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HEP Phenomenology·hep-ph

Mon·Jun 5, 2023

21 papers13 primary·8 cross-listed·reconstructed*

  1. 01*

    Algebraic Approach to Relativistic Landau Levels in the Symmetric Gauge

    Ulrich D. Jentschura🇺🇸

    We use an algebraic approach to the calculation of Landau levels for a uniform magnetic field in the symmetric gauge with a vector potential A = (1/2) (B x r), where B is assumed to be constant. The magnetron quantum number constitutes the degeneracy index. An overall complex phase of the wave function, given in terms of Laguerre polynomials, is a consequence of the algebraic structure. The relativistic generalization of the treatment leads to fully relativistic bispinor Landau levels in the symmetric gauge, in a representation which writes the relativistic states in terms of their nonrelativistic limit, and an algebraically accessible lower bispinor component. Negative-energy states and the massless limit are discussed. The relativistic states can be used for a number of applications, including the calculation of higher-order quantum electrodynamic binding corrections to the energies of quantum cyclotron levels.

    hep-phPRD(2023)·5 citations
  2. 02*

    Probing Zee-Babu states at Muon Colliders

    Adil Jueid🇰🇷 · Talal Ahmed Chowdhury🇧🇩 · Salah Nasri🇦🇪 · Shaikh Saad🇨🇭

    The Zee-Babu model is a minimal realization of radiative neutrino mass generation mechanism at the two-loop level. We study the phenomenology of this model at future multi-TeV muon colliders. After imposing all theoretical and low-energy experimental constraints on the model parameters, we find that the Zee-Babu states are expected not to reside below the TeV scale, making it challenging to probe them at the LHC. We first analyze the production rates for various channels, including multi singly-charged and/or doubly-charged scalars at muon colliders. For concreteness, we study several benchmark points that satisfy neutrino oscillation data and other constraints and find that most channels have large production rates. We then analyze the discovery reach of the model using two specific channels: the pair production of singly- and doubly-charged scalars. For the phenomenologically viable scenarios considered in this study, charged scalars with masses up to -- TeV can be probed for the center-of-mass energy of TeV and total luminosity of .

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2024)·25 citations
  3. 03*

    Flavor structure from `canonical' Yukawa interactions and `emergent' kinetic terms

    Yoshiharu Kawamura🇯🇵

    We study the flavor structure of quarks in the standard model from a viewpoint of a canonical type of Yukawa interactions and an emergence of kinetic terms. A realistic structure can be generated based on the emergence proposal that quark kinetic terms appear in the infra-red region, as a result of radiative corrections involving towers of massive states.

    hep-phhep-thPTEP(2023)·6 citations
  4. 04*

    Higgs Information and NMSSM at the Large Hadron Collider

    Surabhi Gupta🇮🇳 · Sudhir Kumar Gupta🇮🇳

    Information theory has proven to be a worthwhile tool for investigating the implications of the Higgs sector in the Next-to-minimal supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) using Higgs information at the Large Hadron Collider assessed through the entropy constructed by means of the branching ratios of decay channels of the Higgs boson. The present article focuses on the parameter space of supersymmetric extension with an extra term of gauge singlet in light of various experimental constraints. Our findings show the most preferred values of , , , , , , neutralino LSP , lightest chargino , singlino , and gluino to be around 1.93 TeV, 1.78 TeV, 3.62 TeV, 27.5, 0.012, 665.7 GeV, 0.74 TeV, 0.79 TeV, 11.24 TeV, and 3.70 TeV, respectively, that is compatible with the relic density of dark matter.

    hep-phhep-exhep-thAdv.High Energy Phys.(2024)·0 citations
  5. 05*

    Cosmological Phase Transitions in Composite Higgs Models

    Kohei Fujikura🇯🇵 · Yuichiro Nakai🇨🇳 · Ryosuke Sato🇯🇵 · Yaoduo Wang🇨🇳

    We investigate cosmological phase transitions in various composite Higgs models consisting of four-dimensional asymptotically-free gauge field theories. Each model may lead to a confinement-deconfinement transition and a phase transition associated with the spontaneous breaking of a global symmetry that realizes the Standard Model Higgs field as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. Based on the argument of universality, we discuss the order of the phase transition associated with the global symmetry breaking by studying the renormalization group flow of the corresponding linear sigma model at finite temperature, which is calculated by utilizing the -expansion technique at the one-loop order. Our analysis indicates that some composite Higgs models accommodate phenomenologically interesting first-order phase transitions. We also explore the confinement-deconfinement transition in a UV-completed composite Higgs model based on a gauge theory. It is found that the first-order phase transition is favored when the number of degrees of freedom for the gauge field is much larger than that of matter fields in the fundamental representation of . We comment on the gravitational wave signal generated by the confinement-deconfinement transition and its detectability at future observations. Our discussions motivate further studies on phase transitions in composite Higgs models with the use of lattice simulations.

    hep-phastro-ph.COhep-thJHEP(2023)·21 citations
  6. 06*

    Deep-Inelastic Scattering: What do we know ?

