Parameterization of heavy effects beyond the Standard Model is available using higher-dimension operators of the effective field theory and their Wilson coefficients, where their values are not known. Experimental sensitivity to the Wilson coefficients can be significantly changed in case of the usage of composite anomalous signal, which contains anomalous contributions from background processes in addition to the conventional ones from the signal process. In this work, this approach is applied to the search for anomalous quartic gauge couplings with seven EFT operators in the electroweak production of $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ and $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ in $pp$ collisions. For the majority of coefficients sensitivity in the former channel is smaller than that in the latter one. However, it is shown that composite anomalous signal affects $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ production stronger than $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ production, making sensitivities closer. One-dimensional limits on the Wilson coefficients are changed up to 27.3% and 9.7% due to the background anomalous contributions in $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ and $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ productions respectively.
{"title":"Composite Effective Field Theory Signal from Anomalous QuarticGauge Couplings forZZ(→ℓℓνν)jjandZγ(→ννγ)jjProductions","authors":"A. Semushin, E. Soldatov","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2024.519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2024.519","url":null,"abstract":"Parameterization of heavy effects beyond the Standard Model is available using higher-dimension operators of the effective field theory and their Wilson coefficients, where their values are not known. Experimental sensitivity to the Wilson coefficients can be significantly changed in case of the usage of composite anomalous signal, which contains anomalous contributions from background processes in addition to the conventional ones from the signal process. In this work, this approach is applied to the search for anomalous quartic gauge couplings with seven EFT operators in the electroweak production of $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ and $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ in $pp$ collisions. For the majority of coefficients sensitivity in the former channel is smaller than that in the latter one. However, it is shown that composite anomalous signal affects $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ production stronger than $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ production, making sensitivities closer. One-dimensional limits on the Wilson coefficients are changed up to 27.3% and 9.7% due to the background anomalous contributions in $ZZ(rightarrowellellnunu)jj$ and $Zgamma(rightarrownunugamma)jj$ productions respectively.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141014439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As an alternative to the metastability of the electroweak vacuum, resulting from perturbative calculations, one can consider a non-perturbative effective potential which, as at the beginning of the Standard Model, is restricted to the pure $Phi^4$ sector yet consistent with the known analytical and numerical studies. In this approach, where the electroweak vacuum is now the lowest-energy state, besides the resonance of mass $m_h=$ 125 GeV defined by the quadratic shape of the potential at its minimum, the Higgs field should exhibit a second resonance with mass $(M_H)^{rm Theor}=690,(30)$ GeV associated with the zero-point energy determining the potential depth. In spite of its large mass, this resonance would couple to longitudinal $W$s with the same typical strength as the low-mass state at 125 GeV and represent a relatively narrow resonance, mainly produced at LHC by gluon-gluon fusion. In this Letter, we review LHC data suggesting a new resonance of mass $(M_H)^{rm EXP} sim 682,(10)$ GeV, with a statistical significance that is far from negligible.
{"title":"A New 700GeV Scalar in the LHC Data?","authors":"M. Consoli, G. Rupp","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2024.515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2024.515","url":null,"abstract":"As an alternative to the metastability of the electroweak vacuum, resulting from perturbative calculations, one can consider a non-perturbative effective potential which, as at the beginning of the Standard Model, is restricted to the pure $Phi^4$ sector yet consistent with the known analytical and numerical studies. In this approach, where the electroweak vacuum is now the lowest-energy state, besides the resonance of mass $m_h=$ 125 GeV defined by the quadratic shape of the potential at its minimum, the Higgs field should exhibit a second resonance with mass $(M_H)^{rm Theor}=690,(30)$ GeV associated with the zero-point energy determining the potential depth. In spite of its large mass, this resonance would couple to longitudinal $W$s with the same typical strength as the low-mass state at 125 GeV and represent a relatively narrow resonance, mainly produced at LHC by gluon-gluon fusion. In this Letter, we review LHC data suggesting a new resonance of mass $(M_H)^{rm EXP} sim 682,(10)$ GeV, with a statistical significance that is far from negligible.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"18 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140744678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-15DOI: 10.31526/acp.bsm-2023.20
W. Elmetenawee
Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, substantial advancements have been achieved in exploring its characteristics. The utilization of extensive data sets has facilitated recent results, enabling not only the determination of the Higgs boson mass and total production cross section in the most sensitive decay channels, but also measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections, as well as searches for rare or exotic processes. The study of the Higgs boson pair production which is fundamental to the study of the Higgs boson self-coupling, received a significant boost, too. These proceedings focus on the latest Higgs physics results achieved by the CMS Collaboration using the entire dataset collected during Run-2 of the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 140 fb$^{-1}$.
