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Masses and Mixing of $c q \bar{q} \bar{q}$ Tetraquarks Using Glozman-Riska Hyperfine Interaction: In this paper we perform a detailed study of the masses and mixing of the single charmed scalar tetraquarks: $c q \bar{q} \bar{q}$. We also give a systematic analysis of these tetraquark states by weight diagrams, quantu...
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Non-Abelian Discrete Flavor Symmetries from Magnetized/Intersecting Brane Models: We study non-abelian discrete flavor symmetries, which can appear in magnetized brane models. For example, $D_4$, $\Delta(27)$ and $\Delta(54)$ can appear and matter fields with several representations can appear. We also study the orbi...
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Super-leading logarithms in non-global observables in QCD: Colour basis independent calculation: In a previous paper we reported the discovery of super-leading logarithmic terms in a non-global QCD observable. In this short update we recalculate the first super-leading logarithmic contribution to the 'gaps between je...
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Precise predictions for mt, Vcb and tan: The fermion mass and mixing angle predictions of a recently proposed framework are investigated for large b and $\tau$ Yukawa couplings. A new allowed region of parameters is found for this large $\tan \beta$ case. The two predictions which are substantially altered, $m_t$ and $...
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Light axial-vector tetraquark state candidate: $a_1(1420)$: In this article, we study the axial-vector tetraquark state and two-quark-tetraquark mixed state consist of light quarks using the QCD sum rules. The present predictions disfavor assigning the $a_1(1420)$ as the axial-vector tetraquark state with $J^{PC}=1^{++...
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Energy dependence of underlying-event observables from RHIC to LHC energies: A study of the charged-particle density (number density) in the transverse region of the di-hadron correlations exploiting the existing pp and p$\bar{\rm p}$ data from RHIC to LHC energies is reported. This region has contributions from the ...
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Study of Single W production in e-gamma collisions through the decay lepton spectrum to probe gamma-WW couplings: We investigate the effect of anomalous gamma-W-W couplings in e-gamma --> nu W through the angular and energy spectrum of the secondary leptons. Within the narrow-width approximation, a semi-analytical st...
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Spectrum-doubled Heavy Vector Bosons at the LHC: We study a simple effective field theory incorporating six heavy vector bosons together with the standard-model field content. The new particles preserve custodial symmetry as well as an approximate left-right parity symmetry. The enhanced symmetry of the model allows it...
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Affleck-Dine dynamics and the dark sector of pangenesis: Pangenesis is the mechanism for jointly producing the visible and dark matter asymmetries via Affleck-Dine dynamics in a baryon-symmetric universe. The baryon-symmetric feature means that the dark asymmetry cancels the visible baryon asymmetry and thus enforces a...
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A New Hypothesis on the Origin of the Three Generations: We suggest that the Standard Model may undergo a supercritical transition near the Landau scale, where the U(1) gauge boson couples to the left and right handed states of any given fermion with different charges. This scenario naturally gives rise to three genera...
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Lepton flavor violation beyond the MSSM: Most extensions of the Standard Model lepton sector predict large lepton flavor violating rates. Given the promising experimental perspectives for lepton flavor violation in the next few years, this generic expectation might offer a powerful indirect probe to look for new physic...
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Domain walls in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and their charge and CP-violating interactions with Standard Model fermions: Discrete symmetries play an important role in several extensions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. For instance, in order to avoid flavor changing neutral currents, a discrete $Z_2$ s...
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A new approach for calculating the Nambu-Gorkov propagator in color superconductivity theory: In this article, we propose a new approach to calculate the Nambu-Gorkov propagator intuitively with some linear algebra techniques in presence of the scalar diquark condensates. With the help of energy projective operators,...
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More on Parametrization Relevant to Describe Violation of CP, T and CPT Symmetries in the $K^0-\bar{K^0}$ System: To study violation of CP, T and/or CPT symmetries in the $K^0-\bar{K^0}$ systems, one has to parametrize the relevant mixing parameters and decay amplitudes in such a way that each parameter represents vi...