    Johannes Blümlein🇩🇪

    A survey is given on the current status of the theoretical description of unpolarized and polarized deep--inelastic scattering processes in Quantum Chromodynamics at large virtualities.

    hep-phhep-exhep-thInt.J.Mod.Phys.A(2024)·15 citations
  7. 07*

    Combined analysis of the and reactions

    Neng-Chang Wei🇨🇳 · Ai-Chao Wang🇨🇳 · Fei Huang🇨🇳

    The recently released data on differential cross sections for from the A2 and BGOOD Collaborations are used to examine the theoretical model constructed in our previous work [Phys. Rev. D \textbf{105}, 094017 (2022)] for , and it is found that the model predictions are able to qualitatively reproduce the A2 data but fail to describe the BGOOD data. Then, a combined analysis of the and reactions is performed to revise the theoretical model. Due to the inconsistency problem, the A2 and BGOOD data are included in fits separately. In the case of including the A2 data, both the data for and can be fairly well described, and the contributions from the , , , and resonances are found to dominate the reactions in the lower energy region. While in the case of including the BGOOD data, although most of the data for the reaction can be described with the exception of some noticeable discrepancies on beam asymmetries at lower energies, the BGOOD data for can be only qualitatively described, and the contributions from the , , and resonances are found to dominate the reactions in the lower energy region. In both cases, the -channel exchange is found to play a crucial role at forward angles in the higher energy region. Further precise measurements of data for are called on to disentangle the discrepancies between the data sets from the A2 and BGOOD Collaborations.

    hep-phnucl-thPRD(2023)·7 citations
  8. 08*

    Dark Matter from Higher Dimensional Primordial Black Holes

    Avi Friedlander🇨🇦 · Ningqiang Song🇨🇳 · Aaron C. Vincent🇨🇦

    The evaporation of primordial black holes provides a promising dark matter production mechanism without relying on any non-gravitational interactions between the dark sector and the Standard Model. In theories of ``Large'' Extra Dimensions (LEDs), the true scale of quantum gravity, , could be well below the Planck scale, thus allowing for energetic particle collisions to produce microscopic black holes in the primordial plasma at temperatures as low as GeV. Additionally, LEDs modify the relationship between black hole mass, radius, and temperature, allowing microscopic black holes to grow to macroscopic sizes in the early Universe. In this work we study three scenarios for the production of dark matter via LED black holes: 1) Delayed Evaporating Black Holes (DEBHs) which grow to macroscopic sizes before ultimately evaporating, 2) Instantly Evaporating Black Holes (IEBHs) which immediately evaporate, and 3) stable black hole relics with a mass known as Planckeons. For a given reheating temperature, , we show that DEBHs produce significantly less dark matter than both IEBHs and Planckeons. IEBHs are able to produce the observed relic abundance of dark matter so long as the reheating scale is in the range . We calculate the average speed for the resulting dark matter and show that it would be sufficiently cold for all dark matter masses GeV. This mechanism is viable for any scale of quantum gravity in the range and for any number of LEDs.

    hep-phastro-ph.COgr-qcPRD(2023)·21 citations
  9. 09*

    Forward Neutrinos from Charm at Large Hadron Collider

    Atri Bhattacharya🇧🇪 · Felix Kling🇩🇪 · Ina Sarcevic🇺🇸 · Anna M. Stasto🇺🇸

    The currently operating FASER experiment and the planned Forward Physics Facility (FPF) will detect a large number of neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. In this work, we estimate neutrino fluxes at these detectors from charm meson decays, which will be particularly important for the and channels. We make prediction using both the next-to-leading order collinear factorization and the -factorization approaches to model the production of charm quarks as well as different schemes to model their hadronization into charm hadrons. In particular, we emphasize that a sophisticated modeling of hadronization involving beam remnants is needed for predictions at FASER and FPF due to the sensitivity to the charm hadron production at low transverse momenta and very forward rapidity. As example, we use the string fragmentation approach implemented in \texttt{Pythia~8}. While both standard fragmentation functions and \texttt{Pythia~8} are able to describe LHCb data, we find that \texttt{Pythia~8} predicts significantly higher rate of high energy neutrinos, highlighting the importance of using the correct hadronization model when making predictions.

