id
stringlengths
9
14
submitter
stringlengths
1
56
authors
stringlengths
5
7.68k
title
stringlengths
3
299
comments
stringlengths
1
1.15k
journal-ref
stringlengths
9
298
doi
stringlengths
12
97
report-no
stringlengths
3
341
categories
stringclasses
869 values
license
stringclasses
9 values
orig_abstract
stringlengths
16
2.44k
versions
listlengths
1
39
update_date
stringlengths
10
10
authors_parsed
listlengths
1
565
abstract
stringlengths
13
2.44k
1806.02836
Mikael Chala
Shankha Banerjee, Mikael Chala and Michael Spannowsky
Top quark FCNCs in extended Higgs sectors
18 pages, 4 figures. V3: one typo corrected
Eur.Phys.J. C78 (2018) no.8, 683
10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6150-0
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The large number of top quarks produced at the LHC and possible future hadron colliders allows to study rare decays of this particle. In many well motivated models of new physics, for example in non-minimal composite-Higgs models, the existence of scalar singlets can induce new flavor-violating top decays surpassing the Higgs contribution by orders of magnitude. We study the discovery prospects of rare top decays within such models and develop new search strategies to test these interactions in top pair-produced events at the LHC. We demonstrate that scales as large as $10$--$50$ TeV can be probed. Improvements by factors of $\sim 1.5$ and $\sim 3$ can be obtained at $\sqrt{s} = 27$ TeV and $\sqrt{s} = 100$ TeV colliders.
[ { "created": "Thu, 7 Jun 2018 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:53:06 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 31 Aug 2018 14:12:02 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-09-03
[ [ "Banerjee", "Shankha", "" ], [ "Chala", "Mikael", "" ], [ "Spannowsky", "Michael", "" ] ]
The large number of top quarks produced at the LHC and possible future hadron colliders allows to study rare decays of this particle. In many well motivated models of new physics, for example in non-minimal composite-Higgs models, the existence of scalar singlets can induce new flavor-violating top decays surpassing the Higgs contribution by orders of magnitude. We study the discovery prospects of rare top decays within such models and develop new search strategies to test these interactions in top pair-produced events at the LHC. We demonstrate that scales as large as $10$--$50$ TeV can be probed. Improvements by factors of $\sim 1.5$ and $\sim 3$ can be obtained at $\sqrt{s} = 27$ TeV and $\sqrt{s} = 100$ TeV colliders.
hep-ph/0308058
H. C. G. Caldas
Heron Caldas
Neutral Pion Decay Width in a Hot and Dense Medium
RevTeX, 11 pages, 11 figures, PRC version
Phys.Rev.C69:035204,2004
10.1103/PhysRevC.69.035204
null
hep-ph
null
We study the behavior of the $\pi^0$ width as a function of temperature and density. We provide simple expressions for the neutral pion width in a hot and dense medium based on a renormalized version of the microscopic Nambu Jona Lasinio model. Then we consider the two cases where the pion mass is finite or vanishes at the critical temperature and discuss the phenomenological consequences of both cases.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:16:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Dec 2003 04:56:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:36:12 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Caldas", "Heron", "" ] ]
We study the behavior of the $\pi^0$ width as a function of temperature and density. We provide simple expressions for the neutral pion width in a hot and dense medium based on a renormalized version of the microscopic Nambu Jona Lasinio model. Then we consider the two cases where the pion mass is finite or vanishes at the critical temperature and discuss the phenomenological consequences of both cases.
hep-ph/9801401
Dr P. K. Panigrahi
Prasanta. K. Panigrahi and C. Nagaraja (Kumar School of Physics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (INDIA))
Soliton Solutions of the $\sigma$ Model and the Disoriented Chiral Condensates
4 pages, LaTex, invited talk presented at workshop SOLITONS: properties, dynamics, interactions and applications, held at Kingston, Ontario, Canada, July 20 - Jul 26, 1997
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We derive travelling soliton solutions of the $\sigma$ model, relevant for the description of dynamics of pions, in the high-energy, heavy-ion collisions. These extended objects are analogs of Ne$\grave{e}$l and Bloch type defects in ferromagnetic systems and could possibly describe the disoriented chiral condensates. It is shown that these solutions are metastable and can naturally produce an asymmetry between $\pi^0 $ and $ \pi^+$, $\pi^- $ mesons in the soft-pion emissions from heavy-ion collisons.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Jan 1998 11:26:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Panigrahi", "Prasanta. K.", "", "Kumar School of Physics,\n University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad" ], [ "Nagaraja", "C.", "", "Kumar School of Physics,\n University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad" ] ]
We derive travelling soliton solutions of the $\sigma$ model, relevant for the description of dynamics of pions, in the high-energy, heavy-ion collisions. These extended objects are analogs of Ne$\grave{e}$l and Bloch type defects in ferromagnetic systems and could possibly describe the disoriented chiral condensates. It is shown that these solutions are metastable and can naturally produce an asymmetry between $\pi^0 $ and $ \pi^+$, $\pi^- $ mesons in the soft-pion emissions from heavy-ion collisons.
1207.0333
Andrzej Sandacz M
A. Sandacz and P. Sznajder
HEPGEN - generator for hard exclusive leptoproduction
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
HEPGEN is a generator of Monte Carlo events, which is dedicated to studies of hard exclusive single photon or meson production processes at the COMPASS experiment kinematic domain. In addition HEPGEN allows to generate also single photon or meson production accompanied by the diffractive dissociation of the nucleon, which is one of the main sources of background in analyses of exclusive processes.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:40:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-07-03
[ [ "Sandacz", "A.", "" ], [ "Sznajder", "P.", "" ] ]
HEPGEN is a generator of Monte Carlo events, which is dedicated to studies of hard exclusive single photon or meson production processes at the COMPASS experiment kinematic domain. In addition HEPGEN allows to generate also single photon or meson production accompanied by the diffractive dissociation of the nucleon, which is one of the main sources of background in analyses of exclusive processes.
1204.4444
Christian Hambrock
Christian Hambrock and Gudrun Hiller
Extracting $B \to K^*$ Form Factors from Data
null
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.091802
DO-TH 12/10
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We extract ratios of $B \to K^*$ form factors at low hadronic recoil from recent data on $B \to K^* \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays in a model-independent way. The presented method will improve in the future with further (angular) studies in semileptonic rare B-decays and advance our understanding of form factors, which are important inputs in precision tests of the Standard Model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:41:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Hambrock", "Christian", "" ], [ "Hiller", "Gudrun", "" ] ]
We extract ratios of $B \to K^*$ form factors at low hadronic recoil from recent data on $B \to K^* \mu^+ \mu^-$ decays in a model-independent way. The presented method will improve in the future with further (angular) studies in semileptonic rare B-decays and advance our understanding of form factors, which are important inputs in precision tests of the Standard Model.
2310.01023
Karim Ghorbani
Karim Ghorbani
Secluded Scalar Dark Matter and the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment
11 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider a dark matter model with a singlet scalar, $\chi$, as our dark matter (DM) candidate which is secluded from the Standard Model (SM) and annihilates to the singlet scalar, $\phi$, via a contact interaction. The singlet scalar, $\phi$, has a leptophilic interaction with the SM leptons and may decay leptonically at tree level, and decays into a pair of photons at loop level. The focus in this work is to consider DM masses below 10 GeV. It is found a viable secluded region in the parameter space after imposing the observed relic density. There is a one-loop interaction between scalar dark matter and the atomic electron in this model. We then apply the available direct detection bounds from Xenon10, Xenon1T, and DarkSide on the DM-electron elastic scattering cross section. While the model can explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment, we put bounds from current and future lepton collider experiments.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Oct 2023 09:16:07 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-10-03
[ [ "Ghorbani", "Karim", "" ] ]
We consider a dark matter model with a singlet scalar, $\chi$, as our dark matter (DM) candidate which is secluded from the Standard Model (SM) and annihilates to the singlet scalar, $\phi$, via a contact interaction. The singlet scalar, $\phi$, has a leptophilic interaction with the SM leptons and may decay leptonically at tree level, and decays into a pair of photons at loop level. The focus in this work is to consider DM masses below 10 GeV. It is found a viable secluded region in the parameter space after imposing the observed relic density. There is a one-loop interaction between scalar dark matter and the atomic electron in this model. We then apply the available direct detection bounds from Xenon10, Xenon1T, and DarkSide on the DM-electron elastic scattering cross section. While the model can explain the muon anomalous magnetic moment, we put bounds from current and future lepton collider experiments.
hep-ph/0310233
Johan Alwall
Johan Alwall and Gunnar Ingelman
Generalized VDM and F_2 data at low Q^2
5 pages, 4 figures, latex. Talk given at DIS2003 in St. Petersburg, to appear in the proceedings
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The generalised vector meson dominance model (GVDM) gives a good description of F_2 data at very low Q^2. At intermediate Q^2 a GVDM component avoids problems when applying the large-Q^2 DIS formalism, such as a negative gluon distribution in the proton. The fluctuations of the exchanged photon into vector mesons is also a natural part of a model with hadronic fluctuations of the target proton, which gives a good description of the non-perturbative x-shape of the proton's parton density functions at the starting scale Q^2_0 for DGLAP evolution.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:50:01 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Alwall", "Johan", "" ], [ "Ingelman", "Gunnar", "" ] ]
The generalised vector meson dominance model (GVDM) gives a good description of F_2 data at very low Q^2. At intermediate Q^2 a GVDM component avoids problems when applying the large-Q^2 DIS formalism, such as a negative gluon distribution in the proton. The fluctuations of the exchanged photon into vector mesons is also a natural part of a model with hadronic fluctuations of the target proton, which gives a good description of the non-perturbative x-shape of the proton's parton density functions at the starting scale Q^2_0 for DGLAP evolution.
1312.3022
Yukio Nemoto
Masakiyo Kitazawa, Teiji Kunihiro, Yukio Nemoto
Possible generation of anomalously soft quark excitations at nonzero temperature: Nonhyperbolic dispersion of parapion and van Hove singularity
10 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D. Comments on the parameter dependence, the Matsubara summation, future prospects added. References added. Typos corrected
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.89.056002
null
hep-ph cond-mat.str-el nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the quark spectrum at finite temperature near and above the pseudocritical temperature of the chiral phase transition incorporating the effects of the collective modes with the quantum number of the sigma (parasigma) and pion (parapion) in a chiral effective model with a nonzero current quark mass. Below the pion zero-binding temperature where the pionic modes are bound, the quark self-energy has van Hove singularity induced by the scattering of quarks with the composite bound pions with a nonhyperbolic dispersion curve. This singularity is found to cause a drastic change in the quark spectrum from that in the mean field picture near the pseudocritical temperature: The quark spectrum has an unexpected sharp peak at an energy considerably lower than the constituent quark mass, while the spectrum approaches the mean field one at high temperatures. We clarify that the emergence of this anomalous structure of the quark spectral function originates from the composite nature of the pionic modes with a non-Lorentz invariant dispersion relation in the medium at finite temperature.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:39:46 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:10:48 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-18
[ [ "Kitazawa", "Masakiyo", "" ], [ "Kunihiro", "Teiji", "" ], [ "Nemoto", "Yukio", "" ] ]
We study the quark spectrum at finite temperature near and above the pseudocritical temperature of the chiral phase transition incorporating the effects of the collective modes with the quantum number of the sigma (parasigma) and pion (parapion) in a chiral effective model with a nonzero current quark mass. Below the pion zero-binding temperature where the pionic modes are bound, the quark self-energy has van Hove singularity induced by the scattering of quarks with the composite bound pions with a nonhyperbolic dispersion curve. This singularity is found to cause a drastic change in the quark spectrum from that in the mean field picture near the pseudocritical temperature: The quark spectrum has an unexpected sharp peak at an energy considerably lower than the constituent quark mass, while the spectrum approaches the mean field one at high temperatures. We clarify that the emergence of this anomalous structure of the quark spectral function originates from the composite nature of the pionic modes with a non-Lorentz invariant dispersion relation in the medium at finite temperature.
2205.14379
Andreas Papaefstathiou
Andreas Papaefstathiou, Tania Robens, and Graham White
Signal strength and W-boson mass measurements as a probe of the electro-weak phase transition at colliders -- Snowmass White Paper
8 pages, 1 figure; contribution to Snowmass 2021. Minor correction to v1
null
null
RBI-ThPhys-2022-20
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider an extension of the scalar sector of the Standard Model (SM) by an additional gauge singlet, which mixes with a part of the SM-like Higgs doublet. Within this model, parameter-space regions exist that can lead to a strong first-order electro-weak phase transition, a necessary condition for electro-weak baryogenesis. We discuss how such regions of the parameter space can be tested using the SM-like Higgs boson's signal strength measurements, as well as precision observables, such as e.g. the W-boson mass, at current and future colliders.
[ { "created": "Sat, 28 May 2022 09:36:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:25:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-10-03
[ [ "Papaefstathiou", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Robens", "Tania", "" ], [ "White", "Graham", "" ] ]
We consider an extension of the scalar sector of the Standard Model (SM) by an additional gauge singlet, which mixes with a part of the SM-like Higgs doublet. Within this model, parameter-space regions exist that can lead to a strong first-order electro-weak phase transition, a necessary condition for electro-weak baryogenesis. We discuss how such regions of the parameter space can be tested using the SM-like Higgs boson's signal strength measurements, as well as precision observables, such as e.g. the W-boson mass, at current and future colliders.
1007.2470
Yumi Ko
Kyung Kiu Kim, Youngman Kim and Yumi Ko
Self-bound dense objects in holographic QCD
17 pages, 5 figures, figures replaced, minor revision, to appear in JHEP
JHEP 1010:039,2010
10.1007/JHEP10(2010)039
null
hep-ph hep-th nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study a self-bound dense object in the hard wall model. We consider a spherically symmetric dense object which is characterized by its radial density distribution and non-uniform but spherically symmetric chiral condensate. For this we analytically solve the partial differential equations in the hard wall model and read off the radial coordinate dependence of the density and chiral condensate according to the AdS/CFT correspondence. We then attempt to describe nucleon density profiles of a few nuclei within our framework and observe that the confinement scale changes from a free nucleon to a nucleus. We briefly discuss how to include the effect of higher dimensional operator into our study. We finally comment on possible extensions of our work.
[ { "created": "Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:12:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:20:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-21
[ [ "Kim", "Kyung Kiu", "" ], [ "Kim", "Youngman", "" ], [ "Ko", "Yumi", "" ] ]
We study a self-bound dense object in the hard wall model. We consider a spherically symmetric dense object which is characterized by its radial density distribution and non-uniform but spherically symmetric chiral condensate. For this we analytically solve the partial differential equations in the hard wall model and read off the radial coordinate dependence of the density and chiral condensate according to the AdS/CFT correspondence. We then attempt to describe nucleon density profiles of a few nuclei within our framework and observe that the confinement scale changes from a free nucleon to a nucleus. We briefly discuss how to include the effect of higher dimensional operator into our study. We finally comment on possible extensions of our work.
1101.3796
Fabrizio Nesti
Homero Mart\'inez, Alejandra Melfo, Fabrizio Nesti, Goran Senjanovi\'c
Three Extra Mirror or Sequential Families: a Case for Heavy Higgs and Inert Doublet
Four pages. Some figures and numerical results corrected. References updated
Phys.Rev.Lett.106:191802,2011
10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.191802
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the possibility of the existence of extra fermion families and an extra Higgs doublet. We find that requiring the extra Higgs doublet to be inert leaves space for three extra families, allowing for mirror fermion families and a dark matter candidate at the same time. The emerging scenario is very predictive: it consists of a Standard Model Higgs boson, with mass above 400\,\GeV, heavy new quarks between 340 and 500\,\GeV, light extra neutral leptons, and an inert scalar with a mass below $M_Z$.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:08:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:29:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-05-23
[ [ "Martínez", "Homero", "" ], [ "Melfo", "Alejandra", "" ], [ "Nesti", "Fabrizio", "" ], [ "Senjanović", "Goran", "" ] ]
We study the possibility of the existence of extra fermion families and an extra Higgs doublet. We find that requiring the extra Higgs doublet to be inert leaves space for three extra families, allowing for mirror fermion families and a dark matter candidate at the same time. The emerging scenario is very predictive: it consists of a Standard Model Higgs boson, with mass above 400\,\GeV, heavy new quarks between 340 and 500\,\GeV, light extra neutral leptons, and an inert scalar with a mass below $M_Z$.
hep-ph/0107256
Yuri V. Kovchegov
Yuri V. Kovchegov (University of Washington)
Diffractive Gluon Production in Proton-Nucleus Collisions and in DIS
14 pages, 6 figures, REVTeX, minor corrections included
Phys.Rev.D64:114016,2001; Erratum-ibid.D68:039901,2003
10.1103/PhysRevD.64.114016 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.039901
NT@UW-01-018
hep-ph nucl-th
null
We derive expressions for the gluon production cross sections in the single diffractive proton-nucleus scattering and DIS processes in a quasi-classical approximation. The resulting cross sections include the effects of all multiple rescatterings in the classical background field of the target proton or nucleus, which remains intact after the scattering. We also write down an expression for the inclusive gluon production cross section in DIS in the quasi-classical approximation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:13:41 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:36:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kovchegov", "Yuri V.", "", "University of Washington" ] ]
We derive expressions for the gluon production cross sections in the single diffractive proton-nucleus scattering and DIS processes in a quasi-classical approximation. The resulting cross sections include the effects of all multiple rescatterings in the classical background field of the target proton or nucleus, which remains intact after the scattering. We also write down an expression for the inclusive gluon production cross section in DIS in the quasi-classical approximation.
hep-ph/0406155
Chong Sheng Li
Jian Jun Liu, Chong Sheng Li, Li Lin Yang and Li Gang Jin
$t\to cV$ via SUSY FCNC couplings in the unconstrained MSSM
15 pages, 3 figures, minor changs in the Table 1
Phys.Lett.B599:92-101,2004
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.07.062
null
hep-ph
null
We recalculate the branching ratios for $t\to cV$ ($V=g,\gamma,Z$) induced by SUSY FCNC couplings within the general unconstrained MSSM framework using mass eigenstate approach. Our results show that the branching ratios for these decays are larger than ones reported in previous literatures in the MSSM with R-parity conservation, and they can reach $\sim 10^{-4}$, $\sim 10^{-6}$, and $\sim 10^{-6}$, respectively, for favorable parameter values allowed by current precise experiments. Thus, the branching ratios for $t\to cg$ and $t\to c\gamma$ may be measurable at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:33:43 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:04:41 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:23:08 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Liu", "Jian Jun", "" ], [ "Li", "Chong Sheng", "" ], [ "Yang", "Li Lin", "" ], [ "Jin", "Li Gang", "" ] ]
We recalculate the branching ratios for $t\to cV$ ($V=g,\gamma,Z$) induced by SUSY FCNC couplings within the general unconstrained MSSM framework using mass eigenstate approach. Our results show that the branching ratios for these decays are larger than ones reported in previous literatures in the MSSM with R-parity conservation, and they can reach $\sim 10^{-4}$, $\sim 10^{-6}$, and $\sim 10^{-6}$, respectively, for favorable parameter values allowed by current precise experiments. Thus, the branching ratios for $t\to cg$ and $t\to c\gamma$ may be measurable at the LHC.