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Leading Order Calculation of Electric Conductivity in Hot Quantum Electrodynamics from Diagrammatic Methods: Using diagrammatic methods, we show how the Ward identity can be used to constrain the ladder kernel in transport coefficient calculations. More specifically, we use the Ward identity to determine the necessar...
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Gluon correlations from a Glasma flux-tube model compared to measured hadron correlations on transverse momentum $\bf (p_t,p_t)$ and angular differences $\bf (η_Δ,φ_Δ)$: A Glasma flux-tube model has been proposed to explain strong elongation on pseudorapidity $\eta$ of the same-side 2D peak in minimum-bias angular ...
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Unitary and Analytic Models in Particle Physics Phenomenology: After two decades of a development of the unitary and analytic models of the electromagnetic structure of hadrons and nuclei their main principles are briefly formulated, then a general scheme of their applications to the electromagnetic, weak and strong in...
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Thoughts about the utility of perturbative QCD in the cores of neutron stars: In this contribution, I discuss the utility that perturbative QCD offers in studying the matter in the cores of neutron stars. I discuss the reasons why perturbative QCD can constrain the equation of state at densities far below the densiti...
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Dark matter astrometry at underground detectors with multiscatter events: We show that current and imminent underground detectors are capable of precision astrometry of dark matter. First we show that galactic dark matter velocity distributions can be obtained from reconstructed tracks of dark matter scattering on mult...
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Improving the J/psi Production Baseline at RHIC and the LHC: We assess the theoretical uncertainties on the inclusive J/psi production cross section in the Color Evaporation Model (CEM) using values for the charm quark mass, renormalization and factorization scales obtained from a fit to the charm production data. We u...
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What Can We Learn About Leptoquarks At LEP200?: We investigate the discovery potential for first generation leptoquarks at the LEP200 $e^+e^-$ collider. We consider direct leptoquark searches using single leptoquark production via resolved photon contributions which offers a much higher kinematic limit than the more co...
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The predictions of the charm structure function exponents behaviour at low x in deep inelastic scattering: We use the hard (Lipatov) pomeron for the low-x gluon distribution and provide a compact formula for the ratio $R^{c} =F_{L}^{c}/F_{2}^{c}$ that is useful to extract the charm structure function from the reduced...
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Quark-Lepton Flavor Democracy and the Non-Existence of the Fourth Generation: In the Standard Model with two Higgs doublets (type II), which has a consistent trend to a flavor gauge theory and its related flavor democracy in the quark and the leptonic sectors (unlike the minimal Standard Model) when the energy of the...
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Neutralino Dark Matter and Other LHC Predictions from Quasi Yukawa Unification: We explore the dark matter and LHC implications of t-b-tau quasi Yukawa unification in the framework of supersymmetric models based on the gauge symmetry G=SU(4)_{c}\times SU(2)_{L}\times SU(2)_{R}. The deviation from exact Yukawa unifica...
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$D_s$ Lifetime, $m_b$, $m_c$ and $|V_{cb}|$ in the Heavy Quark Expansion: We present some straightforward applications of the QCD heavy quark expansion, stated in previous papers [1-3], to the inclusive widths of heavy flavour hadrons. We address the question of the $D_s$ lifetime and argue that -- barring Weak Annihil...
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On Supersymmetries: After reviewing electroweak (EW) scale supersymmetry (susy) and split susy, as well as their implications in very high energy cosmic rays, I present a high scale susy model for fermion masses. An O(0.1) nu_e-nu_{tau} mixing is expected.
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On the Spectrum of Lattice Massive SU(2) Yang-Mills: On the basis of extended simulations we provide some results concerning the spectrum of Massive SU(2) Yang-Mills on the lattice. We study the "time" correlator of local gauge invariant operators integrated over the remaining three dimensions. The energy gaps are meas...
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Charmless $B_{u,d,s}\to VT$ decays in perturbative QCD approach: Motivated by the experimental data, we study charmless $B_{u,d,s}\to VT$ ($V$ and $T$ denote light vector and tensor mesons respectively) decays in the perturbative QCD approach. The predictions of branching ratios, polarization fractions and direct CP vi...