    hep-phhep-exPRD(2024)·38 citations
  10. 10*

    Evolution of genuine states to molecular ones: The case

    L. R. Dai🇨🇳 · J. Song🇪🇸 · E. Oset🇪🇸

    We address the issue of the compositeness of hadronic states and demonstrate that starting with a genuine state of nonmolecular nature, but which couples to some meson-meson component to be observable in that channel, if that state is blamed for a bound state appearing below the meson-meson threshold it gets dressed with a meson cloud and it becomes pure molecular in the limit case of zero binding. We discuss the issue of the scales, and see that if the genuine state has a mass very close to threshold, the theorem holds, but the molecular probability goes to unity in a very narrow range of energies close to threshold. The conclusion is that the value of the binding does not determine the compositeness of a state. However, in such extreme cases we see that the scattering length gets progressively smaller and the effective range grows indefinitely. In other words, the binding energy does not determine the compositeness of a state, but the additional information of the scattering length and effective range can provide an answer. We also show that the consideration of a direct attractive interaction between the mesons in addition to having a genuine component, increases the compositeness of the state. Explicit calculations are done for the state, but are easily generalized to any hadronic system.

    hep-phPLB(2023)·37 citations
  11. 11*

    Combining lattice QCD and phenomenological inputs on generalised parton distributions at moderate skewness

    Michael Joseph Riberdy🇫🇷 · Hervé Dutrieux🇫🇷 · Cédric Mezrag🇫🇷 · Paweł Sznajder🇵🇱

    We present a systematic study demonstrating the impact of lattice QCD data on the extraction of generalised parton distributions (GPDs). For this purpose, we use a previously developed modelling of GPDs based on machine learning techniques fulfilling the theoretical requirements of polynomiality, a form of positivity constraint and known reduction limits. A special care is given to estimate the uncertainty stemming from the ill-posed character of the connection between GPDs and the experimental processes usually considered to constrain them, like deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS). Mock lattice QCD data inputs are included in a Bayesian framework to the prior model which is fitted to reproduce the most experimentally accessible information of a phenomenological model by Goloskov and Kroll. We highlight the impact of the precision, correlation and kinematic coverage of lattice data on GPD extraction at moderate which has only been brushed in the literature so far, paving the way for a joint extraction of GPDs.

    hep-phhep-latnucl-thEPJC(2024)·25 citations
  12. 12*

    Helicity Evolution at Small : Revised Asymptotic Results at Large

    Daniel Adamiak🇺🇸 · Yuri V. Kovchegov🇺🇸 · Yossathorn Tawabutr🇺🇸

    We present a numerical solution of the revised version of the small- helicity evolution equations at large and . (Here and are the numbers of quark colors and flavors, respectively.) The evolution equations are double-logarithmic in the Bjorken variable, resumming powers of with the strong coupling constant. The large- evolution we consider includes contributions of small- quark emissions and is thus more realistic than the large- one, which only involves gluon emissons. The evolution equations are written for the so-called ``polarized dipole amplitudes", which are related to the helicity distribution functions and the structure function. Unlike the previously reported solution of the earlier version of helicity evolution equations at large , our solution does not exhibit periodic oscillations in for , while only showing occasional sign reversals. For , we report oscillations with , similar to those found earlier. We determine the intercept of our evolution for as well as the parameters of the oscillatory behavior for . We compare our results to the existing resummation and finite-order calculations for helicity-dependent quantities in the literature.

    hep-phnucl-thPRD(2023)·36 citations
  13. 13*

    Tree-level Unitarity in SU(2)U(1)U(1) Models

    Miguel P. Bento🇵🇹 · Howard E. Haber🇺🇸 · João P. Silva🇵🇹

    In models with a U(1) gauge extension beyond the Standard Model, one can derive sum rules for the couplings of the theory that are a consequence of tree-level unitarity. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive list of coupling sum rules for a general SU(2)U(1)U(1) gauge theory coupled to an arbitrary set of fermion and scalar multiplets. These results are of particular interest for models of dark matter that employ an extended gauge sector mediated by a new (dark) gauge boson. For the case of a minimal extension of the Standard Model with a U(1) gauge boson, we clarify the definitions of the weak mixing angle and the electroweak parameter. We demonstrate the utility of a generalized parameter (denoted by ) whose definition naturally follows from the unitarity sum rules developed in this paper.

