.", "" ] ]
Scale invariance may be a classical symmetry which is broken radiatively. This provides a simple way to stabilise the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking against radiative corrections. But for such a theory to be fully realistic, it must actually incorporate a hierarchy of scales, including the Planck and the neutrino mass scales in addition to the electroweak scale. The dark matter sector and the physics responsible for baryogenesis may or may not require new scales, depending on the scenario. We develop a generic way of using hidden sectors to construct a technically-natural hierarchy of scales in the framework of classically scale-invariant theories. We then apply the method to generate the Planck mass and to solve the neutrino mass and dark matter problems through what may be termed the "scale-invariant standard model". The model is perturbatively renormalisable for energy scales up to the Planck mass.
2201.03272
Alberto Lusiani
Alberto Lusiani
Updated determinations of |V$_{us}$| with tau decays using new recent estimates of radiative corrections for light-meson leptonic decay rates
Submission to SciPost, v2: added a reference, use now Proceedings SciPost document options; 5 pages including references, 1 figure, proceedings of "The 16th International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics (TAU2021) (Virtual Edition)", from September 27th to October 1st 2021, Indiana University
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We update the |V$_{us}$| determinations using the HFLAV 2018 report tau branching fraction results with recent new estimates of the $\pi\ell2$ and $K\ell2$ radiative corrections. There are minor changes of the central values and uncertainties.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:42:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:33:10 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-01-13
[ [ "Lusiani", "Alberto", "" ] ]
We update the |V$_{us}$| determinations using the HFLAV 2018 report tau branching fraction results with recent new estimates of the $\pi\ell2$ and $K\ell2$ radiative corrections. There are minor changes of the central values and uncertainties.
1107.4580
Adam Ritz
Patrick deNiverville, Maxim Pospelov, Adam Ritz
Observing a light dark matter beam with neutrino experiments
19 pages, 5 figures; v2: typos corrected, to appear in Phys. Rev. D; v3: note added clarifying the parameter range excluded by LSND
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.075020
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must annihilate via light mediators, which in turn provide an access portal for direct production in colliders or fixed targets. Indeed, this framework endows the neutrino beams produced at fixed-target facilities with a companion `dark matter beam', which may be detected via an excess of elastic scattering events off electrons or nuclei in the (near-)detector. We study the high luminosity proton fixed-target experiments at LSND and MiniBooNE, and determine that the ensuing sensitivity to light dark matter generally surpasses that of other direct probes. For scenarios with a kinetically-mixed U(1)' vector mediator of mass m_V, we find that a large volume of parameter space is excluded for m_DM ~ 1-5 MeV, covering vector masses 2 m_DM < m_V < m_eta and a range of kinetic mixing parameters reaching as low as kappa ~ 10^{-5}. The corresponding MeV-scale dark matter scenarios motivated by an explanation of the galactic 511 keV line are thus strongly constrained.
[ { "created": "Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:21:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 4 Oct 2011 21:35:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 14 Aug 2013 01:10:53 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-03-19
[ [ "deNiverville", "Patrick", "" ], [ "Pospelov", "Maxim", "" ], [ "Ritz", "Adam", "" ] ]
We consider the sensitivity of fixed-target neutrino experiments at the luminosity frontier to light stable states, such as those present in models of MeV-scale dark matter. To ensure the correct thermal relic abundance, such states must annihilate via light mediators, which in turn provide an access portal for direct production in colliders or fixed targets. Indeed, this framework endows the neutrino beams produced at fixed-target facilities with a companion `dark matter beam', which may be detected via an excess of elastic scattering events off electrons or nuclei in the (near-)detector. We study the high luminosity proton fixed-target experiments at LSND and MiniBooNE, and determine that the ensuing sensitivity to light dark matter generally surpasses that of other direct probes. For scenarios with a kinetically-mixed U(1)' vector mediator of mass m_V, we find that a large volume of parameter space is excluded for m_DM ~ 1-5 MeV, covering vector masses 2 m_DM < m_V < m_eta and a range of kinetic mixing parameters reaching as low as kappa ~ 10^{-5}. The corresponding MeV-scale dark matter scenarios motivated by an explanation of the galactic 511 keV line are thus strongly constrained.
1509.02929
Howard Baer
Howard Baer, Vernon Barger and Michael Savoy
Upper bounds on sparticle masses from naturalness or how to disprove weak scale supersymmetry
31 pages, 15 figures; version 3 includes dominant two-loop contributions to scalar potential which provide a bound on m(gluino) in the pMSSM
Phys. Rev. D 93, 035016 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.035016
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
While it is often stated that the notion of electroweak (EW) naturalness in supersymmetric models is subjective, fuzzy and model-dependent, here we argue the contrary: electroweak naturalness can be elevated to a {\it principle} which is both objective and predictive. We demonstrate visually when too much fine-tuning sets in at the electroweak scale which corresponds numerically to the measure \Delta_{BG}~\Delta_{EW}> 30. While many constrained SUSY models are already excluded by this value, we derive updated upper bounds on sparticle masses within the two-extra parameter non-universal Higgs model (NUHM2). We confirm the classic Barbieri-Giudice (BG) result that \Delta_{BG}<30 implies mu <350 GeV. However, by combining dependent soft terms which appear as multiples of m_{3/2} in supergravity models, then we obtain m(gluino)< 4 TeV as opposed to the BG result that m(gluino)<350 GeV. We compare the NUHM2 results to a similar scan in the pMSSM with 19 weak scale parameters. In the pMSSM with complete one-loop scalar potential plus dominant two-loop terms, then a m(gluino)<7 TeV bound is found. Our tabulation of upper bounds provides a target for experimenters seeking to discover or else falsify the existence of weak scale supersymmetry. In an Appendix, we show contributions to the naturalness measure from one-loop contributions to the weak scale scalar potential.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:16:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:36:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:18:44 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-02-24
[ [ "Baer", "Howard", "" ], [ "Barger", "Vernon", "" ], [ "Savoy", "Michael", "" ] ]
While it is often stated that the notion of electroweak (EW) naturalness in supersymmetric models is subjective, fuzzy and model-dependent, here we argue the contrary: electroweak naturalness can be elevated to a {\it principle} which is both objective and predictive. We demonstrate visually when too much fine-tuning sets in at the electroweak scale which corresponds numerically to the measure \Delta_{BG}~\Delta_{EW}> 30. While many constrained SUSY models are already excluded by this value, we derive updated upper bounds on sparticle masses within the two-extra parameter non-universal Higgs model (NUHM2). We confirm the classic Barbieri-Giudice (BG) result that \Delta_{BG}<30 implies mu <350 GeV. However, by combining dependent soft terms which appear as multiples of m_{3/2} in supergravity models, then we obtain m(gluino)< 4 TeV as opposed to the BG result that m(gluino)<350 GeV. We compare the NUHM2 results to a similar scan in the pMSSM with 19 weak scale parameters. In the pMSSM with complete one-loop scalar potential plus dominant two-loop terms, then a m(gluino)<7 TeV bound is found. Our tabulation of upper bounds provides a target for experimenters seeking to discover or else falsify the existence of weak scale supersymmetry. In an Appendix, we show contributions to the naturalness measure from one-loop contributions to the weak scale scalar potential.
2012.11621
Venus Keus
J. Hernandez-Sanchez, V. Keus, S. Moretti, D. Rojas-Ciofalo, D. Sokolowska
Complementary Probes of Two-component Dark Matter
50 pages, 16 figures
null
null
HIP-2020-35/TH, IIPDM-20
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study a $Z_2 \times Z'_2$ symmetric 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM), wherein two of the doublets are inert and one is active (thus denoted in literature as I(2+1)HDM), yielding a two-component Dark Matter (DM) sector. The two DM candidates emerge as the lightest scalar component of a different inert doublet, each with a different odd discrete parity, and cooperate to achieve the correct relic density. When a sufficient mass difference exists between the two DM candidates, it is possible to test the presence of both in present and/or forthcoming facilities, as the corresponding masses are typically at the electroweak scale. Specifically, the light DM component can be probed by the nuclear recoil energy in direct detection experiments while the heavy DM component appears through the photon flux in indirect detection experiments. In fact, the DM mass sensitivity that the two experimental set-ups can achieve should be adequate to establish the presence of two different DM signals. This result has been obtained in the presence of a thorough theoretical analysis of the stability conditions of the vacuum structure emerging from our I(2+1)HDM construct, ensuring that the model configurations adopted are physical, and of up-to-date constraints coming from data collected by both space and ground experiments, ensuring that the coupling and mass spectra investigated are viable phenomenologically.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Dec 2020 19:00:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-12-23
[ [ "Hernandez-Sanchez", "J.", "" ], [ "Keus", "V.", "" ], [ "Moretti", "S.", "" ], [ "Rojas-Ciofalo", "D.", "" ], [ "Sokolowska", "D.", "" ] ]
We study a $Z_2 \times Z'_2$ symmetric 3-Higgs Doublet Model (3HDM), wherein two of the doublets are inert and one is active (thus denoted in literature as I(2+1)HDM), yielding a two-component Dark Matter (DM) sector. The two DM candidates emerge as the lightest scalar component of a different inert doublet, each with a different odd discrete parity, and cooperate to achieve the correct relic density. When a sufficient mass difference exists between the two DM candidates, it is possible to test the presence of both in present and/or forthcoming facilities, as the corresponding masses are typically at the electroweak scale. Specifically, the light DM component can be probed by the nuclear recoil energy in direct detection experiments while the heavy DM component appears through the photon flux in indirect detection experiments. In fact, the DM mass sensitivity that the two experimental set-ups can achieve should be adequate to establish the presence of two different DM signals. This result has been obtained in the presence of a thorough theoretical analysis of the stability conditions of the vacuum structure emerging from our I(2+1)HDM construct, ensuring that the model configurations adopted are physical, and of up-to-date constraints coming from data collected by both space and ground experiments, ensuring that the coupling and mass spectra investigated are viable phenomenologically.
hep-ph/9411409
Peigne
R.Baier, Yu.L.Dokshitzer, S.Peign\'e, D.Schiff
Induced Gluon Radiation in a QCD Medium
13 pages, 3 included figures, latex file
Phys.Lett. B345 (1995) 277-286
10.1016/0370-2693(94)01617-L
LPTHE-Orsay 94-98, LU TP 94-21, BI-TP 94-57
hep-ph
null
Soft gluon radiation induced by multiple scattering of a fast quark or gluon propagating through QCD matter is discussed. After revisiting the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED we show that large formation times of bremsstrahlung quanta determine the QCD radiation intensity (in analogy to QED) and derive the gluon energy spectrum. Coherent suppression takes place as compared to the Bethe-Heitler situation of independent emissions. As a result the energy loss of fast partons in a QCD medium depends on the incident energy $E$ similarly to QED, $-dE/dz \propto \sqrt{E}$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 28 Nov 1994 18:14:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 30 Nov 1994 16:00:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Baier", "R.", "" ], [ "Dokshitzer", "Yu. L.", "" ], [ "Peigné", "S.", "" ], [ "Schiff", "D.", "" ] ]
Soft gluon radiation induced by multiple scattering of a fast quark or gluon propagating through QCD matter is discussed. After revisiting the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect in QED we show that large formation times of bremsstrahlung quanta determine the QCD radiation intensity (in analogy to QED) and derive the gluon energy spectrum. Coherent suppression takes place as compared to the Bethe-Heitler situation of independent emissions. As a result the energy loss of fast partons in a QCD medium depends on the incident energy $E$ similarly to QED, $-dE/dz \propto \sqrt{E}$.
hep-ph/9612218
C. S. Kim
C.S. Kim (KEK, Japan and Yonsei University, Korea)
Associate $J/\psi + \gamma$ Production: A Clean Probe of Unpolarized and Polarized Gluon Densities
25 pages, LaTeX. Lecture given at NuSS96 (August 1996)
null
null
KEK-TH-502
hep-ph
null
Color-octet contributions to the associate $J/\psi+\gamma$ production are found to be negligible, compared to the ordinary color-singlet contribution. Within the color-singlet model the $J/\psi+\gamma$ production in the leading order is possible only through gluon-gluon fusion process. Therefore, the associate $J/\psi+\gamma$ production remains to be useful as a clean channel to probe the unpolarized and polarized gluon distribution inside proton (and photon), and to study heavy quarkonia production mechanism. We discuss in detail the associate production of $J/\psi+\gamma$ at $p \overline{p}$ (or $pp$) and $ep$ colliders. By requiring the $J/\psi$ to decay into an $e^+e^-$ or $\mu^+ \mu^-$ pair, we end up with an exceptionally clean final state. This process can therefore serve as a very clean probe of the gluon densities inside the proton as well as the photon. Numerical results are presented for the TEVATRON $p \overline{p}$ and HERA $ep$ colliders. This same mechanism can be used to probe the polarized gluon content of the proton in polarized $p + p (\bar p)$ collisions. We study in detail $J/\psi + \gamma$ production at both polarized fixed target and polarized collider energies for RHIC.
