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Photoproduction of Vector Mesons at Large Transfer: At forward angles, the cross-sections of photoproduction of vector mesons ($\rho$, $\omega$, and $\phi$) are well accounted for by the exchange of the Pomeron at high energies, while contributions of $t$ channel exchange of Reggeons are significant at low energies. At...
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Analysis of the decay constants of the heavy pseudoscalar mesons with QCD sum rules: In this article, we recalculate the contributions of all vacuum condensates up to dimension-6, in particular the one-loop corrections to the quark condensates $\alpha_s<\bar{q}q>$ and partial one-loop corrections to the four-quark co...
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Threshold behavior of Feynman diagrams: the master two-loop propagator: An asymptotic expansion of the two-loop two-point ``master'' diagram with two masses $m$ and $M$, on the mass shell $Q^2=M^2$, is presented. The treatment of the non-analytical terms arising in the expansion around the branching point is discussed....
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Virtual Corrections to the NLO Splitting Functions for Monte Carlo: the non-singlet case: Construction of a QCD cascade at the NLO level requires recalculation of the splitting functions in a different manner [1]. We describe the calculation of some of the virtual contributions to the non-singlet splitting function. ...
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Induced top Yukawa coupling and suppressed Higgs mass parameters: In the scenarios with heavy top squarks, mass parameters of the Higgs field must be fine-tuned due to a large logarithmic correction to the soft scalar mass. We consider a new possibility that the top Yukawa coupling is small above TeV scale. The large t...
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DUNE potential as a New Physics probe: Neutrino experiments, in the next years, aim to determine with precision all the six parameters of the three-neutrino standard paradigm. The complete success of the experimental program is, nevertheless, attached to the non-existence (or at least smallness) of Non-Standard Interac...
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Partonic structure of the virtual photon: Interactions of virtual photons are analyzed in terms of their parton distribution functions. It is shown that the concept of parton distribution functions is phenomenologically very useful even for highly virtual photonds involved in hard collisions. The role of the longitudin...
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Inelastic dark matter nucleus scattering: Direct detection experiments aim at the detection of dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) by searching for signals from elastic dark matter nucleus scattering. Additionally, inelastic scattering in which the nucleus is excited is expected from...
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Hard spectator-scattering in B -> pi pi decays at NNLO: We compute the 1-loop (NNLO) corrections to hard spectator-scattering in tree-dominated hadronic B decays. Depending on the values of hadronic input parameters the corrections are shown to have a significant impact on the B -> pi pi branching fractions.
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Dilaton Stabilisation in $D$-term Inflation: Dilaton stabilisation is usually considered to pose a serious obstacle to successful $D$-term inflation in superstring theories. We argue that the physics of gaugino condensation is likely to be modified during the inflationary phase in such a way as to enhance the gaugino c...
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Bell's Inequality and $τ$-Physics at LEP: In this talk given at the TAU92 Workshop, Columbus, OH, Sept. 92, we summarize results presented in more detail in a recent paper by S. Abel, M. Dittmar and the author where we gave a general proof that Bell's inequality can not be tested at a collider experiment. In particular...
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Neutrino induced meson productions in forward limit: We study neutrino-induced meson productions off the nucleon in the forward limit by applying the PCAC hypothesis to our dynamical coupled-channels (DCC) model. The DCC model reasonably describes pi N, gamma N -> pi N, eta N, K Lambda, K Sigma data in the resonance re...
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The linear BESS model and the double Higgs-strahlung production: In this paper we evaluate, in the context of the linear BESS model the cross-section for the double Higgs-strahlung process. We find that, within the bounds given by the actual experimental data, significant deviations with respect to the SM may arise. In...
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Density spikes near black holes in self-interacting dark matter halos and indirect detection constraints: Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) naturally gives rise to a cored isothermal density profile, which is favored in observations of many dwarf galaxies. The dark matter distribution in the presence of a central b...
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Weak Radiative Hyperon Decays in Chiral Perturbation Theory: The parity-conserving $a$ and parity-violating $b$ amplitudes for weak radiative hyperon decay are studied using chiral perturbation theory. The imaginary parts of $a$ and $b$ are computed using unitarity. The real part of $b$ is dominated by a one-loop infra...
