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Author Breso-Pla, V.; Falkowski, A.; Gonzalez-Alonso, M. url  doi
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  Title A(FB) in the SMEFT: precision Z physics at the LHC Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 08 Issue 8 Pages 021 - 27pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories  
  Abstract We study the forward-backward asymmetry A(FB) in pp -> l(+)l(-) at the Z peak within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We find that this observable provides per mille level constraints on the vertex corrections of the Z boson to quarks, which close a flat direction in the electroweak precision SMEFT fit. Moreover, we show that current A(FB) data is precise enough so that its inclusion in the fit improves significantly LEP bounds even in simple New Physics setups. This demonstrates that the LHC can compete with and complement LEP when it comes to precision measurements of the Z boson properties.  
  Address [Breso-Pla, Victor; Gonzalez-Alonso, Martin] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, IFIC, CSIC, Apt Correus 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: vicbreso@ific.uv.es;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000683833600002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4935  
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Author Coloma, P.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Rosauro-Alcaraz, S.; Urrea, S. url  doi
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  Title New physics from oscillations at the DUNE near detector, and the role of systematic uncertainties Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 08 Issue 8 Pages 065 - 33pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics  
  Abstract We study the capabilities of the DUNE near detector to probe deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, the 3+1 sterile formalism and Non-Standard Interactions affecting neutrino production and detection. We clarify the relation and possible mappings among the three formalisms at short-baseline experiments, and we add to current analyses in the literature the study of the nu(mu)-> nu(tau) appearance channel. We study in detail the impact of spectral uncertainties on the sensitivity to new physics using the DUNE near detector, which has been widely overlooked in the literature. Our analysis shows that this plays an important role on the results and, in particular, that it can lead to a strong reduction in the sensitivity to sterile neutrinos from nu(mu)-> nu(e) transitions, by more than two orders of magnitude. This stresses the importance of a joint experimental and theoretical effort to improve our understanding of neutrino nucleus cross sections, as well as hadron production uncertainties and beam focusing effects. Nevertheless, even with our conservative and more realistic implementation of systematic uncertainties, we find that an improvement over current bounds in the new physics frameworks considered is generally expected if spectral uncertainties are below the 5% level.  
  Address [Coloma, Pilar; Rosauro-Alcaraz, Salvador] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor, UAM CSIC, Calle Nicolas Cabrera 13-15, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: pilar.coloma@ift.csic.es;  
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  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  Notes WOS:000686712300001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration no  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4944  
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Author Cosme, C.; Dutra, M.; Godfrey, S.; Gray, T. url  doi
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  Title Testing freeze-in with axial and vector Z ' bosons Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 09 Issue 9 Pages 056 - 27pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM  
  Abstract The freeze-in production of Feebly Interacting Massive Particle (FIMP) dark matter in the early universe is an appealing alternative to the well-known – and constrained – Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) paradigm. Although challenging, the phenomenology of FIMP dark matter has been receiving growing attention and is possible in a few scenarios. In this work, we contribute to this endeavor by considering a Z ' portal to fermionic dark matter, with the Z ' having both vector and axial couplings and a mass ranging from MeV up to PeV. We evaluate the bounds on both freeze-in and freeze-out from direct detection, atomic parity violation, leptonic anomalous magnetic moments, neutrino-electron scattering, collider, and beam dump experiments. We show that FIMPs can already be tested by most of these experiments in a complementary way, whereas WIMPs are especially viable in the Z ' low mass regime, in addition to the Z ' resonance region. We also discuss the role of the axial couplings of Z ' in our results. We therefore hope to motivate specific realizations of this model in the context of FIMPs, as well as searches for these elusive dark matter candidates.  
  Address [Cosme, Catarina; Dutra, Maira; Godfrey, Stephen; Gray, Taylor] Carleton Univ, Ottawa Carleton Inst Phys, 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada, Email: catarina.cosme@ific.uv.es;  
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  Notes WOS:000695081900001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4962  
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Author Cottin, G.; Helo, J.C.; Hirsch, M.; Titov, A.; Wang, Z.S. url  doi
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  Title Heavy neutral leptons in effective field theory and the high-luminosity LHC Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 09 Issue 9 Pages 039 - 34pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Neutrino Physics  
  Abstract Heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) with masses around the electroweak scale are expected to be rather long-lived particles, as a result of the observed smallness of the active neutrino masses. In this work, we study long-lived HNLs in NRSMEFT, a Standard Model (SM) extension with singlet fermions to which we add non-renormalizable operators up to dimension-6. Operators which contain two HNLs can lead to a sizable enhancement of the production cross sections, compared to the minimal case where HNLs are produced only via their mixing with the SM neutrinos. We calculate the expected sensitivities for the ATLAS detector and the future far-detector experiments: AL3X, ANUBIS, CODEX-b, FASER, MATHUSLA, and MoEDAL-MAPP in this setup. The sensitive ranges of the HNL mass and of the active-heavy mixing angle are much larger than those in the minimal case. We study both, Dirac and Majorana, HNLs and discuss how the two cases actually differ phenomenologically, for HNL masses above roughly 100 GeV.  