[ { "created": "Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:46:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kim", "C. S.", "", "KEK, Japan and Yonsei University, Korea" ] ]
Color-octet contributions to the associate $J/\psi+\gamma$ production are found to be negligible, compared to the ordinary color-singlet contribution. Within the color-singlet model the $J/\psi+\gamma$ production in the leading order is possible only through gluon-gluon fusion process. Therefore, the associate $J/\psi+\gamma$ production remains to be useful as a clean channel to probe the unpolarized and polarized gluon distribution inside proton (and photon), and to study heavy quarkonia production mechanism. We discuss in detail the associate production of $J/\psi+\gamma$ at $p \overline{p}$ (or $pp$) and $ep$ colliders. By requiring the $J/\psi$ to decay into an $e^+e^-$ or $\mu^+ \mu^-$ pair, we end up with an exceptionally clean final state. This process can therefore serve as a very clean probe of the gluon densities inside the proton as well as the photon. Numerical results are presented for the TEVATRON $p \overline{p}$ and HERA $ep$ colliders. This same mechanism can be used to probe the polarized gluon content of the proton in polarized $p + p (\bar p)$ collisions. We study in detail $J/\psi + \gamma$ production at both polarized fixed target and polarized collider energies for RHIC.
hep-ph/9512322
Stefan Groote
J.G. K"orner
Lambda_b-Polarization from its Inclusive Semileptonic Decay
Lecture given at the conference "Production and Decay of Hyperons, Charm and Beauty Hadrons", Strassbourg, France, September 5-8, 1995; to appear in the Proceedings of this conference; 9 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures are included in uuencoded PostScript format; a new reference is added
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.50:130-134,1996
10.1016/0920-5632(96)00379-9
MZ-TH/95-33
hep-ph
null
We discuss the Lambda_b-polarization of the bottom baryon Lambda_b in its production and in its decay. Standard Model predictions for b-quark polarization on the Z-peak are reviewed, including beam-quark orientation effects and O(as) radiative corrections to the polarization. The b-quark polarization is expected to be handed over to the Lambda_b into which it fragments with a high degree of efficiency. We present several spin-momentum correlation measures of the spin of the \Lambda_b with the momenta of its decay products in its inclusive semileptonic decay. We estimate the strengths of the spin-momentum correlations in the Free Quark Decay (FQD) model and find that some of the measures provide good or very good analyzing power for measuring the polarization of the Lambda_b.
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:09:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:26:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-01-25
[ [ "K\"orner", "J. G.", "" ] ]
We discuss the Lambda_b-polarization of the bottom baryon Lambda_b in its production and in its decay. Standard Model predictions for b-quark polarization on the Z-peak are reviewed, including beam-quark orientation effects and O(as) radiative corrections to the polarization. The b-quark polarization is expected to be handed over to the Lambda_b into which it fragments with a high degree of efficiency. We present several spin-momentum correlation measures of the spin of the \Lambda_b with the momenta of its decay products in its inclusive semileptonic decay. We estimate the strengths of the spin-momentum correlations in the Free Quark Decay (FQD) model and find that some of the measures provide good or very good analyzing power for measuring the polarization of the Lambda_b.
hep-ph/0005157
Spencer Klein
Spencer R. Klein, Joakim Nystrand and Ramona Vogt
Photoproduction of top in peripheral heavy ion collisions
kinematics clarified (results unchanged); to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C 13 pages including 2 figures kinematics section clarified (results unchanged)
Eur.Phys.J.C21:563-566,2001
10.1007/s100520100739
LBNL-45743
hep-ph nucl-th
null
In relativistic heavy ion collisions, top quarks can be produced by photon-gluon fusion when a photon from the Weizs\"acker-Williams virtual photon field of one nucleus interacts with a gluon in the other nucleus. Photoproduction with heavy ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the first accessible non-hadronic top production channel. We calculate the $t \bar t$ photoproduction cross sections, pair mass and top quark rapidity distributions in peripheral heavy ion collisions. The cross sections are sensitive to the top quark charge and the large-$Q^2$ gluon distribution in the nucleus. We find a cross section of 94 pb in calcium-calcium collisions, leading to 190 pairs in a one month ($10^6$ sec) LHC run. We also find $p$Pb and $p$Ca cross sections of 5.8 and 3.4 pb respectively, resulting in 6 and 34 $t\bar t$ pairs per month.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 May 2000 21:45:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:39:55 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 9 Jul 2001 20:28:17 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-01-07
[ [ "Klein", "Spencer R.", "" ], [ "Nystrand", "Joakim", "" ], [ "Vogt", "Ramona", "" ] ]
In relativistic heavy ion collisions, top quarks can be produced by photon-gluon fusion when a photon from the Weizs\"acker-Williams virtual photon field of one nucleus interacts with a gluon in the other nucleus. Photoproduction with heavy ions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be the first accessible non-hadronic top production channel. We calculate the $t \bar t$ photoproduction cross sections, pair mass and top quark rapidity distributions in peripheral heavy ion collisions. The cross sections are sensitive to the top quark charge and the large-$Q^2$ gluon distribution in the nucleus. We find a cross section of 94 pb in calcium-calcium collisions, leading to 190 pairs in a one month ($10^6$ sec) LHC run. We also find $p$Pb and $p$Ca cross sections of 5.8 and 3.4 pb respectively, resulting in 6 and 34 $t\bar t$ pairs per month.
1207.7355
Michael Trott
Jos\'e R. Espinosa, Christophe Grojean, Ver\'onica Sanz and Michael Trott
NSUSY fits
41 pages, 13 figures. v3: final JHEP version, b to s gamma updated to latest data and typos corrected
JHEP12(2012)077
10.1007/JHEP12(2012)077
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We perform a global fit to Higgs signal-strength data in the context of light stops in Natural SUSY. In this case, the Wilson coefficients of the higher dimensional operators mediating g g -> h and h -> \gamma \gamma, given by c_g, c_\gamma, are related by c_g = 3 (1 + 3 \alpha_s/(2 \pi)) c_\gamma/8. We examine this predictive scenario in detail, combining Higgs signal-strength constraints with recent precision measurements of m_W, b-> s \gamma constraints and direct collider bounds on weak scale SUSY, finding regions of parameter space that are consistent with all of these constraints. However it is challenging for the allowed parameter space to reproduce the observed Higgs mass value with sub-TeV stops. We discuss some of the direct stop discovery prospects and show how global Higgs fits can be used to exclude light stop parameter space difficult to probe by direct collider searches. We determine the current status of such indirect exclusions and estimate their reach by the end of the 8 TeV LHC run.
[ { "created": "Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:54:38 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:21:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:47:27 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-05
[ [ "Espinosa", "José R.", "" ], [ "Grojean", "Christophe", "" ], [ "Sanz", "Verónica", "" ], [ "Trott", "Michael", "" ] ]
We perform a global fit to Higgs signal-strength data in the context of light stops in Natural SUSY. In this case, the Wilson coefficients of the higher dimensional operators mediating g g -> h and h -> \gamma \gamma, given by c_g, c_\gamma, are related by c_g = 3 (1 + 3 \alpha_s/(2 \pi)) c_\gamma/8. We examine this predictive scenario in detail, combining Higgs signal-strength constraints with recent precision measurements of m_W, b-> s \gamma constraints and direct collider bounds on weak scale SUSY, finding regions of parameter space that are consistent with all of these constraints. However it is challenging for the allowed parameter space to reproduce the observed Higgs mass value with sub-TeV stops. We discuss some of the direct stop discovery prospects and show how global Higgs fits can be used to exclude light stop parameter space difficult to probe by direct collider searches. We determine the current status of such indirect exclusions and estimate their reach by the end of the 8 TeV LHC run.
1506.07110
James Alexander Osborne
Yang Bai and James Osborne
Chromo-Rayleigh Interactions of Dark Matter
21 pages, 9 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
For a wide range of models, dark matter can interact with QCD gluons via chromo-Rayleigh interactions. We point out that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as a gluon machine, provides a superb probe of such interactions. In this paper, we introduce simplified models to UV-complete two effective dark matter chromo-Rayleigh interactions and identify the corresponding collider signatures, including four jets or a pair of di-jet resonances plus missing transverse energy. After performing collider studies for both the 8 TeV and 14 TeV LHC, we find that the LHC can be more sensitive to dark matter chromo-Rayleigh interactions than direct detection experiments and thus provides the best opportunity for future discovery of this class of models.
[ { "created": "Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:54:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-07-01
[ [ "Bai", "Yang", "" ], [ "Osborne", "James", "" ] ]
For a wide range of models, dark matter can interact with QCD gluons via chromo-Rayleigh interactions. We point out that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), as a gluon machine, provides a superb probe of such interactions. In this paper, we introduce simplified models to UV-complete two effective dark matter chromo-Rayleigh interactions and identify the corresponding collider signatures, including four jets or a pair of di-jet resonances plus missing transverse energy. After performing collider studies for both the 8 TeV and 14 TeV LHC, we find that the LHC can be more sensitive to dark matter chromo-Rayleigh interactions than direct detection experiments and thus provides the best opportunity for future discovery of this class of models.