{"title":"Summary of CMS Higgs Physics","authors":"W. Elmetenawee","doi":"10.31526/acp.bsm-2023.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/acp.bsm-2023.20","url":null,"abstract":"Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, substantial advancements have been achieved in exploring its characteristics. The utilization of extensive data sets has facilitated recent results, enabling not only the determination of the Higgs boson mass and total production cross section in the most sensitive decay channels, but also measurements of fiducial and differential cross sections, as well as searches for rare or exotic processes. The study of the Higgs boson pair production which is fundamental to the study of the Higgs boson self-coupling, received a significant boost, too. These proceedings focus on the latest Higgs physics results achieved by the CMS Collaboration using the entire dataset collected during Run-2 of the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 140 fb$^{-1}$.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140507738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this work, we study the phenomenology of neutrinos and the formation of cosmic domain walls in the NMSSM extended by an $A_4 times Z_3$ flavor symmetry. Neutrino masses result from the type I seesaw mechanism using only two flavon fields and the NMSSM singlet $mathcal{S}$ while their mixing is of Trimaximal mixing form. We perform our phenomenological study in the normal mass hierarchy where we find that observables like $m_{betabeta}$, $m_beta$, and $sum_i m_i$ can be tested by future experiments. Due to the difference between the $A_4$ subgroups that undergo spontaneous breaking in both the charged lepton and neutrino sectors, the resulting domain walls in each sector exhibit distinct structures. We delve into the details of the breaking patterns within these two sectors, and we introduce a nuanced geometric representation for them. To tackle the domain wall problem, we explore a well-established method involving the explicit breaking of the flavor symmetry. This is achieved through the introduction of Planck-suppressed operators induced by supergravity.
在这项工作中,我们研究了中微子的现象学以及由$A_4 times Z_3$味道对称性扩展的NMSSM中宇宙域壁的形成。中微子质量来自仅使用两个黄子场和NMSSM单子$mathcal{S}$的I型跷跷板机制,而它们的混合则是Trimaximal混合形式。我们在正常质量层次中进行了现象学研究,发现$m_{betabeta}$、$m_beta$和$sum_i m_i$等观测值可以通过未来的实验来检验。由于带电轻子和中微子部门中发生自发破缺的 $A_4$ 子群之间的差异,每个部门中产生的域壁都表现出不同的结构。我们深入研究了这两个扇区中的破缺模式细节,并为它们引入了一种细致入微的几何表示方法。为了解决域墙问题,我们探索了一种行之有效的方法,其中涉及味道对称性的显式破缺。这是通过引入超引力诱导的普朗克抑制算子实现的。
{"title":"Domain Walls in the A 4 flavored NMSSM","authors":"M. A. Loualidi, Salah Nasri","doi":"10.31526/acp.bsm-2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/acp.bsm-2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we study the phenomenology of neutrinos and the formation of cosmic domain walls in the NMSSM extended by an $A_4 times Z_3$ flavor symmetry. Neutrino masses result from the type I seesaw mechanism using only two flavon fields and the NMSSM singlet $mathcal{S}$ while their mixing is of Trimaximal mixing form. We perform our phenomenological study in the normal mass hierarchy where we find that observables like $m_{betabeta}$, $m_beta$, and $sum_i m_i$ can be tested by future experiments. Due to the difference between the $A_4$ subgroups that undergo spontaneous breaking in both the charged lepton and neutrino sectors, the resulting domain walls in each sector exhibit distinct structures. We delve into the details of the breaking patterns within these two sectors, and we introduce a nuanced geometric representation for them. To tackle the domain wall problem, we explore a well-established method involving the explicit breaking of the flavor symmetry. This is achieved through the introduction of Planck-suppressed operators induced by supergravity.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140508835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It has been claimed that wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, but they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. The purpose of this paper is to show that the claim can be substantiated in spite of these restrictions.