  Address [Cottin, Giovanna] Univ Adolfo Ibanez, Fac Artes Liberales, Dept Ciencias, Diagonal Las Torres 2640, Santiago, Chile, Email: giovanna.cottin@uai.cl;  
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  ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000694840800001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4970  
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Author Reig, M. url  doi
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  Title The stochastic axiverse Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 09 Issue 9 Pages 207 - 40pp  
  Keywords Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM; Beyond Standard Model; Compactification and String Models  
  Abstract In addition to spectacular signatures such as black hole superradiance and the rotation of CMB polarization, the plenitude of axions appearing in the string axiverse may have potentially dangerous implications. An example is the cosmological overproduction of relic axions and moduli by the misalignment mechanism, more pronounced in regions where the signals mentioned above may be observable, that is for large axion decay constant. In this work, we study the minimal requirements to soften this problem and show that the fundamental requirement is a long period of low-scale inflation. However, in this case, if the inflationary Hubble scale is lower than around O(100) eV, no relic DM axion is produced in the early Universe. Cosmological production of some axions may be activated, via the misalignment mechanism, if their potential minimum changes between inflation and today. As a particular example, we study in detail how the maximal-misalignment mechanism dilutes the effect of dangerous axions and allows the production of axion DM in a controlled way. In this case, the potential of the axion that realises the mechanism shifts by a factor increment theta = pi between the inflationary epoch and today, and the axion starts to oscillate from the top of its potential. We also show that axions with masses m(a) similar to O(1 – 100) H-0 realising the maximal-misalignment mechanism generically behave as dark energy with a decay constant that can take values well below the Planck scale, avoiding problems associated to super-Planckian scales. Finally, we briefly study the basic phenomenological implications of the mechanism and comment on the compatibility of this type of maximally-misaligned quintessence with the swampland criteria.  
  Address [Reig, Mario] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, C Catedratico Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain, Email: mario.reig@ifis.uv.es  
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  Notes WOS:000702371800004 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration no  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 4977  
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Author Penalva, N.; Hernandez, E.; Nieves, J. url  doi
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  Title The role of right-handed neutrinos in b -> c tau (pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau), mu(nu)over-bar(mu)nu(tau))(nu)over-bar(tau) from visible final-state kinematics Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 10 Issue 10 Pages 122 - 45pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; CP violation  
  Abstract In the context of lepton flavor universality violation (LFUV) studies, we fully derive a general tensor formalism to investigate the role that left- and right-handed neutrino new-physics (NP) terms may have in b -> c tau(nu) over bar (tau) transitions. We present, for several extensions of the Standard Model (SM), numerical results for the Lambda(b) -> Lambda(c)tau(nu) over bar (tau) semileptonic decay, which is expected to be measured with precision at the LHCb. This reaction can be a new source of experimental information that can help to confirm, or maybe rule out, LFUV presently seen in (B) over bar meson decays. The present study analyzes observables that can help in distinguishing between different NP scenarios that otherwise provide very similar results for the branching ratios, which are our currently best hints for LFUV. Since the tau lepton is very short-lived, we consider three subsequent tau-decay modes, two hadronic pi nu(tau) and rho nu(tau) and one leptonic mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), which have been previously studied for (B) over bar -> D(*) decays. Within the tensor formalism that we have developed in previous works, we re-obtain the expressions for the differential decay width written in terms of visible (experimentally accessible) variables of the massive particle created in the tau decay. There are seven different tau angular and spin asymmetries that are defined in this way and that can be extracted from experiment. Those asymmetries provide observables that can help in constraining possible SM extensions.  
  Address [Penalva, Neus; Nieves, Juan] Ctr Mixto CSIC UV, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Inst Invest Paterna, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: neus.penalva@ific.uv.es;  
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  ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000708483600004 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration no  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5005  
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Author Eberhardt, O.; Miralles, V.; Pich, A. url  doi
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  Title Constraints on coloured scalars from global fits Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 10 Issue 10 Pages 123 - 23pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics  
  Abstract We consider a simple extension of the electroweak theory, incorporating one SU(2)(L) doublet of colour-octet scalars with Yukawa couplings satisfying the principle of minimal flavour violation. Using the HEPfit package, we perform a global fit to the available data, including all relevant theoretical constraints, and extract the current bounds on the model parameters. Coloured scalars with masses below 1.05 TeV are already excluded, provided they are not fermiophobic. The mass splittings among the different (charged and CP-even and CP-odd neutral) scalars are restricted to be smaller than 20 GeV. Moreover, for scalar masses smaller than 1.5 TeV, the Yukawa coupling of the coloured scalar multiplet to the top quark cannot exceed the one of the SM Higgs doublet by more than 80%. These conclusions are quite generic and apply in more general frameworks (without fine tunings). The theoretical requirements of perturbative unitarity and vacuum stability enforce relevant constraints on the quartic scalar potential parameters that are not yet experimentally tested.  
  Address [Eberhardt, Otto; Miralles, Victor; Pich, Antonio] Inst Fis Corpuscular, Parque Cient,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: otto.eberhardt.physics@gmail.com;  
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  ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium  
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  Notes WOS:000708483600001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration no  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5006  
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Author Bonilla, J.; Brivio, I.; Gavela, M.B.; Sanz, V. url  doi
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  Title One-loop corrections to ALP couplings Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 11 Issue 11 Pages 168 - 57pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Renormalization Group  
  Abstract The plethora of increasingly precise experiments which hunt for axion-like particles (ALPs), as well as their widely different energy reach, call for the theoretical understanding of ALP couplings at loop-level. We derive the one-loop contributions to ALP-SM effective couplings, including finite corrections. The complete leading-order – dimension five – effective linear Lagrangian is considered. The ALP is left off-shell, which is of particular impact on LHC and accelerator searches of ALP couplings to gamma gamma, ZZ, WW, Z gamma gluons and fermions. All results are obtained in the covariant Rg gauge. A few phenomenological consequences are also explored as illustration, with flavour diagonal channels in the case of fermions: in particular, we explore constraints on the coupling of the ALP to top quarks, that can be extracted from LHC data, from astrophysical sources and from Dark Matter direct detection experiments such as PandaX, LUX and XENONIT. Furthermore, we clarify the relation between alternative ALP bases, the role of gauge anomalous couplings and their interface with chirality-conserving and chirality-flip fermion interactions, and we briefly discuss renormalization group aspects.  
  Address [Bonilla, J.; Gavela, M. B.] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain, Email: jesus.bonilla@ua.m.es;  
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  Notes WOS:000721914800006 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5029  
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Author Coito, L.; Faubel, C.; Herrero-Garcia, J.; Santamaria, A. url  doi
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  Title Dark matter from a complex scalar singlet: the role of dark CP and other discrete symmetries Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 11 Issue 11 Pages 202 - 34pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM  
  Abstract We study the case of a pseudo-scalar dark matter candidate which emerges from a complex scalar singlet, charged under a global U(1) symmetry, which is broken both explicitly and spontaneously. The pseudo-scalar is naturally stabilized by the presence of a remnant discrete symmetry: dark CP. We study and compare the phenomenology of several simplified models with only one explicit symmetry breaking term. We find that several regions of the parameter space are able to reproduce the observed dark matter abundance while respecting direct detection and invisible Higgs decay limits: in the resonances of the two scalars, featuring the known as forbidden or secluded dark matter, and through non-resonant Higgs-mediated annihilations. In some cases, combining different measurements would allow one to distinguish the breaking pattern of the symmetry. Moreover, this setup admits a light DM candidate at the sub-GeV scale. We also discuss the situation where more than one symmetry breaking term is present. In that case, the dark CP symmetry may be spontaneously broken, thus spoiling the stability of the dark matter candidate. Requiring that this does not happen imposes a constraint on the allowed parameter space. Finally, we consider an effective field theory approach valid in the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson limit and when the U(1) breaking scale is much larger than the electroweak scale.  
  Address [Coito, Leonardo] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: leonardo.coito@uv.es;  
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  Notes WOS:000723081600002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration no  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5031  
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Author Arguelles, C.A.; Kelly, K.J.; Muñoz, V.M. url  doi
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  Title Millicharged particles from the heavens: single- and multiple-scattering signatures Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal (up) J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 11 Issue 11 Pages 099 - 34pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics  
  Abstract For nearly a century, studying cosmic-ray air showers has driven progress in our understanding of elementary particle physics. In this work, we revisit the production of millicharged particles in these atmospheric showers and provide new constraints for XENON1T and Super-Kamiokande and new sensitivity estimates of current and future detectors, such as JUNO. We discuss distinct search strategies, specifically studies of single-energy-deposition events, where one electron in the detector receives a relatively large energy transfer, as well as multiple-scattering events consisting of (at least) two relatively small energy depositions. We demonstrate that these atmospheric search strategies especially the multiple-scattering signature – provide significant room for improvement beyond existing searches, in a way that is complementary to anthropogenic, beam-based searches for MeV-GeV millicharged particles. Finally, we also discuss the implementation of a Monte Carlo simulation for millicharged particle detection in large-volume neutrino detectors, such as IceCube.  
  Address [Arguelles, Carlos A.] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA, Email: carguelles@fas.harvard.edu;  
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  Notes WOS:000718091700002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 5038  
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