1302.7240
Pietro Biancofiore
Pietro Biancofiore
Bounds on the compactification scale of two universal extra dimensions from exclusive $b \to s \gamma$ decays
10 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1088/0954-3899/40/6/065006
BARI-TH/652-13
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The exclusive radiative $B \to K^* \gamma$, $B \to K^*_2 \gamma$, $B_s \to \phi \gamma$ and $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda \gamma$ decays are studied in a new physics scenario with two universal extra dimensions compactified on a chiral square. The computed branching fractions depend on the size $R$ of the extra dimensions, and a comparison with the available measurements allows us to put bounds on such a fundamental parameter. From the mode $B^0 \to K^{*0} \gamma$ we obtain the most stringent bound: $1 \over R>710$ GeV.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:01:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-15
[ [ "Biancofiore", "Pietro", "" ] ]
The exclusive radiative $B \to K^* \gamma$, $B \to K^*_2 \gamma$, $B_s \to \phi \gamma$ and $\Lambda_b \to \Lambda \gamma$ decays are studied in a new physics scenario with two universal extra dimensions compactified on a chiral square. The computed branching fractions depend on the size $R$ of the extra dimensions, and a comparison with the available measurements allows us to put bounds on such a fundamental parameter. From the mode $B^0 \to K^{*0} \gamma$ we obtain the most stringent bound: $1 \over R>710$ GeV.
hep-ph/0509171
Sujoy Poddar
Siba Prasad Das, Amitava Datta and Sujoy Poddar
Top squark and neutralino decays in a R-parity violating model constrained by neutrino oscillation data
20 pages, 4 figures, LaTex,typos corrected and reference added for section 2, a paragraph has been added in the conclusion part
Phys.Rev. D73 (2006) 075014
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.075014
null
hep-ph
null
In a R-parity violating (RPV) model of neutrino mass with three bilinear couplings $\mu_i$ and three trilinear couplings $\lambda'_{i33}$, where $i$ is the lepton index, we find six generic scenarios each with a distinctive pattern of the trilinear couplings consistent with the oscillation data. These patterns may be reflected in direct RPV decays of the lighter top squark or in the RPV decays of the lightest superparticle, assumed to be the lightest neutralino. Typical signal sizes at the Tevatron RUN II and the LHC have been estimated and the results turn out to be encouraging.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:15:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:35:48 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:07:22 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2016-09-06
[ [ "Das", "Siba Prasad", "" ], [ "Datta", "Amitava", "" ], [ "Poddar", "Sujoy", "" ] ]
In a R-parity violating (RPV) model of neutrino mass with three bilinear couplings $\mu_i$ and three trilinear couplings $\lambda'_{i33}$, where $i$ is the lepton index, we find six generic scenarios each with a distinctive pattern of the trilinear couplings consistent with the oscillation data. These patterns may be reflected in direct RPV decays of the lighter top squark or in the RPV decays of the lightest superparticle, assumed to be the lightest neutralino. Typical signal sizes at the Tevatron RUN II and the LHC have been estimated and the results turn out to be encouraging.
hep-ph/9204233
S. Umasankar
D. Bhowmick, A. K. Ray, S. Raychaudhuri and S. Uma Sankar
CP-violating Phenomena in an $ SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L} \times SU(3)_H^{VL}$ Horizontal Symmetric Model
19 pages, 2 figures, one included, other will be mailed on request LaTeX file
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
We consider an $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L} \times SU(3)_H^{VL}$ gauge model with natural flavour conservation in the Higgs sector, in which CP-violation occurs due to the horizontal interactions only. We calculate the CP-violating observables $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'$ of the neutral kaon sector and $d_n$, the electric dipole moment of the neutron. The regions of the parameter space which yield a value of $\epsilon$ that is in agreement with the experiment, lead to predictions for $\epsilon'$ and $d_n$ which are at least five orders of magnitude smaller than the current experimental upper bounds.
[ { "created": "Thu, 23 Apr 1992 23:15:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Bhowmick", "D.", "" ], [ "Ray", "A. K.", "" ], [ "Raychaudhuri", "S.", "" ], [ "Sankar", "S. Uma", "" ] ]
We consider an $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_R \times U(1)_{B-L} \times SU(3)_H^{VL}$ gauge model with natural flavour conservation in the Higgs sector, in which CP-violation occurs due to the horizontal interactions only. We calculate the CP-violating observables $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'$ of the neutral kaon sector and $d_n$, the electric dipole moment of the neutron. The regions of the parameter space which yield a value of $\epsilon$ that is in agreement with the experiment, lead to predictions for $\epsilon'$ and $d_n$ which are at least five orders of magnitude smaller than the current experimental upper bounds.
2112.01449
Markus Wobisch
L. Sawyer, C. Waits, M. Wobisch
Perturbative QCD predictions in fixed order for cross section ratios
12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to JHEP
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the standard approach, predictions of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics for ratios of cross sections are computed as the ratio of fixed-order predictions for the numerator and the denominator. Beyond the lowest order in the perturbative expansion, the result does, however, not correspond to a fixed-order prediction for the ratio. This article describes how exact fixed-order results for ratios of arbitrary cross sections can be obtained. The general method for computations in any order of the perturbative expansion is derived, and results for next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order calculations are given. The approach is applied to theory predictions for various multi-jet cross section ratios measured at hadron colliders. The two methods are compared with each other and with the experimental data. Recommendations are made how to obtain improved theory predictions with more realistic uncertainty estimates.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Dec 2021 17:43:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-12-03
[ [ "Sawyer", "L.", "" ], [ "Waits", "C.", "" ], [ "Wobisch", "M.", "" ] ]
In the standard approach, predictions of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics for ratios of cross sections are computed as the ratio of fixed-order predictions for the numerator and the denominator. Beyond the lowest order in the perturbative expansion, the result does, however, not correspond to a fixed-order prediction for the ratio. This article describes how exact fixed-order results for ratios of arbitrary cross sections can be obtained. The general method for computations in any order of the perturbative expansion is derived, and results for next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order calculations are given. The approach is applied to theory predictions for various multi-jet cross section ratios measured at hadron colliders. The two methods are compared with each other and with the experimental data. Recommendations are made how to obtain improved theory predictions with more realistic uncertainty estimates.
2205.05744
Pasquale Di Bari
Pasquale Di Bari
Gravitational waves from neutrino mass genesis
19 pages, 5 figures; Proceedings of the Corfu Summer Institute 2021
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The discovery of gravitational waves opens new opportunities to test BSM physics. In particular, the production of a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves could provide a signature of the generation of the right-right Majorana neutrino mass term necessary, within type-I seesaw mechanism, to explain lightness of neutrinos and their mixing parameters. I will discuss the possibility that such a generation occurs during a strong first order phase transition within Majoron models [1]. As well known, this can indeed produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves. The scale of the phase transition can or cannot coincide with the seesaw scale. In the latter case a low scale phase transition, occurring in the pre-recombination era, might be tested at very low frequencies ($10^{-9}$--$10^{-6}\,{\rm Hz}$). Even though the signal can hardly reproduce the NANOGrac putative signal such new physics at low scale might help ameliorating the tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model (e.g., the Hubble tension). I will also discuss how a phase transition might be responsible for the generation of dark matter in the form of dark neutrinos coupling to the seesaw neutrinos via Higgs induced right handed-right handed neutrino mixing [2].
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 May 2022 19:23:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-05-13
[ [ "Di Bari", "Pasquale", "" ] ]
The discovery of gravitational waves opens new opportunities to test BSM physics. In particular, the production of a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves could provide a signature of the generation of the right-right Majorana neutrino mass term necessary, within type-I seesaw mechanism, to explain lightness of neutrinos and their mixing parameters. I will discuss the possibility that such a generation occurs during a strong first order phase transition within Majoron models [1]. As well known, this can indeed produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves. The scale of the phase transition can or cannot coincide with the seesaw scale. In the latter case a low scale phase transition, occurring in the pre-recombination era, might be tested at very low frequencies ($10^{-9}$--$10^{-6}\,{\rm Hz}$). Even though the signal can hardly reproduce the NANOGrac putative signal such new physics at low scale might help ameliorating the tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model (e.g., the Hubble tension). I will also discuss how a phase transition might be responsible for the generation of dark matter in the form of dark neutrinos coupling to the seesaw neutrinos via Higgs induced right handed-right handed neutrino mixing [2].
1205.5035
Sebastian Sapeta
Krzysztof Kutak and Sebastian Sapeta
Gluon saturation in dijet production in p-Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider
16 pages, 8 figures; v2: minor textual changes, reference added; v3: extra paragraph and figure for RHIC, several clarifying sentences and references added, version accepted by PRD
Phys. Rev. D 86, 094043 (2012)
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.094043
IPPP/12/35; DCPT/12/70; IFJPAN-IV-2012-1
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study saturation effects in the production of dijets in p-p and p-Pb collisions using the framework of high energy factorization. We focus on central-forward jet configurations, which allow for probing gluon density at low longitudinal momentum fraction. We find significant suppression of the central-forward jet decorrelations in p-Pb compared to p-p, which we attribute to saturation of gluon density in nuclei.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 May 2012 20:00:17 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 May 2012 17:01:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:24:59 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Kutak", "Krzysztof", "" ], [ "Sapeta", "Sebastian", "" ] ]
We study saturation effects in the production of dijets in p-p and p-Pb collisions using the framework of high energy factorization. We focus on central-forward jet configurations, which allow for probing gluon density at low longitudinal momentum fraction. We find significant suppression of the central-forward jet decorrelations in p-Pb compared to p-p, which we attribute to saturation of gluon density in nuclei.
1109.2236
Bruno Os\'orio Rodrigues
A. Cerqueira Jr, B. Os\'orio Rodrigues and M. E. Bracco
$B_s^* B K$ vertex from QCD sum rules
11 pages, 11 figures
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.11.004
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The form factors and the coupling constant of the $B_s^* B K$ vertex are calculated using the QCD sum rules method. Three point correlation functions are computed considering both $K$ and $B$ mesons off-shell and, after an extrapolation of the QCDSR results, we obtain the coupling constant of the vertex. We study the uncertainties in our result by calculating a third form factor obtained when the $B^*_s$ is the off-shell meson, considering other acceptable structures and computing the variations of the sum rules' parameters. The form factors obtained have different behaviors but their simultaneous extrapolations reach to the same value of the coupling constant $g_{B_s^* B K}=10.6 \pm 1.7$. We compare our result with other theoretical estimates.
[ { "created": "Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:56:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-12-02
[ [ "Cerqueira", "A.", "Jr" ], [ "Rodrigues", "B. Osório", "" ], [ "Bracco", "M. E.", "" ] ]
The form factors and the coupling constant of the $B_s^* B K$ vertex are calculated using the QCD sum rules method. Three point correlation functions are computed considering both $K$ and $B$ mesons off-shell and, after an extrapolation of the QCDSR results, we obtain the coupling constant of the vertex. We study the uncertainties in our result by calculating a third form factor obtained when the $B^*_s$ is the off-shell meson, considering other acceptable structures and computing the variations of the sum rules' parameters. The form factors obtained have different behaviors but their simultaneous extrapolations reach to the same value of the coupling constant $g_{B_s^* B K}=10.6 \pm 1.7$. We compare our result with other theoretical estimates.
hep-ph/9709222
Hans-Guenter Dosch
H.G. Dosch (Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik der Universit\"at Heidelberg)
Few-body aspects of non-perturbative QCD
Plenary Talk at 15th Int. Conf. on Few-Body Problems in Physics 16 pages
Nucl.Phys.A631:316c-330c,1998
10.1016/S0375-9474(98)00030-X
null
hep-ph
null
After some general remarks on non-perturbative QCD I present shortly models which lead to a color-electric flux tube formation. The implications of such a flux tube formation especially on high energy scattering are discussed.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Sep 1997 16:04:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Dosch", "H. G.", "", "Institut für Theoretische Physik der Universität\n Heidelberg" ] ]
After some general remarks on non-perturbative QCD I present shortly models which lead to a color-electric flux tube formation. The implications of such a flux tube formation especially on high energy scattering are discussed.
hep-ph/9504380
Boris Kopeliovich
Boris Kopeliovich and Bogdan Povh (MPI-K, Heidelberg)
Nuclear Shadowing and the Proton Structure Function at Small x
9 pages, LATEX, 3 uuencoded figures
null
null
MPIH-V12-1995
hep-ph
null
A new scaling variable is introduced in terms of which nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering is universal, i.e. independent of $A$, $Q^2$ and $x$. This variable can be interpreted as a measure of the number of gluons probed by the hadronic fluctuations of a virtual photon during their lifetime. According to recent data from the H1 and ZEUS experiments, the gluon density in a proton rises steeply as $x$ tends to zero. So nuclei which in the infinite momentum frame have a large surface density of gluons model at larger $x$ values what we expect for the proton at much smaller $x$. Using experimental information on nuclear shadowing we predict the unitarity corrections to the proton structure function at small $x$ and extract the bare Pomeron intercept.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 Apr 1995 17:49:37 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kopeliovich", "Boris", "", "MPI-K, Heidelberg" ], [ "Povh", "Bogdan", "", "MPI-K, Heidelberg" ] ]
A new scaling variable is introduced in terms of which nuclear shadowing in deep-inelastic scattering is universal, i.e. independent of $A$, $Q^2$ and $x$. This variable can be interpreted as a measure of the number of gluons probed by the hadronic fluctuations of a virtual photon during their lifetime. According to recent data from the H1 and ZEUS experiments, the gluon density in a proton rises steeply as $x$ tends to zero. So nuclei which in the infinite momentum frame have a large surface density of gluons model at larger $x$ values what we expect for the proton at much smaller $x$. Using experimental information on nuclear shadowing we predict the unitarity corrections to the proton structure function at small $x$ and extract the bare Pomeron intercept.
2112.07330
Zbigniew Was
Sw. Banerjee, D. Biswas, T. Przedzinski, Z. Was
The tau lepton Monte Carlo Event Generation -- imprinting New Physics models with exotic scalar or vector states into simulation samples
Presented by Z. Was on "STRONG 2020 Virtual Workshop on Spacelike and Timelike determination of the Hadronic LO contribution to the Muon g-2 November, 2021, Frascati (virtual edition), Italy
null
null
IFJPAN-IV-2021-20
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Monte Carlo for lepton pair production andtau decays consist of KKMC for lepton pair production, tauola for tau lepton decays and photos for radiative corrections in decays. An effort for adaptation of the system for precision data being collected at the Belle II experiment included simulation of additional light lepton pairs. Extension to processes where lepton pair is produced through narrow resonances, like dark photon or dark scalar phi resonances, was straight forward. Modified programs versions are available in stand-alone format from gitlab repository or through the basf2 system of Belle II software. It was explained recently during the International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics September, 2021, Bloomington IN. Now we concentrate on simulations for phi resonance, a hypothetical object which could be responsible for anomalous moment g-2 in Z-\tau-\tau interactions through virtual contributions.
[ { "created": "Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:34:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-12-15
[ [ "Banerjee", "Sw.", "" ], [ "Biswas", "D.", "" ], [ "Przedzinski", "T.", "" ], [ "Was", "Z.", "" ] ]
The Monte Carlo for lepton pair production andtau decays consist of KKMC for lepton pair production, tauola for tau lepton decays and photos for radiative corrections in decays. An effort for adaptation of the system for precision data being collected at the Belle II experiment included simulation of additional light lepton pairs. Extension to processes where lepton pair is produced through narrow resonances, like dark photon or dark scalar phi resonances, was straight forward. Modified programs versions are available in stand-alone format from gitlab repository or through the basf2 system of Belle II software. It was explained recently during the International Workshop on Tau Lepton Physics September, 2021, Bloomington IN. Now we concentrate on simulations for phi resonance, a hypothetical object which could be responsible for anomalous moment g-2 in Z-\tau-\tau interactions through virtual contributions.
2311.00350
Hao Chen
Hao Chen
QCD Factorization from Light-ray OPE
13 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The energy-energy correlator (EEC) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) serves as an important event shape for probing the substructure of jets in high-energy collisions. A significant progress has been make in understanding the collinear limit, where the angle between two detectors approaches zero, from the factorization formula in QCD and the light-ray Operator Product Expansion (OPE) in Conformal Field Theory. Building upon prior research on the renormalization of light-ray operators, we take an innovative step to extend the light-ray OPE into non-conformal contexts, with a specific emphasis on perturbative QCD. Our proposed form of the light-ray OPE is constrained by three fundamental properties: Lorentz symmetry, renormalization group invariance, and constraints from physical observables. This extension allows us to derive a factorization formula for the collinear limit of EEC, facilitating the future exploration and understanding on subleading power corrections in collinear limit.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Nov 2023 07:51:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-11-02
[ [ "Chen", "Hao", "" ] ]
The energy-energy correlator (EEC) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) serves as an important event shape for probing the substructure of jets in high-energy collisions. A significant progress has been make in understanding the collinear limit, where the angle between two detectors approaches zero, from the factorization formula in QCD and the light-ray Operator Product Expansion (OPE) in Conformal Field Theory. Building upon prior research on the renormalization of light-ray operators, we take an innovative step to extend the light-ray OPE into non-conformal contexts, with a specific emphasis on perturbative QCD. Our proposed form of the light-ray OPE is constrained by three fundamental properties: Lorentz symmetry, renormalization group invariance, and constraints from physical observables. This extension allows us to derive a factorization formula for the collinear limit of EEC, facilitating the future exploration and understanding on subleading power corrections in collinear limit.
hep-ph/0006137
Jai Sam Kim
Jai Sam Kim and Kyungsoo Lee
The Earth Regeneration Effect of Solar Neutrinos: a Numerical Treatment with Three Active Neutrino Flavors
8 pages, 2 postscript figures
Comput.Phys.Commun.135:176-189,2001
10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00237-X
null
hep-ph
null
We introduce an integrated algorithm for full scale investigation of the earth regeneration effect of solar neutrinos with all three active neutrinos. We illustrate that the earth effect on low energy solar neutrinos ($E_\nu < 20$ MeV) causes large variations in the survival probabilities for large values of the mixing angle $\theta_{12}$ for a given value of $\theta_{13}$. But it is maximal for small values of $\theta_{13}$ and diminishes for large values at a given value of $\theta_{12}$. The nadir angle dependence is sensitive to the value of $E'\equiv E/\Delta_{12}$. As far as low energy solar neutrinos are concerned we notice that the earth effect is more pronounced for core penetration. We confirm that the earth effect leaves the SMA region almost intact regardless of $\theta_{13}$ and that it is significant for high energy $^8$B and $hep$ neutrinos in the LMA region. We also show that for large values of $\theta_{13}$, the earth effect is significant for high energy neutrinos ($E'\gtrsim 10^9$) and it can be large at any nadir angle.
[ { "created": "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:31:41 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kim", "Jai Sam", "" ], [ "Lee", "Kyungsoo", "" ] ]
We introduce an integrated algorithm for full scale investigation of the earth regeneration effect of solar neutrinos with all three active neutrinos. We illustrate that the earth effect on low energy solar neutrinos ($E_\nu < 20$ MeV) causes large variations in the survival probabilities for large values of the mixing angle $\theta_{12}$ for a given value of $\theta_{13}$. But it is maximal for small values of $\theta_{13}$ and diminishes for large values at a given value of $\theta_{12}$. The nadir angle dependence is sensitive to the value of $E'\equiv E/\Delta_{12}$. As far as low energy solar neutrinos are concerned we notice that the earth effect is more pronounced for core penetration. We confirm that the earth effect leaves the SMA region almost intact regardless of $\theta_{13}$ and that it is significant for high energy $^8$B and $hep$ neutrinos in the LMA region. We also show that for large values of $\theta_{13}$, the earth effect is significant for high energy neutrinos ($E'\gtrsim 10^9$) and it can be large at any nadir angle.
hep-ph/0001094
Ma Bo-Qiang
Bo-Qiang Ma
The Spin Structure of the Proton
8 latex pages, Invited talk presented at Circum-Pan-Pacific RIKEN Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, RIKEN, Wako, Japan, November 3-6, 1999. To be published in the proceedings
RIKEN Rev.28:110-113,2000
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
null
It is shown that the proton "spin crisis'' or "spin puzzle" can be understood by the relativistic effect of quark transversal motions due to the Melosh-Wigner rotation. The quark helicity $\Delta q$ measured in polarized deep inelastic scattering is actually the quark spin in the infinite momentum frame or in the light-cone formalism, and it is different from the quark spin in the nucleon rest frame or in the quark model. The flavor asymmetry of the Melosh-Wigner effect for the valence $u$ and $d$ quarks and the intrinsic sea $q \bar{q}$ pairs are also the important ingredients in a SU(6) quark-spectator-diquark model framework to understand the "spin puzzle". Such a picture of the spin structure can be tested by use of several simple relations to measure the quark spin distributions in the quark model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:20:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-04-15
[ [ "Ma", "Bo-Qiang", "" ] ]
It is shown that the proton "spin crisis'' or "spin puzzle" can be understood by the relativistic effect of quark transversal motions due to the Melosh-Wigner rotation. The quark helicity $\Delta q$ measured in polarized deep inelastic scattering is actually the quark spin in the infinite momentum frame or in the light-cone formalism, and it is different from the quark spin in the nucleon rest frame or in the quark model. The flavor asymmetry of the Melosh-Wigner effect for the valence $u$ and $d$ quarks and the intrinsic sea $q \bar{q}$ pairs are also the important ingredients in a SU(6) quark-spectator-diquark model framework to understand the "spin puzzle". Such a picture of the spin structure can be tested by use of several simple relations to measure the quark spin distributions in the quark model.