{"title":"On the Status of Wormholes in Einstein’s Theory: An Overview","authors":"P. Kuhfittig","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2023.469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2023.469","url":null,"abstract":"It has been claimed that wormholes are just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, but they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. The purpose of this paper is to show that the claim can be substantiated in spite of these restrictions.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138596383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noncommutative geometry, an offshoot of string theory, replaces point-like particles by smeared objects. These local effects have led to wormhole solutions in a semiclassical setting, but it has also been claimed that the noncommutative effects can be implemented by modifying only the energy momentum tensor in the Einstein field equations, while leaving the Einstein tensor unchanged. The implication is that noncommutative-geometry wormholes could be macroscopic. The purpose of this paper is to confirm this conclusion in a simpler and more concrete manner by showing that the throat radius can indeed be macroscopic. This result can be readily explained by considering the noncommutative-geometry background to be a fundamental property and the macroscopic wormhole spacetime to be emergent.
{"title":"Macroscopic Noncommutative-Geometry Wormholes as Emergent Phenomena","authors":"P. Kuhfittig","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2023.399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2023.399","url":null,"abstract":"Noncommutative geometry, an offshoot of string theory, replaces point-like particles by smeared objects. These local effects have led to wormhole solutions in a semiclassical setting, but it has also been claimed that the noncommutative effects can be implemented by modifying only the energy momentum tensor in the Einstein field equations, while leaving the Einstein tensor unchanged. The implication is that noncommutative-geometry wormholes could be macroscopic. The purpose of this paper is to confirm this conclusion in a simpler and more concrete manner by showing that the throat radius can indeed be macroscopic. This result can be readily explained by considering the noncommutative-geometry background to be a fundamental property and the macroscopic wormhole spacetime to be emergent.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49289357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neutrino mixing is caused by the fact that neutrino flavors are not eigenstates of the free Hamiltonian. This causes oscillations among different neutrino flavors. When neutrinos pass through a medium, weak interactions produce different effective masses for neutrinos of different flavors, leading to a modification of the mixing parameters. In curved spacetime there is an additional contribution to neutrino Hamiltonian from a torsion-induced four-fermion interaction, which also causes neutrino mixing while propagating through fermionic matter. We provide an outline of the calculation of this effect on neutrino oscillation.
{"title":"Neutrino Oscillations Induced by Chiral Torsion","authors":"Riya Barick, Indrajit Ghose, A. Lahiri","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2023.362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2023.362","url":null,"abstract":"Neutrino mixing is caused by the fact that neutrino flavors are not eigenstates of the free Hamiltonian. This causes oscillations among different neutrino flavors. When neutrinos pass through a medium, weak interactions produce different effective masses for neutrinos of different flavors, leading to a modification of the mixing parameters. In curved spacetime there is an additional contribution to neutrino Hamiltonian from a torsion-induced four-fermion interaction, which also causes neutrino mixing while propagating through fermionic matter. We provide an outline of the calculation of this effect on neutrino oscillation.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this conference paper, we consider effective field theories of non-relativistic dark matter particles interacting with a light force mediator in the early expanding universe. We present a general framework, where to account in a systematic way for the relevant processes that may affect the dynamics during thermal freeze-out. In the temperature regime where near-threshold effects, most notably the formation of bound states and Sommerfeld enhancement, have a large impact on the dark matter relic density, we scrutinize possible contributions from higher excited states and radiative corrections in the annihilations and decays of dark-matter pairs.
