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HEP Phenomenology·hep-ph

Mon·Apr 25, 2016

22 papers19 primary·3 cross-listed·reconstructed*

  1. 01*

    Quasi Yukawa Unification and Fine-Tuning in U(1) Extended SSM

    Yasar Hicyilmaz🇹🇷 · Meltem Ceylan🇹🇷 · Asli Altas🇹🇷 · Levent Solmaz🇹🇷 · Cem Salih Un🇹🇷

    We consider the low scale implications in the U(1)' extended MSSM (UMSSM). We restrict the parameter space such that the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is always the lightest neutralino. In addition, we impose quasi Yukawa unification (QYU) at the grand unification scale (M_GUT). QYU strictly requires the ratios among the yukawa couplings as y_t/y_b ~ 1.2, y_tau/y_b ~ 1.4, and y_t/y_tau ~ 0.8. We find that the need of fine-tuning over the fundamental parameter space of QYU is in the acceptable range (Delta_EW <= 10^3), even if the universal boundary conditions are imposed at M_ GUT, in contrast to CMSSM and NUHM. UMSSM with the universal boundary conditions yields heavy stops (m_{stop} >~ 2.5 TeV), gluinos (m_gluino >~ 2 TeV), and squarks from the first two families (m_squarks >~ 4 TeV). Similarly the stau mass is bounded from below at about 1.5 TeV. Despite this heavy spectrum, we find Delta_EW >~ 300, which is much lower than that needed for the minimal supersymmetric models. In addition, UMSSM yield relatively small mu-term, and the LSP neutralio is mostly form by the Higgsinos of mass >~ 700 GeV. We obtain also bino-like dark matter (DM) of mass about 400 GeV. Wino is usually found to be heavier than Higgsinos and binos, but there is a small region where mu ~ M_1 ~ M_2 ~ 1 TeV. We also identify chargino-neutralino coannihilation channel and A-resonance solutions which reduce the relic abundance of LSP neutralino down to the ranges compatible with the current WMAP measurements.

    hep-phPRD(2016)·12 citations
  2. 02*

    On the Validity of the Effective Field Theory Approach to SM Precision Tests

    Roberto Contino🇨🇭 · Adam Falkowski🇫🇷 · Florian Goertz🇨🇭 · Christophe Grojean🇩🇪 · Francesco Riva🇨🇭

    We discuss the conditions for an effective field theory (EFT) to give an adequate low-energy description of an underlying physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Starting from the EFT where the SM is extended by dimension-6 operators, experimental data can be used without further assumptions to measure (or set limits on) the EFT parameters. The interpretation of these results requires instead a set of broad assumptions (e.g. power counting rules) on the UV dynamics. This allows one to establish, in a bottom-up approach, the validity range of the EFT description, and to assess the error associated with the truncation of the EFT series. We give a practical prescription on how experimental results could be reported, so that they admit a maximally broad range of theoretical interpretations. Namely, the experimental constraints on dimension-6 operators should be reported as functions of the kinematic variables that set the relevant energy scale of the studied process. This is especially important for hadron collider experiments where collisions probe a wide range of energy scales.

    hep-phJHEP(2016)·245 citations
  3. 03*

    Digamma, what next?

    Roberto Franceschini🇨🇭 · Gian F. Giudice🇨🇭 · Jernej F. Kamenik🇸🇮 · Matthew McCullough🇨🇭 · Francesco Riva🇨🇭 · Alessandro Strumia🇨🇭 · Riccardo Torre🇨🇭

    If the 750 GeV resonance in the diphoton channel is confirmed, what are the measurements necessary to infer the properties of the new particle and understand its nature? We address this question in the framework of a single new scalar particle, called digamma (). We describe it by an effective field theory, which allows us to obtain general and model-independent results, and to identify the most useful observables, whose relevance will remain also in model-by-model analyses. We derive full expressions for the leading-order processes and compute rates for higher-order decays, digamma production in association with jets, gauge or Higgs bosons, and digamma pair production. We illustrate how measurements of these higher-order processes can be used to extract couplings, quantum numbers, and properties of the new particle.

    hep-phhep-exJHEP(2016)·58 citations
  4. 04*

    Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion at NLO with full top-quark mass dependence