hep-ph/0502046
Yogesh Mathur Kumar
R. Ramanathan, Y. K. Mathur, K. K. Gupta, Agam K. Jha and S. S. Singh (University of Delhi, India)
A Comparative Study of Two Models of QGP-Fireball Formation
Revtex 5 pages and 5 figures, Added some results and references
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
A Comparative study of the strengths and weakness of the models of fireball formation namely the statistical model of Ramanathan et.al (Physical Review C 70, 027903, 2004) and the approximation schemes of Kapusta et. al (Physical Review D 46, 1379, 1992) and its subsequent improved variants is made. The way to complement the various approximation schemes, in order to enhance their utility in the phenomenological analysis of QGP data that are expected from ongoing URHIC experiments, is suggested. The calculations demonstrate a striking QCD behaviour of the surface tension of the QGP droplet resulting in its increase with temperature, which is due to the confining nature of QCD forces at the surface and the interface surface tension varies as the cube of the transition temperature which is in conformity with the results of Lattice QCD simulations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 4 Feb 2005 16:12:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:49:49 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 5 Mar 2005 10:49:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Ramanathan", "R.", "", "University of Delhi, India" ], [ "Mathur", "Y. K.", "", "University of Delhi, India" ], [ "Gupta", "K. K.", "", "University of Delhi, India" ], [ "Jha", "Agam K.", "", "University of Delhi, India" ], [ "Singh", "S. S.", "", "University of Delhi, India" ] ]
A Comparative study of the strengths and weakness of the models of fireball formation namely the statistical model of Ramanathan et.al (Physical Review C 70, 027903, 2004) and the approximation schemes of Kapusta et. al (Physical Review D 46, 1379, 1992) and its subsequent improved variants is made. The way to complement the various approximation schemes, in order to enhance their utility in the phenomenological analysis of QGP data that are expected from ongoing URHIC experiments, is suggested. The calculations demonstrate a striking QCD behaviour of the surface tension of the QGP droplet resulting in its increase with temperature, which is due to the confining nature of QCD forces at the surface and the interface surface tension varies as the cube of the transition temperature which is in conformity with the results of Lattice QCD simulations.
hep-ph/9906275
Carlo Giunti
C. Giunti
Neutrinoless double-beta decay with three or four neutrino mixing
18 pages including 2 figures, RevTeX
Phys.Rev. D61 (2000) 036002
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.036002
DFTT 32/99
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex
null
Considering the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, it is shown that the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses. Considering the four-neutrino schemes that can accommodate also the results of the LSND experiment, it is shown that only one of them is compatible with the results of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments and with the measurement of the abundances of primordial elements produced in Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis. It is shown that in this scheme, under the assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses, the results of the LSND experiment imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:28:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:45:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Giunti", "C.", "" ] ]
Considering the scheme with mixing of three neutrinos and a mass hierarchy that can accommodate the results of solar and atmospheric neutrino experiments, it is shown that the results of solar neutrino experiments imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay, under the natural assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no unlikely fine-tuned cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses. Considering the four-neutrino schemes that can accommodate also the results of the LSND experiment, it is shown that only one of them is compatible with the results of neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments and with the measurement of the abundances of primordial elements produced in Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis. It is shown that in this scheme, under the assumptions that massive neutrinos are Majorana particles and there are no cancellations among the contributions of the different neutrino masses, the results of the LSND experiment imply a lower bound for the effective Majorana mass in neutrinoless double-beta decay.
hep-ph/0605128
Zaven Akopoff N
N. Akopov, L. Grigoryan, Z. Akopov
Nuclear Attenuation of high energy two-hadron system in the string model
8 pages
Eur.Phys.J.C49:1015-1021,2007
10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0183-5
null
hep-ph
null
Nuclear attenuation of the two-hadron system is considered in the string model. The two-scale model and its improved version with two different choices of constituent formation time and sets of parameters obtained earlier for the single hadron attenuation, are used to describe available experimental data for the $z$-dependence of subleading hadron, whereas satisfactory agreement with the experimental data has been observed. A model prediction for $\nu$-dependence of the nuclear attenuation of the two-hadron system is also presented.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 May 2006 12:01:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Akopov", "N.", "" ], [ "Grigoryan", "L.", "" ], [ "Akopov", "Z.", "" ] ]
Nuclear attenuation of the two-hadron system is considered in the string model. The two-scale model and its improved version with two different choices of constituent formation time and sets of parameters obtained earlier for the single hadron attenuation, are used to describe available experimental data for the $z$-dependence of subleading hadron, whereas satisfactory agreement with the experimental data has been observed. A model prediction for $\nu$-dependence of the nuclear attenuation of the two-hadron system is also presented.
2307.02888
Wen-Chen Chang
Wen-Chen Chang, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Yu-Shiang Lian, Jen-Chieh Peng, Stephane Platchkov and Takahiro Sawada
Pion PDFs confronted by Fixed-Target Charmonium Production
17 pages, 6 figures; invited review. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.06947, arXiv:2209.04072
AAPPS Bulletin volume 33, Article number: 15 (2023)
10.1007/s43673-023-00085-4
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The pion, as the Goldstone boson of the strong interaction, is the lightest QCD bound state and responsible for the long-range nucleon-nucleon interaction inside the nucleus. Our knowledge on the pion partonic structure is limited by the existing Drell-Yan data which are primarily sensitive to the pion valence-quark distributions. The recent progress of global analysis of pion's parton distribution functions (PDFs) utilizing various experimental approaches are introduced. From comparisons between the pion-induced $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ production data with theoretical calculations using the CEM and NRQCD models, we show how these charmonium production data could provide useful constraints on the pion PDFs.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Jul 2023 09:45:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-07-07
[ [ "Chang", "Wen-Chen", "" ], [ "Hsieh", "Chia-Yu", "" ], [ "Lian", "Yu-Shiang", "" ], [ "Peng", "Jen-Chieh", "" ], [ "Platchkov", "Stephane", "" ], [ "Sawada", "Takahiro", "" ] ]
The pion, as the Goldstone boson of the strong interaction, is the lightest QCD bound state and responsible for the long-range nucleon-nucleon interaction inside the nucleus. Our knowledge on the pion partonic structure is limited by the existing Drell-Yan data which are primarily sensitive to the pion valence-quark distributions. The recent progress of global analysis of pion's parton distribution functions (PDFs) utilizing various experimental approaches are introduced. From comparisons between the pion-induced $J/\psi$ and $\psi(2S)$ production data with theoretical calculations using the CEM and NRQCD models, we show how these charmonium production data could provide useful constraints on the pion PDFs.
2108.03248
David Morrissey
Andrea Gaspert, Pietro Giampa, and David E. Morrissey
Neutrino Backgrounds in Future Liquid Noble Element Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments
44 pages, 11 figures, added references and discussion and updated figures for clarity, matches published version
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.105.035020
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new background to their dark matter discovery potential from neutrino scattering off nuclei and electrons in their targets. Therefore, a better understanding of this new source of background is crucial for future large-scale experiments such as ARGO and DARWIN. In this work, we study the impact of atmospheric neutrino flux uncertainties, electron recoil rejection efficiency, recoil energy sensitivity, and other related factors on the dark matter discovery reach. We also show that a significant improvement in sensitivity can potentially be obtained, at large exposures, by combining data from independent argon and xenon experiments.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Aug 2021 18:00:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 May 2023 18:11:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-05-05
[ [ "Gaspert", "Andrea", "" ], [ "Giampa", "Pietro", "" ], [ "Morrissey", "David E.", "" ] ]
Experiments that use liquid noble gasses as target materials, such as argon and xenon, play a significant role in direct detection searches for WIMP(-like) dark matter. As these experiments grow in size, they will soon encounter a new background to their dark matter discovery potential from neutrino scattering off nuclei and electrons in their targets. Therefore, a better understanding of this new source of background is crucial for future large-scale experiments such as ARGO and DARWIN. In this work, we study the impact of atmospheric neutrino flux uncertainties, electron recoil rejection efficiency, recoil energy sensitivity, and other related factors on the dark matter discovery reach. We also show that a significant improvement in sensitivity can potentially be obtained, at large exposures, by combining data from independent argon and xenon experiments.
1203.1918
James Maxin
Tianjun Li, James A. Maxin, Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, and Joel W. Walker
A Multi-Axis Best Fit to the Collider Supersymmetry Search: The Aroma of Stops and Gluinos at the \sqrt{s} = 7 TeV LHC
13 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables
null
null
ACT-04-12, MIFPA-12-09
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In Profumo di SUSY, we presented evidence that CMS&ATLAS may have already registered a handful of deftly camouflaged supersymmetry events at the LHC in the multijet channels. Here, we explore the prospect for corroboration of this suggestion from 5 additional CMS&ATLAS search strategies targeting the production of light stops & gluinos at lower jet counts, which variously depend on heavy flavor tagging and the inclusion or exclusion of associated leptons. The current operating phase of the 7TeV LHC is highly conducive to the production of gluinos & light stops, given the supersymmetric particle mass hierarchy M_t_1<M_g<M_q that naturally evolves from the dynamics of the model named No-Scale FSU5 that we presently study. Moreover, some tension persists against the SM data-driven and MC generated background predictions in certain LHC searches of this variety. We demonstrate that the 1-sigma overlap of the allowed supersymmetric event production for these seven search methodologies roundly envelops the most favorable phenomenological subspace of FSU5, while handily generating a 125GeV Higgs boson mass. In order to test the statistical significance of any correlations across the simulated FSU5 collider response in these seven search strategies, we implement a multi-axis chi^2 fitting procedure, yielding a best overall match in the vicinity of M1/2=610GeV, corresponding to light stop & gluino masses of approximately 665GeV and 830GeV. Consequently, we suggest that FSU5 is a better global fit to the studied LHC data than the SM alone, and moreover that its predictions appear to be meaningfully correlated with observed low-statistics excesses across a wide variety of specialized search strategies. We suspect the already collected 5/fb will be sufficient to either condense or disperse the delicate aroma of stops and gluinos that suffuses the early search.
[ { "created": "Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:57:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-03-09
[ [ "Li", "Tianjun", "" ], [ "Maxin", "James A.", "" ], [ "Nanopoulos", "Dimitri V.", "" ], [ "Walker", "Joel W.", "" ] ]
In Profumo di SUSY, we presented evidence that CMS&ATLAS may have already registered a handful of deftly camouflaged supersymmetry events at the LHC in the multijet channels. Here, we explore the prospect for corroboration of this suggestion from 5 additional CMS&ATLAS search strategies targeting the production of light stops & gluinos at lower jet counts, which variously depend on heavy flavor tagging and the inclusion or exclusion of associated leptons. The current operating phase of the 7TeV LHC is highly conducive to the production of gluinos & light stops, given the supersymmetric particle mass hierarchy M_t_1<M_g<M_q that naturally evolves from the dynamics of the model named No-Scale FSU5 that we presently study. Moreover, some tension persists against the SM data-driven and MC generated background predictions in certain LHC searches of this variety. We demonstrate that the 1-sigma overlap of the allowed supersymmetric event production for these seven search methodologies roundly envelops the most favorable phenomenological subspace of FSU5, while handily generating a 125GeV Higgs boson mass. In order to test the statistical significance of any correlations across the simulated FSU5 collider response in these seven search strategies, we implement a multi-axis chi^2 fitting procedure, yielding a best overall match in the vicinity of M1/2=610GeV, corresponding to light stop & gluino masses of approximately 665GeV and 830GeV. Consequently, we suggest that FSU5 is a better global fit to the studied LHC data than the SM alone, and moreover that its predictions appear to be meaningfully correlated with observed low-statistics excesses across a wide variety of specialized search strategies. We suspect the already collected 5/fb will be sufficient to either condense or disperse the delicate aroma of stops and gluinos that suffuses the early search.
0706.3672
Kirill Semenov-Tian-Shansky
Kirill M.Semenov-Tian-Shansky, Alexander V.Vereshagin, Vladimir V. Vereshagin
Bootstrap and the physical values of $\pi N$ resonance parameters
41 pages, 7 figures
Phys.Rev.D77:025028,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.025028
null
hep-ph hep-th
null
This is the 6th paper in the series developing the formalism to manage the effective scattering theory of strong interactions. Relying on the theoretical scheme suggested in our previous publications we concentrate here on the practical aspect and apply our technique to the elastic pion-nucleon scattering amplitude. We test numerically the pion-nucleon spectrum sum rules that follow from the tree level bootstrap constraints. We show how these constraints can be used to estimate the tensor and vector $NN\rho$ coupling constants. At last, we demonstrate that the tree-level low energy expansion coefficients computed in the framework of our approach show nice agreement with known experimental data. These results allow us to claim that the extended perturbation scheme is quite reasonable from the computational point of view.
[ { "created": "Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:13:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Semenov-Tian-Shansky", "Kirill M.", "" ], [ "Vereshagin", "Alexander V.", "" ], [ "Vereshagin", "Vladimir V.", "" ] ]
This is the 6th paper in the series developing the formalism to manage the effective scattering theory of strong interactions. Relying on the theoretical scheme suggested in our previous publications we concentrate here on the practical aspect and apply our technique to the elastic pion-nucleon scattering amplitude. We test numerically the pion-nucleon spectrum sum rules that follow from the tree level bootstrap constraints. We show how these constraints can be used to estimate the tensor and vector $NN\rho$ coupling constants. At last, we demonstrate that the tree-level low energy expansion coefficients computed in the framework of our approach show nice agreement with known experimental data. These results allow us to claim that the extended perturbation scheme is quite reasonable from the computational point of view.
2408.03068
Yanbing Cai
Jingxuan Chen, Xiaopeng Wang, Yanbing Cai, Xurong Chen, Qian Wang
Valence Quark Distributions in Pions: Insights from Tsallis Entropy
11 pages, 3 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the valence quark distributions of pions at a low initial scale ($Q^2_0$) through the application of Tsallis entropy, a non-extensive measure adept at encapsulating long-range correlations among internal constituents. Utilizing the maximum entropy approach, we derive the valence quark distributions at elevated resolution scales via a modified DGLAP equation, which integrates GLR-MQ-ZRS corrections for the $Q^2$ evolution. Our findings indicate that the resulting $Q^2$-dependent valence quark distributions yield an optimal fit to experimental data, with an inferred parameter value of $q$ ($q = 0.91$), diverging from unity. This deviation highlights the significant role that correlations among valence quarks play in shaping our understanding of pion internal structure. Additionally, our computations of the first three moments of pion quark distributions at $ Q^2 = 4 \, \mathrm{GeV}^2$ display consistency with alternative theoretical models, thereby reinforcing the importance of incorporating valence quark correlations within this analytical framework.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Aug 2024 09:49:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-08-07
[ [ "Chen", "Jingxuan", "" ], [ "Wang", "Xiaopeng", "" ], [ "Cai", "Yanbing", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xurong", "" ], [ "Wang", "Qian", "" ] ]
We investigate the valence quark distributions of pions at a low initial scale ($Q^2_0$) through the application of Tsallis entropy, a non-extensive measure adept at encapsulating long-range correlations among internal constituents. Utilizing the maximum entropy approach, we derive the valence quark distributions at elevated resolution scales via a modified DGLAP equation, which integrates GLR-MQ-ZRS corrections for the $Q^2$ evolution. Our findings indicate that the resulting $Q^2$-dependent valence quark distributions yield an optimal fit to experimental data, with an inferred parameter value of $q$ ($q = 0.91$), diverging from unity. This deviation highlights the significant role that correlations among valence quarks play in shaping our understanding of pion internal structure. Additionally, our computations of the first three moments of pion quark distributions at $ Q^2 = 4 \, \mathrm{GeV}^2$ display consistency with alternative theoretical models, thereby reinforcing the importance of incorporating valence quark correlations within this analytical framework.
hep-ph/0607033
Vittorio del Duca
V. Del Duca, G. Somogyi, Z. Trocsanyi
Cross sections at NNLO
4 pages. To appear in the proceedings of DIS06, Tsukuba, Japan
null
10.1142/9789812706706_0130
null
hep-ph
null
In this talk we report on the state of the art on the calculation of cross section at next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) accuracy.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:56:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Del Duca", "V.", "" ], [ "Somogyi", "G.", "" ], [ "Trocsanyi", "Z.", "" ] ]
In this talk we report on the state of the art on the calculation of cross section at next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) accuracy.
2110.15840
Giacomo Magni
Raquel Gomez-Ambrosio and Giacomo Magni
SMEFT analysis of the electroweak sector: challenges beyond dimension 6
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In these proceedings we present the latest developments in our effort to include vector boson scattering (VBS) measurements into global SMEFT fits of LHC data. We present some updates to our initial study of arXiv:2101.03180 as well as comment on a possible road map for the inclusion of higher orders beyond dimension 6 in the SMEFT and on the interpretation of VBS data in other EFT frameworks.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:04:32 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-11-01
[ [ "Gomez-Ambrosio", "Raquel", "" ], [ "Magni", "Giacomo", "" ] ]
In these proceedings we present the latest developments in our effort to include vector boson scattering (VBS) measurements into global SMEFT fits of LHC data. We present some updates to our initial study of arXiv:2101.03180 as well as comment on a possible road map for the inclusion of higher orders beyond dimension 6 in the SMEFT and on the interpretation of VBS data in other EFT frameworks.
hep-ph/9907489
Bernd Kniehl
B.A. Kniehl and A.A. Penin
Ultrasoft Effects in Heavy-Quarkonium Physics
14 pages (Latex), 5 figures (Axodraw), one reference added, accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics B
Nucl.Phys. B563 (1999) 200-210
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00564-7
DESY 99-099, MPI/PhT/99-029
hep-ph
null
In the framework of nonrelativistic QCD, we consider a new class of radiative corrections, which are generated at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order through the chromoelectric dipole interaction of heavy quarkonium with ultrasoft virtual gluons. We provide analytical formulae from which the resulting shifts in the quarkonium energy levels and the wave functions at the origin may be calculated. We discuss the phenomenological implications for the top-antitop and Upsilon systems and point out some limitations of describing charmonium using a Coulomb potential.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:55:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:38:41 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Kniehl", "B. A.", "" ], [ "Penin", "A. A.", "" ] ]
In the framework of nonrelativistic QCD, we consider a new class of radiative corrections, which are generated at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order through the chromoelectric dipole interaction of heavy quarkonium with ultrasoft virtual gluons. We provide analytical formulae from which the resulting shifts in the quarkonium energy levels and the wave functions at the origin may be calculated. We discuss the phenomenological implications for the top-antitop and Upsilon systems and point out some limitations of describing charmonium using a Coulomb potential.
1811.02581
Simone Biondini
S. Biondini and S. Vogl
Coloured coannihilations: Dark matter phenomenology meets non-relativistic EFTs
Published version, references and section on indirect detection added
null
10.1007/JHEP02(2019)016
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the phenomenology of a simplified model with a Majorana fermion as dark matter candidate which interacts with Standard Model quarks via a colour-charged coannihilation partner. Recently it has been realized that non-perturbative dynamics, including the Sommerfeld effect, bound state formation/dissociation and thermal corrections, play an important role in coannihilations with coloured mediators. This calls for a careful analysis of thermal freeze-out and a new look at the experimental signatures expected for a thermal relic. We employ a state of the art calculation of the relic density which makes use of a non-relativistic effective theory framework and calculate the effective annihilation rates by solving a plasma-modified Schrodinger equation. We determine the cosmologically preferred parameter space and confront it with current experimental limits and future prospects for dark matter detection.
[ { "created": "Tue, 6 Nov 2018 19:00:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 17 Mar 2019 13:31:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-03-19
[ [ "Biondini", "S.", "" ], [ "Vogl", "S.", "" ] ]
We investigate the phenomenology of a simplified model with a Majorana fermion as dark matter candidate which interacts with Standard Model quarks via a colour-charged coannihilation partner. Recently it has been realized that non-perturbative dynamics, including the Sommerfeld effect, bound state formation/dissociation and thermal corrections, play an important role in coannihilations with coloured mediators. This calls for a careful analysis of thermal freeze-out and a new look at the experimental signatures expected for a thermal relic. We employ a state of the art calculation of the relic density which makes use of a non-relativistic effective theory framework and calculate the effective annihilation rates by solving a plasma-modified Schrodinger equation. We determine the cosmologically preferred parameter space and confront it with current experimental limits and future prospects for dark matter detection.
hep-ph/0005288
Ernest Ma
D. A. Demir (ICTP), Ernest Ma (UC Riverside), Utpal Sarkar (UC Riverside and PRL, Ahmedabad)
Neutrino Masses and the Gluino Axion Model
8 pages, no figure
J.Phys. G26 (2000) L117
10.1088/0954-3899/26/11/101
IC/00/65, UCRHEP-T277 (May 2000)
hep-ph
null
We extend the recently proposed gluino axion model to include neutrino masses. We discuss how the canonical seesaw model and the Higgs triplet model may be realized in this framework. In the former case, the heavy singlet neutrinos are contained in superfields which do not have any vacuum expectation value, whereas the gluino axion is contained in one which does. We also construct a specific renormalizable model which realizes the mass scale relationship $M_{SUSY} \sim f_a^2/M_U$, where $f_a$ is the axion decay constant and $M_U$ is a large effective mass parameter.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 May 2000 18:32:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Demir", "D. A.", "", "ICTP" ], [ "Ma", "Ernest", "", "UC Riverside" ], [ "Sarkar", "Utpal", "", "UC\n Riverside and PRL, Ahmedabad" ] ]
We extend the recently proposed gluino axion model to include neutrino masses. We discuss how the canonical seesaw model and the Higgs triplet model may be realized in this framework. In the former case, the heavy singlet neutrinos are contained in superfields which do not have any vacuum expectation value, whereas the gluino axion is contained in one which does. We also construct a specific renormalizable model which realizes the mass scale relationship $M_{SUSY} \sim f_a^2/M_U$, where $f_a$ is the axion decay constant and $M_U$ is a large effective mass parameter.
