scholarly journals Effective theory approach to new physics with flavour: general framework and a leptoquark example

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzia Bordone ◽  
Oscar Catà ◽  
Thorsten Feldmann
Keyword(s):  
General Framework ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Theory Approach

scholarly journals Flavor physics: Precision as an avenue to discovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (01) ◽  
pp. 1930018
Author(s):  
Diego Guadagnoli
Keyword(s):  
Cp Violation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Flavor Physics ◽  
Standard Model Prediction ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Impact

This paper describes the work pursued in the years 2008–2013 on improving the Standard Model prediction of selected flavor-physics observables. The latter includes: (1) [Formula: see text], that quantifies indirect CP violation in the [Formula: see text] system and (2) the very rare decay [Formula: see text], recently measured at the LHC. Concerning point (1), the paper describes our reappraisal of the long-distance contributions to [Formula: see text],[Formula: see text] that have permitted to unveil a potential tension between CP violation in the [Formula: see text]- and [Formula: see text]-system. Concerning point (2), the paper gives a detailed account of various systematic effects pointed out in Ref. 4 and affecting the Standard Model [Formula: see text] decay rate at the level of 10% — hence large enough to be potentially misinterpreted as nonstandard physics, if not properly included. The paper further describes the multifaceted importance of the [Formula: see text] decays as new physics probes, for instance how they compare with [Formula: see text]-peak observables at LEP, following the effective-theory approach of Ref. 5. Both cases (1) and (2) offer clear examples in which the pursuit of precision in Standard Model predictions offered potential avenues to discovery. Finally, this paper describes the impact of the above results on the literature, and what is the further progress to be expected on these and related observables.

scholarly journals Precision Higgs couplings in neutral naturalness models: an effective field theory approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Heurtier ◽  
Hao-Lin Li ◽  
Huayang Song ◽  
Shufang Su ◽  
Wei Su ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Goldstone Boson ◽  
Higgs Sector ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Precision Measurements ◽  
Global Symmetry ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Decay Channels

AbstractThe Higgs sector in neutral naturalness models provides a portal to the hidden sectors, and thus measurements of Higgs couplings at current and future colliders play a central role in constraining the parameter space of the model. We investigate a class of neutral naturalness models, in which the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Goldstone boson from the universal SO(N)/SO(N −1) coset structure. Integrating out the radial mode from the spontaneous global symmetry breaking, we obtain various dimension-six operators in the Standard Model effective field theory, and calculate the low energy Higgs effective potential with radiative corrections included. We perform aχ2fit to the Higgs coupling precision measurements at current and future colliders and show that the new physics scale could be explored up to 2.3 (2.4) TeV without (with) the Higgs invisible decay channels at future Higgs factories. The limits are comparable to the indirect constraints obtained via electroweak precision measurements.

scholarly journals The low-energy effective theory of axions and ALPs

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bauer ◽  
Matthias Neubert ◽  
Sophie Renner ◽  
Marvin Schnubel ◽  
Andrea Thamm
Keyword(s):  
High Energy ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Loop Order ◽  
Flavor Changing ◽  
Effective Lagrangian ◽  
Anomalous Dimensions ◽  
Pseudoscalar Mesons

Abstract Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are well-motivated low-energy relics of high-energy extensions of the Standard Model, which interact with the known particles through higher-dimensional operators suppressed by the mass scale Λ of the new-physics sector. Starting from the most general dimension-5 interactions, we discuss in detail the evolution of the ALP couplings from the new-physics scale to energies at and below the scale of electroweak symmetry breaking. We derive the relevant anomalous dimensions at two-loop order in gauge couplings and one-loop order in Yukawa interactions, carefully considering the treatment of a redundant operator involving an ALP coupling to the Higgs current. We account for one-loop (and partially two-loop) matching contributions at the weak scale, including in particular flavor-changing effects. The relations between different equivalent forms of the effective Lagrangian are discussed in detail. We also construct the effective chiral Lagrangian for an ALP interacting with photons and light pseudoscalar mesons, pointing out important differences with the corresponding Lagrangian for the QCD axion.

scholarly journals Searching for charged lepton flavor violation at ep colliders

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Antusch ◽  
A. Hammad ◽  
Ahmed Rashed
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Charged Lepton ◽  
Neutral Current ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Lepton Flavor Violation ◽  
Lepton Flavor ◽  
Flavor Violation ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

