106 research outputs found
The Compact Linear ee Collider (CLIC): Physics Potential
The Compact Linear Collider, CLIC, is a proposed ee collider at the
TeV scale whose physics potential ranges from high-precision measurements to
extensive direct sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. This
document summarises the physics potential of CLIC, obtained in detailed
studies, many based on full simulation of the CLIC detector. CLIC covers one
order of magnitude of centre-of-mass energies from 350 GeV to 3 TeV, giving
access to large event samples for a variety of SM processes, many of them for
the first time in ee collisions or for the first time at all. The high
collision energy combined with the large luminosity and clean environment of
the ee collisions enables the measurement of the properties of Standard
Model particles, such as the Higgs boson and the top quark, with unparalleled
precision. CLIC might also discover indirect effects of very heavy new physics
by probing the parameters of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory with an
unprecedented level of precision. The direct and indirect reach of CLIC to
physics beyond the Standard Model significantly exceeds that of the HL-LHC.
This includes new particles detected in challenging non-standard signatures.
With this physics programme, CLIC will decisively advance our knowledge
relating to the open questions of particle physics.Comment: Input to the European Particle Physics Strategy Update on behalf of
the CLIC and CLICdp Collaboration
Orbifold resolutions with general profile
A very general class of resolved versions of the C/Z_N, T^2/Z_N and S^1/Z_2
orbifolds is considered and the free theory of 6D chiral fermions studied on
it. As the orbifold limit is taken, localized 4D chiral massless fermions are
seen to arise at the fixed points. Their number, location and chirality is
found to be independent on the detailed profile of the resolving space and to
agree with the result of hep-th/0409229, in which a particular resolution was
employed. As a consistency check of the resolution procedure, the massive
equation is numerically studied. In particular, for S^1/Z_2, the "resolved"
mass--spectrum and wave functions in the internal space are seen to correctly
reproduce the usual orbifold ones, as the orbifold limit is taken.Comment: 28 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected, references adde
Effective Action and Holography in 5D Gauge Theories
We apply the holographic method to 5D gauge theories on the warped interval.
Our treatment includes the scalars associated with the fifth gauge field
component, which appear as 4D Goldstone bosons in the holographic effective
action. Applications are considered to two classes of models in which these
scalars play an important role. In the Composite-Higgs (and/or Gauge-Higgs
Unification) scenario, the scalars are interpreted as the Higgs field and we
use the holographic recipe to compute its one-loop potential. In AdS/QCD
models, the scalars are identified with the mesons and we compute
holographically the Chiral Perturbation Theory Lagrangian up to p^4 order. We
also discuss, using the holographic perspective, the effect of including a
Chern-Simons term in the 5D gauge Lagrangian. We show that it makes a
Wess-Zumino-Witten term to appear in the holographic effective action. This is
immediately applied to AdS/QCD, where a Chern-Simons term is needed in order to
mimic the Adler-Bardeen chiral anomaly.Comment: 37 pages; v2, minor changes, one reference added; v3, minor
corrections, version published in JHE
A Strong Sector at the LHC: Top Partners in Same-Sign Dileptons
Heavy partners of the top quark are a common prediction of many models in
which a new strongly-coupled sector is responsible for the breaking of the EW
symmetry. In this paper we investigate their experimental signature at the LHC,
focusing on the particularly clean channel of same-sign dileptons.
We show that, thank to a strong interaction with the top quark which allows
them to be singly produced at a sizable rate, the top partners will be
discovered at the LHC if their mass is below 1.5 TeV, higher masses being
possible in particularly favorable (but plausible) situations. Being the
partners expected to be lighter in both the Higgsless and Composite-Higgs
scenarios, the one of same-sign dileptons is found to be a very promising
channel in which these models could be tested.
We also discuss several experimental signatures which would allow, after the
discovery of the excess, to uniquely attribute it to the top partners
production and to measure the relevant physical parameters, i.e. the top
partners masses and couplings. We believe that our results constitute a valid
starting point for a more detailed experimental study.Comment: Corrected some typos, added a reference, 23 page
The Other Natural Two Higgs Doublet Model
We characterize models where electroweak symmetry breaking is driven by two
light Higgs doublets arising as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons of new dynamics
above the weak scale. They represent the simplest natural two Higgs doublet
alternative to supersymmetry. We construct their low-energy effective
Lagrangian making only few specific assumptions about the strong sector. These
concern their global symmetries, their patterns of spontaneous breaking and the
sources of explicit breaking. In particular we assume that all the explicit
breaking is associated with the couplings of the strong sector to the Standard
Model fields, that is gauge and (proto)-Yukawa interactions. Under those
assumptions the scalar potential is determined at lowest order by very few free
parameters associated to the top sector. Another crucial property of our
scenarios is the presence of a discrete symmetry, in addition to custodial
SO(4), that controls the -parameter. That can either be simple CP or a
that distinguishes the two Higgs doublets. Among various possibilities we study
in detail models based on SO(6)/SO(4) SO(2), focussing on their
predictions for the structure of the scalar spectrum and the deviations of
their couplings from those of a generic renormalizable two Higgs doublet model.Comment: 54 page
Massive Pions, Anomalies and Baryons in Holographic QCD
We consider a holographic model of QCD, obtained by a very simple
modification of the original construction, which describes at the same time the
pion mass, the QCD anomalies and the baryons as topological solitons. We study
in detail its phenomenological implications in both the mesonic and baryonic
sectors and compare with the observations.Comment: 31 pages, 2 figures; v2: Version published in Nucl. Phys.
