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1805.11717
Pasquale Di Bari
Marco Chianese, Pasquale Di Bari, Kareem Farrag and Rome Samanta
Probing relic neutrino decays with 21 cm cosmology
18 pages. 2 figures; v2: It matches PLB version
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2018.09.040
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show how 21 cm cosmology can test relic neutrino radiative decays into sterile neutrinos. Using recent EDGES results, we derive constraints on the lifetime of the decaying neutrinos. If the EDGES anomaly will be confirmed, then there are two solutions, one for much longer and one for much shorter lifetimes than the age of the universe, showing how relic neutrino radiative decays can explain the anomaly in a simple way. We also show how to combine EDGES results with those from radio background observations, showing that potentially the ARCADE 2 excess can be also reproduced together with the EDGES anomaly within the proposed non-standard cosmological scenario. Our calculation of the specific intensity at the redshifts probed by EDGES can be also applied to the case of decaying dark matter and it also corrects a flawed expression appeared in previous literature.
[ { "created": "Tue, 29 May 2018 21:34:25 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:28:32 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-10-29
[ [ "Chianese", "Marco", "" ], [ "Di Bari", "Pasquale", "" ], [ "Farrag", "Kareem", "" ], [ "Samanta", "Rome", "" ] ]
We show how 21 cm cosmology can test relic neutrino radiative decays into sterile neutrinos. Using recent EDGES results, we derive constraints on the lifetime of the decaying neutrinos. If the EDGES anomaly will be confirmed, then there are two solutions, one for much longer and one for much shorter lifetimes than the age of the universe, showing how relic neutrino radiative decays can explain the anomaly in a simple way. We also show how to combine EDGES results with those from radio background observations, showing that potentially the ARCADE 2 excess can be also reproduced together with the EDGES anomaly within the proposed non-standard cosmological scenario. Our calculation of the specific intensity at the redshifts probed by EDGES can be also applied to the case of decaying dark matter and it also corrects a flawed expression appeared in previous literature.
hep-ph/9507217
Vladimir A. Saleev
V.Saleev
Charm Photoproduction At Large Transverse Momentum And The Charm Content Of The Photon
LaTeX, 4 pages, 4 figures are not included
null
null
SSU-HEP-95/04
hep-ph
null
The charm quark photoproduction at large transverse momentum in the resolved photon interaction via partonic subprocess $\cg$ is studied. It is shown that at HERA energies the contribution of the charm quark excitation in the photon in the inclusive charm production at $\pt>5$ GeV/c dominates over the other resolved photon contribution via the gluon content of the photon and it is about 30\% of the contribution of the $c\bar c$-pair production via the photon-gluon fusion mechanism.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Jul 1995 07:18:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Saleev", "V.", "" ] ]
The charm quark photoproduction at large transverse momentum in the resolved photon interaction via partonic subprocess $\cg$ is studied. It is shown that at HERA energies the contribution of the charm quark excitation in the photon in the inclusive charm production at $\pt>5$ GeV/c dominates over the other resolved photon contribution via the gluon content of the photon and it is about 30\% of the contribution of the $c\bar c$-pair production via the photon-gluon fusion mechanism.
1911.08495
Yehonatan Viernik
Elina Fuchs, Marta Losada, Yosef Nir and Yehonatan Viernik
Implications of the upper bound on $\boldsymbol{h\to\mu^+\mu^-}$ on the baryon asymmetry of the Universe
5 pages, 1 figure
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181801 (2020)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.181801
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The upper bounds from the ATLAS and CMS experiments on the decay rate of the Higgs boson to two muons provide the strongest constraint on an imaginary part of the muon Yukawa coupling. This bound is more than an order of magnitude stronger than bounds from $\mathcal{CP}$-violating observables, specifically the electric dipole moment of the electron. It excludes a scenario $-$ which had been viable prior to these measurements $-$ that a complex muon Yukawa coupling is the dominant source of the baryon asymmetry. Even with this bound, the muon source can still contribute ${\cal O}(16\%)$ of the asymmetry.
[ { "created": "Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:00:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:19:34 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:28:01 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2020-07-15
[ [ "Fuchs", "Elina", "" ], [ "Losada", "Marta", "" ], [ "Nir", "Yosef", "" ], [ "Viernik", "Yehonatan", "" ] ]
The upper bounds from the ATLAS and CMS experiments on the decay rate of the Higgs boson to two muons provide the strongest constraint on an imaginary part of the muon Yukawa coupling. This bound is more than an order of magnitude stronger than bounds from $\mathcal{CP}$-violating observables, specifically the electric dipole moment of the electron. It excludes a scenario $-$ which had been viable prior to these measurements $-$ that a complex muon Yukawa coupling is the dominant source of the baryon asymmetry. Even with this bound, the muon source can still contribute ${\cal O}(16\%)$ of the asymmetry.
2204.10265
Victor Baules
Victor Baules and Nobuchika Okada
Experimentally distinguishable origin for electroweak symmetry breaking
12 pages, 4 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider a classically conformal $U(1)$ gauge extension of the Standard Model (SM), in which the $U(1)$ gauge symmetry is radiatively broken by the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. This breaking triggers the electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking through a mixed quartic coupling between the $U(1)$ Higgs field and the SM Higgs doublet. For two Higgs boson mass eigenstates after the symmetry breaking, $h_1$ (SM-like Higgs boson) and $h_2$ (SM singlet-like Higgs boson), we calculate the Higgs boson trilinear coupling ($g_{h_{1} h_{2} h_{2}}$) in the model by setting the Higgs boson mass spectrum to be $M_{h_1} > 2 M_{h_2}$. For a common Higgs mass spectrum and mixing angle between two Higgs fields, we find that $g_{h_{1} h_{2} h_{2}}$ in the classically conformal model is highly suppressed compared to that calculated for the conventional Higgs potential, where the $U(1)$ and EW symmetry breaking originate from the negative squared masses for the Higgs fields at the tree-level. Thus, this coupling suppression is a striking nature of the radiative origin of EW symmetry breaking. We then consider how to distinguish this origin at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) via precise measurements of anomalous SM Higgs boson couplings and the search for anomalous SM Higgs boson decay $h_1 \rightarrow h_2 h_2$ followed by $h_2 \to b \bar{b}$. We conclude that once the anomalous couplings are measured at the ILC, the observation of the anomalous Higgs boson decay is promising in the conventional Higgs potential, while this decay process is highly suppressed and undetectable for the classically conformal model.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:06:40 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-04-22
[ [ "Baules", "Victor", "" ], [ "Okada", "Nobuchika", "" ] ]
We consider a classically conformal $U(1)$ gauge extension of the Standard Model (SM), in which the $U(1)$ gauge symmetry is radiatively broken by the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. This breaking triggers the electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking through a mixed quartic coupling between the $U(1)$ Higgs field and the SM Higgs doublet. For two Higgs boson mass eigenstates after the symmetry breaking, $h_1$ (SM-like Higgs boson) and $h_2$ (SM singlet-like Higgs boson), we calculate the Higgs boson trilinear coupling ($g_{h_{1} h_{2} h_{2}}$) in the model by setting the Higgs boson mass spectrum to be $M_{h_1} > 2 M_{h_2}$. For a common Higgs mass spectrum and mixing angle between two Higgs fields, we find that $g_{h_{1} h_{2} h_{2}}$ in the classically conformal model is highly suppressed compared to that calculated for the conventional Higgs potential, where the $U(1)$ and EW symmetry breaking originate from the negative squared masses for the Higgs fields at the tree-level. Thus, this coupling suppression is a striking nature of the radiative origin of EW symmetry breaking. We then consider how to distinguish this origin at the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) via precise measurements of anomalous SM Higgs boson couplings and the search for anomalous SM Higgs boson decay $h_1 \rightarrow h_2 h_2$ followed by $h_2 \to b \bar{b}$. We conclude that once the anomalous couplings are measured at the ILC, the observation of the anomalous Higgs boson decay is promising in the conventional Higgs potential, while this decay process is highly suppressed and undetectable for the classically conformal model.
2211.01421
Tilman Plehn
Tilman Plehn, Anja Butter, Barry Dillon, Theo Heimel, Claudius Krause, and Ramon Winterhalder
Modern Machine Learning for LHC Physicists
Further expanded v3, we very much appreciate feedback
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Modern machine learning is transforming particle physics fast, bullying its way into our numerical tool box. For young researchers it is crucial to stay on top of this development, which means applying cutting-edge methods and tools to the full range of LHC physics problems. These lecture notes lead students with basic knowledge of particle physics and significant enthusiasm for machine learning to relevant applications. They start with an LHC-specific motivation and a non-standard introduction to neural networks and then cover classification, unsupervised classification, generative networks, and inverse problems. Two themes defining much of the discussion are well-defined loss functions and uncertainty-aware networks. As part of the applications, the notes include some aspects of theoretical LHC physics. All examples are chosen from particle physics publications of the last few years.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Nov 2022 18:27:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 17 Mar 2024 20:25:51 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:36:23 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2024-04-15
[ [ "Plehn", "Tilman", "" ], [ "Butter", "Anja", "" ], [ "Dillon", "Barry", "" ], [ "Heimel", "Theo", "" ], [ "Krause", "Claudius", "" ], [ "Winterhalder", "Ramon", "" ] ]
Modern machine learning is transforming particle physics fast, bullying its way into our numerical tool box. For young researchers it is crucial to stay on top of this development, which means applying cutting-edge methods and tools to the full range of LHC physics problems. These lecture notes lead students with basic knowledge of particle physics and significant enthusiasm for machine learning to relevant applications. They start with an LHC-specific motivation and a non-standard introduction to neural networks and then cover classification, unsupervised classification, generative networks, and inverse problems. Two themes defining much of the discussion are well-defined loss functions and uncertainty-aware networks. As part of the applications, the notes include some aspects of theoretical LHC physics. All examples are chosen from particle physics publications of the last few years.
0807.3307
Alexandre Kisselev
A.V. Kisselev
Gravity effects in inclined air showers induced by cosmic neutrino
10 pages, 3 figures; 2 figures, 4 references and corrections are added
Open Astron.J.2:12-15,2009
10.2174/1874381100902010012
null
hep-ph astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The Randall-Sundrum model with a small curvature is considered in which five-dimensional Planck scale lies in the TeV region, and a spectrum of Kaluza-Klein gravitons reminds that in one flat extra dimension. The cross sections for interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos with nucleons are calculated. It is shown that effects related with massive graviton excitations can be detected in deeply penetrating inclined air showers induced by these neutrinos. The expected number of air showers at the Auger Observatory is estimated as a function of two parameters of the model.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:39:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:21:37 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:34:49 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-06-22
[ [ "Kisselev", "A. V.", "" ] ]
The Randall-Sundrum model with a small curvature is considered in which five-dimensional Planck scale lies in the TeV region, and a spectrum of Kaluza-Klein gravitons reminds that in one flat extra dimension. The cross sections for interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos with nucleons are calculated. It is shown that effects related with massive graviton excitations can be detected in deeply penetrating inclined air showers induced by these neutrinos. The expected number of air showers at the Auger Observatory is estimated as a function of two parameters of the model.
1408.6699
Andrew Fowlie Dr.
Andrew Fowlie and Luca Marzola
Testing quark mixing in minimal left-right symmetric models with $b$-tags at the LHC
14 pages, 4 figures. Matches version published in Nucl.Phys. B. Expanded descriptions of figures but conclusions unchanged
Nucl.Phys. B889 (2014) 36-45
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.10.009
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Motivated by a hint in a CMS search for right-handed $W$-bosons in $eejj$ final states, we propose an experimental test of quark-mixing matrices in a general left-right symmetric model, based on counting the numbers of $b$-tags from right-handed $W$-boson hadronic decays. We find that, with our test, differences between left- and right-handed quark-mixing matrices could be detected at the LHC with $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. With an integrated luminosity of about $20/\textrm{fb}$, our test is sensitive to right-handed quark-mixing angles as small as about $30^\circ$ and with $3000/\textrm{fb}$, our test's sensitivity improves to right-handed mixing angles as small as about $7.5^\circ$. Our test's sensitivity might be further enhanced by tuning $b$-tagging efficiency against purity.
[ { "created": "Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:17:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:53:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-09-19
[ [ "Fowlie", "Andrew", "" ], [ "Marzola", "Luca", "" ] ]
Motivated by a hint in a CMS search for right-handed $W$-bosons in $eejj$ final states, we propose an experimental test of quark-mixing matrices in a general left-right symmetric model, based on counting the numbers of $b$-tags from right-handed $W$-boson hadronic decays. We find that, with our test, differences between left- and right-handed quark-mixing matrices could be detected at the LHC with $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV. With an integrated luminosity of about $20/\textrm{fb}$, our test is sensitive to right-handed quark-mixing angles as small as about $30^\circ$ and with $3000/\textrm{fb}$, our test's sensitivity improves to right-handed mixing angles as small as about $7.5^\circ$. Our test's sensitivity might be further enhanced by tuning $b$-tagging efficiency against purity.
1912.05520
Jean-Loup Tastet
Jean-Loup Tastet and Inar Timiryasov
Dirac vs. Majorana HNLs (and their oscillations) at SHiP
37 pages, 13 figures
JHEP04(2020)005
10.1007/JHEP04(2020)005
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
SHiP is a proposed high-intensity beam dump experiment set to operate at the CERN SPS. It is expected to have an unprecedented sensitivity to a variety of models containing feebly interacting particles, such as Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs). Two HNLs or more could successfully explain the observed neutrino masses through the seesaw mechanism. If, in addition, they are quasi-degenerate, they could be responsible for the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Depending on their mass splitting, HNLs can have very different phenomenologies: they can behave as Majorana fermions -- with lepton number violating (LNV) signatures, such as same-sign dilepton decays -- or as Dirac fermions with only lepton number conserving (LNC) signatures. In this work, we quantitatively demonstrate that LNV processes can be distinguished from LNC ones at SHiP, using only the angular distribution of the HNL decay products. Accounting for spin correlations in the simulation and using boosted decision trees for discrimination, we show that SHiP will be able to distinguish Majorana-like and Dirac-like HNLs in a significant fraction of the currently unconstrained parameter space. If the mass splitting is of order $10^{-6}$ eV, SHiP could even be capable of resolving HNL oscillations, thus providing a direct measurement of the mass splitting. This analysis highlights the potential of SHiP to not only search for feebly interacting particles, but also perform model selection.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:44:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 6 Apr 2020 15:47:05 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-04-07
[ [ "Tastet", "Jean-Loup", "" ], [ "Timiryasov", "Inar", "" ] ]
SHiP is a proposed high-intensity beam dump experiment set to operate at the CERN SPS. It is expected to have an unprecedented sensitivity to a variety of models containing feebly interacting particles, such as Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs). Two HNLs or more could successfully explain the observed neutrino masses through the seesaw mechanism. If, in addition, they are quasi-degenerate, they could be responsible for the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Depending on their mass splitting, HNLs can have very different phenomenologies: they can behave as Majorana fermions -- with lepton number violating (LNV) signatures, such as same-sign dilepton decays -- or as Dirac fermions with only lepton number conserving (LNC) signatures. In this work, we quantitatively demonstrate that LNV processes can be distinguished from LNC ones at SHiP, using only the angular distribution of the HNL decay products. Accounting for spin correlations in the simulation and using boosted decision trees for discrimination, we show that SHiP will be able to distinguish Majorana-like and Dirac-like HNLs in a significant fraction of the currently unconstrained parameter space. If the mass splitting is of order $10^{-6}$ eV, SHiP could even be capable of resolving HNL oscillations, thus providing a direct measurement of the mass splitting. This analysis highlights the potential of SHiP to not only search for feebly interacting particles, but also perform model selection.
2210.17477
Matteo Becchetti
Simon Badger, Matteo Becchetti, Ekta Chaubey, Robin Marzucca
Two-loop master integrals for a planar topology contributing to $pp \rightarrow t\bar{t}j$
31 pages, 47 figures, ancillary material attached to the submission. Version v3 as published in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2023)156
null
hep-ph hep-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
We consider the case of a two-loop five-point pentagon-box integral configuration with one internal massive propagator that contributes to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. We construct the system of differential equations for all the master integrals in a canonical form where the analytic form is reconstructed from numerical evaluations over finite fields. We find that the system can be represented as a sum of d-logarithmic forms using an alphabet of 71 letters. Using high precision boundary values obtained via the auxiliary mass flow method, a numerical solution to the master integrals is provided using generalised power series expansions.
[ { "created": "Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:04:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:55:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:12:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2023-03-31
[ [ "Badger", "Simon", "" ], [ "Becchetti", "Matteo", "" ], [ "Chaubey", "Ekta", "" ], [ "Marzucca", "Robin", "" ] ]
We consider the case of a two-loop five-point pentagon-box integral configuration with one internal massive propagator that contributes to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. We construct the system of differential equations for all the master integrals in a canonical form where the analytic form is reconstructed from numerical evaluations over finite fields. We find that the system can be represented as a sum of d-logarithmic forms using an alphabet of 71 letters. Using high precision boundary values obtained via the auxiliary mass flow method, a numerical solution to the master integrals is provided using generalised power series expansions.
hep-ph/9804214
null
J.R. Espinosa (CERN-TH), A. Riotto (CERN-TH) and G.G. Ross (Oxford)
D-term Inflation in Superstring Theories
19 pages, LaTeX file
Nucl.Phys. B531 (1998) 461-477
10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00592-6
CERN-TH/97-7
hep-ph astro-ph hep-th
null
An inflationary stage dominated by a $D$-term avoids the slow-roll problem of inflation in supergravity and may emerge in theories with a non-anomalous or anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry. The most intriguing and commonly invoked possibility is that the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term triggering inflation is the one emerging in superstring theories. We discuss the complications one has to face when trying to build up a successful $D$-term inflationary scenario in superstring models. In particular, we show that the ``vacuum shifting'' phenomenon of string theories is usually very efficient even in the early Universe, thus preventing inflation from taking place. On the other hand, when $D$-term inflation is free to occur, the presence of a plethora of fields and several non-anomalous additional abelian symmetries in string theories may help in reconciling the value of the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term required by the COBE normalization with the value predicted by string theories. We also show that in superstring $D$-term inflation gravitinos are likely to pose no cosmological problem.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:07:57 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Espinosa", "J. R.", "", "CERN-TH" ], [ "Riotto", "A.", "", "CERN-TH" ], [ "Ross", "G. G.", "", "Oxford" ] ]
An inflationary stage dominated by a $D$-term avoids the slow-roll problem of inflation in supergravity and may emerge in theories with a non-anomalous or anomalous U(1) gauge symmetry. The most intriguing and commonly invoked possibility is that the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term triggering inflation is the one emerging in superstring theories. We discuss the complications one has to face when trying to build up a successful $D$-term inflationary scenario in superstring models. In particular, we show that the ``vacuum shifting'' phenomenon of string theories is usually very efficient even in the early Universe, thus preventing inflation from taking place. On the other hand, when $D$-term inflation is free to occur, the presence of a plethora of fields and several non-anomalous additional abelian symmetries in string theories may help in reconciling the value of the Fayet-Iliopoulos $D$-term required by the COBE normalization with the value predicted by string theories. We also show that in superstring $D$-term inflation gravitinos are likely to pose no cosmological problem.
2211.04490
Rick Gupta
Rick S. Gupta, Joerg Jaeckel and Michael Spannowsky
Probing Poincar\'e Violation
35 pages, 6 figures,
null
null
IPPP/22/42
hep-ph hep-ex hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Time and space translation invariance, giving rise to energy and momentum conservation, are not only amongst the most fundamental but also the most generally accepted symmetry assumptions in physics. It is nevertheless prudent to put such assumptions to experimental and observational tests. In this note, we take the first step in this direction, specifying a simple periodic time dependence that violates time translation invariance in QED, and setting phenomenological constraints on it. In addition to observational and experimental constraints on time varying couplings, we focus on probes of violation of energy conservation such as spontaneous production of photon and electron pairs and the $e \to e \gamma$ process. We discuss similarities and differences to the discussion of time varying fundamental constants and to the case of a light bosonic dark matter field that usually also causes oscillating effects.
[ { "created": "Tue, 8 Nov 2022 19:00:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-11-10
[ [ "Gupta", "Rick S.", "" ], [ "Jaeckel", "Joerg", "" ], [ "Spannowsky", "Michael", "" ] ]
Time and space translation invariance, giving rise to energy and momentum conservation, are not only amongst the most fundamental but also the most generally accepted symmetry assumptions in physics. It is nevertheless prudent to put such assumptions to experimental and observational tests. In this note, we take the first step in this direction, specifying a simple periodic time dependence that violates time translation invariance in QED, and setting phenomenological constraints on it. In addition to observational and experimental constraints on time varying couplings, we focus on probes of violation of energy conservation such as spontaneous production of photon and electron pairs and the $e \to e \gamma$ process. We discuss similarities and differences to the discussion of time varying fundamental constants and to the case of a light bosonic dark matter field that usually also causes oscillating effects.
2312.06526
Adrian Irles
E. Musumeci (1), A. Irles (1), R. Perez-Ramos (2,3), I. Corredoira (4), E. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum (5,6), V. A. Mitsou (1,7) and M. A. Sanchis-Lozano (1) ((1) Instituto de F\'isica Corpuscular, CSIC - University of Valencia, Paterna (Valencia), Spain, (2) DRII-IPSA, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, (3) Laboratoire de Physique Th \'eorique et Hautes Energies (LPTHE), Sorbonne Universit\'e et CNRS, Paris Cedex, France, (4) Instituto Galego de F\'isica de Altas Enerx\`ias (IGFAE, USC), Spain, (5) Experimental Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, (6) Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA, (7) Physics Division, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
Exploring hidden sectors with two-particle angular correlations at future $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders
To be submitted to PRL
null
null
IFIC/23-50
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Future $e^+e^-$ colliders are called to play a fundamental role in measuring Standard Model (SM) parameters with unprecedented precision and the discovery of physics beyond the SM (BSM). This study focus on a QCD-like Hidden Valley (HV) scenario, with relatively light v-quarks ($\lesssim 100$ GeV), perturbing the QCD partonic cascade and increasing azimuthal and (pseudo)rapidity correlations of final-state SM hadrons. Using Pythia8 and detector fast simulation tools we study $ridge$-$like$ structures arising in the two-particle angular correlation function, including selection cuts and detector effects.
[ { "created": "Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:04:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-12-12
[ [ "Musumeci", "E.", "" ], [ "Irles", "A.", "" ], [ "Perez-Ramos", "R.", "" ], [ "Corredoira", "I.", "" ], [ "Sarkisyan-Grinbaum", "E.", "" ], [ "Mitsou", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Sanchis-Lozano", "M. A.", "" ] ]
Future $e^+e^-$ colliders are called to play a fundamental role in measuring Standard Model (SM) parameters with unprecedented precision and the discovery of physics beyond the SM (BSM). This study focus on a QCD-like Hidden Valley (HV) scenario, with relatively light v-quarks ($\lesssim 100$ GeV), perturbing the QCD partonic cascade and increasing azimuthal and (pseudo)rapidity correlations of final-state SM hadrons. Using Pythia8 and detector fast simulation tools we study $ridge$-$like$ structures arising in the two-particle angular correlation function, including selection cuts and detector effects.
