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hep-ph/9507369
Jutta Kunz
Guido Nolte, Jutta Kunz and Burkhard Kleihaus
Nondegenerate Fermions in the Background of the Sphaleron Barrier
LATEX, 20 pages, 11 figures
Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 3451-3459
10.1103/PhysRevD.53.3451
null
hep-ph
null
We consider level crossing in the background of the sphaleron barrier for nondegenerate fermions. The mass splitting within the fermion doublets allows only for an axially symmetric ansatz for the fermion fields. In the background of the sphaleron we solve the partial differential equations for the fermion functions. We find little angular dependence for our choice of ansatz. We therefore propose a good approximate ansatz with radial functions only. We generalize this approximate ansatz with radial functions only to fermions in the background of the sphaleron barrier and argue, that it is a good approximation there, too.
[ { "created": "Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:30:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Nolte", "Guido", "" ], [ "Kunz", "Jutta", "" ], [ "Kleihaus", "Burkhard", "" ] ]
We consider level crossing in the background of the sphaleron barrier for nondegenerate fermions. The mass splitting within the fermion doublets allows only for an axially symmetric ansatz for the fermion fields. In the background of the sphaleron we solve the partial differential equations for the fermion functions. We find little angular dependence for our choice of ansatz. We therefore propose a good approximate ansatz with radial functions only. We generalize this approximate ansatz with radial functions only to fermions in the background of the sphaleron barrier and argue, that it is a good approximation there, too.
hep-ph/0510021
Marc Knecht
Karol Kampf, Marc Knecht (CPT), Jiri Novotny
The Dalitz decay pi0 -> e+ e- gamma revisited
null
Eur.Phys.J.C46:191-217,2006
10.1140/epjc/s2005-02466-7
CPT-2004/P.081
hep-ph
null
The amplitude of the Dalitz decay pi0 -> e+ e gamma is studied and its model-independent properties are discussed in detail. A calculation of radiative corrections is performed within the framework of two-flavour chiral perturbation theory, enlarged by virtual photons and leptons. The lowest meson dominance approximation, motivated by large N\_C considerations, is used for the description of the pi0 - gamma* - gamma* transition form factor and for the estimate of the NLO low energy constants involved in the analysis. The two photon reducible contributions is included and discussed. Previous calculations are extended to the whole kinematical range of the soft-photon approximation, thus allowing for the possibility to consider various experimental situations and observables.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:25:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-01-07
[ [ "Kampf", "Karol", "", "CPT" ], [ "Knecht", "Marc", "", "CPT" ], [ "Novotny", "Jiri", "" ] ]
The amplitude of the Dalitz decay pi0 -> e+ e gamma is studied and its model-independent properties are discussed in detail. A calculation of radiative corrections is performed within the framework of two-flavour chiral perturbation theory, enlarged by virtual photons and leptons. The lowest meson dominance approximation, motivated by large N\_C considerations, is used for the description of the pi0 - gamma* - gamma* transition form factor and for the estimate of the NLO low energy constants involved in the analysis. The two photon reducible contributions is included and discussed. Previous calculations are extended to the whole kinematical range of the soft-photon approximation, thus allowing for the possibility to consider various experimental situations and observables.
2401.10301
Bodo Lampe
Bodo Lampe
Determination of quark and lepton masses and mixings in the microscopic model
Contribution to the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2023), 21-25 August 2023, Hamburg. Part of the contribution recapitulates results of my earlier original work
Proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, PoS(EPS-HEP2023), 449 (2024) 373
10.22323/1.449.0373
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Recently, formulas for the mixing matrices of quarks and leptons have been put forward. My contribution here describes the relevant foundational and technical aspects which have led to those results. The work has been carried out in the framework of the microscopic model. The most general ansatz for the interactions among tetrons leads to a Hamiltonian H involving Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM), Heisenberg and torsional isospin forces. Diagonalization of the Hamiltonian provides for 24 eigenvalues which are identified as the quark and lepton masses. While the masses of the third and second family arise from DM and Heisenberg type of isospin interactions, light family masses are related to torsional interactions among tetrons. Neutrino masses turn out to be special in that they are given in terms of tiny isospin non-conserving DM, Heisenberg and torsional couplings. The approach not only leads to masses, but also allows to calculate the quark and lepton eigenstates, an issue, which is important for the determination of the CKM and PMNS mixing matrices. The almost exact isospin conservation of the system dictates the form of the lepton states and makes them independent of all the couplings in H. Much in contrast, there is a strong dependence of the quark states on the coupling strengths, and a promising hierarchy between the quark family mixings shows up.
[ { "created": "Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:46:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-02-05
[ [ "Lampe", "Bodo", "" ] ]
Recently, formulas for the mixing matrices of quarks and leptons have been put forward. My contribution here describes the relevant foundational and technical aspects which have led to those results. The work has been carried out in the framework of the microscopic model. The most general ansatz for the interactions among tetrons leads to a Hamiltonian H involving Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM), Heisenberg and torsional isospin forces. Diagonalization of the Hamiltonian provides for 24 eigenvalues which are identified as the quark and lepton masses. While the masses of the third and second family arise from DM and Heisenberg type of isospin interactions, light family masses are related to torsional interactions among tetrons. Neutrino masses turn out to be special in that they are given in terms of tiny isospin non-conserving DM, Heisenberg and torsional couplings. The approach not only leads to masses, but also allows to calculate the quark and lepton eigenstates, an issue, which is important for the determination of the CKM and PMNS mixing matrices. The almost exact isospin conservation of the system dictates the form of the lepton states and makes them independent of all the couplings in H. Much in contrast, there is a strong dependence of the quark states on the coupling strengths, and a promising hierarchy between the quark family mixings shows up.
0809.5235
Nikolaos Stefanis
N. G. Stefanis and I. O. Cherednikov
Renormalization-group approach to transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions in QCD
9 pages, 5 figures, invited plenary talk given by the first author at XIII International Conference on Selected Problems of Modern Theoretical Physics, Dubna, Russia, June 23-27, 2008
null
null
RUB-TPII-07/08
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the renormalization of gauge-invariant transverse-momentum dependent (TMD), i.e., unintegrated, parton distribution functions (PDFs) and carry out the calculation of their anomalous dimension at one loop. We show that in the light-cone gauge, TMD PDFs contain UV divergences that may be attributed to the renormalization effect on a cusp-like junction point of the gauge contours at infinity. In order to eliminate the anomalous dimension ensuing from this cusp, we propose to use in the definition of the TMD PDFs, a soft counter term in terms of a path-ordered phase factor along a particular cusped contour extending to transverse light-cone infinity and comprising light-like and transverse segments. We argue that this additional factor is analogous to the "intrinsic" Coulomb phase factor found before in QED.
[ { "created": "Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:07:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-10-01
[ [ "Stefanis", "N. G.", "" ], [ "Cherednikov", "I. O.", "" ] ]
We discuss the renormalization of gauge-invariant transverse-momentum dependent (TMD), i.e., unintegrated, parton distribution functions (PDFs) and carry out the calculation of their anomalous dimension at one loop. We show that in the light-cone gauge, TMD PDFs contain UV divergences that may be attributed to the renormalization effect on a cusp-like junction point of the gauge contours at infinity. In order to eliminate the anomalous dimension ensuing from this cusp, we propose to use in the definition of the TMD PDFs, a soft counter term in terms of a path-ordered phase factor along a particular cusped contour extending to transverse light-cone infinity and comprising light-like and transverse segments. We argue that this additional factor is analogous to the "intrinsic" Coulomb phase factor found before in QED.
1411.3720
John Kehayias
Simeon Hellerman, John Kehayias, Tsutomu T. Yanagida
Chaotic Inflation from Nonlinear Sigma Models in Supergravity
5 pages
Physics Letters B (2015), pp. 390-393
10.1016/j.physletb.2015.02.019
IPMU14-0335
hep-ph gr-qc hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a common solution to the puzzles of the light Higgs or quark masses and the need for a shift symmetry and large field values in high scale chaotic inflation. One way to protect, for example, the Higgs from a large supersymmetric mass term is if it is the Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) of a nonlinear sigma model. However, it is well known that nonlinear sigma models (NLSMs) with nontrivial K\"ahler transformations are problematic to couple to supergravity. An additional field is necessary to make the K\"ahler potential of the NLSM invariant in supergravity. This field must have a shift symmetry --- making it a candidate for the inflaton (or axion). We give an explicit example of such a model for the coset space $SU(3)/SU(2) \times U(1)$, with the Higgs as the NGB, including breaking the inflaton's shift symmetry and producing a chaotic inflation potential. This construction can also be applied to other models, such as one based on $E_7/SO(10) \times U(1) \times U(1)$ which incorporates the first two generations of (light) quarks as the Nambu-Goldstone multiplets, and has an axion in addition to the inflaton. Along the way we clarify and connect previous work on understanding NLSMs in supergravity and the origin of the extra field (which is the inflaton here), including a connection to Witten-Bagger quantization. This framework has wide applications to model building; a light particle from a NLSM requires, in supergravity, exactly the structure for chaotic inflaton or an axion.
[ { "created": "Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-02-19
[ [ "Hellerman", "Simeon", "" ], [ "Kehayias", "John", "" ], [ "Yanagida", "Tsutomu T.", "" ] ]
We present a common solution to the puzzles of the light Higgs or quark masses and the need for a shift symmetry and large field values in high scale chaotic inflation. One way to protect, for example, the Higgs from a large supersymmetric mass term is if it is the Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) of a nonlinear sigma model. However, it is well known that nonlinear sigma models (NLSMs) with nontrivial K\"ahler transformations are problematic to couple to supergravity. An additional field is necessary to make the K\"ahler potential of the NLSM invariant in supergravity. This field must have a shift symmetry --- making it a candidate for the inflaton (or axion). We give an explicit example of such a model for the coset space $SU(3)/SU(2) \times U(1)$, with the Higgs as the NGB, including breaking the inflaton's shift symmetry and producing a chaotic inflation potential. This construction can also be applied to other models, such as one based on $E_7/SO(10) \times U(1) \times U(1)$ which incorporates the first two generations of (light) quarks as the Nambu-Goldstone multiplets, and has an axion in addition to the inflaton. Along the way we clarify and connect previous work on understanding NLSMs in supergravity and the origin of the extra field (which is the inflaton here), including a connection to Witten-Bagger quantization. This framework has wide applications to model building; a light particle from a NLSM requires, in supergravity, exactly the structure for chaotic inflaton or an axion.
1611.07377
Angel Gomez Nicola
Angel Gomez Nicola, Santiago Cortes, John Morales, Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira, Ricardo Torres Andres
Chiral Symmetry restoration from the hadronic regime
10 pages, 9 figures. Proceedings of "XII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum"
null
10.1051/epjconf/201713707016
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We discuss recent advances on QCD chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature, within the theoretical framework of Effective Theories. $U(3)$ Ward Identities are derived between pseudoscalar susceptibilities and quark condensates, allowing to explain the behaviour of lattice meson screening masses. Unitarized interactions and the generated $f_0(500)$ thermal state are showed to play an essential role in the description of the transition through the scalar susceptibility
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:59:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-04-05
[ [ "Nicola", "Angel Gomez", "" ], [ "Cortes", "Santiago", "" ], [ "Morales", "John", "" ], [ "de Elvira", "Jacobo Ruiz", "" ], [ "Andres", "Ricardo Torres", "" ] ]
We discuss recent advances on QCD chiral symmetry restoration at finite temperature, within the theoretical framework of Effective Theories. $U(3)$ Ward Identities are derived between pseudoscalar susceptibilities and quark condensates, allowing to explain the behaviour of lattice meson screening masses. Unitarized interactions and the generated $f_0(500)$ thermal state are showed to play an essential role in the description of the transition through the scalar susceptibility
hep-ph/0208095
Arlene Cristina Aguilar
A.C. Aguilar, A. Mihara and A.A. Natale (IFT/Unesp-Brazil)
Phenomenological tests for the freezing of the QCD running coupling constant
15 pages, 8 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We discuss phenomenological tests for the frozen infrared behavior of the running coupling constant and gluon propagators found in some solutions of Schwinger-Dyson equations of the gluonic sector of QCD. We verify that several observables can be used in order to select the different expressions of alpha_s found in the literature. We test the effect of the nonperturbative coupling in the tau-lepton decay rate into nonstrange hadrons, in the rho vector meson helicity density matrix that are produced in the chi_{c2} --> rho rho decay, in the photon to pion transition form factor, and compute the cross sections for elastic proton-proton scattering and exclusive rho production in deep inelastic scattering. These quantities depend on the infrared behavior of the coupling constant at different levels, we discuss the reasons for this dependence and argue that the existent and future data can be used to test the approximations performed to solve the Schwinger-Dyson equations and they already seems to select one specific infrared behavior of the coupling.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Aug 2002 19:58:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 24 May 2003 20:26:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Aguilar", "A. C.", "", "IFT/Unesp-Brazil" ], [ "Mihara", "A.", "", "IFT/Unesp-Brazil" ], [ "Natale", "A. A.", "", "IFT/Unesp-Brazil" ] ]
We discuss phenomenological tests for the frozen infrared behavior of the running coupling constant and gluon propagators found in some solutions of Schwinger-Dyson equations of the gluonic sector of QCD. We verify that several observables can be used in order to select the different expressions of alpha_s found in the literature. We test the effect of the nonperturbative coupling in the tau-lepton decay rate into nonstrange hadrons, in the rho vector meson helicity density matrix that are produced in the chi_{c2} --> rho rho decay, in the photon to pion transition form factor, and compute the cross sections for elastic proton-proton scattering and exclusive rho production in deep inelastic scattering. These quantities depend on the infrared behavior of the coupling constant at different levels, we discuss the reasons for this dependence and argue that the existent and future data can be used to test the approximations performed to solve the Schwinger-Dyson equations and they already seems to select one specific infrared behavior of the coupling.
1107.2130
Vojt\v{e}ch Krej\v{c}i\v{r}\'ik
Thomas D. Cohen and Vojt\v{e}ch Krej\v{c}i\v{r}\'ik
Does the empirical meson spectrum support the Hagedorn conjecture?
null
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 39 (2012) 055001
10.1088/0954-3899/39/5/055001
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
It has long been conjectured that strong interactions give rise to a Hagedorn spectrum and theoretical arguments have been presented in support of Hagedorn spectrum in large $N_c$ QCD. This paper discusses the extent to which the meson spectrum should be viewed as evidence for a Hagedorn spectrum and argues that data do not provide a strong evidence for the Hagedorn conjecture. The conclusion is based on three reasons. It is shown that "realistic" quark models have a spectrum in which the number of mesons up to 2.3 GeV grows with mass in a very similar way to the spectrum of physical mesons up to 2.3 GeV. However, these models can be shown not to have Hagedorn spectra. It is also shown that the available data are insufficient to determine the Hagedorn temperature. The data can be described with comparable accuracy by various functional forms of the prefactor that yield radically different Hagedorn temperatures. An analysis of the behavior of the spectrum for the various parity-spin-charge conjugation-isospin channels also appears to be inconsistent with what one expects if the data were in the regime dominated by exponential behavior.
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2012-03-26
[ [ "Cohen", "Thomas D.", "" ], [ "Krejčiřík", "Vojtěch", "" ] ]
It has long been conjectured that strong interactions give rise to a Hagedorn spectrum and theoretical arguments have been presented in support of Hagedorn spectrum in large $N_c$ QCD. This paper discusses the extent to which the meson spectrum should be viewed as evidence for a Hagedorn spectrum and argues that data do not provide a strong evidence for the Hagedorn conjecture. The conclusion is based on three reasons. It is shown that "realistic" quark models have a spectrum in which the number of mesons up to 2.3 GeV grows with mass in a very similar way to the spectrum of physical mesons up to 2.3 GeV. However, these models can be shown not to have Hagedorn spectra. It is also shown that the available data are insufficient to determine the Hagedorn temperature. The data can be described with comparable accuracy by various functional forms of the prefactor that yield radically different Hagedorn temperatures. An analysis of the behavior of the spectrum for the various parity-spin-charge conjugation-isospin channels also appears to be inconsistent with what one expects if the data were in the regime dominated by exponential behavior.
2008.13621
Hrishabh Bharadwaj
Hrishabh Bharadwaj and Ashok Goyal
Effective Field Theory approach to lepto-philic self conjugate dark matter
21 pages, 10 figures. To be published in Chinese Physics C. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1901.00192
Chinese Physics C Vol. 45, No. 2 (2021) 023114
10.1088/1674-1137/abce50
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the self conjugate dark matter (DM) particles interacting primarily with the standard model leptons in an effective field theoretical frame work. We consider SM gauge invariant effective contact interactions between the Majorana fermion, real scalar and a real vector DM with leptons by evaluating the Wilson coefficients appropriate for interaction terms upto dimension-8 and obtain constraints on the parameters of the theory from the observed relic density, indirect detection observations and from the DM-electron scattering cross-sections in the direct detection experiments. Low energy LEP data has been used to study sensitivity in the pair production of such low mass $\le$ 80 GeV DM particles. Pair production of DM particles of mass $\ge$ 50 GeV in association with mono-photons at the proposed ILC has rich potential to probe such effective operators.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Aug 2020 06:53:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:41:47 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-27
[ [ "Bharadwaj", "Hrishabh", "" ], [ "Goyal", "Ashok", "" ] ]
We study the self conjugate dark matter (DM) particles interacting primarily with the standard model leptons in an effective field theoretical frame work. We consider SM gauge invariant effective contact interactions between the Majorana fermion, real scalar and a real vector DM with leptons by evaluating the Wilson coefficients appropriate for interaction terms upto dimension-8 and obtain constraints on the parameters of the theory from the observed relic density, indirect detection observations and from the DM-electron scattering cross-sections in the direct detection experiments. Low energy LEP data has been used to study sensitivity in the pair production of such low mass $\le$ 80 GeV DM particles. Pair production of DM particles of mass $\ge$ 50 GeV in association with mono-photons at the proposed ILC has rich potential to probe such effective operators.
hep-ph/9804342
Kunihiko Terasaki
K. Terasaki
Twopion decays of K mesons, K_L-K_S mass difference and the Dalitz decays of K_L
15 pages, LaTex
null
null
YITP-98-26
hep-ph
null
Two pion Decays of K mesons, K_L-K_S mass difference, two photon decay and the Dalitz decays of K_L are studied systematically by assuming that their amplitude can be described in terms of a sum of short distance and long distance contributions. Dominance of the short distance effect on the K_L-K_S mass difference will be checked by the Dalitz decays of K_L in a way consisten with the two pion decays of K mesons and the two photon decay of K_L.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:56:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Terasaki", "K.", "" ] ]
Two pion Decays of K mesons, K_L-K_S mass difference, two photon decay and the Dalitz decays of K_L are studied systematically by assuming that their amplitude can be described in terms of a sum of short distance and long distance contributions. Dominance of the short distance effect on the K_L-K_S mass difference will be checked by the Dalitz decays of K_L in a way consisten with the two pion decays of K mesons and the two photon decay of K_L.
1109.1936
Jose Rodriguez-Quintero
Ph. Boucaud, J. P. Leroy, A. Le Yaouanc, J. Micheli, O. P\'ene, J. Rodr\'iguez-Quintero
The Infrared Behaviour of the Pure Yang-Mills Green Functions
Final version to be published in FBS (54 pgs., 11 figs., 4 tabs)
null
10.1007/s00601-011-0301-2
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review the infrared properties of the pure Yang-Mills correlators and discuss recent results concerning the two classes of low-momentum solutions for them reported in literature; i.e. decoupling and scaling solutions. We will mainly focuss on the Landau gauge and pay special attention to the results inferred from the analysis of the Dyson-Schwinger equations of the theory and from "{\it quenched}" lattice QCD. The results obtained from properly interplaying both approaches are strongly emphasized.
[ { "created": "Fri, 9 Sep 2011 08:27:35 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:00:21 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-30
[ [ "Boucaud", "Ph.", "" ], [ "Leroy", "J. P.", "" ], [ "Yaouanc", "A. Le", "" ], [ "Micheli", "J.", "" ], [ "Péne", "O.", "" ], [ "Rodríguez-Quintero", "J.", "" ] ]
We review the infrared properties of the pure Yang-Mills correlators and discuss recent results concerning the two classes of low-momentum solutions for them reported in literature; i.e. decoupling and scaling solutions. We will mainly focuss on the Landau gauge and pay special attention to the results inferred from the analysis of the Dyson-Schwinger equations of the theory and from "{\it quenched}" lattice QCD. The results obtained from properly interplaying both approaches are strongly emphasized.
