46 research outputs found
Top Down Electroweak Dipole Operators
We derive present constraints on, and prospective sensitivity to, the
electric dipole moment (EDM) of the top quark () implied by searches for
the EDMs of the electron and nucleons. Above the electroweak scale , the
arises from two gauge invariant operators generated at a scale that also mix with the light fermion EDMs under renormalization group
evolution at two-loop order. Bounds on the EDMs of first generation fermion
systems thus imply bounds on . Working in the leading log-squared
approximation, we find that the present upper bound on is roughly
cm for TeV, except in regions of finely tuned
cancellations that allow for to be up to fifty times larger. Future
and probes may yield an order of magnitude increase in
sensitivity, while inclusion of a prospective proton EDM search may lead to an
additional increase in reach.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Toward verification of electroweak baryogenesis by electric dipole moments
We study general aspects of the CP-violating effects on the baryon asymmetry
of the Universe (BAU) and electric dipole moments (EDMs) in models extended by
an extra Higgs doublet and a singlet, together with electroweak-interacting
fermions. In particular, the emphasis is on the structure of the CP-violating
interactions and dependences of the BAU and EDMs on masses of the relevant
particles. In a concrete mode, we investigate a relationship between the BAU
and the electron EDM for a typical parameter set. As long as the BAU-related CP
violation predominantly exists, the electron EDM has a strong power in probing
electroweak baryogenesis. However, once a BAU-unrelated CP violation comes into
play, the direct correlation between the BAU and electron EDM can be lost. Even
in such a case, we point out that verifiability of the scenario still remains
with the help of Higgs physics.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Electroweak Baryogenesis driven by Extra Top Yukawa Couplings
We study electroweak baryogenesis driven by the top quark in a general two
Higgs doublet model with flavor-changing Yukawa couplings, keeping the Higgs
potential invariant. With Higgs sector couplings and the additional top
Yukawa coupling all of (1), one naturally has sizable
violation that fuels the cosmic baryon asymmetry. Even if
vanishes, the favor-changing coupling can still lead to successful
baryogenesis. Phenomenological consequences such as , , electron electric dipole moment, , and
coupling are discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: updated to match version published in PL
ALP contributions to conversion
We study the conversion process in nuclear targets arising in
models of axion-like particles (ALPs) with hadronic and charged lepton flavor
violating (CLFV) interactions. Contributions to this process generally fall
into two categories: spin-independent (SI) and spin-dependent (SD). While the
SI contribution can be generated by a dipole operator through purely leptonic
ALP interactions, the SD contribution can also be present through ALP-quark
interactions at tree-level. It is naively anticipated that the SI contribution
would be dominant due to its coherent enhancement. In this ,
we show that is not generically the case; in particular, for naturally-sized
ALP couplings to quarks of order , the SD interaction induced by
ALP- mixing turns out to be the leading contribution to
conversion. Intuitively, this stems from the suppressed dipole contribution by
the QED one-loop factor which counters the effect of SI coherent enhancement.
Our study highlights the importance of conversion searches in
exploring the parameter space of generic ALP models, and demonstrates the
competitiveness of these searches in probing the CLFV ALP parameter space in
the heavy mass range of .Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure