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Author Aristizabal Sierra, D.; Tortola, M.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Leptogenesis with a dynamical seesaw scale Type Journal Article
  Year 2014 Publication Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.  
  Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 052 - 20pp  
  Keywords leptogenesis; baryon asymmetry; particle physics – cosmology connection; neutrino theory  
  Abstract In the simplest type-I seesaw leptogenesis scenario right-handed neutrino annihilation processes are absent. However, in the presence of new interactions these processes are possible and can affect the resulting B – L asymmetry in an important way. A prominent example is provided by models with spontaneous lepton number violation, where the existence of new dynamical degrees of freedom can play a crucial role. In this context, we provide a model-independent discussion of the effects of right-handed neutrino annihilations. We show that in the weak washout regime, as long as the scattering processes remain slow compared with the Hubble expansion rate throughout the relevant temperature range, the efficiency can be largely enhanced, reaching in some cases maximal values. Moreover, the B – L asymmetry yield turns out to be independent upon initial conditions, in contrast to the “standard” case. On the other hand, when the annihilation processes are fast, the right-handed neutrino distribution tends to a thermal one down to low temperatures, implying a drastic suppression of the efficiency which in some cases can render the B – L generation mechanism inoperative.  
  Address [Sierra, D. Aristizabal; Vicente, A.] Univ Liege, IFPA, Dept Astrophys Geophys & Oceanog, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, Email: daristizabal@ulg.ac.be;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000339802700053 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 1868  
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Author Aristizabal Sierra, D.; Staub, F.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Shedding light on the b -> s anomalies with a dark sector Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 92 Issue 1 Pages 015001 - 11pp  
  Keywords  
  Abstract The LHCb Collaboration has recently reported on some anomalies in b -> s transitions. In addition to discrepancies with the Standard Model (SM) predictions in some angular observables and branching ratios, an intriguing hint for lepton universality violation was found. Here we propose a simple model that extends the SM with a dark sector charged under an additional U(1) gauge symmetry. The spontaneous breaking of this symmetry gives rise to a massive Z' boson, which communicates the SM particles with a valid dark matter candidate, while solving the b -> s anomalies with contributions to the relevant observables.  
  Address [Sierra, D. Aristizabal; Vicente, Avelino] Univ Liege, Dept Astrophys Geophys & Oceanog, IFPA, B-4000 Liege 1, Belgium, Email: daristizabal@ulg.ac.be;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000357492700006 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2297  
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Author Boucenna, S.M.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Predicting charged lepton flavor violation from 3-3-1 gauge symmetry Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 92 Issue 5 Pages 053001 - 7pp  
  Keywords  
  Abstract The simplest realization of the inverse seesaw mechanism in a SU(3)(C) circle times SU(3)(L) circle times U(1)(X) gauge theory offers striking flavor correlations between rare charged lepton flavor violating decays and the measured neutrino oscillations parameters. The predictions follow from the gauge structure itself without the need for any flavor symmetry. Such tight complementarity between charged lepton flavor violation and neutrino oscillations renders the scenario strictly testable.  
  Address [Boucenna, Sofiane M.; Valle, Jose W. F.; Vicente, Avelino] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: boucenna@lnf.infn.it;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000360885800002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2386  
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Author Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Lepton Flavor Violation beyond the MSSM Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Advances in High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal Adv. High. Energy Phys.  
  Volume 2015 Issue Pages 686572 - 22pp  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Most extensions of the Standard Model lepton sector predict large lepton flavor violating rates. Given the promising experimental perspectives for lepton flavor violation in the next few years, this generic expectation might offer a powerful indirect probe to look for new physics. In this review we will cover several aspects of lepton flavor violation in supersymmetric models beyond the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. In particular, we will concentrate on three different scenarios: high-scale and low-scale seesaw models as well as models with R-parity violation. We will see that in some cases the LFV phenomenology can have characteristic features for specific scenarios, implying that dedicated studies must be performed in order to correctly understand the phenomenology in nonminimal supersymmetric models.  