Abstract We investigate the sensitivity of electron-proton (ep) colliders for charged lepton flavor violation (cLFV) in an effective theory approach, considering a general effective Lagrangian for the conversion of an electron into a muon or a tau via the effective coupling to a neutral gauge boson or a neutral scalar field. For the photon, the Z boson and the Higgs particle of the Standard Model, we present the sensitivities of the LHeC for the coefficients of the effective operators, calculated from an analysis at the reconstructed level. As an example model where such flavor changing neutral current (FCNC) operators are generated at loop level, we consider the extension of the Standard Model by sterile neutrinos. We show that the LHeC could already probe the LFV conversion of an electron into a muon beyond the current experimental bounds, and could reach more than an order of magnitude higher sensitivity than the present limits for LFV conversion of an electron into a tau. We discuss that the high sensitivities are possible because the converted charged lepton is dominantly emitted in the backward direction, enabling an efficient separation of the signal from the background.

scholarly journals Flavour Anomalies in a U(1) SUSY Extension of the SM

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Alexander Bednyakov ◽  
Alfiia Mukhaeva
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Parameter Space ◽  
Gauge Boson ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Meson Mixing ◽  
Additional Anomaly ◽  
Lepton Flavour

Flavour anomalies have attracted a lot of attention over recent years as they provide unique hints for possible New Physics. Here, we consider a supersymmetric (SUSY) extension of the Standard Model (SM) with an additional anomaly-free gauge U(1) group. The key feature of our model is the particular choice of non-universal charges to the gauge boson Z′, which not only allows a relaxation of the flavour discrepancies but, contrary to previous studies, can reproduce the SM mixing matrices both in the quark and lepton sectors. We pay special attention to the latter and explicitly enumerate all parameters relevant for our calculation in the low-energy effective theory. We find regions in the parameter space that satisfy experimental constraints on meson mixing and LHC Z′ searches and can alleviate the flavour anomalies. In addition, we also discuss the predictions for lepton-flavour violating decays B+→K+μτ and B+→K+eτ.

scholarly journals The Spin Structure of the Nucleon

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 1660001
Author(s):  
Xiangdong Ji ◽  
Yong Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Orbital Angular Momentum ◽  
Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering ◽  
Virtual Compton Scattering ◽  
Proton Spin ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Large Momentum ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

We justify the physical meaning of the spin and orbital angular momentum of free partons in the infinite momentum frame, and discuss the relationship between the Jaffe-Manohar and Ji’s sum rules for proton spin. The parton orbital angular momentum in the Jaffe-Manohar sum rule can be measured through twist-three GPD’s in hard scattering processes such as deeply virtual Compton scattering. Furthermore, we propose that the paton orbital angular momentum as well as the gluon helicity can be calculated in lattice QCD through a large momentum effective theory approach, and provide all the one-loop matching conditions for the proton spin content in perturbative QCD.

AN EFFECTIVE THEORY FOR NUCLEAR MATTER WITH GENUINE MANY-BODY FORCES

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 182-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
CÉSAR A. Z. VASCONCELLOS ◽  
JORGE HORVATH ◽  
DIMITER HADJIMICHEF ◽  
ROSANA O. GOMES
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Matter ◽  
Dense Matter ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Conceptual Issue ◽  
Body Forces ◽  
Nuclear Systems ◽  
Space Dynamics

Nuclear science has developed many excellent descriptions that embody various properties of the nucleus, and nuclear matter at low, medium and high densities. However, a full microscopic understanding of nuclear systems is still lacking. The aim of our theoretical research group is to shed some light on such challenges and particularly on open questions facing the high density nuclear many-body problem. Here we focus our attention on the conceptual issue of naturalness and its role in shaping the baryon-meson phase space dynamics in the description of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In particular, in order to stimulate possible new directions of research, we discuss relevant aspects of a recently developed relativistic effective theory for nuclear matter with natural parametric couplings and genuine many-body forces. Among other topics we discuss in this work the connection of this theory with other known effective QHD models of the literature and its potentiality in describing a new physics for dense matter.

scholarly journals Influence of defects on the conductivity of graphene within the effective theory approach

JETP Letters ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 98 (7) ◽  
pp. 389-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. N. Valgushev ◽  
E. V. Luschevskaya ◽  
O. V. Pavlovsky ◽  
M. I. Polikarpov ◽  
M. V. Ulybyshev
Keyword(s):  
Effective Theory ◽  
Theory Approach

scholarly journals Effective Theory Approach to the Skyrme Model and Application to Pentaquarks

2005 ◽  
Vol 113 (6) ◽  
pp. 1315-1366 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Harada ◽  
Y. Mitsunari ◽  
N.-a. Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
Skyrme Model ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Theory Approach
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