1111.6005
Jan Hajer
S. Bobrovskyi, F. Br\"ummer, W. Buchmuller and J. Hajer
Searching for light higgsinos with b-jets and missing leptons
16 pages, 3 figures, 8 tables
null
10.1007/JHEP01(2012)122
DESY 11-221
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A recently proposed class of supersymmetric models predicts rather light and nearly mass-degenerate higgsinos, while the other superparticles are significantly heavier. In this paper we study the early LHC phenomenology of a benchmark model of this kind. If the squarks and gluinos, and in particular the lighter stop, are still light enough to be within reach, then evidence for our model can be found in hadronic SUSY searches. Moreover, with dedicated searches it will be possible to distinguish the light higgsino model from generic SUSY models with a bino LSP. Search channels with b-jets and with isolated leptons play a crucial role for model discrimination.
[ { "created": "Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:44:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Bobrovskyi", "S.", "" ], [ "Brümmer", "F.", "" ], [ "Buchmuller", "W.", "" ], [ "Hajer", "J.", "" ] ]
A recently proposed class of supersymmetric models predicts rather light and nearly mass-degenerate higgsinos, while the other superparticles are significantly heavier. In this paper we study the early LHC phenomenology of a benchmark model of this kind. If the squarks and gluinos, and in particular the lighter stop, are still light enough to be within reach, then evidence for our model can be found in hadronic SUSY searches. Moreover, with dedicated searches it will be possible to distinguish the light higgsino model from generic SUSY models with a bino LSP. Search channels with b-jets and with isolated leptons play a crucial role for model discrimination.
2303.14299
Thomas A. Trainor
Thomas A. Trainor
Systematic analysis of (multi)strange hadron $p_t$ spectra from small collision systems at the large hadron collider
21 pages, 13 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Small collision systems, e.g. $p$-$p$ and $p$-Pb collisions, comprise a potential reference for more-central A-A collisions with regard to production (or not) of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Small systems with low particle densities should evolve according to simple QCD mechanisms including projectile-nucleon dissociation and dijet production. But it is now claimed that QGP may appear even in $p$-$p$ collisions based on apparent evidence for radial flow from shape evolution of $p_t$ spectra and from variation of total yields for strange and multistrange hadrons relative to statistical models. The present study confronts such arguments with a detailed analysis of $p_t$ spectra for strange and multistrange hadrons from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions and 13 TeV $p$-$p$ collisions via a two-component model (TCM) of hadron production. Based on previous analysis of lighter hadrons the TCM accurately predicts spectra for Cascade and Omega hadrons. Significant results include multistrange hadron spectra dominated by jet fragments, variation of strange-hadron abundances exaggerated by certain plot formats and spectrum extrapolations, and detailed relations between ensemble-mean $\bar p_t$ evolution with event charge density and small shifts of jet fragment distributions on $p_t$. Within the context of the TCM, $p$-$p$ and $p$-Pb collision systems with comparable jet contributions are found to be equivalent within data uncertainties. Attribution of certain data features to radial flow is falsified.
[ { "created": "Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:23:19 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-03-28
[ [ "Trainor", "Thomas A.", "" ] ]
Small collision systems, e.g. $p$-$p$ and $p$-Pb collisions, comprise a potential reference for more-central A-A collisions with regard to production (or not) of a thermalized quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Small systems with low particle densities should evolve according to simple QCD mechanisms including projectile-nucleon dissociation and dijet production. But it is now claimed that QGP may appear even in $p$-$p$ collisions based on apparent evidence for radial flow from shape evolution of $p_t$ spectra and from variation of total yields for strange and multistrange hadrons relative to statistical models. The present study confronts such arguments with a detailed analysis of $p_t$ spectra for strange and multistrange hadrons from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions and 13 TeV $p$-$p$ collisions via a two-component model (TCM) of hadron production. Based on previous analysis of lighter hadrons the TCM accurately predicts spectra for Cascade and Omega hadrons. Significant results include multistrange hadron spectra dominated by jet fragments, variation of strange-hadron abundances exaggerated by certain plot formats and spectrum extrapolations, and detailed relations between ensemble-mean $\bar p_t$ evolution with event charge density and small shifts of jet fragment distributions on $p_t$. Within the context of the TCM, $p$-$p$ and $p$-Pb collision systems with comparable jet contributions are found to be equivalent within data uncertainties. Attribution of certain data features to radial flow is falsified.
2204.13134
Jonathan Kriewald
J. Kriewald, J. Orloff, E. Pinsard, A. M. Teixeira
Prospects for a flavour violating $Z^\prime$ explanation of $\Delta a_{\mu,e}$
36 pages, 15 figures, v3: minor changes, few clarifications added, results and conclusions unchanged, matches version published in EPJC
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10776-1
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The apparent tensions emerging from the comparison of experimental data of the anomalous magnetic moments of the muon and electron to the Standard Model predictions ($\Delta a_{\mu,e}$) could be interpreted as a potential signal of New Physics. Models encompassing a light vector boson have been known to offer a satisfactory explanation to $\Delta a_{\mu}$, albeit subject to stringent experimental constraints. Here we explore a minimal extension of the Standard Model via a leptophilic vector boson $Z^\prime$, under the hypothesis of strictly flavour-violating couplings of the latter to leptons. The most constraining observables to this ad-hoc construction emerge from lepton flavour universality violation (in $Z$ and $\tau$ decays) and from rare charged lepton flavour violating transitions. Once these are accommodated, one can saturate the tensions in $\Delta a_{\mu}$, but $\Delta a_{e}$ is predicted to be Standard Model-like. We infer prospects for several observables, including leptonic $Z$ decays and several charged lepton flavour violating processes. We also discuss potential signatures of the considered $Z^\prime$ at a future muon collider, emphasising the role of the $\mu^+\mu^- \to\tau^+\tau^- $ forward-backward asymmetry as a key probe of the model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:04:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 6 Jul 2022 16:06:33 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:29:54 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2022-10-18
[ [ "Kriewald", "J.", "" ], [ "Orloff", "J.", "" ], [ "Pinsard", "E.", "" ], [ "Teixeira", "A. M.", "" ] ]
The apparent tensions emerging from the comparison of experimental data of the anomalous magnetic moments of the muon and electron to the Standard Model predictions ($\Delta a_{\mu,e}$) could be interpreted as a potential signal of New Physics. Models encompassing a light vector boson have been known to offer a satisfactory explanation to $\Delta a_{\mu}$, albeit subject to stringent experimental constraints. Here we explore a minimal extension of the Standard Model via a leptophilic vector boson $Z^\prime$, under the hypothesis of strictly flavour-violating couplings of the latter to leptons. The most constraining observables to this ad-hoc construction emerge from lepton flavour universality violation (in $Z$ and $\tau$ decays) and from rare charged lepton flavour violating transitions. Once these are accommodated, one can saturate the tensions in $\Delta a_{\mu}$, but $\Delta a_{e}$ is predicted to be Standard Model-like. We infer prospects for several observables, including leptonic $Z$ decays and several charged lepton flavour violating processes. We also discuss potential signatures of the considered $Z^\prime$ at a future muon collider, emphasising the role of the $\mu^+\mu^- \to\tau^+\tau^- $ forward-backward asymmetry as a key probe of the model.
2302.06623
Maximilian Stahlhofen
Piotr Pietrulewicz and Maximilian Stahlhofen
Two-loop bottom mass effects on the Higgs transverse momentum spectrum in top-induced gluon fusion
38 pages, 6 figures; v2: journal version
JHEP05(2023)175
10.1007/JHEP05(2023)175
FR-PHENO-2023-03
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We compute bottom mass ($m_b$) corrections to the transverse momentum ($q_T$) spectrum of Higgs bosons produced by gluon fusion in the regime $q_T \sim m_b \ll m_H$ at leading power in $m_b/m_H$ and $q_T/m_H$, where the gluons couple to the Higgs via a top loop. To this end we calculate the quark mass dependence of the transverse momentum dependent gluon beam functions (aka gluon TMDPDFs) at two loops in the framework of SCET. These functions represent the collinear matrix elements in the factorized gluon-fusion cross section for small $q_T$. We discuss in detail technical subtleties regarding rapidity regulators and zero-bin subtractions in the calculation of the virtual corrections present for massive quarks. Combined with the known soft function for $m_b \neq 0$ our results allow to determine the resummed Higgs $q_T$ distribution in the top-induced gluon fusion channel at NNLL$^\prime$ (and eventually N$^3$LL) with full dependence on $m_b/q_T$. We perform a first phenomenological analysis at fixed order, where the new corrections to the massless approximation lead to percent-level effects in the peak region of the Higgs $q_T$ spectrum. Upon resummation they may thus be relevant for state-of-the-art precision predictions for the LHC.
[ { "created": "Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 24 May 2023 21:26:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-05-26
[ [ "Pietrulewicz", "Piotr", "" ], [ "Stahlhofen", "Maximilian", "" ] ]
We compute bottom mass ($m_b$) corrections to the transverse momentum ($q_T$) spectrum of Higgs bosons produced by gluon fusion in the regime $q_T \sim m_b \ll m_H$ at leading power in $m_b/m_H$ and $q_T/m_H$, where the gluons couple to the Higgs via a top loop. To this end we calculate the quark mass dependence of the transverse momentum dependent gluon beam functions (aka gluon TMDPDFs) at two loops in the framework of SCET. These functions represent the collinear matrix elements in the factorized gluon-fusion cross section for small $q_T$. We discuss in detail technical subtleties regarding rapidity regulators and zero-bin subtractions in the calculation of the virtual corrections present for massive quarks. Combined with the known soft function for $m_b \neq 0$ our results allow to determine the resummed Higgs $q_T$ distribution in the top-induced gluon fusion channel at NNLL$^\prime$ (and eventually N$^3$LL) with full dependence on $m_b/q_T$. We perform a first phenomenological analysis at fixed order, where the new corrections to the massless approximation lead to percent-level effects in the peak region of the Higgs $q_T$ spectrum. Upon resummation they may thus be relevant for state-of-the-art precision predictions for the LHC.
hep-ph/0605195
Qiuyu Liu
B.L. Chen (1), H.L. Ge (1), C. Giunti (2), Q.Y. Liu (1) ((1) CUST, Hefei, (2) INFN, Turin & Turin U.)
Testing the Stability of the Solar Neutrino LMA Solution with a Bayesian Analysis
13 pages, 15 eps figures
Mod.Phys.Lett. A21 (2006) 2269-2282
10.1142/S0217732306021608
null
hep-ph
null
We analyze with the Bayesian method the solar and KamLAND neutrino data in terms of neutrino oscillations. We show that Bayesian credible regions with a flat prior in the tan^2(theta12)--(Delta m^2)_21 plane strongly support the LMA solution, in agreement with the usual chi-square analysis. Other reasonable priors are considered in order to test the stability of the LMA solution. We show that priors which favor small or large values of the mixing angle lead to minor changes of the allowed LMA region, affecting mainly its large tan^2(theta12) part.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 May 2006 09:55:59 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-11
[ [ "Chen", "B. L.", "" ], [ "Ge", "H. L.", "" ], [ "Giunti", "C.", "" ], [ "Liu", "Q. Y.", "" ] ]
We analyze with the Bayesian method the solar and KamLAND neutrino data in terms of neutrino oscillations. We show that Bayesian credible regions with a flat prior in the tan^2(theta12)--(Delta m^2)_21 plane strongly support the LMA solution, in agreement with the usual chi-square analysis. Other reasonable priors are considered in order to test the stability of the LMA solution. We show that priors which favor small or large values of the mixing angle lead to minor changes of the allowed LMA region, affecting mainly its large tan^2(theta12) part.
1710.05523
Ying Zhang
Ying Zhang
An open window to neutrino mass hierarchy at maximal Dirac CP violation
6 pages, 2 figures and 1 table
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Non-zero leptonic CP phases in the neutrino sector are clear evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model and have many implications in particle physics and cosmology. Some clues to maximal Dirac CP violation $\delta_{CP}=3\pi/2$ are reviewed. An approach to connect the Dirac CP violation phase and the neutrino mass hierarchy in terms of the measurement of CP asymmetry is proposed. Under appropriate requirements for baseline distance and beam energy, the problem of neutrino mass hierarchy can be revealed at maximal Dirac CP violation. General allowed parameter spaces are investigated, within which the two unknown neutrino issues, mass hierarchy and Dirac CP violation, can be solved simultaneously. The abilities of addressing the mass hierarchy of current long baseline neutrino experiments are also discussed.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Oct 2017 06:01:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-10-17
[ [ "Zhang", "Ying", "" ] ]
Non-zero leptonic CP phases in the neutrino sector are clear evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model and have many implications in particle physics and cosmology. Some clues to maximal Dirac CP violation $\delta_{CP}=3\pi/2$ are reviewed. An approach to connect the Dirac CP violation phase and the neutrino mass hierarchy in terms of the measurement of CP asymmetry is proposed. Under appropriate requirements for baseline distance and beam energy, the problem of neutrino mass hierarchy can be revealed at maximal Dirac CP violation. General allowed parameter spaces are investigated, within which the two unknown neutrino issues, mass hierarchy and Dirac CP violation, can be solved simultaneously. The abilities of addressing the mass hierarchy of current long baseline neutrino experiments are also discussed.
hep-ph/9209262
null
H.Y. Cheng, C.Y. Cheung, G.L. Lin, Y.C. Lin, T.M. Yan, and H.L. Yu
Chiral Lagrangians for Radiative Decays of Heavy Hadrons
30 pages (one figure, available on request), CLNS 92/1158 and IP-ASTP-13-92
Phys.Rev. D47 (1993) 1030-1042
10.1103/PhysRevD.47.1030
null
hep-ph
null
The radiative decays of heavy mesons and heavy baryons are studied in a formalism which incorporates both the heavy quark symmetry and the chiral symmetry. The chiral Lagrangians for the electromagnetic interactions of heavy hadrons consist of two pieces: one from gauging electromagnetically the strong-interaction chiral Lagrangian, and the other from the anomalous magnetic moment interactions of the heavy baryons and mesons. Due to the heavy quark spin symmetry, the latter contains only one independent coupling constant in the meson sector and two in the baryon sector. These coupling constants only depend on the light quarks and can be calculated in the nonrelativistic quark model. However, the charm quark is not heavy enough and the contribution from its magnetic moment must be included. Applications to the radiative decays $D^\ast \rightarrow D \gamma~,~B^\ast \rightarrow B \gamma~,~ \Xi^\prime_c \rightarrow \Xi_c \gamma~, \Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \gamma$ and $\Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \pi \gamma$ are given. Together with our previous results on the strong decay rates of $D^\ast \rightarrow D \pi$ and $\Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \pi$, predictions are obtained for the total widths and branching ratios of $D^\ast$ and $\Sigma_c$. The decays $\Sigma^+_c \rightarrow \Lambda^+_c \pi^0 \gamma $ and $\Sigma^0_c \rightarrow \Lambda^+_c \pi^- \gamma $ are discussed to illustrate the important roles played by both the heavy quark symmetry and the chiral symmetry.
[ { "created": "Mon, 21 Sep 1992 19:04:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-22
[ [ "Cheng", "H. Y.", "" ], [ "Cheung", "C. Y.", "" ], [ "Lin", "G. L.", "" ], [ "Lin", "Y. C.", "" ], [ "Yan", "T. M.", "" ], [ "Yu", "H. L.", "" ] ]
The radiative decays of heavy mesons and heavy baryons are studied in a formalism which incorporates both the heavy quark symmetry and the chiral symmetry. The chiral Lagrangians for the electromagnetic interactions of heavy hadrons consist of two pieces: one from gauging electromagnetically the strong-interaction chiral Lagrangian, and the other from the anomalous magnetic moment interactions of the heavy baryons and mesons. Due to the heavy quark spin symmetry, the latter contains only one independent coupling constant in the meson sector and two in the baryon sector. These coupling constants only depend on the light quarks and can be calculated in the nonrelativistic quark model. However, the charm quark is not heavy enough and the contribution from its magnetic moment must be included. Applications to the radiative decays $D^\ast \rightarrow D \gamma~,~B^\ast \rightarrow B \gamma~,~ \Xi^\prime_c \rightarrow \Xi_c \gamma~, \Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \gamma$ and $\Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \pi \gamma$ are given. Together with our previous results on the strong decay rates of $D^\ast \rightarrow D \pi$ and $\Sigma_c \rightarrow \Lambda_c \pi$, predictions are obtained for the total widths and branching ratios of $D^\ast$ and $\Sigma_c$. The decays $\Sigma^+_c \rightarrow \Lambda^+_c \pi^0 \gamma $ and $\Sigma^0_c \rightarrow \Lambda^+_c \pi^- \gamma $ are discussed to illustrate the important roles played by both the heavy quark symmetry and the chiral symmetry.
hep-ph/0112058
Sean Fleming
Sean Fleming (Carnegie Mellon University)
Production & Decay of Quarkonium
Invited talk: 9th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Physics
AIP Conf.Proc. 618 (2002) 405-414
10.1063/1.1478859
null
hep-ph
null
In this talk I review NRQCD predictions for the production of charmonium at the Tevatron. After a quick presentation of the NRQCD factorization formalism for production and decay I review some old results and discuss how they compare to recent data. Following this I discuss some recent work done with Adam Leibovich and Ira Rothstein.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:18:26 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Fleming", "Sean", "", "Carnegie Mellon University" ] ]
In this talk I review NRQCD predictions for the production of charmonium at the Tevatron. After a quick presentation of the NRQCD factorization formalism for production and decay I review some old results and discuss how they compare to recent data. Following this I discuss some recent work done with Adam Leibovich and Ira Rothstein.
hep-ph/9305207
Sergei Khlebnikov
S. Yu. Khlebnikov
Disoriented chiral condensate in (1+1) Lorentz-invariant geometry
9 pages, LATEX, UCLA/93/TEP/10
Mod.Phys.Lett. A8 (1993) 1901-1908
10.1142/S0217732393001628
null
hep-ph
null
We consider isospin correlations of pions produced in a relativistic nuclear collision, using an effective theory of the chiral order parameter. Our theory has (1+1) Lorentz invariance as appropriate for the central rapidity region. We argue that in certain regions of space correlations of the chiral order parameter are described by the fixed point of the (1+1) WZNW model. The corresponding anomalous dimension determines scaling of the probability to observe a correlated cluster of pions with the size of this cluster in rapidity. Though the maximal size of clusters for which this scaling is applicable is cut off by pion mass, such clusters can still include sufficiently many particles to make the scaling observable.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 May 1993 00:41:00 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-06-25
[ [ "Khlebnikov", "S. Yu.", "" ] ]
We consider isospin correlations of pions produced in a relativistic nuclear collision, using an effective theory of the chiral order parameter. Our theory has (1+1) Lorentz invariance as appropriate for the central rapidity region. We argue that in certain regions of space correlations of the chiral order parameter are described by the fixed point of the (1+1) WZNW model. The corresponding anomalous dimension determines scaling of the probability to observe a correlated cluster of pions with the size of this cluster in rapidity. Though the maximal size of clusters for which this scaling is applicable is cut off by pion mass, such clusters can still include sufficiently many particles to make the scaling observable.
2311.01353
Evgeny Zhemchugov
E. V. Zhemchugov, S. I. Godunov, E. K. Karkaryan, V. A. Novikov, A. N. Rozanov, M. I. Vysotsky
libepa -- a C++/Python library for calculations of cross sections of ultraperipheral collisions
25 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. See the arXiv archive for supplementary materials (code)
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The library provides a set of C++/Python functions for computing cross sections of ultraperipheral collisions of high energy particles under the equivalent photons approximation. Cross sections are represented through multiple integrals over the phase space. The integrals are calculated through recurrent application of algorithms for one dimensional integration. The paper contains an introduction to the theory of ultraperipheral collisions, discusses the library approach and provides a few examples of calculations.
[ { "created": "Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:01:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2023-11-03
[ [ "Zhemchugov", "E. V.", "" ], [ "Godunov", "S. I.", "" ], [ "Karkaryan", "E. K.", "" ], [ "Novikov", "V. A.", "" ], [ "Rozanov", "A. N.", "" ], [ "Vysotsky", "M. I.", "" ] ]
The library provides a set of C++/Python functions for computing cross sections of ultraperipheral collisions of high energy particles under the equivalent photons approximation. Cross sections are represented through multiple integrals over the phase space. The integrals are calculated through recurrent application of algorithms for one dimensional integration. The paper contains an introduction to the theory of ultraperipheral collisions, discusses the library approach and provides a few examples of calculations.
0712.4210
Andre Sopczak
A. Sopczak, A. Freitas, C. Milstene, M. Schmitt
Precision Measurements of the Stop Quark Mass at the ILC
4 pages, 4 figures, presented at SUSY'07, Karlsruhe
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Most supersymmetric models predict new particles within the reach of the next generation of colliders. For an understanding of the model structure and the mechanism(s) of electroweak symmetry breaking, it is important to know the masses of the new particles precisely. The measurement of the mass of the scalar partner of the top quark (stop) at an e+e- collider is studied. A relatively light stop is motivated by attempts to explain electroweak baryogenesis and can play an important role in dark matter annihilation. A method is presented which makes use of cross-section measurements near the pair-production threshold as well as at higher center-of-mass energies. It is shown that this method does not only increase the statistical precision, but also reduces the influence of systematic uncertainties, which can be important. Numerical results are presented, based on a realistic event simulation, for two signal selection strategies: using conventional selection cuts, and using an Iterative Discriminant Analysis (IDA). While the analysis of stops is particularly challenging due to the possibility of stop hadronization and fragmentation, the general procedure could be applied to many precision mass measurements.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:30:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-12-28
[ [ "Sopczak", "A.", "" ], [ "Freitas", "A.", "" ], [ "Milstene", "C.", "" ], [ "Schmitt", "M.", "" ] ]
Most supersymmetric models predict new particles within the reach of the next generation of colliders. For an understanding of the model structure and the mechanism(s) of electroweak symmetry breaking, it is important to know the masses of the new particles precisely. The measurement of the mass of the scalar partner of the top quark (stop) at an e+e- collider is studied. A relatively light stop is motivated by attempts to explain electroweak baryogenesis and can play an important role in dark matter annihilation. A method is presented which makes use of cross-section measurements near the pair-production threshold as well as at higher center-of-mass energies. It is shown that this method does not only increase the statistical precision, but also reduces the influence of systematic uncertainties, which can be important. Numerical results are presented, based on a realistic event simulation, for two signal selection strategies: using conventional selection cuts, and using an Iterative Discriminant Analysis (IDA). While the analysis of stops is particularly challenging due to the possibility of stop hadronization and fragmentation, the general procedure could be applied to many precision mass measurements.