    S. Borowka🇨🇭 · N. Greiner🇨🇭 · G. Heinrich🇩🇪 · S.P. Jones🇩🇪 · M. Kerner🇩🇪 · J. Schlenk🇩🇪 · U. Schubert🇩🇪 · T. Zirke🇩🇪

    We present the calculation of the cross section and invariant mass distribution for Higgs boson pair production in gluon fusion at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD. Top-quark masses are fully taken into account throughout the calculation. The virtual two-loop amplitude has been generated using an extension of the program GoSam supplemented with an interface to Reduze for the integral reduction. The occurring integrals have been calculated numerically using the program SecDec. Our results, including the full top-quark mass dependence for the first time, allow us to assess the validity of various approximations proposed in the literature, which we also recalculate. We find substantial deviations between the NLO result and the different approximations, which emphasizes the importance of including the full top-quark mass dependence at NLO.

    hep-phPRL(2016)·436 citations
  5. 05*

    Gauge theories of Partial Compositeness: Scenarios for Run-II of the LHC

    Gabriele Ferretti🇸🇪

    We continue our investigation of gauge theories in which the Higgs boson arises as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB) and top-partners arise as bound states of three hyperfermions. All models have additional pNGBs in their spectrum that should be accessible at LHC. We analyze the patterns of symmetry breaking and present all relevant couplings of the pNGBs with the gauge fields. We discuss how vacuum misalignment and a mass for the pNGBs is generated by a loop-induced potential. Finally, we paint a very broad, qualitative, picture of the kind of experimental signatures these models give rise to, setting the stage for further analysis.

    hep-phJHEP(2016)·173 citations
  6. 06*

    Gravitational Leptogenesis in the Axion Inflation with an SU(2) gauge field

    Azadeh Maleknejad🇮🇷

    We present an intrinsic leptogenesis mechanism in models of axion inflation with a classical SU(2) gauge field. The gauge field is coupled to the axion with a Chern-Simons interaction and comprises a tiny fraction of the total energy, . However, it has spin-2 fluctuations which breaks the parity and leads to the generation of chiral gravitational waves during inflation. By the gravitational anomaly in SM, it naturally creates a net lepton number density, sufficient to explain the matter asymmetry. We show that this mechanism can generate the observed value of baryon to photon number density in a natural range of parameters and yet has a small chiral tensor power spectrum on large scales.

    hep-phastro-ph.COgr-qchep-thJCAP(2016)·52 citations
  7. 07*

    Galactic Gamma Ray Excess and Dark Matter Phenomenology in a Model

    Anirban Biswas🇮🇳 · Sandhya Choubey🇮🇳 · Sarif Khan🇮🇳

    In this work, we have considered a gauged extension of the Standard Model (SM) with three right handed neutrinos for anomaly cancellation and two additional SM singlet complex scalars with non-trivial B-L charges. One of these is used to spontaneously break the gauge symmetry, leading to Majorana masses for the neutrinos through the standard Type I seesaw mechanism, while the other becomes the dark matter (DM) candidate in the model. We test the viability of the model to simultaneously explain the DM relic density observed in the CMB data as well as the Galactic Centre (GC) -ray excess seen by Fermi-LAT. We show that for DM masses in the range 40-55 GeV and for a wide range of gauge boson masses, one can satisfy both these constraints if the additional neutral Higgs scalar has a mass around the resonance region. In studying the dark matter phenomenology and GC excess, we have taken into account theoretical as well as experimental constraints coming from vacuum stability condition, PLANCK bound on DM relic density, LHC and LUX and present allowed areas in the model parameter space consistent with all relevant data, calculate the predicted gamma ray flux from the GC and discuss the related phenomenology.

    hep-phJHEP(2016)·29 citations
  8. 08*

    Exploring universality of transversity in proton-proton collisions

    Marco Radici🇮🇹 · Alessandro M. Ricci🇮🇹 · Alessandro Bacchetta🇮🇹 · Asmita Mukherjee🇮🇳

    We consider the azimuthal correlations of charged hadron pairs with large total transverse momentum and small relative momentum, produced in proton-proton collisions with one transversely polarized proton. One of these correlations directly probes the chiral-odd transversity parton distribution in connection with a chiral-odd interference fragmentation function. We present predictions for this observable based on previous extractions of transversity (from charged pion pair production in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering) and of the interference fragmentation function (from the production of back-to-back charged pion pairs in electron-positron annihilations). All analyses are performed in the framework of collinear factorization. We compare our predictions to the recent data on proton-proton collisions released by the STAR collaboration at RHIC, and we find them reasonably compatible. This comparison confirms for the first time the predicted role of transversity in proton-proton collisions and it allows to test its universality.