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Higgs production in hadron collisions: soft and virtual QCD corrections at NNLO: We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon-gluon fusion in hadron collisions. Using the recently evaluated two-loop amplitude for this process and the corresponding factorization formulae for soft-gluon bremsstra...
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Primordial magnetic fields, anomalous isocurvature fluctuations and Big Bang nucleosynthesis: We show that the presence of primordial stochastic (hypercharge) magnetic fields before the electroweak (EW) phase transition induces isocurvature fluctuations (baryon number inhomogeneities). Depending on the details of the...
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Excess Cross-Sections at the Electroweak Scale in the Sextet Quark ``Standard Model'': If dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking is due to a flavor doublet of color sextet quarks, enhanced electroweak scale QCD instanton interactions may produce a large top mass, raise the $\eta_6$ axion mass, and also explain the e...
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Determination of QCD condensates from tau-decay data: We have used the latest data from the ALEPH Collaboration to extract values for QCD condensates up to dimension d=12 in the V-A channel and up to dimension d=8 in the V, A and V+A channels. Performing 2- and 3-parameter fits, we obtain new results for the correlatio...
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Initial fields and instability in the classical model of the heavy-ion collision: Color Glass Condensate (CGC) provides a classical description of dense gluon matter at high energies. Using the McLerran-Venugopalan (MV) model we calculate the initial energy density \epsilon(\tau) in the early stage of the relativisti...
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Chiral asymmetry and axial anomaly in magnetized relativistic matter: The induced axial current and the chiral anomaly are studied in the normal phase of magnetized relativistic matter. A special attention is paid to the role of the chiral shift parameter Delta, leading to a relative shift of the longitudinal momenta i...
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Jet quenching phenomenology from soft-collinear effective theory with Glauber gluons: We present the first application of a recently-developed effective theory of jet propagation in matter SCETG to inclusive hadron suppression in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC. SCETG-based splitting kernels allow us to go beyo...
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The Effect of Weak Interactions on the Ultra-Relativistic Bose-Einstein Condensation Temperature: We calculate the ultra-relativistic Bose-Einstein condensation temperature of a complex scalar field with weak lambda Phi^4 interaction. We show that at high temperature and finite density we can use dimensional reductio...
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Has HERA reached a new QCD regime?: These notes are a summary of our efforts to answer the question in the title. Our answer is in the affirmative as: (i) HERA data indicate a large value of the gluon structure function; (ii) no contradictions with the asymptotic predictions of high density QCD have been observed; and ...
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Electroweak and supersymmetric two-loop corrections to lepton anomalous magnetic and electric dipole moments: Using the effective Lagrangian method, we analyze the electroweak corrections to the anomalous dipole moments of lepton from some special two-loop diagrams where a closed neutralino/chargino loop is inserted ...
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Nonequilibrium Chiral Dynamics and Effective Lagrangians: We review our recent work on Chiral Lagrangians out of thermal equilibrium, which are introduced to analyse the pion gas formed after a Relativistic Heavy Ion Collision. Chiral Perturbation Theory is extended by letting $\fpi$ be time dependent and allows to des...
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Comment on the Theta+ width and mass: We discuss the relatively low mass and narrow width prediction for the exotic baryon Theta+, and comment on recent statements by R.L. Jaffe on the subject. We reaffirm that a narrow width of 3.6-11.2 MeV follows from the equations of our 1997 paper.
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Positivity issues for the pinch-technique gluon propagator and their resolution: Although gauge-boson propagators in asymptotically-free gauge theories satisfy a dispersion relation, they do not satisfy the K\"allen-Lehmann (KL) representation because the spectral function changes sign. We argue that this is a simple...
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Discrete Symmetry, Neutrino Magnetic Moment and the 17 Kev Neutrino: The problem of generating large transition magnetic moments for nearly massless neutrinos in a truly three--generation case is discussed. A model to achieve the same by exploiting an octahedral symmetry is presented. The scheme also accomodates a radi...