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Report of the Topical Group on Cosmic Probes of Dark Matter for Snowmass 2021: Cosmological and astrophysical observations currently provide the only robust, positive evidence for dark matter. Cosmic probes of dark matter, which seek to determine the fundamental properties of dark matter through observations of the c...
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First exotic hadron with open heavy flavor: $cs\bar u\bar d$ tetraquark: The LHCb Collaboration has reported resonant activity in the channel $D^+ K^-$, identifying two components: $X_0(2900)$ with $J^P = 0^+$ at $2866 {\pm} 7$ MeV, $\Gamma_0=57{\pm} 13$ MeV and $X_1(2900)$ with $J^P = 1^-$ at $2904 {\pm} 7$ MeV, $\Gam...
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Investigating $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$ anomalies in a Left-Right model with an Inverse Seesaw: We investigate $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$ anomalies in a low scale left-right symmetric model based on $SU(3)_C\times SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L}\times Z_2$ with a simplified Higgs sector consisting of only one bidoublet and...
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Phase Transition to RS: Cool, not Supercool: Motivated by the warped conifold compactification, we model the infrared (IR) dynamics of confining gauge theories in a Randall-Sundrum (RS)-like setup by modifying the stabilizing Goldberger-Wise (GW) potential so that it becomes large (in magnitude) in the IR and back-reac...
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Phenomenology of the BFKL pomeron and Unitarity Corrections at low x: The low $x$ limit of deep inelastic electron proton scattering is considered using methods of perturbative QCD. In the first part we investigate the phenomenological consequences of the resummation of leading logarithms in $1/x$ given by the BFKL pom...
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Probing neutrino magnetic moment and unparticle interactions with Borexino: We discuss the limits on the neutrino magnetic moment and hypothetical interactions with a hidden unparticle sector, coming from the first neutrino data release of the Borexino experiment. The observed spectrum in Borexino depends weakly on t...
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Chiral Phase Transition in QCD and Vector Manifestation: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking is one of the most important features in low-energy QCD. The chiral symmetry is expected to be restored at very high temperature and/or density. Accompanied by the chiral phase transition, properties of hadrons will be changed...
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Probing a new decay of vector-like top partner mediated by heavy Majorana neutrino via single production: Models beyond the Standard Model have been proposed to simultaneously solve the problems of naturalness and neutrino mass, in which heavy Majorana neutrinos and vector-like top partners are usually predicted. A n...
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Effects of lepton number violating interactions on $t \bar t$ production at NLC: We discuss the effects of lepton number violating interactions namely, R-parity violation and leptoquarks on top quark pair production at the upcoming $e^+ e^-$ linear colliders. Effects of SU(2) singlet, doublet and triplet leptoquark i...
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Scaling law for the $Υ(4S) \to B \bar B$ and $ψ(3770) \to D \bar D$ decay constants from effective sum rules: Sum rules for exclusive production of heavy meson pairs in $e^+e^-$ annihilation are used to evaluate the $\Upsilon(4S) \to B \bar B$ and $\psi(3770) \to D \bar D$ decay widths. Infinitely heavy quark limit i...
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Branching ratios of $B_s\to (K^+K^-,K^0\bar{K}^0)$ and $B_d\to π^+ π^- and determination of \boldmath{$γ(φ_3)$: We explored various cases for the branching ratios (BRs) of $B_s\to K^+K^-$, $B_s\to K^0\bar{K}^0$ and $B_d\to \pi^+ \pi^-$ decays. We study the possibility of determining $\gamma $ by using the following t...
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Top quark asymmetry and dijet resonances: CDF recently reported an anomaly in the $m_{jj}$ distribution of dijet events produced in association with a $W$ boson. If this anomaly is associated with a new flavor conserving vector resonance, $V$, one might have expected to observe effects in the analogous $m_{jj}$ distrib...