  Address [Vicente, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Valencia 46071, Spain, Email: avelino.vicente@ulg.ac.be  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1687-7357 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000362759500001 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2411  
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Author Boucenna, S.M.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Are the B decay anomalies related to neutrino oscillations? Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B  
  Volume 750 Issue Pages 367-371  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Neutrino oscillations are solidly established, with a hint of CP violation just emerging. Similarly, there are hints of lepton universality violation in b -> s transitions at the level of 2.6 sigma. By assuming that the unitary transformation between weak and mass charged leptons equals the leptonic mixing matrix measured in neutrino oscillation experiments, we predict several lepton flavor violating (LFV) B meson decays. We are led to the tantalizing possibility that some LFV branching ratios for B decays correlate with the leptonic CP phase delta characterizing neutrino oscillations. Moreover, we also consider implications for l(i) -> l(j)l(k)l(k) decays.  
  Address [Boucenna, Sofiane M.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-100044 Frascati, Italy, Email: boucenna@Inf.infn.it;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000364250600061 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2470  
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Author Aoki, M.; Toma, T.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Non-thermal production of minimal dark matter via right-handed neutrino decay Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Abbreviated Journal J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.  
  Volume 09 Issue 9 Pages 063 - 19pp  
  Keywords dark matter theory; gamma ray theory; particle physics – cosmology connection; physics of the early universe  
  Abstract Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) stands as one of the simplest dark matter scenarios. In MDM models, annihilation and co-annihilation processes among the members of the MDM multiplet are usually very efficient, pushing the dark matter mass above O(10) TeV in order to reproduce the observed dark matter relic density. Motivated by this little drawback, in this paper we consider an extension of the MDM scenario by three right-handed neutrinos. Two specific choices for the MDM multiplet are studied: a fermionic SU(2)(L) quintuplet and a scalar SU(2)(L) septuplet. The lightest right-handed neutrino, with tiny Yukawa couplings, never reaches thermal equilibrium in the early universe and is produced by freeze-in. This creates a link between dark matter and neutrino physics: dark matter can be non-thermally produced by the decay of the lightest right-handed neutrino after freeze-out, allowing to lower significantly the dark matter mass. We discuss the phenomenology of the non-thermally produced MDM and, taking into account significant Sommerfeld corrections, we find that the dark matter mass must have some specific values in order not to be in conflict with the current bounds from gamma-ray observations.  
  Address [Aoki, Mayumi] Kanazawa Univ, Inst Theoret Phys, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan, Email: mayumi@hep.s.kanazawa-u.ac.jp;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Iop Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1475-7516 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000365690000063 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2479  
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Author Aristizabal Sierra, D.; Herrero-Garcia, J.; Restrepo, D.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Diboson anomaly: Heavy Higgs resonance and QCD vectorlike exotics Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 93 Issue 1 Pages 015012 - 12pp  
  Keywords  
  Abstract The ATLAS Collaboration (and also CMS) has recently reported an excess over Standard Model expectations for gauge boson pair production in the invariant mass region 1.8-2.2 TeV. In light of these results, we argue that such a signal might be the first manifestation of the production and further decay of a heavy CP-even Higgs resulting from a type-I two Higgs doublet model. We demonstrate that in the presence of colored vectorlike fermions, its gluon fusion production cross section is strongly enhanced, with the enhancement depending on the color representation of the new fermion states. Our findings show that barring the color triplet case, any QCD “exotic” representation can fit the ATLAS result in fairly large portions of the parameter space. We have found that if the diboson excess is confirmed and this mechanism is indeed responsible for it, then the LHC Run-2 should find (i) a CP-odd scalar with mass below similar to 2.3 TeV, (ii) new colored states with masses below similar to 2 TeV, (iii) no statistically significant diboson events in the W(+/-)Z channel, (iv) events in the triboson channels W(+/-)W(-/+)Z and ZZZ with invariant mass amounting to the mass of the CP-odd scalar.  
