222 research outputs found
Probing the scalar potential via double Higgs boson production at hadron colliders
We present a sensitivity study on the cubic and quartic self couplings in double Higgs production via gluon fusion at hadron colliders. Considering the relevant operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory up to dimension eight, we calculate the dominant contributions up to two-loop level, where the first dependence on the quartic interaction appears. Our approach allows to study the independent variations of the two self couplings and to clearly identify the terms necessary to satisfy gauge invariance and to obtain UV-finite results order by order in perturbation theory. We focus on the bbÂŻ γγ signature for simplicity and provide the expected bounds for the cubic and quartic self couplings at the 14 TeV LHC with 3000 fb â1 (HL-LHC) and for a future 100 TeV collider (FCC-100) with 30 ab â1 . We find that while the HL-LHC will provide very limited sensitivity on the quartic self coupling, precision measurements of double Higgs production at a FCC-100 will offer the opportunity to set competitive bounds. We show that combining information from double and triple Higgs production leads to significantly improved prospects for the determination of the quartic self coupling
Color-dressed recursive relations for multi-parton amplitudes
Remarkable progress inspired by twistors has lead to very simple analytic
expressions and to new recursive relations for multi-parton color-ordered
amplitudes. We show how such relations can be extended to include color and
present the corresponding color-dressed formulation for the Berends-Giele, BCF
and a new kind of CSW recursive relations. A detailed comparison of the
numerical efficiency of the different approaches to the calculation of
multi-parton cross sections is performed.Comment: 31 pages, 4 figures, 6 table
Searching for Multijet Resonances at the LHC
Recently it was shown that there is a class of models in which colored vector
and scalar resonances can be copiously produced at the Tevatron with decays to
multijet final states, consistent with all experimental constraints and having
strong discovery potential. We investigate the collider phenomenology of TeV
scale colored resonances at the LHC and demonstrate a strong discovery
potential for the scalars with early data as well as the vectors with
additional statistics. We argue that the signal can be self-calibrating and
using this fact we propose a search strategy which we show to be robust to
systematic errors typically expected from Monte Carlo background estimates. We
model the resonances with a phenomenological Lagrangian that describes them as
bound states of colored vectorlike fermions due to new confining gauge
interactions. However, the phenomenological Lagrangian treatment is quite
general and can represent other scenarios of microscopic physics as well.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, pdflatex. Discussion of background expanded,
minor modifications made. Version to appear in JHE
On-shell recursion relations for all Born QCD amplitudes
We consider on-shell recursion relations for all Born QCD amplitudes. This
includes amplitudes with several pairs of quarks and massive quarks. We give a
detailed description on how to shift the external particles in spinor space and
clarify the allowed helicities of the shifted legs. We proof that the
corresponding meromorphic functions vanish at z --> infinity. As an application
we obtain compact expressions for helicity amplitudes including a pair of
massive quarks, one negative helicity gluon and an arbitrary number of positive
helicity gluons.Comment: 30 pages, minor change
Three-loop corrections to the soft anomalous dimension in multi-leg scattering
We present the three-loop result for the soft anomalous dimension governing
long-distance singularities of multi-leg gauge-theory scattering amplitudes of
massless partons. We compute all contributing webs involving semi-infinite
Wilson lines at three loops and obtain the complete three-loop correction to
the dipole formula. We find that non-dipole corrections appear already for
three coloured partons, where the correction is a constant without kinematic
dependence. Kinematic dependence appears only through conformally-invariant
cross ratios for four coloured partons or more, and the result can be expressed
in terms of single-valued harmonic polylogarithms of weight five. While the
non-dipole three-loop term does not vanish in two-particle collinear limits,
its contribution to the splitting amplitude anomalous dimension reduces to a
constant, and it only depends on the colour charges of the collinear pair,
thereby preserving strict collinear factorization properties. Finally we verify
that our result is consistent with expectations from the Regge limit.Comment: v2: remaining diagrams computed; colour conservation accounted for;
strict collinear factorization shown to hold. Some references added. 6 pages,
2 figure
An Analytic Result for the Two-Loop Hexagon Wilson Loop in N = 4 SYM
In the planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, the conformal symmetry
constrains multi-loop n-edged Wilson loops to be basically given in terms of
the one-loop n-edged Wilson loop, augmented, for n greater than 6, by a
function of conformally invariant cross ratios. We identify a class of
kinematics for which the Wilson loop exhibits exact Regge factorisation and
which leave invariant the analytic form of the multi-loop n-edged Wilson loop.
In those kinematics, the analytic result for the Wilson loop is the same as in
general kinematics, although the computation is remarkably simplified with
respect to general kinematics. Using the simplest of those kinematics, we have
performed the first analytic computation of the two-loop six-edged Wilson loop
in general kinematics.Comment: 17 pages. Extended discussion on how the QMRK limit is taken. Version
accepted by JHEP. A text file containing the Mathematica code with the
analytic expression for the 6-point remainder function is include
Multi-gluon helicity amplitudes with one off-shell leg within high energy factorization
Basing on the Slavnov-Taylor identities, we derive a new prescription to
obtain gauge invariant tree-level scattering amplitudes for the process g*g->Ng
within high energy factorization. Using the helicity method, we check the
formalism up to several final state gluons, and we present analytical formulas
for the the helicity amplitudes for N=2. We also compare the method with
Lipatov's effective action approach.Comment: 25 pages, quite a few figures, an appendix added, typos correcte
Convection in colloidal suspensions with particle-concentration-dependent viscosity
The onset of thermal convection in a horizontal layer of a colloidal
suspension is investigated in terms of a continuum model for binary-fluid
mixtures where the viscosity depends on the local concentration of colloidal
particles. With an increasing difference between the viscosity at the warmer
and the colder boundary the threshold of convection is reduced in the range of
positive values of the separation ratio psi with the onset of stationary
convection as well as in the range of negative values of psi with an
oscillatory Hopf bifurcation. Additionally the convection rolls are shifted
downwards with respect to the center of the horizontal layer for stationary
convection (psi>0) and upwards for the Hopf bifurcation (psi<0).Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to European Physical Journal
THE TOOLS AND MONTE CARLO WORKING GROUP Summary Report from the Les Houches 2009 Workshop on TeV Colliders
This is the summary and introduction to the proceedings contributions for the
Les Houches 2009 "Tools and Monte Carlo" working group.Comment: 144 Pages. Workshop site
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/conferences/LesHouches/Houches2009/ . Conveners were
Butterworth, Maltoni, Moortgat, Richardson, Schumann and Skand
Multigluon tree amplitudes with a pair of massive fermions
We consider the calculation of n-point multigluon tree amplitudes with a pair
of massive fermions in QCD. We give the explicit transformation rules of this
kind of massive fermion-pair amplitudes with respect to different reference
momenta and check the correctness of them by SUSY Ward identities. Using these
rules and onshell BCFW recursion relation, we calculate the analytic results of
several n-point multigluon amplitudes.Comment: 15page
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