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NLO QCD Predictions for associated t-tbar-h production in Hadronic Collisions: We present the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the inclusive total cross section for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a top anti-top quark pair within the Standard Model at the Tevatron and the LHC.
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Calculation of the scattering amplitudes: General equations for the calculation of amplitudes are presented. As an illustration of application of proposed formulae we calculate electron-electron scattering amplitudes.
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Manifestaion of SUSY in B decays: SUSY effects on various flavor changing neutral current processes are discussed in the minimal supergravity model and the SU(5) grand unified theory with right-handed neutrino supermultiplets. In particular, in the latter case the neutrino Yukawa coupling constants can be a source of t...
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Pseudoscalar--meson decuplet--baryon coupling constants in light cone QCD: Taking into account the $SU(3)_f$ breaking effects, the strong coupling constants of the $\pi$, $K$ and $\eta$ mesons with decuplet baryons are calculated within light cone QCD sum rules method. It is shown that all coupling constants, even in...
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The QCD phase structure at finite temperature and density: We discuss the phase structure of QCD for $N_f=2$ and $N_f=2+1$ dynamical quark flavours at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential. It emerges dynamically from the underlying fundamental interactions between quarks and gluons in our work. To this end,...
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Gauge Dependence of Four-Fermion QED Green Function and Atom-Like Bound State Calculations: We derive a relation between four-fermion QED Green functions of different covariant gauges which defines the gauge dependence completely. We use the derived gauge dependence to check the gauge invariance of atom-like bound st...
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Ernest Henley and the shape of baryons: Calculations of pion-baryon couplings, baryon quadrupole and octupole moments, baryon spin and orbital angular momentum done in collaboration with Ernest Henley are reviewed. A common theme of this work is the shape of baryons. Also, a personal account of my work with Ernest Henl...
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Braaten-Pisarski Action, Disoriented Chiral Condensate, and Chiral Symmetry Non-Restoration: The QCD effective action at high T shows a manifest global chiral symmetry. And calculations show that the order parameter \psibarpsi vanishes above T_c. It has been popular to refer to this T_c as chiral symmetry restoration...
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Can an invisible Higgs boson be seen via diffraction at the LHC?: We study the possibility of observing an `invisible' Higgs boson in central exclusive diffractive production at the LHC. We evaluate the cross section using, as a simple example, the Standard Model with a heavy fourth generation, where the invisible deca...
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MLAnalysis: An open-source program for high energy physics analyses: We present a python-based program for phenomenological investigations in particle physics using machine learning algorithms, called \verb"MLAnalysis". The program is able to convert LHE and LHCO files generated by \verb"MadGraph5_aMC@NLO" into data se...
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On next to soft corrections to Drell-Yan and Higgs Boson productions: We present a framework that resums threshold enhanced large logarithms to all orders in perturbation theory for the production of a pair of leptons in Drell-Yan process and of Higgs boson in gluon fusion as well as in bottom quark annihilation. We re...
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Threshold factorization of the Drell-Yan process at next-to-leading power: We present a factorization theorem valid near the kinematic threshold $z=Q^2/\hat{s}\to 1$ of the partonic Drell-Yan process $q\bar q\to\gamma^*+X$ for general subleading powers in the $(1-z)$ expansion. We then consider the specific case of n...
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A Step Toward Model Comparison: Connecting Electroweak-Scale Observables to BSM through EFT and Bayesian Statistics: Recognizing the potential of effective field theories to posit multiple BSM scenarios in similar footing, with a possibility to compare them, we inspect the effects of 11 single scalar-multiplet extens...
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Phenomenological study of the anisotropic quark matter in the 2-flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model: With the two flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model we carry out a phenomenological study on the chiral phase structure, mesonic properties and transport properties in a momentum-space anisotropic quark matter. To calculat...
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Double-parton scattering effects in double charm production within gluon fragmentation scenario: We discuss charm $D^0 D^0$ meson-meson pair production in the forward rapidity region related to the LHCb experimental studies at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV. We consider double-parton scattering mechanisms of double $c \bar c$ pr...