    hep-phJHEP(2023)·16 citations
  14. 14*

    Misalignment mechanism for a mass-varying vector boson

    Kunio Kaneta🇯🇵 · Hye-Sung Lee🇰🇷 · Jiheon Lee🇰🇷 · Jaeok Yi🇰🇷

    A coherent field over the entire universe is an attractive picture in studying the dark sector of the universe. The misalignment mechanism, which relies on inflation to achieve homogeneousness of the field, is a popular mechanism for producing such a coherent dark matter. Nevertheless, unlike a scalar field case, a vector boson field suffers because its energy density is exponentially suppressed by the scale factor during the cosmic expansion. We show that if the vector field gets a mass from a scalar field, whose value increases by orders of magnitude, the suppression can be compensated, and the misalignment can produce the coherent vector boson that has a sizable amount of energy density in the present universe. Quintessence can be such a scalar field.

    astro-ph.COhep-phJCAP(2023)·10 citations
  15. 15*

    Study of Nonlinear Evolution of Spacetime Fluctuations in Quantum Gravity Inflation for Deriving Primordial Spectrum

    Ken-ji Hamada🇯🇵

    We study the evolution of quantum fluctuations of gravity around an inflationary solution in renormalizable quantum gravity, in which the initial scalar-fluctuation dominance is shown by the background-free nature expressed by a special conformal invariance. Inflation ignites at the Planck scale and continues until spacetime phase transition occurs at a dynamical scale about GeV. We can show that during inflation, the initially large scale-invariant fluctuations reduce in amplitude to the appropriate magnitude suggested by tiny CMB anisotropies. The goal of this research is to derive the spectra of scalar fluctuations at the phase transition point, that is, the primordial spectra. A system of nonlinear evolution equations for the fluctuations is derived from the quantum gravity effective action. The running coupling constant is then expressed by a time-dependent average following the spirit of the mean field approximation. In this paper, we determine and examine various nonlinear terms, not treated in previous studies such as the exponential factor of the conformal mode. These contributions occur during the early stage of inflation when the amplitude is still large. Moreover, in order to verify their effects concretely, we numerically solve the evolution equation by making a simplification to extract the most contributing parts of the terms in comoving momentum space. The result indicates that they serve to maintain the initial scale invariance over a wide range beyond the comoving Planck scale. This is a challenge toward the derivation of the precise primordial spectra, and we expect in the future that it will lead to the resolution of the tensions that have arisen in cosmology.

    hep-thastro-ph.COgr-qchep-phUniverse(2024)·2 citations
  16. 16*

    Observational Opportunities for the Fuzzball Program

    Daniel R. Mayerson🇧🇪 · Bert Vercnocke🇧🇪

    We discuss how string theory, and in particular the "fuzzball" paradigm, has already made and can make meaningful contributions to the phenomenology of strong gravity observations. We outline pertinent research directions for the near-future within this program, and emphasize the unique viewpoints that string theory and fuzzballs bring to phenomenology.

    hep-thastro-ph.HEgr-qchep-ph14 citations
  17. 17*

    Non-canonical Higgs inflation

    Pooja Pareek🇮🇳 · Akhilesh Nautiyal🇮🇳

    The large value of non-minimal coupling constant required to satisfy CMB observations in Higgs inflation violates unitarity. In this work we study Higgs-inflation with non-canonical kinetic term of DBI form to find whether can be reduced. To study the inflationary dynamics, we transform the action to the Einstein frame, in which the Higgs is minimally coupled to gravity with a non-canonical kinetic term and modified potential. We choose the Higgs self coupling constant for our analysis. We find that the value of can be reduced from to to satisfy Planck constraints on amplitude of scalar power spectrum. However, this model produces a larger tensor-to-scalar ratio , in comparison to the Higgs inflation with canonical kinetic term. We also find that, to satisfy joint constraints on scalar spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio from Planck-2018 and bounds on from Planck and BICEP3, the value of should be of the order of . Thus, the issue of unitarity violation remains even after considering Higgs inflation with non-canonical kinetic term

