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Penalva, N.; Hernandez, E.; Nieves, J. |
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Visible energy and angular distributions of the charged particle from the tau-decay in b -> C tau (mu(nu)over-bar(mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu)over-bar(tau) reactions |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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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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026 - 25pp |
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Bottom Quarks; Semi-Leptonic Decays; Flavour Symmetries; Left-Right Models |
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We study the d(2)Gamma(d)/(d omega d cos theta(d) ), d Gamma(d)/d cos theta(d) and d Gamma(d)/dE(d) distributions, which are defined in terms of the visible energy and polar angle of the charged particle from the tau-decay in b -> C tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau), reactions. These differential decay widths could be measured in the near future with certain precision. The first two contain information on the transverse tau-spin, tau-angular and tau-angular-spin asymmetries of the H-b -> H-c tau(nu) over bar (tau) parent decay and, from a dynamical point of view, they are richer than the commonly used one, d(2)Gamma(d)/(d omega dE(d)), since the latter only depends on the tau longitudinal polarization. We pay attention to the deviations with respect to the predictions of the standard model (SM) for these new observables, considering new physics (NP) operators constructed using both right- and left-handed neutrino fields, within an effective field-theory approach. We present results for Lambda(b) -> Lambda(c)tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau) and (B) over bar -> D-(*()) tau (mu(nu) over bar (mu)nu(tau), pi nu(tau), rho nu(tau))(nu) over bar (tau) sequential decays and discuss their use to disentangle between different NP models. In this respect, we show that d Gamma(d)/d cos theta(d) , which should be measured with sufficiently good statistics, becomes quite useful, especially in the tau -> pi nu(tau) mode. The study carried out in this work could be of special relevance due to the recent LHCb measurement of the lepton flavor universality ratio R Lambda(c) in agreement with the SM. The experiment identified the tau using its hadron decay into pi(-)pi(+)pi(-)nu(tau), and this result for R Lambda(c )which is in conflict with the phenomenology from the b-meson sector, needs confirmation from other tau reconstruction channels. |
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[Penalva, Neus; Nieves, Juan] Inst Fis Corpuscular Ctr Mixto CSIC UV, Inst Invest Paterna, C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: neuspe@ific.uv.es; |
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Maso-Ferrando, A.; Sanchis-Gual, N.; Font, J.A.; Olmo, G.J. |
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Boson stars in Palatini f(R) gravity |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
Publication |
Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Abbreviated Journal |
Class. Quantum Gravity |
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38 |
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19 |
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194003 - 25pp |
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boson stars; Palatini formalism; modified gravity |
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We explore equilibrium solutions of spherically symmetric boson stars in the Palatini formulation of f (R) gravity. We account for the modifications introduced in the gravitational sector by using a recently established correspondence between modified gravity with scalar matter and general relativity with modified scalar matter. We focus on the quadratic theory f (R) = R + xi R-2 and compare its solutions with those found in general relativity, exploring both positive and negative values of the coupling parameter xi. As matter source, a complex, massive scalar field with and without self-interaction terms is considered. Our results show that the existence curves of boson stars in Palatini f (R) gravity are fairly similar to those found in general relativity. Major differences are observed for negative values of the coupling parameter which results in a repulsive gravitational component for high enough scalar field density distributions. Adding self-interactions makes the degeneracy between f (R) and general relativity even more pronounced, leaving very little room for observational discrimination between the two theories. |
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[Maso-Ferrando, Andreu; Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia CSIC, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: andreu.maso@uv.es |
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Verdera, A.; Torres-Sanchez, P.; Praena, J.; Porras, I. |
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Study of the out-of-field dose from an accelerator-based neutron source for boron neutron capture therapy |
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Journal Article |
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2024 |
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Applied Radiation and Isotopes |
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Appl. Radiat. Isot. |
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212 |
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111458 - 6pp |