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DGLAP evolution for DIS diffraction production of high masses: In this paper we develop the DGLAP evolution for the system of produced gluons in the process of diffractive production in DIS, directly from the evolution equation in Color Glass Condensate approach. We are able to describe the available experimental data ...
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Instanton induced transverse single spin asymmetry for $π^0$ production in $pp$-scattering: We calculate the production cross-section and the transverse single-spin asymmetry for pion in $p^{\uparrow}+p\to \pi^0 + X$. Our computation is based on existence of the instanton induced effective quark-gluon and quark-gluon...
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MicroBooNE and the $ν_e$ Interpretation of the MiniBooNE Low-Energy Excess: A new generation of neutrino experiments is testing the $4.8\sigma$ anomalous excess of electron-like events observed in MiniBooNE. This is of huge importance for particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, not only because of the potentia...
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Elliptic flow from color-dipole orientation in pp and pA collisions: For ultrarelativistic proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions, we perform an exploratory study of the contribution to the elliptic flow $v_2$ coming from the orientation of the momentum of the produced particles with respect to the reaction plane....
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Polarization in B->VV Decays: Factorizable amplitudes in B decays to light vector meson pairs give a longitudinal polarization satisfying 1- f_L =O(1/m_b^2). This remains formally true when non-factorizable graphs are included in QCD factorization, and is numerically realized in B->Rho Rho. In \Delta S=1 decays a QCD p...
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Four-Quark Mesons: The features of a model interpreting the light scalar mesons as diquark-antidiquark bound states and the consequences of its natural extension to include heavy quarks are briefly reviewed.
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Hadrons on the worldline, holography, and Wilson flow: Holographic principles have impacted the way we look at strong coupling phenomena in quantum chromodynamics, strongly interacting extensions of the standard model, and {condensed-matter} physics. In real world settings, however, we still lack understanding of why a...
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Reconciling sterile neutrinos with big bang nucleosynthesis: We re-examine the big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) bounds on the mixing of neutrinos with sterile species. These bounds depend on the assumption that the relic neutrino asymmetry $L_{\nu}$ is very small. We show that for $L_{\nu}$ large enough (greater than abo...
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Discovery potential of the next-to-minimal supergravity-motivated model: Applying a likelihood analysis to the next-to-minimal supergravity-motivated model, we identify parameter space regions preferred by present experimental limits from collider, astrophysical, and low energy measurements. We then show that favored r...
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Amplitude Factorization in the Electroweak Standard Model: We lay out the basis of factorization at the amplitude level for processes involving the entire Standard Model. The factorization appears in a generalized eikonal approximation in which we expand around a quasi-soft limit for massive gauge bosons, fermions, and...
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An experiment to detect gravity at sub-mm scale with high-Q mechanical oscillators: Silicon double paddle oscillators are well suited for the detection of weak forces because of their high Q factor (about 10^5 at room temperature). We describe an experiment aimed at the detection of gravitational forces between masse...
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Vector-like quarks with non-renormalizable interactions: We study the impact of the leading non-renormalizable terms in the effective field theory that describes general extensions of the Standard Model with vector-like quarks. Dropping the usual assumption of renormalizability has several phenomenological consequences...
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Sfermion masses in the supersymmetric economical 3-3-1 model: Sfermion masses and eigenstates in the supersymmetric economical 3-3-1 model are studied. By lepton number conservation, the exotic squarks and superpartners of ordinary quarks are decoupled. Due to the fact that in the 3-3-1 models, one generation of quarks...
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Weak interaction corrections to hadronic top quark pair production: contributions from quark-gluon and $b \bar b$ induced reactions: As an addendum to our previous evaluation of the weak-interaction corrections to hadronic top-quark pair production we determine the leading weak-interaction contributions due to the su...
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Low Energy Theorems of Hidden Local Symmetries: We prove to all orders of the loop expansion the low energy theorems of hidden local symmetries in four-dimensional nonlinear sigma models based on the coset space $G/H$, with $G$ and $H$ being arbitrary compact groups. Although the models are non-renormalizable, the proo...