2303.05599
Dana Avramescu
Dana Avramescu, Virgil B\u{a}ran, Vincenzo Greco, Andreas Ipp, David. I. M\"uller, Marco Ruggieri
Simulating jets and heavy quarks in the Glasma using the colored particle-in-cell method
30 pages, 15 figures; v2 added references, fixed typos v3 published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 107 (2023), 114021
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.114021
null
hep-ph hep-lat nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We explore the impact of strong classical color fields, which occur in the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions and are known as the Glasma, on the classical transport of hard probes, namely heavy quarks and jets. To achieve this, we simulate SU(3) color fields using classical real-time lattice gauge theory and couple them to an ensemble of test particles whose dynamics are described by Wong's equations. We provide an overview of how classical color algebras are constructed and introduce a method to generate random classical SU(3) color charges. We extensively test our numerical particle solver in the limits of infinitely massive heavy quarks and ultra-relativistic light-like jets and obtain excellent quantitative agreement with previous studies. Going towards realistic masses and initial moment, we extract longitudinal and transverse momentum broadening for heavy quarks and jets. The resulting accumulated momenta and the anisotropy of these dynamical hard probes exhibit deviations from limiting scenarios, showing that the full dynamics have a significant effect.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Mar 2023 21:49:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Apr 2023 07:44:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:49:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-07-18
[ [ "Avramescu", "Dana", "" ], [ "Băran", "Virgil", "" ], [ "Greco", "Vincenzo", "" ], [ "Ipp", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Müller", "David. I.", "" ], [ "Ruggieri", "Marco", "" ] ]
We explore the impact of strong classical color fields, which occur in the earliest stages of heavy-ion collisions and are known as the Glasma, on the classical transport of hard probes, namely heavy quarks and jets. To achieve this, we simulate SU(3) color fields using classical real-time lattice gauge theory and couple them to an ensemble of test particles whose dynamics are described by Wong's equations. We provide an overview of how classical color algebras are constructed and introduce a method to generate random classical SU(3) color charges. We extensively test our numerical particle solver in the limits of infinitely massive heavy quarks and ultra-relativistic light-like jets and obtain excellent quantitative agreement with previous studies. Going towards realistic masses and initial moment, we extract longitudinal and transverse momentum broadening for heavy quarks and jets. The resulting accumulated momenta and the anisotropy of these dynamical hard probes exhibit deviations from limiting scenarios, showing that the full dynamics have a significant effect.
1306.6725
Jialun Ping
Chengrong Deng, Jialun Ping, Youchang Yang, and Fan Wang
Baryonia and near-threshold enhancements
8 pages, 3 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.88.074007
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The baryon-antibaryon spectrum consisting of strange, charm and bottom quarks is studied in the color flux-tube model with a multi-body confinement interaction. Numerical results indicate that many low-spin baryon-antibaryon states can form compact hexaquark states and are stable against the decay into a baryon and an antibaryon. The multi-body confinement interaction as a binding mechanism plays an important role in the formation of the states. They can be searched in the $e^+e^-$ annihilation and charmonium or bottomonium decay if they really exist. The newly reported states, X(1835), X(2370), Y(2175), Y(4360) and Y_b(10890), may be interpreted as $N\bar{N}$, $\Delta\bar{\Delta}$, $\Lambda\bar{\Lambda}$, $\Lambda_c\bar{\Lambda}_c$ and $\Lambda_b\bar{\Lambda}_b$ states, respectively.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:20:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-16
[ [ "Deng", "Chengrong", "" ], [ "Ping", "Jialun", "" ], [ "Yang", "Youchang", "" ], [ "Wang", "Fan", "" ] ]
The baryon-antibaryon spectrum consisting of strange, charm and bottom quarks is studied in the color flux-tube model with a multi-body confinement interaction. Numerical results indicate that many low-spin baryon-antibaryon states can form compact hexaquark states and are stable against the decay into a baryon and an antibaryon. The multi-body confinement interaction as a binding mechanism plays an important role in the formation of the states. They can be searched in the $e^+e^-$ annihilation and charmonium or bottomonium decay if they really exist. The newly reported states, X(1835), X(2370), Y(2175), Y(4360) and Y_b(10890), may be interpreted as $N\bar{N}$, $\Delta\bar{\Delta}$, $\Lambda\bar{\Lambda}$, $\Lambda_c\bar{\Lambda}_c$ and $\Lambda_b\bar{\Lambda}_b$ states, respectively.
hep-ph/0405263
Willy Van Neerven wvn
V. Ravindran, J. Smith, W.L. van Neerven
NNLO Corrections to the Higgs Production Cross Section
6 pages, 5 figures, 7th DESY Workshop on Elementary Particle Theory, Loop and Legs in Quantum Field Theory,Zinnowitz, Germany, April 25-30, 2004
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.09.007
null
hep-ph
null
We discuss the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production. The computation is carried out in the effective Lagrangian approach which emerges from the standard model by taking the limit $m_t \to \infty$ where $m_t$ denotes the mass of the top quark.
[ { "created": "Wed, 26 May 2004 15:07:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Ravindran", "V.", "" ], [ "Smith", "J.", "" ], [ "van Neerven", "W. L.", "" ] ]
We discuss the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production. The computation is carried out in the effective Lagrangian approach which emerges from the standard model by taking the limit $m_t \to \infty$ where $m_t$ denotes the mass of the top quark.
hep-ph/0306169
Graeme Watt
G. Watt, A.D. Martin, M.G. Ryskin
Unintegrated parton distributions and inclusive jet production at HERA
32 pages, 11 figures. Version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C
Eur.Phys.J.C31:73-89,2003
10.1140/epjc/s2003-01320-4
IPPP-03-29, DCPT-03-58
hep-ph
null
We describe how unintegrated parton distributions can be calculated from conventional integrated distributions. We extend and improve the 'last-step' evolution approach, and explain why doubly-unintegrated parton distributions are necessary. We generalise k_t-factorisation to (z,k_t)-factorisation. We apply the formalism to inclusive jet production in deep-inelastic scattering, mainly at leading-order, but we also study the extension to next-to-leading order. We compare the predictions with recent HERA data.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:55:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:59:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Watt", "G.", "" ], [ "Martin", "A. D.", "" ], [ "Ryskin", "M. G.", "" ] ]
We describe how unintegrated parton distributions can be calculated from conventional integrated distributions. We extend and improve the 'last-step' evolution approach, and explain why doubly-unintegrated parton distributions are necessary. We generalise k_t-factorisation to (z,k_t)-factorisation. We apply the formalism to inclusive jet production in deep-inelastic scattering, mainly at leading-order, but we also study the extension to next-to-leading order. We compare the predictions with recent HERA data.
1105.3734
Christopher McCabe
Mads T. Frandsen, Felix Kahlhoefer, John March-Russell, Christopher McCabe, Matthew McCullough, Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
On the DAMA and CoGeNT Modulations
5 pages, 1 figure. v2 updated refs and CoGeNT data, confidence regions now shown at 95%
Phys.Rev.D84:041301,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.041301
OUTP-11-40-P
hep-ph astro-ph.HE hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
DAMA observes an annual modulation in their event rate, as might be expected from dark matter scatterings, while CoGeNT has reported evidence for a similar modulation. The simplest interpretation of these findings in terms of dark matter-nucleus scatterings is excluded by other direct detection experiments. We consider the robustness of these exclusions with respect to assumptions regarding the scattering and find that isospin-violating inelastic dark matter helps alleviate this tension and allows marginal compatibility between experiments. Isospin-violation can significantly weaken the XENON constraints, while inelasticity enhances the annual modulation fraction of the signal, bringing the CoGeNT and CDMS results into better agreement.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 May 2011 20:02:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:12:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-09-15
[ [ "Frandsen", "Mads T.", "" ], [ "Kahlhoefer", "Felix", "" ], [ "March-Russell", "John", "" ], [ "McCabe", "Christopher", "" ], [ "McCullough", "Matthew", "" ], [ "Schmidt-Hoberg", "Kai", "" ] ]
DAMA observes an annual modulation in their event rate, as might be expected from dark matter scatterings, while CoGeNT has reported evidence for a similar modulation. The simplest interpretation of these findings in terms of dark matter-nucleus scatterings is excluded by other direct detection experiments. We consider the robustness of these exclusions with respect to assumptions regarding the scattering and find that isospin-violating inelastic dark matter helps alleviate this tension and allows marginal compatibility between experiments. Isospin-violation can significantly weaken the XENON constraints, while inelasticity enhances the annual modulation fraction of the signal, bringing the CoGeNT and CDMS results into better agreement.
1304.5437
Marcin Badziak
Marcin Badziak, Marek Olechowski, Stefan Pokorski
New Regions in the NMSSM with a 125 GeV Higgs
19 pages, 5 figures, references added, version to be published
JHEP 06 (2013) 043
10.1007/JHEP06(2013)043
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It is pointed out that mixing effects in the CP-even scalar sector of the NMSSM can give 6-8 GeV correction to the SM-like Higgs mass in moderate or large $\tan\beta$ regions with a small value of the singlet-higgs-higgs superfields coupling $\lambda\sim\mathcal{O}(0.1)$. This effect comes mainly from the mixing of the SM-like Higgs with lighter singlet. In the same parameter range, the mixing of the heavy doublet Higgs with the singlet may strongly modify the couplings of the singlet-like and the 125 GeV scalars. Firstly, the LEP bounds on a light singlet can be evaded for a large range of its masses. Secondly, the decay rates of both scalars can show a variety of interesting patterns, depending on the lightest scalar mass. In particular, a striking signature of this mechanism can be a light scalar with strongly suppressed (enhanced) branching ratios to $b\bar{b}$ ($gg$, $c\bar{c}$, $\gamma\gamma$) as compared to the SM Higgs with the same mass. The $\gamma\gamma$ decay channel is particularly promising for the search of such a scalar at the LHC. The 125 GeV scalar can, thus, be accommodated with substantially smaller than in the MSSM radiative corrections from the stop loops (and consequently, with lighter stops) also for moderate or large $\tan\beta$, with the mixing effects replacing the standard NMSSM mechanism of increasing the tree level Higgs mass in the low $\tan\beta$ and large $\lambda$ regime, and with clear experimental signatures of such a mechanism.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:47:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:24:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-06-14
[ [ "Badziak", "Marcin", "" ], [ "Olechowski", "Marek", "" ], [ "Pokorski", "Stefan", "" ] ]
It is pointed out that mixing effects in the CP-even scalar sector of the NMSSM can give 6-8 GeV correction to the SM-like Higgs mass in moderate or large $\tan\beta$ regions with a small value of the singlet-higgs-higgs superfields coupling $\lambda\sim\mathcal{O}(0.1)$. This effect comes mainly from the mixing of the SM-like Higgs with lighter singlet. In the same parameter range, the mixing of the heavy doublet Higgs with the singlet may strongly modify the couplings of the singlet-like and the 125 GeV scalars. Firstly, the LEP bounds on a light singlet can be evaded for a large range of its masses. Secondly, the decay rates of both scalars can show a variety of interesting patterns, depending on the lightest scalar mass. In particular, a striking signature of this mechanism can be a light scalar with strongly suppressed (enhanced) branching ratios to $b\bar{b}$ ($gg$, $c\bar{c}$, $\gamma\gamma$) as compared to the SM Higgs with the same mass. The $\gamma\gamma$ decay channel is particularly promising for the search of such a scalar at the LHC. The 125 GeV scalar can, thus, be accommodated with substantially smaller than in the MSSM radiative corrections from the stop loops (and consequently, with lighter stops) also for moderate or large $\tan\beta$, with the mixing effects replacing the standard NMSSM mechanism of increasing the tree level Higgs mass in the low $\tan\beta$ and large $\lambda$ regime, and with clear experimental signatures of such a mechanism.
hep-ph/0310306
Alexander Kalloniatis
A.C. Kalloniatis (CSSM, Adelaide), S.N. Nedelko (JINR, Dubna and ITPIII, Erlangen)
Quark determinant in domain-like gluon fields
Contribution to the International Workshop on QCD: QCD@Work 2003 - Conversano (Italy) 14-18 June 2003 (eConf C030614)
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We address the computation of the determinant for the Dirac operator corresponding to a quark propagating in a background gluon field of the following type: the gauge field is covariantly constant and self-dual inside a hypersphere and with quark fields satisfying bag-like (chiral-violating) boundary conditions at the surface of the hypersphere. We find that the parity odd part of the logarithm of the determinant corresponds to the Abelian anomaly. However the parity even part also depends on the chiral angle associated with the boundary. This unexpected dependence is discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:57:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kalloniatis", "A. C.", "", "CSSM, Adelaide" ], [ "Nedelko", "S. N.", "", "JINR, Dubna and\n ITPIII, Erlangen" ] ]
We address the computation of the determinant for the Dirac operator corresponding to a quark propagating in a background gluon field of the following type: the gauge field is covariantly constant and self-dual inside a hypersphere and with quark fields satisfying bag-like (chiral-violating) boundary conditions at the surface of the hypersphere. We find that the parity odd part of the logarithm of the determinant corresponds to the Abelian anomaly. However the parity even part also depends on the chiral angle associated with the boundary. This unexpected dependence is discussed.