    hep-phhep-exnucl-exnucl-thPRD(2016)·41 citations
  9. 09*

    The decays in QCD

    Maximilian Emmerich🇩🇪 · Nils Offen🇩🇪 · Andreas Schäfer🇩🇪

    We present an exploratory study of the -form factors and the semileptonic decay width within the framework of light-cone sum rules. We use two different methods and two different interpolating currents for the . As interpolating currents we choose an axial-vector like and a pseudoscalar like current. Our results show that the procedure of eliminating negative parity partners is not well suited for the case at hand and that the second approach using structures with highest powers of with an axial-vector like interpolating current gives the most reliable results. Our predictions are based on the models obtained in \cite{Anikin:2015ita,Braun:2014wpa}. The largest uncertainty comes from the uncertainty of the twist 4 parameters and we take the spread between the two models in \cite{Anikin:2015ita} as a measure for this. We get \begin{eqnarray} \Gamma(\Lambda_b\to N^*(1535) l \nu)&=&\left(0.0058^{+0.0010}_{-0.0009}\right)\cdot\left(\dfrac{V_{ub}}{3.5\cdot10^{-3}}\right)^2,\quad\mbox{LCSR(1)} \nonumber \Gamma(\Lambda_b\to N^*(1535) l \nu)&=&\left(0.00070^{+0.00012}_{-0.00011}\right)\cdot\left(\dfrac{V_{ub}}{3.5\cdot10^{-3}}\right)^2,\quad\mbox{LCSR(2)} \nonumber \Gamma(\Lambda_c\to N^*(1535) l \nu)&=&\left(0.0064^{+0.0012}_{-0.0011}\right)\cdot \left(\dfrac{V_{cd}}{0.225}\right)^2,\quad\mbox{LCSR(1)}\nonumber \Gamma(\Lambda_c\to N^*(1535) l \nu)&=&\left(0.00077^{+0.00016}_{-0.00014}\right)\cdot \left(\dfrac{V_{cd}}{0.225}\right)^2,\quad\mbox{LCSR(2)}\nonumber \end{eqnarray} as predictions for the respective decay widths, where LCSR(1) and LCSR(2) refer to the two different models of the distribution amplitudes of the . It is seen that even a rough measurement of these decays will greatly help to discriminate different models.

    hep-phnucl-thJ.Phys.G(2016)·8 citations
  10. 10*

    Could the static properties of nuclei be deduced from the dynamics of a single quark?

    B P Kosyakov🇷🇺 · E Yu Popov🇷🇺 · M A Vronskii🇷🇺

    We show that the static properties of a nucleus could arise from a single quark moving in a mean field generated by all other constituents of this nucleus. The resulting model provides a way for determining the nuclear sizes characteristic of the liquid drop model, and reasonably accurate values of magnetic moments of different nuclei with the aid of two parameters and appearing in the Cornell potential intended for use in quarkonium physics.

    hep-phnucl-thEPJA(2017)·5 citations
  11. 12*

    Correction to Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model from QCD at the next-to-leading order

    Marco Frasca🇮🇹

    We evaluate the next-to-leading order correction to the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model starting from quantum chromodynamics. We show that a systematic expansion exists, starting from a given set of exact classical solutions, so that higher order corrections could in principle be computed at any order. In this way, we are able to fix the constants of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model from quantum chromodynamics and analyze the behavior of strong interactions at low energies. The technique is to expand in powers of currents of the generating functional. We apply it to a simple Yukawa model with self-interaction showing how this has a Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and its higher order corrections as a low-energy limit. The same is shown to happen for quantum chromodynamics in the chiral limit with two quarks. We prove stability of the NJL model so obtained. Then, we prove that the correction term we obtained does not change the critical temperature of the chiral transition of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model at zero chemical potential.

    hep-ph1 citation
  12. 13*

    Possible formation of high temperature superconductor at early stage of heavy-ion collisions

    Hao Liu🇨🇳 · Lang Yu🇨🇳 · Maxim Chernodub🇫🇷 · Mei Huang🇨🇳

    We investigate the effect of the inverse magnetic catalysis (IMC) on the charged meson condensation at finite temperature in the framework of the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model, where mesons are calculated to the leading order of expansion by summing up infinity quark-loops. IMC for chiral condensate has been considered in three different ways, i.e. fitting Lattice data, using the running coupling constant and introducing the chiral chemical potential, respectively. It is observed that, with no IMC effect included, the critical magnetic field for charged condensation increases monotonically with the temperature. However, including IMC substantially affects the polarized charged condensation around the critical temperature of chiral phase transition, the critical magnetic field for charged condensation decreases with the temperature firstly, reaches to a minimum value around , then increases with the temperature. Our calculation indicates that the charged condensation can exist in the temperature region of with critical magnetic field , which suggests that high temperature superconductor might be created through non-central heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. We also show that a growing electric conductivity in early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions substantially delays the decay of strong magnetic field, which is helpful for the formation of the high temperature superconductor.