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Neutrino quantum states and spin light in matter: On the basis of the exact solutions of the modified Dirac equation for a massive neutrino moving in matter we develop the quantum theory of the spin light of neutrino ($SL\nu$). The expression for the emitted photon energy is derived as a function of the density of matt...
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Implication of the B -> rho rho data on the B -> pi pi puzzle: We point out that the B -> rho rho data have seriously constrained the possibility of resolving the B -> pi pi puzzle from the large observed B^0 -> pi^0 pi^0 branching ratio in the available theoretical approaches. The next-to-leading-order (NLO) contribut...
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Self-consistent statistical error analysis of $ππ$ scattering: We analyze the conditions under which a statistical error analysis can be carried out in the case of $\pi\pi$ scattering, namely the normality of residuals in the conventional $\chi^2$-fit method. Here we check that the current and benchmarking analyses onl...
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Quantum corrections to leptogenesis from the gradient expansion: Using the closed-time-path formalism we quantify gradient corrections to the kinetic equations for leptogenesis, that are neglected in the standard Boltzmann approach. In particular we show that an additional CP-violating source term arises, which is non-...
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Matter-gravity interaction in a multiply warped braneworld,: The role of a bulk graviton in predicting the signature of extra dimensions through collider-based experiments is explored in the context of a multiply warped spacetime. In particular it is shown that in a doubly warped braneworld model, the presence of the s...
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Transversity Distribution Functions in the Valon Model: By using the valon model, we calculate the Transverse Momentum Distribution functions, TMDs, inside the Nucleon. TMDs indicate the probability to find partons with spin aligned (anti- aligned) to the transversely polarized nucleon. The results are in good agreemen...
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Do W_L and H form a p-wave bound state?: We examine the possibility of bound state formation in the W_L H --> W_L H channel. The dynamical calculation using the N/D method indicates that when the interactions among the Goldstone and Higgs bosons become sufficiently strong, a p-wave state [I^G(J^P)=1^-(1^+)] may emerge.
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Gribov's Equation for the Green Function of Light Quarks: Gribov's scenario of supercritical charges in QCD is investigated. We perform a numerical study of the corresponding equation for the Green function of light quarks. This is done in an approximation which neglects all pion contributions. Different types of solut...
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Supersymmetric D-term Inflation, Reheating and Affleck-Dine Baryogenesis: The phenomenology of supersymmetric models of inflation, where the inflationary vacuum energy is dominated by D-terms of a U(1), is investigated. Particular attention is paid to the questions of how to arrange for sufficient e-folds of inflation ...
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Covariant Description of Flavor Conversion in the LHC Era: A simple covariant formalism to describe flavor and CP violation in the left-handed quark sector in a model independent way is provided. The introduction of a covariant basis, which makes the standard model approximate symmetry structure manifest, leads to a ph...
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Advantages of exclusive γγproduction to probe high mass systems: We recall that the exclusive production of high mass objects via \gamma\gamma fusion at the LHC is not strongly suppressed in comparison with inclusive \gamma\gamma fusion. Therefore it may be promising to study new objects produced by the \gamma\gamma ...
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Top quark anomalous tensor couplings in the two-Higgs-doublet models: We compute the one loop right and left anomalous tensor couplings ($g_R$ and $g_L$, respectively) for the top quark, in the aligned two-Higgs-doublet model. They are the magnetic-like couplings in the most general parameterization of the $tbW$ vertex...
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Neutralino Dark Matter with Inert Higgsinos and Singlinos: We discuss neutralino dark matter arising from supersymmetric models with extra inert Higgsinos and singlinos, where inert means that their scalar partners do not get vacuum expectation values. As an example, we consider the extended neutralino sector of the E$...
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Lambda Oscillations and the Conservation Laws: Lowe, Bassalleck, Burkhardt, Rusek, Stephenson, and Goldman assert, under the assumption of decays at fixed space-time points, that Kaon induced Lambda oscillations disappear. We find, under the same assumption, that energy conservation and momentum conservation also disap...