hep-ph/0607170
Fuminobu Takahashi
Motoi Endo, Masahiro Kawasaki, Fuminobu Takahashi, T. T. Yanagida
Inflaton Decay through Supergravity Effects
18 pages, 4 figures. v2: a version published in PLB
Phys.Lett. B642 (2006) 518-524
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.09.044
DESY 06-106
hep-ph astro-ph hep-th
null
We point out that supergravity effects enable the inflaton to decay into all matter fields, including the visible and the supersymmetry breaking sectors, once the inflaton acquires a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. The new decay processes have great impacts on cosmology; the reheating temperature is bounded below; the gravitinos are produced by the inflaton decay in a broad class of the dynamical supersymmetry breaking models. We derive the bounds on the inflaton mass and the vacuum expectation value, which severely constrain high-scale inflations such as the hybrid and chaotic inflation models.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:25:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:03:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Endo", "Motoi", "" ], [ "Kawasaki", "Masahiro", "" ], [ "Takahashi", "Fuminobu", "" ], [ "Yanagida", "T. T.", "" ] ]
We point out that supergravity effects enable the inflaton to decay into all matter fields, including the visible and the supersymmetry breaking sectors, once the inflaton acquires a non-vanishing vacuum expectation value. The new decay processes have great impacts on cosmology; the reheating temperature is bounded below; the gravitinos are produced by the inflaton decay in a broad class of the dynamical supersymmetry breaking models. We derive the bounds on the inflaton mass and the vacuum expectation value, which severely constrain high-scale inflations such as the hybrid and chaotic inflation models.
1004.0962
Stefano Forte
Federico Demartin, Stefano Forte, Elisa Mariani, Juan Rojo and Alessandro Vicini
The impact of PDF and alphas uncertainties on Higgs Production in gluon fusion at hadron colliders
29 pages, 13 figures
Phys.Rev.D82:014002,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.014002
IFUM-956-FT
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a systematic study of uncertainties due to parton distributions and the strong coupling on the gluon-fusion production cross section of the Standard Model Higgs at the Tevatron and LHC colliders. We compare procedures and results when three recent sets of PDFs are used, CTEQ6.6, MSTW08 and NNPDF1.2, and we discuss specifically the way PDF and strong coupling uncertainties are combined. We find that results obtained from different PDF sets are in reasonable agreement if a common value of the strong coupling is adopted. We show that the addition in quadrature of PDF and alphas uncertainties provides an adequate approximation to the full result with exact error propagation. We discuss a simple recipe to determine a conservative PDF+alphas uncertainty from available global parton sets, and we use it to estimate this uncertainty on the given process to be about 10% at the Tevatron and 5% at the LHC for a light Higgs.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:10:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Demartin", "Federico", "" ], [ "Forte", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Mariani", "Elisa", "" ], [ "Rojo", "Juan", "" ], [ "Vicini", "Alessandro", "" ] ]
We present a systematic study of uncertainties due to parton distributions and the strong coupling on the gluon-fusion production cross section of the Standard Model Higgs at the Tevatron and LHC colliders. We compare procedures and results when three recent sets of PDFs are used, CTEQ6.6, MSTW08 and NNPDF1.2, and we discuss specifically the way PDF and strong coupling uncertainties are combined. We find that results obtained from different PDF sets are in reasonable agreement if a common value of the strong coupling is adopted. We show that the addition in quadrature of PDF and alphas uncertainties provides an adequate approximation to the full result with exact error propagation. We discuss a simple recipe to determine a conservative PDF+alphas uncertainty from available global parton sets, and we use it to estimate this uncertainty on the given process to be about 10% at the Tevatron and 5% at the LHC for a light Higgs.
2010.11987
Evgenij Martynov
N. Bence, A. Lengyel, Z. Tarics, E. Martynov, G. Tersimonov
Froissaron and Maximal Odderon with spin-flip in $pp$ and $\bar pp$ high energy elastic scattering
10 pages, 7 figures. Typos, one reference and minor text corrections. One figure splited for two. Results and conclusions unchanged
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We assume that the scattering amplitude is represented by Froissaron, Maximal Odderon as well as by standard Regge poles. From the fit to the data of $pp$ and $\bar pp$ scattering at high energy and not too large momentum transfers we found that this model taking into account the spin is available to describe not only the differential, total cross section and $\rho$, but also the existing experimental data on polarization.
[ { "created": "Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:59:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:10:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-11-09
[ [ "Bence", "N.", "" ], [ "Lengyel", "A.", "" ], [ "Tarics", "Z.", "" ], [ "Martynov", "E.", "" ], [ "Tersimonov", "G.", "" ] ]
We assume that the scattering amplitude is represented by Froissaron, Maximal Odderon as well as by standard Regge poles. From the fit to the data of $pp$ and $\bar pp$ scattering at high energy and not too large momentum transfers we found that this model taking into account the spin is available to describe not only the differential, total cross section and $\rho$, but also the existing experimental data on polarization.
hep-ph/9311242
Paul B. Mackenzie
Paul B. Mackenzie
Status of Lattice QCD
20 pages, 8 embedded figures, uuencoded, 2 missing figures. (Talk presented at the Lepton-Photon Symposium, Cornell University, Aug. 10-15, 1993.)
null
10.1063/1.454670
null
hep-ph hep-lat
null
Significant progress has recently been achieved in the lattice gauge theory calculations required for extracting the fundamental parameters of the standard model from experiment. Recent lattice determinations of such quantities as the kaon $B$ parameter, the mass of the $b$ quark, and the strong coupling constant have produced results and uncertainties as good or better than the best conventional determinations. Many other calculations crucial to extracting the fundamental parameters of the standard model from experimental data are undergoing very active development. I review the status of such applications of lattice QCD to standard model phenomenology, and discuss the prospects for the near future.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Nov 1993 23:10:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Mackenzie", "Paul B.", "" ] ]
Significant progress has recently been achieved in the lattice gauge theory calculations required for extracting the fundamental parameters of the standard model from experiment. Recent lattice determinations of such quantities as the kaon $B$ parameter, the mass of the $b$ quark, and the strong coupling constant have produced results and uncertainties as good or better than the best conventional determinations. Many other calculations crucial to extracting the fundamental parameters of the standard model from experimental data are undergoing very active development. I review the status of such applications of lattice QCD to standard model phenomenology, and discuss the prospects for the near future.
2004.05354
Sang Hui Im
Kyu Jung Bae, Sang Hui Im
Supersymmetric Clockwork Axion Model and Axino Dark Matter
9 pages; v2: added comments about conditions to get the clockwork mixing pattern in page 5, matches the published version
Phys. Rev. D 102, 015011 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevD.102.015011
CTPU-PTC-20-08
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Implications of supersymmetrizing the clockwork axions are studied. Supersymmetry ensures that the saxions and axinos have the same pattern of the coupling hierarchy as the clockwork axions. If we assume supersymmetry breaking is universal over the clockwork sites, the coupling structure is preserved, while the mass orderings of the saxions and axinos can differ depending on the supersymmetry breaking scale. While the massive saxions and axions quickly decay, the lightest axino can be stable and thus a dark matter candidate. The relic abundance of the axino dark matter from thermal production is mostly determined by decays of the heavier axinos in the normal mass ordering. This exponentially enhances the thermal yield compared to the conventional axino scenarios. Some cosmological issues are discussed.
[ { "created": "Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:50:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:03:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-07-21
[ [ "Bae", "Kyu Jung", "" ], [ "Im", "Sang Hui", "" ] ]
Implications of supersymmetrizing the clockwork axions are studied. Supersymmetry ensures that the saxions and axinos have the same pattern of the coupling hierarchy as the clockwork axions. If we assume supersymmetry breaking is universal over the clockwork sites, the coupling structure is preserved, while the mass orderings of the saxions and axinos can differ depending on the supersymmetry breaking scale. While the massive saxions and axions quickly decay, the lightest axino can be stable and thus a dark matter candidate. The relic abundance of the axino dark matter from thermal production is mostly determined by decays of the heavier axinos in the normal mass ordering. This exponentially enhances the thermal yield compared to the conventional axino scenarios. Some cosmological issues are discussed.
hep-ph/9602275
Kevin Anderson
K.D. Anderson, D.A. Ross, M.G. Sotiropoulos
How to Run the Coupling in the Dipole Approach to the BFKL Equation
10 pages, latex, 1 figure, included. LaTeX2e compatibility problems fixed: no changes in contents
Phys.Lett. B380 (1996) 127-133
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00487-X
SHEP 96-06, February 1996
hep-ph
null
We use the dipole expansion to provide a systematic way of including the running coupling into the BFKL equation. In terms of a Borel representation, we obtain an expression for the kernel of the BFKL equation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:38:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:48:53 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Anderson", "K. D.", "" ], [ "Ross", "D. A.", "" ], [ "Sotiropoulos", "M. G.", "" ] ]
We use the dipole expansion to provide a systematic way of including the running coupling into the BFKL equation. In terms of a Borel representation, we obtain an expression for the kernel of the BFKL equation.
hep-ph/0611115
Giuseppe Marchesini
Giuseppe Marchesini
QCD Review
Plenary talk at 33rd International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 06), Moscow, Russia, July 26 - August 2, 2006
Int.J.Mod.Phys.A22:5443-5452,2007
10.1142/S0217751X07038700
null
hep-ph
null
This review is focused on QCD theoretical issues and their phenomenological relevance specially for LHC. It is incomplete and mostly neglects the phenomenology of long distance physics
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:11:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Marchesini", "Giuseppe", "" ] ]
This review is focused on QCD theoretical issues and their phenomenological relevance specially for LHC. It is incomplete and mostly neglects the phenomenology of long distance physics
hep-ph/0208102
Gilad Perez
Gilad Perez
Lepton Masses and Mixing in a Left-Right Symmetric Model with a TeV-scale Gravity
21 pages, 1 figure, references added, discussion on the predictiveness of the model in the generic non-universal case added, to appear in PRD
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 013009
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.013009
null
hep-ph
null
We construct a left-right symmetric (LRS) model in five dimensions which accounts naturally for the lepton flavor parameters. The fifth dimension is described by an orbifold, S_1/Z_2 times Z'_2, with a typical size of order TeV^{-1}. The fundamental scale is of order 25 TeV which implies that the gauge hierarchy problem is ameliorated. In addition the LRS breaking scale is of order few TeV which implies that interactions beyond those of the standard model are accessible to near future experiments. Leptons of different representations are localized around different orbifold fixed points. This explains, through the Arkani-Hamed-Schmaltz mechanism, the smallness of the tau mass compared to the electroweak breaking scale. An additional U(1) horizontal symmetry, broken by small parameters, yields the hierarchy in the charged lepton masses, strong suppression of the light neutrino masses and accounts for the mixing parameters. The model yields several unique predictions. In particular, the branching ratio for the lepton flavor violating process mu^- --> e^+ e^- e^- is comparable with its present experimental sensitivity.