0706.3909
Olga Mena Requejo
Olga Mena (INFN, Rome; Rome U.), Sergio Palomares-Ruiz and Silvia Pascoli (Durham U., IPPP)
Reconstructing WIMP properties with neutrino detectors
4 pp, 2 figs; revised version accepted for publication with further discussions and references
Phys.Lett.B664:92-96,2008
10.1016/j.physletb.2008.04.059
IPPP/07/34, DCPT/07/68
hep-ph astro-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
If the dark matter of the Universe is constituted by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), they would accumulate in the core of astrophysical objects as the Sun and annihilate into particles of the Standard Model. High-energy neutrinos would be produced in the annihilations, both directly and via the subsequent decay of leptons, quarks and bosons. While Cherenkov neutrino detectors/telescopes can only count the number of neutrinos above some threshold energy, we study how, by exploiting their energy resolution, large magnetized iron calorimeter and, possibly, liquid argon and totally active scintillator detectors, planned for future long baseline neutrino experiments, have the capability of reconstructing the neutrino spectrum and might provide information on the dark matter properties. In particular, for a given value of the WIMP mass, we show that a future iron calorimeter could break the degeneracy between the WIMP-proton cross section and the annihilation branching ratios, present for Cherenkov detectors, and constrain their values with good accuracy.
[ { "created": "Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:48:18 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:18:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Mena", "Olga", "", "INFN, Rome; Rome U." ], [ "Palomares-Ruiz", "Sergio", "", "Durham U., IPPP" ], [ "Pascoli", "Silvia", "", "Durham U., IPPP" ] ]
If the dark matter of the Universe is constituted by weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP), they would accumulate in the core of astrophysical objects as the Sun and annihilate into particles of the Standard Model. High-energy neutrinos would be produced in the annihilations, both directly and via the subsequent decay of leptons, quarks and bosons. While Cherenkov neutrino detectors/telescopes can only count the number of neutrinos above some threshold energy, we study how, by exploiting their energy resolution, large magnetized iron calorimeter and, possibly, liquid argon and totally active scintillator detectors, planned for future long baseline neutrino experiments, have the capability of reconstructing the neutrino spectrum and might provide information on the dark matter properties. In particular, for a given value of the WIMP mass, we show that a future iron calorimeter could break the degeneracy between the WIMP-proton cross section and the annihilation branching ratios, present for Cherenkov detectors, and constrain their values with good accuracy.
hep-ph/9503302
Xerxes Tata
Xerxes Tata
Recent Developments in supersymmetry Search Strategies
Talk presented at the 11th Dep't of Atomic Energy Symposium, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan, India. 19 pages. World_sci.sty attached after Latex file; Figures may be obtained by regular mail or fax from the Author.
null
null
UH-511-820-95
hep-ph
null
After a quick review of the framework for phenomenological analyses of supersymmetry, we summarize current limits on supersymmetric particle masses and discuss strategies for their searches at the Fermilab Tevatron and the LHC. We also discuss the sense in which such searches as well as those that may be carried out at LEP complement one another. Finally, we touch upon the prospects for more ambitious measurements such as those of sparticle masses and couplings. Such measurements could (a) help pin down model parameters, (b) perhaps, serve to test our ideas of physics at very high energy, and (c) provide the most direct test of supersymmetry.
[ { "created": "Sat, 11 Mar 1995 22:10:53 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-01
[ [ "Tata", "Xerxes", "" ] ]
After a quick review of the framework for phenomenological analyses of supersymmetry, we summarize current limits on supersymmetric particle masses and discuss strategies for their searches at the Fermilab Tevatron and the LHC. We also discuss the sense in which such searches as well as those that may be carried out at LEP complement one another. Finally, we touch upon the prospects for more ambitious measurements such as those of sparticle masses and couplings. Such measurements could (a) help pin down model parameters, (b) perhaps, serve to test our ideas of physics at very high energy, and (c) provide the most direct test of supersymmetry.
1503.00009
Hou Keong Lou
Timothy Cohen, Mariangela Lisanti, Hou Keong Lou
Semi-visible Jets: Dark Matter Undercover at the LHC
5 pages, 3 figures. v3: Supplementary material and references added. Model changed from scalar to fermionic dark quarks and figures updated accordingly. Conclusions unchanged
Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 171804 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.171804
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The dark matter may be a composite particle that is accessible via a weakly coupled portal. If these hidden-sector states are produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they would undergo a QCD-like shower. This would result in a spray of stable invisible dark matter along with unstable states that decay back to the Standard Model. Such "semi-visible" jets arise, for example, when their production and decay are driven by a leptophobic $Z'$ resonance; the resulting signature is characterized by significant missing energy aligned along the direction of one of the jets. These events are vetoed by the current suite of searches employed by the LHC, resulting in low acceptance. This Letter will demonstrate that the transverse mass---computed using the final-state jets and the missing energy---provides a powerful discriminator between the signal and the QCD background. Assuming that the $Z'$ couples to the Standard Model quarks with the same strength as the $Z^0$, the proposed search can discover (exclude) $Z'$ masses up to 2.5 TeV (3.5 TeV) with 100 fb$^{-1}$ of 14 TeV data at the LHC.
[ { "created": "Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:01:27 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:02:31 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:23:59 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-10-28
[ [ "Cohen", "Timothy", "" ], [ "Lisanti", "Mariangela", "" ], [ "Lou", "Hou Keong", "" ] ]
The dark matter may be a composite particle that is accessible via a weakly coupled portal. If these hidden-sector states are produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they would undergo a QCD-like shower. This would result in a spray of stable invisible dark matter along with unstable states that decay back to the Standard Model. Such "semi-visible" jets arise, for example, when their production and decay are driven by a leptophobic $Z'$ resonance; the resulting signature is characterized by significant missing energy aligned along the direction of one of the jets. These events are vetoed by the current suite of searches employed by the LHC, resulting in low acceptance. This Letter will demonstrate that the transverse mass---computed using the final-state jets and the missing energy---provides a powerful discriminator between the signal and the QCD background. Assuming that the $Z'$ couples to the Standard Model quarks with the same strength as the $Z^0$, the proposed search can discover (exclude) $Z'$ masses up to 2.5 TeV (3.5 TeV) with 100 fb$^{-1}$ of 14 TeV data at the LHC.
hep-ph/0512055
Shouhua Zhu
Shou-hua Zhu
Detecting an invisible Higgs boson at Fermilab Tevatron and CERN LHC
4 Revtex pages including 2 figures
Eur.Phys.J.C47:833-837,2006
10.1140/epjc/s2006-02607-6
null
hep-ph hep-ex
null
In this paper, we study the observability of an invisible Higgs boson at Fermilab Tevatron and CERN LHC through the production channel $ q \bar{q} \to Z H \to \ell^+\ell^-+ \ptmiss $, where $\ptmiss$ is reconstructed from the $\ell^+\ell^-$ with $\ell=e$ or $\mu$. A new strategy is proposed to eliminate the largest irreducible background, namely $ q \bar{q} \to Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-) Z(\to \nu \bar\nu)$. This strategy utilizes the precise measurements of $ q \bar{q} \to Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-) Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-)$. For $m_H=120$ GeV and with luminosity $30 fb^{-1}$ at Tevatron, a $5\sigma$ observation of the invisible Higgs boson is possible. For $m_H=114 \sim 140$ GeV with only $10 fb^{-1}$ luminosity at LHC, a discovery signal over $5\sigma$ can be achieved.
[ { "created": "Mon, 5 Dec 2005 02:30:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:21:24 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:30:18 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-01-07
[ [ "Zhu", "Shou-hua", "" ] ]
In this paper, we study the observability of an invisible Higgs boson at Fermilab Tevatron and CERN LHC through the production channel $ q \bar{q} \to Z H \to \ell^+\ell^-+ \ptmiss $, where $\ptmiss$ is reconstructed from the $\ell^+\ell^-$ with $\ell=e$ or $\mu$. A new strategy is proposed to eliminate the largest irreducible background, namely $ q \bar{q} \to Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-) Z(\to \nu \bar\nu)$. This strategy utilizes the precise measurements of $ q \bar{q} \to Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-) Z(\to \ell^+\ell^-)$. For $m_H=120$ GeV and with luminosity $30 fb^{-1}$ at Tevatron, a $5\sigma$ observation of the invisible Higgs boson is possible. For $m_H=114 \sim 140$ GeV with only $10 fb^{-1}$ luminosity at LHC, a discovery signal over $5\sigma$ can be achieved.
0709.0065
Alejandro Cabo
Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca
Renormalized Wick expansion for a modified PQCD
13 pages, one figure
Eur.Phys.J.C55:85-93,2008
10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0565-y
ICTP Preprint IC/2007/083 August (2007)
hep-ph
null
The renormalization scheme for the Wick expansion of a modified version of the perturbative QCD introduced in previous works is discussed. Massless QCD is considered, by implementing the usual multiplicative scaling of the gluon and quark wave functions and vertices. However, also massive quark and gluon counter-terms are allowed in this mass less theory since the condensates are expected to generate masses. A natural set of expansion parameters of the physical quantities is introduced: the coupling itself and to masses $m_q$ and $m_g$ associated to quarks and gluons respectively. This procedure allows to implement a dimensional transmutation effect through these new mass scales. A general expression for the new generating functional in terms of the mass parameters $m_q$ and $m_g$ is obtained in terms of integrals over arbitrary but constant gluon or quark fields in each case. Further, the one loop potential, is evaluated in more detail in the case when only the quark condensate is retained. This lowest order result again indicates the dynamical generation of quark condensates in the vacuum.
[ { "created": "Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:21:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2014-11-18
[ [ "de Oca", "Alejandro Cabo Montes", "" ] ]
The renormalization scheme for the Wick expansion of a modified version of the perturbative QCD introduced in previous works is discussed. Massless QCD is considered, by implementing the usual multiplicative scaling of the gluon and quark wave functions and vertices. However, also massive quark and gluon counter-terms are allowed in this mass less theory since the condensates are expected to generate masses. A natural set of expansion parameters of the physical quantities is introduced: the coupling itself and to masses $m_q$ and $m_g$ associated to quarks and gluons respectively. This procedure allows to implement a dimensional transmutation effect through these new mass scales. A general expression for the new generating functional in terms of the mass parameters $m_q$ and $m_g$ is obtained in terms of integrals over arbitrary but constant gluon or quark fields in each case. Further, the one loop potential, is evaluated in more detail in the case when only the quark condensate is retained. This lowest order result again indicates the dynamical generation of quark condensates in the vacuum.
hep-ph/9705370
D. P. Roy
D.P. Roy
New Physics from HERA?
LaTeX file (7 pages), 3 figures available on request, Made minor stylistic changes and added a reference
null
null
TIFR/TH/97-24
hep-ph
null
The H1 and ZEUS experiments at the HERA $e^\pm p$ collider at Hamburg have recently reported some anomalous hard-scattering events, which could be indicative of new physics beyond the standard model. I have tried to discuss in a nonspecialist language the significance of this result for particle physics along with its interpretation in terms of the currently popular extensions of the standard model.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 May 1997 11:26:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 27 May 1997 11:52:37 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-02-03
[ [ "Roy", "D. P.", "" ] ]
The H1 and ZEUS experiments at the HERA $e^\pm p$ collider at Hamburg have recently reported some anomalous hard-scattering events, which could be indicative of new physics beyond the standard model. I have tried to discuss in a nonspecialist language the significance of this result for particle physics along with its interpretation in terms of the currently popular extensions of the standard model.
hep-ph/0409295
Makoto Oka
Makoto Oka
QCD Sum Rules of Pentaquarks
Invited talk presented at the PENTAQUARK04 at SPring-8 in July 20-23, 2004
null
10.1142/9789812701855_0049
null
hep-ph
null
QCD sum rule is applied to the pentaquark spectroscopy. It is concluded that no positive parity state is seen in low energy region, while there may exist negative parity states at around 1.5 GeV. Choice of interpolating local operators and relation to the lattice calculations are discussed.
[ { "created": "Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:06:33 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-08-23
[ [ "Oka", "Makoto", "" ] ]
QCD sum rule is applied to the pentaquark spectroscopy. It is concluded that no positive parity state is seen in low energy region, while there may exist negative parity states at around 1.5 GeV. Choice of interpolating local operators and relation to the lattice calculations are discussed.
hep-ph/9907472
Andreas Vogt
W.L. van Neerven, A. Vogt (Leiden University)
NNLO evolution of deep-inelastic structure functions: the non-singlet case
29 pages, LaTeX, 13 eps-figures
Nucl.Phys.B568:263-286,2000
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00668-9
INLO-PUB 14/99
hep-ph
null
We study the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution of flavour non-singlet quark densities and structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Present information on the corresponding three-loop splitting functions is used to derive parametrizations of these quantities, including Bjorken-x dependent estimates of their residual uncertainties. Compact expressions are also provided for the exactly known, but rather involved two-loop coefficient functions. The size of the NNLO corrections and their effect on the stability under variations of the renormalization scale are investigated. The residual uncertainty of the three-loop splitting functions does not lead to appreciable effects for x > 10^-2. Inclusion of the NNLO contributions reduces the main theoretical uncertainty of alpha_s determinations from non-singlet scaling violations by more than a factor of two.
[ { "created": "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:09:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "van Neerven", "W. L.", "", "Leiden University" ], [ "Vogt", "A.", "", "Leiden University" ] ]
We study the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution of flavour non-singlet quark densities and structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Present information on the corresponding three-loop splitting functions is used to derive parametrizations of these quantities, including Bjorken-x dependent estimates of their residual uncertainties. Compact expressions are also provided for the exactly known, but rather involved two-loop coefficient functions. The size of the NNLO corrections and their effect on the stability under variations of the renormalization scale are investigated. The residual uncertainty of the three-loop splitting functions does not lead to appreciable effects for x > 10^-2. Inclusion of the NNLO contributions reduces the main theoretical uncertainty of alpha_s determinations from non-singlet scaling violations by more than a factor of two.
1111.3354
S.Rick Gupta
Rick S. Gupta
Probing Quartic Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings using diffractive photon fusion at the LHC
37 pages, 6 figures
null
10.1103/PhysRevD.85.014006
CERN-PH-TH/2011-284; MCTP-11-40
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A complete list of operators contributing at the lowest order to Quartic Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings involving photons and Z-bosons, is presented. We show that, for the couplings we consider, the lowest order contribution is from dimension 8 operators in the case when a light Higgs is present and from dimension 6 operators in the higgsless case where electroweak symmetry is non-linearly realized. We also show that these operators are generated by exchange of the Kaluza-Klein partners of the graviton in extra-dimensional models. We then explore the possibility of probing these couplings in the diffractive photon fusion processes pp(\gamma\gamma \to \gamma\gamma)pp and pp(\gamma\gamma \to ZZ)pp at the 14 TeV LHC. We find that the \gamma \gamma \gamma \gamma-coupling can be probed most sensitively and values as small as 1/(1.8 TeV)^{4} can be measured. For the \gamma\gamma ZZ-coupling, values as small as 1/(850 GeV)^{4} and 1/(1.9 TeV)^2 can be probed in the light Higgs and higgsless cases respectively, which is an improvement by orders of magnitude over existing limits.
[ { "created": "Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:48:22 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "Gupta", "Rick S.", "" ] ]
A complete list of operators contributing at the lowest order to Quartic Neutral Gauge Boson Couplings involving photons and Z-bosons, is presented. We show that, for the couplings we consider, the lowest order contribution is from dimension 8 operators in the case when a light Higgs is present and from dimension 6 operators in the higgsless case where electroweak symmetry is non-linearly realized. We also show that these operators are generated by exchange of the Kaluza-Klein partners of the graviton in extra-dimensional models. We then explore the possibility of probing these couplings in the diffractive photon fusion processes pp(\gamma\gamma \to \gamma\gamma)pp and pp(\gamma\gamma \to ZZ)pp at the 14 TeV LHC. We find that the \gamma \gamma \gamma \gamma-coupling can be probed most sensitively and values as small as 1/(1.8 TeV)^{4} can be measured. For the \gamma\gamma ZZ-coupling, values as small as 1/(850 GeV)^{4} and 1/(1.9 TeV)^2 can be probed in the light Higgs and higgsless cases respectively, which is an improvement by orders of magnitude over existing limits.
2112.03920
Robert McGehee
Gilly Elor, Robert McGehee, Aaron Pierce
Maximizing Direct Detection with Highly Interactive Particle Relic Dark Matter
5+3 pages, 3 figures. v2: published in PRL with minor revisions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 031803 (2023)
10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.031803
LCTP-21-26, MITP-21-044
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) scattering off nucleons. For DM masses in the range $10 \text{ keV }- 100 \text{ MeV}$, cross sections greater than $10^{-36}$- $10^{-30} \,\text{cm}^2$ seem implausible. We present a DM candidate which realizes this maximum cross section: HighlY interactive ParticlE Relics (HYPERs). After HYPERs freeze-in, a dark sector phase transition decreases the mediator's mass. This increases the HYPER's direct detection cross section without impacting its abundance or measurements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background.
[ { "created": "Tue, 7 Dec 2021 19:00:00 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:08:40 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-01-24
[ [ "Elor", "Gilly", "" ], [ "McGehee", "Robert", "" ], [ "Pierce", "Aaron", "" ] ]
We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) scattering off nucleons. For DM masses in the range $10 \text{ keV }- 100 \text{ MeV}$, cross sections greater than $10^{-36}$- $10^{-30} \,\text{cm}^2$ seem implausible. We present a DM candidate which realizes this maximum cross section: HighlY interactive ParticlE Relics (HYPERs). After HYPERs freeze-in, a dark sector phase transition decreases the mediator's mass. This increases the HYPER's direct detection cross section without impacting its abundance or measurements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background.
1507.01132
Kamel Khelifa-Kerfa
Kamel Khelifa-Kerfa, Yazid Delenda
Eikonal gluon radiation at finite-Nc beyond 2 loops
To appear in the proceedings of the XXIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, April 27 - May 1, 2015, Dallas, Texas, USA
POS(DIS2015)143
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present first calculations of QCD matrix-elements in perturbation theory at finite Nc beyond 2 loops in the eikonal approximation for e+ e- annihilation processes. For the emission of n soft energy-ordered gluons we solve both the colour and kinematic structures at a given order in perturbation theory by means of a Mathematica program that relies solely on a recently developed Mathematica code, ColorMath, that evaluates the trace of products of colour matrices. At large Nc, our squared amplitudes reduce to those already known in the literature.
[ { "created": "Sat, 4 Jul 2015 17:54:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-07-07
[ [ "Khelifa-Kerfa", "Kamel", "" ], [ "Delenda", "Yazid", "" ] ]
We present first calculations of QCD matrix-elements in perturbation theory at finite Nc beyond 2 loops in the eikonal approximation for e+ e- annihilation processes. For the emission of n soft energy-ordered gluons we solve both the colour and kinematic structures at a given order in perturbation theory by means of a Mathematica program that relies solely on a recently developed Mathematica code, ColorMath, that evaluates the trace of products of colour matrices. At large Nc, our squared amplitudes reduce to those already known in the literature.
1804.02636
Xing-Gang Wu
Shi Bu, Xing-Gang Wu, Jian-Ming Shen, and Jun Zeng
Properties of the Free Energy Density Using the Principle of Maximum Conformality
7 pages, 4 figures
Chin. Phys. C 42 (2018) 083105
10.1088/1674-1137/42/8/083105
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present a detailed study on the properties of the free energy density at the high temperature by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) scale-setting method within the effective field theory. The PMC utilizes the renormalization group equation recursively to identify the occurrence and pattern of the non-conformal $\{\beta_i\}$-terms, and determines the optimal renormalization scale at each order. Our analysis shows that a more accurate free energy density up to $g_s^5$-order level without renormalization scale dependence can be achieved by applying the PMC. We also observe that by using a smaller factorization scale around the effective parameter $m_E$, the PMC prediction shall be consistent with the Lattice QCD prediction derived at the low temperature.
[ { "created": "Sun, 8 Apr 2018 06:26:39 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2018-07-31
[ [ "Bu", "Shi", "" ], [ "Wu", "Xing-Gang", "" ], [ "Shen", "Jian-Ming", "" ], [ "Zeng", "Jun", "" ] ]
We present a detailed study on the properties of the free energy density at the high temperature by applying the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) scale-setting method within the effective field theory. The PMC utilizes the renormalization group equation recursively to identify the occurrence and pattern of the non-conformal $\{\beta_i\}$-terms, and determines the optimal renormalization scale at each order. Our analysis shows that a more accurate free energy density up to $g_s^5$-order level without renormalization scale dependence can be achieved by applying the PMC. We also observe that by using a smaller factorization scale around the effective parameter $m_E$, the PMC prediction shall be consistent with the Lattice QCD prediction derived at the low temperature.
1503.01773
Nicholas Rodd Mr
Gilly Elor, Nicholas L. Rodd and Tracy R. Slatyer
Multi-Step Cascade Annihilations of Dark Matter and the Galactic Center Excess
18 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables; comments welcome. Updated to published version
Phys. Rev. D 91, 103531 (2015)
10.1103/PhysRevD.91.103531
MIT-CTP/4647
hep-ph astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
If dark matter is embedded in a non-trivial dark sector, it may annihilate and decay to lighter dark-sector states which subsequently decay to the Standard Model. Such scenarios - with annihilation followed by cascading dark-sector decays - can explain the apparent excess GeV gamma-rays identified in the central Milky Way, while evading bounds from dark matter direct detection experiments. Each 'step' in the cascade will modify the observable signatures of dark matter annihilation and decay, shifting the resulting photons and other final state particles to lower energies and broadening their spectra. We explore, in a model-independent way, the effect of multi-step dark-sector cascades on the preferred regions of parameter space to explain the GeV excess. We find that the broadening effects of multi-step cascades can admit final states dominated by particles that would usually produce too sharply peaked photon spectra; in general, if the cascades are hierarchical (each particle decays to substantially lighter particles), the preferred mass range for the dark matter is in all cases 20-150 GeV. Decay chains that have nearly-degenerate steps, where the products are close to half the mass of the progenitor, can admit much higher DM masses. We map out the region of mass/cross-section parameter space where cascades (degenerate, hierarchical or a combination) can fit the signal, for a range of final states. In the current work, we study multi-step cascades in the context of explaining the GeV excess, but many aspects of our results are general and can be extended to other applications.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:00:13 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 6 Jun 2015 16:08:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2015-06-09
[ [ "Elor", "Gilly", "" ], [ "Rodd", "Nicholas L.", "" ], [ "Slatyer", "Tracy R.", "" ] ]
If dark matter is embedded in a non-trivial dark sector, it may annihilate and decay to lighter dark-sector states which subsequently decay to the Standard Model. Such scenarios - with annihilation followed by cascading dark-sector decays - can explain the apparent excess GeV gamma-rays identified in the central Milky Way, while evading bounds from dark matter direct detection experiments. Each 'step' in the cascade will modify the observable signatures of dark matter annihilation and decay, shifting the resulting photons and other final state particles to lower energies and broadening their spectra. We explore, in a model-independent way, the effect of multi-step dark-sector cascades on the preferred regions of parameter space to explain the GeV excess. We find that the broadening effects of multi-step cascades can admit final states dominated by particles that would usually produce too sharply peaked photon spectra; in general, if the cascades are hierarchical (each particle decays to substantially lighter particles), the preferred mass range for the dark matter is in all cases 20-150 GeV. Decay chains that have nearly-degenerate steps, where the products are close to half the mass of the progenitor, can admit much higher DM masses. We map out the region of mass/cross-section parameter space where cascades (degenerate, hierarchical or a combination) can fit the signal, for a range of final states. In the current work, we study multi-step cascades in the context of explaining the GeV excess, but many aspects of our results are general and can be extended to other applications.
hep-ph/9909553
Hong soon-tae
Soon-Tae Hong
Strange Form Factors of Octet and Decuplet Baryons
5 pages, Talk given at the 12th Nuclear Physics Summer School and Symposium and the 11th International Light-Cone Workshop "New Directions in QCD," 21-25 June 1999, Kyungju, Korea
AIP Conf.Proc.494:423-426,1999
10.1063/1.1301691
null
hep-ph
null
The strange form factors of baryon octet are evaluated, in the chiral models with the general chiral SU(3) group structure, to yield the theoretical predictions comparable to the recent experimental data of SAMPLE Collaboration and to study the spin symmetries. Other model predictions are also briefly reviewed to compare with our results and then the strange form factors of baryon octet and decuplet are predicted.