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Vacuum energy and the cosmological constant: The accelerating expansion of the Universe points to a small positive value for the cosmological constant or vacuum energy density. We discuss recent ideas that the cosmological constant plus LHC results might hint at critical phenomena near the Planck scale.
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A description of the ratio between electric and magnetic proton form factors by using space-like, time-like data and dispersion relations: We use the available information on the ratio between the electric and magnetic proton form factors coming from recently published space-like data and from the few available time-...
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Nonuniversality of indirect CP asymmetries in $D \to ππ, KK$ decays: We point out that, if the direct CP asymmetries in the $D \to \pi^+ \pi^-$ and $D \to K^+ K^-$ decays are unequal, the indirect CP asymmetries as measured in these modes are necessarily unequal. This nonuniversality of indirect CP asymmetries can be s...
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Inclusive electromagnetic decays of the heavy quarkonium at next to leading log accuracy: We show that perturbation theory may give reasonable numbers for the decays of the bottomonium and charmonium ground states to $e^+e^-$ and to $\gamma\gamma$. To reach this conclusion it is important to perform the resummation o...
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Inverse Problem of Cosmic-Ray Electron/Positron from Dark Matter: We discuss the possibility of solving the inverse problem of the cosmic-ray electron/positron from decaying/annihilating dark matter, and show simple analytic formulae to reconstruct the source spectrum of the electron/positron from the observed flux. We...
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Higgs Physics at the LHC: Some Theory Aspects: In these lecture notes we review some prospect for the upcoming LHC experiments in view of the exploration of the Standard Model (SM) or its minimal Supersymmetric extension (MSSM). We focus on some theoretical aspects concerning the Higgs sector of the two models. We give...
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Hadronic Higgs boson decay at order $α_s^4$ and $α_s^5$: We compute corrections to the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson to hadrons, to the fourth order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We use an effective theory in which the Higgs boson couples directly to bottom quarks and to gluons, via top quark--m...
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Hadronic Light-by-light Scattering Effect on Muon g-2: The hadronic light-by-light scattering contribution to muon $g-2$ is examined using low energy effective theories of QCD, the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and hidden local chiral symmetry, as guides. Our result is $- 36 \times 10^{-11}$ with an uncertainty of $\pm 16 \...
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CP violation in bilinear R-parity violation and its consequences for the early universe: Supersymmetric models with bilinear R-parity violation (BRpV) provide a framework for neutrino masses and mixing angles to explain neutrino oscillation data. We consider CP violation within the new physical phases in BRpV and dis...
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Vector gauge boson radiation from compact binary systems in a gauged $L_μ-L_τ$ scenario: The orbital period of a compact binary system decays mainly due to quadrupole gravitational radiation, which agrees with the observation to within one percent. Other types of radiation such as ultralight scalar or pseudoscalar ra...
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Relic Abundance of Neutralinos in Heterotic String Theory: Weak Coupling vs. Strong Coupling: The relic abundance of stable neutralinos is investigated in $E_8 \times E_8'$ heterotic string theory when supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by hidden-sector gaugino condensates. In the weak coupling regime, very large ...
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The Hunting of the MR Model: We consider experimental signatures of the standard model's minimal supersymmetric extension with a continuous $U(1)_R$ symmetry (MR model). We focus on the ability of existing and planned electron-positron colliders to probe this model and to distinguish it from both the standard model and...
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Heavy neutral 2HDM Higgs Boson Pair Production at CLIC Energies: In this work, the neutral Higgs boson pair production is analyzed at Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to be operating at center of mass energies $\sqrt{s}$=1400 GeV (stage 2) and $\sqrt{s}$=3000 GeV (stage 3). The Higgs bosons to be searched for are neutral...
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CP violation and limits on New Physics including recent $B_s$ measurements: We analyse present constraints on the SM parameter space and derive, in a model independent way, various bounds on New Physics contributions to $B_d^0$--$\bar B_d^0$ and $B_s^0$--$\bar B_s^0$ mixings. Our analyses include information on a lar...
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The Fundamental Constants in Physics: We discuss the fundamental constants of physics in the Standard Model and possible changes of these constants on the cosmological time scale. The Grand Unification of the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions implies relations between the time variation of the finestructure...