[ { "created": "Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:04:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 10 Nov 2002 07:39:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Perez", "Gilad", "" ] ]
We construct a left-right symmetric (LRS) model in five dimensions which accounts naturally for the lepton flavor parameters. The fifth dimension is described by an orbifold, S_1/Z_2 times Z'_2, with a typical size of order TeV^{-1}. The fundamental scale is of order 25 TeV which implies that the gauge hierarchy problem is ameliorated. In addition the LRS breaking scale is of order few TeV which implies that interactions beyond those of the standard model are accessible to near future experiments. Leptons of different representations are localized around different orbifold fixed points. This explains, through the Arkani-Hamed-Schmaltz mechanism, the smallness of the tau mass compared to the electroweak breaking scale. An additional U(1) horizontal symmetry, broken by small parameters, yields the hierarchy in the charged lepton masses, strong suppression of the light neutrino masses and accounts for the mixing parameters. The model yields several unique predictions. In particular, the branching ratio for the lepton flavor violating process mu^- --> e^+ e^- e^- is comparable with its present experimental sensitivity.
hep-ph/9605275
null
L. E. Gordon (ANL), J. K. Storrow (Manchester)
Prompt Photon Production in $\gamma \gamma$ Collisions and the Gluon Content of the Photon
19 pages, requires epsf.tex
Phys.Lett.B385:385-390,1996
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00877-5
ANL-HEP-PR-96-32, MC-TH-96/15
hep-ph
null
We calculate the cross section for inclusive prompt photon production in $\gamma\gamma$ collisions, i.e. the reaction $e^+e^-\to \gamma \gamma \to \gamma X$, in next-to-leading order QCD. We show that at LEP2 energies this cross section is measurable and is sensitive to the gluon distribution of the photon, $g^{\gamma}$, which is currently very poorly constrained by data.
[ { "created": "Fri, 10 May 1996 15:09:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Gordon", "L. E.", "", "ANL" ], [ "Storrow", "J. K.", "", "Manchester" ] ]
We calculate the cross section for inclusive prompt photon production in $\gamma\gamma$ collisions, i.e. the reaction $e^+e^-\to \gamma \gamma \to \gamma X$, in next-to-leading order QCD. We show that at LEP2 energies this cross section is measurable and is sensitive to the gluon distribution of the photon, $g^{\gamma}$, which is currently very poorly constrained by data.
2102.07124
George Lazarides Prof.
George Lazarides, Qaisar Shafi
Electroweak monopoles and magnetic dumbbells in grand unified theories
5 pages, version published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 103, 095021 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.095021
UT-STPD-21/02
hep-ph hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We use the $SU(5)$ model to show the presence in grand unified theories of an electroweak monopole and a magnetic dumbbell ("meson") made up of a monopole-antimonopole pair connected by a $Z$-magnetic flux tube. The monopole is associated with the spontaneous breaking of the weak $SU(2)_L$ gauge symmetry by the induced vacuum expectation value of a heavy scalar $SU(2)_L$ triplet with zero weak hypercharge contained in the adjoint Higgs 24-plet. This monopole carries a Coulomb magnetic charge of $(3/4) (2\pi/e)$ as well as $Z$-magnetic charge, where $2\pi/e$ denotes the unit Dirac magnetic charge. Its total magnetic charge is $\sqrt{3/8}(4\pi/e)$, which is in agreement with the Dirac quantization condition. The monopole weighs about 700 GeV, but because of the attached $Z$-magnetic tube it exists, together with the antimonopole, in a magnetic dumbbell configuration whose mass is expected to lie in the TeV range. The presence of these topological structures in $SU(5)$ and $SO(10)$ and in their supersymmetric extensions provides an exciting new avenue for testing these theories in high-energy colliders.
[ { "created": "Sun, 14 Feb 2021 10:36:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 13 May 2021 06:43:26 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 21 May 2021 17:51:04 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-05-26
[ [ "Lazarides", "George", "" ], [ "Shafi", "Qaisar", "" ] ]
We use the $SU(5)$ model to show the presence in grand unified theories of an electroweak monopole and a magnetic dumbbell ("meson") made up of a monopole-antimonopole pair connected by a $Z$-magnetic flux tube. The monopole is associated with the spontaneous breaking of the weak $SU(2)_L$ gauge symmetry by the induced vacuum expectation value of a heavy scalar $SU(2)_L$ triplet with zero weak hypercharge contained in the adjoint Higgs 24-plet. This monopole carries a Coulomb magnetic charge of $(3/4) (2\pi/e)$ as well as $Z$-magnetic charge, where $2\pi/e$ denotes the unit Dirac magnetic charge. Its total magnetic charge is $\sqrt{3/8}(4\pi/e)$, which is in agreement with the Dirac quantization condition. The monopole weighs about 700 GeV, but because of the attached $Z$-magnetic tube it exists, together with the antimonopole, in a magnetic dumbbell configuration whose mass is expected to lie in the TeV range. The presence of these topological structures in $SU(5)$ and $SO(10)$ and in their supersymmetric extensions provides an exciting new avenue for testing these theories in high-energy colliders.
1612.00012
James Alexander Osborne
Yang Bai, Sida Lu, and James Osborne
Beauty-full Tetraquarks
5 pages, 3 figures. v2: References added
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134930
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this article we present a calculation of the $bb\bar{b}\bar{b}$ tetraquark ground-state energy using a diffusion Monte Carlo method to solve the non-relativistic many-body system. The static potential for the four quark system is chosen to align with the flux-tube picture of QCD. Using this approach, we find that the $0^{++}$ state has a mass of $18.69\pm 0.03~\mbox{GeV}$, which is around 100 MeV below twice the $\eta_b$ mass. This bound state can behave as a four-lepton resonance via its decay to $\Upsilon(1S) \Upsilon(1S)^* \rightarrow \ell^+ \ell^- \ell^+ \ell^-$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Dec 2016 20:29:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-09-18
[ [ "Bai", "Yang", "" ], [ "Lu", "Sida", "" ], [ "Osborne", "James", "" ] ]
In this article we present a calculation of the $bb\bar{b}\bar{b}$ tetraquark ground-state energy using a diffusion Monte Carlo method to solve the non-relativistic many-body system. The static potential for the four quark system is chosen to align with the flux-tube picture of QCD. Using this approach, we find that the $0^{++}$ state has a mass of $18.69\pm 0.03~\mbox{GeV}$, which is around 100 MeV below twice the $\eta_b$ mass. This bound state can behave as a four-lepton resonance via its decay to $\Upsilon(1S) \Upsilon(1S)^* \rightarrow \ell^+ \ell^- \ell^+ \ell^-$.
1711.01855
Michal Krelina
Jan Cepila, Jesus Guillermo Contreras, Michal Krelina
Coherent and incoherent $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ photonuclear production in an energy-dependent hot-spot model
null
Phys. Rev. C 97, 024901 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevC.97.024901
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In a previous publication, we have presented a model for the photoproduction of $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ vector mesons off protons, where the proton structure in the impact-parameter plane is described by an energy-dependent hot-spot profile. Here we extend this model to study the photonuclear production of $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ vector mesons in coherent and incoherent interactions of heavy nuclei. We study two methods to extend the model to the nuclear case: using the standard Glauber-Gribov formalism and using geometric scaling to obtain the nuclear saturation scale. We find that the incoherent cross section changes sizably with the inclusion of subnucleonic hot spots, and that this change is energy dependent. We propose to search for this behavior by measuring the ratio of the incoherent to coherent cross section at different energies. We compare the results of our model to results from RHIC and from the Run 1 at the LHC finding a satisfactory agreement. We also present predictions for the LHC at the new energies reached in Run 2. The predictions include $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ production in ultra-peripheral collisions, as well as the recently observed photonuclear production in peripheral collisions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Nov 2017 12:23:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:14:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-02-28
[ [ "Cepila", "Jan", "" ], [ "Contreras", "Jesus Guillermo", "" ], [ "Krelina", "Michal", "" ] ]
In a previous publication, we have presented a model for the photoproduction of $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ vector mesons off protons, where the proton structure in the impact-parameter plane is described by an energy-dependent hot-spot profile. Here we extend this model to study the photonuclear production of $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ vector mesons in coherent and incoherent interactions of heavy nuclei. We study two methods to extend the model to the nuclear case: using the standard Glauber-Gribov formalism and using geometric scaling to obtain the nuclear saturation scale. We find that the incoherent cross section changes sizably with the inclusion of subnucleonic hot spots, and that this change is energy dependent. We propose to search for this behavior by measuring the ratio of the incoherent to coherent cross section at different energies. We compare the results of our model to results from RHIC and from the Run 1 at the LHC finding a satisfactory agreement. We also present predictions for the LHC at the new energies reached in Run 2. The predictions include $\mathrm{J/}\psi$ production in ultra-peripheral collisions, as well as the recently observed photonuclear production in peripheral collisions.
1712.03425
M. Naeem Anwar
Muhammad Naeem Anwar, Yu Lu, Bing-Song Zou
Heavy Quark Spin Symmetry Violating Hadronic Transitions of Higher Charmonia
Proceedings of the talk presented at "XVII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure (Hadron2017)", 25-29 September 2017, Salamanca, Spain
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In heavy quarkonia, hadronic transitions serve as an enlightened probe for the structure and help to establish the understanding of light quark coupling with a heavy degree of freedom. Moreover, in recent years, hadronic transitions revealed remarkable discoveries to identify the new conventional heavy quarkonia and extracting useful information about the so called "XYZ" exotic states. In this contribution, we present our predictions for heavy quark spin symmetry (HQSS) breaking hadronic transitions of higher $S$ and $D$ wave vector charmonia based on our recently proposed model (inspired by Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model) to create light meson(s) in heavy quarkonium transitions. We also suggest spectroscopic quantum numbers $(^{2S+1}L_J)$ for several observed charmoniumlike states. Our analysis indicates that the $Y(4360)$ is most likely to be a $3D$ dominant state.
[ { "created": "Sat, 9 Dec 2017 19:13:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-12-12
[ [ "Anwar", "Muhammad Naeem", "" ], [ "Lu", "Yu", "" ], [ "Zou", "Bing-Song", "" ] ]
In heavy quarkonia, hadronic transitions serve as an enlightened probe for the structure and help to establish the understanding of light quark coupling with a heavy degree of freedom. Moreover, in recent years, hadronic transitions revealed remarkable discoveries to identify the new conventional heavy quarkonia and extracting useful information about the so called "XYZ" exotic states. In this contribution, we present our predictions for heavy quark spin symmetry (HQSS) breaking hadronic transitions of higher $S$ and $D$ wave vector charmonia based on our recently proposed model (inspired by Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model) to create light meson(s) in heavy quarkonium transitions. We also suggest spectroscopic quantum numbers $(^{2S+1}L_J)$ for several observed charmoniumlike states. Our analysis indicates that the $Y(4360)$ is most likely to be a $3D$ dominant state.
hep-ph/0202153
Andrei Belitsky
A.V. Belitsky, T.D. Cohen
The large-N(c) nuclear potential puzzle
17 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures
Phys.Rev. C65 (2002) 064008
10.1103/PhysRevC.65.064008
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
An analysis of the baryon-baryon potential from the point of view of large-N(c) QCD is performed. A comparison is made between the N(c)-scaling behavior directly obtained from an analysis at the quark-gluon level to the N(c)-scaling of the potential for a generic hadronic field theory in which it arises via meson exchanges and for which the parameters of the theory are given by their canonical large-N(c) scaling behavior. The purpose of this comparison is to use large-N(c) consistency to test the widespread view that the interaction between nuclei arises from QCD through the exchange of mesons. Although at the one- and two-meson exchange level the scaling rules for the potential derived from the hadronic theory matches the quark-gluon level prediction, at the three- and higher-meson exchange level a generic hadronic theory yields a potential which scales with N(c) faster than that of the quark-gluon theory.