Brane-induced Skyrmion on S^3: baryonic matter in holographic QCD
We study baryonic matter in holographic QCD with D4/D8/\bar{D8} multi-D brane
system in type IIA superstring theory. The baryon is described as the
"brane-induced Skyrmion", which is a topologically non-trivial chiral soliton
in the four-dimensional meson effective action induced by holographic QCD. We
employ the "truncated-resonance model" approach for the baryon analysis,
including pion and \rho meson fields below the ultraviolet cutoff scale M_KK
\sim 1GeV, to keep the holographic duality with QCD. We describe the baryonic
matter in large N_c as single brane-induced Skyrmion on the three-dimensional
closed manifold S^3 with finite radius R. The interactions between baryons are
simulated by the curvature of the closed manifold S^3, and the decrease of the
size of S^3 represents the increase of the total baryon-number density in the
medium in this modeling. We investigate the energy density, the field
configuration, the mass and the root-mean-square radius of single baryon on S^3
as the function of its radius R. We find a new picture of "pion dominance" near
the critical density in the baryonic matter, where all the (axial) vector meson
fields disappear and only the pion field survive. We also find the "swelling"
phenomena of the baryons as the precursor of the deconfinement, and propose the
mechanism of the swelling in general context of QCD. The properties of the
deconfinement and the chiral symmetry restoration in the baryonic matter are
examined by taking the proper order parameters. We also compare our
truncated-resonance model with another "instanton" description of the baryon in
holographic QCD, considering the role of cutoff scale M_KK.Comment: 25 pages, 12 figure
Gauge-Higgs Unification in Orbifold Models
Six-dimensional orbifold models where the Higgs field is identified with some
internal component of a gauge field are considered. We classify all possible
T^2/Z_N orbifold constructions based on a SU(3) electroweak gauge symmetry.
Depending on the orbifold twist, models with two, one or zero Higgs doublets
can be obtained. Models with one Higgs doublet are particularly interesting
because they lead to a prediction for the Higgs mass, which is twice the W
boson mass at leading order: m_H=2 m_W. The electroweak scale is quadratically
sensitive to the cut-off, but only through very specific localized operators.
We study in detail the structure of these operators at one loop, and identify a
class of models where they do not destabilize the electroweak scale at the
leading order. This provides a very promising framework to construct realistic
and predictive models of electroweak symmetry breaking.Comment: 27 pages, uses axodraw.sty; v2: version to appear in JHE
Setting limits on Effective Field Theories: the case of Dark Matter
The usage of Effective Field Theories (EFT) for LHC new physics searches is
receiving increasing attention. It is thus important to clarify all the aspects
related with the applicability of the EFT formalism in the LHC environment,
where the large available energy can produce reactions that overcome the
maximal range of validity, i.e. the cutoff, of the theory. We show that this
does forbid to set rigorous limits on the EFT parameter space through a
modified version of the ordinary binned likelihood hypothesis test, which we
design and validate. Our limit-setting strategy can be carried on in its
full-fledged form by the LHC experimental collaborations, or performed
externally to the collaborations, through the Simplified Likelihood approach,
by relying on certain approximations. We apply it to the recent CMS mono-jet
analysis and derive limits on a Dark Matter (DM) EFT model. DM is selected as a
case study because the limited reach on the DM production EFT Wilson
coefficient and the structure of the theory suggests that the cutoff might be
dangerously low, well within the LHC reach. However our strategy can also be
applied to EFT's parametrising the indirect effects of heavy new physics in the
Electroweak and Higgs sectors
Resolutions of C^n/Z_n Orbifolds, their U(1) Bundles, and Applications to String Model Building
We describe blowups of C^n/Z_n orbifolds as complex line bundles over
CP^{n-1}. We construct some gauge bundles on these resolutions. Apart from the
standard embedding, we describe U(1) bundles and an SU(n-1) bundle. Both
blowups and their gauge bundles are given explicitly. We investigate ten
dimensional SO(32) super Yang-Mills theory coupled to supergravity on these
backgrounds. The integrated Bianchi identity implies that there are only a
finite number of U(1) bundle models. We describe how the orbifold gauge shift
vector can be read off from the gauge background. In this way we can assert
that in the blow down limit these models correspond to heterotic C^2/Z_2 and
C^3/Z_3 orbifold models. (Only the Z_3 model with unbroken gauge group SO(32)
cannot be reconstructed in blowup without torsion.) This is confirmed by
computing the charged chiral spectra on the resolutions. The construction of
these blowup models implies that the mismatch between type-I and heterotic
models on T^6/Z_3 does not signal a complication of S-duality, but rather a
problem of type-I model building itself: The standard type-I orbifold model
building only allows for a single model on this orbifold, while the blowup
models give five different models in blow down.Comment: 1+27 pages LaTeX, 2 figures, some typos correcte
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