    hep-phPRD(2016)·25 citations
  13. 14*

    On polarization parameters of spin- particles and anomalous couplings in

    Rafiqul Rahaman🇮🇳 · Ritesh K. Singh🇮🇳

    We study the anomalous trilinear gauge couplings of and using a complete set of polarization asymmetries for the boson in processes with unpolarized initial beams. We use these polarization asymmetries, along with the cross section, to obtain a simultaneous limit on all the anomalous couplings using the Markov-Chain--Monte-Carlo (MCMC) method. For an collider running at GeV center-of-mass energy and fb of integrated luminosity the simultaneous limits on the anomalous couplings are .

    hep-phhep-exEPJC(2016)·49 citations
  14. 15*

    Four-dimensional unsubtraction from the loop-tree duality

    German F. R. Sborlini🇪🇸 · Felix Driencourt-Mangin🇪🇸 · Roger Hernandez-Pinto🇲🇽 · German Rodrigo🇪🇸

    We present a new algorithm to construct a purely four dimensional representation of higher-order perturbative corrections to physical cross-sections at next-to-leading order (NLO). The algorithm is based on the loop-tree duality (LTD), and it is implemented by introducing a suitable mapping between the external and loop momenta of the virtual scattering amplitudes, and the external momenta of the real emission corrections. In this way, the sum over degenerate infrared states is performed at integrand level and the cancellation of infrared divergences occurs locally without introducing subtraction counter-terms to deal with soft and final-state collinear singularities. The dual representation of ultraviolet counter-terms is also discussed in detail, in particular for self-energy contributions. The method is first illustrated with the scalar three-point function, before proceeding with the calculation of the physical cross-section for , and its generalisation to multi-leg processes. The extension to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) is briefly commented.

    hep-phhep-thmath-phmath.MPJHEP(2016)·106 citations
  15. 16*

    FeynCalc 9

    Vladyslav Shtabovenko🇩🇪

    We report on a new version of FeynCalc, a well-known Mathematica package for symbolic computations in quantum field theory and provide some explicit examples for using the software in different types of calculations.

    hep-phJ.Phys.Conf.Ser.(2016)·15 citations
  16. 17*

    Maximally restrictive leptonic texture zeros in two-Higgs-doublet models

    R. Gonzalez Felipe🇵🇹 · H. Serodio🇰🇷

    The implementation of maximally restrictive texture zeros in the leptonic sector is investigated in the context of two-Higgs-doublet models with Majorana neutrinos. After analyzing all maximally restrictive pairs of leptonic mass matrices with zero entries, we conclude that there are only four texture combinations that are compatible with observations at 3 sigma confidence level and can be implemented through Abelian symmetries in a two-Higgs-doublet model. The compatibility of these textures with current constraints on lepton-flavor-violating processes is also studied. The ultraviolet completion of these models is discussed in the framework of the seesaw mechanism for neutrino masses.

    hep-phJ.Phys.G(2017)·7 citations
  17. 18*

    Extended scaling and residual flavor symmetry in the neutrino Majorana mass matrix

    Rome Samanta🇮🇳 · Probir Roy🇮🇳 · Ambar Ghosal🇮🇳

    The residual symmetry approach, along with a complex extension for some flavor invariance, is a powerful tool to uncover the flavor structure of the neutrino Majorana mass matrix towards gaining insights into neutrino mixing. We utilize this to propose a complex extension of the real scaling ansatz for which was introduced some years ago. Unlike the latter, our proposal allows a nonzero mass for each of the three light neutrinos as well as a nonvanishing . A major result of this scheme is that leptonic Dirac CP-violation must be maximal while atmospheric neutrino mixing need not be exactly maximal. Moreover, each of the two allowed Majorana phases, to be probed by the search for nuclear decay, has to be at one of its two CP-conserving values. There are other interesting consequences such as the allowed occurrence of a normal mass ordering which is not favored by the real scaling ansatz. Our predictions will be tested in ongoing and future neutrino oscillation experiments at T2K, NOA and DUNE.

