308 research outputs found
A note on gauge-fixing in the electroweak sector of nmUED
Electroweak observables are highly sensitive to the loop corrections.
Therefore, a proper gauge-fixing mechanism is always needed to define the
propagators which are involved in Feynman loop amplitude. With this spirit we
compute gauge-fixing mechanism in five dimensional (5-D) Universal
Extra-Dimensional (UED) model with boundary localised terms (BLTs). These BLTs
are not 5-D operators in four-dimensional (4-D) effective theory but some sort
of boundary conditions on the respective fields at the fixed points of
orbifold. Furthermore, these BLTs non-trivially modify the
Kaluza-Klein (KK) spectra and some of the interactions among the KK-excitations
compared to the minimal UED (mUED), in which, these BLTs are absent. In this
note we calculate the gauge-fixing mechanism in the electroweak sector of such
non-trivial UED scenario. Moreover, we discuss the composition and masses of
Goldstone and any physical scalar that emerge after the symmetry breaking in
this set up with different choices of gauge.Comment: 9 pages, title has been changed, matched with the published versio
Mass bounds for Triplet Scalars of the Left-Right symmetric model and their future detection prospects
The standard formulation of the Left-Right symmetric model involves scalars
transforming as a triplet under SU(2)L. This multiplet contains particles which
are uncharged, singly-charged, and doubly-charged. We derive a bound on the
uncharged scalar mass of 55.4 GeV using results from LEP-II and find that a
range upto 110 GeV may be explored at the NLC at the 5sigma level. We also
discuss search strategies for the singly- and doubly-charged scalars at the
Tevatron and the LHC. Possible Standard Model backgrounds for the relevant
modes are estimated and compared with the signal. At the LHC, the prospects of
detecting the doubly-charged scalar are bright up to a mass of 850 GeV while
the 5sigma discovery limit of the singly-charged mode extends to 240 GeV for an
integrated luminosity of 100 inverse fb. At the Tevatron, with an integrated
luminosity of 25 inverse fb, the doubly-charged state can be detected if its
mass is less than 275 GeV while the reach for the singly charged scalar is 140
GeV.Comment: Latex, References added, some postscript figures modified, to appear
in Phys. Rev.
LHC Signature of the Minimal SUGRA Model with a Large Soft Scalar Mass
Thanks to the focus point phenomenon, it is quite {\it natural} for the
minimal SUGRA model to have a large soft scalar mass m_0 > 1 TeV. A distinctive
feature of this model is an inverted hierarchy, where the lighter stop has a
significantly smaller mass than the other squarks and sleptons. Consequently,
the gluino is predicted to decay dominantly via stop exchange into a channel
containing 2b and 2W along with the LSP. We exploit this feature to construct a
robust signature for this model at the LHC in leptonic channels with 3-4 b-tags
and a large missing-E_T.Comment: Small clarifications added. Final version to appear in Phys. Lett.
ZZH coupling : A probe to the origin of EWSB ?
We argue that the coupling constitutes a simple probe of the nature of
the scalar sector responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking. We demonstrate
the efficacy of this measure through an analysis of four-dimensional models
containing scalars in arbitrary representation of , as well
as extra-dimensional models with a non-factorizable geometry. A possible role
for the couplings is also discussed.Comment: Minor modifications in the text. Version to appear in Nucl. Phys.
Singlet-Higgs-Boson Signals at Hadron Colliders
Many extensions of the Standard Model include singlet
higgs bosons, , and also vectorlike fermions which couple to it. The
production and detection possibilities of such singlet neutral scalars at
hadron colliders are considered for different scenarios of vectorlike fermions.
We find that for some values of masses and couplings, detection at the CERN
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) appears to be a distinct possibility, while at the
Fermilab Tevatron upgrade the might be observed only in very favourable
circumstances.Comment: 35 pages, latex file, figures 2-7 available upon reques
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