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Asymmetric Dark Matter via Spontaneous Co-Genesis: We investigate, in the context of asymmetric dark matter (DM), a new mechanism of spontaneous co-genesis of linked DM and baryon asymmetries, explaining the observed relation between the baryon and DM densities, Omega_DM/Omega_B ~ 5. The co-genesis mechanism requires a...
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Connection between diphoton and triboson channels in new physics searches: Diphoton channel provides a clean signature in searches for new physics. In this paper, we discuss a connection between the diphoton channel ($\gamma\gamma$) and triboson channels ($Z\gamma\gamma$, $ZZ\gamma$, $WW\gamma$) imposed by the $SU(2)...
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Universality of Nonperturbative Effects in Event Shapes: Nonperturbative effects in event shape distributions can be characterized by shape functions derived in the eikonal approximation or, equivalently, from soft-collinear effective theory. The use of energy flow operators and the boost invariance of the Wilson lines...
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Cornering pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter with the LHC and cosmology: Models in which dark matter particles communicate with the visible sector through a pseudoscalar mediator are well-motivated both from a theoretical and from a phenomenological standpoint. With direct detection bounds being typically subleading in ...
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Exclusive meson pair production in gamma* gamma scattering at small momentum transfer: We study the exclusive production of pi pi and rho pi in hard gamma* gamma scattering in the forward kinematical region where the virtuality of one photon provides us with a hard scale in the process. The newly introduced concept o...
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CP violation in the semileptonic top decay in two-Higgs doublet model: CP violation in semileptonic top-quark decay is investigated by exactly using one charged- and three neutral-Higgs bosons obtained by solving the Higgs mass matrix in two-Higgs doublet model. The CP-violating up-down asymmetry of leptons from $W$ bo...
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Coherent photoproduction of low-$p_{T}$ charmonium in peripheral heavy ion collisions within the color dipole model: We calculate the centrality dependence for coherent photoproduction of very low-$p_{T}$ $J/\psi$ at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies within the impact par...
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Magnetic Inelastic Dark Matter: Iodine is distinguished from other elements used in dark matter direct detection experiments both by its large mass as well as its large magnetic moment. Inelastic dark matter utilizes the large mass of iodine to allay tensions between the DAMA annual modulation signature and the null re...
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From R_AA via correlations to jets - the long road to tomography: The main motivation to investigate hard probes in heavy ion collisions is to do tomography, i.e. to infer medium properties from the in-medium modification of hard processes. Yet while the suppression of high P_T hadrons has been measured for some time, ...
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Bayesian Selection of sign(mu) within mSUGRA in Global Fits Including WMAP5 Results: We study the properties of the constrained minimal supersymmetric standard model (mSUGRA) by performing fits to updated indirect data, including the relic density of dark matter inferred from WMAP5. In order to find the extent to whi...
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(Light) Stop Signs: Stop squarks with a mass just above the top's and which decay to a nearly massless LSP are difficult to probe because of the large SM di-top background. Here we discuss search strategies which could be used to set more stringent bounds in this difficult region. In particular, we note that both the r...
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Corrections to the ${\bf SU(3)\times SU(3)}$ Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation and chiral couplings $L^r_8$ and $H^r_2$: Next to leading order corrections to the $SU(3) \times SU(3)$ Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation (GMOR) are obtained using weighted QCD Finite Energy Sum Rules (FESR) involving the pseudoscalar current ...
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Dark Matters in Gauged B-3L_i Model: We study a dark matter model with local B-3L_i symmetry that is known as anomaly free and requires a single right-handed neutrino. Here we have two dark matter candidates; that is, fermionic or bosonic one. We focus on analyzing each of the case within the light mass region, which i...
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Resolved Photon Processes: We review the present level of knowledge of the hadronic structure of the photon, as revealed in interactions involving quarks and gluons ``in" the photon. The concept of photon structure functions is introduced in the description of deep--inelastic $e \gamma$ scattering, and existing paramet...
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