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Hadronic structure on the light-front VI. Generalized parton distributions of unpolarized hadrons: We discuss the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) for unpolarized hadrons, as a continuation of our recent work on hadronic structure on the light front. We analyze the unpolarized GPDs for the light nucleon and de...
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Composite Higgs to two Photons and Gluons: We introduce a simple framework to estimate the composite Higgs boson coupling to two-photon in Technicolor extensions of the standard model. The same framework allows us to predict the composite Higgs to two-gluon process. We compare the decay rates with the standard model on...
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The Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule and the infinite-momentum limit: We study the current-algebra approach to the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule, paying particular attention to the infinite-momentum limit. Employing the order-alpha^2 Weinberg-Salam model of weak interactions as a testing ground, we find that the legitim...
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Current correlators to all orders in the quark masses: The contributions to the coefficient functions of the quark and the mixed quark-gluon condensate to mesonic correlators are calculated for the first time to all orders in the quark masses, and to lowest order in the strong coupling constant. Existing results on the...
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Cabibbo-favored $Λ^+_c\toΛa_{0}(980)^+$ decay in the final state interaction: The anti-triplet charmed baryon decays with the light scalar mesons are rarely measured, whereas the recent observation of the Cabibbo-favored $\Lambda_c^+\to \Lambda\eta\pi^+$ decay hints a possible $\Lambda_c^+\to\Lambda a_0(980)^+,a_0(98...
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The static potential in QCD to two loops: We evaluate the static QCD potential to two--loop order. Compared to a previous calculation a sizable reduction of the two--loop coefficient $a_2$ is found.
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Update of the Hagedorn mass spectrum: We present an update of the Hagedorn hypothesis of the exponential growth of the number of hadronic resonances with mass. We use the newest available experimental data for the non-strange mesons and baryons, as well as fill in some missing states according to the observation that t...
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Limits on Cosmological Variation of Strong Interaction and Quark Masses from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Cosmic, Laboratory and Oklo Data: Recent data on cosmological variation of the electromagnetic fine structure constant from distant quasar (QSO) absorption spectra have inspired a more general discussion of possible...
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Higgs Physics: These lectures review the background to Higgs physics, its current status following the discovery of a/the Higgs boson at the LHC, models of Higgs physics beyond the Standard Model and prospects for Higgs studies in future runs of the LHC and at possible future colliders.
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Geometry of the neutrino mixing space: We study a geometric structure of a physical region of neutrino mixing matrices as part of the unit ball of the spectral norm. Each matrix from the geometric region is a convex combination of unitary PMNS matrices. The disjoint subsets corresponding to a different minimal number o...
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Probing New Physics With b Decays: I discuss how b decays can be used to unravel new physics beyond the Standard Model. Decays second order in the weak interaction involving loops and CP violation are emphasized. This information is complementary to that obtainable with higher energy machines.
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A screening mechanism for extra W and Z gauge bosons: We generalize a previous construction of a fermiophobic model to the case of more than one extra $W$ and $Z$ gauge bosons. We focus in particular on the existence of screening configurations and their implication on the gauge boson mass spectrum. One of these config...
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A study of the resonances $K_{0}^{*}(800)$ and $K_{0}^{*}(1430)$: We study the scalar kaonic states $K_{0}^{\ast}(800)$ and $K_{0}^{\ast}(1430)$ by using a relativistic QFT Lagrangian in which only a single kaonic field corresponding to the well-established scalar state $K_{0}^{\ast}(1430)$ is considered and in which b...
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A note on Higgs decays into $Z$ boson and $J/Ψ(Υ)$: Rare decays $h\to Z V$ with $V$ denoting the narrow $c\bar{c}$ or $b\bar{b}$ resonances, such as $J/\Psi$ or $\Upsilon$ states, have been analyzed. Within the standard model, these channels may proceed through the tree-level transition $h\to ZZ^*$ with the virtual $Z^...
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Axionic Mirage Mediation: In this talk, we propose a model of mirage mediation, in which Peccei-Quinn symmetry is incorporated. In this \textit{axionic mirage mediation}, it is shown that the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking scale is dynamically determined around $10^{10}$ GeV to $10^{12}$ GeV due to the supersymmetry br...
