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Escudero, M.; Rius, N.; Sanz, V. |
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Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter I: the U(1)(B-L) case |
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2017 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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045 - 27pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics |
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In this paper we explore the possibility that the sterile neutrino and Dark Matter sectors in the Universe have a common origin. We study the consequences of this assumption in the simple case of coupling the dark sector to the Standard Model via a global U(1)(B-L), broken down spontaneously by a dark scalar. This dark scalar provides masses to the dark fermions and communicates with the Higgs via a Higgs portal coupling. We find an interesting interplay between Dark Matter annihilation to dark scalars – the CP-even that mixes with the Higgs and the CP-odd which becomes a Goldstone boson, the Majoron and heavy neutrinos, as well as collider probes via the coupling to the Higgs. Moreover, Dark Matter annihilation into sterile neutrinos and its subsequent decay to gauge bosons and quarks, charged leptons or neutrinos lead to indirect detection signatures which are close to current bounds on the gamma ray flux from the galactic center and dwarf galaxies. |
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[Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: miguel.escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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Escudero, M.; Rius, N.; Sanz, V. |
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Sterile neutrino portal to Dark Matter II: exact dark symmetry |
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2017 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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77 |
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We analyze a simple extension of the standard model (SM) with a dark sector composed of a scalar and a fermion, both singlets under the SM gauge group but charged under a dark sector symmetry group. Sterile neutrinos, which are singlets under both groups, mediate the interactions between the dark sector and the SM particles, and generate masses for the active neutrinos via the seesaw mechanism. We explore the parameter space region where the observed Dark Matter relic abundance is determined by the annihilation into sterile neutrinos, both for fermion and scalar Dark Matter particles. The scalar Dark Matter case provides an interesting alternative to the usual Higgs portal scenario. We also study the constraints from direct Dark Matter searches and the prospects for indirect detection via sterile neutrino decays to leptons, which may be able to rule out Dark Matter masses below and around 100 GeV. |
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[Escudero, Miguel; Rius, Nuria] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: miguel.escudero@ific.uv.es; |
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Khosa, C.K.; Mars, L.; Richards, J.; Sanz, V. |
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Convolutional neural networks for direct detection of dark matter |
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2020 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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095201 - 20pp |
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dark matter; dark matter detection; neural networks; xenon1T; WIMPs |
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The XENON1T experiment uses a time projection chamber (TPC) with liquid xenon to search for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a proposed dark matter particle, via direct detection. As this experiment relies on capturing rare events, the focus is on achieving a high recall of WIMP events. Hence the ability to distinguish between WIMP and the background is extremely important. To accomplish this, we suggest using convolutional neural networks (CNNs); a machine learning procedure mainly used in image recognition tasks. To explore this technique we use XENON collaboration open-source software to simulate the TPC graphical output of dark matter signals and main backgrounds. A CNN turns out to be a suitable tool for this purpose, as it can identify features in the images that differentiate the two types of events without the need to manipulate or remove data in order to focus on a particular region of the detector. We find that the CNN can distinguish between the dominant background events (ER) and 500 GeV WIMP events with a recall of 93.4%, precision of 81.2% and an accuracy of 87.2%. |
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[Khosa, Charanjit K.; Mars, Lucy; Richards, Joel; Sanz, Veronica] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England, Email: charanjit.kaur@sussex.ac.uk; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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LHC BSM Reinterpretation Forum (Abdallah, W. et al); Mitsou, V.A.; Sanz, V. |
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Reinterpretation of LHC results for new physics: status and recommendations after run 2 |
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2020 |
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Scipost Physics |
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SciPost Phys. |
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9 |
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022 - 45pp |
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We report on the status of efforts to improve the reinterpretation of searches and measurements at the LHC in terms of models for new physics, in the context of the LHC Reinterpretation Forum. We detail current experimental offerings in direct searches for new particles, measurements, technical implementations and Open Data, and provide a set of recommendations for further improving the presentation of LHC results in order to better enable reinterpretation in the future. We also provide a brief description of existing software reinterpretation frameworks and recent global analyses of new physics that make use of the current data. |
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[Abdallah, Waleed; Dutta, Juhi] Harish Chandra Res Inst HBNI, Allahabad 211019, Uttar Pradesh, India, Email: Andy.Buckley@glasgow.ac.uk; |
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WOS:000573102600007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Folgado, M.G.; Sanz, V. |
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On the Interpretation of Nonresonant Phenomena at Colliders |
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2021 |
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Advances in High Energy Physics |
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Adv. High. Energy Phys. |
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2021 |
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With null results in resonance searches at the LHC, the physics potential focus is now shifting towards the interpretation of nonresonant phenomena. An example of such shift is the increased popularity of the EFT programme. We can embark on such programme owing to the good integrated luminosity and an excellent understanding of the detectors, which will allow these searches to become more intense as the LHC continues. In this paper, we provide a framework to perform this interpretation in terms of a diverse set of scenarios, including (1) generic heavy new physics described at low energies in terms of a derivative expansion, such as in the EFT approach; (2) very light particles with derivative couplings, such as axions or other light pseudo-Goldstone bosons; and (3) the effect of a quasicontinuum of resonances, which can come from a number of strongly coupled theories, extradimensional models, clockwork set-ups, and their deconstructed cousins. These scenarios are not equivalent despite all nonresonance, although the matching among some of them is possible, and we provide it in this paper. |
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[Folgado, Miguel G.; Sanz, Veronica] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, CSIC, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: migarfol@ific.uv.es |
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Ellis, J.; Madigan, M.; Mimasu, K.; Sanz, V.; You, T. |
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Top, Higgs, diboson and electroweak fit to the Standard Model effective field theory |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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279 - 78pp |
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Effective Field Theories; Beyond Standard Model; Higgs Physics |
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The search for effective field theory deformations of the Standard Model (SM) is a major goal of particle physics that can benefit from a global approach in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). For the first time, we include LHC data on top production and differential distributions together with Higgs production and decay rates and Simplified Template Cross-Section (STXS) measurements in a global fit, as well as precision electroweak and diboson measurements from LEP and the LHC, in a global analysis with SMEFT operators of dimension 6 included linearly. We present the constraints on the coefficients of these operators, both individually and when marginalised, in flavour-universal and top-specific scenarios, studying the interplay of these datasets and the correlations they induce in the SMEFT. We then explore the constraints that our linear SMEFT analysis imposes on specific ultra-violet completions of the Standard Model, including those with single additional fields and low-mass stop squarks. We also present a model-independent search for deformations of the SM that contribute to between two and five SMEFT operator coefficients. In no case do we find any significant evidence for physics beyond the SM. Our underlying Fitmaker public code provides a framework for future generalisations of our analysis, including a quadratic treatment of dimension-6 operators. |
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[Ellis, John; Mimasu, Ken] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle Phys & Cosmol Grp, London WC2R 2LS, England, Email: john.ellis@cern.ch; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Barenboim, G.; Hirn, J.; Sanz, V. |
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Symmetry meets AI |
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2021 |
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Scipost Physics |
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SciPost Phys. |
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014 - 11pp |
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We explore whether Neural Networks (NNs) can discover the presence of symmetries as they learn to perform a task. For this, we train hundreds of NNs on a decoy task based on well-controlled Physics templates, where no information on symmetry is provided. We use the output from the last hidden layer of all these NNs, projected to fewer dimensions, as the input for a symmetry classification task, and show that information on symmetry had indeed been identified by the original NN without guidance. As an interdisciplinary application of this procedure, we identify the presence and level of symmetry in artistic paintings from different styles such as those of Picasso, Pollock and Van Gogh. |
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[Barenboim, Gabriela; Hirn, Johannes; Sanz, Veronica] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain |
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Khosa, C.K.; Sanz, V.; Soughton, M. |
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Using machine learning to disentangle LHC signatures of Dark Matter candidates |
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2021 |
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Scipost Physics |
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SciPost Phys. |
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We study the prospects of characterising Dark Matter at colliders using Machine Learning (ML) techniques. We focus on the monojet and missing transverse energy (MET) channel and propose a set of benchmark models for the study: a typical WIMP Dark Matter candidate in the form of a SUSY neutralino, a pseudo-Goldstone impostor in the shape of an Axion-Like Particle, and a light Dark Matter impostor whose interactions are mediated by a heavy particle. All these benchmarks are tensioned against each other, and against the main SM background (Z+jets). Our analysis uses both the leading-order kinematic features as well as the information of an additional hard jet. We explore different representations of the data, from a simple event data sample with values of kinematic variables fed into a Logistic Regression algorithm or a Fully Connected Neural Network, to a transformation of the data into images related to probability distributions, fed to Deep and Convolutional Neural Networks. We also study the robustness of our method against including detector effects, dropping kinematic variables, or changing the number of events per image. In the case of signals with more combinatorial possibilities (events with more than one hard jet), the most crucial data features are selected by performing a Principal Component Analysis. We compare the performance of all these methods, and find that using the 2D images of the combined information of multiple events significantly improves the discrimination performance. |
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[Khosa, Charanjit Kaur; Sanz, Veronica; Soughton, Michael] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England, Email: Charanjit.Kaur@sussex.ac.uk; |
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Huang, F.; Sanz, V.; Shu, J.; Xue, X. |
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LIGO as a probe of dark sectors |
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2021 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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We show how current LIGO data is able to probe interesting theories beyond the Standard Model, particularly dark sectors where a dark Higgs boson triggers symmetry breaking via a first-order phase transition. We use publicly available LIGO O2 data to illustrate how these sectors, even if disconnected from the Standard Model, can be probed by gravitational wave detectors. We link the LIGO measurements with the model content and mass scale of the dark sector, finding that current O2 data are testing a broad set of scenarios that can be mapped into many different types of dark-sector models where the breaking of SU(N) theories with Nf fermions is triggered by a dark Higgs boson at scales ? similar or equal to 108-109 GeV with reasonable parameters for the scalar potential. |
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[Huang, Fei; Shu, Jing; Xue, Xiao] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China, Email: huangf4@uci.edu; |
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Bonilla, J.; Brivio, I.; Gavela, M.B.; Sanz, V. |
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One-loop corrections to ALP couplings |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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Beyond Standard Model; Effective Field Theories; Renormalization Group |
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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. |
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[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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