0810.0889
Yoshitaka Hatta
Yoshitaka Hatta
Relating $e^+e^-$ annihilation to high energy scattering at weak and strong coupling
16 pages; v2. minor corrections, one reference added
JHEP 0811:057,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/057
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore the correspondence between the final state in e^+e^- annihilation and the small-x hadronic wavefunction in the transverse plane both in weakly coupled QCD and strongly coupled N=4 SYM. At strong coupling, the virtual and static photon produced in e^+e^- annihilation can be treated as a shock wave propagating in AdS space leaving spherical energy and charge distributions on the boundary. This is shown to be mathematically identical to the computation of energy and charge distributions in the transverse plane generated by a high energy color singlet state. At weak coupling, the correspondence is useful in studying interjet observables. By performing the stereographic projection to the BFKL equation, we construct an exact solution to the evolution equation derived by Marchesini and Mueller, and find the angular distribution of small-x gluons in the interjet region. Finally we argue that the correspondence holds also for the energy correlation functions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:43:28 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:57:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-21
[ [ "Hatta", "Yoshitaka", "" ] ]
We explore the correspondence between the final state in e^+e^- annihilation and the small-x hadronic wavefunction in the transverse plane both in weakly coupled QCD and strongly coupled N=4 SYM. At strong coupling, the virtual and static photon produced in e^+e^- annihilation can be treated as a shock wave propagating in AdS space leaving spherical energy and charge distributions on the boundary. This is shown to be mathematically identical to the computation of energy and charge distributions in the transverse plane generated by a high energy color singlet state. At weak coupling, the correspondence is useful in studying interjet observables. By performing the stereographic projection to the BFKL equation, we construct an exact solution to the evolution equation derived by Marchesini and Mueller, and find the angular distribution of small-x gluons in the interjet region. Finally we argue that the correspondence holds also for the energy correlation functions.
hep-ph/0507326
Yadong Yang
Ya-Dong Yang, Fang Su, Gong-Ru Lu and Hong-Jun Hao
Revisiting the annihilation decay $\bar{B}_{s}\to\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$
9 pages, 3 eps figures. To appear in EPJC
Eur.Phys.J.C44:243-247,2005
10.1140/epjc/s2005-02364-0
null
hep-ph
null
It is very important to know the strength of annihilation contribution in B charmless nonleptonic decays. $\bar{B}_{s}\to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ process could serve a good probe of the strength. We have studied the process in QCD factorization framework. Using a gluon mass scale indicted by the studies of infrared behavior of gluon propagators to avoid enhancements in the soft end point regions, we find that the CP averaged branching ratio is about $1.24\times 10^{-7}$, the direct CP asymmetry $C_{\pi\pi}$ is about -0.05, while the mixing-induced CP asymmetry quite large with the value $S_{\pi\pi}$=0.18. The process could be measured at LHC-b experiments in the near future and would deepen our understanding of dynamics of B charmless decays.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:20:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-01-07
[ [ "Yang", "Ya-Dong", "" ], [ "Su", "Fang", "" ], [ "Lu", "Gong-Ru", "" ], [ "Hao", "Hong-Jun", "" ] ]
It is very important to know the strength of annihilation contribution in B charmless nonleptonic decays. $\bar{B}_{s}\to \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ process could serve a good probe of the strength. We have studied the process in QCD factorization framework. Using a gluon mass scale indicted by the studies of infrared behavior of gluon propagators to avoid enhancements in the soft end point regions, we find that the CP averaged branching ratio is about $1.24\times 10^{-7}$, the direct CP asymmetry $C_{\pi\pi}$ is about -0.05, while the mixing-induced CP asymmetry quite large with the value $S_{\pi\pi}$=0.18. The process could be measured at LHC-b experiments in the near future and would deepen our understanding of dynamics of B charmless decays.
1905.08498
Rui-Xiang Shi
Rui-Xiang Shi, Li-Sheng Geng, Benjam\'in Grinstein, Sebastian J\"ager, and Jorge Martin Camalich
Revisiting the new-physics interpretation of the $b\to c\tau\nu$ data
matches publised version
JHEP 12 (2019) 065
10.1007/JHEP12(2019)065
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We revisit the status of the new-physics interpretations of the anomalies in semileptonic $B$ decays in light of the new data reported by Belle on the lepton-universality ratios $R_{D^{(*)}}$ using the semileptonic tag and on the longitudinal polarization of the $D^*$ in $B\to D^*\tau\nu$, $F_L^{D^*}$. The preferred solutions involve new left-handed currents or tensor contributions. Interpretations with pure right-handed currents are disfavored by the LHC data, while pure scalar models are disfavored by the upper limits derived either from the LHC or from the $B_c$ lifetime. The observable $F_L^{D^*}$ also gives an important constraint leading to the exclusion of large regions of parameter space. Finally, we investigate the sensitivity of different observables to the various scenarios and conclude that a measurement of the tau polarization in the decay mode $B\to D\tau\nu$ would effectively discriminate among them.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 May 2019 08:42:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:32:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:53:58 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-12-24
[ [ "Shi", "Rui-Xiang", "" ], [ "Geng", "Li-Sheng", "" ], [ "Grinstein", "Benjamín", "" ], [ "Jäger", "Sebastian", "" ], [ "Camalich", "Jorge Martin", "" ] ]
We revisit the status of the new-physics interpretations of the anomalies in semileptonic $B$ decays in light of the new data reported by Belle on the lepton-universality ratios $R_{D^{(*)}}$ using the semileptonic tag and on the longitudinal polarization of the $D^*$ in $B\to D^*\tau\nu$, $F_L^{D^*}$. The preferred solutions involve new left-handed currents or tensor contributions. Interpretations with pure right-handed currents are disfavored by the LHC data, while pure scalar models are disfavored by the upper limits derived either from the LHC or from the $B_c$ lifetime. The observable $F_L^{D^*}$ also gives an important constraint leading to the exclusion of large regions of parameter space. Finally, we investigate the sensitivity of different observables to the various scenarios and conclude that a measurement of the tau polarization in the decay mode $B\to D\tau\nu$ would effectively discriminate among them.
2306.07343
Aman Gupta
Aman Gupta, Debasish Majumdar, Suprabh Prakash
Neutrino oscillation measurements with KamLAND and JUNO in the presence of scalar NSI
25 pages, 6 figures. In the previous version, density subtraction was not done and robustness of standard oscillation parameters was assumed. In this version, we first constrain the solar oscillation parameters using KamLAND data and then reassess the potential of JUNO towards neutrino oscillation measurements in the presence of scalar NSI. Our results and conclusion have changed
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Determination of neutrino mass ordering and precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters are the foremost goals of the JUNO experiment. Here, we explore the effects of scalar non-standard interactions (sNSI) on the electron neutrino survival probability measured by JUNO. sNSI appears as a correction to the neutrino mass term in the Hamiltonian. We have considered the simplest scenario where there is only one NSI ($\eta_{ee}$) present in the theory. Our results show that sNSI can have significant effect on neutrino oscillation probabilities at the medium- and long-baseline reactor experiments. We fit KamLAND data assuming non-zero sNSI in theory and find that {\it estimates of $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\theta_{12}$ from KamLAND deviate significantly from their standard best-fit values} if one assumes sNSI in the theory. $\eta_{ee} \in [-1.0, 1.0]$ is allowed by KamLAND. JUNO cannot constrain sNSI but it can robustly measure $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\theta_{12}$ even when they differ widely from their current best-fit values. {\it Our works highlight the necessity of global analysis of constraints on sNSI and standard two-flavour oscillation parameters before arduous three-flavour questions such as neutrino mass ordering or CP violation in their presence is attempted.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:05:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:16:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Aug 2024 18:44:16 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-08-06
[ [ "Gupta", "Aman", "" ], [ "Majumdar", "Debasish", "" ], [ "Prakash", "Suprabh", "" ] ]
Determination of neutrino mass ordering and precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters are the foremost goals of the JUNO experiment. Here, we explore the effects of scalar non-standard interactions (sNSI) on the electron neutrino survival probability measured by JUNO. sNSI appears as a correction to the neutrino mass term in the Hamiltonian. We have considered the simplest scenario where there is only one NSI ($\eta_{ee}$) present in the theory. Our results show that sNSI can have significant effect on neutrino oscillation probabilities at the medium- and long-baseline reactor experiments. We fit KamLAND data assuming non-zero sNSI in theory and find that {\it estimates of $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\theta_{12}$ from KamLAND deviate significantly from their standard best-fit values} if one assumes sNSI in the theory. $\eta_{ee} \in [-1.0, 1.0]$ is allowed by KamLAND. JUNO cannot constrain sNSI but it can robustly measure $\Delta m^2_{21}$ and $\theta_{12}$ even when they differ widely from their current best-fit values. {\it Our works highlight the necessity of global analysis of constraints on sNSI and standard two-flavour oscillation parameters before arduous three-flavour questions such as neutrino mass ordering or CP violation in their presence is attempted.
2310.18990
Robert J. Perry
{\L}ukasz Bibrzycki, Nadine Hammoud, Vincent Mathieu, Robert J. Perry, Adam P. Szczepaniak
Studying the production mechanisms of light meson resonances in two-pion photoproduction: a Regge approach
5 pages, 3 figures. Prepared as proceedings contribution for the 20th International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure (HADRON 2023), Genova, Italy, 5-9/6/2023
null
null
Hadron23
hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
A calculation of the angular moments of two-pion photoproduction is presented. The underlying theoretical model encodes the prominent $\rho(770)$ resonance and the expected leading background contribution coming from the Deck mechanism. The model contains a number of free parameters which are fit to experimental data. A good description of the angular moments is obtained.
[ { "created": "Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:17:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-10-31
[ [ "Bibrzycki", "Łukasz", "" ], [ "Hammoud", "Nadine", "" ], [ "Mathieu", "Vincent", "" ], [ "Perry", "Robert J.", "" ], [ "Szczepaniak", "Adam P.", "" ] ]
A calculation of the angular moments of two-pion photoproduction is presented. The underlying theoretical model encodes the prominent $\rho(770)$ resonance and the expected leading background contribution coming from the Deck mechanism. The model contains a number of free parameters which are fit to experimental data. A good description of the angular moments is obtained.
hep-ph/9809297
Yasuhiro Okada
Yasuhiro Okada (KEK)
Flavor Physics in the Supergravity Model
10 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at International Seminar ``Quarks' 98'', Suzdal, Russia, May 17 - 24, 1998
null
null
KEK-TH-593
hep-ph
null
Phenomenological aspects of flavor changing processes are considered in the context of the supergravity model.Various flavor changing neutral current processes in B and K decays are calculated in such models. For lepton flavor violating processes the $\mu^+ \to e \gamma$ branching ratio and the T odd triple vector correlation for the $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^+ e^-$ process are investigated in the SU(5) SUSY GUT. Possibility to find SUSY effects through these Flavor changing processes in future experiments are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Sep 1998 08:50:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Okada", "Yasuhiro", "", "KEK" ] ]
Phenomenological aspects of flavor changing processes are considered in the context of the supergravity model.Various flavor changing neutral current processes in B and K decays are calculated in such models. For lepton flavor violating processes the $\mu^+ \to e \gamma$ branching ratio and the T odd triple vector correlation for the $\mu^+ \to e^+ e^+ e^-$ process are investigated in the SU(5) SUSY GUT. Possibility to find SUSY effects through these Flavor changing processes in future experiments are also discussed.
2003.13302
Nagisa Hiroshima
Takuya Hasegawa, Nagisa Hiroshima, Kazunori Kohri, Rasmus S. L. Hansen, Thomas Tram, Steen Hannestad
MeV-scale reheating temperature and cosmological production of light sterile neutrinos
33 pages, 10 figures, to appear in JCAP
JCAP 08 (2020) 015
10.1088/1475-7516/2020/08/015
RIKEN-iTHEMS-Report-20, UT-HET 132, KEK-Cosmo-251, KEK-TH-2204, IPMU20-0038
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We investigate how sterile neutrinos with a range of masses influence cosmology in MeV-scale reheating temperature scenarios. By computing the production of sterile neutrinos through the combination of mixing and scattering in the early Universe, we find that light sterile neutrinos, with masses and mixings as inferred from short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, are consistent with big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation for the reheating temperature of ${\cal O}(1)$ MeV if the parent particle responsible for reheating decays into electromagnetic components (radiative decay). In contrast, if the parent particle mainly decays into hadrons (hadronic decay), the bound from BBN becomes more stringent. In this case, the existence of the light sterile neutrinos can be cosmologically excluded, depending on the mass and the hadronic branching ratio of the parent particle.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:47:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 6 Aug 2020 22:01:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-08-13
[ [ "Hasegawa", "Takuya", "" ], [ "Hiroshima", "Nagisa", "" ], [ "Kohri", "Kazunori", "" ], [ "Hansen", "Rasmus S. L.", "" ], [ "Tram", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Hannestad", "Steen", "" ] ]
We investigate how sterile neutrinos with a range of masses influence cosmology in MeV-scale reheating temperature scenarios. By computing the production of sterile neutrinos through the combination of mixing and scattering in the early Universe, we find that light sterile neutrinos, with masses and mixings as inferred from short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, are consistent with big-bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation for the reheating temperature of ${\cal O}(1)$ MeV if the parent particle responsible for reheating decays into electromagnetic components (radiative decay). In contrast, if the parent particle mainly decays into hadrons (hadronic decay), the bound from BBN becomes more stringent. In this case, the existence of the light sterile neutrinos can be cosmologically excluded, depending on the mass and the hadronic branching ratio of the parent particle.
hep-ph/9810292
Graham E. Smye
Graham E. Smye
Power Corrections to Flavour-Singlet Structure Functions
13 pages, 3 figures
Nucl.Phys. B546 (1999) 315-329
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00043-7
Cavendish-HEP-98/14
hep-ph
null
We investigate the power-suppressed corrections to structure functions in flavour singlet deep inelastic lepton scattering, to complement the previous results for the non-singlet contribution. Our method is a dispersive approach based on an analysis of Feynman graphs containing massive gluons; and our results agree with those obtained from leading infrared renormalon contributions. As in non-singlet deep inelastic scattering we find that the leading corrections are proportional to 1/Q^2. We find that the singlet contribution becomes important at small x.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:03:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Smye", "Graham E.", "" ] ]
We investigate the power-suppressed corrections to structure functions in flavour singlet deep inelastic lepton scattering, to complement the previous results for the non-singlet contribution. Our method is a dispersive approach based on an analysis of Feynman graphs containing massive gluons; and our results agree with those obtained from leading infrared renormalon contributions. As in non-singlet deep inelastic scattering we find that the leading corrections are proportional to 1/Q^2. We find that the singlet contribution becomes important at small x.
hep-ph/9503358
Leszek Roszkowski
L. Roszkowski and M. Shifman
Reconciling Supersymmetric Grand Unification with $\alpha_s(m_Z)\approx 0.11$
18 pages, LaTex format for text; epsf.sty needed for including 3 Postscript figures in the text. CHANGES: Comments on dark matter and non-minimal supergravity (see end of Sec. 2.3) and several references added; also some minor corrections made.
Phys.Rev. D53 (1996) 404-412
10.1103/PhysRevD.53.404
TPI-MINN-95/04-T, UMN-TH-1330-95
hep-ph
null
We argue that supersymmetric grand unification of gauge couplings is not incompatible with small $\alpha_s$, even without large GUT-scale corrections, if one relaxes a usual universal gaugino mass assumption. A commonly assumed relation $M_2\simeq m_{\rm gluino}/3$ is in gross contradiction with $\alpha_s\approx 0.11$. Instead, small $\alpha_s$ favors $M_2\gg m_{\rm gluino}$. If this is indeed the case our observation casts doubt on another commonly used relation $M_1\simeq 0.5 M_2$ which originates from the same constraint of a common gaugino mass at the GUT scale. One firm prediction emerging within the small $\alpha_s$ scenario with the unconstrained gaugino masses is the existence of a relatively light gluino below $\sim$ 200\gev.
[ { "created": "Thu, 16 Mar 1995 23:46:24 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Mar 1995 19:57:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Roszkowski", "L.", "" ], [ "Shifman", "M.", "" ] ]
We argue that supersymmetric grand unification of gauge couplings is not incompatible with small $\alpha_s$, even without large GUT-scale corrections, if one relaxes a usual universal gaugino mass assumption. A commonly assumed relation $M_2\simeq m_{\rm gluino}/3$ is in gross contradiction with $\alpha_s\approx 0.11$. Instead, small $\alpha_s$ favors $M_2\gg m_{\rm gluino}$. If this is indeed the case our observation casts doubt on another commonly used relation $M_1\simeq 0.5 M_2$ which originates from the same constraint of a common gaugino mass at the GUT scale. One firm prediction emerging within the small $\alpha_s$ scenario with the unconstrained gaugino masses is the existence of a relatively light gluino below $\sim$ 200\gev.
hep-ph/0511177
Walter Winter
Thomas Schwetz, Walter Winter
Testing mass-varying neutrinos with reactor experiments
7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, uses espcrc2.sty
Phys.Lett. B633 (2006) 557-562
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.12.052
SISSA 86/2005/EP
hep-ph hep-ex
null
We propose that reactor experiments could be used to constrain the environment dependence of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, which could be induced due to an acceleron coupling to matter fields. There are several short-baseline reactor experiment projects with different fractions of air and earth matter along the neutrino path. Moreover, the short baselines, in principle, allow the physical change of the material between source and detector. Hence, such experiments offer the possibility for a direct comparison of oscillations in air and matter. We demonstrate that for $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13} \gtrsim 0.04$, two reactor experiments (one air, one matter) with baselines of at least 1.5 km can constrain any oscillation effect which is different in air and matter at the level of a few per cent. Furthermore, we find that using the same experiment while physically moving the material between source and detector improves systematics.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:02:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Schwetz", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Winter", "Walter", "" ] ]
We propose that reactor experiments could be used to constrain the environment dependence of neutrino mass and mixing parameters, which could be induced due to an acceleron coupling to matter fields. There are several short-baseline reactor experiment projects with different fractions of air and earth matter along the neutrino path. Moreover, the short baselines, in principle, allow the physical change of the material between source and detector. Hence, such experiments offer the possibility for a direct comparison of oscillations in air and matter. We demonstrate that for $\sin^2 2 \theta_{13} \gtrsim 0.04$, two reactor experiments (one air, one matter) with baselines of at least 1.5 km can constrain any oscillation effect which is different in air and matter at the level of a few per cent. Furthermore, we find that using the same experiment while physically moving the material between source and detector improves systematics.
hep-ph/9811348
Philip G. Ratcliffe
Philip G. Ratcliffe
Theory of Spin Effects in Hard Hadronic Reactions
18 pages, 7 figures in eps files, packages used: autobf.sty, axodraw.sty
null
null
EPTCO-98-004
hep-ph
null
I discuss the present situation with regard to a variety of theoretical topics in hadronic spin physics: (a) global analysis of the g1 data---positivity at leading and next-to-leading order, renormalisation-scheme dependence, parametrisation, and hyperon beta-decays; (b) items from the realm of transverse spin---twist-three effects, single-spin asymmetries, and transversity; and finally (c) recent developments in understanding the Q^2 evolution of orbital angular momentum.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:04:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ratcliffe", "Philip G.", "" ] ]
I discuss the present situation with regard to a variety of theoretical topics in hadronic spin physics: (a) global analysis of the g1 data---positivity at leading and next-to-leading order, renormalisation-scheme dependence, parametrisation, and hyperon beta-decays; (b) items from the realm of transverse spin---twist-three effects, single-spin asymmetries, and transversity; and finally (c) recent developments in understanding the Q^2 evolution of orbital angular momentum.
1510.03714
Elena Ginina
E. Ginina, A. Bartl, H. Eberl, K. Hidaka, W. Majerotto
Quark-flavour violation in $h^0 \to b \bar{b}$ in the MSSM at one-loop level
Contribution to the proceedings of EPS-HEP 2015 conference, Vienna
PoS(EPS-HEP2015)146
null
HEPHY-PUB 961/15, UWThPh-2015-26
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute the width of the decay $h^0$ (125 GeV) $\to b \bar{b}$ at next-to-leading order in the general MSSM with quark-flavour violation (QFV). We study the effect of mixing between the second and the third generation of squarks, taking into account the constraints on QFV from B-meson data. We discuss the renormalisation of the process as well as the resummation of the bottom Yukawa coupling at large $\tan \beta$. We show numerical results on the decay width $\Gamma(h^0 \to b \bar{b})$ as a function of the involved QFV parameters and compare them with the corresponding width in the Standard Model.
[ { "created": "Tue, 13 Oct 2015 14:47:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-10-14
[ [ "Ginina", "E.", "" ], [ "Bartl", "A.", "" ], [ "Eberl", "H.", "" ], [ "Hidaka", "K.", "" ], [ "Majerotto", "W.", "" ] ]
We compute the width of the decay $h^0$ (125 GeV) $\to b \bar{b}$ at next-to-leading order in the general MSSM with quark-flavour violation (QFV). We study the effect of mixing between the second and the third generation of squarks, taking into account the constraints on QFV from B-meson data. We discuss the renormalisation of the process as well as the resummation of the bottom Yukawa coupling at large $\tan \beta$. We show numerical results on the decay width $\Gamma(h^0 \to b \bar{b})$ as a function of the involved QFV parameters and compare them with the corresponding width in the Standard Model.
hep-ph/0005088
Nikolai Kochelev
N.I.Kochelev, T.Morii, B.L.Reznik, and A.V.Vinnikov
The role of secondary Reggeons in central meson production
7 pages, Latex, 5 figures
Eur.Phys.J. A8 (2000) 405-408
10.1007/s100500070094
null
hep-ph
null
We estimate the contribution of f_2 trajectory exchange to the central \eta and \eta^\prime production. It is shown that secondary Reggeons may give a large contribution to processes of double diffractive meson production at high energy.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 May 2000 08:12:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Jun 2000 20:56:00 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Kochelev", "N. I.", "" ], [ "Morii", "T.", "" ], [ "Reznik", "B. L.", "" ], [ "Vinnikov", "A. V.", "" ] ]
We estimate the contribution of f_2 trajectory exchange to the central \eta and \eta^\prime production. It is shown that secondary Reggeons may give a large contribution to processes of double diffractive meson production at high energy.