[ { "created": "Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:36:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-12-13
[ [ "Hong", "Soon-Tae", "" ] ]
The strange form factors of baryon octet are evaluated, in the chiral models with the general chiral SU(3) group structure, to yield the theoretical predictions comparable to the recent experimental data of SAMPLE Collaboration and to study the spin symmetries. Other model predictions are also briefly reviewed to compare with our results and then the strange form factors of baryon octet and decuplet are predicted.
1503.06671
Igor Strakovsky
V. E. Tarasov (ITEP), W. J. Briscoe (GW), M. Dieterle (Basel U.), B. Krusche (Basel U.), A. E. Kudryavtsev (ITEP/GW), M. Ostrick (JGU), I. I. Strakovsky (GW)
On the Extraction of Cross Sections for pi0 and eta Photoproduction off Neutrons from Deuteron Data
16 pages, 5 figures; v2 fixed several minor typos
null
10.1134/S1063778816020186
null
hep-ph hep-ex nucl-ex nucl-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We discuss the procedure of extracting the photoproduction cross section for neutral pseudoscalar mesons off neutrons from deuteron data. The main statement is that the final-state interaction (FSI) corrections for the proton and neutron target are in general not equal, but for pi0 production there are special cases were they have to be identical and there are large regions in the parameter space of incident photon energy and pion polar angle, \theta^*, where they happen to be quite similar. The corrections for both target nucleons are practically identical for $\pi_0$ production in the energy range of the Delta(1232)3/2+ resonance due to the specific isospin structure of this excitation. Also above the $\Delta$-isobar range large differences between proton and neutron correction factors are only predicted for extreme forward angles ($\theta^*$ < 20 deg), but the results are similar for larger angles. Numerical results for the gp-->pi0p and gn-->pi0n correction factors are discussed. Also the model description for the available data on the differential gd-->pi0pn cross sections are given.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:56:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:42:49 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2016-11-18
[ [ "Tarasov", "V. E.", "", "ITEP" ], [ "Briscoe", "W. J.", "", "GW" ], [ "Dieterle", "M.", "", "Basel U." ], [ "Krusche", "B.", "", "Basel U." ], [ "Kudryavtsev", "A. E.", "", "ITEP/GW" ], [ "Ostrick", "M.", "", "JGU" ], [ "Strakovsky", "I. I.", "", "GW" ] ]
We discuss the procedure of extracting the photoproduction cross section for neutral pseudoscalar mesons off neutrons from deuteron data. The main statement is that the final-state interaction (FSI) corrections for the proton and neutron target are in general not equal, but for pi0 production there are special cases were they have to be identical and there are large regions in the parameter space of incident photon energy and pion polar angle, \theta^*, where they happen to be quite similar. The corrections for both target nucleons are practically identical for $\pi_0$ production in the energy range of the Delta(1232)3/2+ resonance due to the specific isospin structure of this excitation. Also above the $\Delta$-isobar range large differences between proton and neutron correction factors are only predicted for extreme forward angles ($\theta^*$ < 20 deg), but the results are similar for larger angles. Numerical results for the gp-->pi0p and gn-->pi0n correction factors are discussed. Also the model description for the available data on the differential gd-->pi0pn cross sections are given.
hep-ph/0006141
Jeno E. Kontros
J. Kontros, K. Kontros, A. Lengyel
Pomeron models and exchange degeneracy of the Regge trajectories
6 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Two models for the Pomeron, supplemented by exchange degenerate sub-leading Regge trajectories, are fitted to the forward scattering data for a number of reactions. By considering new Pomeron models, we extend the recent results of the COMPAS group, being consistent with our predecessors.
[ { "created": "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:13:02 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:37:24 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Kontros", "J.", "" ], [ "Kontros", "K.", "" ], [ "Lengyel", "A.", "" ] ]
Two models for the Pomeron, supplemented by exchange degenerate sub-leading Regge trajectories, are fitted to the forward scattering data for a number of reactions. By considering new Pomeron models, we extend the recent results of the COMPAS group, being consistent with our predecessors.
2310.07796
Fernando Alvarado
Fernando Alvarado, Di An, Luis Alvarez-Ruso and Stefan Leupold
Light quark mass dependence of nucleon electromagnetic form factors in dispersively modified chiral perturbation theory
27 pages, 13 figures. It contains supplementary material "anc"
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th nucl-th
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The nucleon isovector electromagnetic form factors are calculated up to next-to-next-to-leading order by combining relativistic chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) of pion, nucleon, and $\Delta$(1232) with dispersion theory. We specifically address the light-quark mass dependence of the form factors, achieving a good description of recent Lattice QCD results over a range of $Q^2 < 0.6$ GeV$^2$ and $M_{\pi} < 350$ MeV. For the Dirac form factor, the combination of ChPT and dispersion theory outperforms the pure dispersive and pure ChPT descriptions. For the Pauli form factor, the combined calculation leads to results comparable to the purely dispersive ones. The anomalous magnetic moment and the Dirac and Pauli radii are extracted.
[ { "created": "Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:31:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 15 Dec 2023 09:07:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-12-18
[ [ "Alvarado", "Fernando", "" ], [ "An", "Di", "" ], [ "Alvarez-Ruso", "Luis", "" ], [ "Leupold", "Stefan", "" ] ]
The nucleon isovector electromagnetic form factors are calculated up to next-to-next-to-leading order by combining relativistic chiral perturbation theory (ChPT) of pion, nucleon, and $\Delta$(1232) with dispersion theory. We specifically address the light-quark mass dependence of the form factors, achieving a good description of recent Lattice QCD results over a range of $Q^2 < 0.6$ GeV$^2$ and $M_{\pi} < 350$ MeV. For the Dirac form factor, the combination of ChPT and dispersion theory outperforms the pure dispersive and pure ChPT descriptions. For the Pauli form factor, the combined calculation leads to results comparable to the purely dispersive ones. The anomalous magnetic moment and the Dirac and Pauli radii are extracted.
hep-ph/0312231
Andrew Akeroyd
A.G. Akeroyd, Marco A. Diaz, Francisco J. Pacheco
Double fermiophobic Higgs boson production at the LHC and LC
19 pages, 9 figures, expanded discussion, fig.1 changed slightly, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Phys.Rev.D70:075002,2004
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.075002
KIAS-P03080, UCCHEP/24-03
hep-ph
null
We consider the phenomenology of a fermiophobic Higgs boson (h_f) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a e+e- Linear Collider (LC). At both machines the standard production mechanisms which rely on the coupling h_fVV (V=W,Z) can be very suppressed at large tan beta. In such cases the complementary channels pp to H^\pm h_f, A^0 h_f and e+e- to A^0 h_f offer promising cross-sections. Together with the potentially large branching ratios for H^\pm to h_fW* and A^0 to h_fZ*, these mechanisms would give rise to double h_f production, leading to signatures of gamma gamma gamma gamma, gamma gamma VV and VVVV.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:32:53 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:53:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Akeroyd", "A. G.", "" ], [ "Diaz", "Marco A.", "" ], [ "Pacheco", "Francisco J.", "" ] ]
We consider the phenomenology of a fermiophobic Higgs boson (h_f) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a e+e- Linear Collider (LC). At both machines the standard production mechanisms which rely on the coupling h_fVV (V=W,Z) can be very suppressed at large tan beta. In such cases the complementary channels pp to H^\pm h_f, A^0 h_f and e+e- to A^0 h_f offer promising cross-sections. Together with the potentially large branching ratios for H^\pm to h_fW* and A^0 to h_fZ*, these mechanisms would give rise to double h_f production, leading to signatures of gamma gamma gamma gamma, gamma gamma VV and VVVV.
1701.04561
Chao-Hsi Chang
Xu-Chang Zheng, Chao-Hsi Chang, Tai-Fu Feng, Zan Pan
The NLO QCD corrections to $B_c$($B_c^*$) production around $Z$ pole at an $e^+e^-$ collider
11 pages, 10 figures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Production of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons at $Z$-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider running at energies around $Z$ pole) is calculated up-to the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections. The results show that the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization scale $\mu$ is reduced by the corrections, and the NLO corrections enhance the production cross section by $52\%$($33\%$) when the renormalization scale is taken at $\mu=2m_b$. For experimental observations of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons, the differential cross sections for the production are also analyzed up-to the NLO accuracy.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:20:23 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 13 Mar 2017 04:28:20 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:46:32 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2017-07-18
[ [ "Zheng", "Xu-Chang", "" ], [ "Chang", "Chao-Hsi", "" ], [ "Feng", "Tai-Fu", "" ], [ "Pan", "Zan", "" ] ]
Production of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons at $Z$-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider running at energies around $Z$ pole) is calculated up-to the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections. The results show that the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization scale $\mu$ is reduced by the corrections, and the NLO corrections enhance the production cross section by $52\%$($33\%$) when the renormalization scale is taken at $\mu=2m_b$. For experimental observations of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons, the differential cross sections for the production are also analyzed up-to the NLO accuracy.
hep-ph/0302188
Heather E. Logan
Tao Han, Heather E. Logan, Bob McElrath, and Lian-Tao Wang
Loop induced decays of the Little Higgs: H --> gg, gamma gamma
16 pages, 7 figures; v2: note added to comment on a related paper, submitted to PLB; v3: mistake corrected in yt, yT and yWL in Eq.4; Figs 3-7, Table 1, and numbers in conclusions updated
Phys.Lett. B563 (2003) 191-202; Erratum-ibid. B603 (2004) 257-259
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00657-9
MADPH-03-1319
hep-ph
null
We analyze the loop induced decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of gluons and photons in the Littlest Higgs model. We find that the deviation of the partial widths for these decays relative to their Standard Model values scales with 1/f^2, where f ~ TeV is the mass scale of the new heavy particles in the model. For f = 1 TeV, Gamma(H -> gg) is reduced by 6-10% and Gamma(H -> gamma gamma) is reduced by 5-7% compared to their Standard Model values. While the LHC and a linear e+e- collider would be sensitive to these deviations only for relatively low values of f <~ 650 GeV, a photon collider could probe the deviation in Gamma(H -> gamma gamma) up to f <~ 1.1 (0.7) TeV at the 2 (5) sigma level.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:02:47 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Mar 2003 23:41:14 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:31:02 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2010-04-05
[ [ "Han", "Tao", "" ], [ "Logan", "Heather E.", "" ], [ "McElrath", "Bob", "" ], [ "Wang", "Lian-Tao", "" ] ]
We analyze the loop induced decays of the Higgs boson into pairs of gluons and photons in the Littlest Higgs model. We find that the deviation of the partial widths for these decays relative to their Standard Model values scales with 1/f^2, where f ~ TeV is the mass scale of the new heavy particles in the model. For f = 1 TeV, Gamma(H -> gg) is reduced by 6-10% and Gamma(H -> gamma gamma) is reduced by 5-7% compared to their Standard Model values. While the LHC and a linear e+e- collider would be sensitive to these deviations only for relatively low values of f <~ 650 GeV, a photon collider could probe the deviation in Gamma(H -> gamma gamma) up to f <~ 1.1 (0.7) TeV at the 2 (5) sigma level.
hep-ph/0507066
J. A. R. Cembranos
J. A. R. Cembranos, A. Dobado and A. L. Maroto
Dark matter clues in the muon anomalous magnetic moment
4 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4
Phys.Rev.D73:057303,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.057303
UCI-TR-2005-28
hep-ph astro-ph
null
We study the possibility to explain the non-baryonic dark matter abundance and improve the present fits on the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the same new physics. The only viable way to solve simultaneously both problems which is known to date is by using supersymmetric theories. However in this work we show that massive brane fluctuations (branons) in large extra-dimensions models can provide a more economical alternative to supersymmetry. This is so because the low-energy branon physics depends effectively on only three parameters. Next collider experiments, such as LHC or ILC, will be sensitive to branon phenomenology in the natural parameter region where the theory is able to account for the two effects.
[ { "created": "Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:22:38 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Cembranos", "J. A. R.", "" ], [ "Dobado", "A.", "" ], [ "Maroto", "A. L.", "" ] ]
We study the possibility to explain the non-baryonic dark matter abundance and improve the present fits on the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the same new physics. The only viable way to solve simultaneously both problems which is known to date is by using supersymmetric theories. However in this work we show that massive brane fluctuations (branons) in large extra-dimensions models can provide a more economical alternative to supersymmetry. This is so because the low-energy branon physics depends effectively on only three parameters. Next collider experiments, such as LHC or ILC, will be sensitive to branon phenomenology in the natural parameter region where the theory is able to account for the two effects.
hep-ph/0302050
Robert L. Thews
R. L. Thews (University of Arizona)
Quarkonium Formation from Uncorrelated Quark-Antiquark Pairs
To be published in "Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC, CERN report
null
null
null
hep-ph nucl-ex nucl-th
null
The goal of this section is to assess the possibility that quarkonium production rates may be enhanced in nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC relative to that predicted by extrapolation of processes thought to be dominant at lower energy. This enhancement could follow from the effects of incoherent recombination mechanisms involving uncorrelated pairs of heavy quarks and antiquarks which result from multiple pair production. Two different approaches have been considered: statistical hadronization and kinetic formation. Updated predictions relevant to Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC are given.
[ { "created": "Fri, 7 Feb 2003 00:16:15 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Thews", "R. L.", "", "University of Arizona" ] ]
The goal of this section is to assess the possibility that quarkonium production rates may be enhanced in nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC relative to that predicted by extrapolation of processes thought to be dominant at lower energy. This enhancement could follow from the effects of incoherent recombination mechanisms involving uncorrelated pairs of heavy quarks and antiquarks which result from multiple pair production. Two different approaches have been considered: statistical hadronization and kinetic formation. Updated predictions relevant to Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC are given.
hep-ph/0605047
Mikhail Shaposhnikov
Mikhail Shaposhnikov
A possible symmetry of the $\nu$MSM
16 pages, extended version, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Nucl.Phys.B763:49-59,2007
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.11.003
CERN-PH-TH/2006-079
hep-ph astro-ph hep-th
null
To explain the dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, the parameters of the $\nu$MSM (an extension of the Minimal Standard Model by three singlet neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale) must be fine-tuned: one of the masses should be in the ${\cal O} (10)$ keV region to provide a candidate for the dark-matter particle, while two other masses must be almost the same to enhance the CP-violating effects in the sterile neutrino oscillations leading to the baryon asymmetry. We show that a specifically defined global lepton-number symmetry, broken on the level of ${\cal O} (10^{-4})$ leads to the required pattern of sterile neutrino masses being consistent with the data on neutrino oscillations. Moreover, the existence of this symmetry allows to fix the flavour structure of couplings of singlet fermions to the particles of the Standard Model and indicates that their masses are likely to be smaller than ${\cal O} (1)$ GeV, opening a possibility of their search in decays of charmed, beauty and even $K$ or $\pi$-mesons.
[ { "created": "Thu, 4 May 2006 16:32:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:47:59 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Shaposhnikov", "Mikhail", "" ] ]
To explain the dark matter and the baryon asymmetry of the Universe, the parameters of the $\nu$MSM (an extension of the Minimal Standard Model by three singlet neutrinos with masses smaller than the electroweak scale) must be fine-tuned: one of the masses should be in the ${\cal O} (10)$ keV region to provide a candidate for the dark-matter particle, while two other masses must be almost the same to enhance the CP-violating effects in the sterile neutrino oscillations leading to the baryon asymmetry. We show that a specifically defined global lepton-number symmetry, broken on the level of ${\cal O} (10^{-4})$ leads to the required pattern of sterile neutrino masses being consistent with the data on neutrino oscillations. Moreover, the existence of this symmetry allows to fix the flavour structure of couplings of singlet fermions to the particles of the Standard Model and indicates that their masses are likely to be smaller than ${\cal O} (1)$ GeV, opening a possibility of their search in decays of charmed, beauty and even $K$ or $\pi$-mesons.
hep-ph/0601240
Artem Lipatov
A.V. Lipatov, N.P. Zotov
Beauty photoproduction at HERA: kt-factorization versus experimental data
29 pages, 15 figures, 2 tables
Phys.Rev.D73:114018,2006
10.1103/PhysRevD.73.114018
null
hep-ph
null
We present calculations of the beauty photoproduction at HERA collider in the framework of the kt-factorization approach. Both direct and resolved photon contributions are taken into account. The unintegrated gluon densities in a proton and in a photon are obtained from the full CCFM, from unified BFKL-DGLAP evolution equations as well as from the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin prescription. We investigate different production rates (both inclusive and associated with hadronic jets) and compare our theoretical predictions with the recent experimental data taken by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. Special attention is put on the x_{\gamma}^{obs} variable which is sensitive to the relative contributions to the beauty production cross section.
[ { "created": "Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:20:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Lipatov", "A. V.", "" ], [ "Zotov", "N. P.", "" ] ]
We present calculations of the beauty photoproduction at HERA collider in the framework of the kt-factorization approach. Both direct and resolved photon contributions are taken into account. The unintegrated gluon densities in a proton and in a photon are obtained from the full CCFM, from unified BFKL-DGLAP evolution equations as well as from the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin prescription. We investigate different production rates (both inclusive and associated with hadronic jets) and compare our theoretical predictions with the recent experimental data taken by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations. Special attention is put on the x_{\gamma}^{obs} variable which is sensitive to the relative contributions to the beauty production cross section.
hep-ph/9501243
null
P.Ramond (Inst for Fundamental Theory, U Florida, Gainesville)
Probing for the Roots of the Standard Model
Lecture at the Oskar Klein Centenary Symposium. 13 pages, macros included.
null
null
UFIFT-HEP-95-2
hep-ph
null
The differences between the $N=0$ and $N=1$ standard models are emphasized in formulating their short distance extension. We sketch methods to reproduce many of the small numbers in the model in terms of scale ratios, applying see-saw like ideas to the breaking of chiral symmetries. We sketch how the $N=1$ standard model, outfitted with an extra family Abelian symmetry to reproduce the mass hierarchies, naturally fits superstring models, by making use of generic non-renormalizable operators.
[ { "created": "Mon, 9 Jan 1995 16:46:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-09-01
[ [ "Ramond", "P.", "", "Inst for Fundamental Theory, U Florida, Gainesville" ] ]
The differences between the $N=0$ and $N=1$ standard models are emphasized in formulating their short distance extension. We sketch methods to reproduce many of the small numbers in the model in terms of scale ratios, applying see-saw like ideas to the breaking of chiral symmetries. We sketch how the $N=1$ standard model, outfitted with an extra family Abelian symmetry to reproduce the mass hierarchies, naturally fits superstring models, by making use of generic non-renormalizable operators.
1211.0371
Biswajit Adhikary
Biswajit Adhikary and Probir Roy
Neutrino Yukawa textures within type-I see-saw
invited review article, to appear in a special issue on neutrinos in the journal Advances in High Energy Physics (AHEP)
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The arbitrariness of Yukawa couplings can be reduced by the imposition of some flavor symmetries and/or by the realization of texture zeros. We review neutrino Yukawa textures with zeros within the framework of the type-I seesaw with three heavy right chiral neutrinos and in the basis where the latter and the charged leptons are mass diagonal. An assumed non-vanishing mass of every ultralight neutrino and the observed non-decoupling of any neutrino generation allow a maximum of four zeros in the Yukawa coupling matrix $Y_\nu$ in family space. There are seventy two such textures. We show that the requirement of an exact $\mu\tau$ symmetry, coupled with the observational constraints, reduces these seventy two allowed textures to only four corresponding to just two different forms of the light neutrino mass matrix $M_{\nu A}/M_{\nu B}$, resulting in an inverted/normal mass ordering. The effect of each of these on measurable quantities can be described, apart from an overall factor of the neutrino mass scale, in terms of two real parameters and a phase angle all of which are within very constrained ranges. The masses and Majorana phases of ultralight neutrinos are predicted within definite ranges with $3\sigma$ laboratory and cosmological observational inputs. The rate for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, though generally below the reach of planned experiments, could approach it in some parameteric regions. Within the same framework, we also study Yukawa textures with a fewer number of zeros, but with exact $\mu\tau$ symmetry. We further formulate the detailed scheme of the explicit breaking of $\mu\tau$ symmetry in terms of three small parameters for allowed four zero textures. The observed sizable mixing between the first and third generations of neutrinos is shown to follow for a suitable choice of these symmetry breaking parameters.