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BNCT; Neutrons; Out-of-field; Equivalent dose; Ambient dose |
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One important issue in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy is the delivered dose to the tissues outside the tumor. An international standard for light ion beam systems sets two recommended limits for out-of-field dose based on distance from the field edge: maximum absorbed dose from all radiation types shall not exceed 0.5 % of the maximum dose at distances 15 cm to 50 cm from the field edge. At distances > 50 cm from the field edge, the maximum absorbed dose shall not exceed 0.1 %. This paper is a continuation of our previous works focused on the design of an accelerator-based neutron source for BNCT. We already designed a novel Beam Shape Assembly which meets the IAEA criteria for BNCT treatments. Using this BSA, in the present work, we characterize by Monte Carlo simulations the dose outside the neutron field. The out-of-field dose has been assessed via estimates using the ambient and equivalent dose. Also the boron uptake in healthy tissues has been analyzed for the equivalent dose computation. It is concluded that our design for a future accelerator-based source for BNCT meets reasonably well the criteria defined from other forms of radiotherapy on both equivalent and effective dose outside the field. |
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[Verdera, Antonia; Praena, Javier; Porras, Ignacio] Univ Granada, Dept Atom Mol & Nucl Phys, Granada, Spain |
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Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
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WOS:001291259700001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Navarro-Salas, J. |
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Black holes, conformal symmetry, and fundamental fields |
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Journal Article |
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2024 |
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Classical and Quantum Gravity |
Abbreviated Journal |
Class. Quantum Gravity |
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41 |
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8 |
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085003 - 14pp |
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black holes; horizons; singularities; conformal symmetry; quantum fields; Standard Model |
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Cosmic censorship protects the outside world from black hole singularities and paves the way for assigning entropy to gravity at the event horizons. We point out a tension between cosmic censorship and the quantum backreacted geometry of Schwarzschild black holes, induced by vacuum polarization and driven by the conformal anomaly. A similar tension appears for the Weyl curvature hypothesis at the Big Bang singularity. We argue that the requirement of exact conformal symmetry resolves both conflicts and has major implications for constraining the set of fundamental constituents of the Standard Model. |
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[Navarro-Salas, Jose] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, IFIC, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: jnavarro@ific.uv.es |
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WOS:001187435100001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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6029 |
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Olmo, G.J.; Rosa, J.L.; Rubiera-Garcia, D.; Saez-Chillon Gomez, D. |
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Shadows and photon rings of regular black holes and geonic horizonless compact objects |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Classical and Quantum Gravity |
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Class. Quantum Gravity |
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40 |
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17 |
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174002 - 37pp |
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black holes; compact objects; photon rings; shadows; metric-affine gravity; Born-Infeld gravity; regular solutions |
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The optical appearance of a body compact enough to feature an unstable bound orbit, when surrounded by an accretion disk, is expected to be dominated by a luminous ring of radiation enclosing a central brightness depression typically known as the shadow. Despite observational limitations, the rough details of this picture have been now confirmed by the results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration on the imaging of the M87 and Milky Way supermassive central objects. However, the precise characterization of both features-ring and shadow-depends on the interaction between the background geometry and the accretion disk, thus being a fertile playground to test our theories on the nature of compact objects and the gravitational field itself in the strong-field regime. In this work we use both features in order to test a continuous family of solutions interpolating between regular black holes and horizonless compact objects, which arise within the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld theory of gravity, a viable extension of Einstein's general relativity (GR). To this end we consider seven distinctive classes of such configurations (five black holes and two traversable wormholes) and study their optical appearances under illumination by a geometrically and optically thin accretion disk, emitting monochromatically with three analytic intensity profiles previously suggested in the literature. We build such images and consider the sub-ring structure created by light rays crossing the disk more than once and existing on top of the main ring of radiation. We discuss in detail the modifications as compared to their GR counterparts, the Lyapunov exponents of unstable nearly-bound orbits, as well as the differences between black hole and traversable wormholes for the three intensity profiles. In addition we use the claim by the EHT Collaboration on the radius of the bright ring acting (under proper calibrations) as a proxy for the radius of the shadow itself to explore the parameter space of our solutions compatible with such a result. |