1811.06003
Toshinori Matsui
Toshinori Matsui
Exploring first order phase transition in $U(1)$ extended models by complementarity between collider measurements and cosmological observations
4 pages, 2 figures. Talk presented at the International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2018), Arlington, Texas, 22-26 October 2018. C18-10-22
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider models with the $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, which is spontaneously broken by dark Higgs mechanism. We discuss patterns of the electroweak phase transition and detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) when strongly first order phase transition (1stOPT) occurs. It is pointed out that the collider bounds on the properties of the discovered Higgs boson exclude a part of parameter space that could otherwise generate detectable GWs. We find that GWs produced from multi-step PT can be detected at future observations such as LISA and DECIGO if the dark photon mass is $m_X^{} \gtrsim 25$ GeV with the $U(1)_X^{}$ gauge coupling being $g_X^{} \gtrsim 0.5$. In addition, we show that most of the parameter regions can be covered by precision measurements of various Higgs boson couplings and direct searches for the singlet scalar boson at future collider experiments. Furthermore, we expect the complementarity of the detection of GW observations from the strongly 1stOPT, collider bounds and dark photon searches in the models of the dark gauge symmetry.
[ { "created": "Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:04:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-11-16
[ [ "Matsui", "Toshinori", "" ] ]
We consider models with the $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry, which is spontaneously broken by dark Higgs mechanism. We discuss patterns of the electroweak phase transition and detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) when strongly first order phase transition (1stOPT) occurs. It is pointed out that the collider bounds on the properties of the discovered Higgs boson exclude a part of parameter space that could otherwise generate detectable GWs. We find that GWs produced from multi-step PT can be detected at future observations such as LISA and DECIGO if the dark photon mass is $m_X^{} \gtrsim 25$ GeV with the $U(1)_X^{}$ gauge coupling being $g_X^{} \gtrsim 0.5$. In addition, we show that most of the parameter regions can be covered by precision measurements of various Higgs boson couplings and direct searches for the singlet scalar boson at future collider experiments. Furthermore, we expect the complementarity of the detection of GW observations from the strongly 1stOPT, collider bounds and dark photon searches in the models of the dark gauge symmetry.
1708.09408
Joao Silva
Miguel P. Bento, Howard E. Haber, J. C. Rom\~ao, Jo\~ao P. Silva
Multi-Higgs doublet models: physical parametrization, sum rules and unitarity bounds
66 pages, 3 figures. v2: refs added
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2017)095
CFTP-17-005, SCIPP-17/10
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
If the scalar sector of the Standard Model is non-minimal, one might expect multiple generations of the hypercharge-1/2 scalar doublet analogous to the generational structure of the fermions. In this work, we examine the structure of a Higgs sector consisting of N Higgs doublets (where N \geq 2). It is particularly convenient to work in the so-called charged Higgs basis, in which the neutral Higgs vacuum expectation value resides entirely in the first Higgs doublet, and the charged components of remaining N-1 Higgs doublets are mass-eigenstate fields. We elucidate the interactions of the gauge bosons with the physical Higgs scalars and the Goldstone bosons and show that they are determined by an Nx2N matrix. This matrix depends on (N-1)(2N-1) real parameters that are associated with the mixing of the neutral Higgs fields in the charged Higgs basis. Among these parameters, N-1 are unphysical (and can be removed by rephasing the physical charged Higgs fields), and the remaining 2(N-1)^2 parameters are physical. We also demonstrate a particularly simple form for the cubic interaction and some of the quartic interactions of the Goldstone bosons with the physical Higgs scalars. These results are applied in the derivation of Higgs coupling sum rules and tree-level unitarity bounds that restrict the size of the quartic scalar couplings. In particular, new applications to three Higgs doublet models with an order-4 CP symmetry and with a Z_3 symmetry, respectively, are presented.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Aug 2017 18:04:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 8 Sep 2017 21:49:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-12-06
[ [ "Bento", "Miguel P.", "" ], [ "Haber", "Howard E.", "" ], [ "Romão", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Silva", "João P.", "" ] ]
If the scalar sector of the Standard Model is non-minimal, one might expect multiple generations of the hypercharge-1/2 scalar doublet analogous to the generational structure of the fermions. In this work, we examine the structure of a Higgs sector consisting of N Higgs doublets (where N \geq 2). It is particularly convenient to work in the so-called charged Higgs basis, in which the neutral Higgs vacuum expectation value resides entirely in the first Higgs doublet, and the charged components of remaining N-1 Higgs doublets are mass-eigenstate fields. We elucidate the interactions of the gauge bosons with the physical Higgs scalars and the Goldstone bosons and show that they are determined by an Nx2N matrix. This matrix depends on (N-1)(2N-1) real parameters that are associated with the mixing of the neutral Higgs fields in the charged Higgs basis. Among these parameters, N-1 are unphysical (and can be removed by rephasing the physical charged Higgs fields), and the remaining 2(N-1)^2 parameters are physical. We also demonstrate a particularly simple form for the cubic interaction and some of the quartic interactions of the Goldstone bosons with the physical Higgs scalars. These results are applied in the derivation of Higgs coupling sum rules and tree-level unitarity bounds that restrict the size of the quartic scalar couplings. In particular, new applications to three Higgs doublet models with an order-4 CP symmetry and with a Z_3 symmetry, respectively, are presented.
1811.11699
Simon Badger
Simon Badger, Christian Br{\o}nnum-Hansen, Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, Tiziano Peraro
Analytic helicity amplitudes for two-loop five-gluon scattering: the single-minus case
18 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2019)186
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a compact analytic expression for the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitude in Yang-Mills theory with a single negative helicity and four positive helicities. The analytic result is reconstructed from numerical evaluations over finite fields. The numerical method combines integrand reduction, integration-by-parts identities and Laurent expansion into a basis of pentagon functions to compute the coefficients directly from six-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:37:08 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-02-20
[ [ "Badger", "Simon", "" ], [ "Brønnum-Hansen", "Christian", "" ], [ "Hartanto", "Heribertus Bayu", "" ], [ "Peraro", "Tiziano", "" ] ]
We present a compact analytic expression for the leading colour two-loop five-gluon amplitude in Yang-Mills theory with a single negative helicity and four positive helicities. The analytic result is reconstructed from numerical evaluations over finite fields. The numerical method combines integrand reduction, integration-by-parts identities and Laurent expansion into a basis of pentagon functions to compute the coefficients directly from six-dimensional generalised unitarity cuts.
1212.0301
Andrea Shindler
N. Carrasco, P. Dimopoulos, R. Frezzotti, V. Gimenez, G. Herdoiza, V. Lubicz, G. Martinelli, C. Michael, D. Palao, G. C. Rossi, F. Sanfilippo, A. Shindler, S. Simula, C. Tarantino
B-physics from lattice QCD...with a twist
6 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics - ICHEP 2012; July 4-11 2012; Melbourne, Australia
PoS(ICHEP2012)428
null
IFIC/12-80; FTUAM-12-113; IFT-UAM/CSIC-12-111; RM3-TH/12-20; LTH966; CERN-PH-TH/2012-328
hep-ph hep-ex hep-lat
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
We present a precise lattice QCD determination of the b-quark mass, of the B and Bs decay constants and first results for the B-meson bag parameters. For our computation we employ the so-called ratio method and our results benefit from the use of improved interpolating operators for the B-mesons. QCD calculations are performed with Nf = 2 dynamical light-quarks at four values of the lattice spacing and the results are extrapolated to the continuum limit. The preliminary results are mb(mb) = 4.35(12) GeV for the MSbar b-quark mass, fBs = 234(6) MeV and fB = 197(10) MeV for the B-meson decay constants, BBs(mb) = 0.90(5) and BB(mb) = 0.87(5) for the B-meson bag parameters.
[ { "created": "Mon, 3 Dec 2012 07:17:16 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-12-04
[ [ "Carrasco", "N.", "" ], [ "Dimopoulos", "P.", "" ], [ "Frezzotti", "R.", "" ], [ "Gimenez", "V.", "" ], [ "Herdoiza", "G.", "" ], [ "Lubicz", "V.", "" ], [ "Martinelli", "G.", "" ], [ "Michael", "C.", "" ], [ "Palao", "D.", "" ], [ "Rossi", "G. C.", "" ], [ "Sanfilippo", "F.", "" ], [ "Shindler", "A.", "" ], [ "Simula", "S.", "" ], [ "Tarantino", "C.", "" ] ]
We present a precise lattice QCD determination of the b-quark mass, of the B and Bs decay constants and first results for the B-meson bag parameters. For our computation we employ the so-called ratio method and our results benefit from the use of improved interpolating operators for the B-mesons. QCD calculations are performed with Nf = 2 dynamical light-quarks at four values of the lattice spacing and the results are extrapolated to the continuum limit. The preliminary results are mb(mb) = 4.35(12) GeV for the MSbar b-quark mass, fBs = 234(6) MeV and fB = 197(10) MeV for the B-meson decay constants, BBs(mb) = 0.90(5) and BB(mb) = 0.87(5) for the B-meson bag parameters.
1306.4445
Lewis Tunstall
R.J. Crewther and Lewis C. Tunstall
Infrared Fixed Point in the Strong Running Coupling: Unraveling the \Delta I=1/2 puzzle in K-Decays
8 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the workshop "Determination of the Fundamental Parameters of QCD", Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 18-22 March 2013, to be published in Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Mod.Phys.Lett. A28 (2013) 1360010
10.1142/S0217732313600109
ADP-13-14/T834
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this talk, we present an explanation for the Delta I = 1/2 rule in K-decays based on the premise of an infrared fixed point alpha_IR in the running coupling alpha_s of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) for three light quarks u,d,s. At the fixed point, the quark condensate spontaneously breaks scale and chiral SU(3)_L x SU(3)_R symmetry. Consequently, the low-lying spectrum contains nine Nambu-Goldstone bosons: pi,K,eta and a QCD dilaton sigma. We identify sigma as the f_0(500) resonance and construct a chiral-scale perturbation theory CHPT_sigma for low-energy amplitudes expanded in alpha_s about alpha_IR. The Delta I = 1/2 rule emerges in the leading order of CHPT_sigma through a sigma-pole term K_S --> sigma --> 2 pi, with a K_S-sigma coupling fixed by data on 2 gamma --> 2 pi^0 and K_S --> 2 gamma. We also determine R_IR ~ 5 for the nonperturbative Drell-Yan ratio at alpha_IR.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:44:14 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-12-13
[ [ "Crewther", "R. J.", "" ], [ "Tunstall", "Lewis C.", "" ] ]
In this talk, we present an explanation for the Delta I = 1/2 rule in K-decays based on the premise of an infrared fixed point alpha_IR in the running coupling alpha_s of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) for three light quarks u,d,s. At the fixed point, the quark condensate spontaneously breaks scale and chiral SU(3)_L x SU(3)_R symmetry. Consequently, the low-lying spectrum contains nine Nambu-Goldstone bosons: pi,K,eta and a QCD dilaton sigma. We identify sigma as the f_0(500) resonance and construct a chiral-scale perturbation theory CHPT_sigma for low-energy amplitudes expanded in alpha_s about alpha_IR. The Delta I = 1/2 rule emerges in the leading order of CHPT_sigma through a sigma-pole term K_S --> sigma --> 2 pi, with a K_S-sigma coupling fixed by data on 2 gamma --> 2 pi^0 and K_S --> 2 gamma. We also determine R_IR ~ 5 for the nonperturbative Drell-Yan ratio at alpha_IR.
0707.0005
Scott Thomas
Michael Dine, Nathan Seiberg and Scott Thomas
Higgs Physics as a Window Beyond the MSSM (BMSSM)
LaTex, 28 pages
Phys.Rev.D76:095004,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.095004
SCIPP 07/13, RU-NHETC-07-10
hep-ph
null
We interpret the current experimental limit on the lightest Higgs boson mass to suggest that if nature is supersymmetric, there are additional interactions beyond those of the MSSM coming from new degrees of freedom around the TeV scale. Within an effective field theory analysis, the leading order corrections to the MSSM are described in terms of only two operators. This provides a highly constrained description of Beyond MSSM (BMSSM) physics. The scalar Higgs spectrum as well as the chargino and neutralino spectrum and couplings are modified in a distinctive way. These operators can be generated by a variety of microscopic mechanisms.
[ { "created": "Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:08:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:49:25 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:09:48 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Dine", "Michael", "" ], [ "Seiberg", "Nathan", "" ], [ "Thomas", "Scott", "" ] ]
We interpret the current experimental limit on the lightest Higgs boson mass to suggest that if nature is supersymmetric, there are additional interactions beyond those of the MSSM coming from new degrees of freedom around the TeV scale. Within an effective field theory analysis, the leading order corrections to the MSSM are described in terms of only two operators. This provides a highly constrained description of Beyond MSSM (BMSSM) physics. The scalar Higgs spectrum as well as the chargino and neutralino spectrum and couplings are modified in a distinctive way. These operators can be generated by a variety of microscopic mechanisms.
hep-ph/0102047
Mark G. Alford
Mark Alford (Glasgow)
Color superconducting quark matter
31 pages, LaTeX. To appear in Annu. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. (Minor corrections, references added.)
Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.51:131-160,2001
10.1146/annurev.nucl.51.101701.132449
GUTPA/01/02/01
hep-ph
null
I review recent progress in our understanding of the color superconducting phase of matter above nuclear density, giving particular emphasis to the effort to find observable signatures of the presence of this phase in compact stars.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:02:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 May 2001 16:19:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Alford", "Mark", "", "Glasgow" ] ]
I review recent progress in our understanding of the color superconducting phase of matter above nuclear density, giving particular emphasis to the effort to find observable signatures of the presence of this phase in compact stars.
2012.15039
Wen-Fei Wang
Wen-Fei Wang
Contributions for the kaon pair from $\rho(770)$, $\omega(782)$ and their excited states in the $B\to K\bar K h$ decays
25 pages, 3 figures, typos in Eq.(25) corrected
Phys. Rev. D 103, 056021 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.103.056021
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We study the resonance contributions for the kaon pair originating from the intermediate states $\rho(770,1450,1700)$ and $\omega(782,1420,1650)$ for the three-body hadronic decays $B\to K\bar K h$ in the perturbative QCD approach, where $h=(\pi, K)$. The branching fractions of the virtual contributions for $K\bar K$ from the Breit-Wigner formula tails of $\rho(770)$ and $\omega(782)$ which have been ignored in experimental and theoretical studies for these decays are found larger than the corresponding contributions from the resonances $\rho(1450,1700)$ and $\omega(1420,1650)$. The differential branching fractions for $B\to \rho(770) h\to K\bar K h$ and $B\to\omega(782) h \to K\bar K h$ are found nearly unaffected by the quite different values of the full widths for $\rho(770)$ and $\omega(782)$ in this paper. The predictions in this work for the branching fractions of the quasi-two-body decays $B^+\to \pi^+ \rho(1450)^0\to \pi^+K^+K^-$ and $B^+\to \pi^+ \rho(1450)^0\to \pi^+\pi^+\pi^-$ meet the requirement of $SU(3)$ symmetry relation.
[ { "created": "Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:45:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Feb 2021 06:16:12 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 9 Jul 2021 10:19:31 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-07-12
[ [ "Wang", "Wen-Fei", "" ] ]
We study the resonance contributions for the kaon pair originating from the intermediate states $\rho(770,1450,1700)$ and $\omega(782,1420,1650)$ for the three-body hadronic decays $B\to K\bar K h$ in the perturbative QCD approach, where $h=(\pi, K)$. The branching fractions of the virtual contributions for $K\bar K$ from the Breit-Wigner formula tails of $\rho(770)$ and $\omega(782)$ which have been ignored in experimental and theoretical studies for these decays are found larger than the corresponding contributions from the resonances $\rho(1450,1700)$ and $\omega(1420,1650)$. The differential branching fractions for $B\to \rho(770) h\to K\bar K h$ and $B\to\omega(782) h \to K\bar K h$ are found nearly unaffected by the quite different values of the full widths for $\rho(770)$ and $\omega(782)$ in this paper. The predictions in this work for the branching fractions of the quasi-two-body decays $B^+\to \pi^+ \rho(1450)^0\to \pi^+K^+K^-$ and $B^+\to \pi^+ \rho(1450)^0\to \pi^+\pi^+\pi^-$ meet the requirement of $SU(3)$ symmetry relation.
2012.05502
Rohit Gupta
Rohit Gupta and Satyajit Jena
A generalized approach to study low as well as high $p_T$ regime of transverse momentum spectra
null
Proceedings of Science ICHEP2020 579
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
A good understanding of the transverse momentum $(p_T)$ spectra is pivotal in the study of QCD matter created during the heavy-ion collision. Considering the difference in the underlying particle production mechanism, $p_T$ spectra can be divided into two distinct regions. Low-$p_T$ region corresponds to particle produced in soft-processes whereas particles produced in hard processes dominate the high-$p_T$ regime of the spectra. We will discuss a unified formalism to explain both low as well as high-$p_T$ region of the transverse momentum spectra in a consistent manner. This unified formalism is based on the generalisation of non-extensive statistical mechanics using the Pearson distribution. This generalised formalism also gives a strong insight into the study of elliptic flow in heavy-ion collision.
[ { "created": "Thu, 10 Dec 2020 08:13:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2021-03-23
[ [ "Gupta", "Rohit", "" ], [ "Jena", "Satyajit", "" ] ]
A good understanding of the transverse momentum $(p_T)$ spectra is pivotal in the study of QCD matter created during the heavy-ion collision. Considering the difference in the underlying particle production mechanism, $p_T$ spectra can be divided into two distinct regions. Low-$p_T$ region corresponds to particle produced in soft-processes whereas particles produced in hard processes dominate the high-$p_T$ regime of the spectra. We will discuss a unified formalism to explain both low as well as high-$p_T$ region of the transverse momentum spectra in a consistent manner. This unified formalism is based on the generalisation of non-extensive statistical mechanics using the Pearson distribution. This generalised formalism also gives a strong insight into the study of elliptic flow in heavy-ion collision.
0803.2626
Robi Peschanski
Robi Peschanski
On the maximal noise for stochastic and QCD traveling waves
19 pages, 2 figures
Nucl.Phys.B805:377-390,2008
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.06.010
null
hep-ph cond-mat.stat-mech hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Using the relation of a set of nonlinear Langevin equations with reaction-diffusion processes, we note the existence of a maximal strength of the noise for the stochastic traveling wave solutions of these equations. Its determination is obtained using the field-theoretical analysis of branching-annihilation random walks near the directed percolation transition. We study its consequence for the stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation. For the related Langevin equation modeling the Quantum Chromodynamic nonlinear evolution of the gluon density with rapidity, the physical maximal-noise limit may appear before the directed percolation transition, due to a shift in the traveling-wave speed. In this regime, an exact solution is known from a coalescence process. Universality and other open problems and applications are discussed in the outlook
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:51 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Peschanski", "Robi", "" ] ]
Using the relation of a set of nonlinear Langevin equations with reaction-diffusion processes, we note the existence of a maximal strength of the noise for the stochastic traveling wave solutions of these equations. Its determination is obtained using the field-theoretical analysis of branching-annihilation random walks near the directed percolation transition. We study its consequence for the stochastic Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov equation. For the related Langevin equation modeling the Quantum Chromodynamic nonlinear evolution of the gluon density with rapidity, the physical maximal-noise limit may appear before the directed percolation transition, due to a shift in the traveling-wave speed. In this regime, an exact solution is known from a coalescence process. Universality and other open problems and applications are discussed in the outlook
0805.1735
Adam K. Leibovich
Chul Kim, Adam K. Leibovich, and Thomas Mehen
Nonperturbative Charming Penguin Contributions to Isospin Asymmetries in Radiative B decays
14 pages, 4 figures. Updated analysis of charming penguin extraction
Phys.Rev.D78:054024,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.054024
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Recent experimental data on the radiative decays B -> V gamma, where V is a light vector meson, find small isospin violation in B -> K^* gamma while isospin asymmetries in B -> rho gamma are of order 20%, with large uncertainties. Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, we calculate isospin asymmetries in these radiative B decays up to O(1/m_b), also including O(v alpha_s) contributions from nonperturbative charming penguins (NPCP). In the absence of NPCP contributions, the theoretical predictions for the asymmetries are a few percent or less. Including the NPCP can significantly increase the isospin asymmetries for both B -> V gamma modes. We also consider the effect of the NPCP on the branching ratio and CP asymmetries in B^\pm -> V^\pm gamma.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 May 2008 20:15:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:50:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Kim", "Chul", "" ], [ "Leibovich", "Adam K.", "" ], [ "Mehen", "Thomas", "" ] ]
Recent experimental data on the radiative decays B -> V gamma, where V is a light vector meson, find small isospin violation in B -> K^* gamma while isospin asymmetries in B -> rho gamma are of order 20%, with large uncertainties. Using Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, we calculate isospin asymmetries in these radiative B decays up to O(1/m_b), also including O(v alpha_s) contributions from nonperturbative charming penguins (NPCP). In the absence of NPCP contributions, the theoretical predictions for the asymmetries are a few percent or less. Including the NPCP can significantly increase the isospin asymmetries for both B -> V gamma modes. We also consider the effect of the NPCP on the branching ratio and CP asymmetries in B^\pm -> V^\pm gamma.
hep-ph/9803310
Christopher Kolda
Christopher Kolda, Stefan Pokorski and Nir Polonsky
Stabilized Singlets in Supergravity as a Source of the mu-parameter
9 pages, LaTeX
Phys.Rev.Lett. 80 (1998) 5263-5266
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.5263
IASSNS-HEP-97-137, CERN-TH/98-75, RU-97-97
hep-ph
null
Within the context of supergravity-coupled supersymmetry, fields which are gauge and global singlets are usually considered anathema. Their vacuum expectation values are shifted by quadratically divergent tadpole diagrams which are cutoff at the Planck scale, destabilizing the classical potential and driving the singlet field to large values. We demonstrate a new and generic mechanism which stabilizes the singlet in the presence of an extended gauge symmetry. Such a symmetry will be broken down to the Standard Model by the supergravity interactions near the scale of spontaneous supersymmetry-breaking in the hidden-sector (about 10^{10-11} GeV). The resulting singlet expectation value is stabilized and naturally of order the gravitino mass, providing therefore a weak-scale mass for the Higgs fields of the supersymmetric Standard Model (a "mu-parameter"). The resulting low-energy theory is the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, with all new fields decoupling at the intermediate scale.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:47:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Kolda", "Christopher", "" ], [ "Pokorski", "Stefan", "" ], [ "Polonsky", "Nir", "" ] ]
Within the context of supergravity-coupled supersymmetry, fields which are gauge and global singlets are usually considered anathema. Their vacuum expectation values are shifted by quadratically divergent tadpole diagrams which are cutoff at the Planck scale, destabilizing the classical potential and driving the singlet field to large values. We demonstrate a new and generic mechanism which stabilizes the singlet in the presence of an extended gauge symmetry. Such a symmetry will be broken down to the Standard Model by the supergravity interactions near the scale of spontaneous supersymmetry-breaking in the hidden-sector (about 10^{10-11} GeV). The resulting singlet expectation value is stabilized and naturally of order the gravitino mass, providing therefore a weak-scale mass for the Higgs fields of the supersymmetric Standard Model (a "mu-parameter"). The resulting low-energy theory is the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model, with all new fields decoupling at the intermediate scale.
hep-ph/0412165
Massimo Passera
J. Bernabeu, J. Papavassiliou, and M. Passera
Dynamical Zero in Antineutrino_e -- Electron Scattering and the Neutrino Magnetic Moment
13 pages, 3 figures. V2: one figure and comments added. Published version
Phys.Lett.B613:162-169,2005
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.03.055
null
hep-ph
null
The Standard Model differential cross section for $\bar{\nu}_e-e^-$ elastic scattering vanishes exactly, at lowest order, for forward electrons and incident $\bar{\nu}_e$ energy close to the rest energy of the electron. This dynamical zero is not induced by a fundamental symmetry of the Lagrangian but by a destructive interference between the left- and right-handed chiral couplings of the electron in the charged and neutral current amplitudes. We show that lowest order analyses based on this favorable kinematic configuration are only mildly affected by the inclusion of the $O(\alpha)$ radiative corrections in the $\bar{\nu}_e-e^-$ differential cross section, thus providing an excellent opportunity for the search of ``new physics''. In the light of these results, we discuss possible methods to improve the upper limits on the neutrino magnetic moment by selecting recoil electrons contained in a forward narrow cone. We conclude that, in spite of the obvious loss in statistics, one may have a better signal for small angular cones.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:33:39 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2005 20:13:51 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Bernabeu", "J.", "" ], [ "Papavassiliou", "J.", "" ], [ "Passera", "M.", "" ] ]
The Standard Model differential cross section for $\bar{\nu}_e-e^-$ elastic scattering vanishes exactly, at lowest order, for forward electrons and incident $\bar{\nu}_e$ energy close to the rest energy of the electron. This dynamical zero is not induced by a fundamental symmetry of the Lagrangian but by a destructive interference between the left- and right-handed chiral couplings of the electron in the charged and neutral current amplitudes. We show that lowest order analyses based on this favorable kinematic configuration are only mildly affected by the inclusion of the $O(\alpha)$ radiative corrections in the $\bar{\nu}_e-e^-$ differential cross section, thus providing an excellent opportunity for the search of ``new physics''. In the light of these results, we discuss possible methods to improve the upper limits on the neutrino magnetic moment by selecting recoil electrons contained in a forward narrow cone. We conclude that, in spite of the obvious loss in statistics, one may have a better signal for small angular cones.
hep-ph/0302138
Yuly Shabelski
J.Dias de Deus and Yu. M. Shabelski
An Estimate of the Percolation Parameter in Heavy Ion Collisions
5 pages
Eur.Phys.J.A20:457-458,2004
10.1140/epja/i2003-10162-7
null
hep-ph
null
From existing hadron and heavy ion collisions data on \bar{p}/p central production we estimate the value of the percolation parameter at RHIC energies.
[ { "created": "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:10:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-10-11
[ [ "de Deus", "J. Dias", "" ], [ "Shabelski", "Yu. M.", "" ] ]
From existing hadron and heavy ion collisions data on \bar{p}/p central production we estimate the value of the percolation parameter at RHIC energies.
1602.04206
Claudia Hagedorn
Claudia Hagedorn, Emiliano Molinaro
Flavor and CP symmetries for leptogenesis and 0nubb decay
1+59 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables; v2 matches journal version
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2017.03.015
CP3-Origins-2016-005 DNRF90, DIAS-2016-5
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of leptonic low and high energy CP phases in a scenario with three heavy right-handed neutrinos in which a flavor and a CP symmetry are non-trivially broken. All CP phases as well as lepton mixing angles are determined by the properties of the flavor and CP symmetry and one free real parameter. We focus on the generation of the baryon asymmetry Y_B of the Universe via unflavored leptogenesis and the predictions of m_ee, the quantity measurable in neutrinoless double beta decay. We show that the sign of Y_B can be fixed and the allowed parameter range of m_ee can be strongly constrained. We argue on general grounds that the CP asymmetries epsilon_i are dominated by the contribution associated with one Majorana phase and that in cases in which only the Dirac phase is non-trivial the sign of Y_B depends on further parameters. In addition, we comment on the case of flavored leptogenesis where in general the knowledge of the CP phases and light neutrino mass spectrum is also not sufficient in order to fix the sign of the CP asymmetries. As examples we discuss the series of flavor groups Delta (3 n^2) and Delta (6 n^2), n >= 2 integer, and several classes of CP transformations.
[ { "created": "Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:54:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 23 Apr 2017 10:50:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-04-26
[ [ "Hagedorn", "Claudia", "" ], [ "Molinaro", "Emiliano", "" ] ]
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of leptonic low and high energy CP phases in a scenario with three heavy right-handed neutrinos in which a flavor and a CP symmetry are non-trivially broken. All CP phases as well as lepton mixing angles are determined by the properties of the flavor and CP symmetry and one free real parameter. We focus on the generation of the baryon asymmetry Y_B of the Universe via unflavored leptogenesis and the predictions of m_ee, the quantity measurable in neutrinoless double beta decay. We show that the sign of Y_B can be fixed and the allowed parameter range of m_ee can be strongly constrained. We argue on general grounds that the CP asymmetries epsilon_i are dominated by the contribution associated with one Majorana phase and that in cases in which only the Dirac phase is non-trivial the sign of Y_B depends on further parameters. In addition, we comment on the case of flavored leptogenesis where in general the knowledge of the CP phases and light neutrino mass spectrum is also not sufficient in order to fix the sign of the CP asymmetries. As examples we discuss the series of flavor groups Delta (3 n^2) and Delta (6 n^2), n >= 2 integer, and several classes of CP transformations.
hep-ph/9606295
Denis Michaud
C.P. Burgess and D. Michaud
Neutrino Propagation in a Fluctuating Sun
45 pages, including 2 postscript figures. (We had a subsection in section 2 to detail the approximations leading to our results. We also fixed some typography and added some references)
Annals Phys.256:1-38,1997
10.1006/aphy.1996.5660
McGill-96/18
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We adapt to neutrino physics a general formulation for particle propagation in fluctuating media, initially developed for applications to electromagnetism and neutron optics. In leading approximation this formalism leads to the usual MSW effective hamiltonian governing neutrino propagation through a medium. Next-to-leading contributions describe deviations from this description, which arise due to neutrino interactions with fluctuations in the medium. We compute these corrections for two types of fluctuations: ($i$) microscopic thermal fluctuations, and ($ii$) macroscopic fluctuations in the medium's density. While the first of these reproduces standard estimates, which are negligible for applications to solar neutrinos, we find the second can be quite large, since it grows in size with the correlation length of the fluctuation. We consider two models in some detail. For fluctuations whose correlations are extend only over a local region in space of length $l$, appreciable effects for MSW oscillations arise if $(\delta n/n)^2 l\gsim 100$ m or so. Alternatively, a crude model of helioseismic $p$-waves gives appreciable effects only when $(\delta n/n) \gsim 1%$. In general the dominant effect is to diminish the quality of the resonance, making the suppression of the ${}^7$Be neutrinos a good experimental probe of fluctuations deep within the sun. Fluctuations can also provide a new mechanism for reducing the solar neutrino flux, giving an energy-independent suppression factor of $1/2$, away from the resonant region, even for small vacuum mixing angles.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Jun 1996 20:43:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:57:19 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 18 Aug 1996 03:00:10 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Burgess", "C. P.", "" ], [ "Michaud", "D.", "" ] ]
We adapt to neutrino physics a general formulation for particle propagation in fluctuating media, initially developed for applications to electromagnetism and neutron optics. In leading approximation this formalism leads to the usual MSW effective hamiltonian governing neutrino propagation through a medium. Next-to-leading contributions describe deviations from this description, which arise due to neutrino interactions with fluctuations in the medium. We compute these corrections for two types of fluctuations: ($i$) microscopic thermal fluctuations, and ($ii$) macroscopic fluctuations in the medium's density. While the first of these reproduces standard estimates, which are negligible for applications to solar neutrinos, we find the second can be quite large, since it grows in size with the correlation length of the fluctuation. We consider two models in some detail. For fluctuations whose correlations are extend only over a local region in space of length $l$, appreciable effects for MSW oscillations arise if $(\delta n/n)^2 l\gsim 100$ m or so. Alternatively, a crude model of helioseismic $p$-waves gives appreciable effects only when $(\delta n/n) \gsim 1%$. In general the dominant effect is to diminish the quality of the resonance, making the suppression of the ${}^7$Be neutrinos a good experimental probe of fluctuations deep within the sun. Fluctuations can also provide a new mechanism for reducing the solar neutrino flux, giving an energy-independent suppression factor of $1/2$, away from the resonant region, even for small vacuum mixing angles.
2101.00224
Mohamed Jakha
S. Mouslih, M. Jakha, I. Dahiri, S. Taj, B. Manaut and E. Siher
New phenomena in laser-assisted leptonic decays of the negatively charged boson $W^{-}$
19 pages, 13 figures
null
10.1088/1402-4896/ac5d6e
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this paper and within the standard Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model of electroweak interactions, we study theoretically the leptonic decay of the $W^{-}$-boson $(W^{-}\rightarrow \ell^{-}\bar{\nu}_{\ell})$ in the presence of a circularly polarized electromagnetic field and we examine the laser effect, in terms of its field strength and frequency, on the leptonic decay rate and the phenomenon of multiphoton processes. The calculations are carried out using the exact relativistic wave functions of charged particles in an electromagnetic field. It was found that the laser significantly contributed to reducing the probability of $W^{-}$-boson decay. We show that the laser-assisted decay rate is equal to the laser-free one only when the famous Kroll-Watson sum rule is fulfilled. The notable effect of the laser on the leptonic decay rate was reasonably interpreted by the well-known quantum Zeno effect or by the opening of channels other than leptonic ones to decay. We hope that this article paved the way for an upcoming paper to study the hadronic decay of the $W^{-}$-boson and then explore the laser effect on its lifetime and branching ratios.
[ { "created": "Fri, 1 Jan 2021 12:30:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:36:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2022-04-06
[ [ "Mouslih", "S.", "" ], [ "Jakha", "M.", "" ], [ "Dahiri", "I.", "" ], [ "Taj", "S.", "" ], [ "Manaut", "B.", "" ], [ "Siher", "E.", "" ] ]
In this paper and within the standard Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model of electroweak interactions, we study theoretically the leptonic decay of the $W^{-}$-boson $(W^{-}\rightarrow \ell^{-}\bar{\nu}_{\ell})$ in the presence of a circularly polarized electromagnetic field and we examine the laser effect, in terms of its field strength and frequency, on the leptonic decay rate and the phenomenon of multiphoton processes. The calculations are carried out using the exact relativistic wave functions of charged particles in an electromagnetic field. It was found that the laser significantly contributed to reducing the probability of $W^{-}$-boson decay. We show that the laser-assisted decay rate is equal to the laser-free one only when the famous Kroll-Watson sum rule is fulfilled. The notable effect of the laser on the leptonic decay rate was reasonably interpreted by the well-known quantum Zeno effect or by the opening of channels other than leptonic ones to decay. We hope that this article paved the way for an upcoming paper to study the hadronic decay of the $W^{-}$-boson and then explore the laser effect on its lifetime and branching ratios.
1112.4423
Ted Rogers
S. Mert Aybat, Alexei Prokudin and Ted C. Rogers
Calculation of TMD Evolution for Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry Measurements
4 pages, 2 figures. Version published in Physical Review Letters
null
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.242003
JLAB-THY-11-1466; NIKHEF-2011-033; YITP-SB-11-48
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Sivers transverse single spin asymmetry (TSSA) is calculated and compared at different scales using the TMD evolution equations applied to previously existing extractions. We apply the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) formalism, using the version recently developed by Collins. Our calculations rely on the universality properties of TMD-functions that follow from the TMD-factorization theorem. Accordingly, the non-perturbative input is fixed by earlier experimental measurements, including both polarized semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and unpolarized Drell-Yan (DY) scattering. It is shown that recent COMPASS measurements are consistent with the suppression prescribed by TMD evolution.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:52:54 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:37:59 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:31:56 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Aybat", "S. Mert", "" ], [ "Prokudin", "Alexei", "" ], [ "Rogers", "Ted C.", "" ] ]
The Sivers transverse single spin asymmetry (TSSA) is calculated and compared at different scales using the TMD evolution equations applied to previously existing extractions. We apply the Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) formalism, using the version recently developed by Collins. Our calculations rely on the universality properties of TMD-functions that follow from the TMD-factorization theorem. Accordingly, the non-perturbative input is fixed by earlier experimental measurements, including both polarized semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) and unpolarized Drell-Yan (DY) scattering. It is shown that recent COMPASS measurements are consistent with the suppression prescribed by TMD evolution.
hep-ph/9503231
Omar Miranda Romagnoli
M. Maya and O. G. Miranda
Constraints on Z1-Z2 Mixing from the Decay $Z1 \to e-e+$ in the left-right Symmetric Model
14 pages in Latex, 3 figures available on request
Z.Phys. C68 (1995) 481-484
10.1007/BF01620725
CINVESTAV-FIS-02/95
hep-ph
null
We examine the decay of $Z_1$ in electrons with recent data from LEP. The partial width $\Gamma(Z_1\to e^-e^+)$ is studied in the framework of a left-right symmetric model with standard electroweak corrections. Processes measured near the resonance has served to measure the neutral coupling constants very precisely, which is useful to set bounds on the parameters of the model. This partial decay occurs in the resonance zone. As a consecuence the process is independent of the mass of the additional $Z_2$ heavy gauge boson which appears in this kind of models and so we have the mixing angle $\f$ between the left and the right bosons as the only additional parameter. In this paper we take advantage of this fact to set a bound for $\f$: $-9\times 10^{-3}\leq\f\leq 4\times 10^{-3}$, which is in agreement with other constraints previously reported.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 Mar 1995 22:42:58 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Maya", "M.", "" ], [ "Miranda", "O. G.", "" ] ]
We examine the decay of $Z_1$ in electrons with recent data from LEP. The partial width $\Gamma(Z_1\to e^-e^+)$ is studied in the framework of a left-right symmetric model with standard electroweak corrections. Processes measured near the resonance has served to measure the neutral coupling constants very precisely, which is useful to set bounds on the parameters of the model. This partial decay occurs in the resonance zone. As a consecuence the process is independent of the mass of the additional $Z_2$ heavy gauge boson which appears in this kind of models and so we have the mixing angle $\f$ between the left and the right bosons as the only additional parameter. In this paper we take advantage of this fact to set a bound for $\f$: $-9\times 10^{-3}\leq\f\leq 4\times 10^{-3}$, which is in agreement with other constraints previously reported.
1902.07196
Greger Torgrimsson
Greger Torgrimsson
Thermally versus dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production
Version 2: Results unchanged, references added, matches PRD version. 9 pages, 4 figures
Phys. Rev. D 99, 096007 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.096007
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study electron-positron pair production by the combination of a strong, constant electric field and a thermal background. We show that this process is similar to dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production, where the strong field is instead assisted by another coherent field, which is weaker but faster. We treat the interaction with the photons from the thermal background perturbatively, while the interaction with the electric field is nonperturbative (i.e. a Furry picture expansion in $\alpha$). At $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^2)$ we have ordinary perturbative Breit-Wheeler pair production assisted nonperturbatively by the electric field. Already at this order we recover the same exponential part of the probability as previous studies, which did not expand in $\alpha$. This means that we do not have to consider higher orders, so our approach allows us to calculate the pre-exponential part of the probability, which has not been obtained before in this regime. Although the prefactor is in general subdominant compared to the exponential part, in this case it can be important because it scales as $\alpha^2\ll1$ and is therefore much smaller than the prefactor at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^0)$ (pure Schwinger pair production). We show that, because of the exponential enhancement, $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^2)$ still gives the dominant contribution for temperatures above a certain threshold, but, because of the small prefactor, the threshold is higher than what the exponential alone would suggest.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:48:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 15 May 2019 16:44:02 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-05-16
[ [ "Torgrimsson", "Greger", "" ] ]
We study electron-positron pair production by the combination of a strong, constant electric field and a thermal background. We show that this process is similar to dynamically assisted Schwinger pair production, where the strong field is instead assisted by another coherent field, which is weaker but faster. We treat the interaction with the photons from the thermal background perturbatively, while the interaction with the electric field is nonperturbative (i.e. a Furry picture expansion in $\alpha$). At $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^2)$ we have ordinary perturbative Breit-Wheeler pair production assisted nonperturbatively by the electric field. Already at this order we recover the same exponential part of the probability as previous studies, which did not expand in $\alpha$. This means that we do not have to consider higher orders, so our approach allows us to calculate the pre-exponential part of the probability, which has not been obtained before in this regime. Although the prefactor is in general subdominant compared to the exponential part, in this case it can be important because it scales as $\alpha^2\ll1$ and is therefore much smaller than the prefactor at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^0)$ (pure Schwinger pair production). We show that, because of the exponential enhancement, $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^2)$ still gives the dominant contribution for temperatures above a certain threshold, but, because of the small prefactor, the threshold is higher than what the exponential alone would suggest.
hep-ph/9912463
Helmut Eberl
H. Eberl, K. Hidaka, S. Kraml, W. Majerotto, and Y. Yamada
Improved SUSY QCD corrections to Higgs boson decays into quarks and squarks
Version to be published in PRD
Phys.Rev.D62:055006,2000
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.055006
HEPHY-PUB 725/99, TGU-25, TU-583
hep-ph
null
We improve the calculation of the supersymmetric $O(\alpha_s)$ QCD corrections to the decays of Higgs bosons into quarks and squarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In the on-shell renormalization scheme these corrections can be very large, which makes the perturbative expansion unreliable. This is especially serious for decays into bottom quarks and squarks for large $\tan\beta$. Their corrected widths can even become negative. We show that this problem can be solved by a careful choice of the tree-level Higgs boson couplings to quarks and squarks, in terms of the QCD and SUSY QCD running quark masses, running trilinear couplings $A_q$, and on-shell left-right mixing angles of squarks. We also present numerical results for the corrected partial decay widths for the large $\tan\beta$ case.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:47:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:51:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 11 May 2000 09:10:21 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Eberl", "H.", "" ], [ "Hidaka", "K.", "" ], [ "Kraml", "S.", "" ], [ "Majerotto", "W.", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Y.", "" ] ]
We improve the calculation of the supersymmetric $O(\alpha_s)$ QCD corrections to the decays of Higgs bosons into quarks and squarks in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In the on-shell renormalization scheme these corrections can be very large, which makes the perturbative expansion unreliable. This is especially serious for decays into bottom quarks and squarks for large $\tan\beta$. Their corrected widths can even become negative. We show that this problem can be solved by a careful choice of the tree-level Higgs boson couplings to quarks and squarks, in terms of the QCD and SUSY QCD running quark masses, running trilinear couplings $A_q$, and on-shell left-right mixing angles of squarks. We also present numerical results for the corrected partial decay widths for the large $\tan\beta$ case.
2201.06948
Vladimir A. Petrov
Vladimir Petrov, Nikolay Tkachenko
Odderon: Lost or/and Found?
null
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
This is a quick survey of theoretical and experimental efforts to understand and identify the Odderon.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:15:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-01-19
[ [ "Petrov", "Vladimir", "" ], [ "Tkachenko", "Nikolay", "" ] ]
This is a quick survey of theoretical and experimental efforts to understand and identify the Odderon.
2112.09635
Alessandro Podo
Roberto Contino, Alessandro Podo, Filippo Revello
Chiral models of composite axions and accidental Peccei-Quinn symmetry
48 pages. v2: improved classification of models with more inclusive selection criteria; added clarifications and other minor changes. v3: matches published version
null
10.1007/JHEP04(2022)180
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We introduce a class of composite axion models that provide a natural solution to the strong CP problem, and possibly account for the observed dark matter abundance. The QCD axion arises as a composite Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from the dynamics of a chiral gauge theory with a strongly-interacting and confining SU(N) factor and a weakly-interacting U(1), with no fundamental scalar fields. The Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is accidental and all the mass scales are generated dynamically. We analyze specific models where the PQ symmetry is broken only by operators of dimension 12 or higher. We also classify several other models where the PQ symmetry can be potentially protected up to the dimension 15 or 18 level. Our framework can be easily extended to a scenario where the Standard Model (SM) is unified into a simple gauge group, and we discuss the case of non-supersymmetric SU(5) unification. The GUT models predict the existence of additional pseudo NGBs, parametrically lighter than the GUT and PQ scales, which could have an impact on the cosmological evolution and leave observable signatures. We also clarify the selection rules under which higher-dimensional PQ-violating operators can generate a potential for the axion in the IR, and provide a discussion of the discrete symmetries in composite axion models associated to the number of domain walls. These results can be of general interest for composite axion models based on a QCD-like confining gauge group.
[ { "created": "Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:16:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Mar 2022 18:21:28 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 11 May 2022 18:10:02 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-05-13
[ [ "Contino", "Roberto", "" ], [ "Podo", "Alessandro", "" ], [ "Revello", "Filippo", "" ] ]
We introduce a class of composite axion models that provide a natural solution to the strong CP problem, and possibly account for the observed dark matter abundance. The QCD axion arises as a composite Nambu-Goldstone boson (NGB) from the dynamics of a chiral gauge theory with a strongly-interacting and confining SU(N) factor and a weakly-interacting U(1), with no fundamental scalar fields. The Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry is accidental and all the mass scales are generated dynamically. We analyze specific models where the PQ symmetry is broken only by operators of dimension 12 or higher. We also classify several other models where the PQ symmetry can be potentially protected up to the dimension 15 or 18 level. Our framework can be easily extended to a scenario where the Standard Model (SM) is unified into a simple gauge group, and we discuss the case of non-supersymmetric SU(5) unification. The GUT models predict the existence of additional pseudo NGBs, parametrically lighter than the GUT and PQ scales, which could have an impact on the cosmological evolution and leave observable signatures. We also clarify the selection rules under which higher-dimensional PQ-violating operators can generate a potential for the axion in the IR, and provide a discussion of the discrete symmetries in composite axion models associated to the number of domain walls. These results can be of general interest for composite axion models based on a QCD-like confining gauge group.
hep-ph/9705367
Jeremy S. Heyl
Jeremy S. Heyl and Lars Hernquist
Birefringence and Dichroism of the QED Vacuum
8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics A
J.Phys.A30:6485-6492,1997
10.1088/0305-4470/30/18/022
null
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We use an analytic form for the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian to calculate the birefringent and dichroic properties of the vacuum for arbitrarily strong wrenchless fields. PACS : 12.20.Ds, 42.25.Lc 97.60.Jd, 98.70.Rz
[ { "created": "Tue, 20 May 1997 20:11:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Heyl", "Jeremy S.", "" ], [ "Hernquist", "Lars", "" ] ]
We use an analytic form for the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian to calculate the birefringent and dichroic properties of the vacuum for arbitrarily strong wrenchless fields. PACS : 12.20.Ds, 42.25.Lc 97.60.Jd, 98.70.Rz
2007.13313
Claude Duhr
Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, Bernhard Mistlberger
Charged Current Drell-Yan Production at N3LO
22 pages, 11 figures. v2: Fixed mistake in figure 8
null
10.1007/JHEP11(2020)143
CERN-TH-2020-121, SLAC-PUB-17539
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the production cross section for a lepton-neutrino pair at the Large Hadron Collider computed at next-to-next-to-next-to leading order (N3LO) in QCD perturbation theory. We compute the partonic coefficient functions of a virtual $W^{\pm}$ boson at this order. We then use these analytic functions to study the progression of the perturbative series in different observables. In particular, we investigate the impact of the newly obtained corrections on the inclusive production cross section of $W^{\pm}$ bosons, as well as on the ratios of the production cross sections for $W^+$, $W^-$ and/or a virtual photon. Finally, we present N3LO predictions for the charge asymmetry at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Mon, 27 Jul 2020 05:38:20 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 19 Sep 2020 18:38:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-12-30
[ [ "Duhr", "Claude", "" ], [ "Dulat", "Falko", "" ], [ "Mistlberger", "Bernhard", "" ] ]
We present the production cross section for a lepton-neutrino pair at the Large Hadron Collider computed at next-to-next-to-next-to leading order (N3LO) in QCD perturbation theory. We compute the partonic coefficient functions of a virtual $W^{\pm}$ boson at this order. We then use these analytic functions to study the progression of the perturbative series in different observables. In particular, we investigate the impact of the newly obtained corrections on the inclusive production cross section of $W^{\pm}$ bosons, as well as on the ratios of the production cross sections for $W^+$, $W^-$ and/or a virtual photon. Finally, we present N3LO predictions for the charge asymmetry at the LHC.
hep-ph/9501330
null
L. Motyka and K. Zalewski (Jagellonian University, Poland)
NONRELATIVISTIC MODEL FOR $b\OVERLINE{b}$ QUARKONIA
6 pages, Latex file
Zs. Phys. C69 (1995) 343
null
TPJU - 1/95
hep-ph
null
Experimental data for $b\bar{b}$ quarkonia have been compared with the predictions of a variety of nonrelativistic quark models. It is found that a potential $a\sqrt{r} - b/r +$ const gives good agreement, while many others do not. Some implications of this observation are discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Jan 1995 11:29:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Motyka", "L.", "", "Jagellonian University, Poland" ], [ "Zalewski", "K.", "", "Jagellonian University, Poland" ] ]
Experimental data for $b\bar{b}$ quarkonia have been compared with the predictions of a variety of nonrelativistic quark models. It is found that a potential $a\sqrt{r} - b/r +$ const gives good agreement, while many others do not. Some implications of this observation are discussed.
1910.02666
Jing-Yu Zhu
Shao-Feng Ge and Jing-yu Zhu
Phenomenological Advantages of the Normal Neutrino Mass Ordering
8 pages, 5 figures, the version to be published in Chinese Physics C
null
10.1088/1674-1137/44/8/083103
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The preference of the normal neutrino mass ordering from the recent cosmological constraint and the global fit of neutrino oscillation experiments does not seem like a wise choice at first glance since it obscures the neutrinoless double beta decay and hence the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Contrary to this naive expectation, we point out that the actual situation is the opposite. The normal neutrino mass ordering opens the possibility of excluding the higher solar octant and simultaneously measuring the two Majorana CP phases in future $0\nu2\beta$ experiments. Especially, the funnel region will completely disappear if the solar mixing angle takes the higher octant. The combined precision measurement by the JUNO and Daya Bay experiments can significantly reduce the uncertainty in excluding the higher octant. With a typical $\mathcal O(\mbox{meV})$ sensitivity on the effective mass $|m_{ee}^{}|$, the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment can tell if the funnel region really exists and hence exclude the higher solar octant. With the sensitivity further improved to sub-meV, the two Majorana CP phases can be simultaneously determined. Thus, the normal neutrino mass ordering clearly shows phenomenological advantages over the inverted one.
[ { "created": "Mon, 7 Oct 2019 08:28:36 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:01:38 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 23 Jul 2020 13:53:06 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-08-26
[ [ "Ge", "Shao-Feng", "" ], [ "Zhu", "Jing-yu", "" ] ]
The preference of the normal neutrino mass ordering from the recent cosmological constraint and the global fit of neutrino oscillation experiments does not seem like a wise choice at first glance since it obscures the neutrinoless double beta decay and hence the Majorana nature of neutrinos. Contrary to this naive expectation, we point out that the actual situation is the opposite. The normal neutrino mass ordering opens the possibility of excluding the higher solar octant and simultaneously measuring the two Majorana CP phases in future $0\nu2\beta$ experiments. Especially, the funnel region will completely disappear if the solar mixing angle takes the higher octant. The combined precision measurement by the JUNO and Daya Bay experiments can significantly reduce the uncertainty in excluding the higher octant. With a typical $\mathcal O(\mbox{meV})$ sensitivity on the effective mass $|m_{ee}^{}|$, the neutrinoless double beta decay experiment can tell if the funnel region really exists and hence exclude the higher solar octant. With the sensitivity further improved to sub-meV, the two Majorana CP phases can be simultaneously determined. Thus, the normal neutrino mass ordering clearly shows phenomenological advantages over the inverted one.
1905.01031
Volodymyr Vovchenko
Volodymyr Vovchenko, Jan Steinheimer, Owe Philipsen, Horst Stoecker
QCD equation of state at finite baryon density with fugacity expansion
8 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the CPOD2018 conference, Corfu Island, Greece, September 24-28, 2018
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore the QCD equation of state at finite baryon density through an expansion in baryon number fugacity, making use of the recent lattice data on the four leading Fourier coefficients of the expansion. A state-of-the-art description of the lattice data at both imaginary $\mu_B$ and $\mu_B = 0$ is provided by the cluster expansion model (CEM). The CEM pressure function has three temperature dependent input parameters, which we fix by parameterizing the available lattice QCD data. This results in a crossover model of the QCD equation of state at finite baryon density, which can be used in fluid dynamical simulations of heavy-ion collisions.
[ { "created": "Fri, 3 May 2019 04:25:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2019-05-06
[ [ "Vovchenko", "Volodymyr", "" ], [ "Steinheimer", "Jan", "" ], [ "Philipsen", "Owe", "" ], [ "Stoecker", "Horst", "" ] ]
We explore the QCD equation of state at finite baryon density through an expansion in baryon number fugacity, making use of the recent lattice data on the four leading Fourier coefficients of the expansion. A state-of-the-art description of the lattice data at both imaginary $\mu_B$ and $\mu_B = 0$ is provided by the cluster expansion model (CEM). The CEM pressure function has three temperature dependent input parameters, which we fix by parameterizing the available lattice QCD data. This results in a crossover model of the QCD equation of state at finite baryon density, which can be used in fluid dynamical simulations of heavy-ion collisions.
0904.0139
Petr Benes
Petr Benes
Fermion flavor mixing in models with dynamical mass generation
14 pages, REVTeX4, 2 eps figures; discussion of momentum-dependence of proper vertex and polarization tensors added, gauge boson mixing considered, additional references added; version published in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev.D81:065029,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065029
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a model-independent method of dealing with fermion flavor mixing in the case when instead of constant, momentum-independent mass matrices one has rather momentum-dependent self-energies. This situation is typical for strongly coupled models of dynamical fermion mass generation. We demonstrate our approach on the example of quark mixing. We show that quark self-energies with a generic momentum dependence lead to an effective Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which turns out to be in general non-unitary, in accordance with previous claims of other authors, and to non-trivial flavor changing electromagnetic and neutral currents. We also discuss some conceptual consequences of the momentum-dependent self-energies and show that in such a case the interaction basis and the mass basis are not related by a unitary transformation. In fact, we argue that the latter is merely an effective concept, in a specified sense. While focusing mainly on the fermionic self-energies, we also study the effects of momentum-dependent radiative corrections to the gauge bosons and to the proper vertices. Our approach is based on an application of the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann (LSZ) reduction formula and for the special case of constant self-energies it gives the same results as the standard approach based on the diagonalization of mass matrices.
[ { "created": "Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:02:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:57:33 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2012-02-03
[ [ "Benes", "Petr", "" ] ]
We present a model-independent method of dealing with fermion flavor mixing in the case when instead of constant, momentum-independent mass matrices one has rather momentum-dependent self-energies. This situation is typical for strongly coupled models of dynamical fermion mass generation. We demonstrate our approach on the example of quark mixing. We show that quark self-energies with a generic momentum dependence lead to an effective Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix, which turns out to be in general non-unitary, in accordance with previous claims of other authors, and to non-trivial flavor changing electromagnetic and neutral currents. We also discuss some conceptual consequences of the momentum-dependent self-energies and show that in such a case the interaction basis and the mass basis are not related by a unitary transformation. In fact, we argue that the latter is merely an effective concept, in a specified sense. While focusing mainly on the fermionic self-energies, we also study the effects of momentum-dependent radiative corrections to the gauge bosons and to the proper vertices. Our approach is based on an application of the Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmermann (LSZ) reduction formula and for the special case of constant self-energies it gives the same results as the standard approach based on the diagonalization of mass matrices.
hep-ph/9511276
Yasuko Sato
K. Kobayakawa, Y. Sato and S. Tanaka
Moduli Effects on Neutrino Oscillations
17pages, Latex, 3 figures (available from the author upon request by FAX or mail)
Phys.Rev.D54:1204-1211,1996
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1204
KOBE-FHD-95-07
hep-ph
null
We point out the possibility to detect the low-energy signals of moduli in the superstring theory through the neutrino oscillation. The idea is based on the characteristics that the couplings of moduli are different from matter to matter. We estimate the oscillation probability both in the baseline and solar neutrino oscillations. In both cases, when there is at least one modulus of which mass is less than or equal to $10^{-19}$ GeV, the interaction of the modulus significantly changes the conversion probability from one neutrino flavor to another.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:42:40 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 3 Dec 1995 09:50:18 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 1 Oct 1996 07:12:57 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kobayakawa", "K.", "" ], [ "Sato", "Y.", "" ], [ "Tanaka", "S.", "" ] ]
We point out the possibility to detect the low-energy signals of moduli in the superstring theory through the neutrino oscillation. The idea is based on the characteristics that the couplings of moduli are different from matter to matter. We estimate the oscillation probability both in the baseline and solar neutrino oscillations. In both cases, when there is at least one modulus of which mass is less than or equal to $10^{-19}$ GeV, the interaction of the modulus significantly changes the conversion probability from one neutrino flavor to another.
hep-ph/0303252
Kouhei Hasegawa
K.Hasegawa, C. S. Lim, and K. Ogure
Escape from washing out of baryon number in a two-zero-texture general Zee model compatible with the large mixing angle MSW solution
22 pages, 2 eps figures, Type set revtex4
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 053006
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.053006
KOBE-TH-03-04
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We propose a two-zero-texture general Zee model, compatible with the large mixing angle Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein solution. The washing out of the baryon number does not occur in this model for an adequate parameter range. We check the consistency of a model with the constraints coming from flavor changing neutral current processes, the recent cosmic microwave background observation, and the Z-burst scenario.
[ { "created": "Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:16:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:17:51 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sun, 27 Apr 2003 07:00:54 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:02:51 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Hasegawa", "K.", "" ], [ "Lim", "C. S.", "" ], [ "Ogure", "K.", "" ] ]
We propose a two-zero-texture general Zee model, compatible with the large mixing angle Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein solution. The washing out of the baryon number does not occur in this model for an adequate parameter range. We check the consistency of a model with the constraints coming from flavor changing neutral current processes, the recent cosmic microwave background observation, and the Z-burst scenario.
hep-ph/9406216
Mikhailov Serge
A.P. Bakulev and S.V. Mikhailov
The Photon Structure Function $F_2$ in QCD with Nonlocal Vacuum Quark Condensates
7, LATEX, E2-94-208
JETP Lett. 60 (1994) 150-155
null
null
hep-ph
null
We calculate the contribution from nonlocal vacuum condensates of quark fields to the hadronic part of the photon structure function $F_2(x)$ in the operator product expansion approach to QCD. The result is a smooth function of $x$ and its magnitude is comparable with one of gluon condensate. Extrapolation to the case of real photon is realized with the help of the model, suggested by Gorsky et al. As a result we obtain a substantial improvement of the agreement with experimental data for the standard value of the parameter $\lambda_q^2 \equiv \langle\bar qD^2 q\rangle /\langle\bar qq\rangle \approx 0.5 \ \ GeV^2 $.}
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Jun 1994 22:56:22 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Jun 1994 20:44:26 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Bakulev", "A. P.", "" ], [ "Mikhailov", "S. V.", "" ] ]
We calculate the contribution from nonlocal vacuum condensates of quark fields to the hadronic part of the photon structure function $F_2(x)$ in the operator product expansion approach to QCD. The result is a smooth function of $x$ and its magnitude is comparable with one of gluon condensate. Extrapolation to the case of real photon is realized with the help of the model, suggested by Gorsky et al. As a result we obtain a substantial improvement of the agreement with experimental data for the standard value of the parameter $\lambda_q^2 \equiv \langle\bar qD^2 q\rangle /\langle\bar qq\rangle \approx 0.5 \ \ GeV^2 $.}
0708.0352
Alice Dechambre
A. Dechambre
Gribov Poles in Diffractive Physics
4 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings Jjc, La Rochelle, December 2006
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
High-energy diffractive physics has several interests for theoreticians and experimentalists. We first remind the reader of the main characteristics of diffraction in particles physics and present the calculation of a two-gluon exchange in which non-perturbative effects are introduced via new singularities from confinement.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Aug 2007 14:11:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-08-03
[ [ "Dechambre", "A.", "" ] ]
High-energy diffractive physics has several interests for theoreticians and experimentalists. We first remind the reader of the main characteristics of diffraction in particles physics and present the calculation of a two-gluon exchange in which non-perturbative effects are introduced via new singularities from confinement.
1412.8272
Chun-Khiang Chua
Hai-Yang Cheng, Chun-Khiang Chua
On the smallness of Tree-dominated Charmless Two-body Baryonic $B$ Decay Rates
15 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. D 91, 036003 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.036003
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The long awaited baryonic $B$ decay $\bar B{}^0\to p\bar p$ was recently observed by LHCb with a branching fraction of order $10^{-8}$. All the earlier model predictions are too large compared with experiment. In this work, we point out that for a given tree operator $O_i$, the contribution from its Fiertz transformed operator, an effect often missed in the literature, tends to cancel the internal $W$-emission amplitude induced from $O_i$. The wave function of low-lying baryons are symmetric in momenta and the quark flavor with the same chirality, but antisymmetric in color indices. Using these symmetry properties and the chiral structure of weak interactions, we find that half of the Feynman diagrams responsible for internal $W$-emission cancel. Since this feature holds in the charmless modes but not in the charmful ones, we advocate that the partial cancellation accounts for the smallness of the tree-dominated charmless two-body baryonic $B$ decays. This also explains why most previous model calculations predicted too large rates as the above consideration was not taken into account. Finally, we emphasize that, contrary to the claim in the literature, the internal $W$-emission tree amplitude should be proportional to the Wilson coefficient $c_1+c_2$ rather than $c_1-c_2$.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Dec 2014 07:32:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-03-05
[ [ "Cheng", "Hai-Yang", "" ], [ "Chua", "Chun-Khiang", "" ] ]
The long awaited baryonic $B$ decay $\bar B{}^0\to p\bar p$ was recently observed by LHCb with a branching fraction of order $10^{-8}$. All the earlier model predictions are too large compared with experiment. In this work, we point out that for a given tree operator $O_i$, the contribution from its Fiertz transformed operator, an effect often missed in the literature, tends to cancel the internal $W$-emission amplitude induced from $O_i$. The wave function of low-lying baryons are symmetric in momenta and the quark flavor with the same chirality, but antisymmetric in color indices. Using these symmetry properties and the chiral structure of weak interactions, we find that half of the Feynman diagrams responsible for internal $W$-emission cancel. Since this feature holds in the charmless modes but not in the charmful ones, we advocate that the partial cancellation accounts for the smallness of the tree-dominated charmless two-body baryonic $B$ decays. This also explains why most previous model calculations predicted too large rates as the above consideration was not taken into account. Finally, we emphasize that, contrary to the claim in the literature, the internal $W$-emission tree amplitude should be proportional to the Wilson coefficient $c_1+c_2$ rather than $c_1-c_2$.
1006.1765
Marek Gazdzicki
Marek Gazdzicki, Mark Gorenstein, Peter Seyboth
Onset of deconfinement in nucleus-nucleus collisions: Review for pedestrians and experts
50 pages, 18 figures, the final version published in APP
Acta Phys.Polon.B42:307-351,2011
10.5506/APhysPolB.42.307
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Evidence for the energy threshold of creating the quark-gluon plasma in nucleus-nucleus collisions, the so-called onset of deconfinement, has been found by the energy scan program of the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. In this paper we review the experimental and theoretical status of this phenomenon. First, the basic, qualitative ideas are presented for non-experts. Next, the latest experimental results are compared to a statistical model within which the onset of deconfinement and its signals had been predicted. Finally, alternative interpretations and open questions are discussed.
[ { "created": "Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:12:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:05:32 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:35:11 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:49:59 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2011-06-28
[ [ "Gazdzicki", "Marek", "" ], [ "Gorenstein", "Mark", "" ], [ "Seyboth", "Peter", "" ] ]
Evidence for the energy threshold of creating the quark-gluon plasma in nucleus-nucleus collisions, the so-called onset of deconfinement, has been found by the energy scan program of the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS. In this paper we review the experimental and theoretical status of this phenomenon. First, the basic, qualitative ideas are presented for non-experts. Next, the latest experimental results are compared to a statistical model within which the onset of deconfinement and its signals had been predicted. Finally, alternative interpretations and open questions are discussed.
1812.08521
Toshifumi Yamada
Naoyuki Haba, Yukihiro Mimura and Toshifumi Yamada
Proton Lifetime Upper Bound in Non-SUSY SU(5) GUT
18 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Phys. Rev. D 99, 075018 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.075018
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In preparation for upcoming nucleon decay searches at Hyper-Kamiokande, it is important to derive a theoretical upper bound on the proton lifetime in a general class of grand unified theory (GUT) models. In this paper, we make an attempt along this direction for non-SUSY SU(5) models, under the mild restrictions that only one or two SM-decomposed multiplets are singularly light, and that the SU(5) gauge theory is asymptotically free and thus there are no too large representations in the model. We derive criteria for SM-decomposed multiplets that potentially enhance the proton lifetime when they are singularly light. We perform a numerical analysis on the proton lifetime and show that some choices of singularly light multiplets can provide a testable upper bound on the proton lifetime.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Dec 2018 12:32:42 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Apr 2019 12:50:56 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-04-24
[ [ "Haba", "Naoyuki", "" ], [ "Mimura", "Yukihiro", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Toshifumi", "" ] ]
In preparation for upcoming nucleon decay searches at Hyper-Kamiokande, it is important to derive a theoretical upper bound on the proton lifetime in a general class of grand unified theory (GUT) models. In this paper, we make an attempt along this direction for non-SUSY SU(5) models, under the mild restrictions that only one or two SM-decomposed multiplets are singularly light, and that the SU(5) gauge theory is asymptotically free and thus there are no too large representations in the model. We derive criteria for SM-decomposed multiplets that potentially enhance the proton lifetime when they are singularly light. We perform a numerical analysis on the proton lifetime and show that some choices of singularly light multiplets can provide a testable upper bound on the proton lifetime.
hep-ph/0305136
Vladimir Vechernin
V. V. Vechernin and R. S. Kolevatov (St.Petersburg State University)
Cellular Approach to Long-Range $p_t$ and Multiplicity Correlations in the String Fusion Model
21 pages, LaTeX, 7 figures in PostScript, Russian version will appear in the journal "Vestnik SPbU"
null
null
SPbU-IP-03-03
hep-ph
null
The long-range $p_t$ and multiplicity($n$) correlations in high-energy nuclear collisions are studied in the framework of a simple cellular analog of the string fusion model. Two cases with local and global string fusion is considered. The $p_t$--$n$ and $n$--$n$ correlation functions and correlation coefficients are calculated analytically in some asymptotic cases using suggested Gauss approximation. It's shown that at large string density the $p_t$--$n$ and $n$--$n$ correlation coefficients are connected and the scaling takes place. The behavior of the correlations at small string density is also studied. The asymptotic results are compared with results of the numerical calculations in the framework of proposed cellular approach.
[ { "created": "Tue, 13 May 2003 12:33:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Vechernin", "V. V.", "", "St.Petersburg State University" ], [ "Kolevatov", "R. S.", "", "St.Petersburg State University" ] ]
The long-range $p_t$ and multiplicity($n$) correlations in high-energy nuclear collisions are studied in the framework of a simple cellular analog of the string fusion model. Two cases with local and global string fusion is considered. The $p_t$--$n$ and $n$--$n$ correlation functions and correlation coefficients are calculated analytically in some asymptotic cases using suggested Gauss approximation. It's shown that at large string density the $p_t$--$n$ and $n$--$n$ correlation coefficients are connected and the scaling takes place. The behavior of the correlations at small string density is also studied. The asymptotic results are compared with results of the numerical calculations in the framework of proposed cellular approach.
2402.07848
Mohammad Yousuf Jamal
Indrani Nilima, Mujeeb Hasan, B. K. Singh and Mohammad Yousuf Jamal
Quarkonia dissociation at finite magnetic field in the presence of momentum anisotropy
14 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12525-y
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In this study, we investigate the potential of heavy quarkonia within a magnetized hot QGP medium having finite momentum anisotropy. The phenomenon of inverse magnetic catalysis is introduced into the system, influencing the magnetic field-modified Debye mass and thereby altering the effective quark masses. Concurrently, the impact of momentum anisotropy in the medium is considered that influence the particle distribution in the medium. The thermal decay width and dissociation temperature of quarkonium states, specifically the 1S and 2S states of charmonium and bottomonium, are computed. Our results reveal that both momentum anisotropy and the inverse magnetic catalysis effects play a significant role in modifying the thermal decay width and dissociation temperature of these heavy quarkonia states.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:57:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2024-02-13
[ [ "Nilima", "Indrani", "" ], [ "Hasan", "Mujeeb", "" ], [ "Singh", "B. K.", "" ], [ "Jamal", "Mohammad Yousuf", "" ] ]
In this study, we investigate the potential of heavy quarkonia within a magnetized hot QGP medium having finite momentum anisotropy. The phenomenon of inverse magnetic catalysis is introduced into the system, influencing the magnetic field-modified Debye mass and thereby altering the effective quark masses. Concurrently, the impact of momentum anisotropy in the medium is considered that influence the particle distribution in the medium. The thermal decay width and dissociation temperature of quarkonium states, specifically the 1S and 2S states of charmonium and bottomonium, are computed. Our results reveal that both momentum anisotropy and the inverse magnetic catalysis effects play a significant role in modifying the thermal decay width and dissociation temperature of these heavy quarkonia states.
hep-ph/0607204
David Kaplan
Linda M. Carpenter, David E. Kaplan, Eun-Jung Rhee
Reduced Fine-Tuning in Supersymmetry with R-parity violation
5 pages, 2 figures. Significant detail added to the arguments regarding LEP limits - made more quantitative. Better figures used, plotting more physical quantities. Typos corrected and references updated. Conclusions unchanged
Phys.Rev.Lett.99:211801,2007
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.211801
null
hep-ph
null
Both electroweak precision measurements and simple supersymmetric extensions of the standard model prefer a mass of the Higgs boson less than the experimental lower limit of 114 GeV. We show that supersymmetric models with R parity violation and baryon number violation have a significant range of parameter space in which the Higgs dominantly decays to six jets. These decays are much more weakly constrained by current LEP analyses and would allow for a Higgs mass near that of the $Z$. In general, lighter scalar quark and other superpartner masses are allowed and the fine-tuning typically required to generate the measured scale of electroweak symmetry breaking is ameliorated. The Higgs would potentially be discovered at hadron colliders via the appearance of new displaced vertices. The lightest neutralino could be discovered by a scan of vertex-less events LEP I data.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:50:52 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:16:15 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:46:18 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Carpenter", "Linda M.", "" ], [ "Kaplan", "David E.", "" ], [ "Rhee", "Eun-Jung", "" ] ]
Both electroweak precision measurements and simple supersymmetric extensions of the standard model prefer a mass of the Higgs boson less than the experimental lower limit of 114 GeV. We show that supersymmetric models with R parity violation and baryon number violation have a significant range of parameter space in which the Higgs dominantly decays to six jets. These decays are much more weakly constrained by current LEP analyses and would allow for a Higgs mass near that of the $Z$. In general, lighter scalar quark and other superpartner masses are allowed and the fine-tuning typically required to generate the measured scale of electroweak symmetry breaking is ameliorated. The Higgs would potentially be discovered at hadron colliders via the appearance of new displaced vertices. The lightest neutralino could be discovered by a scan of vertex-less events LEP I data.
hep-ph/9709488
Santi Peris
S. Peris (UAB)
UV renormalons in QCD and their phenomenological implications
6 pages, LateX, espcrc2; contribution to QCD97, Montpellier, France, July 1997, to appear in the proceedings
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.64:344-349,1998
10.1016/S0920-5632(97)01086-4
UAB-FT-424/97
hep-ph
null
I report on some recent work done in collaboration with E. de Rafael on the connection between ultraviolet renormalons in QCD and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-like Lagrangians as its effective description at low energies.
[ { "created": "Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:16:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Peris", "S.", "", "UAB" ] ]
I report on some recent work done in collaboration with E. de Rafael on the connection between ultraviolet renormalons in QCD and Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-like Lagrangians as its effective description at low energies.
hep-ph/9307278
null
J. Segura, J. Bernab\'eu, F.J. Botella and J. Pe\~narrocha
Dynamical zeros in neutrino-electron elastic scattering at leading order
9 pg.+ 2 figures (not included available upon request)
Phys.Rev. D49 (1994) 1633-1636
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1633
null
hep-ph
null
We show the existence of dynamical zeros in the helicity amplitudes for neutrino-electron elastic scattering at lowest order in the standard theory. In particular, the $\lambda=1/2$ non-flip electron helicity amplitude in the electron antineutrino process vanishes for an incident neutrino energy $E_{\nu}=m_{e}/(4sin^{2}\theta_{W})$ and forward electrons (maximum recoil energy). The rest of helicity amplitudes show kinematical zeros in this configuration and therefore the cross section vanishes. Prospects to search for neutrino magnetic moment are discussed.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Jul 1993 01:19:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-08-14
[ [ "Segura", "J.", "" ], [ "Bernabéu", "J.", "" ], [ "Botella", "F. J.", "" ], [ "Peñarrocha", "J.", "" ] ]
We show the existence of dynamical zeros in the helicity amplitudes for neutrino-electron elastic scattering at lowest order in the standard theory. In particular, the $\lambda=1/2$ non-flip electron helicity amplitude in the electron antineutrino process vanishes for an incident neutrino energy $E_{\nu}=m_{e}/(4sin^{2}\theta_{W})$ and forward electrons (maximum recoil energy). The rest of helicity amplitudes show kinematical zeros in this configuration and therefore the cross section vanishes. Prospects to search for neutrino magnetic moment are discussed.
hep-ph/0601187
Kochelev Nikolai Innokentevich
N.I.Kochelev
Charge Symmetry Breaking in Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constants Induced by Axial Anomaly
4 pages. Contribution to "Sense of Beauty in Physics - a volume in honour of Adriano Di Giacomo" (Pisa University Press, Pisa, 2006), on the occasion of his 70th birthday
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-ex nucl-th
null
The contribution of axial anomaly to charge symmetry breaking in pion-nucleon coupling constants is calculated within instanton model for QCD vacuum. It has been demonstrated that the contribution is large and allows to explain Nolen-Schiffer anomaly.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:28:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:11:15 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kochelev", "N. I.", "" ] ]
The contribution of axial anomaly to charge symmetry breaking in pion-nucleon coupling constants is calculated within instanton model for QCD vacuum. It has been demonstrated that the contribution is large and allows to explain Nolen-Schiffer anomaly.
2306.15872
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Aritra Gupta, Miguel Vanvlasselaer
Anomaly induced cooling of Neutron Stars: A Standard Model contribution
19 pages, Updated section 4.4, matches with the published version of JCAP, updated Fig. 5 with different values of the nucleon-omega coupling
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Young neutron stars cool via the emission of neutrinos from their core. A precise understanding of all the different processes producing neutrinos in the hot and degenerate matter is essential for assessing the cooling rate of such stars. The main Standard Model processes contributing to this effect are $\nu$ bremsstrahlung, mURCA among others. In this paper, we investigate another Standard Model process initiated by the Wess-Zumino-Witten term, leading to the emission of neutrino pairs via $N\gamma\to N\nu\bar\nu$. We find that for proto-neutron stars, such processes, with degenerate neutrons, can be comparable and even dominate over the prototypical and well-known cooling mechanisms.
[ { "created": "Wed, 28 Jun 2023 02:17:58 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:40:36 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:36:24 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 May 2024 12:15:21 GMT", "version": "v4" } ]
2024-05-02
[ [ "Chakraborty", "Sabyasachi", "" ], [ "Gupta", "Aritra", "" ], [ "Vanvlasselaer", "Miguel", "" ] ]
Young neutron stars cool via the emission of neutrinos from their core. A precise understanding of all the different processes producing neutrinos in the hot and degenerate matter is essential for assessing the cooling rate of such stars. The main Standard Model processes contributing to this effect are $\nu$ bremsstrahlung, mURCA among others. In this paper, we investigate another Standard Model process initiated by the Wess-Zumino-Witten term, leading to the emission of neutrino pairs via $N\gamma\to N\nu\bar\nu$. We find that for proto-neutron stars, such processes, with degenerate neutrons, can be comparable and even dominate over the prototypical and well-known cooling mechanisms.
hep-ph/0303051
George Sterman
Carola F. Berger, Tibor Kucs, George Sterman (Stony Brook)
Event Shape/Energy Flow Correlations
43 pages, eight eps figures; minor changes, references added
Phys.Rev.D68:014012,2003
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.014012
YITP-SB-03-06
hep-ph
null
We introduce a set of correlations between energy flow and event shapes that are sensitive to the flow of color at short distances in jet events. These correlations are formulated for a general set of event shapes, which includes jet broadening and thrust as special cases. We illustrate the method for electron-positron annihilation dijet events, and calculate the correlation at leading logarithm in the energy flow and at next-to-leading-logarithm in the event shape.
[ { "created": "Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:06:08 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:12:13 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 4 Jun 2003 19:43:04 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Berger", "Carola F.", "", "Stony Brook" ], [ "Kucs", "Tibor", "", "Stony Brook" ], [ "Sterman", "George", "", "Stony Brook" ] ]
We introduce a set of correlations between energy flow and event shapes that are sensitive to the flow of color at short distances in jet events. These correlations are formulated for a general set of event shapes, which includes jet broadening and thrust as special cases. We illustrate the method for electron-positron annihilation dijet events, and calculate the correlation at leading logarithm in the energy flow and at next-to-leading-logarithm in the event shape.
hep-ph/0410151
Johan Alwall
Johan Alwall
An improved description of charged Higgs boson production
10 pages, 6 figures. Talk given at the 42nd International School of Subnuclear Physics at Erice, Sicily, 1 September 2004
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged Higgs bosons. In order to be able to find those particles, an accurate description of their production is needed. In Monte Carlo simulations of charged Higgs boson production at hadron colliders, the two tree-level processes gb->H+/-t and gg->H+/-tb are used. Since those processes overlap in the collinear region of the phase-space of the outgoing b-quark, care must be taken not to introduce double-counting if both processes are to be used together. In this talk I present a method for matching these processes, developed by Johan Rathsman and myself. The method also allows for investigations of the factorization scale dependence of the processes and a better understanding of which factorization scale to choose to get a reliable description of charged Higgs production.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:09:24 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Alwall", "Johan", "" ] ]
Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged Higgs bosons. In order to be able to find those particles, an accurate description of their production is needed. In Monte Carlo simulations of charged Higgs boson production at hadron colliders, the two tree-level processes gb->H+/-t and gg->H+/-tb are used. Since those processes overlap in the collinear region of the phase-space of the outgoing b-quark, care must be taken not to introduce double-counting if both processes are to be used together. In this talk I present a method for matching these processes, developed by Johan Rathsman and myself. The method also allows for investigations of the factorization scale dependence of the processes and a better understanding of which factorization scale to choose to get a reliable description of charged Higgs production.
0910.3108
Nikolaos Stefanis
N. G. Stefanis, I. O. Cherednikov
Renormalization-group anatomy of transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions in QCD
10 pages, 3 figures; needs ws-mpla-hep.cls (supplied). Talk presented by the first author at Workshop on "Recent Advances in Perturbative QCD and Hadronic Physics", 20--25 July 2009, ECT*, Trento, Italy, in Honor of Prof. Anatoly Efremov's 75th birthday
Mod.Phys.Lett.A24:2913-2923,2009
10.1142/S0217732309001121
RUB-TPII-11/09
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The ultraviolet and rapidity divergences of transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions with lightlike and transverse gauge links is studied, also incorporating a soft eikonal factor. We find that in the light-cone gauge with $q^-$-independent pole prescriptions extra divergences appear which amount, at one-loop, to a cusp-like anomalous dimension. We show that such contributions are absent when the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt prescription is used. In the first case, the soft factor cancels the anomalous-dimension defect, while in the second case its ultraviolet-divergent part reduces to unity.
[ { "created": "Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:15:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-02-05
[ [ "Stefanis", "N. G.", "" ], [ "Cherednikov", "I. O.", "" ] ]
The ultraviolet and rapidity divergences of transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions with lightlike and transverse gauge links is studied, also incorporating a soft eikonal factor. We find that in the light-cone gauge with $q^-$-independent pole prescriptions extra divergences appear which amount, at one-loop, to a cusp-like anomalous dimension. We show that such contributions are absent when the Mandelstam-Leibbrandt prescription is used. In the first case, the soft factor cancels the anomalous-dimension defect, while in the second case its ultraviolet-divergent part reduces to unity.
0804.3777
Pena Francisco
Norman Cruz, Samuel Lepe and Francisco Pena
Dark energy interacting with two fluids
null
Phys.Lett.B663:338-341,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.04.035
null
hep-ph astro-ph gr-qc
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A cosmological model of dark energy interacting with dark matter and another general component of the universe is investigated. We found general constraints on these models imposing an accelerated expansion. The same is also studied in the case for holographic dark energy.
