908 research outputs found
Precision predictions for direct gaugino and slepton production at the LHC
The search for electroweak superpartners has recently moved to the centre of
interest at the LHC. We provide the currently most precise theoretical
predictions for these particles, use them to assess the precision of parton
shower simulations, and reanalyse public experimental results assuming more
general decompositions of gauginos and sleptons.Comment: 5 pages, 2 tables, 5 figures, proceedings of ICHEP 201
Cornering pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter with the LHC and cosmology
Models in which dark matter particles communicate with the visible sector through a pseudoscalar mediator are well-motivated both from a theoretical and from a phenomenological standpoint. With direct detection bounds being typically subleading in such scenarios, the main constraints stem either from collider searches for dark matter, or from indirect detection experiments. However., LHC searches for the mediator particles themselves can not only compete with — or even supersede — the reach of direct collider dark matter probes, but they can also test scenarios in which traditional monojet searches become irrelevant, especially when the mediator cannot decay on-shell into dark matter particles or its decay is suppressed. In this work we perform a detailed analysis of a pseudoscalar-mediated dark matter simplified model, taking into account a large set of collider constraints and concentrating on the parameter space regions favoured by cos-mological and astrophysical data. We find that mediator masses above 100-200 GeV are essentially excluded by LHC searches in the case of large couplings to the top quark, while forthcoming collider and astrophysical measurements will further constrain the available parameter space
Graded Differential Geometry of Graded Matrix Algebras
We study the graded derivation-based noncommutative differential geometry of
the -graded algebra of complex -matrices
with the ``usual block matrix grading'' (for ). Beside the
(infinite-dimensional) algebra of graded forms the graded Cartan calculus,
graded symplectic structure, graded vector bundles, graded connections and
curvature are introduced and investigated. In particular we prove the
universality of the graded derivation-based first-order differential calculus
and show, that is a ``noncommutative graded manifold'' in a
stricter sense: There is a natural body map and the cohomologies of and its body coincide (as in the case of ordinary graded manifolds).Comment: 21 pages, LATE
Cohomology of Lie superalgebras and of their generalizations
The cohomology groups of Lie superalgebras and, more generally, of color Lie
algebras, are introduced and investigated. The main emphasis is on the case
where the module of coefficients is non-trivial. Two general propositions are
proved, which help to calculate the cohomology groups. Several examples are
included to show the peculiarities of the super case. For L = sl(1|2), the
cohomology groups H^1(L,V) and H^2(L,V), with V a finite-dimensional simple
graded L-module, are determined, and the result is used to show that
H^2(L,U(L)) (with U(L) the enveloping algebra of L) is trivial. This implies
that the superalgebra U(L) does not admit of any non-trivial formal
deformations (in the sense of Gerstenhaber). Garland's theory of universal
central extensions of Lie algebras is generalized to the case of color Lie
algebras.Comment: 50 pages, Latex, no figures. In the revised version the proof of
Lemma 5.1 is greatly simplified, some references are added, and a pertinent
result on sl(m|1) is announced. To appear in the Journal of Mathematical
Physic
SDiff(2) and uniqueness of the Pleba\'{n}ski equation
The group of area preserving diffeomorphisms showed importance in the
problems of self-dual gravity and integrability theory. We discuss how
representations of this infinite-dimensional Lie group can arise in
mathematical physics from pure local considerations. Then using Lie algebra
extensions and cohomology we derive the second Pleba\'{n}ski equation and its
geometry. We do not use K\"ahler or other additional structures but obtain the
equation solely from the geometry of area preserving transformations group. We
conclude that the Pleba\'{n}ski equation is Lie remarkable
Towards a public analysis database for LHC new physics searches using MadAnalysis 5
We present the implementation, in the MadAnalysis 5 framework, of several
ATLAS and CMS searches for supersymmetry in data recorded during the first run
of the LHC. We provide extensive details on the validation of our
implementations and propose to create a public analysis database within this
framework.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures, 5 recast codes; version accepted by EPJC (Dec
22, 2014) including a new section with guidelines for the experimental
collaborations as well as for potential contributors to the PAD;
complementary information can be found at
http://madanalysis.irmp.ucl.ac.be/wiki/PhysicsAnalysisDatabas
Monojet searches for momentum-dependent dark matter interactions
We consider minimal dark matter scenarios featuring momentum-dependent couplings of the dark sector to the Standard Model. We derive constraints from existing LHC searches in the monojet channel, estimate the future LHC sensitivity for an integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1, and compare with models exhibiting conventional momentum-independent interactions with the dark sector. In addition to being well motivated by (composite) pseudo-Goldstone dark matter scenarios, momentum-dependent couplings are interesting as they weaken direct detection constraints. For a specific dark matter mass, the LHC turns out to be sensitive to smaller signal cross-sections in the momentum-dependent case, by virtue of the harder jet transverse-momentum distribution
An Analysis of the Representations of the Mapping Class Group of a Multi-Geon Three-Manifold
It is well known that the inequivalent unitary irreducible representations
(UIR's) of the mapping class group of a 3-manifold give rise to ``theta
sectors'' in theories of quantum gravity with fixed spatial topology. In this
paper, we study several families of UIR's of and attempt to understand the
physical implications of the resulting quantum sectors. The mapping class group
of a three-manifold which is the connected sum of with a finite number
of identical irreducible primes is a semi-direct product group. Following
Mackey's theory of induced representations, we provide an analysis of the
structure of the general finite dimensional UIR of such a group. In the picture
of quantized primes as particles (topological geons), this general
group-theoretic analysis enables one to draw several interesting qualitative
conclusions about the geons' behavior in different quantum sectors, without
requiring an explicit knowledge of the UIR's corresponding to the individual
primes.Comment: 52 pages, harvmac, 2 postscript figures, epsf required. Added an
appendix proving the semi-direct product structure of the MCG, corrected an
error in the characterization of the slide subgroup, reworded extensively.
All our analysis and conclusions remain as befor
Simulating spin-3/2 particles at colliders
Support for interactions of spin-3/2 particles is implemented in the
FeynRules and ALOHA packages and tested with the MadGraph 5 and CalcHEP event
generators in the context of three phenomenological applications. In the first,
we implement a spin-3/2 Majorana gravitino field, as in local supersymmetric
models, and study gravitino and gluino pair-production. In the second, a
spin-3/2 Dirac top-quark excitation, inspired from compositness models, is
implemented. We then investigate both top-quark excitation and top-quark
pair-production. In the third, a general effective operator for a spin-3/2
Dirac quark excitation is implemented, followed by a calculation of the angular
distribution of the s-channel production mechanism.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Cohomology of groups of diffeomorphims related to the modules of differential operators on a smooth manifold
Let be a manifold and be the cotangent bundle. We introduce a
1-cocycle on the group of diffeomorphisms of with values in the space of
linear differential operators acting on When is the
-dimensional sphere, , we use this 1-cocycle to compute the
first-cohomology group of the group of diffeomorphisms of , with
coefficients in the space of linear differential operators acting on
contravariant tensor fields.Comment: arxiv version is already officia
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