[ { "created": "Fri, 2 Nov 2012 05:39:12 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2012-11-05
[ [ "Adhikary", "Biswajit", "" ], [ "Roy", "Probir", "" ] ]
The arbitrariness of Yukawa couplings can be reduced by the imposition of some flavor symmetries and/or by the realization of texture zeros. We review neutrino Yukawa textures with zeros within the framework of the type-I seesaw with three heavy right chiral neutrinos and in the basis where the latter and the charged leptons are mass diagonal. An assumed non-vanishing mass of every ultralight neutrino and the observed non-decoupling of any neutrino generation allow a maximum of four zeros in the Yukawa coupling matrix $Y_\nu$ in family space. There are seventy two such textures. We show that the requirement of an exact $\mu\tau$ symmetry, coupled with the observational constraints, reduces these seventy two allowed textures to only four corresponding to just two different forms of the light neutrino mass matrix $M_{\nu A}/M_{\nu B}$, resulting in an inverted/normal mass ordering. The effect of each of these on measurable quantities can be described, apart from an overall factor of the neutrino mass scale, in terms of two real parameters and a phase angle all of which are within very constrained ranges. The masses and Majorana phases of ultralight neutrinos are predicted within definite ranges with $3\sigma$ laboratory and cosmological observational inputs. The rate for $0\nu\beta\beta$ decay, though generally below the reach of planned experiments, could approach it in some parameteric regions. Within the same framework, we also study Yukawa textures with a fewer number of zeros, but with exact $\mu\tau$ symmetry. We further formulate the detailed scheme of the explicit breaking of $\mu\tau$ symmetry in terms of three small parameters for allowed four zero textures. The observed sizable mixing between the first and third generations of neutrinos is shown to follow for a suitable choice of these symmetry breaking parameters.
0912.3997
Kyriakos Tamvakis
J. Rizos and K. Tamvakis
Hierarchical Neutrino Masses and Mixing in Flipped-SU(5)
10 pages
Phys.Lett.B685:67-71,2010
10.1016/j.physletb.2010.01.038
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We consider the problem of neutrino masses and mixing in the framework of flipped SU(5). The right-handed neutrino mass, generated through the operation of a seesaw mechanism by a sector of gauge singlets, leads naturally, at a subsequent level, to the standard seesaw mechanism resulting into three light neutrino states with masses of the desired phenomenological order of magnitude. In this framework we study simple Ansatze for the singlet couplings for which hierarchical neutrino masses emerge naturally, parametrized in terms of the Cabbibo parameter. The resulting neutrino mixing matrices are characterized by a hierarchical structure, in which theta-(13) is always predicted to be the smallest. Finally, we discuss a possible factorized parametrization of the neutrino mass that, in addition to Cabbibo mixing, encodes also mixing due to the singlet sector.
[ { "created": "Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:28:06 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-04-30
[ [ "Rizos", "J.", "" ], [ "Tamvakis", "K.", "" ] ]
We consider the problem of neutrino masses and mixing in the framework of flipped SU(5). The right-handed neutrino mass, generated through the operation of a seesaw mechanism by a sector of gauge singlets, leads naturally, at a subsequent level, to the standard seesaw mechanism resulting into three light neutrino states with masses of the desired phenomenological order of magnitude. In this framework we study simple Ansatze for the singlet couplings for which hierarchical neutrino masses emerge naturally, parametrized in terms of the Cabbibo parameter. The resulting neutrino mixing matrices are characterized by a hierarchical structure, in which theta-(13) is always predicted to be the smallest. Finally, we discuss a possible factorized parametrization of the neutrino mass that, in addition to Cabbibo mixing, encodes also mixing due to the singlet sector.
1703.10916
Dimitrios Karamitros
Dimitrios Karamitros
A Fermionic bi-Doublet Effective Field Theory for Dark Matter
14 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of Corfu Summer Institute 2016 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity" September 2016 Corfu, Greece
null
null
null
hep-ph astro-ph.CO
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study an effective field theory which includes the Standard Model extended by a Dark Sector consisting of two fermionic $SU(2)_{L}$-doublets. A $Z_2$ parity guarantees that, after electroweak symmetry breaking, the lightest neutral particle is stable, acting as a WIMP. The dark sector interacts with the Higgs and gauge bosons through renormalizable and non-renormalizable $d=5$ operators. We find that a WIMP with a mass around the electroweak scale, i.e. accessible at the LHC, is consistent with collider and astrophysical data only when non-trivial magnetic dipole interactions with the gauge bosons exist.
[ { "created": "Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:34:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2017-04-03
[ [ "Karamitros", "Dimitrios", "" ] ]
We study an effective field theory which includes the Standard Model extended by a Dark Sector consisting of two fermionic $SU(2)_{L}$-doublets. A $Z_2$ parity guarantees that, after electroweak symmetry breaking, the lightest neutral particle is stable, acting as a WIMP. The dark sector interacts with the Higgs and gauge bosons through renormalizable and non-renormalizable $d=5$ operators. We find that a WIMP with a mass around the electroweak scale, i.e. accessible at the LHC, is consistent with collider and astrophysical data only when non-trivial magnetic dipole interactions with the gauge bosons exist.
hep-ph/9902298
D. P. Roy
D.P. Roy
SUSY and SUGRA Signatures at Hadron Colliders
Invited Talk at the 13th Intl. Conf. on Hadron Collider Physics, Mumbai, India 14-20 January 1999, 9 pages, latex, including 5 eps figures
null
null
TIFR/TH/99-05
hep-ph
null
After a brief introduction to SUSY I discuss the missing-p_T signature for superparticles from R-parity conservation and the multilepton signature, which follows from their cascade decay. The GUT and SUGRA constraints on the SUSY mass parameters are discussed along with the resulting SUSY signals at LHC. Finally I consider the effect of relaxing the SUGRA constraint on these signals.
[ { "created": "Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:47:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Roy", "D. P.", "" ] ]
After a brief introduction to SUSY I discuss the missing-p_T signature for superparticles from R-parity conservation and the multilepton signature, which follows from their cascade decay. The GUT and SUGRA constraints on the SUSY mass parameters are discussed along with the resulting SUSY signals at LHC. Finally I consider the effect of relaxing the SUGRA constraint on these signals.
0805.1603
Rui Santos
Abdesslam Arhrib, Rachid Benbrik, R.B. Guedes and R. Santos
Search for a light fermiophobic Higgs boson produced via gluon fusion at Hadron Colliders
9 pages, 13 figures
Phys.Rev.D78:075002,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.075002
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this study, we propose new Higgs production mechanisms with multi-photon final states in the fermiophobic limit of the Two Higgs Doublet Model. The processes are: gg -> hh, gg -> H h followed by H -> h h and gg -> A h followed by A -> h Z. In the fermiophobic limit, gg -> h h and gg -> A h -> h h Z would give rise to 4 photon signature while gg -> H h -> h h h can give a 6 photon final state. We show that both the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN's Large Hadron Collider can probe a substantial slice of the parameter space in this fermiophobic scenario of the Two Higgs Doublet Model. If observed the above processes can give some information on the triple Higgs couplings involved.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 May 2008 10:17:28 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Arhrib", "Abdesslam", "" ], [ "Benbrik", "Rachid", "" ], [ "Guedes", "R. B.", "" ], [ "Santos", "R.", "" ] ]
In this study, we propose new Higgs production mechanisms with multi-photon final states in the fermiophobic limit of the Two Higgs Doublet Model. The processes are: gg -> hh, gg -> H h followed by H -> h h and gg -> A h followed by A -> h Z. In the fermiophobic limit, gg -> h h and gg -> A h -> h h Z would give rise to 4 photon signature while gg -> H h -> h h h can give a 6 photon final state. We show that both the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN's Large Hadron Collider can probe a substantial slice of the parameter space in this fermiophobic scenario of the Two Higgs Doublet Model. If observed the above processes can give some information on the triple Higgs couplings involved.
1110.6452
Muneyuki Ishida
Vernon Barger and Muneyuki Ishida
Randall-Sundrum Reality at the LHC
14 page including 5 figures
null
10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.073
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The radion is expected to be the first signal of the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model. We explore the possibility of finding it in the ongoing Higgs searches at the LHC. The little RS model (LRS), which has a fundamental scale at about 1000 TeV, is excluded over wide ranges of the radion mass from the latest $WW$ and gamma gamma data by ATLAS and CMS.
[ { "created": "Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:06:07 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 2 Nov 2011 00:07:58 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 Mar 2012 19:10:07 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2015-06-03
[ [ "Barger", "Vernon", "" ], [ "Ishida", "Muneyuki", "" ] ]
The radion is expected to be the first signal of the Randall-Sundrum (RS) model. We explore the possibility of finding it in the ongoing Higgs searches at the LHC. The little RS model (LRS), which has a fundamental scale at about 1000 TeV, is excluded over wide ranges of the radion mass from the latest $WW$ and gamma gamma data by ATLAS and CMS.
hep-ph/9504348
"V. A." Khoze
VALERY A. KHOZE
ON MEASURING THE $\gamma \gamma$ WIDTH OF THE INTERMEDIATE- MASS HIGGS AT A PHOTON LINEAR COLLIDER
7 pages, LATEX file, hard copies of 2 figs. availabl upon request
null
null
Talk at the Photon'95, Sheffield, April 8-15, 1995
hep-ph
null
The identification of the intermediate-mass Higgs process $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow H \rightarrow b\overline{b}$ will be one of the most important goals of a future photon linear collider. Backgrounds from the continuum $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c}, b\overline{b}$ leading-order processes can be suppressed by using polarized photon beams in the $J_z = 0$ initial-state. The radiative processes $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c} g, b\overline{b} g$ can mimic the two-jet topology of the Higgs signal and provide the dominant background in the $J_z = 0$ channel. Particularly problematic is the $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c} g \rightarrow 2$ jets process. The effects of imposing additional cuts are investigated and it is shown that the radiative background could be reduced to a manageable level.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:13:36 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "KHOZE", "VALERY A.", "" ] ]
The identification of the intermediate-mass Higgs process $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow H \rightarrow b\overline{b}$ will be one of the most important goals of a future photon linear collider. Backgrounds from the continuum $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c}, b\overline{b}$ leading-order processes can be suppressed by using polarized photon beams in the $J_z = 0$ initial-state. The radiative processes $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c} g, b\overline{b} g$ can mimic the two-jet topology of the Higgs signal and provide the dominant background in the $J_z = 0$ channel. Particularly problematic is the $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow c\overline{c} g \rightarrow 2$ jets process. The effects of imposing additional cuts are investigated and it is shown that the radiative background could be reduced to a manageable level.
0905.0633
Joerg Jaeckel
Felix Bruemmer, Joerg Jaeckel and Valentin V. Khoze
Magnetic Mixing -- Electric Minicharges from Magnetic Monopoles
17 pages, 1 figure
JHEP 0906:037,2009
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/06/037
IPPP/09/36; DCPT/09/72
hep-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Many extensions of the Standard Model require the existence of a "hidden" sector. We consider settings where the hidden sector in the infrared contains a U(1) gauge factor with magnetic monopoles, for instance 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles of an underlying non-abelian gauge group. In the presence of CP violation these monopoles acquire an electric charge in the hidden sector due to the Witten effect. We show that quite generally they also acquire (small) electric charges under the visible electromagnetic gauge group. This is a result of "magnetic mixing" which, as we show, often arises as a natural partner of kinetic mixing. Both kinetic and magnetic mixing are naturally induced radiatively even if the low-energy U(1)s arise from a single non-abelian gauge group. We argue that the hidden sector monopoles can be light and their electric minicharges could thus be testable in current and near future low-energy experiments.
[ { "created": "Tue, 5 May 2009 15:53:49 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-06-23
[ [ "Bruemmer", "Felix", "" ], [ "Jaeckel", "Joerg", "" ], [ "Khoze", "Valentin V.", "" ] ]
Many extensions of the Standard Model require the existence of a "hidden" sector. We consider settings where the hidden sector in the infrared contains a U(1) gauge factor with magnetic monopoles, for instance 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles of an underlying non-abelian gauge group. In the presence of CP violation these monopoles acquire an electric charge in the hidden sector due to the Witten effect. We show that quite generally they also acquire (small) electric charges under the visible electromagnetic gauge group. This is a result of "magnetic mixing" which, as we show, often arises as a natural partner of kinetic mixing. Both kinetic and magnetic mixing are naturally induced radiatively even if the low-energy U(1)s arise from a single non-abelian gauge group. We argue that the hidden sector monopoles can be light and their electric minicharges could thus be testable in current and near future low-energy experiments.
1701.06932
Abdulkadir Senol
H. Denizli, A. Senol, A. Yilmaz, I. T. Cakir, H. Karadeniz, O. Cakir
Top quark FCNC couplings at future circular hadron electron colliders
11 pages, 4 Figures, 4 Tables, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Phys. Rev. D 96, 015024 (2017)
10.1103/PhysRevD.96.015024
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A study of single top quark production via flavor changing neutral current interactions at $tq\gamma$ vertices is performed at future circular hadron electron collider. The signal cross sections for the processes $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}q+X$ and $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}bq+X$ in the collision of electron beam with energy $E_e=$ 60 GeV and proton beam with energy $E_p=$ 50 TeV are calculated. In the analysis, the invariant mass distributions of three jets reconstructing top quark mass, requiring one b-tagged jet and other two jets reconstructing the $W$ mass are used to count signal and background events after all selection cuts. The upper limits on the anomalous flavor changing neutral current $tq\gamma$ couplings are found to be $\lambda_q < $ 0.01 at future circular hadron electron collider for $L_{int}=100$ fb$^{-1}$ with the fast simulation of detector effects. Signal significance depending on the couplings $\lambda_q$ is analyzed and an enhanced sensitivity is found to the branching ratio BR($t\to q\gamma$) at the future circular hadron electron collider when compared to the current experimental results.
[ { "created": "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:33:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:07:44 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-07-28
[ [ "Denizli", "H.", "" ], [ "Senol", "A.", "" ], [ "Yilmaz", "A.", "" ], [ "Cakir", "I. T.", "" ], [ "Karadeniz", "H.", "" ], [ "Cakir", "O.", "" ] ]
A study of single top quark production via flavor changing neutral current interactions at $tq\gamma$ vertices is performed at future circular hadron electron collider. The signal cross sections for the processes $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}q+X$ and $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}bq+X$ in the collision of electron beam with energy $E_e=$ 60 GeV and proton beam with energy $E_p=$ 50 TeV are calculated. In the analysis, the invariant mass distributions of three jets reconstructing top quark mass, requiring one b-tagged jet and other two jets reconstructing the $W$ mass are used to count signal and background events after all selection cuts. The upper limits on the anomalous flavor changing neutral current $tq\gamma$ couplings are found to be $\lambda_q < $ 0.01 at future circular hadron electron collider for $L_{int}=100$ fb$^{-1}$ with the fast simulation of detector effects. Signal significance depending on the couplings $\lambda_q$ is analyzed and an enhanced sensitivity is found to the branching ratio BR($t\to q\gamma$) at the future circular hadron electron collider when compared to the current experimental results.
hep-ph/9407348
Michael A. Doncheski
Michael A. Doncheski, Stephen Godfrey and K. Andrew Peterson
Probing the Heavy Quark Content of the Photon Using b Tagging at High Energy $e\gamma$ and $e^+e^-$ Colliders
15 pages, LaTeX, 10 postscript files; extensive modifications from previous version
Phys.Rev. D55 (1997) 183-189
10.1103/PhysRevD.55.183
OCIP/C-94-2
hep-ph
null
We suggest a method for probing the quark content of the photon using $b$ tagging at high energy $e^+e^-$ and $e\gamma$ colliders. We find that heavy quark tagging provides a sensitive and effective probe of the quark content of the photon especially in the low $x$-region where the various models differ the most. This process is complementary to others that have been studied in the literature and can contribute to more precise determinations of quark and gluon distributions inside the photon.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Jul 1994 13:26:31 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 3 Oct 1996 23:26:18 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-10-28
[ [ "Doncheski", "Michael A.", "" ], [ "Godfrey", "Stephen", "" ], [ "Peterson", "K. Andrew", "" ] ]
We suggest a method for probing the quark content of the photon using $b$ tagging at high energy $e^+e^-$ and $e\gamma$ colliders. We find that heavy quark tagging provides a sensitive and effective probe of the quark content of the photon especially in the low $x$-region where the various models differ the most. This process is complementary to others that have been studied in the literature and can contribute to more precise determinations of quark and gluon distributions inside the photon.
hep-ph/9803428
Gudrun Hiller
A. Ali and G. Hiller (DESY, Hamburg)
Perturbative QCD- and Power-Corrected Hadron Spectra and Spectral Moments in the Decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$
44 pages, 15 figure (require epsf.sty);, March 1998; Several typos and composition errors corrected; four references added; no change in formulae or results
Phys.Rev.D58:074001,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.074001
DESY 98-030
hep-ph
null
We compute the leading order (in $\alpha_s$) perturbative QCD and power ($1/m_b^2)$ corrections to the hadronic invariant mass and hadron energy spectra in the decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ in standard model. This is done both by using the heavy quark expansion technique (HQET) and a perturbative-QCD improved Fermi motion (FM) model which takes into account $B$-meson wave-function effects. The corrections in the hadron energy ($E_H$) spectrum are found to be small over a good part of this spectrum in both the methods. However, the expansion in $1/m_b$ in HQET fails near the lower kinematic end-point and at the $c\bar{c}$ threshold. The hadronic invariant mass ($S_H$) spectrum is calculable only over a limited range $S_H > \bar{\Lambda}m_B$ in the heavy quark expansion, where $\bar{\Lambda} \simeq m_B-m_b$. We also present results for the first two hadronic moments $< S_H^n>$ and $< E_H^n>$, $n=1,2$, working out their sensitivity on the HQET and FM model parameters. For equivalent values of these parameters, the moments in these methods are remarkably close to each other. Using the FM model, we study the effect of the experimental cuts, used recently by the CLEO collaboration in searching for the decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$, on the hadron spectra and hadronic invariant mass moments. The constraints following from assumed values of $< S_H^n>$ on the HQET parameters $\lambda_1$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ are worked out. Data from the forthcoming B facilities could be used to measure the short-distance contribution in $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ and determine the HQET parameters $\lambda_1$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$. This could be combined with complementary constrains in $B \to X \ell \nu_\ell$ to determine them precisely.
[ { "created": "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 19:24:09 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:39:14 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-01-27
[ [ "Ali", "A.", "", "DESY, Hamburg" ], [ "Hiller", "G.", "", "DESY, Hamburg" ] ]
We compute the leading order (in $\alpha_s$) perturbative QCD and power ($1/m_b^2)$ corrections to the hadronic invariant mass and hadron energy spectra in the decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ in standard model. This is done both by using the heavy quark expansion technique (HQET) and a perturbative-QCD improved Fermi motion (FM) model which takes into account $B$-meson wave-function effects. The corrections in the hadron energy ($E_H$) spectrum are found to be small over a good part of this spectrum in both the methods. However, the expansion in $1/m_b$ in HQET fails near the lower kinematic end-point and at the $c\bar{c}$ threshold. The hadronic invariant mass ($S_H$) spectrum is calculable only over a limited range $S_H > \bar{\Lambda}m_B$ in the heavy quark expansion, where $\bar{\Lambda} \simeq m_B-m_b$. We also present results for the first two hadronic moments $< S_H^n>$ and $< E_H^n>$, $n=1,2$, working out their sensitivity on the HQET and FM model parameters. For equivalent values of these parameters, the moments in these methods are remarkably close to each other. Using the FM model, we study the effect of the experimental cuts, used recently by the CLEO collaboration in searching for the decay $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$, on the hadron spectra and hadronic invariant mass moments. The constraints following from assumed values of $< S_H^n>$ on the HQET parameters $\lambda_1$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ are worked out. Data from the forthcoming B facilities could be used to measure the short-distance contribution in $B \to X_s \ell^+ \ell^-$ and determine the HQET parameters $\lambda_1$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$. This could be combined with complementary constrains in $B \to X \ell \nu_\ell$ to determine them precisely.
1912.04163
Essodjolo Kpatcha
Essodjolo Kpatcha, Inaki Lara, Daniel E. Lopez-Fogliani, Carlos Munoz, Natsumi Nagata
Explaining muon $g-2$ data in the $\mu\nu$SSM
Version published in EPJC. A compiling issue has been resolved in Fig. 11. 39 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables. Analyses of the scalar sector of the {\mu}{\nu}SSM in arXiv:1907.02092 and arXiv:1910.08062 are used
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $g-2$ in the $\mu\nu$SSM. This $R$-parity violating model solves the $\mu$ problem reproducing simultaneously neutrino data, only with the addition of right-handed neutrinos. In the framework of the $\mu\nu$SSM, light left muon-sneutrino and wino masses can be naturally obtained driven by neutrino physics. This produces an increase of the dominant chargino-sneutrino loop contribution to muon $g-2$, solving the gap between the theoretical computation and the experimental data. To analyze the parameter space, we sample the $\mu\nu$SSM using a likelihood data-driven method, paying special attention to reproduce the current experimental data on neutrino and Higgs physics, as well as flavor observables such as $B$ and $\mu$ decays. We then apply the constraints from LHC searches for events with multi-leptons + MET on the viable regions found. They can probe these regions through chargino-chargino, chargino-neutralino and neutralino-neutralino pair production. We conclude that significant regions of the parameter space of the $\mu\nu$SSM can explain muon $g-2$ data.
[ { "created": "Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:57:45 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:07:08 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:19:36 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2021-01-14
[ [ "Kpatcha", "Essodjolo", "" ], [ "Lara", "Inaki", "" ], [ "Lopez-Fogliani", "Daniel E.", "" ], [ "Munoz", "Carlos", "" ], [ "Nagata", "Natsumi", "" ] ]
We analyze the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $g-2$ in the $\mu\nu$SSM. This $R$-parity violating model solves the $\mu$ problem reproducing simultaneously neutrino data, only with the addition of right-handed neutrinos. In the framework of the $\mu\nu$SSM, light left muon-sneutrino and wino masses can be naturally obtained driven by neutrino physics. This produces an increase of the dominant chargino-sneutrino loop contribution to muon $g-2$, solving the gap between the theoretical computation and the experimental data. To analyze the parameter space, we sample the $\mu\nu$SSM using a likelihood data-driven method, paying special attention to reproduce the current experimental data on neutrino and Higgs physics, as well as flavor observables such as $B$ and $\mu$ decays. We then apply the constraints from LHC searches for events with multi-leptons + MET on the viable regions found. They can probe these regions through chargino-chargino, chargino-neutralino and neutralino-neutralino pair production. We conclude that significant regions of the parameter space of the $\mu\nu$SSM can explain muon $g-2$ data.
1602.00937
Ya-ping Xie
Ya-ping Xie and Xurong Chen
The coherent cross section of vector mesons in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at the LHC
null
null
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4170-1
null
hep-ph
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The coherent cross section of $J/\psi$, $\rho$, $\phi$ are computed in dipole model in the ultraperipheral PbPb collisions, the IP-Sat and IIM model are applied in the calculation of the differential cross section of the dipole scattering off the nucleon, three kinds of forward vector meson wave functions are used in the overlap. The prediction of $J/\psi$ and $\rho$ is compared with the experimental data of the ALICE Collaboration, and the prediction of $\phi$ is also given in this paper.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:22:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:04:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-01-13
[ [ "Xie", "Ya-ping", "" ], [ "Chen", "Xurong", "" ] ]
The coherent cross section of $J/\psi$, $\rho$, $\phi$ are computed in dipole model in the ultraperipheral PbPb collisions, the IP-Sat and IIM model are applied in the calculation of the differential cross section of the dipole scattering off the nucleon, three kinds of forward vector meson wave functions are used in the overlap. The prediction of $J/\psi$ and $\rho$ is compared with the experimental data of the ALICE Collaboration, and the prediction of $\phi$ is also given in this paper.
hep-ph/0205249
Anna M. Stasto
A.M. Stasto
Saturation at low x and nonlinear evolution
12 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the Epiphany Conference, Cracow, 3-6 January 2002
Acta Phys.Polon. B33 (2002) 1571-1582
null
null
hep-ph
null
In this talk the results of the analytical and numerical analysis of the nonlinear Balitsky-Kovchegov equation are presented. The characteristic BFKL diffusion into infrared regime is suppressed by the generation of the saturation scale. We identify the scaling and linear regimes for the solution. We also study the impact of subleading corrections onto the nonlinear evolution.