2305.06100
Bai-Song Xie
Orkash Amat, Li-Na Hu, Mamat Ali Bake, Melike Mohamedsedik and B. S. Xie
Effect of spatially oscillating field on Schwinger pair production
20 pages, 5 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph quant-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Effect of spatially oscillating fields on the electron-positron pair production is studied numerically and analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than twice the electron mass. Under large spatial scale, we further explain the characteristics of the position and momentum distribution via tunneling time, tunneling distance and energy gap between the positive and negative energy bands in the Dirac vacuum. Our results show that the maximum reduced particle number is about five times by comparing to maximum number for non-oscillating field. Moreover, the pair production results via Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism can be also calculated by using local density approximation and analytical approximation method when spatial oscillating cycle number is large. Moreover, in case of large spatial scale field, the position distribution of created particles could be interpreted by the tunneling time.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 May 2023 12:41:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-05-11
[ [ "Amat", "Orkash", "" ], [ "Hu", "Li-Na", "" ], [ "Bake", "Mamat Ali", "" ], [ "Mohamedsedik", "Melike", "" ], [ "Xie", "B. S.", "" ] ]
Effect of spatially oscillating fields on the electron-positron pair production is studied numerically and analytically when the work done by the electric field over its spatial extent is smaller than twice the electron mass. Under large spatial scale, we further explain the characteristics of the position and momentum distribution via tunneling time, tunneling distance and energy gap between the positive and negative energy bands in the Dirac vacuum. Our results show that the maximum reduced particle number is about five times by comparing to maximum number for non-oscillating field. Moreover, the pair production results via Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism can be also calculated by using local density approximation and analytical approximation method when spatial oscillating cycle number is large. Moreover, in case of large spatial scale field, the position distribution of created particles could be interpreted by the tunneling time.
1207.4484
Moritz McGarrie
Moritz McGarrie
General Resonance Mediation
36 pages, 2 figures. A sum rule added
JHEP 1302 (2013) 093
10.1007/JHEP03(2013)093
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We extend the framework of general gauge mediation to cases where the mediating fields have a nontrivial spectral function, as might arise from strong dynamics. We demonstrate through examples that this setup describes a broad class of possible models of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. A main emphasis is to give general formulas for cross sections for $\sigma(visible\rightarrow hidden)$ in these resonance models. We will also give formulas for soft masses, A-terms and demonstrate the framework with a holographic setup.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:00:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:26:42 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:27:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-03-26
[ [ "McGarrie", "Moritz", "" ] ]
We extend the framework of general gauge mediation to cases where the mediating fields have a nontrivial spectral function, as might arise from strong dynamics. We demonstrate through examples that this setup describes a broad class of possible models of gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking. A main emphasis is to give general formulas for cross sections for $\sigma(visible\rightarrow hidden)$ in these resonance models. We will also give formulas for soft masses, A-terms and demonstrate the framework with a holographic setup.
2106.08168
Huichao Song
Meng Zhou, Fei Gao, Jingyi Chao, Yu-Xin Liu, Huichao Song
Application of radial basis functions neutral networks in spectral functions
10 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.076011
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The reconstruction of spectral function from correlation function in Euclidean space is a challenging task. In this paper, we employ the Machine Learning techniques in terms of the radial basis functions networks to reconstruct the spectral function from a finite number of correlation data. To test our method, we first generate one type of correlation data using a mock spectral function by mixing several Breit-Wigner propagators. We found that compared with other traditional methods, TSVD, Tikhonov, and MEM, our approach gives a continuous and unified reconstruction for both positive definite and negative spectral function, which is especially useful for studying the QCD phase transition. Moreover, our approach has considerably better performance in the low frequency region. This has advantages for the extraction of transport coefficients which are related to the zero frequency limit of the spectral function. With the mock data generated through a model spectral function of stress energy tensor, we find our method gives a precise and stable extraction of the transport coefficients.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:10:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-10-27
[ [ "Zhou", "Meng", "" ], [ "Gao", "Fei", "" ], [ "Chao", "Jingyi", "" ], [ "Liu", "Yu-Xin", "" ], [ "Song", "Huichao", "" ] ]
The reconstruction of spectral function from correlation function in Euclidean space is a challenging task. In this paper, we employ the Machine Learning techniques in terms of the radial basis functions networks to reconstruct the spectral function from a finite number of correlation data. To test our method, we first generate one type of correlation data using a mock spectral function by mixing several Breit-Wigner propagators. We found that compared with other traditional methods, TSVD, Tikhonov, and MEM, our approach gives a continuous and unified reconstruction for both positive definite and negative spectral function, which is especially useful for studying the QCD phase transition. Moreover, our approach has considerably better performance in the low frequency region. This has advantages for the extraction of transport coefficients which are related to the zero frequency limit of the spectral function. With the mock data generated through a model spectral function of stress energy tensor, we find our method gives a precise and stable extraction of the transport coefficients.
hep-ph/9911289
Anne Ruth Billups
A.H. Mueller
Small-x Physics, High Parton Densities and Parton Saturation in QCD
33 pages 15 figures
null
null
CU-TP-954
hep-ph
null
Partons are defined as the quanta in a Fock space description of a hadron. Gluon saturation is described in the Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams approximation for a large nucleus. The elements of DGLAP and BFKL evolution are given with the BFKL equation derived in a large-$N_c$ dipole formalism. A more general discussion of saturation is given in terms of a dipole scattering on a nucleon or nucleus. Possible evidence for saturation at HERA is discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:53:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Mueller", "A. H.", "" ] ]
Partons are defined as the quanta in a Fock space description of a hadron. Gluon saturation is described in the Weizs\"{a}cker-Williams approximation for a large nucleus. The elements of DGLAP and BFKL evolution are given with the BFKL equation derived in a large-$N_c$ dipole formalism. A more general discussion of saturation is given in terms of a dipole scattering on a nucleon or nucleus. Possible evidence for saturation at HERA is discussed.
1603.04168
Jun He
Pei-Liang L\"u, Jun He
Hadronic molecular states from the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction
5 pages
null
10.1140/epja/i2016-16359-7
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction is studied in a quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation approach combined with the one-boson-exchange model. With the help of the hidden-gauge Lagrangian, the exchanges of pseudoscalar mesons ($\pi$ and $\eta$) and vector mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$ and $\phi$) are considered to describe the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. Besides the direct vector-meson exchange which can be related to the Weinberg-Tomozawa term, pseudoscalar-meson exchanges also play important roles in the mechanism of the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. The poles of scattering amplitude are searched to find the molecular states produced from the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. In the case of quantum number $I^G(J^{PC})=0^+(1^{++})$, a pole is found with a reasonable cutoff, which can be related to the $f_1(1285)$ in experiment. Another bound state with $0^-(1^{+-})$ is also produced from the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction, which can be related to the $h_1(1380)$. In the isovector sector, the interaction is much weaker and a bound state with $1^+(1^{+})$ relevant to the $b_1(1235)$ is produced but at a larger cutoff. Our results suggest that in the hadronic molecular state picture the $f_1(1285)$ and $b_1(1235)$ are the strange partners of the $X(3872)$ and $Z_c(3900)$, respectively.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:05:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 22 Oct 2016 04:13:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 10 Dec 2016 12:35:34 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-02-01
[ [ "Lü", "Pei-Liang", "" ], [ "He", "Jun", "" ] ]
In this work, the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction is studied in a quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation approach combined with the one-boson-exchange model. With the help of the hidden-gauge Lagrangian, the exchanges of pseudoscalar mesons ($\pi$ and $\eta$) and vector mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$ and $\phi$) are considered to describe the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. Besides the direct vector-meson exchange which can be related to the Weinberg-Tomozawa term, pseudoscalar-meson exchanges also play important roles in the mechanism of the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. The poles of scattering amplitude are searched to find the molecular states produced from the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction. In the case of quantum number $I^G(J^{PC})=0^+(1^{++})$, a pole is found with a reasonable cutoff, which can be related to the $f_1(1285)$ in experiment. Another bound state with $0^-(1^{+-})$ is also produced from the $K\bar{K}^*$ interaction, which can be related to the $h_1(1380)$. In the isovector sector, the interaction is much weaker and a bound state with $1^+(1^{+})$ relevant to the $b_1(1235)$ is produced but at a larger cutoff. Our results suggest that in the hadronic molecular state picture the $f_1(1285)$ and $b_1(1235)$ are the strange partners of the $X(3872)$ and $Z_c(3900)$, respectively.
1507.03908
Enrico Bothmann
Enrico Bothmann, Marek Sch\"onherr, Steffen Schumann
Fast evaluation of theoretical uncertainties with Sherpa and MCgrid
8 pages, 3 figures, XXIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering
null
null
ZU-TH 21/15, MCnet-15-18
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The determination of theoretical error estimates and PDF/$\alpha_S$-fits require fast evaluations of differential cross sections for varied QCD input parameters. These include PDFs, the strong coupling constant $\alpha_S$ and the renormalisation and factorisation scales. Beyond leading order QCD, a full dedicated calculation for each set of parameters is often too time-consuming, certainly when performing PDF-fits. We report on two methods to overcome this issue for any QCD NLO calculation: The novel event-reweighting feature in Sherpa and the automated generation of interpolation grids using the recently introduced MCgrid interface. For MCgrid we present the newly added support for fastNLO tables and highlight some future developments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:13:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-07-16
[ [ "Bothmann", "Enrico", "" ], [ "Schönherr", "Marek", "" ], [ "Schumann", "Steffen", "" ] ]
The determination of theoretical error estimates and PDF/$\alpha_S$-fits require fast evaluations of differential cross sections for varied QCD input parameters. These include PDFs, the strong coupling constant $\alpha_S$ and the renormalisation and factorisation scales. Beyond leading order QCD, a full dedicated calculation for each set of parameters is often too time-consuming, certainly when performing PDF-fits. We report on two methods to overcome this issue for any QCD NLO calculation: The novel event-reweighting feature in Sherpa and the automated generation of interpolation grids using the recently introduced MCgrid interface. For MCgrid we present the newly added support for fastNLO tables and highlight some future developments.
hep-ph/9710289
Ken Kiers
Ken Kiers and Nathan Weiss
Neutrino oscillations in a model with a source and detector
30 pages, 6 figures, Latex
Phys.Rev.D57:3091-3105,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.3091
null
hep-ph
null
We study the oscillations of neutrinos in a model in which the neutrino is coupled to a localized, idealized source and detector. By varying the spatial and temporal resolution of the source and detector we are able to model the full range of source and detector types ranging from coherent to incoherent. We find that this approach is useful in understanding the interface between the Quantum Mechanical nature of neutrino oscillations on the one hand and the production and detection systems on the other hand. This method can easily be extended to study the oscillations of other particles such as the neutral K and B mesons. We find that this approach gives a reliable way to treat the various ambiguities which arise when one examines the oscillations from a wave packet point of view. We demonstrate that the conventional oscillation formula is correct in the relativistic limit and that several recent claims of an extra factor of 2 in the oscillation length are incorrect. We also demonstrate explicitly that the oscillations of neutrinos which have separated spatially may be "revived" by a long coherent measurement.
[ { "created": "Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:37:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kiers", "Ken", "" ], [ "Weiss", "Nathan", "" ] ]
We study the oscillations of neutrinos in a model in which the neutrino is coupled to a localized, idealized source and detector. By varying the spatial and temporal resolution of the source and detector we are able to model the full range of source and detector types ranging from coherent to incoherent. We find that this approach is useful in understanding the interface between the Quantum Mechanical nature of neutrino oscillations on the one hand and the production and detection systems on the other hand. This method can easily be extended to study the oscillations of other particles such as the neutral K and B mesons. We find that this approach gives a reliable way to treat the various ambiguities which arise when one examines the oscillations from a wave packet point of view. We demonstrate that the conventional oscillation formula is correct in the relativistic limit and that several recent claims of an extra factor of 2 in the oscillation length are incorrect. We also demonstrate explicitly that the oscillations of neutrinos which have separated spatially may be "revived" by a long coherent measurement.
0811.2998
Gabriela Barenboim
Gabriela Barenboim (U. Valencia and IFIC)
Inflation might be caused by the right
15 pages, 4 figures
JHEP 0903:102,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/102
null
hep-ph astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that the scalar field that drives inflation can have a dynamical origin, being a strongly coupled right handed neutrino condensate. The resulting model is phenomenologically tightly constrained, and can be experimentally (dis)probed in the near future. The mass of the right handed neutrino obtained this way (a crucial ingredient to obtain the right light neutrino spectrum within the see-saw mechanism in a complete three generation framework) is related to that of the inflaton and both completely determine the inflation features that can be tested by current and planned experiments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:01:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-03-31
[ [ "Barenboim", "Gabriela", "", "U. Valencia and IFIC" ] ]
We show that the scalar field that drives inflation can have a dynamical origin, being a strongly coupled right handed neutrino condensate. The resulting model is phenomenologically tightly constrained, and can be experimentally (dis)probed in the near future. The mass of the right handed neutrino obtained this way (a crucial ingredient to obtain the right light neutrino spectrum within the see-saw mechanism in a complete three generation framework) is related to that of the inflaton and both completely determine the inflation features that can be tested by current and planned experiments.
1109.6641
Jarah Evslin
Emilio Ciuffoli, Jarah Evslin, Jie Liu and Xinmin Zhang
Neutrino Dispersion Relations from a Dark Energy Model
19 pages, no figures, v2 detailed treatment of MSW, motivation from OPERA anomaly deemphasized
ISRN High Energy Physics 2013 (2013) 497071
10.1155/2013/497071
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider a model in which the neutrino is kinetically coupled to a scalar field and study its implications for environmentally dependent neutrino velocities. Following the usual effective field theory logic, this coupling is expected to arise in neutrino dark energy models. It leads to a Lorentz violation in the neutrino sector. The coupling of the scalar field to the stress tensor of the Earth yields terrestrial neutrino dispersion relations distinct from those in interstellar space.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:51:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:57:24 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:16:22 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-01-22
[ [ "Ciuffoli", "Emilio", "" ], [ "Evslin", "Jarah", "" ], [ "Liu", "Jie", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Xinmin", "" ] ]
We consider a model in which the neutrino is kinetically coupled to a scalar field and study its implications for environmentally dependent neutrino velocities. Following the usual effective field theory logic, this coupling is expected to arise in neutrino dark energy models. It leads to a Lorentz violation in the neutrino sector. The coupling of the scalar field to the stress tensor of the Earth yields terrestrial neutrino dispersion relations distinct from those in interstellar space.
1105.4454
Pasquini Barbara
B. Pasquini (U. Pavia & INFN, Pavia, Italy), D. Drechsel and M. Vanderhaeghen (Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys.)
Nucleon Polarizabilities: Theory
17 pages, 7 figures, 1 Table; proceedings of "Many-Body Structure of Strongly Interacting Systems", Mainz, Germany, Feb. 23-25 2011 (to appear in EPJ Special Topics)
Eur.Phys.J.ST 198 (2011) 269-285
10.1140/epjst/e2011-01494-y
null
hep-ph hep-lat nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review recent developments in the theoretical investigation of the nucleon polarizabilities. We first report on the static polarizabilities as measured in real Compton scattering, comparing and interpreting the results from various theoretical approaches. In a second step, we extend the discussion to the generalized polarizabilities which can be accessed in virtual Compton scattering, showing how the information encoded in these quantities can provide a spatial interpretation of the induced polarization densities in the nucleon.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 May 2011 10:01:03 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-01-17
[ [ "Pasquini", "B.", "", "U. Pavia & INFN, Pavia, Italy" ], [ "Drechsel", "D.", "", "Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys." ], [ "Vanderhaeghen", "M.", "", "Mainz U., Inst. Kernphys." ] ]
We review recent developments in the theoretical investigation of the nucleon polarizabilities. We first report on the static polarizabilities as measured in real Compton scattering, comparing and interpreting the results from various theoretical approaches. In a second step, we extend the discussion to the generalized polarizabilities which can be accessed in virtual Compton scattering, showing how the information encoded in these quantities can provide a spatial interpretation of the induced polarization densities in the nucleon.
hep-ph/0311015
Elvio Di Salvo
E. Di Salvo
A rigorous bound on quark distributions in the nucleon
Talk given at the QCD03 Conference, Montpellier, 2-9 July 2003
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.133:73-76,2004
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.04.140
null
hep-ph
null
I deduce an inequality between the helicity and the transversity distribution of a quark in a nucleon, at small energy scales. Then I establish, thanks to the positivity constraint, a rigorous bound on longitudinally polarized valence quark densities, which finds nontrivial applications to d-quarks. This, in turn, implies a bound for the distributions of the longitudinally polarized sea, which is probably not SU(3)-symmetric. Some model predictions and parametrizations of quark distributions are examined in the light of these results.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Nov 2003 09:37:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Di Salvo", "E.", "" ] ]
I deduce an inequality between the helicity and the transversity distribution of a quark in a nucleon, at small energy scales. Then I establish, thanks to the positivity constraint, a rigorous bound on longitudinally polarized valence quark densities, which finds nontrivial applications to d-quarks. This, in turn, implies a bound for the distributions of the longitudinally polarized sea, which is probably not SU(3)-symmetric. Some model predictions and parametrizations of quark distributions are examined in the light of these results.
hep-ph/9611348
Phil Ratcliffe
Philip G. Ratcliffe
Symposium Summary
Summary Talk, presented at SPIN '96 - The 12th. International Symposium on High-Energy Spin Physics (Amsterdam, Sept. 1996). LaTeX, 10 pages, 1 figure (self inserting with epsfig)
null
null
EPTCO-96-001
hep-ph
null
The plenary presentations of the conference are summarised, highlighting some aspects that were of particular interest and attempting to link a few of the topics covered. Particular emphasis is placed on the problem of deep-inelastic scattering and questions still to be answered with regard to the distribution functions, strange-quark and gluon contributions, and the possible r\^ole of orbital angular momentum. Passing reference is also made to some of the parallel session presentations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:03:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ratcliffe", "Philip G.", "" ] ]
The plenary presentations of the conference are summarised, highlighting some aspects that were of particular interest and attempting to link a few of the topics covered. Particular emphasis is placed on the problem of deep-inelastic scattering and questions still to be answered with regard to the distribution functions, strange-quark and gluon contributions, and the possible r\^ole of orbital angular momentum. Passing reference is also made to some of the parallel session presentations.
hep-ph/0302137
Viktor Nikonov
V.V. Anisovich, L.G Dakhno, V.A. Nikonov
D^+_s -> pi^+ pi^+ pi^- decay: the 1^3P_0 s anti-s component in scalar-isoscalar mesons
17 pages, 4 figures, epsfig
Phys.Atom.Nucl. 67 (2004) 1571-1579; Yad.Fiz. 67 (2004) 1593-1601
10.1134/1.1788047
null
hep-ph
null
On the basis of data on the decay D^+_s -> pi^+ pi^+ pi^-, which goes dominantly via the transition D_s -> pi^+ s anti-s, we evaluate the 1^3P_0 s anti-s components in the scalar-isoscalar resonances f0(980), f0(1300), f0(1500) and broad state f0(1200-1600)$. The data point to a large s anti-s component in the f0(980): 40% < s anti-s < 70%. Nearly 30% of the 1^3P_0 s anti-s component flows to the mass region 1300-1500 MeV being shared by f0(1300), f0(1500) and broad state f0(1200-1600): the interference of these states results in a peak near 1400 MeV with the width around 200 MeV.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:27:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Anisovich", "V. V.", "" ], [ "Dakhno", "L. G", "" ], [ "Nikonov", "V. A.", "" ] ]
On the basis of data on the decay D^+_s -> pi^+ pi^+ pi^-, which goes dominantly via the transition D_s -> pi^+ s anti-s, we evaluate the 1^3P_0 s anti-s components in the scalar-isoscalar resonances f0(980), f0(1300), f0(1500) and broad state f0(1200-1600)$. The data point to a large s anti-s component in the f0(980): 40% < s anti-s < 70%. Nearly 30% of the 1^3P_0 s anti-s component flows to the mass region 1300-1500 MeV being shared by f0(1300), f0(1500) and broad state f0(1200-1600): the interference of these states results in a peak near 1400 MeV with the width around 200 MeV.
1605.03625
Doug McKay
K. S. Babu, Douglas W. McKay, Irina Mocioiu, Sandip Pakvasa
Light Sterile Neutrinos, Lepton Number Violating Interactions and the LSND Anomaly
21 pages, 8 figures, text and references added conclusions unchanged; version that appears in Phys, Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 93, 113019 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.113019
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We develop the consequences of introducing a purely leptonic, lepton number violating non-standard interaction (NSI) and standard model neutrino mixing with a fourth, sterile neutrino in the analysis of short-baseline, neutrino experiments. We focus on the muon decay at rest (DAR) result from the Liquid Scintillation Neutrino Experiment (LSND) and the Karlsruhe and Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment (KARMEN). We make a comprehensive analysis of lepton number violating, NSI effective operators and find nine that affect muon decay relevant to LSND results. Two of these preserve the standard model (SM) value 3/4 for the Michel rho and delta parameters and, overall, show favorable agreement with precision data and the electron anti-neutrino signal from LSND data. We display theoretical models that lead to these two effective operators. In the model we choose to apply to DAR data, both electron anti-neutrino appearance from muon anti-neutrino oscillation and electron anti-neutrino survival after production from NSI decay of the positive muon contribute to the expected signal. This is a unique feature of our scheme. We find a range of parameters where both experiments can be accommodated consistently with recent global, sterile neutrino fits to short baseline data. We comment on implications of the models for new physics searches at colliders and comment on further implications of the lepton number violating interactions plus sterile neutrino-standard model neutrino mixing.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 May 2016 21:31:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Jul 2016 22:29:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-07-06
[ [ "Babu", "K. S.", "" ], [ "McKay", "Douglas W.", "" ], [ "Mocioiu", "Irina", "" ], [ "Pakvasa", "Sandip", "" ] ]
We develop the consequences of introducing a purely leptonic, lepton number violating non-standard interaction (NSI) and standard model neutrino mixing with a fourth, sterile neutrino in the analysis of short-baseline, neutrino experiments. We focus on the muon decay at rest (DAR) result from the Liquid Scintillation Neutrino Experiment (LSND) and the Karlsruhe and Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino Experiment (KARMEN). We make a comprehensive analysis of lepton number violating, NSI effective operators and find nine that affect muon decay relevant to LSND results. Two of these preserve the standard model (SM) value 3/4 for the Michel rho and delta parameters and, overall, show favorable agreement with precision data and the electron anti-neutrino signal from LSND data. We display theoretical models that lead to these two effective operators. In the model we choose to apply to DAR data, both electron anti-neutrino appearance from muon anti-neutrino oscillation and electron anti-neutrino survival after production from NSI decay of the positive muon contribute to the expected signal. This is a unique feature of our scheme. We find a range of parameters where both experiments can be accommodated consistently with recent global, sterile neutrino fits to short baseline data. We comment on implications of the models for new physics searches at colliders and comment on further implications of the lepton number violating interactions plus sterile neutrino-standard model neutrino mixing.