[ { "created": "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:37:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Belitsky", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Cohen", "T. D.", "" ] ]
An analysis of the baryon-baryon potential from the point of view of large-N(c) QCD is performed. A comparison is made between the N(c)-scaling behavior directly obtained from an analysis at the quark-gluon level to the N(c)-scaling of the potential for a generic hadronic field theory in which it arises via meson exchanges and for which the parameters of the theory are given by their canonical large-N(c) scaling behavior. The purpose of this comparison is to use large-N(c) consistency to test the widespread view that the interaction between nuclei arises from QCD through the exchange of mesons. Although at the one- and two-meson exchange level the scaling rules for the potential derived from the hadronic theory matches the quark-gluon level prediction, at the three- and higher-meson exchange level a generic hadronic theory yields a potential which scales with N(c) faster than that of the quark-gluon theory.
2208.11399
Matteo Maria Defranchis
Matteo M. Defranchis, Jan Kieseler, Katerina Lipka, Javier Mazzitelli
Running of the top quark mass at NNLO in QCD
null
null
null
MPP-2022-110
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The running of the top quark mass ($m_\mathrm{t}$) is probed at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) for the first time. The result is obtained by comparing calculations in the modified minimal subtraction ($\mathrm{\bar{MS}}$) renormalisation scheme to a differential measurement of the top quark-antiquark ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) production cross section at $\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV}$. The scale dependence of $m_\mathrm{t}$ is extracted as a function of the invariant mass of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ system, up to an energy scale of about $0.5~\mathrm{TeV}$. The observed running is found to be in good agreement with the three-loop solution of the QCD renormalisation group equations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:40:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-08-25
[ [ "Defranchis", "Matteo M.", "" ], [ "Kieseler", "Jan", "" ], [ "Lipka", "Katerina", "" ], [ "Mazzitelli", "Javier", "" ] ]
The running of the top quark mass ($m_\mathrm{t}$) is probed at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) for the first time. The result is obtained by comparing calculations in the modified minimal subtraction ($\mathrm{\bar{MS}}$) renormalisation scheme to a differential measurement of the top quark-antiquark ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$) production cross section at $\sqrt{s} = 13~\mathrm{TeV}$. The scale dependence of $m_\mathrm{t}$ is extracted as a function of the invariant mass of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ system, up to an energy scale of about $0.5~\mathrm{TeV}$. The observed running is found to be in good agreement with the three-loop solution of the QCD renormalisation group equations.
1705.03696
Kin-ya Oda
Ryusuke Jinno, Kunio Kaneta, and Kin-ya Oda
Hillclimbing Higgs inflation
5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table (v1); published version, references and footnotes added (v2)
Phys. Rev. D 97, 023523 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.023523
CTPU-17-18, OU-HET/935
hep-ph astro-ph.CO gr-qc hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hillclimbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 May 2017 10:51:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 Jul 2018 04:20:39 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-07-06
[ [ "Jinno", "Ryusuke", "" ], [ "Kaneta", "Kunio", "" ], [ "Oda", "Kin-ya", "" ] ]
We propose a realization of cosmic inflation with the Higgs field when the Higgs potential has degenerate vacua by employing the recently proposed idea of hillclimbing inflation. The resultant inflationary predictions exhibit a sizable deviation from those of the ordinary Higgs inflation.
1111.5475
Michael Buballa
J. Wambach, K. Heckmann and M. Buballa
Transport Properties of Strong-Interaction Matter
8 pages, 4 figures, presented at the HIC for FAIR Workshop and XXVIII Max Born Symposium "Three days on Quarkyonic Island", Wroclaw, May 19-21, 2011; v2: conversion to Pa in fig. 2 corrected
null
10.1063/1.3700682
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The properties of strong-interaction matter are probed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In the context of measurements of the elliptic flow at RHIC and the LHC the shear viscosity is of particular interest. In this presentation we discuss recent results for eta/s in hadronic matter at vanishing baryo-chemical potential within kinetic theory. Using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, special attention is paid to effects arising from the restoration of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry with increasing temperature.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:36:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:41:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Wambach", "J.", "" ], [ "Heckmann", "K.", "" ], [ "Buballa", "M.", "" ] ]
The properties of strong-interaction matter are probed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In the context of measurements of the elliptic flow at RHIC and the LHC the shear viscosity is of particular interest. In this presentation we discuss recent results for eta/s in hadronic matter at vanishing baryo-chemical potential within kinetic theory. Using the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, special attention is paid to effects arising from the restoration of spontaneously broken chiral symmetry with increasing temperature.
1512.05100
Stanley J. Brodsky
Stanley J. Brodsky
Novel Perspectives from Light-Front QCD, Superconformal Algebra, and Light-Front Holography
To appear in the Proceedings of the 18th Bled workshop "What Comes Beyond the Standard Models", Bled, Slovenia, July 11-19, 2015. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1511.04142
null
null
SLAC-PUB-16432
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Light-Front Quantization -- Dirac's "Front Form" -- provides a physical, frame-independent formalism for hadron dynamics and structure. Observables such as structure functions, transverse momentum distributions, and distribution amplitudes are defined from the hadronic LFWFs. One obtains new insights into the hadronic mass scale, the hadronic spectrum, and the functional form of the QCD running coupling in the nonperturbative domain using light-front holography. In addition, superconformal algebra leads to remarkable supersymmetric relations between mesons and baryons. I also discuss evidence that the antishadowing of nuclear structure functions is non-universal, i.e., flavor dependent, and why shadowing and antishadowing phenomena may be incompatible with the momentum and other sum rules for the nuclear parton distribution functions.
[ { "created": "Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:34:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 18 Dec 2015 22:42:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-12-22
[ [ "Brodsky", "Stanley J.", "" ] ]
Light-Front Quantization -- Dirac's "Front Form" -- provides a physical, frame-independent formalism for hadron dynamics and structure. Observables such as structure functions, transverse momentum distributions, and distribution amplitudes are defined from the hadronic LFWFs. One obtains new insights into the hadronic mass scale, the hadronic spectrum, and the functional form of the QCD running coupling in the nonperturbative domain using light-front holography. In addition, superconformal algebra leads to remarkable supersymmetric relations between mesons and baryons. I also discuss evidence that the antishadowing of nuclear structure functions is non-universal, i.e., flavor dependent, and why shadowing and antishadowing phenomena may be incompatible with the momentum and other sum rules for the nuclear parton distribution functions.
1612.07958
S. Ganesh
S. Ganesh, Captain R. Singh and M. Mishra
$\psi(2S)$ enhancement in p-Pb collision as an indication of QGP formation at the LHC
17 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physics G
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 45, 035003 (2018)
10.1088/1361-6471/aaa46a
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Proton-nucleus collisions serve as an important baseline for the understanding and interpretation of the nucleus-nucleus collisions. These collisions have been employed to characterize the cold nuclear matter effects at SPS and RHIC energies for the past several years, as it was thought that Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is not formed in such collisions. However, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), there seems a possibility that QGP is formed during proton-lead (p$-$Pb) collisions. In this work, we have derived an expression for gluon induced excitation of $J/\psi$ to $\psi(2S)$, using pNRQCD, and show that the relative enhancement of $\psi(2S)$ vis a vis $J/\psi$, especially at high $p_T$, gives further indication that the QGP is indeed formed in p$-$Pb collisions at the most central collisions at LHC energy. $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ suppression effects seen at ALICE are also qualitatively explained.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:03:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Jan 2018 03:57:34 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-02-06
[ [ "Ganesh", "S.", "" ], [ "Singh", "Captain R.", "" ], [ "Mishra", "M.", "" ] ]
Proton-nucleus collisions serve as an important baseline for the understanding and interpretation of the nucleus-nucleus collisions. These collisions have been employed to characterize the cold nuclear matter effects at SPS and RHIC energies for the past several years, as it was thought that Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is not formed in such collisions. However, at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), there seems a possibility that QGP is formed during proton-lead (p$-$Pb) collisions. In this work, we have derived an expression for gluon induced excitation of $J/\psi$ to $\psi(2S)$, using pNRQCD, and show that the relative enhancement of $\psi(2S)$ vis a vis $J/\psi$, especially at high $p_T$, gives further indication that the QGP is indeed formed in p$-$Pb collisions at the most central collisions at LHC energy. $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ suppression effects seen at ALICE are also qualitatively explained.
2107.11613
Muhammad Waqas
M. Waqas, G.X Peng, Z. Wazir, Hailing Lao
Analysis of kinetic freeze out temperature and transverse flow velocity in nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions at same center of mass energy
null
Int. j. of mod phys. Vol. 30, 2150061, 2021
10.1142/S0218301321500610
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Transverse momentum spectra of different types of identified charged particles in central Gold-Gold (Au-Au) collisions, and inelastic (INEL) or non-single-diffrative (NSD) proton-proton (pp) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as well as in central and peripheral Lead-Lead (Pb-Pb) collisions, and INEL or NSD pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analyzed by the blast wave model with Tsallis statistics. The model results are approximately in agreement with the experimental data measured by STAR, PHENIX and ALICE Collaborations in special transverse momentum ranges. Kinetic freeze out temperature and transverse flow velocity are extracted from the transverse momentum spectra of the particles. It is shown that kinetic freeze out temperature of the emission source depends on mass of the particles, which reveals the mass differential kinetic freeze out scenario in collisions at RHIC and LHC. Furthermore, the kinetic freeze out temperature and transverse flow velocity in central nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions are larger than in peripheral collisions, and both of them are slightly larger in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions or almost equivalent to that in pp proton-proton collisions at the same center of mass energy which shows their similar thermodynamic nature.
[ { "created": "Sat, 24 Jul 2021 14:03:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-10-04
[ [ "Waqas", "M.", "" ], [ "Peng", "G. X", "" ], [ "Wazir", "Z.", "" ], [ "Lao", "Hailing", "" ] ]
Transverse momentum spectra of different types of identified charged particles in central Gold-Gold (Au-Au) collisions, and inelastic (INEL) or non-single-diffrative (NSD) proton-proton (pp) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as well as in central and peripheral Lead-Lead (Pb-Pb) collisions, and INEL or NSD pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analyzed by the blast wave model with Tsallis statistics. The model results are approximately in agreement with the experimental data measured by STAR, PHENIX and ALICE Collaborations in special transverse momentum ranges. Kinetic freeze out temperature and transverse flow velocity are extracted from the transverse momentum spectra of the particles. It is shown that kinetic freeze out temperature of the emission source depends on mass of the particles, which reveals the mass differential kinetic freeze out scenario in collisions at RHIC and LHC. Furthermore, the kinetic freeze out temperature and transverse flow velocity in central nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions are larger than in peripheral collisions, and both of them are slightly larger in peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions or almost equivalent to that in pp proton-proton collisions at the same center of mass energy which shows their similar thermodynamic nature.