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Deuteron Magnetic Quadrupole Moment From Chiral Effective Field Theory: We calculate the magnetic quadrupole moment (MQM) of the deuteron at leading order in the systematic expansion provided by chiral effective field theory. We take into account parity and time-reversal violation which, at the quark-gluon level, resul...
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Predicting the Pion and Eta Masses as Quantum Corrections without Quark Masses: This paper is removed because it used an approximation, which alters some of the conclusions. Another paper will be written in the near future.
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Probing the Dark Matter of Three-loop Radiative Neutrino Mass Generation Model with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: We investigate the prospect of detecting the Dark Matter (DM) candidate in the three-loop radiative neutrino mass generation model extended with large electroweak multiplets of the Standard Model (SM) ga...
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Probing initial geometrical anisotropy and final azimuthal anisotropy in heavy-ion collisions at Large Hadron Collider energies through event-shape engineering: Anisotropic flow is accredited to have effects from the initial state geometry and fluctuations in the nuclear overlap region. The elliptic flow ($v_2$) an...
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Hadron-hadron collision mode in ReneSANCe-v1.3.0: We report an implementation of the hadron-hadron ($pp$ and $p\bar{p}$) collision mode to the Monte Carlo event generator ReneSANCe - the code that was previously developed for $e^+e^-$ collisions. The described extension of ReneSANCe currently contains neutral and charg...
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Dissipative Effects on Reheating after Inflation: The inflaton must convert its energy into radiation after inflation, which, in a conventional scenario, is caused by the perturbative inflaton decay. This reheating process would be much more complicated in some cases: the decay products obtain masses from an oscillatin...
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The connection between the DRED and NSVZ renormalisation schemes: We explore the relationship between the DRED and NSVZ schemes. Using certain exact results for the soft scalar mass $\beta$-function, we derive the transformation of $\alpha^{\DRED}$ to $\alpha^{\NSVZ}$ through terms of order $\alpha^4$. We thus incident...
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Herwig++ 2.2 Release Note: A new release of the Monte Carlo program Herwig++ (version 2.2) is now available. This version includes a number of improvements including: matrix elements for the production of an electroweak gauge boson, W and Z, in association with a jet; several new processes for Higgs production in assoc...
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Late decaying 2-component dark matter scenario as an explanation of the AMS-02 positron excess: The long standing anomaly in the positron flux as measured by the PAMELA and AMS-02 experiments could potentially be explained by dark matter (DM) annihilations. This scenario typically requires a large "boost factor" to b...
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Testing collinear factorization and nuclear parton distributions with pA collisions at the LHC: Global perturbative QCD analyses, based on large data sets from electron-proton and hadron collider experiments, provide tight constraints on the parton distribution function (PDF) in the proton. The extension of these ana...
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Collisions and collective flavor conversion: Integrating out the fast dynamics: In dense astrophysical environments, notably core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers, neutrino-neutrino forward scattering can spawn flavor conversion on very short scales. Scattering with the background medium can impact collec...
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Effective Theory for Heavy Quarkonia Decays: An effective theory approach to heavy quarkonia decays based on the $1/m_Q$ expansion is introduced. Its application to decays in which the two heavy quarks annihilate is discussed.
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Inverse Primakoff Scattering for Axionlike Particle Coupling: Axionlike particles (ALPs) can be produced in the Sun, and are considered viable candidates for the cosmological dark matter (DM). It can decay into two photons or interact with matter. We identify new inelastic channels of inverse Primakoff processes due to...
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Multi-color QCD at High Energies and Exactly Solvable Lattice Theories: We examine the generalized leading-logarithmic approximation (LLA) equations for compound states of n-reggeized gluons. It is shown that in multi-color QCD, when $N_c \rightarrow \infty$, these equations have a sufficient number of conservation law...