0710.4476
Harri Niemi
K.J. Eskola, H. Niemi and P.V. Ruuskanen
Dynamical freeze-out condition in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
7 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Rev.C77:044907,2008
10.1103/PhysRevC.77.044907
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
We determine the decoupling surfaces for the hydrodynamic description of heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC by comparing the local hydrodynamic expansion rate with the microscopic pion-pion scattering rate. The pion $p_T$ spectra for nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are computed by applying the Cooper-Frye procedure on the dynamical-decoupling surfaces, and compared with those obtained from the constant-temperature freeze-out surfaces. Comparison with RHIC data shows that the system indeed decouples when the expansion rate becomes comparable with the pion scattering rate. The dynamical decoupling based on the rates comparison also suggests that the effective decoupling temperature in central heavy ion collisions remains practically unchanged from RHIC to LHC.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:10:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Eskola", "K. J.", "" ], [ "Niemi", "H.", "" ], [ "Ruuskanen", "P. V.", "" ] ]
We determine the decoupling surfaces for the hydrodynamic description of heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC by comparing the local hydrodynamic expansion rate with the microscopic pion-pion scattering rate. The pion $p_T$ spectra for nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are computed by applying the Cooper-Frye procedure on the dynamical-decoupling surfaces, and compared with those obtained from the constant-temperature freeze-out surfaces. Comparison with RHIC data shows that the system indeed decouples when the expansion rate becomes comparable with the pion scattering rate. The dynamical decoupling based on the rates comparison also suggests that the effective decoupling temperature in central heavy ion collisions remains practically unchanged from RHIC to LHC.
1801.03772
Max Zoller
Federico Buccioni, Stefano Pozzorini, Max Zoller
A new method for one-loop amplitude generation and reduction in OpenLoops
Contribution to the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology), 25-29 September, 2017, St. Gilgen, Austria
null
null
ZU-TH 02/18
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We describe a new method for the automated construction of one-loop amplitudes based on the open-loop algorithm, where various operations are performed on-the-fly while constructing the integrand. In particular, an on-the-fly reduction interleaved with the construction steps of the amplitude keeps the maximum tensor rank in the loop momentum at two throughout the algorithm, thus drastically reducing the complexity of the calculation. The full reduction to scalar integrals is unified with the amplitude construction in a single recursion within the OpenLoops framework. This approach strongly exploits the factorisation of one-loop integrands in a product of loop segments. The on-the-fly approach, which is also applied to helicity summation and the merging of different diagrams, increases the speed of the original open-loop algorithm in a very significant way. A remarkably high level of numerical stability is achieved by exploiting freedoms in reduction identities and through simple expansions in rank-two Gram determinants. These features are particularly attractive for NLO multi-leg and NNLO real-virtual calculations. The new algorithm will be made public in a forthcoming release of the OpenLoops program.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:22:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-01-12
[ [ "Buccioni", "Federico", "" ], [ "Pozzorini", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Zoller", "Max", "" ] ]
We describe a new method for the automated construction of one-loop amplitudes based on the open-loop algorithm, where various operations are performed on-the-fly while constructing the integrand. In particular, an on-the-fly reduction interleaved with the construction steps of the amplitude keeps the maximum tensor rank in the loop momentum at two throughout the algorithm, thus drastically reducing the complexity of the calculation. The full reduction to scalar integrals is unified with the amplitude construction in a single recursion within the OpenLoops framework. This approach strongly exploits the factorisation of one-loop integrands in a product of loop segments. The on-the-fly approach, which is also applied to helicity summation and the merging of different diagrams, increases the speed of the original open-loop algorithm in a very significant way. A remarkably high level of numerical stability is achieved by exploiting freedoms in reduction identities and through simple expansions in rank-two Gram determinants. These features are particularly attractive for NLO multi-leg and NNLO real-virtual calculations. The new algorithm will be made public in a forthcoming release of the OpenLoops program.
1601.01828
Debasish Borah
Debasish Borah, Sudhanwa Patra and Shibananda Sahoo
Subdominant Left-Right Scalar Dark Matter as Origin of the 750 GeV Di-photon Excess at LHC
32 pages, 12 figures, to appear in IJMPA
null
10.1142/S0217751X16500974
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the possibility of explaining the recently reported 750 GeV di-photon excess at LHC within the framework of a left-right symmetric model. The 750 GeV neutral scalar in the model is dominantly an admixture of neutral components of scalar bidoublets with a tiny fraction of neutral scalar triplet. Incorporating $SU(2)$ septuplet scalar pairs into the model, we enhance the partial decay width of the 750 GeV neutral scalar into di-photons through charged septuplet components in loop while keeping the neutral septuplet components as subdominant dark matter candidates. The model also predicts the decay width of the 750 GeV scalar to be around 36 GeV to be either confirmed or ruled out by future LHC data. The requirement of producing the correct di-photon signal automatically keeps the septuplet dark matter abundance subdominant in agreement with bounds from direct and indirect detection experiments. We then briefly discuss different possibilities to account for the remaining dark matter component of the Universe in terms of other particle candidates whose stability arise either due to remnant discrete symmetry after spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_{B-L}$ or due to high $SU(2)$-dimension forbidding their decay into lighter particles.
[ { "created": "Fri, 8 Jan 2016 10:55:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Jun 2016 08:45:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-07-20
[ [ "Borah", "Debasish", "" ], [ "Patra", "Sudhanwa", "" ], [ "Sahoo", "Shibananda", "" ] ]
We study the possibility of explaining the recently reported 750 GeV di-photon excess at LHC within the framework of a left-right symmetric model. The 750 GeV neutral scalar in the model is dominantly an admixture of neutral components of scalar bidoublets with a tiny fraction of neutral scalar triplet. Incorporating $SU(2)$ septuplet scalar pairs into the model, we enhance the partial decay width of the 750 GeV neutral scalar into di-photons through charged septuplet components in loop while keeping the neutral septuplet components as subdominant dark matter candidates. The model also predicts the decay width of the 750 GeV scalar to be around 36 GeV to be either confirmed or ruled out by future LHC data. The requirement of producing the correct di-photon signal automatically keeps the septuplet dark matter abundance subdominant in agreement with bounds from direct and indirect detection experiments. We then briefly discuss different possibilities to account for the remaining dark matter component of the Universe in terms of other particle candidates whose stability arise either due to remnant discrete symmetry after spontaneous breaking of $U(1)_{B-L}$ or due to high $SU(2)$-dimension forbidding their decay into lighter particles.
0805.3358
Christian Sturm
Christian Sturm
Moments of Heavy Quark Current Correlators at Four-Loop Order in Perturbative QCD
12 pages, 1 figure
JHEP 0809:075,2008
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/075
BNL-HET-08/12
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the result for the first moment of the scalar and axial-vector current correlator in third order of the strong coupling constant alpha_s and give the details of a recent evaluation of the pseudo-scalar correlator. The results can be used to reduce the theoretical uncertainty due to higher order corrections for the determination of fundamental parameters of QCD in the context of lattice calculations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 May 2008 23:33:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-01-06
[ [ "Sturm", "Christian", "" ] ]
We present the result for the first moment of the scalar and axial-vector current correlator in third order of the strong coupling constant alpha_s and give the details of a recent evaluation of the pseudo-scalar correlator. The results can be used to reduce the theoretical uncertainty due to higher order corrections for the determination of fundamental parameters of QCD in the context of lattice calculations.
hep-ph/0406274
Jusak Tandean
Jusak Tandean
Probing CP Violation in Omega->Lambda K->p pi K Decay
19 pages, 4 figures
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 076005
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.076005
SMU-HEP-04-06
hep-ph hep-ex
null
The sum of the CP-violating asymmetries A_Omega and A_Lambda in the decay sequence Omega->Lambda K, Lambda->p pi is presently being measured by the E871 experiment. We evaluate contributions to A_Omega from the standard model and from possible new physics, and find them to be smaller than the corresponding contributions to A_Lambda, although not negligibly so. We also show that the partial-rate asymmetry in Omega->Lambda K is nonvanishing due to final-state interactions. Taking into account constraints from kaon data, we discuss how the upcoming result of E871 and future measurements may probe the various contributions to the observables.
[ { "created": "Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:32:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Tandean", "Jusak", "" ] ]
The sum of the CP-violating asymmetries A_Omega and A_Lambda in the decay sequence Omega->Lambda K, Lambda->p pi is presently being measured by the E871 experiment. We evaluate contributions to A_Omega from the standard model and from possible new physics, and find them to be smaller than the corresponding contributions to A_Lambda, although not negligibly so. We also show that the partial-rate asymmetry in Omega->Lambda K is nonvanishing due to final-state interactions. Taking into account constraints from kaon data, we discuss how the upcoming result of E871 and future measurements may probe the various contributions to the observables.
1911.11771
WanLing Chang
Jiao Jiao Song, and Wan Ling Chang
Spin Density Matrix For Spin-3/2 Particles
11 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The description of particles with spin can be attained by using a spin density matrix in high energy reaction. In this paper we present a parametrization of the spin density matrix for spin -3/2 particles in the Cartesian form. Comparing the standard form which is given by the spherical tensor operator with the Cartesian form yields four equations for the spin polarizations. These four equations can be used to eliminate the dependent spin polarizations. We also present the probabilistic interpretations of these spin polarizations by defining the spin operator in the spherical coordinate frame. These results can be used in the cross section to calculate the hadron polarizations. To illustrate this, we calculate the inclusive electron-positron annihilation process in terms of spin polarizations.
[ { "created": "Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:46:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 2 May 2020 12:40:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-05-05
[ [ "Song", "Jiao Jiao", "" ], [ "Chang", "Wan Ling", "" ] ]
The description of particles with spin can be attained by using a spin density matrix in high energy reaction. In this paper we present a parametrization of the spin density matrix for spin -3/2 particles in the Cartesian form. Comparing the standard form which is given by the spherical tensor operator with the Cartesian form yields four equations for the spin polarizations. These four equations can be used to eliminate the dependent spin polarizations. We also present the probabilistic interpretations of these spin polarizations by defining the spin operator in the spherical coordinate frame. These results can be used in the cross section to calculate the hadron polarizations. To illustrate this, we calculate the inclusive electron-positron annihilation process in terms of spin polarizations.
hep-ph/9901376
E. R. Berger
E. R. Berger, A. Donnachie, H. G. Dosch, W. Kilian, O. Nachtmann, M. Rueter
Odderon and photon exchange in electroproduction of pseudoscalar mesons
20 pages, 7 figures
Eur.Phys.J.C9:491-501,1999
10.1007/s100529900067
HD--THEP--99--3, TAUP--2548--99
hep-ph
null
We investigate the reaction $e p \to e PS X$ where PS denotes a pseudoscalar meson $\pi^0, \eta, \eta'$, or $\eta_c$ and X either a proton or resonance or continuum states into which the proton can go by diffractive excitation. At high energies photon and odderon exchange contribute to the reaction. The photon exchange contribution is evaluated exactly using data for the total virtual photon-proton absorption cross section. The odderon exchange contribution is calculated in nonperturbative QCD, using functional integral techniques and the model of the stochastic vacuum. For the proton we assume a quark-diquark structure as suggested by the small odderon amplitude in $pp$ and $p \bar{p}$ forward scattering. We show that odderon exchange leads to a much larger inelastic than elastic PS production cross section. Observation of our reaction at HERA would establish the soft odderon as an exchange object on an equal footing with the soft pomeron and would give us valuable insight into both the nucleon structure and the mechanism of high energy diffractive scattering.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:51:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Berger", "E. R.", "" ], [ "Donnachie", "A.", "" ], [ "Dosch", "H. G.", "" ], [ "Kilian", "W.", "" ], [ "Nachtmann", "O.", "" ], [ "Rueter", "M.", "" ] ]
We investigate the reaction $e p \to e PS X$ where PS denotes a pseudoscalar meson $\pi^0, \eta, \eta'$, or $\eta_c$ and X either a proton or resonance or continuum states into which the proton can go by diffractive excitation. At high energies photon and odderon exchange contribute to the reaction. The photon exchange contribution is evaluated exactly using data for the total virtual photon-proton absorption cross section. The odderon exchange contribution is calculated in nonperturbative QCD, using functional integral techniques and the model of the stochastic vacuum. For the proton we assume a quark-diquark structure as suggested by the small odderon amplitude in $pp$ and $p \bar{p}$ forward scattering. We show that odderon exchange leads to a much larger inelastic than elastic PS production cross section. Observation of our reaction at HERA would establish the soft odderon as an exchange object on an equal footing with the soft pomeron and would give us valuable insight into both the nucleon structure and the mechanism of high energy diffractive scattering.
0809.1302
Stefano Actis
S. Actis, G. Passarino, C. Sturm, S. Uccirati
Two-Loop Threshold Singularities, Unstable Particles and Complex Masses
LaTeX, 12 pages, 7 figures
Phys.Lett.B669:62-68,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.09.028
PITHA 08/21, SFB/CPP-08-63, TTP08-39
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The effect of threshold singularities induced by unstable particles on two-loop observables is investigated and it is shown how to cure them working in the complex-mass scheme. The impact on radiative corrections around thresholds is thoroughly analyzed and shown to be relevant for two selected LHC and ILC applications: Higgs production via gluon fusion and decay into two photons at two loops in the Standard Model. Concerning Higgs production, it is essential to understand possible sources of large corrections in addition to the well-known QCD effects. It is shown that NLO electroweak corrections can incongruently reach a 10 % level around the WW vector-boson threshold without a complete implementation of the complex-mass scheme in the two-loop calculation.
[ { "created": "Mon, 8 Sep 2008 09:42:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Actis", "S.", "" ], [ "Passarino", "G.", "" ], [ "Sturm", "C.", "" ], [ "Uccirati", "S.", "" ] ]
The effect of threshold singularities induced by unstable particles on two-loop observables is investigated and it is shown how to cure them working in the complex-mass scheme. The impact on radiative corrections around thresholds is thoroughly analyzed and shown to be relevant for two selected LHC and ILC applications: Higgs production via gluon fusion and decay into two photons at two loops in the Standard Model. Concerning Higgs production, it is essential to understand possible sources of large corrections in addition to the well-known QCD effects. It is shown that NLO electroweak corrections can incongruently reach a 10 % level around the WW vector-boson threshold without a complete implementation of the complex-mass scheme in the two-loop calculation.
2009.02723
Yuming Wang
Yue-Long Shen, Yu-Ming Wang, Yan-Bing Wei
Precision calculations of the double radiative bottom-meson decays in soft-collinear effective theory
58 pages, 7 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP12(2020)169
null
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Employing the systematic framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) we perform an improved calculation of the leading-power contributions to the double radiative $B_{d, \, s}$-meson decay amplitudes in the heavy quark expansion. We then construct the QCD factorization formulae for the subleading power contributions arising from the energetic photon radiation off the constituent light-flavour quark of the bottom meson at tree level. Furthermore, we explore the factorization properties of the subleading power correction from the effective SCET current $J^{(A2)}$ at ${\cal O} (\alpha_s^0)$. The higher-twist contributions to the $B_{d, \, s} \to \gamma \gamma $ helicity form factors from the two-particle and three-particle bottom-meson distribution amplitudes are evaluated up to the twist-six accuracy. In addition, the subleading power weak-annihilation contributions from both the current-current and QCD penguin operators are taken into account at the one-loop accuracy. We proceed to apply the operator-production-expansion-controlled dispersion relation for estimating the power-suppressed soft contributions to the double radiative $B_{d, \, s}$-meson decay form factors. Phenomenological explorations of the radiative $B_{d, \, s} \to \gamma \, \gamma$ decay observables in the presence of the neutral-meson mixing, including the CP-averaged branching fractions, the polarization fractions and the time-dependent CP asymmetries, are carried out subsequently with an emphasis on the numerical impacts of the newly computed ingredients together with the theory uncertainties from the shape parameters of the HQET bottom-meson distribution amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Sun, 6 Sep 2020 12:48:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-02-03
[ [ "Shen", "Yue-Long", "" ], [ "Wang", "Yu-Ming", "" ], [ "Wei", "Yan-Bing", "" ] ]
Employing the systematic framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) we perform an improved calculation of the leading-power contributions to the double radiative $B_{d, \, s}$-meson decay amplitudes in the heavy quark expansion. We then construct the QCD factorization formulae for the subleading power contributions arising from the energetic photon radiation off the constituent light-flavour quark of the bottom meson at tree level. Furthermore, we explore the factorization properties of the subleading power correction from the effective SCET current $J^{(A2)}$ at ${\cal O} (\alpha_s^0)$. The higher-twist contributions to the $B_{d, \, s} \to \gamma \gamma $ helicity form factors from the two-particle and three-particle bottom-meson distribution amplitudes are evaluated up to the twist-six accuracy. In addition, the subleading power weak-annihilation contributions from both the current-current and QCD penguin operators are taken into account at the one-loop accuracy. We proceed to apply the operator-production-expansion-controlled dispersion relation for estimating the power-suppressed soft contributions to the double radiative $B_{d, \, s}$-meson decay form factors. Phenomenological explorations of the radiative $B_{d, \, s} \to \gamma \, \gamma$ decay observables in the presence of the neutral-meson mixing, including the CP-averaged branching fractions, the polarization fractions and the time-dependent CP asymmetries, are carried out subsequently with an emphasis on the numerical impacts of the newly computed ingredients together with the theory uncertainties from the shape parameters of the HQET bottom-meson distribution amplitudes.
2407.14673
Girish Kumar
Girish Kumar, Alexey A. Petrov
Constraints on light dark sector particles from lifetime difference of heavy neutral mesons
18 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Heavy meson decays with missing energy in the final state offer interesting avenues to search for light invisible new physics such as dark matter (DM). In this context, we show that such NP interactions also affect lifetime difference in neutral meson-antimeson mixing. We consider general dimension-six effective quark interactions involving a pair of DM particles and calculate their contributions to lifetime difference in beauty and charm meson systems. We use the latest data on mixing observables to constrain the relevant effective operators. We find that lifetime differences provide novel and complementary flavor constraints compared to those obtained from heavy meson decays.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:28:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-07-23
[ [ "Kumar", "Girish", "" ], [ "Petrov", "Alexey A.", "" ] ]
Heavy meson decays with missing energy in the final state offer interesting avenues to search for light invisible new physics such as dark matter (DM). In this context, we show that such NP interactions also affect lifetime difference in neutral meson-antimeson mixing. We consider general dimension-six effective quark interactions involving a pair of DM particles and calculate their contributions to lifetime difference in beauty and charm meson systems. We use the latest data on mixing observables to constrain the relevant effective operators. We find that lifetime differences provide novel and complementary flavor constraints compared to those obtained from heavy meson decays.
hep-ph/9712515
Hitoshi Murayama
Lawrence J. Hall, Takeo Moroi and Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley, LBNL)
Sneutrino Cold Dark Matter With Lepton-Number Violation
15 pages, 3 figures, uses psfig
Phys.Lett.B424:305-312,1998
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00196-8
UCB-PTH-97/69, LBNL-41199
hep-ph astro-ph hep-ex
null
The tau sneutrino is proposed as a candidate for galactic halo dark matter, and as the cold dark matter (CDM) component of the universe. A lepton-number-violating sneutrino mass, \tilde{\nu}\tilde{\nu}, splits the tau sneutrino into two mass eigenstates: \tilde{\nu} \rightarrow \tilde{\nu}_\pm. The absence of a Z \tilde{\nu}_- \tilde{\nu}_- coupling implies that the lighter mass eignestate, \tilde{\nu}_-, does not annihilate via the s-channel Z-exchange to a low cosmological abundance, and furthermore, halo sneutrinos do not scatter excessively in Ge detectors. For the majority of the relevant parameter space, the event rate in Ge detectors is \geq 10^{-2} events/kg/day. The lepton number violation required for sneutrino CDM implies that the tau neutrino mass is m_{\nu_\tau} \gtrsim 5 MeV, large enough to be excluded by B factory experiments. Events of the form l^+ l^- \not E or jj \not E , with low m_{ll} or m_{jj}, may be observed at LEP2. A seesaw mechanism is investigated as the origin for the lepton number violation, and several other cosmological and particle physics consequences of sneutrino CDM are discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Dec 1997 00:55:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Hall", "Lawrence J.", "", "UC Berkeley, LBNL" ], [ "Moroi", "Takeo", "", "UC Berkeley, LBNL" ], [ "Murayama", "Hitoshi", "", "UC Berkeley, LBNL" ] ]
The tau sneutrino is proposed as a candidate for galactic halo dark matter, and as the cold dark matter (CDM) component of the universe. A lepton-number-violating sneutrino mass, \tilde{\nu}\tilde{\nu}, splits the tau sneutrino into two mass eigenstates: \tilde{\nu} \rightarrow \tilde{\nu}_\pm. The absence of a Z \tilde{\nu}_- \tilde{\nu}_- coupling implies that the lighter mass eignestate, \tilde{\nu}_-, does not annihilate via the s-channel Z-exchange to a low cosmological abundance, and furthermore, halo sneutrinos do not scatter excessively in Ge detectors. For the majority of the relevant parameter space, the event rate in Ge detectors is \geq 10^{-2} events/kg/day. The lepton number violation required for sneutrino CDM implies that the tau neutrino mass is m_{\nu_\tau} \gtrsim 5 MeV, large enough to be excluded by B factory experiments. Events of the form l^+ l^- \not E or jj \not E , with low m_{ll} or m_{jj}, may be observed at LEP2. A seesaw mechanism is investigated as the origin for the lepton number violation, and several other cosmological and particle physics consequences of sneutrino CDM are discussed.