[ { "created": "Wed, 22 May 2002 14:22:52 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Stasto", "A. M.", "" ] ]
In this talk the results of the analytical and numerical analysis of the nonlinear Balitsky-Kovchegov equation are presented. The characteristic BFKL diffusion into infrared regime is suppressed by the generation of the saturation scale. We identify the scaling and linear regimes for the solution. We also study the impact of subleading corrections onto the nonlinear evolution.
2003.07366
Marco Chianese Dr
Marco Chianese, Bowen Fu, Stephen F. King
Impact of Higgs portal on gravity-mediated production of superheavy dark matter
14 pages, 5 figures. Updated to match version published in JCAP
JCAP06(2020)019
10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/019
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In the so-called Planckian Interacting Dark Matter (PIDM) scenario, superheavy dark matter particles are produced after inflation by gravity-mediated interactions through the freeze-in mechanism. In the minimal PIDM model, the absence of any additional direct coupling with Standard Model particles is assumed. However, for scalar dark matter particles there is no symmetry that suppresses the Higgs portal coupling. In this paper, we therefore study the impact of a non-zero interaction with the Higgs field on the PIDM paradigm for scalar dark matter. In particular, we fully explore the model parameter space in order to identify the allowed regions where the correct dark matter abundance is achieved. Moreover, we provide the threshold value for the Higgs portal coupling below which the corresponding production processes are sub-dominant and the minimal PIDM scenario is preserved. For a benchmark scalar dark matter mass of $10^{15}$ GeV, we find that the Higgs portal coupling has to be smaller than $5.1 \times 10^{-8}$ ($1.1 \times 10^{-7}$) for instantaneous (non-instantaneous) reheating.
[ { "created": "Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:00:01 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 9 Jun 2020 08:29:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2020-06-11
[ [ "Chianese", "Marco", "" ], [ "Fu", "Bowen", "" ], [ "King", "Stephen F.", "" ] ]
In the so-called Planckian Interacting Dark Matter (PIDM) scenario, superheavy dark matter particles are produced after inflation by gravity-mediated interactions through the freeze-in mechanism. In the minimal PIDM model, the absence of any additional direct coupling with Standard Model particles is assumed. However, for scalar dark matter particles there is no symmetry that suppresses the Higgs portal coupling. In this paper, we therefore study the impact of a non-zero interaction with the Higgs field on the PIDM paradigm for scalar dark matter. In particular, we fully explore the model parameter space in order to identify the allowed regions where the correct dark matter abundance is achieved. Moreover, we provide the threshold value for the Higgs portal coupling below which the corresponding production processes are sub-dominant and the minimal PIDM scenario is preserved. For a benchmark scalar dark matter mass of $10^{15}$ GeV, we find that the Higgs portal coupling has to be smaller than $5.1 \times 10^{-8}$ ($1.1 \times 10^{-7}$) for instantaneous (non-instantaneous) reheating.
hep-ph/9707369
Gabriel Lopez
M. Beuthe, G. Lopez Castro and J. Pestieau
Field theory approach to K0-K0bar and B0-B0bar systems
Latex, 19 pages
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A13 (1998) 3587-3600
10.1142/S0217751X98001682
UCL-IPT-97-09
hep-ph
null
Quantum field theory provides a consistent framework to deal with unstable particles. We present here an approach based on field theory to describe the production and decay of unstable $K^0-\bar{K^0}$ and $B^0-\bar{B^0}$ mixed systems. The formalism is applied to compute the time evolution amplitudes of $K^0$ and $\bar{K^0}$ studied in DAPHNE and CPLEAR experiments. We also introduce a new set of parameters that describe CP violation in $ K \to \pi\pi$ decays without recourse to isospin decomposition of the decay amplitudes.
[ { "created": "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:15:10 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Beuthe", "M.", "" ], [ "Castro", "G. Lopez", "" ], [ "Pestieau", "J.", "" ] ]
Quantum field theory provides a consistent framework to deal with unstable particles. We present here an approach based on field theory to describe the production and decay of unstable $K^0-\bar{K^0}$ and $B^0-\bar{B^0}$ mixed systems. The formalism is applied to compute the time evolution amplitudes of $K^0$ and $\bar{K^0}$ studied in DAPHNE and CPLEAR experiments. We also introduce a new set of parameters that describe CP violation in $ K \to \pi\pi$ decays without recourse to isospin decomposition of the decay amplitudes.
hep-ph/9601286
null
Maria J.Herrero
Introduction To The Symmetry Breaking Sector
45 pages, Latex, figures not included . Hard copys of figures available on request
null
null
FTUAM/Jan/1996/1
hep-ph hep-ex
null
The basic ingredients of the Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Phenomenon and of the Higgs Mechanism are reviewed in these lectures of pedagogical character. Some relevant topics related with the breaking $\gs \rightarrow U(1)_{\rm em}$ are selected and discussed here. A brief survey of the experimental Higgs particle searches and the theoretical limits on $\mh$ are also presented. The main features of the most popular models of symmetry breaking beyond the Standard Model are briefly considered. It includes a short summary of the Higgs Sector in the Minimal SUSY Model, the basic ideas of Technicolor models and a brief introduction to Strongly Interacting Scalar sectors and to the Effective Chiral Lagrangian Approach to the Electroweak Theory.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:00:47 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-09-25
[ [ "Herrero", "Maria J.", "" ] ]
The basic ingredients of the Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Phenomenon and of the Higgs Mechanism are reviewed in these lectures of pedagogical character. Some relevant topics related with the breaking $\gs \rightarrow U(1)_{\rm em}$ are selected and discussed here. A brief survey of the experimental Higgs particle searches and the theoretical limits on $\mh$ are also presented. The main features of the most popular models of symmetry breaking beyond the Standard Model are briefly considered. It includes a short summary of the Higgs Sector in the Minimal SUSY Model, the basic ideas of Technicolor models and a brief introduction to Strongly Interacting Scalar sectors and to the Effective Chiral Lagrangian Approach to the Electroweak Theory.
hep-ph/0702184
Alejandro Ibarra
Wilfried Buchmuller, Laura Covi, Koichi Hamaguchi, Alejandro Ibarra, Tsutomu Yanagida
Gravitino Dark Matter in R-Parity Breaking Vacua
18 pages. Typos corrected
JHEP 0703:037,2007
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/037
DESY 06-244, UT-07-03
hep-ph astro-ph hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We show that in the case of small R-parity and lepton number breaking couplings, primordial nucleosynthesis, thermal leptogenesis and gravitino dark matter are naturally consistent for gravitino masses m_{3/2} \gsim 5 GeV. We present a model where R-parity breaking is tied to B-L breaking, which predicts the needed small couplings. The metastable next-to-lightest superparticle has a decay length that is typically larger than a few centimeters, with characteristic signatures at the LHC. The photon flux produced by relic gravitino decays may be part of the apparent excess in the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray flux obtained from the EGRET data for a gravitino mass m_{3/2} \sim 10 GeV. In this case, a clear signal can be expected from GLAST in the near future.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:55:59 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:34:11 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2010-04-06
[ [ "Buchmuller", "Wilfried", "" ], [ "Covi", "Laura", "" ], [ "Hamaguchi", "Koichi", "" ], [ "Ibarra", "Alejandro", "" ], [ "Yanagida", "Tsutomu", "" ] ]
We show that in the case of small R-parity and lepton number breaking couplings, primordial nucleosynthesis, thermal leptogenesis and gravitino dark matter are naturally consistent for gravitino masses m_{3/2} \gsim 5 GeV. We present a model where R-parity breaking is tied to B-L breaking, which predicts the needed small couplings. The metastable next-to-lightest superparticle has a decay length that is typically larger than a few centimeters, with characteristic signatures at the LHC. The photon flux produced by relic gravitino decays may be part of the apparent excess in the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray flux obtained from the EGRET data for a gravitino mass m_{3/2} \sim 10 GeV. In this case, a clear signal can be expected from GLAST in the near future.
1602.06112
Antonio Rodr\'iguez S\'anchez
A. Rodr\'iguez-S\'anchez, M. Gonz\'alez-Alonso, A. Pich
Updated determination of chiral couplings and vacuum condensates from hadronic tau decay data
25 pages, 8 figures, Preprint numbers: IFIC/16-08 FTUV/16-0219
Phys. Rev. D 94, 014017 (2016)
10.1103/PhysRevD.94.014017
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We analyze the lowest spectral moments of the left-right two-point correlation function, using all known short-distance constraints and the recently updated ALEPH V-A spectral function from tau decays. This information is used to determine the low-energy couplings L10 and C87 of chiral perturbation theory and the lowest-dimensional contributions to the Operator Product Expansion of the left-right correlator. A detailed statistical analysis is implemented to assess the theoretical uncertainties, including violations of quark-hadron duality.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:14:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-07-20
[ [ "Rodríguez-Sánchez", "A.", "" ], [ "González-Alonso", "M.", "" ], [ "Pich", "A.", "" ] ]
We analyze the lowest spectral moments of the left-right two-point correlation function, using all known short-distance constraints and the recently updated ALEPH V-A spectral function from tau decays. This information is used to determine the low-energy couplings L10 and C87 of chiral perturbation theory and the lowest-dimensional contributions to the Operator Product Expansion of the left-right correlator. A detailed statistical analysis is implemented to assess the theoretical uncertainties, including violations of quark-hadron duality.
hep-ph/9607288
Ezio Maina
A. Ballestrero, E. Maina and M. Pizzio (U. of Torino and INFN-Torino)
$b \bar b W^+ W^-$ production at hadron colliders. Top signal and irreducible backgrounds
13 LaTex pages, 2 figs using feynman.sty, 5 ps figures
Phys.Lett.B387:411-418,1996
10.1016/0370-2693(96)01048-9
DFTT 32/96
hep-ph
null
We compute complete tree level matrix elements for $gg , q \bar q \rightarrow b \bar b W^+W^-$. We analyze the irreducible backgrounds to top signal at the Tevatron and at the LHC. Their contribution to the total cross section is about $5 \%$ at the LHC, due to single resonant channels. Several distributions with contributions from signal and backgrounds are presented.
[ { "created": "Thu, 11 Jul 1996 08:20:34 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-12-22
[ [ "Ballestrero", "A.", "", "U. of Torino and INFN-Torino" ], [ "Maina", "E.", "", "U. of Torino and INFN-Torino" ], [ "Pizzio", "M.", "", "U. of Torino and INFN-Torino" ] ]
We compute complete tree level matrix elements for $gg , q \bar q \rightarrow b \bar b W^+W^-$. We analyze the irreducible backgrounds to top signal at the Tevatron and at the LHC. Their contribution to the total cross section is about $5 \%$ at the LHC, due to single resonant channels. Several distributions with contributions from signal and backgrounds are presented.
1507.05543
Fabio Siringo
Fabio Siringo
Perturbation theory of non-perturbative QCD
null
null
null
null
hep-ph hep-lat hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Perturbation theory is shown to be working in the IR limit of pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in Landau gauge by an unconventional setting of the perturbative expansion. A dynamical mass is predicted for the gluon and the lattice data are reproduced fairly well by a second-order expansion, without any free parameter. The effective running coupling is small in the IR and the approximation can be improved by inclusion of higher order terms.
[ { "created": "Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:52:54 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2015-07-21
[ [ "Siringo", "Fabio", "" ] ]
Perturbation theory is shown to be working in the IR limit of pure SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in Landau gauge by an unconventional setting of the perturbative expansion. A dynamical mass is predicted for the gluon and the lattice data are reproduced fairly well by a second-order expansion, without any free parameter. The effective running coupling is small in the IR and the approximation can be improved by inclusion of higher order terms.
1112.5122
Mario da Silva
M. L. L. da Silva, M. V. T. Machado
Investigating photoproduction of scalar mesons at medium energies
4 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Version to be published in Physical Review C
null
10.1103/PhysRevC.86.015209
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this letter we study the photoproduction of scalar mesons in the intermediate energies considering distinct mixing scenarios in the description of meson physical states. The differential and integrated total cross section are computed for the cases of the mesons a_0(980), f_0(1500) and f_0(1710) focusing the GlueX energy regime with photon energy equal to 9 GeV. Our results indicate that light-quark scalar meson photoproduction is well suited for studying hybrid mesons structure.
[ { "created": "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:25:04 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:40:08 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2013-05-30
[ [ "da Silva", "M. L. L.", "" ], [ "Machado", "M. V. T.", "" ] ]
In this letter we study the photoproduction of scalar mesons in the intermediate energies considering distinct mixing scenarios in the description of meson physical states. The differential and integrated total cross section are computed for the cases of the mesons a_0(980), f_0(1500) and f_0(1710) focusing the GlueX energy regime with photon energy equal to 9 GeV. Our results indicate that light-quark scalar meson photoproduction is well suited for studying hybrid mesons structure.
0706.3135
Helen Matskevich
S.M. Gerasyuta and E.E. Matskevich
Excited $(70,L^+)$ baryon resonances in the relativistic quark model
latex, 23 pages, 3 figures
Phys.Rev.D76:116004,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.116004
null
hep-ph
null
The masses of positive parity $(70,0^+)$ and $(70,2^+)$ nonstrange and strange baryons are calculated in the relativistic quark model. The relativistic three-quark equations of the $(70,L^+)$ multiplets are found in the framework of the dispersion relation technique. The approximate solutions of these equations using the method based on the extraction of leading singularities of the amplitude are obtained. The calculated mass values of the $(70,L^+)$ multiplets are in good agreement with the experimental ones.
[ { "created": "Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:19:11 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Gerasyuta", "S. M.", "" ], [ "Matskevich", "E. E.", "" ] ]
The masses of positive parity $(70,0^+)$ and $(70,2^+)$ nonstrange and strange baryons are calculated in the relativistic quark model. The relativistic three-quark equations of the $(70,L^+)$ multiplets are found in the framework of the dispersion relation technique. The approximate solutions of these equations using the method based on the extraction of leading singularities of the amplitude are obtained. The calculated mass values of the $(70,L^+)$ multiplets are in good agreement with the experimental ones.
2402.19417
Yu Hamada
Minoru Eto, Yu Hamada, Ryusuke Jinno, Muneto Nitta, and Masatoshi Yamada
Neutrino zeromodes on electroweak strings in light of topological insulators
43 pages, 8 figures; v2: typos corrected, refs added, and some minor changes
JHEP 06 (2024) 062
10.1007/JHEP06(2024)062
KEK-TH-2592, DESY-24-003, RESCEU-2/24, YGHP-24-01
hep-ph cond-mat.mes-hall hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We examine neutrino zeromode solutions on the electroweak $Z$-string and their effect on the stability of the string in the standard model and its extensions. We propose using topological invariants constructed from the momentum (and real) space topology of Green's functions, often used for investigating edge modes in condensed matter physics. We analyze the standard model and then examine type-I and type-II extensions of the neutrino sector as well as their hybrid. Based on this analysis, we also comment on proposals in the literature to stabilize the $Z$-string.
[ { "created": "Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:15:16 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 7 Jun 2024 11:23:57 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2024-07-19
[ [ "Eto", "Minoru", "" ], [ "Hamada", "Yu", "" ], [ "Jinno", "Ryusuke", "" ], [ "Nitta", "Muneto", "" ], [ "Yamada", "Masatoshi", "" ] ]
We examine neutrino zeromode solutions on the electroweak $Z$-string and their effect on the stability of the string in the standard model and its extensions. We propose using topological invariants constructed from the momentum (and real) space topology of Green's functions, often used for investigating edge modes in condensed matter physics. We analyze the standard model and then examine type-I and type-II extensions of the neutrino sector as well as their hybrid. Based on this analysis, we also comment on proposals in the literature to stabilize the $Z$-string.
0805.1752
Ted Rogers
J. C. Collins and T. C. Rogers
The Gluon Distribution Function and Factorization in Feynman Gauge
15 pages, 31 figures
Phys.Rev.D78:054012,2008
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.054012
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
A complication in proving factorization theorems in Feynman gauge is that individual graphs give a super-leading power of the hard scale when all the gluons inducing the hard scattering are longitudinally polarized. With the aid of an example in gluon-mediated deep inelastic scattering, we show that, although the super-leading terms cancel after a sum over graphs, there is a residual non-zero leading term from longitudinally polarized gluons. This is due to the non-zero transverse momenta of the gluons in the target. The non-cancellation, due to the non-Abelian property of the gauge group, is necessary to obtain the correct form of the gluon distribution function as a gauge-invariant matrix element.
[ { "created": "Mon, 12 May 2008 21:51:49 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:21:09 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-13
[ [ "Collins", "J. C.", "" ], [ "Rogers", "T. C.", "" ] ]
A complication in proving factorization theorems in Feynman gauge is that individual graphs give a super-leading power of the hard scale when all the gluons inducing the hard scattering are longitudinally polarized. With the aid of an example in gluon-mediated deep inelastic scattering, we show that, although the super-leading terms cancel after a sum over graphs, there is a residual non-zero leading term from longitudinally polarized gluons. This is due to the non-zero transverse momenta of the gluons in the target. The non-cancellation, due to the non-Abelian property of the gauge group, is necessary to obtain the correct form of the gluon distribution function as a gauge-invariant matrix element.
hep-ph/9711408
Michael Spira
Michael Spira
Squark and Gluino Production at Hadron Colliders
13 pages, latex, 9 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the International Workshop on Quantum Effects in the MSSM, 9--13 September 1997, Barcelona, Spain
null
null
CERN-TH/97-325
hep-ph
null
The theoretical status of squark and gluino production at present and future hadron colliders is reviewed. I shall concentrate on the evaluation of SUSY-QCD corrections to the production cross sections and their phenomenological implications.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:01:21 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Spira", "Michael", "" ] ]
The theoretical status of squark and gluino production at present and future hadron colliders is reviewed. I shall concentrate on the evaluation of SUSY-QCD corrections to the production cross sections and their phenomenological implications.
2012.01214
Emidio Gabrielli
Marco Fabbrichesi and Emidio Gabrielli
Searching for the dark sector in two-body anti-muon decay with the polarization of monochromatic positrons
7 pages, 4 figures. Same as published version, new results included, a few typos corrected
Phys. Rev. D 104, 015039 (2021)
10.1103/PhysRevD.104.015039
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The $\mu^+ \to e^+ X$ decay, where $X$ is a dark sector boson, provides one of the strongest available bounds on the scale of dark sector interactions. The $X$ boson can be an axion or a dark photon. We show that the concurrent determination of the anti-muon and positron polarizations makes possible to distinguish with a confidence level of 99% between the two dark sector portals with as few as 6 observed events in the case of the massless dark photon. Instead, the massive spin-1, dimension 4 dark portal cannot be distinguished from the axion-like case. We also discuss the possibility that the $X$ boson be a massive spin-2 particle.
[ { "created": "Wed, 2 Dec 2020 13:55:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:26:27 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-09-24
[ [ "Fabbrichesi", "Marco", "" ], [ "Gabrielli", "Emidio", "" ] ]
The $\mu^+ \to e^+ X$ decay, where $X$ is a dark sector boson, provides one of the strongest available bounds on the scale of dark sector interactions. The $X$ boson can be an axion or a dark photon. We show that the concurrent determination of the anti-muon and positron polarizations makes possible to distinguish with a confidence level of 99% between the two dark sector portals with as few as 6 observed events in the case of the massless dark photon. Instead, the massive spin-1, dimension 4 dark portal cannot be distinguished from the axion-like case. We also discuss the possibility that the $X$ boson be a massive spin-2 particle.
1005.3457
Peter Zeiler Skands
Peter Zeiler Skands
Tuning Monte Carlo Generators: The Perugia Tunes
46 pages
Phys.Rev.D82:074018,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.074018
MCnet/10/08, CERN-PH-TH/2010-113
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present 9 new tunes of the pT-ordered shower and underlying-event model in PYTHIA 6.4. These "Perugia" tunes update and supersede the older "S0" family. The data sets used to constrain the models include hadronic Z0 decays at LEP, Tevatron minimum-bias data at 630, 1800, and 1960 GeV, Tevatron Drell-Yan data at 1800 and 1960 GeV, and SPS min-bias data at 200, 546, and 900 GeV. In addition to the central parameter set, called "Perugia 0", we introduce a set of 8 related "Perugia Variations" that attempt to systematically explore soft, hard, parton density, and colour structure variations in the theoretical parameters. Based on these variations, a best-guess prediction of the charged track multiplicity in inelastic, nondiffractive minimum-bias events at the LHC is made. Note that these tunes can only be used with PYTHIA 6, not with PYTHIA 8. Note: this report was updated in March 2011 with a new set of variations, collectively labeled "Perugia 2011", that are optimized for matching applications and which also take into account some lessons from the early LHC data. In order not to break the original text, these are described separately in Appendix B. Note 2: a subsequent "Perugia 2012" update is described in Appendix C.
[ { "created": "Wed, 19 May 2010 14:41:34 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:38:27 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:07:28 GMT", "version": "v3" }, { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2011 07:23:25 GMT", "version": "v4" }, { "created": "Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:03:10 GMT", "version": "v5" } ]
2015-03-17
[ [ "Skands", "Peter Zeiler", "" ] ]
We present 9 new tunes of the pT-ordered shower and underlying-event model in PYTHIA 6.4. These "Perugia" tunes update and supersede the older "S0" family. The data sets used to constrain the models include hadronic Z0 decays at LEP, Tevatron minimum-bias data at 630, 1800, and 1960 GeV, Tevatron Drell-Yan data at 1800 and 1960 GeV, and SPS min-bias data at 200, 546, and 900 GeV. In addition to the central parameter set, called "Perugia 0", we introduce a set of 8 related "Perugia Variations" that attempt to systematically explore soft, hard, parton density, and colour structure variations in the theoretical parameters. Based on these variations, a best-guess prediction of the charged track multiplicity in inelastic, nondiffractive minimum-bias events at the LHC is made. Note that these tunes can only be used with PYTHIA 6, not with PYTHIA 8. Note: this report was updated in March 2011 with a new set of variations, collectively labeled "Perugia 2011", that are optimized for matching applications and which also take into account some lessons from the early LHC data. In order not to break the original text, these are described separately in Appendix B. Note 2: a subsequent "Perugia 2012" update is described in Appendix C.
