212 research outputs found
Structure and Dynamics of the Quasi-Liquid Layer at the Surface of Ice from Molecular Simulations
We characterized the structural and dynamical properties of the quasi-liquid
layer (QLL) at the surface of ice by molecular dynamics simulations with a
thermodynamically consistent water model. Our simulations show that for three
low-index ice surfaces only the outermost molecular layer presents short-range
and mid-range disorder and is diffusive. The onset temperature for normal
diffusion is much higher than the glass temperature of supercooled water,
although the diffusivity of the QLL is higher than that of bulk water at the
corresponding temperature. The underlying subsurface layers impose an ordered
template, which produces a regular patterning of the ice/water interface at any
temperature, and is responsible for the major differences between QLL and bulk
water, especially for what concern the dynamics and the mid-range structure of
the hydrogen-bonded network. Our work highlights the need of a holistic
approach to the characterization of QLL, as a single experimental technique may
probe only one specific feature, missing part of the complexity of this
fascinating system.Comment: 6 Figure
Inelastic Dark Matter at the LHC Lifetime Frontier: ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, CODEX-b, FASER, and MATHUSLA
Visible signals from the decays of light long-lived hidden sector particles
have been extensively searched for at beam dump, fixed-target, and collider
experiments. If such hidden sectors couple to the Standard Model through
mediators heavier than GeV, their production at low-energy
accelerators is kinematically suppressed, leaving open significant pockets of
viable parameter space. We investigate this scenario in models of inelastic
dark matter, which give rise to visible signals at various existing and
proposed LHC experiments, such as ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, CODEX-b, FASER, and
MATHUSLA. These experiments can leverage the large center of mass energy of the
LHC to produce GeV-scale dark matter from the decays of dark photons in the
cosmologically motivated mass range of GeV. We also provide a
detailed calculation of the radiative dark matter-nucleon/electron elastic
scattering cross section, which is relevant for estimating rates at direct
detection experiments.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figure
Exotic Decays Of A Heavy Neutral Higgs Through HZ/AZ Channel
Models of electroweak symmetry breaking with extended Higgs sectors are
theoretically well motivated. In this study, we focus on the Two Higgs Doublet
Model with a low energy spectrum containing scalars and a pseudoscalar .
We study the decays or , which could reach
sizable branching fractions in certain parameter regions. With detailed
collider analysis, we obtain model independent exclusion bounds as well as
discovery reach at the 14 TeV LHC for the process: , looking at final states bbll, \tau\tau ll and ZZZ(4l2j)
for l =e,\mu. We further interpret these bounds in the context of the Type II
Two Higgs Doublet Model, considering three different classes of processes:
, , and , in which
and are the light and heavy CP-even Higgses respectively. For 100
fb integrated luminosity at the 14 TeV LHC, we find that for parent
particle mass around 300-400 GeV, has the greatest reach
when is interpreted as the 126 GeV Higgs: most regions in the
tan\beta-sin(\beta-\alpha) parameter space can be covered by exclusion and
discovery. For 126 GeV , only relatively small tan\beta<10 (5) can be
reached by exclusion (discovery). For , the reach is
typically restricted to sin with tan\beta <10 in bbll
and \tau\tau ll channels. The ZZZ (4l2j) channel, on the other hand, covers a
wide range of 0.3<|sin(\beta-\alpha)|<1 for tan\beta<4.
typically favors negative values of sin(\beta-\alpha), with exclusion/discovery
reach possibly extending to all values of tan\beta. A study of exotic decays of
extra Higgses would extend the reach at the LHC and provides nice
complementarity to conventional Higgs search channels.Comment: 32 pages, 21 figure
Light Charged Higgs Bosons to AW/HW via Top Decay
While current ATLAS and CMS measurements exclude a light charged Higgs
( GeV) for most of the parameter region in the context of the
MSSM scenarios, these bounds are significantly weakened in the Type II 2HDM
once the exotic decay channel into a lighter neutral Higgs, ,
is open. In this study, we examine the possibility of a light charged Higgs
produced in top decay via single top or top pair production, with the
subsequent decay , which can reach a sizable branching
fraction at low once it is kinematically permitted. With a detailed
collider analysis, we obtain exclusion and discovery bounds for the 14 TeV LHC
assuming the existence of a 70 GeV neutral scalar. Assuming and , the
95% exclusion limits on are about 0.2% and
0.03% for single top and top pair production respectively, with an integrated
luminosity of 300 . The discovery reaches are about 3 times
higher. In the context of the Type II 2HDM, discovery is possible at both large
for 155 GeV 165 GeV, and small
over the entire mass range. Exclusion is possible in the entire
versus plane except for charged Higgs masses close to the top
threshold. The exotic decay channel is therefore
complementary to the conventional channel.Comment: 21 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1408.411
Tagging single Tops
Top taggers which identify and reconstruct boosted top quarks have been
established as novel tools for a multitude of LHC analyses. We show how single
top production in association with a light-flavor or bottom jet can be observed
in the boosted phase space regime. The full top reconstruction as part of the
tagging algorithm allows us to define a distinctive kinematic angle which
clearly separates different single top production processes.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
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