1210.7975
Rafael Cerezo
Rafael Cerezo, Jo\~ao G. Rosa
Warm Inflection
12 pages, 5 figures. References added. Published version JHEP
JHEP01(2013)024
10.1007/JHEP01(2013)024
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
While ubiquitous in supersymmetric and string theory models, inflationary scenarios near an inflection point in the scalar potential generically require a severe fine-tuning of a priori unrelated supersymmetry breaking effects. We show that this can be significantly alleviated by the inclusion of dissipative effects that damp the inflaton's motion and produce a nearly-thermal radiation bath. We focus on the case where the slow-rolling inflaton directly excites heavy virtual modes that then decay into light degrees of freedom, although our main qualitative results should apply in other regimes. Furthermore, our analysis shows that the minimum amount of dissipation required to keep the temperature of the radiation bath above the Hubble rate during inflation is largely independent of the degree of flatness of the potential, although it depends on the field value at the inflection point. We then discuss the relevance of this result to warm inflation model building.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:11:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:42:39 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-01-15
[ [ "Cerezo", "Rafael", "" ], [ "Rosa", "João G.", "" ] ]
While ubiquitous in supersymmetric and string theory models, inflationary scenarios near an inflection point in the scalar potential generically require a severe fine-tuning of a priori unrelated supersymmetry breaking effects. We show that this can be significantly alleviated by the inclusion of dissipative effects that damp the inflaton's motion and produce a nearly-thermal radiation bath. We focus on the case where the slow-rolling inflaton directly excites heavy virtual modes that then decay into light degrees of freedom, although our main qualitative results should apply in other regimes. Furthermore, our analysis shows that the minimum amount of dissipation required to keep the temperature of the radiation bath above the Hubble rate during inflation is largely independent of the degree of flatness of the potential, although it depends on the field value at the inflection point. We then discuss the relevance of this result to warm inflation model building.
1006.2245
Debasish Borah
Debasish Borah, Sudhanwa Patra and Utpal Sarkar
TeV scale Left Right Symmetry with spontaneous D-parity breaking
26 pages, 3 figures, Journal Version
Phys.Rev.D83:035007,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.83.035007
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The different scenarios of spontaneous breaking of D-parity have been studied in both non-supersymmetric and supersymmetric version of the left-right symmetric models(LRSM). We explore the possibility of a TeV scale $SU(2)_R$ breaking scale $M_R$ and hence TeV scale right handed neutrinos from both minimization of the scalar potential as well as the coupling constant unification point of view. We show that although minimization of the scalar potential allows the possibility of a TeV scale $M_R$ and tiny neutrino masses in LRSM with spontaneous D-parity breaking, the gauge coupling unification at a high scale $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV does not favour a TeV scale symmetry breaking except in the supersymmetric left-right (SUSYLR) model with Higgs doublet and bidoublet. The phenomenology of neutrino mass is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:58:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:49:16 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-02-22
[ [ "Borah", "Debasish", "" ], [ "Patra", "Sudhanwa", "" ], [ "Sarkar", "Utpal", "" ] ]
The different scenarios of spontaneous breaking of D-parity have been studied in both non-supersymmetric and supersymmetric version of the left-right symmetric models(LRSM). We explore the possibility of a TeV scale $SU(2)_R$ breaking scale $M_R$ and hence TeV scale right handed neutrinos from both minimization of the scalar potential as well as the coupling constant unification point of view. We show that although minimization of the scalar potential allows the possibility of a TeV scale $M_R$ and tiny neutrino masses in LRSM with spontaneous D-parity breaking, the gauge coupling unification at a high scale $\sim 10^{16}$ GeV does not favour a TeV scale symmetry breaking except in the supersymmetric left-right (SUSYLR) model with Higgs doublet and bidoublet. The phenomenology of neutrino mass is also discussed.
1409.4915
Robert Foot
Robert Foot, Archil Kobakhidze and Alexander Spencer-Smith
Criticality in the scale invariant standard model (squared)
About 7 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider first the standard model Lagrangian with $\mu_h^2$ Higgs potential term set to zero. We point out that this clasically scale invariant theory potentially exhibits radiative electroweak/scale symmetry breaking with very high vacuum expectation value (VEV) for the Higgs field, $< \phi > \approx 10^{17-18}$ GeV. Furthermore, if such a vacuum were realized then cancellation of vacuum energy automatically implies that this nontrivial vacuum is degenerate with the trivial unbroken vacuum. Such a theory would therefore be critical with the Higgs self-coupling and its beta function nearly vanishing at the symmetry breaking minimum, $\lambda (\mu=< \phi >)\approx \beta_{\lambda} (\mu=< \phi >)\approx 0$. A phenomenologically viable model that predicts this criticality property arises if we consider two copies of the standard model Lagrangian, with exact $Z_2$ symmetry swapping each ordinary particle with a partner. The spontaneously broken vacuum can then arise where one sector gains the high scale VEV, while the other gains the electroweak scale VEV. The low scale VEV is perturbed away from zero due to a Higgs portal coupling, or via the usual small Higgs mass terms $\mu_h^2$, which softly break the scale invariance. In either case, the cancellation of vacuum energy requires $M_t = (171.53 \pm 0.42)$ GeV, which is close to its measured value of $(173.34 \pm 0.76)$ GeV.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:30:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-09-18
[ [ "Foot", "Robert", "" ], [ "Kobakhidze", "Archil", "" ], [ "Spencer-Smith", "Alexander", "" ] ]
We consider first the standard model Lagrangian with $\mu_h^2$ Higgs potential term set to zero. We point out that this clasically scale invariant theory potentially exhibits radiative electroweak/scale symmetry breaking with very high vacuum expectation value (VEV) for the Higgs field, $< \phi > \approx 10^{17-18}$ GeV. Furthermore, if such a vacuum were realized then cancellation of vacuum energy automatically implies that this nontrivial vacuum is degenerate with the trivial unbroken vacuum. Such a theory would therefore be critical with the Higgs self-coupling and its beta function nearly vanishing at the symmetry breaking minimum, $\lambda (\mu=< \phi >)\approx \beta_{\lambda} (\mu=< \phi >)\approx 0$. A phenomenologically viable model that predicts this criticality property arises if we consider two copies of the standard model Lagrangian, with exact $Z_2$ symmetry swapping each ordinary particle with a partner. The spontaneously broken vacuum can then arise where one sector gains the high scale VEV, while the other gains the electroweak scale VEV. The low scale VEV is perturbed away from zero due to a Higgs portal coupling, or via the usual small Higgs mass terms $\mu_h^2$, which softly break the scale invariance. In either case, the cancellation of vacuum energy requires $M_t = (171.53 \pm 0.42)$ GeV, which is close to its measured value of $(173.34 \pm 0.76)$ GeV.
hep-ph/0111127
Stanley J. Brodsky
S. J. Brodsky
Perspectives and Challenges for QCD Phenomenology
Invited talk presented at the APS / DPF / DPB Summer Study On The Future Of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), 30 Jun - 21 Jul 2001, Snowmass, Colorado, and the 6th LNF Spring School 'Bruno Touschek' In Nuclear, Subnuclear And Astroparticle Physics, 28 May - 2 Jun 2001, Frascati, Italy
eConf C010630:E211,2001
null
SLAC-PUB-9022
hep-ph
null
A fundamental understanding of quantum chromodynamics, particularly at the amplitude level, is essential for progress in high energy physics. For example, the measurement and interpretation of the basic parameters of the electroweak theory and CP violation depends on an understanding of the dynamics and phase structure of exclusive B-meson decay amplitudes. In this review, I discuss a number of ways in which the required hadron wavefunctions can be measured (such as two-photon reactions and diffractive dissociation) or calculated from first principles. An important tool for describing relativistic composite systems in quantum field theory is the light-front Fock expansion, which encodes the properties of a hadrons in terms of a set of frame-independent n-particle wavefunctions. Evolution in light-cone time allows the construction of an "event amplitude generator" in which only non-ghost physical degrees of freedom and integration over physical phase appear. The diffractive dissociation of a hadron at high energies, by either Coulomb or Pomeron exchange, has a natural description in QCD as the materialization of the projectile's light-cone wavefunctions; in particular, the diffractive dissociation of a meson, baryon, or photon into high transverse momentum jets measures the shape and other features of the projectile's distribution amplitude. I also review recent work which shows that the structure functions measured in deep inelastic lepton scattering are affected by final-state rescattering, thus modifying their connection with the light-cone probability distributions. In particular, the shadowing of nuclear structure functions is due to destructive interference effects from leading-twist diffraction of the virtual photon, physics not included in the nuclear light-cone wavefunctions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:43:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-11
[ [ "Brodsky", "S. J.", "" ] ]
A fundamental understanding of quantum chromodynamics, particularly at the amplitude level, is essential for progress in high energy physics. For example, the measurement and interpretation of the basic parameters of the electroweak theory and CP violation depends on an understanding of the dynamics and phase structure of exclusive B-meson decay amplitudes. In this review, I discuss a number of ways in which the required hadron wavefunctions can be measured (such as two-photon reactions and diffractive dissociation) or calculated from first principles. An important tool for describing relativistic composite systems in quantum field theory is the light-front Fock expansion, which encodes the properties of a hadrons in terms of a set of frame-independent n-particle wavefunctions. Evolution in light-cone time allows the construction of an "event amplitude generator" in which only non-ghost physical degrees of freedom and integration over physical phase appear. The diffractive dissociation of a hadron at high energies, by either Coulomb or Pomeron exchange, has a natural description in QCD as the materialization of the projectile's light-cone wavefunctions; in particular, the diffractive dissociation of a meson, baryon, or photon into high transverse momentum jets measures the shape and other features of the projectile's distribution amplitude. I also review recent work which shows that the structure functions measured in deep inelastic lepton scattering are affected by final-state rescattering, thus modifying their connection with the light-cone probability distributions. In particular, the shadowing of nuclear structure functions is due to destructive interference effects from leading-twist diffraction of the virtual photon, physics not included in the nuclear light-cone wavefunctions.
hep-ph/0504264
Jacob Linder
J. Linder
Neutrino matter potentials induced by Earth
8 pages, 0 figures. Pedagogical derivation for students
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
An instructive method of deriving the matter potentials felt by neutrinos propagating through matter on Earth is presented. This paper thoroughly guides the reader through the calculations involving the effective weak Hamiltonian for lepton and quark scattering. The matter potentials are well-known results since the late 70's, but a detailed and pedagogical calculation of these quantities is hard to find. We derive potentials due to charged and neutral current scattering on electrons, neutrons and protons. Intended readership is for undergraduates/graduates in the fields of relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. In addition to the derivation of the potentials for neutrinos, we explicitely study the origin of the reversed sign for potentials in the case of antineutrino-scattering.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:53:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 May 2005 15:05:01 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 12 Jun 2005 19:52:01 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:04:00 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Linder", "J.", "" ] ]
An instructive method of deriving the matter potentials felt by neutrinos propagating through matter on Earth is presented. This paper thoroughly guides the reader through the calculations involving the effective weak Hamiltonian for lepton and quark scattering. The matter potentials are well-known results since the late 70's, but a detailed and pedagogical calculation of these quantities is hard to find. We derive potentials due to charged and neutral current scattering on electrons, neutrons and protons. Intended readership is for undergraduates/graduates in the fields of relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. In addition to the derivation of the potentials for neutrinos, we explicitely study the origin of the reversed sign for potentials in the case of antineutrino-scattering.