1805.04415
Heerak Banerjee
Heerak Banerjee, Pritibhajan Byakti and Sourov Roy
Supersymmetric gauged U(1)$_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model for neutrinos and the muon $(g-2)$ anomaly
v2: 25 pages, 9 figures. Discussion on charged lepton-flavor-violating processes $l_j\rightarrow l_i\gamma$ added in the text. Appendix C added on the same. References added. Published Version
Phys. Rev. D 98, 075022 (2018)
10.1103/PhysRevD.98.075022
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The gauged $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model can provide for additional contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment by means of a loop involving the $Z^{\prime}$ gauge boson. However, the parameter space of such models is severely constrained if one combines the latest muon $(g-2)$ data with various neutrino experiments, such as neutrino trident production, $\nu -e$ and $\nu -q$ elastic scattering, etc. In a supersymmetric $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model, a larger region of parameter space opens up, thus enabling one to explore otherwise forbidden regions of parameter space in nonsupersymmetric models involving the new gauge coupling ($g_X$) and the mass of the $Z^\prime$ gauge boson ($M_{Z^{\prime}}$) . We show that the minimal model with the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) field content is strongly disfavored from $Z$-boson decay and neutrino data. We also show that the nonminimal model with two extra singlet superfields can lead to correct neutrino masses and mixing involving both tree-level and one-loop contributions. We find that, in this model, both muon $(g-2)$ and neutrino data may be simultaneously explained in a parameter region consistent with experimental observations. In addition, we observe that the muon $(g-2)$ anomaly can be accommodated even with higher values of electroweak sparticle masses compared to the MSSM. Charged lepton-flavor-violating processes (like $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$, $\tau\rightarrow \mu\gamma$, etc.) may have potentially large branching ratios in this scenario. Depending on the magnitude of the supersymmetry contribution to these processes, they may constrain hitherto unconstrained regions of the $M_{Z^{\prime}}-g_X$ parameter space. However, we find that these branching fractions never exceed their upper bounds in a region where both muon $(g-2)$ and neutrino oscillation data can be simultaneously accommodated.
[ { "created": "Fri, 11 May 2018 14:21:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:51:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-11-06
[ [ "Banerjee", "Heerak", "" ], [ "Byakti", "Pritibhajan", "" ], [ "Roy", "Sourov", "" ] ]
The gauged $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model can provide for additional contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment by means of a loop involving the $Z^{\prime}$ gauge boson. However, the parameter space of such models is severely constrained if one combines the latest muon $(g-2)$ data with various neutrino experiments, such as neutrino trident production, $\nu -e$ and $\nu -q$ elastic scattering, etc. In a supersymmetric $U(1)_{L_{\mu}-L_{\tau}}$ model, a larger region of parameter space opens up, thus enabling one to explore otherwise forbidden regions of parameter space in nonsupersymmetric models involving the new gauge coupling ($g_X$) and the mass of the $Z^\prime$ gauge boson ($M_{Z^{\prime}}$) . We show that the minimal model with the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) field content is strongly disfavored from $Z$-boson decay and neutrino data. We also show that the nonminimal model with two extra singlet superfields can lead to correct neutrino masses and mixing involving both tree-level and one-loop contributions. We find that, in this model, both muon $(g-2)$ and neutrino data may be simultaneously explained in a parameter region consistent with experimental observations. In addition, we observe that the muon $(g-2)$ anomaly can be accommodated even with higher values of electroweak sparticle masses compared to the MSSM. Charged lepton-flavor-violating processes (like $\mu\rightarrow e\gamma$, $\tau\rightarrow \mu\gamma$, etc.) may have potentially large branching ratios in this scenario. Depending on the magnitude of the supersymmetry contribution to these processes, they may constrain hitherto unconstrained regions of the $M_{Z^{\prime}}-g_X$ parameter space. However, we find that these branching fractions never exceed their upper bounds in a region where both muon $(g-2)$ and neutrino oscillation data can be simultaneously accommodated.
hep-ph/9905428
Paul Langacker
Paul Langacker
Theoretical Summary, Electroweak Physics
Talk presented at the 17^{th} International Workshop on Weak Interactions and Neutrinos (WIN 99), Cape Town, South Africa, January 24-30, 1999. 8 pages
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
Aspects of theoretical electroweak physics are summarized, including the status of electroweak radiative corrections, the hadronic contribution to the running of alpha, global fits to precision data and their implication for testing the standard model and constraining new physics, and electroweak baryogenesis.
[ { "created": "Thu, 20 May 1999 21:53:56 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Langacker", "Paul", "" ] ]
Aspects of theoretical electroweak physics are summarized, including the status of electroweak radiative corrections, the hadronic contribution to the running of alpha, global fits to precision data and their implication for testing the standard model and constraining new physics, and electroweak baryogenesis.
hep-ph/0402167
Igor O. Cherednikov
Igor O. Cherednikov
High energy behavior of quark elastic form factors within the Wilson integral approach: perturbative and nonperturbative contributions
Talk at the XVII International Workshop QFTHEP-2003, Samara-Saratov, Russia, 4-11 Sept 2003; to be published in the Proceedings. 4 pp., REVTeX
null
null
null
hep-ph
null
The Wilson contour integral approach is applied to resum the soft gluon radiative correctins to the quark form factors in the Sudakov regime. The one-loop order results for the quark-photon (color singlet form factor) and quark-gluon (color non-singlet form factor) vertices are presented. The explicit expressions for the vacuum averaged contour integrals in $g^2$ accuracy are derived for an arbitrary gauge field. The corresponding one-loop cusp anomalous dimensions are found in the case of perturbative gluon field in arbitrary covariant gauge. It is shown that the gauge dependence drops out from the leading high energy behavior.
[ { "created": "Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:48:45 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2007-05-23
[ [ "Cherednikov", "Igor O.", "" ] ]
The Wilson contour integral approach is applied to resum the soft gluon radiative correctins to the quark form factors in the Sudakov regime. The one-loop order results for the quark-photon (color singlet form factor) and quark-gluon (color non-singlet form factor) vertices are presented. The explicit expressions for the vacuum averaged contour integrals in $g^2$ accuracy are derived for an arbitrary gauge field. The corresponding one-loop cusp anomalous dimensions are found in the case of perturbative gluon field in arbitrary covariant gauge. It is shown that the gauge dependence drops out from the leading high energy behavior.
1007.2923
Anindya Datta
Debajyoti Choudhury, Anindya Datta, Anirban Kundu
Mutual consistency of the MINOS and MiniBooNE Antineutrino Results and Possible CPT Violation
7 pages, 3 fugures
null
null
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Discussing the recent MINOS data on muon anti-neutrino disappearance and the MiniBooNE data on muon anti-neutrino to electron anti-neutrino oscillation, we show that the while the respective best fits are inconsistent with each other, significant overlap of allowed regions does exist. Assuming only three neutrino species, the data indicates a discrepancy of mass levels and mixing angles between the neutrino and the antineutrino sectors. We show that the existing data can be reconciled with a model of explicit CPT violation in the neutrino sector and estimate the magnitude of the required violation.
[ { "created": "Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:20:23 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-07-20
[ [ "Choudhury", "Debajyoti", "" ], [ "Datta", "Anindya", "" ], [ "Kundu", "Anirban", "" ] ]
Discussing the recent MINOS data on muon anti-neutrino disappearance and the MiniBooNE data on muon anti-neutrino to electron anti-neutrino oscillation, we show that the while the respective best fits are inconsistent with each other, significant overlap of allowed regions does exist. Assuming only three neutrino species, the data indicates a discrepancy of mass levels and mixing angles between the neutrino and the antineutrino sectors. We show that the existing data can be reconciled with a model of explicit CPT violation in the neutrino sector and estimate the magnitude of the required violation.
hep-ph/9902375
Gregory Korchemsky
V.M. Braun, S.E. Derkachov, G.P. Korchemsky and A.N. Manashov
Baryon Distribution Amplitudes in QCD
75 pages, LaTeX style, 18 figures embedded with epsf.sty
Nucl.Phys. B553 (1999) 355-426
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00265-5
LPT-Orsay-98-83, NORDITA-99-11-HE, SPbU-IP-99-04
hep-ph nlin.SI solv-int
null
We develop a new theoretical framework for the description of leading twist light-cone baryon distribution amplitudes which is based on integrability of the helicity $\lambda=3/2$ evolution equation to leading logarithmic accuracy. A physical interpretation is that one can identify a new `hidden' quantum number which distinguishes components in the $\lambda=3/2$ distribution amplitudes with different scale dependence. The solution of the corresponding evolution equation is reduced to a simple three-term recurrence relation. The exact analytic solution is found for the component with the lowest anomalous dimension for all moments $N$, and the WKB-type expansion is constructed for other levels, which becomes asymptotically exact at large $N$. Evolution equations for the $\lambda=1/2$ distribution amplitudes (e.g. for the nucleon) are studied as well. We find that the two lowest anomalous dimensions for the $\lambda=1/2$ operators (one for each parity) are separated from the rest of the spectrum by a finite `mass gap'. These special states can be interpreted as scalar diquarks.
[ { "created": "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:31:27 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-31
[ [ "Braun", "V. M.", "" ], [ "Derkachov", "S. E.", "" ], [ "Korchemsky", "G. P.", "" ], [ "Manashov", "A. N.", "" ] ]
We develop a new theoretical framework for the description of leading twist light-cone baryon distribution amplitudes which is based on integrability of the helicity $\lambda=3/2$ evolution equation to leading logarithmic accuracy. A physical interpretation is that one can identify a new `hidden' quantum number which distinguishes components in the $\lambda=3/2$ distribution amplitudes with different scale dependence. The solution of the corresponding evolution equation is reduced to a simple three-term recurrence relation. The exact analytic solution is found for the component with the lowest anomalous dimension for all moments $N$, and the WKB-type expansion is constructed for other levels, which becomes asymptotically exact at large $N$. Evolution equations for the $\lambda=1/2$ distribution amplitudes (e.g. for the nucleon) are studied as well. We find that the two lowest anomalous dimensions for the $\lambda=1/2$ operators (one for each parity) are separated from the rest of the spectrum by a finite `mass gap'. These special states can be interpreted as scalar diquarks.
1605.04474
Fred Jegerlehner
M. Benayoun, P. David, L. DelBuono, F. Jegerlehner
A BHLS model based moment analysis of muon g-2, and its use for lattice QCD evaluations of $a_\mu^{\rm had}$
45 pqges, 15 figures
null
null
LPNHE/2016-01, DESY 16-081
hep-ph hep-lat
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present an up-to-date analysis of muon $g-2$ evaluations in terms of Mellin-Barnes moments as they might be useful for lattice QCD calculations of $a_\mu$. The moments up to 4th order are evaluated directly in terms of $e^+e^-$--annihilation data and improved within the Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) Model, supplied with appropriate symmetry breaking mechanisms. The model provides a reliable Effective Lagrangian (BHLS) estimate of the two-body channels plus the $\pi\pi\pi$ channel up to 1.05~GeV, just including the $\phi$ resonance. The HLS piece accounts for 80\% of the contribution to $a_\mu$. The missing pieces are evaluated in the standard way directly in terms of the data. We find that the moment expansion converges well in terms of a few moments. The two types of moments which show up in the Mellin-Barnes representation are calculated in terms of hadronic cross--section data in the timelike region and in terms of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) function in the spacelike region which is accessible to lattice QCD (LQCD). In the Euclidean the first type of moments are the usual Taylor coefficients of the HVP and we show that the second type of moments may be obtained as integrals over the appropriately Taylor truncated HVP function. Specific results for the isovector part of $a_\mu^{\rm had}$ are determined by means of HLS model predictions in close relation to $\tau$--decay spectra.
[ { "created": "Sat, 14 May 2016 22:00:13 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2016-05-20
[ [ "Benayoun", "M.", "" ], [ "David", "P.", "" ], [ "DelBuono", "L.", "" ], [ "Jegerlehner", "F.", "" ] ]
We present an up-to-date analysis of muon $g-2$ evaluations in terms of Mellin-Barnes moments as they might be useful for lattice QCD calculations of $a_\mu$. The moments up to 4th order are evaluated directly in terms of $e^+e^-$--annihilation data and improved within the Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) Model, supplied with appropriate symmetry breaking mechanisms. The model provides a reliable Effective Lagrangian (BHLS) estimate of the two-body channels plus the $\pi\pi\pi$ channel up to 1.05~GeV, just including the $\phi$ resonance. The HLS piece accounts for 80\% of the contribution to $a_\mu$. The missing pieces are evaluated in the standard way directly in terms of the data. We find that the moment expansion converges well in terms of a few moments. The two types of moments which show up in the Mellin-Barnes representation are calculated in terms of hadronic cross--section data in the timelike region and in terms of the hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) function in the spacelike region which is accessible to lattice QCD (LQCD). In the Euclidean the first type of moments are the usual Taylor coefficients of the HVP and we show that the second type of moments may be obtained as integrals over the appropriately Taylor truncated HVP function. Specific results for the isovector part of $a_\mu^{\rm had}$ are determined by means of HLS model predictions in close relation to $\tau$--decay spectra.
1004.3266
Wayne W. Repko
Duane A. Dicus, Shao-Feng Ge and Wayne W. Repko
Neutrino mixing with broken $S_3$ symmetry
Final version. Published in Phys. Rev. D 82, 033005 (2010)
Phys.Rev.D82:033005,2010
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.033005
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We explore the consequences of assuming that the neutrino mass matrix is a linear combination of the matrices of a three dimensional representation of the group $S_3$ and that it has one zero mass eigenvalue. When implemented, these two assumptions allow us to express the transformation matrix relating the mass eigenstates to the flavor eigenstates in terms of a single parameter which we fit to the available data.
[ { "created": "Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:04:57 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:56:01 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-20
[ [ "Dicus", "Duane A.", "" ], [ "Ge", "Shao-Feng", "" ], [ "Repko", "Wayne W.", "" ] ]
We explore the consequences of assuming that the neutrino mass matrix is a linear combination of the matrices of a three dimensional representation of the group $S_3$ and that it has one zero mass eigenvalue. When implemented, these two assumptions allow us to express the transformation matrix relating the mass eigenstates to the flavor eigenstates in terms of a single parameter which we fit to the available data.
1810.02973
Dorota Strozik-Kotlorz
D. Kotlorz and S. V. Mikhailov
Optimized determination of the polarized Bjorken sum rule in pQCD
14 pages, 3 figures
Phys. Rev. D 100, 056007 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.100.056007
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We present the method of numerical optimization for the perturbative series using the renormalization group in quantum chromodynamics. We apply our approach to the perturbation series in $\alpha_s$ for the coefficient function $C_\text{Bjp}(\alpha_s)$ of the Bjorken sum rule for the polarized deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering. We optimize the Bjorken sum rule value, $\Gamma_1^\text{p-n}$, at the COMPASS, SLAC and JLab kinematics and compare the obtained results with the experimental measurements and also with the truncated Bjorken sum rule predictions.
[ { "created": "Sat, 6 Oct 2018 10:14:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:10:06 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2019-09-19
[ [ "Kotlorz", "D.", "" ], [ "Mikhailov", "S. V.", "" ] ]
We present the method of numerical optimization for the perturbative series using the renormalization group in quantum chromodynamics. We apply our approach to the perturbation series in $\alpha_s$ for the coefficient function $C_\text{Bjp}(\alpha_s)$ of the Bjorken sum rule for the polarized deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering. We optimize the Bjorken sum rule value, $\Gamma_1^\text{p-n}$, at the COMPASS, SLAC and JLab kinematics and compare the obtained results with the experimental measurements and also with the truncated Bjorken sum rule predictions.
2002.12245
Liliana Apolin\'ario
Liliana Apolin\'ario
Road map to extracting medium properties: an overview
[v1:] 8 pages, 5 figures, Quark Matter 2019 Proceedings; [v2:] Reference added; Typos corrected
null
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121983
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this manuscript, it is presented an overview of the Quark-Gluon Plasma properties measured, so far, using hard probes. We will focus on both quantitative and qualitative properties that have been (or are about to be) measured, making a link between the theoretical description and experimental results. Throughout the manuscript, highlights to some of the conferences' results will be given, but without an extensive overview. A personal opinion of the most important developments and critical problems that need more work in the future is presented at the end.
[ { "created": "Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:43:10 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 8 Jul 2020 16:08:54 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2021-02-03
[ [ "Apolinário", "Liliana", "" ] ]
In this manuscript, it is presented an overview of the Quark-Gluon Plasma properties measured, so far, using hard probes. We will focus on both quantitative and qualitative properties that have been (or are about to be) measured, making a link between the theoretical description and experimental results. Throughout the manuscript, highlights to some of the conferences' results will be given, but without an extensive overview. A personal opinion of the most important developments and critical problems that need more work in the future is presented at the end.
1808.04982
Eugene Levin
E. Gotsman (Tel Aviv U.) and E. Levin (Tel Aviv U./UTFSM)
Energy evolution and the Bose-Einstein enhancement for double parton densities
19pp. 7 figures in pdf files
Phys. Rev. D 99, 054015 (2019)
10.1103/PhysRevD.99.054015
TAUP 3032/18
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this paper we found that the Bose-Einstein enhancement generates the strong correlations, which increase with energy in the BFKL evolution. This increase leads to the double parton densities ( $\Phi$), that are much larger than the product of the single parton densities ($\phi$). However, numerically, it turns out that the ratio $\Phi/\phi^2 \propto \Lb 1/x\Rb^{\delta_2}$ with $\delta_2 \sim \bas/\Lb N^2_c - 1\Rb^{2/3}\,\,\ll\,\,1$ and we do not expect a large correction for the accessible range of energies. However, for $N_c=3$ it tuns out that $\delta_2 = 0.07 \Delta_{\rm BFKL}$ where $\Delta_{\rm BFKL}$ is the intercept of the BFKL Pomeron and we can anticipate an substantial increase for the range of rapidities $Y \sim 20$.It is shown that all $1/(N^2_c -1)$ corrections to the double parton densities stem from the Bose-Einstein enhancement.
[ { "created": "Wed, 15 Aug 2018 06:41:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sun, 19 Aug 2018 07:19:09 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:10:22 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2019-03-27
[ [ "Gotsman", "E.", "", "Tel Aviv U." ], [ "Levin", "E.", "", "Tel Aviv U./UTFSM" ] ]
In this paper we found that the Bose-Einstein enhancement generates the strong correlations, which increase with energy in the BFKL evolution. This increase leads to the double parton densities ( $\Phi$), that are much larger than the product of the single parton densities ($\phi$). However, numerically, it turns out that the ratio $\Phi/\phi^2 \propto \Lb 1/x\Rb^{\delta_2}$ with $\delta_2 \sim \bas/\Lb N^2_c - 1\Rb^{2/3}\,\,\ll\,\,1$ and we do not expect a large correction for the accessible range of energies. However, for $N_c=3$ it tuns out that $\delta_2 = 0.07 \Delta_{\rm BFKL}$ where $\Delta_{\rm BFKL}$ is the intercept of the BFKL Pomeron and we can anticipate an substantial increase for the range of rapidities $Y \sim 20$.It is shown that all $1/(N^2_c -1)$ corrections to the double parton densities stem from the Bose-Einstein enhancement.
hep-ph/0405231
Steven Gubser
Steven S. Gubser and Justin Khoury
Scalar self-interactions loosen constraints from fifth force searches
19 pages, 6 figures. v2: Revised figures and added discussion on Colorado and Stanford experiments
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 104001
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.104001
PUPT-2119
hep-ph astro-ph hep-th
null
The mass of a scalar field mediating a fifth force is tightly constrained by experiments. We show, however, that adding a quartic self-interaction for such a scalar makes most tests much less constraining: the non-linear equation of motion masks the coupling of the scalar to matter through the chameleon mechanism. We discuss consequences for fifth force experiments. In particular, we find that, with quartic coupling of order unity, a gravitational strength interaction with matter is allowed by current constraints. We show that our chameleon scalar field results in experimental signatures that could be detected through modest improvements of current laboratory set-ups.
[ { "created": "Mon, 24 May 2004 14:58:30 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:29:22 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2009-11-10
[ [ "Gubser", "Steven S.", "" ], [ "Khoury", "Justin", "" ] ]
The mass of a scalar field mediating a fifth force is tightly constrained by experiments. We show, however, that adding a quartic self-interaction for such a scalar makes most tests much less constraining: the non-linear equation of motion masks the coupling of the scalar to matter through the chameleon mechanism. We discuss consequences for fifth force experiments. In particular, we find that, with quartic coupling of order unity, a gravitational strength interaction with matter is allowed by current constraints. We show that our chameleon scalar field results in experimental signatures that could be detected through modest improvements of current laboratory set-ups.
hep-ph/9707426
Michael Rueter
Michael Rueter, H.G. Dosch (IHEP, Univ. Heidelberg)
Diffractive color-dipole nucleon scattering
7 pages, 5 eps-figures, uses epsf
Phys.Rev.D57:4097-4100,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.4097
HD-THEP-97-34
hep-ph
null
We determine the diffractive scattering amplitude of a color-dipole on a nucleon using a non-perturbative model of QCD which contains only parameters taken from low-energy physics. This allows to relate specific features of the confinement mechanisms with diffractive electro-production processes and structure functions. The agreement with phenomenological data is satisfactory.
[ { "created": "Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:04:29 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Rueter", "Michael", "", "IHEP, Univ. Heidelberg" ], [ "Dosch", "H. G.", "", "IHEP, Univ. Heidelberg" ] ]
We determine the diffractive scattering amplitude of a color-dipole on a nucleon using a non-perturbative model of QCD which contains only parameters taken from low-energy physics. This allows to relate specific features of the confinement mechanisms with diffractive electro-production processes and structure functions. The agreement with phenomenological data is satisfactory.
2211.06847
Tong Li
Tong Li, Rui-Jia Zhang, Chang-Jie Dai
Solutions to axion electromagnetodynamics and new search strategies of sub-$\mu$eV axion
18 pages, 5 figures. Version accepted for publication in JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP03(2023)088
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The Witten effect implies the electromagnetic interactions between axions and magnetic monopoles. Based on the quantum electromagnetodynamics, a generic low-energy axion-photon effective field theory was built by introducing two four-potentials ($A^\mu$ and $B^\mu$) to describe a photon. More anomalous axion-photon interactions and couplings ($g_{aAA}$, $g_{aBB}$ and $g_{aAB}$) arise in contrary to the ordinary axion coupling $g_{a\gamma\gamma}aF^{\mu\nu}\tilde{F}_{\mu\nu}$. As a consequence, the conventional axion Maxwell equations are further modified. We properly solve the new axion-modified Maxwell equations and obtain the axion-induced electromagnetic fields given a static electric or magnetic field. It turns out that the dominant couplings $g_{aAB}$ and $g_{aBB}$ can be probed in the presence of external magnetic field and electric field, respectively. The induced oscillating magnetic fields are always suppressed compared with the electric fields for the axions with large Compton wavelengths. This is contrary to the situation in conventional experiments searching for the oscillating magnetic fields induced by sub-$\mu$eV axions. Thus, we propose new strategies to measure the new couplings for sub-$\mu$eV axion in haloscope experiments.