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Resonances in a sudden chemical freeze-out model: The prediction for $p_T$ spectra of various resonances produced in Pb+Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV at the LHC in equilibrium and non-equilibrium models is made. It includes the $\eta$, $\rho$(770), $\Sigma$(1385), $\Lambda$(1520), and $\Xi$(1530). The apparent differences ...
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Rare Z-decay into light pseudoscalar bosons in the simplest little Higgs model: The simplest little Higgs model predicts a light pseudoscalar boson $\eta$ and opens up some new decay modes for $Z$-boson, such as $Z \to \bar{f} f \eta$, $Z\to \eta\eta\eta$, $Z\to \eta\gamma$ and $Z\to \eta gg$. We examine these decay ...
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NNLO QCD$\oplus$QED corrections to Higgs production in bottom quark annihilation: We present next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections to the production of the Higgs boson in bottom quark annihilation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the five flavor scheme. We have systematic...
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Photoproduction of $a_{2}(1320)$ in a Regge model: In this work, the photoproduction of $a_{2}(1320)$ off a proton target is investigated within an effective Lagrangian approach and the Regge model. The theoretical result indicates that the shapes of {the} total and differential cross sections of the $\gamma p\rightarr...
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Quark distributions in polarized rho meson and its comparison with those in pion: Valence quark distributions in transversally and longitudinally polarizied rho mesons in the region of intermediate x are obtained by generalizied QCD sum rules. Power corrections up to d=6 are taken into account. Comparison of the resu...
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The T7 flavor symmetry in 3-3-1 model with neutral leptons: We construct a 3-3-1 model based on non-Abelian discrete symmetry $T_7$ responsible for the fermion masses. Neutrinos get masses from only anti-sextets which are in triplets $\underline{3}$ and $\underline{3}^*$ under $T_7$. The flavor mixing patterns and mass...
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On holographic relation between radial meson trajectories and deconfinement temperature: The interrelation between the deconfinement temperature of hadron medium and parameters of radial Regge trajectories within the bottom-up holographic models for QCD is scrutinized. We show that the lattice data on the deconfineme...
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Improving NLO-parton shower matched simulations with higher order matrix elements: In recent times the algorithms for the simulation of hadronic collisions have been subject to two substantial improvements: the inclusion, within parton showering, of exact higher order tree level matrix elements (MEPS) and, separately...
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Supersymmetric Large Extra Dimensions Are Small and/or Numerous: Recently, a scenario has been proposed in which the gravitational scale could be as low as the TeV scale, and extra dimensions could be large and detectable at the electroweak scale. Although supersymmetry is not a requirement of this scenario, it is neve...
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The study of the negative pion production in neutron-proton collisions at beam momenta below 1.8 GeV/c: A detailed investigation of the reaction np -> pp\pi^{-} has been carried out using the data obtained with the continuous neutron beam produced by charge exchange scattering of protons off a deuterium target. A par...
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Neutrino interactions with a weak slowly varying electromagnetic field: We derive the effective action for processes involving two neutrinos and two photons at energies much below the electron mass. We discuss several applications in which one or both photons are replaced by external fields. In particular, Cherenkov ra...
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Comment on astrophysical consequences of a neutrinophilic 2HDM: Several authors have pointed out that the scalar-mediated interaction of neutrinos in a neutriophilic two-Higgs-doublet model (nu2HDM) can be as strong as electromagnetic interaction [1-3]. We show that the coupling constants of neutrino-scalar interaction...
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The Supersymmetric Standard Model, with a Brout-Englert-Higgs boson as spin-0 partner of the Z: Supersymmetric extensions of the standard model lead us to expect superpartners for all particles, spin-0 squarks and sleptons and spin-1/2 gluinos, charginos and neutralinos, with an odd R-parity making the lightest one s...
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Constraining Sterile Neutrino Interpretations of the LSND and MiniBooNE Anomalies with Coherent Neutrino Scattering Experiments: Results from the LSND and MiniBooNE experiments have been interpreted as evidence for a sterile neutrino with a mass near the electronvolt scale. Here we propose to test such a scenario by ...