    hep-phEPJC(2016)·15 citations
  18. 19*

    Universal Effective Hadron Dynamics from Superconformal Algebra

    Stanley J. Brodsky🇺🇸 · Guy F. de Téramond🇨🇷 · Hans Gunter Dosch🇩🇪 · Cédric Lorcé🇫🇷

    An effective supersymmetric QCD light-front Hamiltonian for hadrons composed of light quarks, which includes a spin-spin interaction between the hadronic constituents, is constructed by embedding superconformal quantum mechanics into AdS space. A specific breaking of conformal symmetry inside the graded algebra determines a unique effective quark-confining potential for light hadrons, as well as remarkable connections between the meson and baryon spectra. The results are consistent with the empirical features of the light-quark hadron spectra, including a universal mass scale for the slopes of the meson and baryon Regge trajectories and a zero-mass pion in the limit of massless quarks. Our analysis is consistently applied to the excitation spectra of the and meson families as well as to the and in the baryon sector. We also predict the existence of tetraquarks which are degenerate in mass with baryons with the same angular momentum. The mass of light hadrons is expressed in a universal and frame-independent decomposition in the semiclassical approximation described here.

    hep-phhep-thPLB(2016)·77 citations
  19. 20*

    Energy, centrality and momentum dependence of dielectron production at collider energies in a coarse-grained transport approach

    Stephan Endres🇩🇪 · Hendrik van Hees🇩🇪 · Marcus Bleicher🇩🇪

    Dilepton production in heavy-ion collisions at collider energies - i.e., for the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - is studied within an approach that uses coarse-grained transport simulations to calculate thermal dilepton emission applying in-medium spectral functions from hadronic many-body theory and partonic production rates based on lattice calculations. The microscopic output from the Ultra-relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics (UrQMD) model is hereby put on a grid of space-time cells which allows to extract the local temperature and chemical potential in each cell via an equation of state. The resulting dilepton spectra are in good agreement with the experimental results for the range of RHIC energies, GeV. The comparison of data and model outcome shows that the newest measurements by the PHENIX and STAR collaborations are consistent and that the low-mass spectra can be described by a cocktail of hadronic decay contributions together with thermal emission from broadened vector-meson spectral functions and from the Quark-Gluon Plasma phase. Predictions for dilepton results at LHC energies show no significant change of the spectra as compared to RHIC, but a higher fraction of thermal contribution and harder slopes of the transverse momentum distributions due to the higher temperatures and flow obtained.

    nucl-thhep-phPRC(2016)·24 citations
  20. 21*

    Holographic Collisions in Non-conformal Theories

    Maximilian Attems🇪🇸 · Jorge Casalderrey-Solana🇬🇧 · David Mateos🇪🇸 · Daniel Santos-Oliván🇪🇸 · Carlos F. Sopuerta🇪🇸 · Miquel Triana🇪🇸 · Miguel Zilhão🇪🇸

    We numerically simulate gravitational shock wave collisions in a holographic model dual to a non-conformal four-dimensional gauge theory. We find two novel effects associated to the non-zero bulk viscosity of the resulting plasma. First, the hydrodynamization time increases. Second, if the bulk viscosity is large enough then the plasma becomes well described by hydrodynamics before the energy density and the average pressure begin to obey the equilibrium equation of state. We discuss implications for the quark-gluon plasma created in heavy ion collision experiments.

    hep-thhep-phnucl-thJHEP(2017)·71 citations
  21. 22*

    Thermal dilepton rates and electrical conductivity of the QGP from the lattice

    Heng-Tong Ding🇨🇳 · Olaf Kaczmarek🇩🇪 · Florian Meyer🇩🇪

    We investigate the temperature dependence of the thermal dilepton rate and the electrical conductivity of the gluon plasma at temperatures of , and in quenched QCD. Making use of non-perturbatively clover-improved Wilson valence quarks allows for a clean extrapolation of the vector meson correlation function to the continuum limit. We found that the vector correlation function divided by is almost temperature independent in the current temperature window. The spectral functions are obtained by fitting of phenomenologically inspired Ansätze for the spectral function to the continuum extrapolated correlator data, where the correlations between the data points have been included. Systematic uncertainties arising from varying the Ansätze motivated from strong coupling theory as well as perturbation theory are discussed and estimated. We found that the electrical conductivity of the hot medium, related to the slope of the vector spectral function at zero frequency and momentum, is for and for the higher temperatures. The dilepton rates and soft photon rates, resulting from the obtained spectral functions, show no significant temperature dependence, either.

    hep-lathep-phPRD(2016)·100 citations

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