2203.10089
Simon Knapen
Rouven Essig, Yonatan Kahn, Simon Knapen, Andreas Ringwald, Natalia Toro
Snowmass2021 Theory Frontier: Theory Meets the Lab
solicited contribution to snowmass TF09, 23 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We review how theorists have been instrumental in launching and developing new experiments in the last decade, and comment on the challenges and opportunities for this program to continue to thrive going forward. This whitepaper is a solicited contribution to the Snowmass2021 Theory Frontier.
[ { "created": "Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:57:09 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-03-21
[ [ "Essig", "Rouven", "" ], [ "Kahn", "Yonatan", "" ], [ "Knapen", "Simon", "" ], [ "Ringwald", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Toro", "Natalia", "" ] ]
We review how theorists have been instrumental in launching and developing new experiments in the last decade, and comment on the challenges and opportunities for this program to continue to thrive going forward. This whitepaper is a solicited contribution to the Snowmass2021 Theory Frontier.
hep-ph/0306190
Alan Kostelecky
Robert Bluhm, Alan Kostelecky, Charles Lane, Neil Russell
Probing Lorentz and CPT violation with space-based experiments
15 pages
Phys.Rev.D68:125008,2003
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.125008
IUHET 455, June 2003
hep-ph
null
Space-based experiments offer sensitivity to numerous unmeasured effects involving Lorentz and CPT violation. We provide a classification of clock sensitivities and present explicit expressions for time variations arising in such experiments from nonzero coefficients in the Lorentz- and CPT-violating Standard-Model Extension.
[ { "created": "Fri, 20 Jun 2003 19:23:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Bluhm", "Robert", "" ], [ "Kostelecky", "Alan", "" ], [ "Lane", "Charles", "" ], [ "Russell", "Neil", "" ] ]
Space-based experiments offer sensitivity to numerous unmeasured effects involving Lorentz and CPT violation. We provide a classification of clock sensitivities and present explicit expressions for time variations arising in such experiments from nonzero coefficients in the Lorentz- and CPT-violating Standard-Model Extension.
1203.6321
Massimiliano Grazzini
D. de Florian, G. Ferrera, M. Grazzini, D. Tommasini
Higgs boson production at the LHC: transverse momentum resummation effects in the H->2gamma, H->WW->lnu lnu and H->ZZ->4l decay modes
22 pages, 18 postscript figures
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2012)132
ZU-TH 04/12; IFUM-993-FT
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider Standard Model Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We combine the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the inclusive cross section with the resummation of multiple soft-gluon emissions at small transverse momenta up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The calculation is implemented in the numerical program HRes and allows us to retain the full kinematics of the Higgs boson and of its decay products. We present selected numerical results for the signal cross section at the LHC (\sqrt{s}=8 TeV), in the H->2gamma, H->WW->lnu lnu and H->ZZ->4l decay channels by using the nominal cuts applied in current Higgs boson searches by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:34:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-04
[ [ "de Florian", "D.", "" ], [ "Ferrera", "G.", "" ], [ "Grazzini", "M.", "" ], [ "Tommasini", "D.", "" ] ]
We consider Standard Model Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We combine the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the inclusive cross section with the resummation of multiple soft-gluon emissions at small transverse momenta up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The calculation is implemented in the numerical program HRes and allows us to retain the full kinematics of the Higgs boson and of its decay products. We present selected numerical results for the signal cross section at the LHC (\sqrt{s}=8 TeV), in the H->2gamma, H->WW->lnu lnu and H->ZZ->4l decay channels by using the nominal cuts applied in current Higgs boson searches by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations.
1104.5389
Xing Huang
Xing Huang
Anomaly Puzzle, Curved-Spacetime Spinor Hamiltonian, and String Phenomenology
PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the first part of this dissertation, we study two different aspects of string phenomenology. First we discuss the complementary signals of low mass superstrings at the proposed electron-positron facilities (ILC and CLIC), in e+e- and {\gamma} {\gamma} collisions. We examine all relevant four-particle amplitudes evaluated at the center of mass energies near the mass of lightest Regge excitations and extract the corresponding pole terms. Secondly, we consider string realizations of the Randall-Sundrum effective theory and explore the search for the lowest massive Regge excitation of the gluon and of the extra (color singlet) gauge boson inherent of D-brane constructions. We also study the ratio of dijet mass spectra at small and large scattering angles. We show that with the first fb-1 such a ratio can probe lowest-lying Regge states for masses ~3.0 TeV. Finally, we propose that the 3.2$\sigma$ excess at about $140 {\rm GeV}$ in the dijet mass spectrum of $W$ + jets reproted by the CDF Collaboration originates in the decay of a leptophobic $Z'$ that can be related to the U(1) symmetries inherent of D-brane models. In the remaining parts of this dissertation, we discuss several points that may help to clarify some questions that remain about the anomaly puzzle in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and we investigate the issue that the Dirac Hamiltonian of a spin-1/2 particle in a curved background appears to be non-hermitian.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:39:05 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-04-29
[ [ "Huang", "Xing", "" ] ]
In the first part of this dissertation, we study two different aspects of string phenomenology. First we discuss the complementary signals of low mass superstrings at the proposed electron-positron facilities (ILC and CLIC), in e+e- and {\gamma} {\gamma} collisions. We examine all relevant four-particle amplitudes evaluated at the center of mass energies near the mass of lightest Regge excitations and extract the corresponding pole terms. Secondly, we consider string realizations of the Randall-Sundrum effective theory and explore the search for the lowest massive Regge excitation of the gluon and of the extra (color singlet) gauge boson inherent of D-brane constructions. We also study the ratio of dijet mass spectra at small and large scattering angles. We show that with the first fb-1 such a ratio can probe lowest-lying Regge states for masses ~3.0 TeV. Finally, we propose that the 3.2$\sigma$ excess at about $140 {\rm GeV}$ in the dijet mass spectrum of $W$ + jets reproted by the CDF Collaboration originates in the decay of a leptophobic $Z'$ that can be related to the U(1) symmetries inherent of D-brane models. In the remaining parts of this dissertation, we discuss several points that may help to clarify some questions that remain about the anomaly puzzle in N=1 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and we investigate the issue that the Dirac Hamiltonian of a spin-1/2 particle in a curved background appears to be non-hermitian.
1512.07141
Alexander Manashov
I.V. Anikin, A.N. Manashov
Baryon octet distribution amplitudes in Wandzura-Wilczek approximation
7 pages
Phys. Rev. D 93, 034024 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.034024
DESY 15-254
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study higher twist distribution amplitudes for the SU_F(3) baryon octet. We identify independent functions for all baryons in the isospin symmetry limit and calculate the Wandzura-Wilczek contributions to the twist-4 and 5 distributions amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:11:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-02-17
[ [ "Anikin", "I. V.", "" ], [ "Manashov", "A. N.", "" ] ]
We study higher twist distribution amplitudes for the SU_F(3) baryon octet. We identify independent functions for all baryons in the isospin symmetry limit and calculate the Wandzura-Wilczek contributions to the twist-4 and 5 distributions amplitudes.
hep-ph/9806466
Serguey Petcov
S. T. Petcov
The Solar Neutrino Problem and Solar Neutrino Oscillations in Vacuum and in Matter
48 pages, LATEX file, the text includes 11 figures. Lectures given at the 36 International School on Nuclear and Particle Physics, March 1 - 8, 1997, Schladming, Austria; to be published in the Proceedings of the School
Lect.Notes Phys.512:281-328,1998
10.1007/BFb0106897
SISSA 30/98/EP
hep-ph
null
The solar neutrino problem is reviewed and the possible vacuum oscillation and MSW solutions of the problem are considered.
[ { "created": "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:52:17 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Petcov", "S. T.", "" ] ]
The solar neutrino problem is reviewed and the possible vacuum oscillation and MSW solutions of the problem are considered.
hep-ph/0307220
Andrey Grozin
A. G. Grozin
Perturbative HQET
17 pages, 13 figures. Lectures at Int. School on Heavy Quark Physics, Dubna, 27 May - 5 June 2002
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Methods of calculation of loop diagrams in Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) are presented.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:23:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Grozin", "A. G.", "" ] ]
Methods of calculation of loop diagrams in Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) are presented.
1803.02835
Chen Sun
Nick Houston, Tianjun Li, Chen Sun
A new solar neutrino channel for grand-unification monopole searches
27 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2018/10/034
null
hep-ph astro-ph.HE astro-ph.SR
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We identify a previously untapped discovery channel for grand-unification monopoles, arising from their ability to catalyse the direct decay of protons into monoenergetic 459 MeV antineutrinos within the Sun. Previous analyses omit this possibility as it necessarily involves an electroweak suppression factor, and instead search for the unsuppressed 20-50 MeV neutrinos produced via two-stage proton decays. By accounting for the relative difference in interaction cross section and experimental background at typical neutrino detection experiments, we demonstrate that this new channel in fact possesses greater discovery potential. As a case in point, using 5326 live days of Super-Kamiokande exposure we find that $2\;\sigma$ ($3\;\sigma$) deviations in the 20-50 MeV channel are amplified to $3\;\sigma$ ($4.6\;\sigma$) deviations in the 459 MeV case. Exploiting correlations between these two channels may also offer even greater statistical power.
[ { "created": "Wed, 7 Mar 2018 19:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-10-24
[ [ "Houston", "Nick", "" ], [ "Li", "Tianjun", "" ], [ "Sun", "Chen", "" ] ]
We identify a previously untapped discovery channel for grand-unification monopoles, arising from their ability to catalyse the direct decay of protons into monoenergetic 459 MeV antineutrinos within the Sun. Previous analyses omit this possibility as it necessarily involves an electroweak suppression factor, and instead search for the unsuppressed 20-50 MeV neutrinos produced via two-stage proton decays. By accounting for the relative difference in interaction cross section and experimental background at typical neutrino detection experiments, we demonstrate that this new channel in fact possesses greater discovery potential. As a case in point, using 5326 live days of Super-Kamiokande exposure we find that $2\;\sigma$ ($3\;\sigma$) deviations in the 20-50 MeV channel are amplified to $3\;\sigma$ ($4.6\;\sigma$) deviations in the 459 MeV case. Exploiting correlations between these two channels may also offer even greater statistical power.
1010.1415
Gian Francesco Giudice
Gia Dvali, Gian F. Giudice, Cesar Gomez, Alex Kehagias
UV-Completion by Classicalization
37 pages
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2011)108
CERN-PH-TH/2010-226
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We suggest a novel approach to UV-completion of a class of non-renormalizable theories, according to which the high-energy scattering amplitudes get unitarized by production of extended classical objects (classicalons), playing a role analogous to black holes, in the case of non-gravitational theories. The key property of classicalization is the existence of a classicalizer field that couples to energy-momentum sources. Such localized sources are excited in high-energy scattering processes and lead to the formation of classicalons. Two kinds of natural classicalizers are Nambu-Goldstone bosons (or, equivalently, longitudinal polarizations of massive gauge fields) and scalars coupled to energy-momentum type sources. Classicalization has interesting phenomenological applications for the UV-completion of the Standard Model both with or without the Higgs. In the Higgless Standard Model the high-energy scattering amplitudes of longitudinal $W$-bosons self-unitarize via classicalization, without the help of any new weakly-coupled physics. Alternatively, in the presence of a Higgs boson, classicalization could explain the stabilization of the hierarchy. In both scenarios the high-energy scatterings are dominated by the formation of classicalons, which subsequently decay into many particle states. The experimental signatures at the LHC are quite distinctive, with sharp differences in the two cases.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:42:56 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:06:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-05-20
[ [ "Dvali", "Gia", "" ], [ "Giudice", "Gian F.", "" ], [ "Gomez", "Cesar", "" ], [ "Kehagias", "Alex", "" ] ]
We suggest a novel approach to UV-completion of a class of non-renormalizable theories, according to which the high-energy scattering amplitudes get unitarized by production of extended classical objects (classicalons), playing a role analogous to black holes, in the case of non-gravitational theories. The key property of classicalization is the existence of a classicalizer field that couples to energy-momentum sources. Such localized sources are excited in high-energy scattering processes and lead to the formation of classicalons. Two kinds of natural classicalizers are Nambu-Goldstone bosons (or, equivalently, longitudinal polarizations of massive gauge fields) and scalars coupled to energy-momentum type sources. Classicalization has interesting phenomenological applications for the UV-completion of the Standard Model both with or without the Higgs. In the Higgless Standard Model the high-energy scattering amplitudes of longitudinal $W$-bosons self-unitarize via classicalization, without the help of any new weakly-coupled physics. Alternatively, in the presence of a Higgs boson, classicalization could explain the stabilization of the hierarchy. In both scenarios the high-energy scatterings are dominated by the formation of classicalons, which subsequently decay into many particle states. The experimental signatures at the LHC are quite distinctive, with sharp differences in the two cases.
2007.10875
Minh Nguyen
Tony Gherghetta, Minh D. Nguyen
A Composite Higgs with a Heavy Composite Axion
44 pages, 6 figures, v2: minor changes, version published in JHEP
JHEP 12 (2020) 094
10.1007/JHEP12(2020)094
UMN--TH--3923/20
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
We consider the strong dynamics associated with a composite Higgs model that simultaneously produces dynamical axions and solves the strong CP problem. The strong dynamics arises from a new $Sp$ or $SU(4)$ hypercolor gauge group containing QCD colored hyperfermions that confines at a high scale. The hypercolor global symmetry is weakly gauged by the Standard Model electroweak gauge group and an enlarged color group, $SU(N+3) \times SU(N)'$. When hyperfermion condensates form, they not only lead to an $SU(5)/SO(5)$ composite Higgs model but also spontaneously break the enlarged color group to $SU(3)_c \times SU(N)_D$. At lower energies, the $SU(N)_D$ group confines, producing two dynamical axions that eliminates all CP violation. Furthermore, small instantons from the $SU(N)'$ group can enhance the axion mass, giving rise to TeV scale axion masses that can be detected at collider experiments. Our model provides a way to unify the composite Higgs with dynamical axions, without introducing new elementary scalar fields, while also extending the range of axion masses that addresses the strong CP problem.
[ { "created": "Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:06:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:24:17 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-12-24
[ [ "Gherghetta", "Tony", "" ], [ "Nguyen", "Minh D.", "" ] ]
We consider the strong dynamics associated with a composite Higgs model that simultaneously produces dynamical axions and solves the strong CP problem. The strong dynamics arises from a new $Sp$ or $SU(4)$ hypercolor gauge group containing QCD colored hyperfermions that confines at a high scale. The hypercolor global symmetry is weakly gauged by the Standard Model electroweak gauge group and an enlarged color group, $SU(N+3) \times SU(N)'$. When hyperfermion condensates form, they not only lead to an $SU(5)/SO(5)$ composite Higgs model but also spontaneously break the enlarged color group to $SU(3)_c \times SU(N)_D$. At lower energies, the $SU(N)_D$ group confines, producing two dynamical axions that eliminates all CP violation. Furthermore, small instantons from the $SU(N)'$ group can enhance the axion mass, giving rise to TeV scale axion masses that can be detected at collider experiments. Our model provides a way to unify the composite Higgs with dynamical axions, without introducing new elementary scalar fields, while also extending the range of axion masses that addresses the strong CP problem.
0908.3344
Ralf Rapp
Ralf Rapp
Dileptons, Charm and Charmonium at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential
15 pages, 24 figures, Proc. of 5. Int. Conf. on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement, BNL, June 08-12, 2009
PoS CPOD2009:040,2009
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss how dileptons, open charm and charmonia may be utilized in heavy-ion collisions to extract information specific to hot and dense matter at finite quark chemical potential, $\mu_q$. For each observable we briefly discuss underlying theoretical frameworks and the current status in interpreting available heavy-ion data at SPS and RHIC energies. Low-mass dileptons are particularly sensitive to baryonic medium effects in spectral modifications of the $\rho$ meson, and may serve as an accurate measure of the fireball lifetime. In the open-charm sector, observable signals may be generated by a ``critical'' enhancement of scattering rates via $t$-channel exchange of a soft $\sigma$ mode. For charmonia, finite-$T$ potential models could be used to extrapolate color-screening effects to finite $\mu_q$ to facilitate a quantitative evaluation of dissociation rates in the medium.
[ { "created": "Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:12:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Rapp", "Ralf", "" ] ]
We discuss how dileptons, open charm and charmonia may be utilized in heavy-ion collisions to extract information specific to hot and dense matter at finite quark chemical potential, $\mu_q$. For each observable we briefly discuss underlying theoretical frameworks and the current status in interpreting available heavy-ion data at SPS and RHIC energies. Low-mass dileptons are particularly sensitive to baryonic medium effects in spectral modifications of the $\rho$ meson, and may serve as an accurate measure of the fireball lifetime. In the open-charm sector, observable signals may be generated by a ``critical'' enhancement of scattering rates via $t$-channel exchange of a soft $\sigma$ mode. For charmonia, finite-$T$ potential models could be used to extrapolate color-screening effects to finite $\mu_q$ to facilitate a quantitative evaluation of dissociation rates in the medium.
hep-ph/0010295
Sheldon Stone
Sheldon Stone
Pathological Science
Presented at Theoretical Advanced Study Institute In Elementary Particle Physics (Tasi), University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado June, 2000. To appear in the proceedings. (10/31/2000 - Fixed a reference.)
null
10.1142/9789812811509_0015
SUHEP 00-09
hep-ph hep-ex
null
I discuss examples of what Dr. Irving Langmuir, a Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, called "the science of things that aren't so." Some of his examples are reviewed and others from High Energy Physics are added. It is hoped that discussing these incidents will help us develop an understanding of some potential pitfalls.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:28:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:21:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Stone", "Sheldon", "" ] ]
I discuss examples of what Dr. Irving Langmuir, a Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, called "the science of things that aren't so." Some of his examples are reviewed and others from High Energy Physics are added. It is hoped that discussing these incidents will help us develop an understanding of some potential pitfalls.
1111.6768
Nathan Hartland
Francesco Cerutti and Nathan Hartland
The NNPDF2.2 Parton Set
6 pages, Talk given at the International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT), Uxbridge, London, September 2011
null
10.1088/1742-6596/368/1/012063
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a method developed by the NNPDF Collaboration that allows the inclusion of new experimental data into an existing set of parton distribution functions without the need for a complete refit. A Monte Carlo ensemble of PDFs may be updated by assigning each member of the ensemble a unique weight determined by Bayesian inference. The reweighted ensemble therefore represents the probability density of PDFs conditional on both the old and new data. This method is applied to the inclusion of W-lepton asymmetry data into the NNPDF2.1 fit producing a new PDF set, NNPDF2.2.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:23:19 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:52:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Cerutti", "Francesco", "" ], [ "Hartland", "Nathan", "" ] ]
We present a method developed by the NNPDF Collaboration that allows the inclusion of new experimental data into an existing set of parton distribution functions without the need for a complete refit. A Monte Carlo ensemble of PDFs may be updated by assigning each member of the ensemble a unique weight determined by Bayesian inference. The reweighted ensemble therefore represents the probability density of PDFs conditional on both the old and new data. This method is applied to the inclusion of W-lepton asymmetry data into the NNPDF2.1 fit producing a new PDF set, NNPDF2.2.
1606.03102
Mandip Singh
Mandip Singh
Neutrino mass hierarchy and \delta^{CP} investigation within the biprobability (P-P^T ) plane
16 pages,7 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This article illustrates the possibility of investigating mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase \delta^{CP}, in the context of CP trajectory diagrams in the bi-probability plane. Separation between normal mass hierarchy (NH) and inverted mass hierarchy (IH) CP trajectory ellipses in the P-P^T plane seems to be very promising in order to investigate mass hierarchy. Illustration of separation between two hierarchy ellipses in the E-L plane is very helping to cover all the desired base lines and beam energies and also to analyze benefits and drawbacks at single place. If we know the mass hierarchy, then from the large sizes of CP trajectory ellipse which is possible at appropriately long base line (L) and at specific value of beam energy (E), it becomes possible to investigate at-least narrow ranges of CP/T-violating phase \delta^{CP}. The Possibility of more than one set of (\theta_{13}; \delta^{CP}) parameters to correspond to any chosen coordinate in P-P^T plane, known as parameter degeneracy, may hinder exact determination of mass hierarchy as well as \delta^{CP} value. To circumvent this degeneracy in the (\theta_{13}; \delta^{CP}) parameter space, in case of opposite sign solutions corresponding to NH and IH case points toward the need of sufficiently long base lines, so as to separate opposite hierarchy ellipses to observable separation, and in case of same sign solutions corresponding to either NH or IH, we need to choose an experimental configuration with L = 2,535 Km, E = 5 GeV for n=1 scenario.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Jun 2016 20:03:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-06-13
[ [ "Singh", "Mandip", "" ] ]
This article illustrates the possibility of investigating mass hierarchy and CP-violating phase \delta^{CP}, in the context of CP trajectory diagrams in the bi-probability plane. Separation between normal mass hierarchy (NH) and inverted mass hierarchy (IH) CP trajectory ellipses in the P-P^T plane seems to be very promising in order to investigate mass hierarchy. Illustration of separation between two hierarchy ellipses in the E-L plane is very helping to cover all the desired base lines and beam energies and also to analyze benefits and drawbacks at single place. If we know the mass hierarchy, then from the large sizes of CP trajectory ellipse which is possible at appropriately long base line (L) and at specific value of beam energy (E), it becomes possible to investigate at-least narrow ranges of CP/T-violating phase \delta^{CP}. The Possibility of more than one set of (\theta_{13}; \delta^{CP}) parameters to correspond to any chosen coordinate in P-P^T plane, known as parameter degeneracy, may hinder exact determination of mass hierarchy as well as \delta^{CP} value. To circumvent this degeneracy in the (\theta_{13}; \delta^{CP}) parameter space, in case of opposite sign solutions corresponding to NH and IH case points toward the need of sufficiently long base lines, so as to separate opposite hierarchy ellipses to observable separation, and in case of same sign solutions corresponding to either NH or IH, we need to choose an experimental configuration with L = 2,535 Km, E = 5 GeV for n=1 scenario.