    astro-ph.COhep-phhep-thClass.Quant.Grav.(2024)·3 citations
  18. 18*

    IDECAMB: an implementation of interacting dark energy cosmology in CAMB

    Yun-He Li🇨🇳 · Xin Zhang🇺🇸

    Interacting dark energy (IDE) scenario is a natural and important extension to the standard CDM cosmology. We develop a full numerical routine, called IDECAMB, as a patch to the public Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB, to solve the background and perturbation equations of the IDE models. The IDECAMB solver provides a unified interface for the widely studied IDE models by employing a parametrization model with five free functions. By configuring these five functions, one can easily map the coupled quintessence (CQ) and coupled fluid (CF) models into the parametrization. We handle the perturbation evolutions of the CF models with the parametrized post-Friedmann (PPF) approach to avoid the possible large-scale instability. Compared with the previous established PPF approach whose form depends on a specific IDE model, the PPF approach in this work are model-independent, making it easy to use. We constrain a specific CQ model with the IDECAMB package. The fitting results are consistent with those obtained by Planck Collaboration, which confirms the validity of the package.

    astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phJCAP(2023)·32 citations
  19. 19*

    Vacuum Decay in Time-Dependent Backgrounds

    Patrick Draper🇺🇸 · Manthos Karydas🇺🇸 · Hao Zhang🇺🇸

    We develop semiclassical methods for studying bubble nucleation in models with parameters that vary slowly in time. Introducing a more general rotation of the time contour allows access to a larger set of final states, and typically a non-Euclidean rotation is necessary in order to find the most relevant tunneling solution. We work primarily with effective quantum mechanical models parametrizing tunneling along restricted trajectories in field theories, which are sufficient, for example, to study thin wall bubble nucleation. We also give one example of an exact instanton solution in a particular Kaluza-Klein cosmology where the circumference of the internal circle is changing in time.

    hep-thgr-qchep-phPRD(2023)·7 citations
  20. 20*

    A Self-interacting Dark Matter Solution to the Extreme Diversity of Low-mass Halo Properties

    Ethan O. Nadler🇺🇸 · Daneng Yang🇺🇸 · Hai-Bo Yu🇺🇸

    The properties of low-mass dark matter (DM) halos appear to be remarkably diverse relative to cold, collisionless DM predictions, even in the presence of baryons. We show that self-interacting DM (SIDM) can simultaneously explain observations of halo diversity at two opposite extremesthe inner density profile of the dense substructure perturbing the strong lens galaxy SDSSJ0946+1006 and the rotation curves of isolated, gas-rich ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs). To achieve this, we present the first cosmological zoom-in simulation featuring strong DM self-interactions in a galaxy group environment centered on a host halo. In our SIDM simulation, most surviving subhalos of the group-mass host are deeply core-collapsed, yielding excellent candidates for the observed dense strong-lens perturber. Self-interactions simultaneously create kiloparsec-scale cores in low-concentration isolated halos, which could host the observed UDGs. Our scenario can be further tested with observations of DM structure and galaxies over a wide mass range.

    astro-ph.GAastro-ph.COhep-phApJL(2023)·103 citations
  21. 21*

    Optically Informed Searches of High-Energy Neutrinos from Interaction-Powered Supernovae

    Tetyana Pitik🇩🇰 · Irene Tamborra🇩🇰 · Massimiliano Lincetto🇩🇪 · Anna Franckowiak🇩🇪

    The interaction between the ejecta of supernovae (SNe) of Type IIn and a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) can efficiently generate thermal UV/optical radiation and lead to the emission of neutrinos in the -~TeV range. We investigate the connection between the neutrino signal detectable at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the electromagnetic signal observable by optical wide-field, high-cadence surveys to outline the best strategy for upcoming follow-up searches. We outline a semi-analytical model that connects the optical lightcurve properties to the SN parameters and find that a large peak luminosity () and an average rise time (~days) are necessary for copious neutrino emission. Nevertheless, the most promising and can be obtained for SN configurations that are not optimal for neutrino emission. Such ambiguous correspondence between the optical lightcurve properties and the number of IceCube neutrino events implies that relying on optical observations only, a range of expected neutrino events should be considered (e.g.~the expected number of neutrino events can vary up to two orders of magnitude for some among the brightest SNe IIn observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility up to now, SN 2020usa and SN 2020in). In addition, the peak in the high-energy neutrino curve should be expected a few after the peak in the optical lightcurve. Our findings highlight that it is crucial to infer the SN properties from multi-wavelength observations rather than focusing on the optical band only to enhance upcoming neutrino searches.

    astro-ph.HEastro-ph.IMhep-phMNRAS(2023)·22 citations

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