  Address [Sierra, D. Aristizabal] Univ Liege, Dept AGO, IFPA, Bat B5, B-4000 Liege 1, Belgium, Email: daristizabal@ulg.ac.be;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1550-7998 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000368516100007 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2535  
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Author Boucenna, S.M.; Morisi, S.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title LHC diphoton resonance from gauge symmetry Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Physical Review D Abbreviated Journal Phys. Rev. D  
  Volume 93 Issue 11 Pages 115008 - 8pp  
  Keywords  
  Abstract Motivated by what is possibly the first sign of new physics seen at the LHC, the diphoton excess at 750 GeV in ATLAS and CMS, we present a model that provides naturally the necessary ingredients to explain the resonance. The simplest phenomenological explanation for the diphoton excess requires a new scalar state, X(750), as well as additional vectorlike (VL) fermions introduced in an ad-hoc way in order to enhance its decays into a pair of photons and/or increase its production cross section. We show that the necessary VL quarks and their couplings can emerge naturally from a complete framework based on the SU(3)(L) circle times U(1)(X) gauge symmetry.  
  Address [Boucenna, Sofiane M.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, CP 13, I-100044 Frascati, Italy, Email: boucenna@lnf.infn.it;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Amer Physical Soc Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 2470-0010 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000377505700002 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2717  
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Author Merle, A.; Platscher, M.; Rojas, N.; Valle, J.W.F.; Vicente, A. url  doi
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  Title Consistency of WIMP Dark Matter as radiative neutrino mass messenger Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Journal of High Energy Physics Abbreviated Journal J. High Energy Phys.  
  Volume 07 Issue 7 Pages 013 - 17pp  
  Keywords Beyond Standard Model; Renormalization Group; Neutrino Physics; Discrete Symmetries  
  Abstract The scotogenic scenario provides an attractive approach to both Dark Matter and neutrino mass generation, in which the same symmetry that stabilises Dark Matter also ensures the radiative seesaw origin of neutrino mass. However the simplest scenario may suffer from inconsistencies arising from the spontaneous breaking of the underlying Z(2) symmetry. Here we show that the singlet-triplet extension of the simplest model naturally avoids this problem due to the presence of scalar triplets neutral under the Z(2) which affect the evolution of the couplings in the scalar sector. The scenario offers good prospects for direct WIMP Dark Matter detection through the nuclear recoil method.  
  Address [Merle, Alexander] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, Werner Heisenberg Inst, Fohringer Ring 6, D-80805 Munich, Germany, Email: amerle@mpp.mpg.de;  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Springer Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 1029-8479 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000379170300005 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2748  
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Author Boucenna, S.M.; Celis, A.; Fuentes-Martin, J.; Vicente, A.; Virto, J. url  doi
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  Title Non-abelian gauge extensions for B-decay anomalies Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Physics Letters B Abbreviated Journal Phys. Lett. B  
  Volume 760 Issue Pages 214-219  
  Keywords  
  Abstract We study the generic features of minimal gauge extensions of the Standard Model in view of recent hints of lepton-flavor non-universality in semi-leptonic b -> sl(+)l(-) and b -> cl nu decays. We classify the possible models according to the symmetry-breaking pattern and the source of flavor non-universality. We find that in viable models the SU(2)(L) factor is embedded non-trivially in the extended gauge group, and that gauge couplings should be universal, hinting to the presence of new degrees of freedom sourcing non-universality. Finally, we provide an explicit model that can explain the B-decay anomalies in a coherent way and confront it with the relevant phenomenological constraints.  
  Address [Boucenna, Sofiane M.] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, CP 13, I-100044 Frascati, Italy, Email: javier.fuentes@ific.uv.es  
  Corporate Author Thesis  
  Publisher Elsevier Science Bv Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
  Series Volume Series Issue Edition  
  ISSN 0370-2693 ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000382890500032 Approved no  
  Is ISI yes International Collaboration (up) yes  
  Call Number IFIC @ pastor @ Serial 2803  
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