2102.01871
Suo Tang
Suo Tang
Generation of quasi-monoenergetic positron beams in chirped laser fields
null
Phys. Rev. A 104, 022209 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevA.104.022209
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
High energy photons can decay to electron-positron pairs via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process when colliding with an intense laser pulse. The energy spectrum of the produced particles is broadened because of the variation of their effective mass in the course of the laser pulse. Applying a suitable chirp to the laser pulse can narrow the energy distribution of the generated electrons and positrons. We present a scenario where a high-energy electron beam is collided with a chirped laser pulse to generate a beam of quasi-monoenergetic $\gamma$-photons, which then decay in a second chirped, UV pulse to produce a quasi-monoenergetic source of high-energy electrons and positrons.
[ { "created": "Wed, 3 Feb 2021 04:20:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-08-25
[ [ "Tang", "Suo", "" ] ]
High energy photons can decay to electron-positron pairs via the nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process when colliding with an intense laser pulse. The energy spectrum of the produced particles is broadened because of the variation of their effective mass in the course of the laser pulse. Applying a suitable chirp to the laser pulse can narrow the energy distribution of the generated electrons and positrons. We present a scenario where a high-energy electron beam is collided with a chirped laser pulse to generate a beam of quasi-monoenergetic $\gamma$-photons, which then decay in a second chirped, UV pulse to produce a quasi-monoenergetic source of high-energy electrons and positrons.
1901.04901
Marek Sch\"onherr
Marek Sch\"onherr
Modelling and tuning in top quark physics
5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, contribution to the TOP2018 conference proceedings
null
null
IPPP/19/4
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this proceedings I discuss the general strategy and impact of tuning Monte-Carlo event generators for physics processes involving top quarks. Special emphasis is put on disinguishing the different usages of event generators in the experiments and the subsequent implications on the tuning process. The current status of determining tune uncertainties is also discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:10:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-01-16
[ [ "Schönherr", "Marek", "" ] ]
In this proceedings I discuss the general strategy and impact of tuning Monte-Carlo event generators for physics processes involving top quarks. Special emphasis is put on disinguishing the different usages of event generators in the experiments and the subsequent implications on the tuning process. The current status of determining tune uncertainties is also discussed.
2109.02671
Maria Ubiali Dr
Richard D. Ball, Stefano Carrazza, Juan Cruz-Martinez, Luigi Del Debbio, Stefano Forte, Tommaso Giani, Shayan Iranipour, Zahari Kassabov, Jose I. Latorre, Emanuele R. Nocera, Rosalyn L. Pearson, Juan Rojo, Roy Stegeman, Christopher Schwan, Maria Ubiali, Cameron Voisey and Michael Wilson
An open-source machine learning framework for global analyses of parton distributions
14 pages, 4 figures. A companion paper describes the NNPDF4.0 PDFs
null
null
Edinburgh 2021/13, Nikhef-2021-020, TIF-UNIMI-2021-12
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We present the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code base is composed by a PDF fitting package, tools to handle experimental data and to efficiently compare it to theoretical predictions, and a versatile analysis framework. In addition to ensuring the reproducibility of the NNPDF4.0 (and subsequent) determination, the public release of the NNPDF fitting framework enables a number of phenomenological applications and the production of PDF fits under user-defined data and theory assumptions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Sep 2021 18:00:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-09-08
[ [ "Ball", "Richard D.", "" ], [ "Carrazza", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Cruz-Martinez", "Juan", "" ], [ "Del Debbio", "Luigi", "" ], [ "Forte", "Stefano", "" ], [ "Giani", "Tommaso", "" ], [ "Iranipour", "Shayan", ""...
We present the software framework underlying the NNPDF4.0 global determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs). The code is released under an open source licence and is accompanied by extensive documentation and examples. The code base is composed by a PDF fitting package, tools to handle experimental data and to efficiently compare it to theoretical predictions, and a versatile analysis framework. In addition to ensuring the reproducibility of the NNPDF4.0 (and subsequent) determination, the public release of the NNPDF fitting framework enables a number of phenomenological applications and the production of PDF fits under user-defined data and theory assumptions.
1101.2437
Wujun Huo Dr
Qin XiuMei, Wujun Huo, Xiaofang Yang
New Physics effects on decay $B_s \to \gamma\gamma$ in Technicolor Model
9 pages, 4 figures
Chin. Phys. C33:252-255, 2009
10.1088/1674-1137/33/4/003
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
In this paper we calculate the contributions to the branching ratio of $B_s \to \gamma\gamma$ from the charged Pseudo-Goldstone bosons appeared in one generation Technicolor model. We find that the theoretical values of the branching ratio, $BR(B_s\to\gamma\gamma)$, including the contributions of PGBs, $P^\pm$ and $P^{\pm}_8$, are much different from the $SM$ prediction. The new physics effects can be enhance 2-3 levels to $SM$ result. It is shown that the decay $B_s\to \gamma\gamma$ can give the test the new physics signals from the technicolor model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:18:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-05-27
[ [ "XiuMei", "Qin", "" ], [ "Huo", "Wujun", "" ], [ "Yang", "Xiaofang", "" ] ]
In this paper we calculate the contributions to the branching ratio of $B_s \to \gamma\gamma$ from the charged Pseudo-Goldstone bosons appeared in one generation Technicolor model. We find that the theoretical values of the branching ratio, $BR(B_s\to\gamma\gamma)$, including the contributions of PGBs, $P^\pm$ and $P^{\pm}_8$, are much different from the $SM$ prediction. The new physics effects can be enhance 2-3 levels to $SM$ result. It is shown that the decay $B_s\to \gamma\gamma$ can give the test the new physics signals from the technicolor model.
hep-ph/0303017
Gunnar Martens
Gunnar Martens, Carsten Greiner, Stefan Leupold and Ulrich Mosel (University of Giessen, Germany)
Chromofields of Strings and Baryons
Contributions to QNP 2002, Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Juelich, Germany 3 pages, 10 eps figures
Eur.Phys.J. A18 (2003) 223-226
10.1140/epja/i2002-10303-6
null
hep-ph nucl-th
null
We calculate color electric fields of quark/antiquark ($\bar{q}q$) and 3 quark ($qqq$) systems within the chromodielectric model (CDM). We explicitly evaluate the string tension of flux tubes in the $\bar{q}q$--system and analyze their profile. To reproduce results of lattice calculations we use a bag pressure $B = (320 MeV)^4$ from which an effective strong coupling constant $\alpha_s \approx 0.3$ follows. With these parameters we get a $Y$ shaped configuration for large $qqq$--systems.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:48:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Martens", "Gunnar", "", "University of Giessen, Germany" ], [ "Greiner", "Carsten", "", "University of Giessen, Germany" ], [ "Leupold", "Stefan", "", "University of Giessen, Germany" ], [ "Mosel", "Ulrich", "", "University of Giessen, G...
We calculate color electric fields of quark/antiquark ($\bar{q}q$) and 3 quark ($qqq$) systems within the chromodielectric model (CDM). We explicitly evaluate the string tension of flux tubes in the $\bar{q}q$--system and analyze their profile. To reproduce results of lattice calculations we use a bag pressure $B = (320 MeV)^4$ from which an effective strong coupling constant $\alpha_s \approx 0.3$ follows. With these parameters we get a $Y$ shaped configuration for large $qqq$--systems.
1212.3206
Michela D'Onofrio
Michela D'Onofrio, Kari Rummukainen and Anders Tranberg
The sphaleron rate at the electroweak crossover with 125 GeV Higgs mass
7 pages, 2 figures, presented at "The 30th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory", June 24 - 29, 2012, Cairns, Australia
PoS(Lattice 2012)055
null
null
hep-ph hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We measure the sphaleron rate with the physical parameters of the Standard Model. In particular, we plug into the calculations the recently found Higgs mass m_H = 125 GeV. The sphaleron rate tells us about the efficiency of baryon number violation through sphaleron transitions. These occur above the electroweak scale of 100 GeV and get exponentially suppressed at temperatures substantially below the electroweak crossover. The sphaleron rate enters computations of Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis, where it converts non-zero lepton number into non-zero baryon number. We simulate the effective electroweak theory on the lattice with multicanonical and real-time methods to calculate the sphaleron rate as a function of temperature through the electroweak crossover.
[ { "created": "Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:07:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-12-14
[ [ "D'Onofrio", "Michela", "" ], [ "Rummukainen", "Kari", "" ], [ "Tranberg", "Anders", "" ] ]
We measure the sphaleron rate with the physical parameters of the Standard Model. In particular, we plug into the calculations the recently found Higgs mass m_H = 125 GeV. The sphaleron rate tells us about the efficiency of baryon number violation through sphaleron transitions. These occur above the electroweak scale of 100 GeV and get exponentially suppressed at temperatures substantially below the electroweak crossover. The sphaleron rate enters computations of Baryogenesis via Leptogenesis, where it converts non-zero lepton number into non-zero baryon number. We simulate the effective electroweak theory on the lattice with multicanonical and real-time methods to calculate the sphaleron rate as a function of temperature through the electroweak crossover.
2303.02175
Oleg Komoltsev
Tyler Gorda, Oleg Komoltsev, Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas
Bayesian uncertainty quantification of perturbative QCD input to the neutron-star equation of state
Version 2 - published version, minor changes. 12 pages, 10 figs
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2023)002
null
hep-ph astro-ph.HE nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The equation of state of neutron-star cores can be constrained by requiring a consistent connection to the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations at high densities. The constraining power of the QCD input depends on uncertainties from missing higher-order terms, the choice of the unphysical renormalization scale, and the reference density where QCD calculations are performed. Within a Bayesian approach, we discuss the convergence of the perturbative QCD series, quantify its uncertainties at high densities, and present a framework to systematically propagate the uncertainties down to neutron-star densities. We find that the effect of the QCD input on the neutron-star inference is insensitive to the various unphysical choices made in the uncertainty estimation.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 Mar 2023 19:00:06 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:25:12 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-07-31
[ [ "Gorda", "Tyler", "" ], [ "Komoltsev", "Oleg", "" ], [ "Kurkela", "Aleksi", "" ], [ "Mazeliauskas", "Aleksas", "" ] ]
The equation of state of neutron-star cores can be constrained by requiring a consistent connection to the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations at high densities. The constraining power of the QCD input depends on uncertainties from missing higher-order terms, the choice of the unphysical renormalization scale, and the reference density where QCD calculations are performed. Within a Bayesian approach, we discuss the convergence of the perturbative QCD series, quantify its uncertainties at high densities, and present a framework to systematically propagate the uncertainties down to neutron-star densities. We find that the effect of the QCD input on the neutron-star inference is insensitive to the various unphysical choices made in the uncertainty estimation.
hep-ph/0405187
Helmut Eberl Dr.
H. Eberl, W. Majerotto, Y. Yamada
Full one-loop corrections to SUSY Higgs boson decays into charginos
15 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Lett. B597 (2004) 275-284
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.021
HEPHY-PUB 788/04, TU-716
hep-ph
null
We present the decay widths of the heavier Higgs bosons $H^0$ and $A^0$ into chargino pairs in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, including full one-loop corrections. All parameters for charginos are renormalized in the on-shell scheme. The importance of the corrections to the chargino mass matrix and mixing matrices is pointed out. The full corrections are typically of the order of 10 %.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 May 2004 14:41:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Eberl", "H.", "" ], [ "Majerotto", "W.", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Y.", "" ] ]
We present the decay widths of the heavier Higgs bosons $H^0$ and $A^0$ into chargino pairs in the minimal supersymmetric standard model, including full one-loop corrections. All parameters for charginos are renormalized in the on-shell scheme. The importance of the corrections to the chargino mass matrix and mixing matrices is pointed out. The full corrections are typically of the order of 10 %.
hep-ph/0202158
Danny Marfatia
V. Barger, D. Marfatia and B.P. Wood
Supernova 1987A did not test the neutrino mass hierarchy
15 pages, 9 figures
Phys.Lett.B532:19-28,2002
10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01546-0
MADPH-02-1257
hep-ph astro-ph hep-ex
null
We dispel the misconception that data from SN 1987A favor the normal neutrino mass hierarchy over the inverted hierarchy for $\sin^2 \theta_{13} \gsim 10^{-4}$. We find comparable fits for the two hierarchies. No bound can be placed on the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ even at the 1$\sigma$ level.
[ { "created": "Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:59:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-15
[ [ "Barger", "V.", "" ], [ "Marfatia", "D.", "" ], [ "Wood", "B. P.", "" ] ]
We dispel the misconception that data from SN 1987A favor the normal neutrino mass hierarchy over the inverted hierarchy for $\sin^2 \theta_{13} \gsim 10^{-4}$. We find comparable fits for the two hierarchies. No bound can be placed on the mixing angle $\theta_{13}$ even at the 1$\sigma$ level.
2212.06019
Rene Poncelet
Rene Poncelet
Precision comparisons between theory and data in $t\bar{t}$-production at the LHC
Talk at the 15th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, Durham, UK, 4-9 September 2022
null
null
Cavendish-HEP-22/10
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
NNLO QCD corrections to the production and decay of top-quark pairs allow performing precision phenomenology in inclusive and fiducial phase spaces. State-of-the-art predictions for top-quark pair production and their comparison to recent collider data are discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:32:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-12-13
[ [ "Poncelet", "Rene", "" ] ]
NNLO QCD corrections to the production and decay of top-quark pairs allow performing precision phenomenology in inclusive and fiducial phase spaces. State-of-the-art predictions for top-quark pair production and their comparison to recent collider data are discussed.
0901.2955
Peter Orland
Peter Orland and Jing Xiao (Baruch College, CUNY and Grad. School and Univ. Center, CUNY)
Longitudinal Rescaling and High-Energy Effective Actions
Version to appear in Physical Review D
Phys.Rev.D80:016005,2009
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.016005
BCCUNY-HEP/09-02
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Under a rescaling of longitudinal coordinates $x^{0,3}$ by a factor $\lambda$ which is taken to zero, the classical QCD action simplifies dramatically. This is the high-energy limit, as $\lambda$ is of order $s^{-1/2}$, where $s$ is the center-of-mass energy squared of a hadronic collision. We find the quantum corrections to the rescaled action at one loop, in particular finding the anomalous powers of $\lambda$ in this action, for $\lambda$ close to unity. The method is an integration over high-momentum components of the gauge field. This is a Wilsonian renormalization procedure, and counterterms are needed to make the sharp-momentum cut-off gauge invariant. Our result for the quantum action is found, assuming that the logarithm of $\lambda$ is small, which is essential for the validity of perturbation theory. If $\lambda$ is sufficiently small (so that its logarithm is large), then the perturbative renormalization group breaks down. This is due to uncontrollable fluctuations of the longitudinal chromomagnetic field.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:34:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:34:43 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:37:52 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:58:11 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-09-02
[ [ "Orland", "Peter", "", "Baruch College, CUNY and Grad. School and\n Univ. Center, CUNY" ], [ "Xiao", "Jing", "", "Baruch College, CUNY and Grad. School and\n Univ. Center, CUNY" ] ]
Under a rescaling of longitudinal coordinates $x^{0,3}$ by a factor $\lambda$ which is taken to zero, the classical QCD action simplifies dramatically. This is the high-energy limit, as $\lambda$ is of order $s^{-1/2}$, where $s$ is the center-of-mass energy squared of a hadronic collision. We find the quantum corrections to the rescaled action at one loop, in particular finding the anomalous powers of $\lambda$ in this action, for $\lambda$ close to unity. The method is an integration over high-momentum components of the gauge field. This is a Wilsonian renormalization procedure, and counterterms are needed to make the sharp-momentum cut-off gauge invariant. Our result for the quantum action is found, assuming that the logarithm of $\lambda$ is small, which is essential for the validity of perturbation theory. If $\lambda$ is sufficiently small (so that its logarithm is large), then the perturbative renormalization group breaks down. This is due to uncontrollable fluctuations of the longitudinal chromomagnetic field.
1010.2018
Alexander Rudenko S.
A.E. Blinov and A.S. Rudenko
Upper Limits on Electric and Weak Dipole Moments of W-Boson
9 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Lett. B699:287-290, 2011
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.04.021
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The total cross-sections of the reaction e+e- --> W+W-, as measured at LEP-II at centre-of-mass energies between 183 and 207 GeV are used to derive the upper limits on the parameters of CP-violating (P-odd and C-even) triple gauge-boson couplings WW\gamma and WWZ. The 95% CL limits |\widetilde{\kappa}_Z|<0.13 and |\widetilde{\lambda}_Z|<0.31 are obtained assuming local SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y gauge invariance. Our results are comparable with the previous ones obtained through the analysis of the W decay products. We also discuss the upper limits on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the W-boson, which follow from the precision measurements of the electron and neutron EDM.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:17:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:21:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-03-17
[ [ "Blinov", "A. E.", "" ], [ "Rudenko", "A. S.", "" ] ]
The total cross-sections of the reaction e+e- --> W+W-, as measured at LEP-II at centre-of-mass energies between 183 and 207 GeV are used to derive the upper limits on the parameters of CP-violating (P-odd and C-even) triple gauge-boson couplings WW\gamma and WWZ. The 95% CL limits |\widetilde{\kappa}_Z|<0.13 and |\widetilde{\lambda}_Z|<0.31 are obtained assuming local SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y gauge invariance. Our results are comparable with the previous ones obtained through the analysis of the W decay products. We also discuss the upper limits on the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the W-boson, which follow from the precision measurements of the electron and neutron EDM.
2302.14285
Sarira Sahu
Jos\'e F. Nieves and Sarira Sahu
Model for the propagation of fermions in a Bose-Einstein condensate
20 pages, one figure, To be published in Phys. Rev. D
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.107.116012
null
hep-ph astro-ph.HE
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider the dispersion relations of fermions that propagate in the background of a scalar Bose-Einstein condensate. Some illustrative examples are discussed using simple Yukawa-type coupling models between the fermions and the scalar fields. The dispersion relations are determined explicitly in those cases, to the lowest order. The method also allows to determine the corrections to the dispersion relations due to the interactions with the excitations of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Possible applications of the results to the case of neutrinos are indicated.
[ { "created": "Tue, 28 Feb 2023 03:36:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 2 Jun 2023 03:43:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-06-21
[ [ "Nieves", "José F.", "" ], [ "Sahu", "Sarira", "" ] ]
We consider the dispersion relations of fermions that propagate in the background of a scalar Bose-Einstein condensate. Some illustrative examples are discussed using simple Yukawa-type coupling models between the fermions and the scalar fields. The dispersion relations are determined explicitly in those cases, to the lowest order. The method also allows to determine the corrections to the dispersion relations due to the interactions with the excitations of the Bose-Einstein condensate. Possible applications of the results to the case of neutrinos are indicated.
hep-ph/0210083
Alexandre Grezzi de Miranda Schmidt
Alfredo T. Suzuki, Esdras S. Santos, Alexandre G. M. Schmidt
General Formula for N-point One-loop Feynman Integrals
Latex, 36 pages, uses axodraw.sty. Version-2: misprints in the appendix corrected, reference added
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The negative dimensional integration method (NDIM) is a technique where several difficulties concerning loop integration can be overcome. From usual covariant gauges to complicated Coulomb gauge integrals, and even the trickiest light-cone integrals one can apply the methodology of NDIM. In this work we show how to construct a general formula -- we mean arbitrary exponents of propagators, off-shell external momenta and distinct massive propagators -- for one-loop scalar integrals, for {\it covariant} gauges, and apply it to one through six-point loop integrals. We present detailed analysis of pentagon and hexagon scalar integrals for massive/massless internal particles being external momenta on or off mass shell.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Oct 2002 18:14:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:22:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Suzuki", "Alfredo T.", "" ], [ "Santos", "Esdras S.", "" ], [ "Schmidt", "Alexandre G. M.", "" ] ]
The negative dimensional integration method (NDIM) is a technique where several difficulties concerning loop integration can be overcome. From usual covariant gauges to complicated Coulomb gauge integrals, and even the trickiest light-cone integrals one can apply the methodology of NDIM. In this work we show how to construct a general formula -- we mean arbitrary exponents of propagators, off-shell external momenta and distinct massive propagators -- for one-loop scalar integrals, for {\it covariant} gauges, and apply it to one through six-point loop integrals. We present detailed analysis of pentagon and hexagon scalar integrals for massive/massless internal particles being external momenta on or off mass shell.