{"title":"Effective Field Theories for Dark Matter Pairs in the Early Universe","authors":"S. Biondini, N. Brambilla, G. Qerimi, A. Vairo","doi":"10.31526/LHEP.2023.375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/LHEP.2023.375","url":null,"abstract":"In this conference paper, we consider effective field theories of non-relativistic dark matter particles interacting with a light force mediator in the early expanding universe. We present a general framework, where to account in a systematic way for the relevant processes that may affect the dynamics during thermal freeze-out. In the temperature regime where near-threshold effects, most notably the formation of bound states and Sommerfeld enhancement, have a large impact on the dark matter relic density, we scrutinize possible contributions from higher excited states and radiative corrections in the annihilations and decays of dark-matter pairs.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46380404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The dynamics of a neutral test particle in the spacetime geometry cor-responding to a central massive and charged object (Reissner-Nordstrom Metric) is examined. For a radial distance r = Q^2/M (in natural units) the gravitational force is null, independently of the value of G, and repulsive below this value. It is shown that within typical atomic and molecular distances, there is a repulsive force albeit negligible in comparison with the electromagnetic one ruling the atomic world. For an eventual extremal black hole having a mass equal to the Planck Mass a limit to electric charge equal to 1(MeV )^0 is found. At the galactic scale and for galaxies with a compact central nucleus with mass below or of the order of the Solar mass, the repulsive force can reproduce the flat rotation curve of stellar orbits observed in many galaxies.
{"title":"Rotation Curves of Galaxies via Reissner-Nordstrom Induced Gravity and an Alternative Explanation of Dark Matter","authors":"J. B. Buitrago","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2023.319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2023.319","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamics of a neutral test particle in the spacetime geometry cor-responding to a central massive and charged object (Reissner-Nordstrom Metric) is examined. For a radial distance r = Q^2/M (in natural units) the gravitational force is null, independently of the value of G, and repulsive below this value. It is shown that within typical atomic and molecular distances, there is a repulsive force albeit negligible in comparison with the electromagnetic one ruling the atomic world. For an eventual extremal black hole having a mass equal to the Planck Mass a limit to electric charge equal to 1(MeV )^0 is found. At the galactic scale and for galaxies with a compact central nucleus with mass below or of the order of the Solar mass, the repulsive force can reproduce the flat rotation curve of stellar orbits observed in many galaxies.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45170935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent studies focusing on the use of radio data in indirect dark matter detection have led to a set of highly competitive limits on the WIMP annihilation cross-section, especially in light of high-resolution data from instruments like ASKAP and MeerKAT. In this work we present an analysis of radio observations of the RXC J0225.1-2928 galaxy cluster, taken from the recent MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey public data release. We adopt a robust morphological analysis of this source that allows us to derive a set of upper-limits on the annihilation cross-section, and in our most constraining scenario these results are comparable to the most stringent limits yet found in the literature.
{"title":"A Radio-Frequency Search for WIMPs in RXC J0225.1-2928","authors":"M. Sarkis, G. Beck, Natasha Lavis","doi":"10.31526/lhep.2023.361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31526/lhep.2023.361","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies focusing on the use of radio data in indirect dark matter detection have led to a set of highly competitive limits on the WIMP annihilation cross-section, especially in light of high-resolution data from instruments like ASKAP and MeerKAT. In this work we present an analysis of radio observations of the RXC J0225.1-2928 galaxy cluster, taken from the recent MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey public data release. We adopt a robust morphological analysis of this source that allows us to derive a set of upper-limits on the annihilation cross-section, and in our most constraining scenario these results are comparable to the most stringent limits yet found in the literature.","PeriodicalId":36085,"journal":{"name":"Letters in High Energy Physics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45147495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}