1106.6177
Boglione Mariaelena
M. Boglione, S. Melis, A. Prokudin
Partonic Transverse Motion in Unpolarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering Processes
19 pages, 15 figures
Phys.Rev.D84:034033,2011
10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034033
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyse the role of partonic transverse motion in unpolarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) processes. Imposing appropriate kinematical conditions, we find some constraints which fix an upper limit to the range of allowed k_perp values. We show that, applying these additional requirements on the partonic kinematics, we obtain different results with respect to the usual phenomenological approach based on the Gaussian smearing with analytical integration over an unlimited range of k_perp values. These variations are particularly interesting for some observables, like the < cos phi_h > azimuthal modulation of the unpolarized SIDIS cross section or the average transverse momentum of the final, detected hadron.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:28:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-09-14
[ [ "Boglione", "M.", "" ], [ "Melis", "S.", "" ], [ "Prokudin", "A.", "" ] ]
We analyse the role of partonic transverse motion in unpolarized Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (SIDIS) processes. Imposing appropriate kinematical conditions, we find some constraints which fix an upper limit to the range of allowed k_perp values. We show that, applying these additional requirements on the partonic kinematics, we obtain different results with respect to the usual phenomenological approach based on the Gaussian smearing with analytical integration over an unlimited range of k_perp values. These variations are particularly interesting for some observables, like the < cos phi_h > azimuthal modulation of the unpolarized SIDIS cross section or the average transverse momentum of the final, detected hadron.
hep-ph/0002213
Sven Heinemeyer
S. Heinemeyer, W. Hollik, G. Weiglein
FeynHiggsFast: a program for a fast calculation of masses and mixing angles in the Higgs Sector of the MSSM
10 pages, 6 figures. Extended version of the contribution to the Report of the HIGGS working group for the Workshop ``Physics at TeV Colliders'' Les Houches, France, June 1999
null
null
CERN-TH/2000-55, DESY 00-020, KA-TP-3-2000
hep-ph
null
FeynHiggsFast is a Fortran code for the calculation of the masses and the mixing angle of the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons in the MSSM up to two-loop order. It is based on a compact analytical approximation formula of the complete diagrammatic one-loop and the dominant two-loop contributions. At the one-loop level a leading logarithmic result is used, taking into account all sectors of the MSSM. At the two-loop level at O(alpha alpha_s) the leading logarithmic and non-logarithmic contributions are taken into account. The approximation formula is valid for arbitrary choices of the parameters in the Higgs sector of the model. Comparing its quality to the full diagrammatic result, we find agreement better than 2 GeV for most parts of the MSSM parameter space.
[ { "created": "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 14:19:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Heinemeyer", "S.", "" ], [ "Hollik", "W.", "" ], [ "Weiglein", "G.", "" ] ]
FeynHiggsFast is a Fortran code for the calculation of the masses and the mixing angle of the neutral CP-even Higgs bosons in the MSSM up to two-loop order. It is based on a compact analytical approximation formula of the complete diagrammatic one-loop and the dominant two-loop contributions. At the one-loop level a leading logarithmic result is used, taking into account all sectors of the MSSM. At the two-loop level at O(alpha alpha_s) the leading logarithmic and non-logarithmic contributions are taken into account. The approximation formula is valid for arbitrary choices of the parameters in the Higgs sector of the model. Comparing its quality to the full diagrammatic result, we find agreement better than 2 GeV for most parts of the MSSM parameter space.
2009.00356
Arjun Berera
Arjun Berera
Quantum coherence to interstellar distances
In Press Physical Review D 2020
null
null
null
hep-ph astro-ph.GA quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Quantum coherence could be sustained up to interstellar distances. It is shown that the photon mean free path in certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as within the radio or x-ray ranges, could allow sustaining of the quantum state of a photon up to galactic distances. Therefore processes involving quantum entanglement, such as quantum teleportation, could be realized over very long distances in the Milky Way or other galaxies. This is of fundamental interest and offers a new direction in the role of quantum mechanics. Some limited applications of this observation are discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Sep 2020 11:23:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2020-09-04
[ [ "Berera", "Arjun", "" ] ]
Quantum coherence could be sustained up to interstellar distances. It is shown that the photon mean free path in certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as within the radio or x-ray ranges, could allow sustaining of the quantum state of a photon up to galactic distances. Therefore processes involving quantum entanglement, such as quantum teleportation, could be realized over very long distances in the Milky Way or other galaxies. This is of fundamental interest and offers a new direction in the role of quantum mechanics. Some limited applications of this observation are discussed.
hep-ph/9911384
Jose Kenichi Mizukoshi
J. K. Mizukoshi
The Paradox of Charmonium Production
14 pages, 6 figures, RevTeX, Minor Changes, One Ref. Added
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The CDF preliminary analysis on polarized charmonium production at moderate transverse momentum, $p_T \sim 4 - 20$ GeV, severely challenges the color octet model (COM), which predicts quarkonium to be transversely polarized with increasing $p_T$. Based on this data, we analyze the compatibility of the Tevatron and the photoproduction at HERA in the context of the COM. Due to the uncertainty on the extraction of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) matrix elements and a lack of complete next-to-leading order calculations, one cannot completely rule out the COM. Nonetheless, both collider experiments seem to push the input matrix elements to opposite directions, and the puzzle of quarkonium polarization remains unsolved.
[ { "created": "Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:10:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:22:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mizukoshi", "J. K.", "" ] ]
The CDF preliminary analysis on polarized charmonium production at moderate transverse momentum, $p_T \sim 4 - 20$ GeV, severely challenges the color octet model (COM), which predicts quarkonium to be transversely polarized with increasing $p_T$. Based on this data, we analyze the compatibility of the Tevatron and the photoproduction at HERA in the context of the COM. Due to the uncertainty on the extraction of non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) matrix elements and a lack of complete next-to-leading order calculations, one cannot completely rule out the COM. Nonetheless, both collider experiments seem to push the input matrix elements to opposite directions, and the puzzle of quarkonium polarization remains unsolved.
2108.11493
Craig Roberts
Zhu-Fang Cui, Fei Gao, Daniele Binosi, Lei Chang, Craig D. Roberts and Sebastian M. Schmidt
Valence quark ratio in the proton
6 pages, 3 figures
Chin. Phys. Lett. Express 39 (04) (2022) 041401/1-5
10.1088/0256-307X/39/4/041401
NJU-INP 049/21
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Beginning with precise data on the ratio of structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from $^3$He and $^3$H, collected on the domain $0.19 \leq x_B \leq 0.83$, where $x_B$ is the Bjorken scaling variable, we employ a robust method for extrapolating such data to arrive at a model-independent result for the $x_B=1$ value of the ratio of neutron and proton structure functions. Combining this with information obtained in analyses of DIS from nuclei, corrected for target-structure dependence, we arrive at a prediction for the proton's valence-quark ratio: $\left. d_v/u_v \right|_{x_B\to 1} = 0.230 (57)$. Requiring consistency with this result presents a challenge to many descriptions of proton structure.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:09:33 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 May 2022 03:39:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-05-27
[ [ "Cui", "Zhu-Fang", "" ], [ "Gao", "Fei", "" ], [ "Binosi", "Daniele", "" ], [ "Chang", "Lei", "" ], [ "Roberts", "Craig D.", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Sebastian M.", "" ] ]
Beginning with precise data on the ratio of structure functions in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) from $^3$He and $^3$H, collected on the domain $0.19 \leq x_B \leq 0.83$, where $x_B$ is the Bjorken scaling variable, we employ a robust method for extrapolating such data to arrive at a model-independent result for the $x_B=1$ value of the ratio of neutron and proton structure functions. Combining this with information obtained in analyses of DIS from nuclei, corrected for target-structure dependence, we arrive at a prediction for the proton's valence-quark ratio: $\left. d_v/u_v \right|_{x_B\to 1} = 0.230 (57)$. Requiring consistency with this result presents a challenge to many descriptions of proton structure.
0710.0978
Leonid Glozman
L. Ya. Glozman
QCD symmetries in excited hadrons
10 pp, Invited talk at MENU 2007, September 10 - 14, 2007, Juelich, Germany
ECONFC070910:140,2007
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat hep-th nucl-th
null
Recent developments for chiral and $U(1)_A$ restorations in excited hadrons are reviewed. We emphasize predictions of the chiral symmetry restoration scenario for axial charges and couplings to Goldstone bosons. Using very general chiral symmetry arguments it is shown that strict chiral restoration in a given excited nucleon forbids its decay into the $N \pi$ channel. We confront this prediction with the $N^*N\pi$ coupling constants extracted from the decay widths and observe a 100 % correlation of these data with the spectroscopic parity doublet patterns. These results suggest that the lowest approximate chiral parity doublet is the $N(1440) - N(1535)$ pair. In the meson sector we discuss predictions of the chiral symmetry restoration for still missing states and a signature of the higher symmetry observed in new $\bar p p$ data. We conclude with the exactly solvable chirally symmetric and confining model that can be considered as a generalization of the 1+1 dimensional 't Hooft model to 4 dimensions. Complete spectra of $\bar q q$ mesons demonstrate a fast chiral restoration with increasing $J$ and a slow one with increasing $n$.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:55:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Glozman", "L. Ya.", "" ] ]
Recent developments for chiral and $U(1)_A$ restorations in excited hadrons are reviewed. We emphasize predictions of the chiral symmetry restoration scenario for axial charges and couplings to Goldstone bosons. Using very general chiral symmetry arguments it is shown that strict chiral restoration in a given excited nucleon forbids its decay into the $N \pi$ channel. We confront this prediction with the $N^*N\pi$ coupling constants extracted from the decay widths and observe a 100 % correlation of these data with the spectroscopic parity doublet patterns. These results suggest that the lowest approximate chiral parity doublet is the $N(1440) - N(1535)$ pair. In the meson sector we discuss predictions of the chiral symmetry restoration for still missing states and a signature of the higher symmetry observed in new $\bar p p$ data. We conclude with the exactly solvable chirally symmetric and confining model that can be considered as a generalization of the 1+1 dimensional 't Hooft model to 4 dimensions. Complete spectra of $\bar q q$ mesons demonstrate a fast chiral restoration with increasing $J$ and a slow one with increasing $n$.
2107.11405
Daneng Yang
Haipeng An, Zhen Hu, Zhen Liu, Daneng Yang
Exploring Uncharted Soft Displaced Vertices in Open Data
18 pages, 12 figures
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hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
A cluster of soft displaced tracks corresponds to the dark matter co-annihilation regime. The long-lived regime is, in particular, motivated by the unexplored top partner physics. The background in this regime is extremely challenging to model using a traditional simulation method. We demonstrate the feasibility of handling the formidable background using the CMS Open Data. We perform this analysis to search for compressed and long-lived top partners in the 8 TeV CMS Open Data events with the integrated luminosity of 11.6 fb$^{-1}$ and obtain new limits. With 15-30 GeV mass splitting between the top partner and the DM candidate, we exclude the top partner mass below 350 GeV, which is more stringent than the ATLAS and CMS results using 8 TeV data with 20 fb$^{-1}$ luminosity. Our study also shows that the CMS Open Data can be a powerful tool to help physicists explore non-conventional new physics and even enable deriving new limits on exotic signals from data directly.
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2021-07-27
[ [ "An", "Haipeng", "" ], [ "Hu", "Zhen", "" ], [ "Liu", "Zhen", "" ], [ "Yang", "Daneng", "" ] ]
A cluster of soft displaced tracks corresponds to the dark matter co-annihilation regime. The long-lived regime is, in particular, motivated by the unexplored top partner physics. The background in this regime is extremely challenging to model using a traditional simulation method. We demonstrate the feasibility of handling the formidable background using the CMS Open Data. We perform this analysis to search for compressed and long-lived top partners in the 8 TeV CMS Open Data events with the integrated luminosity of 11.6 fb$^{-1}$ and obtain new limits. With 15-30 GeV mass splitting between the top partner and the DM candidate, we exclude the top partner mass below 350 GeV, which is more stringent than the ATLAS and CMS results using 8 TeV data with 20 fb$^{-1}$ luminosity. Our study also shows that the CMS Open Data can be a powerful tool to help physicists explore non-conventional new physics and even enable deriving new limits on exotic signals from data directly.