2205.01669
Yongchao Zhang
Shyam Balaji, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Joseph Silk, Yongchao Zhang
Improved stellar limits on a light CP-even scalar
31 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables, calculations updated, more references
null
10.1088/1475-7516/2022/12/024
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.SR
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We derive improved stellar luminosity limits on a generic light CP-even scalar field $S$ mixing with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson from the supernova SN1987A, the Sun, red giants (RGs) and white dwarfs (WDs). For the first time, we include the geometric effects for the decay and absorption of $S$ particles in the stellar interior. For SN1987A and the Sun, we also take into account the detailed stellar profiles. We find that a broad range of the scalar mass and mixing angle can be excluded by our updated astrophysical constraints. For instance, SN1987A excludes $1.0\times10^{-7} \lesssim \sin\theta \lesssim 3.0\times 10^{-5}$ and scalar mass up to 219 MeV, which covers the cosmological blind spot with a high reheating temperature. The updated solar limit excludes the mixing angle in the range of $1.5\times 10^{-12} < \sin\theta < 1$, with scalar mass up to 45 keV. The RG and WD limits are updated to $5.3\times 10^{-13} < \sin \theta < 0.39$ and $2.8\times 10^{-18} < \sin \theta < 1.8\times 10^{-4}$, with scalar mass up to 392 keV and 290 keV, respectively.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 May 2022 17:59:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:22:52 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-12-21
[ [ "Balaji", "Shyam", "" ], [ "Dev", "P. S. Bhupal", "" ], [ "Silk", "Joseph", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Yongchao", "" ] ]
We derive improved stellar luminosity limits on a generic light CP-even scalar field $S$ mixing with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson from the supernova SN1987A, the Sun, red giants (RGs) and white dwarfs (WDs). For the first time, we include the geometric effects for the decay and absorption of $S$ particles in the stellar interior. For SN1987A and the Sun, we also take into account the detailed stellar profiles. We find that a broad range of the scalar mass and mixing angle can be excluded by our updated astrophysical constraints. For instance, SN1987A excludes $1.0\times10^{-7} \lesssim \sin\theta \lesssim 3.0\times 10^{-5}$ and scalar mass up to 219 MeV, which covers the cosmological blind spot with a high reheating temperature. The updated solar limit excludes the mixing angle in the range of $1.5\times 10^{-12} < \sin\theta < 1$, with scalar mass up to 45 keV. The RG and WD limits are updated to $5.3\times 10^{-13} < \sin \theta < 0.39$ and $2.8\times 10^{-18} < \sin \theta < 1.8\times 10^{-4}$, with scalar mass up to 392 keV and 290 keV, respectively.
1507.00170
Werner Rodejohann
Heinrich P\"as, Werner Rodejohann
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
Review prepared for the NJP focus issue on "Neutrino Physics". 23 pages, 10 figures
null
10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/115010
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We review the potential to probe new physics with neutrinoless double beta decay $(A,Z) \to (A,Z+2) + 2 e^-$. Both the standard long-range light neutrino mechanism as well as short-range mechanisms mediated by heavy particles are discussed. We also stress aspects of the connection to lepton number violation at colliders and the implications for baryogenesis.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Jul 2015 10:04:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-12-09
[ [ "Päs", "Heinrich", "" ], [ "Rodejohann", "Werner", "" ] ]
We review the potential to probe new physics with neutrinoless double beta decay $(A,Z) \to (A,Z+2) + 2 e^-$. Both the standard long-range light neutrino mechanism as well as short-range mechanisms mediated by heavy particles are discussed. We also stress aspects of the connection to lepton number violation at colliders and the implications for baryogenesis.
2001.08459
Maozhi Yang
Ying-Quan Peng and Mao-Zhi Yang
Study of semileptonic decay of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi l^+ l^-$ in QCD sum rule
25 pages, 4 figures, more content added
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work we study the semi-leptonic decay of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi l^+ l^-$($l=e, \mu, \tau$) with QCD sum rule method. We calculate the $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi$ translation form factors relevant to this semi-leptonic decay, then the branching ratios of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi l^+ l^-$($l=e, \mu, \tau$) decays are calculated with the form factors obtained here. Our result for the branching ratio of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi\mu^+ \mu^-$ agrees very well with the recent experimental data. For the unmeasured decay modes such as $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi e^+ e^-$ and $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi\tau^+ \tau^-$, we give theoretical predictions.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:45:48 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Sep 2020 01:43:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-09-03
[ [ "Peng", "Ying-Quan", "" ], [ "Yang", "Mao-Zhi", "" ] ]
In this work we study the semi-leptonic decay of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi l^+ l^-$($l=e, \mu, \tau$) with QCD sum rule method. We calculate the $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi$ translation form factors relevant to this semi-leptonic decay, then the branching ratios of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi l^+ l^-$($l=e, \mu, \tau$) decays are calculated with the form factors obtained here. Our result for the branching ratio of $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi\mu^+ \mu^-$ agrees very well with the recent experimental data. For the unmeasured decay modes such as $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi e^+ e^-$ and $\bar{B}_s^0\to \phi\tau^+ \tau^-$, we give theoretical predictions.
1706.00346
Henning Bahl
Henning Bahl, Sven Heinemeyer, Wolfgang Hollik, Georg Weiglein
Reconciling EFT and hybrid calculations of the light MSSM Higgs-boson mass
31 pages, 5 figures, matches version published in EPJC
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5544-3
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Various methods are used in the literature for predicting the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Fixed-order diagrammatic calculations capture all effects at a given order and yield accurate results for scales of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles that are not separated too much from the weak scale. Effective field theory calculations allow a resummation of large logarithmic contributions up to all orders and therefore yield accurate results for a high SUSY scale. A hybrid approach, where both methods have been combined, is implemented in the computer code FeynHiggs. So far, however, at large scales sizeable differences have been observed between FeynHiggs and other pure EFT codes. In this work, the various approaches are analytically compared with each other in a simple scenario in which all SUSY mass scales are chosen to be equal to each other. Three main sources are identified that account for the major part of the observed differences. Firstly, it is shown that the scheme conversion of the input parameters that is commonly used for the comparison of fixed-order results is not adequate for the comparison of results containing a series of higher-order logarithms. Secondly, the treatment of higher-order terms arising from the determination of the Higgs propagator pole is addressed. Thirdly, the effect of different parametrizations in particular of the top Yukawa coupling in the non-logarithmic terms is investigated. Taking into account all of these effects, in the considered simple scenario very good agreement is found for scales above 1 TeV between the results obtained using the EFT approach and the hybrid approach of FeynHiggs.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Jun 2017 15:24:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:57:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-02-14
[ [ "Bahl", "Henning", "" ], [ "Heinemeyer", "Sven", "" ], [ "Hollik", "Wolfgang", "" ], [ "Weiglein", "Georg", "" ] ]
Various methods are used in the literature for predicting the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Fixed-order diagrammatic calculations capture all effects at a given order and yield accurate results for scales of supersymmetric (SUSY) particles that are not separated too much from the weak scale. Effective field theory calculations allow a resummation of large logarithmic contributions up to all orders and therefore yield accurate results for a high SUSY scale. A hybrid approach, where both methods have been combined, is implemented in the computer code FeynHiggs. So far, however, at large scales sizeable differences have been observed between FeynHiggs and other pure EFT codes. In this work, the various approaches are analytically compared with each other in a simple scenario in which all SUSY mass scales are chosen to be equal to each other. Three main sources are identified that account for the major part of the observed differences. Firstly, it is shown that the scheme conversion of the input parameters that is commonly used for the comparison of fixed-order results is not adequate for the comparison of results containing a series of higher-order logarithms. Secondly, the treatment of higher-order terms arising from the determination of the Higgs propagator pole is addressed. Thirdly, the effect of different parametrizations in particular of the top Yukawa coupling in the non-logarithmic terms is investigated. Taking into account all of these effects, in the considered simple scenario very good agreement is found for scales above 1 TeV between the results obtained using the EFT approach and the hybrid approach of FeynHiggs.
2104.04942
Quan-Yi Hu
Quan-Yi Hu, Xin-Qiang Li, Xiao-Long Mu, Ya-Dong Yang, Dong-Hui Zheng
New physics in the angular distribution of $B_c^- \to J/\psi (\to \mu^+ \mu^-)\tau^- (\to \pi^- \nu_\tau)\bar{\nu}_\tau$ decay
29 pages, 3 figures, matches to the version published in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP06(2021)075
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In $B_c^- \to J/\psi (\to \mu^+ \mu^-)\tau^-\bar{\nu}_\tau$ decay, the three-momentum $\boldsymbol{p}_{\tau^-}$ cannot be determined accurately due to the decay products of $\tau^-$ inevitably include an undetected $\nu_{\tau}$. As a consequence, the angular distribution of this decay cannot be measured. In this work, we construct a {\it measurable} angular distribution by considering the subsequent decay $\tau^- \to \pi^- \nu_\tau$. The full cascade decay is $B_c^- \to J/\psi (\to \mu^+ \mu^-)\tau^- (\to \pi^- \nu_\tau)\bar{\nu}_\tau$, in which the three-momenta $\boldsymbol{p}_{\mu^+}$, $\boldsymbol{p}_{\mu^-}$, and $\boldsymbol{p}_{\pi^-}$ can be measured. The five-fold differential angular distribution containing all Lorentz structures of the new physics (NP) effective operators can be written in terms of twelve angular observables $\mathcal{I}_i (q^2, E_\pi)$. Integrating over the energy of pion $E_\pi$, we construct twelve normalized angular observables $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_i(q^2)$ and two lepton-flavor-universality ratios $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})(q^2)$. Based on the $B_c \to J/\psi$ form factors calculated by the latest lattice QCD and sum rule, we predict the $q^2$ distribution of all $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_i$ and $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$ both within the Standard Model and in eight NP benchmark points. We find that the benchmark BP2 (corresponding to the hypothesis of tensor operator) has the greatest effect on all $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{i}$ and $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$, except $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{5}$. The ratios $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$ are more sensitive to the NP with pseudo-scalar operators than the $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{i}$. Finally, we discuss the symmetries in the angular observables and present a model-independent method to determine the existence of tensor operators.
[ { "created": "Sun, 11 Apr 2021 07:27:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 10 Jun 2021 10:40:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-06-30
[ [ "Hu", "Quan-Yi", "" ], [ "Li", "Xin-Qiang", "" ], [ "Mu", "Xiao-Long", "" ], [ "Yang", "Ya-Dong", "" ], [ "Zheng", "Dong-Hui", "" ] ]
In $B_c^- \to J/\psi (\to \mu^+ \mu^-)\tau^-\bar{\nu}_\tau$ decay, the three-momentum $\boldsymbol{p}_{\tau^-}$ cannot be determined accurately due to the decay products of $\tau^-$ inevitably include an undetected $\nu_{\tau}$. As a consequence, the angular distribution of this decay cannot be measured. In this work, we construct a {\it measurable} angular distribution by considering the subsequent decay $\tau^- \to \pi^- \nu_\tau$. The full cascade decay is $B_c^- \to J/\psi (\to \mu^+ \mu^-)\tau^- (\to \pi^- \nu_\tau)\bar{\nu}_\tau$, in which the three-momenta $\boldsymbol{p}_{\mu^+}$, $\boldsymbol{p}_{\mu^-}$, and $\boldsymbol{p}_{\pi^-}$ can be measured. The five-fold differential angular distribution containing all Lorentz structures of the new physics (NP) effective operators can be written in terms of twelve angular observables $\mathcal{I}_i (q^2, E_\pi)$. Integrating over the energy of pion $E_\pi$, we construct twelve normalized angular observables $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_i(q^2)$ and two lepton-flavor-universality ratios $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})(q^2)$. Based on the $B_c \to J/\psi$ form factors calculated by the latest lattice QCD and sum rule, we predict the $q^2$ distribution of all $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_i$ and $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$ both within the Standard Model and in eight NP benchmark points. We find that the benchmark BP2 (corresponding to the hypothesis of tensor operator) has the greatest effect on all $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{i}$ and $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$, except $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{5}$. The ratios $R(P_{L,T}^{J/\psi})$ are more sensitive to the NP with pseudo-scalar operators than the $\widehat{\mathcal{I}}_{i}$. Finally, we discuss the symmetries in the angular observables and present a model-independent method to determine the existence of tensor operators.
hep-ph/0303125
Jacques C. R. Bloch
J.C.R. Bloch
Two-loop Improved Truncation of the Ghost-Gluon Dyson-Schwinger Equations: Multiplicatively Renormalizable Propagators and Nonperturbative Running Coupling
41 pages, LateX; minor corrections; accepted for publication in Few-Body Systems
Few Body Syst.33:111-152,2003
10.1007/s00601-003-0013-3
null
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th nucl-th
null
The coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for the gluon and ghost propagators are investigated in the Landau gauge using a two-loop improved truncation that preserves the multiplicative renormalizability of the propagators. In this truncation all diagrams contribute to the leading order infrared analysis. The infrared contributions of the nonperturbative two-loop diagrams to the gluon vacuum polarization are computed analytically, and this reveals that infrared power behaved propagator solutions only exist when the squint diagram contribution is taken into account. For small momenta the gluon and ghost dressing functions behave respectively like (p^2)^{2\kappa} and (p^2)^{-\kappa}, and the running coupling exhibits a fixed point. The values of the infrared exponent and fixed point depend on the precise details of the truncation. The coupled ghost-gluon system is solved numerically for all momenta, and the solutions have infrared behaviors consistent with the predictions of the infrared analysis. For truncation parameters chosen such that \kappa=0.5, the two-loop improved truncation is able to produce solutions for the propagators and running coupling which are in very good agreement with recent lattice simulations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:56:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 Sep 2003 15:50:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-01-14
[ [ "Bloch", "J. C. R.", "" ] ]
The coupled Dyson-Schwinger equations for the gluon and ghost propagators are investigated in the Landau gauge using a two-loop improved truncation that preserves the multiplicative renormalizability of the propagators. In this truncation all diagrams contribute to the leading order infrared analysis. The infrared contributions of the nonperturbative two-loop diagrams to the gluon vacuum polarization are computed analytically, and this reveals that infrared power behaved propagator solutions only exist when the squint diagram contribution is taken into account. For small momenta the gluon and ghost dressing functions behave respectively like (p^2)^{2\kappa} and (p^2)^{-\kappa}, and the running coupling exhibits a fixed point. The values of the infrared exponent and fixed point depend on the precise details of the truncation. The coupled ghost-gluon system is solved numerically for all momenta, and the solutions have infrared behaviors consistent with the predictions of the infrared analysis. For truncation parameters chosen such that \kappa=0.5, the two-loop improved truncation is able to produce solutions for the propagators and running coupling which are in very good agreement with recent lattice simulations.
hep-ph/9802260
null
Hidenaga Yamagishi and Ismail Zahed
Two Topics in Chiral Effective Lagrangians
7 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
In the absence of nucleons, we use partial wave unitarity, to show that the chiral expansion parameter must be close to $p^2/4\pi f_{\pi}^2$ rather than $p^2/16\pi^2 f_{\pi}^2$ as previously suggested, where $p$ is a typical pion momentum and $f_{\pi}$ the pion decay constant. When nucleons are included, we apply the Tani-Foldy-Wouthuysen (TFW) transformation to the pion-nucleon effective Lagrangian to obtain an expansion in powers of $1/m_N$ (inverse nucleon mass). The results are presented up to order ${\cal O} (1/m_N^3)$, corresponding to ${\cal O} (p^4)$ in the momentum. In this case partial wave-unitarity is also lost in about the same range of momenta.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:50:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Yamagishi", "Hidenaga", "" ], [ "Zahed", "Ismail", "" ] ]
In the absence of nucleons, we use partial wave unitarity, to show that the chiral expansion parameter must be close to $p^2/4\pi f_{\pi}^2$ rather than $p^2/16\pi^2 f_{\pi}^2$ as previously suggested, where $p$ is a typical pion momentum and $f_{\pi}$ the pion decay constant. When nucleons are included, we apply the Tani-Foldy-Wouthuysen (TFW) transformation to the pion-nucleon effective Lagrangian to obtain an expansion in powers of $1/m_N$ (inverse nucleon mass). The results are presented up to order ${\cal O} (1/m_N^3)$, corresponding to ${\cal O} (p^4)$ in the momentum. In this case partial wave-unitarity is also lost in about the same range of momenta.
1708.00736
Ho-Meoyng Choi
Ho-Meoyng Choi (1), Hui-Young Ryu (2) and Chueng-Ryong Ji (3) ((1) Kyungpook National Univ., (2) Pusan National Univ., (3) North Carolina State Univ.)
Spacelike and timelike form factors for the $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')\to\gamma^*\gamma$ transitions in the light-front quark model
13 pages, 7 figures, changed the title and corrected typo
Phys. Rev. D 96, 056008 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.056008
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')\to\gamma^*\gamma$ transitions both for the spacelike region and the timelike region using the light-front quark model (LFQM). In particular, we present the new direct method to explore the timelike region without resorting to mere analytic continuation from the spacelike region to the timelike region. Our direct calculation in timelike region shows the complete agreement not only with the analytic continuation result from the spacelike region but also with the result from the dispersion relation between the real and imaginary parts of the form factor. For the low energy regime, we compare our LFQM results of the transition form factors (TFFs) for the low timelike momentum transfer region and the slope parameters at $q^2=0$ with the recent experimental data from the Dalitz decays of $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')$. For the high energy regime, we incorporate the QCD factorization in our LFQM to examine the asymptotic behavior of TFFs both for the spacelike region and the timelike region. We compare our results with the available experimental data.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:28:15 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 Aug 2017 02:01:40 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:36:14 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:52:44 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2017-09-20
[ [ "Choi", "Ho-Meoyng", "" ], [ "Ryu", "Hui-Young", "" ], [ "Ji", "Chueng-Ryong", "" ] ]
We investigate the $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')\to\gamma^*\gamma$ transitions both for the spacelike region and the timelike region using the light-front quark model (LFQM). In particular, we present the new direct method to explore the timelike region without resorting to mere analytic continuation from the spacelike region to the timelike region. Our direct calculation in timelike region shows the complete agreement not only with the analytic continuation result from the spacelike region but also with the result from the dispersion relation between the real and imaginary parts of the form factor. For the low energy regime, we compare our LFQM results of the transition form factors (TFFs) for the low timelike momentum transfer region and the slope parameters at $q^2=0$ with the recent experimental data from the Dalitz decays of $(\pi^0,\eta,\eta')$. For the high energy regime, we incorporate the QCD factorization in our LFQM to examine the asymptotic behavior of TFFs both for the spacelike region and the timelike region. We compare our results with the available experimental data.
hep-ph/0112198
Holger Gies
Holger Gies (CERN), Kurt Langfeld (Tubingen U.)
Loops and loop clouds - a numerical approach to the worldline formalism in QED -
11 pages, 5 figures, talk given by H.G. at the Fifth Workshop on Quantum Field Theory under the Influence of External Conditions, Leipzig, Germany, September, 2001
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A17 (2002) 966-978
10.1142/S0217751X02010388
CERN-TH-2001-368
hep-ph
null
A numerical technique for calculating effective actions of electromagnetic backgrounds is proposed, which is based on the string-inspired worldline formalism. As examples, we consider scalar electrodynamics in three and four dimensions to one-loop order. Beyond the constant-magnetic-field case, we analyze a step-function-like magnetic field exhibiting a nonlocal and nonperturbative phenomenon: ``magnetic-field diffusion''. Finally, generalizations to fermionic loops and systems at finite temperature are discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:02:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Gies", "Holger", "", "CERN" ], [ "Langfeld", "Kurt", "", "Tubingen U." ] ]
A numerical technique for calculating effective actions of electromagnetic backgrounds is proposed, which is based on the string-inspired worldline formalism. As examples, we consider scalar electrodynamics in three and four dimensions to one-loop order. Beyond the constant-magnetic-field case, we analyze a step-function-like magnetic field exhibiting a nonlocal and nonperturbative phenomenon: ``magnetic-field diffusion''. Finally, generalizations to fermionic loops and systems at finite temperature are discussed.
hep-ph/0201249
Volker Drollinger
V. Drollinger, T. Muller, D. Denegri
Prospects for Higgs Boson Searches in the Channel WH -> lnbb
8 pages, 8 figures
null
null
CMS NOTE 2002/006
hep-ph
null
We present a method how to detect the WH -> lnbb in the high luminosity LHC environment with the CMS detector. This study is performed with fast detector response simulation including high luminosity event pile up. The main aspects of reconstruction are pile up jet rejection, identification of b-jets and improvement of Higgs mass resolution. The detection potential in the SM for m(H) < 130 GeV and in the MSSM is only encouraging for high integrated luminosity. Nevertheless it is possible to extract important Higgs parameters which are useful to elucidate the nature of the Higgs sector. In combination with other channels, this channel provides valuable information on Higgs boson couplings.
[ { "created": "Sat, 26 Jan 2002 20:29:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Drollinger", "V.", "" ], [ "Muller", "T.", "" ], [ "Denegri", "D.", "" ] ]
We present a method how to detect the WH -> lnbb in the high luminosity LHC environment with the CMS detector. This study is performed with fast detector response simulation including high luminosity event pile up. The main aspects of reconstruction are pile up jet rejection, identification of b-jets and improvement of Higgs mass resolution. The detection potential in the SM for m(H) < 130 GeV and in the MSSM is only encouraging for high integrated luminosity. Nevertheless it is possible to extract important Higgs parameters which are useful to elucidate the nature of the Higgs sector. In combination with other channels, this channel provides valuable information on Higgs boson couplings.
hep-ph/0401021
Eugene Levin
E. ~Gotsman, M. ~Kozlov, E. ~Levin, U. Maor and E. ~Naftali (Tel Aviv U.)
Towards a New Global QCD Analysis: Solution to the Non-Linear Equation at Arbitrary Impact Parameter
26 pages with 19 figures in eps.files
Nucl.Phys. A742 (2004) 55-79
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2004.05.018
TAUP 2757/2004
hep-ph
null
A numerical solution is presented for the non-linear evolution equation that governs the dynamics of high parton density QCD. It is shown that thesolution falls off as $e^{-b/R}$ at large values of the impact parameter $b$. The power-like tail of the amplitude appears in impact parameter distributions only after the inclusion of dipoles of size larger than the target, a configuration for which the non-linear equation is not valid. The value, energy and impact parameterof the saturation scale $Q_s(y=\ln(1/x),b)$) are calculated both for fixed and running QCD coupling cases. It is shown that the solution exhibits geometrical scaling behaviour. The radius of interaction increases as the rapidity in accordance with the Froissart theorem. The solution we obtain differs from previous attempts, where an anzatz for $b$ behaviour was made. The solutions for running and fixed $\as$ differ. For running $\as$ we obtain a larger radius of interaction (approximately twice as large), a steeper rapidity dependence, and a larger value of the saturation scale.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 11:05:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:24:42 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "~Gotsman", "E.", "", "Tel Aviv\n U." ], [ "~Kozlov", "M.", "", "Tel Aviv\n U." ], [ "~Levin", "E.", "", "Tel Aviv\n U." ], [ "Maor", "U.", "", "Tel Aviv\n U." ], [ "~Naftali", "E.", "", "Tel Aviv\n U." ] ]
A numerical solution is presented for the non-linear evolution equation that governs the dynamics of high parton density QCD. It is shown that thesolution falls off as $e^{-b/R}$ at large values of the impact parameter $b$. The power-like tail of the amplitude appears in impact parameter distributions only after the inclusion of dipoles of size larger than the target, a configuration for which the non-linear equation is not valid. The value, energy and impact parameterof the saturation scale $Q_s(y=\ln(1/x),b)$) are calculated both for fixed and running QCD coupling cases. It is shown that the solution exhibits geometrical scaling behaviour. The radius of interaction increases as the rapidity in accordance with the Froissart theorem. The solution we obtain differs from previous attempts, where an anzatz for $b$ behaviour was made. The solutions for running and fixed $\as$ differ. For running $\as$ we obtain a larger radius of interaction (approximately twice as large), a steeper rapidity dependence, and a larger value of the saturation scale.