[ { "created": "Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:46:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cruz", "Norman", "" ], [ "Lepe", "Samuel", "" ], [ "Pena", "Francisco", "" ] ]
A cosmological model of dark energy interacting with dark matter and another general component of the universe is investigated. We found general constraints on these models imposing an accelerated expansion. The same is also studied in the case for holographic dark energy.
hep-ph/9803214
Jos\i Antonio Oller
J.A. Oller
The phi --> gamma K0 bar(K0) Decay
6 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX
Phys.Lett.B426:7-11,1998
10.1016/S0370-2693(98)00298-6
null
hep-ph
null
The study of the process phi-->gamma K0 bar(K0) is calculated to be 5.10^(-8) in a scheme which takes into account the different isospin channels involved, I=0,1 with the resonant, f_0(980), a_0(980), and non resonant contributions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:34:43 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Oller", "J. A.", "" ] ]
The study of the process phi-->gamma K0 bar(K0) is calculated to be 5.10^(-8) in a scheme which takes into account the different isospin channels involved, I=0,1 with the resonant, f_0(980), a_0(980), and non resonant contributions.
hep-ph/9402279
Mariusz Sadzikowski
H. Hogaasen and M. Sadzikowski
Isgur - Wise Functions for Confined Light Quarks in a Colour Electric Potential
9 pages, 1 figure (available upon request), Latex, TPJU - 4/94
Z.Phys. C64 (1994) 427-430
10.1007/BF01560103
null
hep-ph
null
We explore the influence on the Isgur-Wise function of the colour electric potential between heavy and light quarks in mesons. It is shown that in bag models, its inclusion tends to restore light quark flavour symmetry relative to the MIT bag predictions, and that relative to this model it flattens the Isgur-Wise function. Results compare very well with observations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Feb 1994 17:02:42 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Hogaasen", "H.", "" ], [ "Sadzikowski", "M.", "" ] ]
We explore the influence on the Isgur-Wise function of the colour electric potential between heavy and light quarks in mesons. It is shown that in bag models, its inclusion tends to restore light quark flavour symmetry relative to the MIT bag predictions, and that relative to this model it flattens the Isgur-Wise function. Results compare very well with observations.
hep-ph/9606233
John Terning
R.S. Chivukula and J. Terning
Precision Electroweak Constraints on Top-Color Assisted Technicolor
14 pages, LaTeX, 3 embedded figures, figures are also available at http://smyrd.bu.edu/htfigs/htfigs.html
Phys.Lett.B385:209-217,1996
10.1016/0370-2693(96)00833-7
BUHEP-96-12
hep-ph
null
Using precision electroweak data, we put limits on ``natural'' top-color assisted technicolor models. Generically the new $U(1)$ gauge bosons in these models must have masses larger than roughly 2 TeV, although in certain (seemingly unrealistic) models the bound can be much lower.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:12:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2011-01-13
[ [ "Chivukula", "R. S.", "" ], [ "Terning", "J.", "" ] ]
Using precision electroweak data, we put limits on ``natural'' top-color assisted technicolor models. Generically the new $U(1)$ gauge bosons in these models must have masses larger than roughly 2 TeV, although in certain (seemingly unrealistic) models the bound can be much lower.
hep-ph/9712418
Roberto Pittau
Roberto Pittau (CERN)
A simple method for multi-leg loop calculations 2: a general algorithm
7 pages, latex, no figures
Comput.Phys.Commun. 111 (1998) 48-52
10.1016/S0010-4655(98)00040-X
CERN-TH/97-372
hep-ph
null
The method introduced in a previous paper to simplify the tensorial reduction in multi-leg loop calculations is extended to generic one-loop integrals, with arbitrary internal masses and external momenta.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:50:44 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Pittau", "Roberto", "", "CERN" ] ]
The method introduced in a previous paper to simplify the tensorial reduction in multi-leg loop calculations is extended to generic one-loop integrals, with arbitrary internal masses and external momenta.
0912.0190
Antoni Szczurek
Piotr Lebiedowicz and Antoni Szczurek
Exclusive $pp \to pp \pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ reaction: from the threshold to LHC
19 pages, 18 figures
Phys.Rev.D81:036003,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.036003
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We evaluate differential distributions for the four-body $p p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^-$ reaction which constitutes a irreducible background to three-body processes $p p \to p p M$, where $M$ are a broad resonances in the $\pi^+ \pi^-$ channel, e.g. $M=\sigma, \rho^{0}, f_{0}(980), f_{2}(1275), f_{0}(1500)$. We include both double-diffractive contribution (both pomeron and reggeon exchanges) as well as the pion-pion rescattering contribution. The first process dominates at higher energies and small pion-pion invariant masses while the second becomes important at lower energies and higher pion-pion invariant masses. The amplitude(s) is(are) calculated in the Regge approach. We compare our results with measured cross sections for the ISR experiments at CERN. We make predictions for future experiments at PANDA, RHIC, Tevatron and LHC energies. Differential distributions in effective two-pion mass, pion rapidities and transverse momenta of pions are presented. The two-dimensional distribution in $(y_{\pi^+}, y_{\pi^-})$ is particularly interesting. The higher the incident energy, the higher preference for the same-hemisphere emission of pions. The processes considered constitute a sizeable contribution to the total nucleon-nucleon cross section as well as to pion inclusive cross section.
[ { "created": "Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:56:48 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-05-07
[ [ "Lebiedowicz", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Szczurek", "Antoni", "" ] ]
We evaluate differential distributions for the four-body $p p \to p p \pi^+ \pi^-$ reaction which constitutes a irreducible background to three-body processes $p p \to p p M$, where $M$ are a broad resonances in the $\pi^+ \pi^-$ channel, e.g. $M=\sigma, \rho^{0}, f_{0}(980), f_{2}(1275), f_{0}(1500)$. We include both double-diffractive contribution (both pomeron and reggeon exchanges) as well as the pion-pion rescattering contribution. The first process dominates at higher energies and small pion-pion invariant masses while the second becomes important at lower energies and higher pion-pion invariant masses. The amplitude(s) is(are) calculated in the Regge approach. We compare our results with measured cross sections for the ISR experiments at CERN. We make predictions for future experiments at PANDA, RHIC, Tevatron and LHC energies. Differential distributions in effective two-pion mass, pion rapidities and transverse momenta of pions are presented. The two-dimensional distribution in $(y_{\pi^+}, y_{\pi^-})$ is particularly interesting. The higher the incident energy, the higher preference for the same-hemisphere emission of pions. The processes considered constitute a sizeable contribution to the total nucleon-nucleon cross section as well as to pion inclusive cross section.
2103.12003
Andreas Crivellin
Andreas Crivellin, Claudio Andrea Manzari, Marc Montull
Correlating Non-Resonant Di-Electron Searches at the LHC to the Cabibbo-Angle Anomaly and Lepton Flavour Universality Violation
6 pages, 2 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.115016
CERN-TH-2021-036, PSI-PR-21-03, ZU-TH 11/21
hep-ph hep-ex hep-th nucl-ex nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In addition to the existing strong indications for lepton flavour university violation (LFUV) in low energy precision experiments, CMS recently released an analysis of non-resonant di-lepton pairs which could constitute the first sign of LFUV in high-energy LHC searches. In this article we show that the Cabibbo angle anomaly, an (apparent) violation of first row and column CKM unitarity with $\approx3\,\sigma$ significance, and the CMS result can be correlated and commonly explained in a model independent way by the operator $[Q_{\ell q}^{(3)}]_{1111} = (\bar{\ell}_1\gamma^{\mu}\sigma^I\ell_1)(\bar{q}_1\gamma_{\mu}\sigma^Iq_1)$. This is possible without violating the bounds from the non-resonant di-lepton search of ATLAS (which interestingly also observed slightly more events than expected in the electron channel) nor from $R(\pi)=\pi \to\mu\nu/\pi \to e \nu$. We find a combined preference for the new physics hypothesis of $4.5\,\sigma$ and predict $1.0004<R(\pi)<1.0009$ (95\%~CL) which can be tested in the near future with the forthcoming results of the PEN experiment.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:54:02 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-01-05
[ [ "Crivellin", "Andreas", "" ], [ "Manzari", "Claudio Andrea", "" ], [ "Montull", "Marc", "" ] ]
In addition to the existing strong indications for lepton flavour university violation (LFUV) in low energy precision experiments, CMS recently released an analysis of non-resonant di-lepton pairs which could constitute the first sign of LFUV in high-energy LHC searches. In this article we show that the Cabibbo angle anomaly, an (apparent) violation of first row and column CKM unitarity with $\approx3\,\sigma$ significance, and the CMS result can be correlated and commonly explained in a model independent way by the operator $[Q_{\ell q}^{(3)}]_{1111} = (\bar{\ell}_1\gamma^{\mu}\sigma^I\ell_1)(\bar{q}_1\gamma_{\mu}\sigma^Iq_1)$. This is possible without violating the bounds from the non-resonant di-lepton search of ATLAS (which interestingly also observed slightly more events than expected in the electron channel) nor from $R(\pi)=\pi \to\mu\nu/\pi \to e \nu$. We find a combined preference for the new physics hypothesis of $4.5\,\sigma$ and predict $1.0004<R(\pi)<1.0009$ (95\%~CL) which can be tested in the near future with the forthcoming results of the PEN experiment.
2306.14885
Thomas Cridge
Thomas Cridge and Matthew A. Lim
Constraining the top-quark mass within the global MSHT PDF fit
35 pages, 13 figures, 3 tables
Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 9, 805
10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11961-6
DESY-23-087
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We examine the ability of experimental measurements of top-quark pair production to constrain both the top-quark mass and the strong coupling within the global MSHT parton distribution function (PDF) fit. Specifically, we consider ATLAS and CMS measurements of differential distributions taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, as well as $t\bar{t}$ total cross section data taken at a variety of experiments, and compare to theoretical predictions including next-to-next-to-leading order corrections. We find that supplementing the global fit with this additional information results in relatively strong constraints on the top-quark mass, and is also able to bound the strong coupling in a limited fashion. Our final result is $m_t=173.0\pm0.6~\mathrm{GeV}$ and is compatible with the world average pole mass extracted from cross section measurements of $172.5\pm0.7~\mathrm{GeV}$ by the Particle Data Group. We also study the effect of different top-quark masses on the gluon parton distribution function, finding changes at high $x$ which nonetheless lie within the large PDF uncertainties in this region.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:53:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:07:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-09-14
[ [ "Cridge", "Thomas", "" ], [ "Lim", "Matthew A.", "" ] ]
We examine the ability of experimental measurements of top-quark pair production to constrain both the top-quark mass and the strong coupling within the global MSHT parton distribution function (PDF) fit. Specifically, we consider ATLAS and CMS measurements of differential distributions taken at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV, as well as $t\bar{t}$ total cross section data taken at a variety of experiments, and compare to theoretical predictions including next-to-next-to-leading order corrections. We find that supplementing the global fit with this additional information results in relatively strong constraints on the top-quark mass, and is also able to bound the strong coupling in a limited fashion. Our final result is $m_t=173.0\pm0.6~\mathrm{GeV}$ and is compatible with the world average pole mass extracted from cross section measurements of $172.5\pm0.7~\mathrm{GeV}$ by the Particle Data Group. We also study the effect of different top-quark masses on the gluon parton distribution function, finding changes at high $x$ which nonetheless lie within the large PDF uncertainties in this region.
hep-ph/0403237
Alejandro Gutierrez
A. Guti\'errez-Rodr\'iguez, M. A. Hern\'andez-Ru\'iz and L.N. Luis-Noriega (Zacatecas University, Mexico)
Limits on the Dipole Moments of the $\tau$-Lepton via the Process $e^{+}e^{-}\to \tau^+ \tau^- \gamma in a Left-Right Symmetric Model
15 pages, 3 figures
Mod.Phys.Lett. A19 (2004) 2227
10.1142/S0217732304014689
null
hep-ph
null
Limits on the anomalous magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment of the $\tau$ lepton are calculated through the reaction $e^{+}e^{-}\to \tau^+ \tau^- \gamma$ at the $Z_1$-pole and in the framework of a left-right symmetric model. The results are based on the recent data reported by the L3 Collaboration at CERN LEP. Due to the stringent limit of the model mixing angle $\phi$, the effect of this angle on the dipole moments is quite small.
[ { "created": "Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:47:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:03:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Gutiérrez-Rodríguez", "A.", "", "Zacatecas University, Mexico" ], [ "Hernández-Ruíz", "M. A.", "", "Zacatecas University, Mexico" ], [ "Luis-Noriega", "L. N.", "", "Zacatecas University, Mexico" ] ]
Limits on the anomalous magnetic moment and the electric dipole moment of the $\tau$ lepton are calculated through the reaction $e^{+}e^{-}\to \tau^+ \tau^- \gamma$ at the $Z_1$-pole and in the framework of a left-right symmetric model. The results are based on the recent data reported by the L3 Collaboration at CERN LEP. Due to the stringent limit of the model mixing angle $\phi$, the effect of this angle on the dipole moments is quite small.
hep-ph/0111149
Michael A. Doncheski
M. A. Doncheski
ADD extra dimensional gravity and di-jet production at hadron colliders
3 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX 4.0, contributed to APS/DPF/DPB Summer Study on the Future of Particle Physics (Snowmass 2001), Snowmass, Colorado, June 30 to July 21, 2001
eConf C010630 (2001) P314
null
null
hep-ph
null
We re-analyze dijet production at hadron colliders (the Tevatron at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, at CERN), to determine the potential limits on Planck mass in ADD type extra dimensional gravity scenarios. We try a variety of experimental observables in order to maximize the exclusion limits; we find that the $p_{_T}$, $p_{_T}^2$ and $\tau$ distributions give the highest search limits, and these observables provide comparable reaches.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:45:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Doncheski", "M. A.", "" ] ]
We re-analyze dijet production at hadron colliders (the Tevatron at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider, LHC, at CERN), to determine the potential limits on Planck mass in ADD type extra dimensional gravity scenarios. We try a variety of experimental observables in order to maximize the exclusion limits; we find that the $p_{_T}$, $p_{_T}^2$ and $\tau$ distributions give the highest search limits, and these observables provide comparable reaches.
1709.07440
Wayne W. Repko
Wayne W. Repko and Duane A. Dicus
Muonic hydrogen and the proton size
18 pages, 2 Tables, content added
Phys. Rev. D 98, 013002 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.013002
null
hep-ph nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We reexamine the structure of the $n=2$ levels of muonic hydrogen using a two-body potential that includes all relativistic, recoil and one loop corrections. The potential was originally derived from QED to describe the muonium atom and accounts for all contributions to order $\alpha^5$. Since one loop corrections are included, the anomalous magnetic moment contributions of the muon can be identified and replaced by the proton anomalous magnetic moment to describe muonic hydrogen with a point-like proton. This serves as a convenient starting point to include the dominant electron vacuum polarization corrections to the spectrum and extract the proton's mean squared radius $r_p=\sqrt{\langle r^2\rangle}$. Our results are consistent with other theoretical calculations that find that the muonic hydrogen value for $r_p$ is smaller than the result obtained from electron scattering.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:59:03 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:11:38 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:55:00 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2018-07-11
[ [ "Repko", "Wayne W.", "" ], [ "Dicus", "Duane A.", "" ] ]
We reexamine the structure of the $n=2$ levels of muonic hydrogen using a two-body potential that includes all relativistic, recoil and one loop corrections. The potential was originally derived from QED to describe the muonium atom and accounts for all contributions to order $\alpha^5$. Since one loop corrections are included, the anomalous magnetic moment contributions of the muon can be identified and replaced by the proton anomalous magnetic moment to describe muonic hydrogen with a point-like proton. This serves as a convenient starting point to include the dominant electron vacuum polarization corrections to the spectrum and extract the proton's mean squared radius $r_p=\sqrt{\langle r^2\rangle}$. Our results are consistent with other theoretical calculations that find that the muonic hydrogen value for $r_p$ is smaller than the result obtained from electron scattering.
hep-ph/9512294
Herbert Weigel
L. Gamberg, H. Weigel, U. Z\"uckert and H. Reinhardt
Heavy Quark Solitons in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model
16 pages REVTEX, one postscript figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys.Rev. D54 (1996) 5812-5819
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.5812
UNITU-THEP-18/1995
hep-ph
null
The Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) is extended to incorporate heavy quark spin-symmetry. In this model baryons containing one heavy quark are analyzed as bound-states of light baryons, represented as chiral solitons, and mesons containing one heavy quark. From related studies in Skyrme type models, the ground-state heavy baryon is known to arise for the heavy meson in a P--wave configuration. In the limit of an infinitely large quark mass the heavy meson wave-function is sharply peaked at the center of the chiral soliton. Therefore the bound state equation reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the coefficients of the operators contained in the most general P-wave {\it ansatz} for the heavy meson. Within the NJL model a novel feature arises from the coupling of the heavy meson to the various light quark states. In this respect conceptual differences to Skyrme model calculations are discovered: The strongest bound state is given by a heavy meson configuration which is completely decoupled from the grand spin zero channel of the light quarks.
[ { "created": "Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:56:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 16:08:58 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-08-15
[ [ "Gamberg", "L.", "" ], [ "Weigel", "H.", "" ], [ "Zückert", "U.", "" ], [ "Reinhardt", "H.", "" ] ]
The Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model (NJL) is extended to incorporate heavy quark spin-symmetry. In this model baryons containing one heavy quark are analyzed as bound-states of light baryons, represented as chiral solitons, and mesons containing one heavy quark. From related studies in Skyrme type models, the ground-state heavy baryon is known to arise for the heavy meson in a P--wave configuration. In the limit of an infinitely large quark mass the heavy meson wave-function is sharply peaked at the center of the chiral soliton. Therefore the bound state equation reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the coefficients of the operators contained in the most general P-wave {\it ansatz} for the heavy meson. Within the NJL model a novel feature arises from the coupling of the heavy meson to the various light quark states. In this respect conceptual differences to Skyrme model calculations are discovered: The strongest bound state is given by a heavy meson configuration which is completely decoupled from the grand spin zero channel of the light quarks.
hep-ph/0405166
Alexandre Kisselev
A.V. Kisselev and V.A. Petrov (IHEP, Protvino)
Eikonal Amplitude in the Gravireggeon Model at Superplanckian Energies
21 pages, LaTeX2e, no figures
Eur.Phys.J. C37 (2004) 241-249
10.1140/epjc/s2004-01985-y
null
hep-ph
null
The gravity effects in high-energy scattering, described by a four-dimensional eikonal amplitude related to gravireggeons induced by compact extra dimensions are studied. It is demonstrated that the real part of the eikonal (with a massless mode subtracted) dominates its imaginary part at both small and large impact parameters, in contrast to the usual case of hadronic high-energy behavior. The real part of the scattering amplitude exhibits an exponential falloff at large momentum transfer, similar to that of the imaginary part of the amplitude.
[ { "created": "Tue, 18 May 2004 12:05:18 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Kisselev", "A. V.", "", "IHEP, Protvino" ], [ "Petrov", "V. A.", "", "IHEP, Protvino" ] ]
The gravity effects in high-energy scattering, described by a four-dimensional eikonal amplitude related to gravireggeons induced by compact extra dimensions are studied. It is demonstrated that the real part of the eikonal (with a massless mode subtracted) dominates its imaginary part at both small and large impact parameters, in contrast to the usual case of hadronic high-energy behavior. The real part of the scattering amplitude exhibits an exponential falloff at large momentum transfer, similar to that of the imaginary part of the amplitude.
hep-ph/9307336
Chengqian Gong
C. Greiner, C. Gong and B. M\"uller
Some remarks on pion condensation in relativistic heavy ion collisions
9pp, DUKE-TH-93-53
Phys.Lett.B316:226-230,1993
10.1016/0370-2693(93)90317-B
null
hep-ph
null
Recently it was pointed out that coherent or condensated states of pions may account for the explanation of the Centauro events observed in cosmic ray showers. We argue that an occurrence of condensed pions requires that the system evolves far out of thermal equilibrium. Besides an unusual charge ratio distribution we show that such a produced state also would lead to strong isospin correlations.
[ { "created": "Mon, 26 Jul 1993 17:21:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 28 Jul 1993 16:49:31 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Greiner", "C.", "" ], [ "Gong", "C.", "" ], [ "Müller", "B.", "" ] ]
Recently it was pointed out that coherent or condensated states of pions may account for the explanation of the Centauro events observed in cosmic ray showers. We argue that an occurrence of condensed pions requires that the system evolves far out of thermal equilibrium. Besides an unusual charge ratio distribution we show that such a produced state also would lead to strong isospin correlations.
1309.5785
George Leontaris
G.K. Leontaris, N.D. Vlachos
A discrete anatomy of the neutrino mass matrix
12 pages, 2 figures, minor misprints corrected, references added
null
10.1142/S021773231450179X
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We investigate the possibility of expressing the charged leptons and neutrino mass matrices as linear combinations of generators of a single finite group. Constraints imposed on the resulting mixing matrix by current data restrict the group types, but allow a non zero value for the theta_13 mixing angle
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:37:50 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 15 May 2014 14:56:03 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-17
[ [ "Leontaris", "G. K.", "" ], [ "Vlachos", "N. D.", "" ] ]
We investigate the possibility of expressing the charged leptons and neutrino mass matrices as linear combinations of generators of a single finite group. Constraints imposed on the resulting mixing matrix by current data restrict the group types, but allow a non zero value for the theta_13 mixing angle