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General Issues Connecting Flavor Symmetry and Supersymmetry: We motivate and construct supersymmetric theories with continuous flavor symmetry, under which the electroweak Higgs doublets transform non-trivially. Flavor symmetry is spontaneously broken at a large mass scale in a sector of gauge-singlet fields; the light...
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Gauge dependence of the on-shell renormalized mixing matrices: It was recently pointed out that the on-shell renormalization of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix in the method by Denner and Sack causes a gauge parameter dependence of the amplitudes. We analyze the gauge dependence of the on-shell renormalizati...
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Distinguishing magnetic moment from oscillation solutions of the solar neutrino problem with Borexino: Assuming that the observed deficit of solar neutrinos is due to the interaction of their transition magnetic moment with the solar magnetic field we derive the predictions for the forthcoming Borexino experiment. Th...
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Heavy hybrid mesons in the QCD sum rule: We study the spectra of the hybrid mesons containing one heavy quark ($q\bar{Q}g$) within the framework of QCD sum rules in the heavy quark limit. The derived sum rules are stable with the variation of the Borel parameter within their corresponding working ranges. The extracted ...
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MSSM at future Higgs factories: In this work, we study the implication of Higgs precision measurements at future Higgs factories on the MSSM parameter space, focusing on the dominant stop sector contributions. We perform a multi-variable fit to both the signal strength for various Higgs decay channels at Higgs factorie...
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Test of beta and antineutrino spectra symmetry in beta-decay: The mechanism of beta decay in nature is not understood yet. Mirrored energy spectra of electron and antineutrino can clarify the situation. A special experiment is needed to measure antineutrino spectrum from known beta-decaying isotope to compare it with t...
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Color-Octet $ψ'$ Production at Low $p_\perp$: We study contributions from color-octet quarkonium formation mechanisms to $p_\perp$-integrated $\psi'$ production cross sections in pion-nucleon reactions. The observed polarization of the $\psi'$ is not reproduced by the lowest-order leading-twist color-singlet and color-...
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B-Mesons on the Transverse Lattice: We present results from a first study of $B$-mesons that is based on a transverse lattice formulation of light-front QCD. The shape of the Isgur-Wise form factor is in very good agreement with experimental data. However, the calculations yield rather large values for $f_B$ and $\bar{...
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Seesaw and the Riddle of Mass: The prediction of small neutrino masses through the Seesaw Mechanism and their subsequent measurement suggests that the natural cut-off of the Standard Model is very high indeed. The recent neutrino data must be interpreted as a reflection of physics at very high energy. We examine their ...
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Neutrino Oscillometry: Neutrino oscillations are studied employing sources of low energy monoenergetic neutrinos following electron capture by the nucleus and measuring electron recoils. Since the neutrino energy is very low the oscillation length appearing in this electronic neutrino disappearance experiment can be so...
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Jet grooming through reinforcement learning: We introduce a novel implementation of a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm which is designed to find an optimal jet grooming strategy, a critical tool for collider experiments. The RL agent is trained with a reward function constructed to optimize the resulting jet prope...
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Polarization puts a New Spin on Physics: Polarization and spin effects are useful for probing the Standard Model, in both the electroweak sector and the strong sector, where the spin decomposition of the nucleon is still a hot topic, with important new data on the net polarizations of the gluon and the strange quarks. ...
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High energy photon production in strong colliding laser beams: The collision of two intense, low-frequency laser beams is considered. The $e^-e^+$ pairs created in this field are shown to exhibit recollisions, which take place at high energy accumulated due to the wiggling of fermions. The resulting $e^-e^+$ annihilati...
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Out-of-Equilibrium Photon Production in the Late Stages of Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: In this work, we assess the importance of non-equilibrium dynamics in the production of photons from the late stages of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The p$_\mathrm{T}$-differential spectra and $v_2$ of photons from the...
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Measuring Slepton Masses and Mixings at the LHC: Flavor physics may help us understand theories beyond the standard model. In the context of supersymmetry, if we can measure the masses and mixings of sleptons and squarks, we may learn something about supersymmetry and supersymmetry breaking. Here we consider a hybrid g...
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