0811.0563
Stephan Narison
Stephan Narison
Light scalar mesons in QCD
6 pages, Talk given at QCD 08 (7-12th july, Montpellier) and Scientific part of the invited talk for a tribute to Paco Yndurain at Confinement8 (3-7th september, Mainz)
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.186:306-311,2009
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2008.12.069
null
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
I present a mini-review of the masses and couplings of the bare (unmixed) light scalar mesons : $\bar qq, (\overline{qq})(qq), (\bar qq)(\bar qq), gg$ from QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) and low-energy theorems (LET) which we compare with recent lattice calculations when available. Some unbiased comments on the different scenarios are given. The possiblity for the $\sigma (0.6)$ to be mostly a gluonium/glueball with a huge violation of the OZI rule in its decay is discussed. This review complements and updates the ones presented earlier [1]. Despite some progresses, the internal structure of the light scalar mesons remain puzzling, and some further efforts are required. It will be more fun at LHC if the Higgs of the Standard Model is a $\sigma$-like resonance.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:23:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-05-06
[ [ "Narison", "Stephan", "" ] ]
I present a mini-review of the masses and couplings of the bare (unmixed) light scalar mesons : $\bar qq, (\overline{qq})(qq), (\bar qq)(\bar qq), gg$ from QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) and low-energy theorems (LET) which we compare with recent lattice calculations when available. Some unbiased comments on the different scenarios are given. The possiblity for the $\sigma (0.6)$ to be mostly a gluonium/glueball with a huge violation of the OZI rule in its decay is discussed. This review complements and updates the ones presented earlier [1]. Despite some progresses, the internal structure of the light scalar mesons remain puzzling, and some further efforts are required. It will be more fun at LHC if the Higgs of the Standard Model is a $\sigma$-like resonance.
0807.0011
Antonio Pineda
Jorge Mondejar and Antonio Pineda
Breakdown of the operator product expansion in the 't Hooft model
4 pages
Phys.Rev.Lett.101:152002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.152002
null
hep-ph hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider deep inelastic scattering in the 't Hooft model. Being solvable, this model allows us to directly compute the moments associated with the cross section at next-to-leading order in the 1/Q^2 expansion. We perform the same computation using the operator product expansion. We find that all the terms match in both computations except for one in the hadronic side, which is proportional to a non-local operator. The basics of the result suggest that a similar phenomenon may occur in four dimensions in the large N_c limit.
[ { "created": "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:31:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:09:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Mondejar", "Jorge", "" ], [ "Pineda", "Antonio", "" ] ]
We consider deep inelastic scattering in the 't Hooft model. Being solvable, this model allows us to directly compute the moments associated with the cross section at next-to-leading order in the 1/Q^2 expansion. We perform the same computation using the operator product expansion. We find that all the terms match in both computations except for one in the hadronic side, which is proportional to a non-local operator. The basics of the result suggest that a similar phenomenon may occur in four dimensions in the large N_c limit.
hep-ph/9502227
Richard Lebed
Elizabeth Jenkins and Richard F. Lebed
Baryon Mass Splittings in the 1/N_c Expansion
17 pages, LaTeX
Phys.Rev.D52:282-294,1995
10.1103/PhysRevD.52.282
UCSD/PTH 95-01
hep-ph
null
The $I=0,1,2,3$ mass splittings of the spin-$1/2$ octet and spin-$3/2$ decuplet baryons are analyzed in the $1/\N$ expansion combined with perturbative flavor breaking. We show there is considerable experimental evidence that the baryon masses satisfy the hierarchy predicted by this expansion. Since flavor symmetry-breaking suppression factors alone are not sufficient to describe the observed hierarchy, we conclude that there is firm evidence for the $1/\N$ expansion in the baryon masses. Our analysis differs from non-relativistic $SU(6)$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 6 Feb 1995 00:31:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-01
[ [ "Jenkins", "Elizabeth", "" ], [ "Lebed", "Richard F.", "" ] ]
The $I=0,1,2,3$ mass splittings of the spin-$1/2$ octet and spin-$3/2$ decuplet baryons are analyzed in the $1/\N$ expansion combined with perturbative flavor breaking. We show there is considerable experimental evidence that the baryon masses satisfy the hierarchy predicted by this expansion. Since flavor symmetry-breaking suppression factors alone are not sufficient to describe the observed hierarchy, we conclude that there is firm evidence for the $1/\N$ expansion in the baryon masses. Our analysis differs from non-relativistic $SU(6)$.
1711.11541
Parsa Hossein Ghorbani
Parsa Hossein Ghorbani
Electroweak Phase Transition in Scale Invariant Standard Model
6 pages, 4 figures, to be published in PRD
Phys. Rev. D 98, 115016 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.115016
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In an extension to the scale invariant standard model by two real singlet scalars $s$ and $s'$ in addition to the Higgs field, we investigate the strong first-order electroweak phase transition as a requirement for baryogenesis. This is the minimal extension to the scale invariant standard model with two extra degrees of freedom that possesses the physical Higgs mass of $125$ GeV. The scalar $s'$ being stable because of the $\mathbb Z_2$ discrete symmetry is taken as the dark matter candidate. We then show that the electroweak phase transition is strongly first-order, the dark matter relic density takes the desired value $\Omega_{\text{DM}}h^2 \sim 0.11$, and the constraints from direct detection experiments are respected only if $m_{s'}\equiv m_{\text{DM}} \gtrsim 4.5$ TeV. The model also puts a lower bound on the scalon mass, $m_s \gtrsim 200$ GeV.
[ { "created": "Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:00:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:35:05 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:29:20 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Tue, 4 Dec 2018 18:02:36 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2018-12-19
[ [ "Ghorbani", "Parsa Hossein", "" ] ]
In an extension to the scale invariant standard model by two real singlet scalars $s$ and $s'$ in addition to the Higgs field, we investigate the strong first-order electroweak phase transition as a requirement for baryogenesis. This is the minimal extension to the scale invariant standard model with two extra degrees of freedom that possesses the physical Higgs mass of $125$ GeV. The scalar $s'$ being stable because of the $\mathbb Z_2$ discrete symmetry is taken as the dark matter candidate. We then show that the electroweak phase transition is strongly first-order, the dark matter relic density takes the desired value $\Omega_{\text{DM}}h^2 \sim 0.11$, and the constraints from direct detection experiments are respected only if $m_{s'}\equiv m_{\text{DM}} \gtrsim 4.5$ TeV. The model also puts a lower bound on the scalon mass, $m_s \gtrsim 200$ GeV.
0801.3441
Feng Yuan
Feng Yuan
Collins Asymmetry at Hadron Colliders
23 pages, 6 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:074019,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.074019
RBRC-718, LBNL-63750
hep-ph
null
We study the Collins effect in the azimuthal asymmetric distribution of hadrons inside a high energy jet in the single transverse polarized proton proton scattering. From the detailed analysis of one-gluon and two-gluon exchange diagrams contributions, the Collins function is found the same as that in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering and e^+e^- annihilations. The eikonal propagators in these diagrams do not contribute to the phase needed for the Collins-type single spin asymmetry, and the universality is derived as a result of the Ward identity. We argue that this conclusion depends on the momentum flow of the exchanged gluon and the kinematic constraints in the fragmentation process, and is generic and model-independent.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:45:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Yuan", "Feng", "" ] ]
We study the Collins effect in the azimuthal asymmetric distribution of hadrons inside a high energy jet in the single transverse polarized proton proton scattering. From the detailed analysis of one-gluon and two-gluon exchange diagrams contributions, the Collins function is found the same as that in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering and e^+e^- annihilations. The eikonal propagators in these diagrams do not contribute to the phase needed for the Collins-type single spin asymmetry, and the universality is derived as a result of the Ward identity. We argue that this conclusion depends on the momentum flow of the exchanged gluon and the kinematic constraints in the fragmentation process, and is generic and model-independent.
hep-ph/9401295
Dr Tim Stelzer
K. Hagiwara, M. Tanaka and T. Stelzer
Singe Top Production at LEP 200
7 pages, 4 postscript figures
Phys.Lett.B325:521-525,1994
10.1016/0370-2693(94)90050-7
KEK-TH-384
hep-ph
null
We present exact tree level cross sections for the single top production process $e^- e^+ \rightarrow e^- \bar{\nu}_e t \bar{b} $ at LEP~200. The results reproduce roughly those obtained earlier by using the equivalent real photon approximation and we confirm the observation that detecting a top heavier than half the c.m.~energy is not feasible at LEP~200. The calculation has been performed by a new automatic Feynman amplitude generator MadGraph which produces HELAS code for the helicity amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Jan 1994 15:39:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Hagiwara", "K.", "" ], [ "Tanaka", "M.", "" ], [ "Stelzer", "T.", "" ] ]
We present exact tree level cross sections for the single top production process $e^- e^+ \rightarrow e^- \bar{\nu}_e t \bar{b} $ at LEP~200. The results reproduce roughly those obtained earlier by using the equivalent real photon approximation and we confirm the observation that detecting a top heavier than half the c.m.~energy is not feasible at LEP~200. The calculation has been performed by a new automatic Feynman amplitude generator MadGraph which produces HELAS code for the helicity amplitudes.
1910.02082
Philip Harris
Philip Coleman Harris, Dylan Sheldon Rankin, Cristina Mantilla Suarez
An approach to constraining the Higgs width at the LHC and HL-LHC
27 pages, 12 figures, 1 appendix
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Despite the discovery of the Higgs boson decay in five separate channels many parameters of the Higgs boson remain largely unconstrained. In this paper, we present a new approach to constraining the Higgs total width by requiring the Higgs to be resolved as a single high p$_T$ jet and measuring the inclusive Higgs boson cross section. To measure the inclusive Higgs boson cross section, we rely on new approaches from machine learning and a modified jet reconstruction. This approach is found to be complementary to the existing off-shell width measurement and, with the full HL-LHC luminosity, is capable of yielding similar sensitivity to the off-shell projections. We outline the theoretical and experimental limitations and present a path towards making this approach a truly model-independent measurement of the Higgs boson total width.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Oct 2019 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-10-08
[ [ "Harris", "Philip Coleman", "" ], [ "Rankin", "Dylan Sheldon", "" ], [ "Suarez", "Cristina Mantilla", "" ] ]
Despite the discovery of the Higgs boson decay in five separate channels many parameters of the Higgs boson remain largely unconstrained. In this paper, we present a new approach to constraining the Higgs total width by requiring the Higgs to be resolved as a single high p$_T$ jet and measuring the inclusive Higgs boson cross section. To measure the inclusive Higgs boson cross section, we rely on new approaches from machine learning and a modified jet reconstruction. This approach is found to be complementary to the existing off-shell width measurement and, with the full HL-LHC luminosity, is capable of yielding similar sensitivity to the off-shell projections. We outline the theoretical and experimental limitations and present a path towards making this approach a truly model-independent measurement of the Higgs boson total width.
1510.00344
Arman Esmaili
Arman Esmaili and Alexei Yu. Smirnov
Discrete symmetries and mixing of Dirac neutrinos
17 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added, one section added and discussion improved
Phys. Rev. D 92, 093012 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.92.093012
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study mixing of the Dirac neutrinos in the residual symmetries approach. The key difference from the Majorana case is that the Dirac mass matrix may have larger symmetries: $G_\nu=\mathbf{Z}_{n}$ with $n\geq3$. The symmetry group relations have been generalized to the case of Dirac neutrinos. Using them we have found all new relations between mixing parameters and corresponding symmetry assignments which are in agreement with the present data. The viable relations exist only for the charged lepton residual symmetry $G_{\ell} = \mathbf{Z}_{2}$. The relations involve elements of the rows of the PMNS matrix and lead to precise predictions of the 2-3 mixing angle and certain ranges of the CP violation phase. For larger symmetries $G_{\ell}$, an agreement with data can be achieved if $\sim10\%$ corrections related to breaking of $G_{\ell}$ and $G_\nu$ are included.
[ { "created": "Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:02:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:42:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-12-02
[ [ "Esmaili", "Arman", "" ], [ "Smirnov", "Alexei Yu.", "" ] ]
We study mixing of the Dirac neutrinos in the residual symmetries approach. The key difference from the Majorana case is that the Dirac mass matrix may have larger symmetries: $G_\nu=\mathbf{Z}_{n}$ with $n\geq3$. The symmetry group relations have been generalized to the case of Dirac neutrinos. Using them we have found all new relations between mixing parameters and corresponding symmetry assignments which are in agreement with the present data. The viable relations exist only for the charged lepton residual symmetry $G_{\ell} = \mathbf{Z}_{2}$. The relations involve elements of the rows of the PMNS matrix and lead to precise predictions of the 2-3 mixing angle and certain ranges of the CP violation phase. For larger symmetries $G_{\ell}$, an agreement with data can be achieved if $\sim10\%$ corrections related to breaking of $G_{\ell}$ and $G_\nu$ are included.
hep-ph/0101250
Mario E. Gomez
Daniel F. Carvalho, Mario E. Gomez, Shaaban Khalil
Lepton-Flavor Violation with Non-universal Soft Terms
15 pages, 6 figures minor changes
JHEP 0107:001,2001
10.1088/1126-6708/2001/07/001
null
hep-ph
null
We study the lepton-flavor violation processes tau ->mu gamma and mu->e gamma in two different examples of models with non-universal soft breaking terms derived from strings. We show that the predictions are quite different from those of universal scenarios. Non-universal A-terms provide an interesting framework to enhance the supersymmetric contributions to CP violation effects. We observe that in the case of the lepton-flavor violation we study, the non-universality of the scalar masses enhances the branching ratios more significantly than the non-universality of the A-terms. We find that the current experimental bounds on these processes restrict both the parameter space of the models and the texture of the Yukawa couplings which predicts the lepton masses, providing at the same time an interesting experimental test for physics beyond the Standard Model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:40:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:22:22 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 9 May 2001 19:44:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-02-03
[ [ "Carvalho", "Daniel F.", "" ], [ "Gomez", "Mario E.", "" ], [ "Khalil", "Shaaban", "" ] ]
We study the lepton-flavor violation processes tau ->mu gamma and mu->e gamma in two different examples of models with non-universal soft breaking terms derived from strings. We show that the predictions are quite different from those of universal scenarios. Non-universal A-terms provide an interesting framework to enhance the supersymmetric contributions to CP violation effects. We observe that in the case of the lepton-flavor violation we study, the non-universality of the scalar masses enhances the branching ratios more significantly than the non-universality of the A-terms. We find that the current experimental bounds on these processes restrict both the parameter space of the models and the texture of the Yukawa couplings which predicts the lepton masses, providing at the same time an interesting experimental test for physics beyond the Standard Model.
1407.4624
Wolfgang Lucha
Wolfgang Lucha, Franz F. Sch\"oberl
Semirelativistic Bound-State Equations: Trivial Considerations
5 pages, contributed to "QCD@Work 2014 - International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics: Theory and Experiment" (16 - 19 June 2014, Giovinazzo, Bari, Italy)
EPJ Web of Conferences 80 (2014) 00049
10.1051/epjconf/20148000049
HEPHY-PUB 934/14
hep-ph math-ph math.MP nucl-th quant-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Observing renewed interest in long-standing (semi-) relativistic descriptions of bound states, we would like to make a few comments on the eigenvalue problem posed by the spinless Salpeter equation and, illustrated by the examples of the nonsingular Woods-Saxon potential and the singular Hulth\'en potential, recall elementary tools that practitioners looking for analytic albeit approximate solutions might find useful in their quest.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:38:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-26
[ [ "Lucha", "Wolfgang", "" ], [ "Schöberl", "Franz F.", "" ] ]
Observing renewed interest in long-standing (semi-) relativistic descriptions of bound states, we would like to make a few comments on the eigenvalue problem posed by the spinless Salpeter equation and, illustrated by the examples of the nonsingular Woods-Saxon potential and the singular Hulth\'en potential, recall elementary tools that practitioners looking for analytic albeit approximate solutions might find useful in their quest.
2306.07325
Rama Krishnan
R. Krishnan
Homogeneous linear intrinsic constraints in the stationary manifold of a $G$-invariant potential
25 pages which include 15 pages of appendix, 7 figures which include 4 figures in the appendix. A video presentation of this paper is available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjRYJtC1E1HfEbur89bH3CT5BvMtO4FWK
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-th math-ph math.MP
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Given a $G$-invariant potential $\mathcal{V}$ of a scalar multiplet $\varphi$, there may exist a set of homogenous linear equations that constrain the components of a stationary point of $\mathcal{V}$ independently of the coefficients of the terms in $\mathcal{V}$. We call them homogeneous linear intrinsic constraints (HLICs). HLICs in a stationary point manifest as HLICs in the corresponding vacuum alignment of $\varphi$, which plays a central role in predictive phenomenological models. We discover that a group $\tilde{H}$ generates HLICs if the terms in $\mathcal{V}$ satisfy a condition, which we call the compatibility condition. In this paper, we also develop a procedure, which involves splitting $\mathcal{V}$ into smaller parts, to establish the existence of specific stationary points using arguments based on symmetries without the need for explicitly extremizing the potential. Using this procedure, we obtain $\tilde{H}$ as a direct product of the symmetry groups associated with the various irreducible multiplets (irreps) in $\varphi$. This results from considering the potentials of the irreps separately and verifying if the cross terms are compatible with $\tilde{H}$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 22 Sep 2023 10:41:38 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-09-25
[ [ "Krishnan", "R.", "" ] ]
Given a $G$-invariant potential $\mathcal{V}$ of a scalar multiplet $\varphi$, there may exist a set of homogenous linear equations that constrain the components of a stationary point of $\mathcal{V}$ independently of the coefficients of the terms in $\mathcal{V}$. We call them homogeneous linear intrinsic constraints (HLICs). HLICs in a stationary point manifest as HLICs in the corresponding vacuum alignment of $\varphi$, which plays a central role in predictive phenomenological models. We discover that a group $\tilde{H}$ generates HLICs if the terms in $\mathcal{V}$ satisfy a condition, which we call the compatibility condition. In this paper, we also develop a procedure, which involves splitting $\mathcal{V}$ into smaller parts, to establish the existence of specific stationary points using arguments based on symmetries without the need for explicitly extremizing the potential. Using this procedure, we obtain $\tilde{H}$ as a direct product of the symmetry groups associated with the various irreducible multiplets (irreps) in $\varphi$. This results from considering the potentials of the irreps separately and verifying if the cross terms are compatible with $\tilde{H}$.
0709.1505
Michael Trott
Sonny Mantry, Michael Trott, Mark B. Wise
The Higgs Decay Width in Multi-Scalar Doublet Models
18 pages, 3 figures V2: refs added
Phys.Rev.D77:013006,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.013006
null
hep-ph
null
We show that there are regions of parameter space in multi-scalar doublet models where, in the first few hundred inverse femtobarns of data, the new charged and neutral scalars are not directly observable at the LHC and yet the Higgs decay rate to b bbar is changed significantly from its standard model value. For a light Higgs with a mass less than 140 GeV, this can cause a large change in the number of two photon and tau tau Higgs decay events expected at the LHC compared to the minimal standard model. In the models we consider, the principle of minimal flavor violation is used to suppress flavor changing neutral currents. This paper emphasizes the importance of measuring the properties of the Higgs boson at the LHC; for a range of parameters the model considered has new physics at the TeV scale that is invisible, in the first few hundred inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity at the LHC, except indirectly through the measurement of Higgs boson properties.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:04:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:05:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:47:53 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Mantry", "Sonny", "" ], [ "Trott", "Michael", "" ], [ "Wise", "Mark B.", "" ] ]
We show that there are regions of parameter space in multi-scalar doublet models where, in the first few hundred inverse femtobarns of data, the new charged and neutral scalars are not directly observable at the LHC and yet the Higgs decay rate to b bbar is changed significantly from its standard model value. For a light Higgs with a mass less than 140 GeV, this can cause a large change in the number of two photon and tau tau Higgs decay events expected at the LHC compared to the minimal standard model. In the models we consider, the principle of minimal flavor violation is used to suppress flavor changing neutral currents. This paper emphasizes the importance of measuring the properties of the Higgs boson at the LHC; for a range of parameters the model considered has new physics at the TeV scale that is invisible, in the first few hundred inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity at the LHC, except indirectly through the measurement of Higgs boson properties.