[ { "created": "Sun, 13 Nov 2022 08:31:26 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 1 Mar 2023 13:56:50 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-04-05
[ [ "Li", "Tong", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Rui-Jia", "" ], [ "Dai", "Chang-Jie", "" ] ]
The Witten effect implies the electromagnetic interactions between axions and magnetic monopoles. Based on the quantum electromagnetodynamics, a generic low-energy axion-photon effective field theory was built by introducing two four-potentials ($A^\mu$ and $B^\mu$) to describe a photon. More anomalous axion-photon interactions and couplings ($g_{aAA}$, $g_{aBB}$ and $g_{aAB}$) arise in contrary to the ordinary axion coupling $g_{a\gamma\gamma}aF^{\mu\nu}\tilde{F}_{\mu\nu}$. As a consequence, the conventional axion Maxwell equations are further modified. We properly solve the new axion-modified Maxwell equations and obtain the axion-induced electromagnetic fields given a static electric or magnetic field. It turns out that the dominant couplings $g_{aAB}$ and $g_{aBB}$ can be probed in the presence of external magnetic field and electric field, respectively. The induced oscillating magnetic fields are always suppressed compared with the electric fields for the axions with large Compton wavelengths. This is contrary to the situation in conventional experiments searching for the oscillating magnetic fields induced by sub-$\mu$eV axions. Thus, we propose new strategies to measure the new couplings for sub-$\mu$eV axion in haloscope experiments.
hep-ph/9703284
Timo van Ritbergen
J.A.M. Vermaseren, S.A. Larin, T. van Ritbergen
The 4-loop quark mass anomalous dimension and the invariant quark mass
11 pages, Latex
Phys.Lett. B405 (1997) 327-333
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)00660-6
UM-TH-97-03, NIKHEF-97-012
hep-ph
null
We present the analytical calculation of the four-loop quark mass anomalous dimension in Quantum Chromodynamics within the minimal subtraction scheme. On the basis of this result we find that the so-called invariant quark mass is a very good reference mass for the accurate evolution of the running MS-bar quark mass in phenomenological applications. We also obtain for the first time a complete 4-th order perturbative QCD expression for a physical quantity, the total Higgs boson decay rate into hadrons, and analyze the infrared fixed point for this case.
[ { "created": "Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:06:50 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2009-10-30
[ [ "Vermaseren", "J. A. M.", "" ], [ "Larin", "S. A.", "" ], [ "van Ritbergen", "T.", "" ] ]
We present the analytical calculation of the four-loop quark mass anomalous dimension in Quantum Chromodynamics within the minimal subtraction scheme. On the basis of this result we find that the so-called invariant quark mass is a very good reference mass for the accurate evolution of the running MS-bar quark mass in phenomenological applications. We also obtain for the first time a complete 4-th order perturbative QCD expression for a physical quantity, the total Higgs boson decay rate into hadrons, and analyze the infrared fixed point for this case.
1106.5157
Bruno Os\'orio Rodrigues
B. Os\'orio Rodrigues, M.E. Bracco and M. Chiapparini
An inspection on the Borel masses relation used in QCD sum rules
6 pages, 2 figures, Prepared for 11th Hadron Physics
AIP Conf.Proc. 1296 (2010) 302-305
10.1063/1.3523191
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
In this work, we studied the Borel masses relation used in QCDSR calculations. These masses are the parameters of the Borel transform used when the three point function is calculated. We analised an usual and a more general linear relations. We concluded that a general linear relation between these masses provides the best results regarding the standard deviation.
[ { "created": "Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:19:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:10:45 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2011-06-29
[ [ "Rodrigues", "B. Osório", "" ], [ "Bracco", "M. E.", "" ], [ "Chiapparini", "M.", "" ] ]
In this work, we studied the Borel masses relation used in QCDSR calculations. These masses are the parameters of the Borel transform used when the three point function is calculated. We analised an usual and a more general linear relations. We concluded that a general linear relation between these masses provides the best results regarding the standard deviation.
hep-ph/0212034
Taekoon Lee
Taekoon Lee
Direct resummation of the leading renormalons in inclusive semileptonic B decay
10 pages,3 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B
Phys.Lett. B563 (2003) 93
10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00591-4
null
hep-ph
null
We present a Borel resummation method for the QCD corrections in inclusive, charmless, semileptonic B meson decay. The renormalon contributions are resummed to all orders by employing a bilocal expansion of the Borel transform that accurately accounts for the first infrared renormalons in the Borel plane. The renormalons in the pole mass and the QCD expansion are resummed separately, and a precise relation is obtained between a properly defined pole mass and the ${\bar {\rm MS}}$ mass. The inclusive decay rate is calculated to three loop order using an estimate of the yet unknown NNLO coefficient.
[ { "created": "Tue, 3 Dec 2002 07:59:11 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:08:02 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Tue, 6 May 2003 02:49:52 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2009-11-07
[ [ "Lee", "Taekoon", "" ] ]
We present a Borel resummation method for the QCD corrections in inclusive, charmless, semileptonic B meson decay. The renormalon contributions are resummed to all orders by employing a bilocal expansion of the Borel transform that accurately accounts for the first infrared renormalons in the Borel plane. The renormalons in the pole mass and the QCD expansion are resummed separately, and a precise relation is obtained between a properly defined pole mass and the ${\bar {\rm MS}}$ mass. The inclusive decay rate is calculated to three loop order using an estimate of the yet unknown NNLO coefficient.
2205.02810
Kanat Nurlan
Mikhail K. Volkov, Aleksey A. Pivovarov, Kanat Nurlan
The decays $\tau \to a_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$, $\tau \to K_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$ and $\tau \to K_{1} K \nu_\tau$ in the extended $U(3)\times U(3)$ chiral NJL model
8 pages, 4 figures
null
10.1142/S0217732322501188
null
hep-ph
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
The branching fractions of the decays $\tau \to a_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$, $\tau \to K_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$ and $\tau \to K_{1} K \nu_\tau$ are calculated in the framework of the extended $U(3)\times U(3)$ chiral Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. There are no experimental data for these decays in the present time, thus the obtained results are considered as predictions. The comparison of these results to the theoretical results of other authors is carried out.
[ { "created": "Thu, 5 May 2022 17:41:20 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2022-09-07
[ [ "Volkov", "Mikhail K.", "" ], [ "Pivovarov", "Aleksey A.", "" ], [ "Nurlan", "Kanat", "" ] ]
The branching fractions of the decays $\tau \to a_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$, $\tau \to K_{1} \pi \nu_\tau$ and $\tau \to K_{1} K \nu_\tau$ are calculated in the framework of the extended $U(3)\times U(3)$ chiral Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. There are no experimental data for these decays in the present time, thus the obtained results are considered as predictions. The comparison of these results to the theoretical results of other authors is carried out.
hep-ph/0605282
Arif Shoshi
Arif I. Shoshi (Bielefeld University), Bo-Wen Xiao (Columbia University)
Diffractive dissociation including pomeron loops in zero transverse dimensions
14 pages, 5 figures; numerous explanations added, matches the published version
Phys.Rev.D75:054002,2007
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.054002
BI-TP 2006/20, CU-TP-1148
hep-ph
null
We have recently studied the QCD pomeron loop evolution equations in zero transverse dimensions [Shoshi:2005pf]. Using the techniques developed in [Shoshi:2005pf] together with the AGK cutting rules, we present a calculation of single, double and central diffractive cross sections (for large diffractive masses and large rapidity gaps) in zero transverse dimensions in which all dominant pomeron loop graphs are consistently summed. We find that the diffractive cross sections unitarise at asymptotic energies and that they are suppressed by powers of alpha_s. Our calculation is expected to expose some of the diffractive physics in hadron-hadron collisions at high energy.
[ { "created": "Fri, 26 May 2006 12:31:44 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:32:50 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:29:58 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2008-11-26
[ [ "Shoshi", "Arif I.", "", "Bielefeld University" ], [ "Xiao", "Bo-Wen", "", "Columbia\n University" ] ]
We have recently studied the QCD pomeron loop evolution equations in zero transverse dimensions [Shoshi:2005pf]. Using the techniques developed in [Shoshi:2005pf] together with the AGK cutting rules, we present a calculation of single, double and central diffractive cross sections (for large diffractive masses and large rapidity gaps) in zero transverse dimensions in which all dominant pomeron loop graphs are consistently summed. We find that the diffractive cross sections unitarise at asymptotic energies and that they are suppressed by powers of alpha_s. Our calculation is expected to expose some of the diffractive physics in hadron-hadron collisions at high energy.
hep-ph/9408216
Wolfgang Moedritsch
W.Kummer and W.Moedritsch
Rigorous QCD-Potential for the $t\bar{t}$-System at Threshold
36 pages (mailer uncorrupted version), TUW-94-14
Z.Phys.C66:225-240,1995
10.1007/BF01496596
null
hep-ph
null
Recent evidence for the top mass in the region of 160 $GeV$ for the first time provides an opportunity to use the full power of relativistic quantum field theoretical methods, available also for weakly bound systems. Because of the large decay width $\G$ of the top quark individual energy-levels in "toponium" will be unobservable. However, the potential for the $t\bar{t}$ system, based on a systematic expansion in powers of the strong coupling constant $\a_s$ can be rigorously derived from QCD and plays a central role in the threshold region. It is essential that the neglect of nonperturbative (confining) effects is fully justified here for the first time to a large accuracy, also just {\it because} of the large $\G$. The different contributions to that potential are computed from real level corrections near the bound state poles of the $t\bar{t}$-system which for $\G \ne 0$ move into the unphysical sheet of the complex energy plane. Thus, in order to obtain the different contributions to that potential we may use the level corrections at that (complex) pole. Within the relevant level shifts we especially emphasize the corrections of order $O(\a_s^4 m_t)$ and numerically comparable ones to that order also from electroweak interactions which may become important as well.
[ { "created": "Tue, 2 Aug 1994 18:23:51 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Thu, 4 Aug 1994 12:03:46 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Kummer", "W.", "" ], [ "Moedritsch", "W.", "" ] ]
Recent evidence for the top mass in the region of 160 $GeV$ for the first time provides an opportunity to use the full power of relativistic quantum field theoretical methods, available also for weakly bound systems. Because of the large decay width $\G$ of the top quark individual energy-levels in "toponium" will be unobservable. However, the potential for the $t\bar{t}$ system, based on a systematic expansion in powers of the strong coupling constant $\a_s$ can be rigorously derived from QCD and plays a central role in the threshold region. It is essential that the neglect of nonperturbative (confining) effects is fully justified here for the first time to a large accuracy, also just {\it because} of the large $\G$. The different contributions to that potential are computed from real level corrections near the bound state poles of the $t\bar{t}$-system which for $\G \ne 0$ move into the unphysical sheet of the complex energy plane. Thus, in order to obtain the different contributions to that potential we may use the level corrections at that (complex) pole. Within the relevant level shifts we especially emphasize the corrections of order $O(\a_s^4 m_t)$ and numerically comparable ones to that order also from electroweak interactions which may become important as well.
1705.06951
Carlos Tamarit
C. Tamarit
Standard Model - Axion - Seesaw - H portal inflation
8 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond conference, Electroweak session, La Thuile (Italy) 2017. v2: References added
null
null
IPPP/17/42
hep-ph astro-ph.CO hep-th
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Extending the Standard Model with a new complex singlet scalar, right-handed neutrinos and a vector-like quark allows to simultaneously tackle several problems in particle physics and cosmology within a constrained framework that can be falsified by future probes of the cosmic microwave background, as well as by upcoming axion experiments. This Standard Model - Axion - Seesaw - H portal inflation theory (SMASH) provides predictive inflation and $H$ boson stabilization, and can explain baryogenesis, light neutrino masses, dark matter and the strong CP problem. The model contains a unique new mass scale which coincides with the axion decay constant, and also sets the scale for perturbative lepton-number violation processes. Testable predictions include a minimum value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r\gtrsim 0.004$, a running of the spectral index $\alpha\gtrsim-8\times10^{-4}$, a change $\delta N_{\rm eff}\sim 0.03$ in the number of effective relativistic neutrinos, and an axion mass in the range $50\mu eV\leq m_A \leq 200 \mu eV$.
[ { "created": "Fri, 19 May 2017 12:09:14 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:24:04 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2017-06-22
[ [ "Tamarit", "C.", "" ] ]
Extending the Standard Model with a new complex singlet scalar, right-handed neutrinos and a vector-like quark allows to simultaneously tackle several problems in particle physics and cosmology within a constrained framework that can be falsified by future probes of the cosmic microwave background, as well as by upcoming axion experiments. This Standard Model - Axion - Seesaw - H portal inflation theory (SMASH) provides predictive inflation and $H$ boson stabilization, and can explain baryogenesis, light neutrino masses, dark matter and the strong CP problem. The model contains a unique new mass scale which coincides with the axion decay constant, and also sets the scale for perturbative lepton-number violation processes. Testable predictions include a minimum value of the tensor-to-scalar ratio of $r\gtrsim 0.004$, a running of the spectral index $\alpha\gtrsim-8\times10^{-4}$, a change $\delta N_{\rm eff}\sim 0.03$ in the number of effective relativistic neutrinos, and an axion mass in the range $50\mu eV\leq m_A \leq 200 \mu eV$.
1804.09766
Cen Zhang
Eleni Vryonidou, Cen Zhang
Dimension-six electroweak top-loop effects in Higgs production and decay
38 pages, 9 figures, version accepted by JHEP
null
10.1007/JHEP08(2018)036
CERN-TH-2018-097
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
We study the next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to Higgs processes from dimension-six top-quark operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory approach. We consider the major production channels, including $WH$, $ZH$, and VBF production at the LHC, and $ZH$, VBF production at future lepton colliders, as well as the major decay channels including $H\to \gamma\gamma, \gamma Z, Wl\nu,Zll,b\bar b,\mu\mu,\tau\tau$. The results show that within the current constraints, top-quark operators can shift the signal strength of the loop-induced processes, i.e. $H\to \gamma\gamma,\gamma Z$, by factors of $\sim\mathcal{O}(1)-\mathcal{O}(10)$, and that of the tree-level processes, i.e. all remaining production and decay channels, by $\sim5-10\%$ at the LHC, and up to $\sim15\%$ at future lepton colliders. This implies that essentially all Higgs channels have started to become sensitive to top-quark couplings, and in particular, Higgs observables at high luminosity LHC as well as future lepton colliders, even below the $t\bar t$ threshold, will improve our knowledge of top-quark couplings. We derive the sensitivities of Higgs measurements to top-quark operators at the high luminosity LHC, using projections for both inclusive and differential measurements. We conclude that treating the dimension-six top-quark sector and the Higgs/electroweak sector separately may not continue to be a good strategy. A global analysis combining Higgs and top-quark measurements is desirable, and our calculation and implementation provide an automatic and realistic simulation tool for this purpose.
[ { "created": "Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:32:12 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 1 Oct 2018 08:51:19 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2018-10-02
[ [ "Vryonidou", "Eleni", "" ], [ "Zhang", "Cen", "" ] ]
We study the next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to Higgs processes from dimension-six top-quark operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory approach. We consider the major production channels, including $WH$, $ZH$, and VBF production at the LHC, and $ZH$, VBF production at future lepton colliders, as well as the major decay channels including $H\to \gamma\gamma, \gamma Z, Wl\nu,Zll,b\bar b,\mu\mu,\tau\tau$. The results show that within the current constraints, top-quark operators can shift the signal strength of the loop-induced processes, i.e. $H\to \gamma\gamma,\gamma Z$, by factors of $\sim\mathcal{O}(1)-\mathcal{O}(10)$, and that of the tree-level processes, i.e. all remaining production and decay channels, by $\sim5-10\%$ at the LHC, and up to $\sim15\%$ at future lepton colliders. This implies that essentially all Higgs channels have started to become sensitive to top-quark couplings, and in particular, Higgs observables at high luminosity LHC as well as future lepton colliders, even below the $t\bar t$ threshold, will improve our knowledge of top-quark couplings. We derive the sensitivities of Higgs measurements to top-quark operators at the high luminosity LHC, using projections for both inclusive and differential measurements. We conclude that treating the dimension-six top-quark sector and the Higgs/electroweak sector separately may not continue to be a good strategy. A global analysis combining Higgs and top-quark measurements is desirable, and our calculation and implementation provide an automatic and realistic simulation tool for this purpose.
2206.04540
Kevin A. Urqu\'ia Calder\'on
Kevin A. Urqu\'ia-Calder\'on, Inar Timiryasov, Oleg Ruchayskiy
Heavy Neutral Leptons -- Advancing into the PeV domain
29 pages, 11 figures. Updated to JHEP version
J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 167 (2023)
10.1007/JHEP08(2023)167
null
hep-ph hep-ex
http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles able to explain neutrino oscillations and provide a mechanism for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Quantum corrections due to such particles give rise to flavor violating processes in the charged lepton sector. Based on the fact that these corrections grow with HNL masses, we improve existing constraints by orders of magnitude in mass and mixing angle. This allows us to probe part of the parameter space of leptogenesis with multi-TeV HNLs. We also show that one will be able to infer HNL parameters in a significant portion of the parameter space for TeV-PeV masses if charged lepton flavor violating signals are detected.
[ { "created": "Thu, 9 Jun 2022 14:38:32 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:48:23 GMT", "version": "v2" } ]
2023-08-29
[ [ "Urquía-Calderón", "Kevin A.", "" ], [ "Timiryasov", "Inar", "" ], [ "Ruchayskiy", "Oleg", "" ] ]
Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) are hypothetical particles able to explain neutrino oscillations and provide a mechanism for generating the baryon asymmetry of the Universe. Quantum corrections due to such particles give rise to flavor violating processes in the charged lepton sector. Based on the fact that these corrections grow with HNL masses, we improve existing constraints by orders of magnitude in mass and mixing angle. This allows us to probe part of the parameter space of leptogenesis with multi-TeV HNLs. We also show that one will be able to infer HNL parameters in a significant portion of the parameter space for TeV-PeV masses if charged lepton flavor violating signals are detected.
hep-ph/9803385
Thomas G. Rizzo
Thomas G. Rizzo
Right-Handed Currents in B Decay Revisited
52 pages, 8 figs, LaTex, typos corrected, references added, slight augmentation of discussion
Phys.Rev.D58:055009,1998
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.055009
SLAC-PUB-7738
hep-ph
null
We critically re-examine the case for and against a sizeable right-handed component in the $b\to c$ charged current coupling with a strength $\xi$ relative to the conventional left-handed current. Using data from CLEO on the decay $B\to D^*\ell \nu$, as well as our knowledge of $V_{cb}$ extracted from both inclusive and exclusive processes, we are able to determine the presently allowed parameter space for $\xi$ via HQET. We then identify several observables which could be measured at $B$ factories to either strengthen these constraints or otherwise observe right-handed currents. This parameter space region is found to be consistent with the low degree of $\Lambda_b$ polarization as determined by ALEPH as well as the measurements of the charged lepton and neutrino energy spectra from $b$ decay made by L3. We discuss how future measurements of semileptonic decay distributions may distinguish between exotic $\Lambda_b$ depolarization mechanisms and the existence of right-handed currents. Within the parameter space allowed by CLEO, using the Left-Right Symmetric Model as a guide, we perform a detailed search for specific sub-regions which can lead to a reduction in both the $B$ semileptonic branching fraction as well as the the average yield of charmed quarks in $B$ decay. The results provide a concrete realization of an earlier suggestion by Voloshin but may lead to potential difficulties with certain penguin mediated decay processes.
[ { "created": "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:28:21 GMT", "version": "v1" }, { "created": "Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:10:47 GMT", "version": "v2" }, { "created": "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:49:30 GMT", "version": "v3" } ]
2014-11-17
[ [ "Rizzo", "Thomas G.", "" ] ]
We critically re-examine the case for and against a sizeable right-handed component in the $b\to c$ charged current coupling with a strength $\xi$ relative to the conventional left-handed current. Using data from CLEO on the decay $B\to D^*\ell \nu$, as well as our knowledge of $V_{cb}$ extracted from both inclusive and exclusive processes, we are able to determine the presently allowed parameter space for $\xi$ via HQET. We then identify several observables which could be measured at $B$ factories to either strengthen these constraints or otherwise observe right-handed currents. This parameter space region is found to be consistent with the low degree of $\Lambda_b$ polarization as determined by ALEPH as well as the measurements of the charged lepton and neutrino energy spectra from $b$ decay made by L3. We discuss how future measurements of semileptonic decay distributions may distinguish between exotic $\Lambda_b$ depolarization mechanisms and the existence of right-handed currents. Within the parameter space allowed by CLEO, using the Left-Right Symmetric Model as a guide, we perform a detailed search for specific sub-regions which can lead to a reduction in both the $B$ semileptonic branching fraction as well as the the average yield of charmed quarks in $B$ decay. The results provide a concrete realization of an earlier suggestion by Voloshin but may lead to potential difficulties with certain penguin mediated decay processes.
hep-ph/9208206
null
L. Xiong, E. Shuryak and G. E. Brown
Photon production through $A_1$ resonance in high energy heavy ion collisions
null
Phys.Rev.D46:3798-3801,1992
10.1103/PhysRevD.46.3798
null
hep-ph
null
Electromagnetic radiation from excited hadronic matter is one of the best ways to study the properties of the matter. Considering various processes in the hadronic gas, Kapusta et al \cite{Kapusta_photons} have found a $\pi\rho \rightarrow \pi\gamma$ reaction with intermediate virtual pion or rho to be the main source of photons with energy greater than 0.7 GeV. However, at temperatures considered T=100-200 MeV, a $\pi\rho$ pair can easily form an $A_1$(1260) resonance, and we show that this mechanism leads to the photon production rates exceeding those suggested previously. The paper is in LATEX, figures available from authors.
[ { "created": "Tue, 4 Aug 1992 18:21:04 GMT", "version": "v1" } ]
2010-11-01
[ [ "Xiong", "L.", "" ], [ "Shuryak", "E.", "" ], [ "Brown", "G. E.", "" ] ]
Electromagnetic radiation from excited hadronic matter is one of the best ways to study the properties of the matter. Considering various processes in the hadronic gas, Kapusta et al \cite{Kapusta_photons} have found a $\pi\rho \rightarrow \pi\gamma$ reaction with intermediate virtual pion or rho to be the main source of photons with energy greater than 0.7 GeV. However, at temperatures considered T=100-200 MeV, a $\pi\rho$ pair can easily form an $A_1$(1260) resonance, and we show that this mechanism leads to the photon production rates exceeding those suggested previously. The paper is in LATEX, figures available from authors.