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[Olmo, Gonzalo J.] Univ Valencia, Ctr Mixto Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: drubiera@ucm.es |
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WOS:001043720300001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Creminelli, P.; Loayza, N.; Serra, F.; Trincherini, E.; Trombetta, L.G. |
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Hairy black-holes in shift-symmetric theories |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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045 - 24pp |
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Black Holes; Classical Theories of Gravity |
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Scalar hair of black holes in theories with a shift symmetry are constrained by the no-hair theorem of Hui and Nicolis, assuming spherical symmetry, time-independence of the scalar field and asymptotic flatness. The most studied counterexample is a linear coupling of the scalar with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. However, in this case the norm of the shift-symmetry current J(2) diverges at the horizon casting doubts on whether the solution is physically sound. We show that this is not an issue since J(2) is not a scalar quantity, since J(mu) is not a diffinvariant current in the presence of Gauss-Bonnet. The same theory can be written in Horndeski form with a non-analytic function G(5)similar to log X . In this case the shift-symmetry current is diff-invariant, but contains powers of X in the denominator, so that its divergence at the horizon is again immaterial. We confirm that other hairy solutions in the presence of non-analytic Horndeski functions are pathological, featuring divergences of physical quantities as soon as one departs from time-independence and spherical symmetry. We generalise the no-hair theorem to Beyond Horndeski and DHOST theories, showing that the coupling with Gauss-Bonnet is necessary to have hair. |
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[Creminelli, Paolo] Abdus Salaam Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Int Ctr Theoret Phys, Str Costiera 11, I-34151 Trieste, Italy, Email: creminel@ictp.it; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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AMON and ANTARES Collaborations (Ayala Solares, H.A. et al); Barrios-Marti, J.; Coleiro, A.; Colomer, M.; Gozzini, R.; Hernandez-Rey, J.J.; Illuminati, G.; Khan-Chowdhury, N.R.; Lotze, M.; Thakore, T.; Zornoza, J.D.; Zuñiga, J. |
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A Search for Cosmic Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Emitting Transients in 7.3 yr of ANTARES and Fermi LAT Data |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Astrophysical Journal |
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Astrophys. J. |
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886 |
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2 |
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98 - 8pp |
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BL Lacertae objects: general; cosmic rays; gamma-ray burst: general; gamma rays: general; neutrinos |
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We analyze 7.3 yr of ANTARES high-energy neutrino and Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray data in search of cosmic neutrino + gamma-ray (nu + gamma) transient sources or source populations. Our analysis has the potential to detect either individual nu + gamma transient sources (durations delta t less than or similar to 1000 s), if they exhibit sufficient gamma-ray or neutrino multiplicity, or a statistical excess of nu + gamma transients of individually lower multiplicities. Individual high gamma-ray multiplicity events could be produced, for example, by a single ANTARES neutrino in coincidence with a LAT-detected gamma-ray burst. Treating ANTARES track and cascade event types separately, we establish detection thresholds by Monte Carlo scrambling of the neutrino data, and determine our analysis sensitivity by signal injection against these scrambled data sets. We find our analysis is sensitive to nu + gamma transient populations responsible for >5% of the observed gamma-coincident neutrinos in the track data at 90% confidence. Applying our analysis to the unscrambled data reveals no individual nu + gamma events of high significance; two ANTARES track + Fermi gamma-ray events are identified that exceed a once per decade false alarm rate threshold (p = 17%). No evidence for subthreshold nu + gamma source populations is found among the track (p = 39%) or cascade (p = 60%) events. Exploring a possible correlation of high-energy neutrino directions with Fermi gamma-ray sky brightness identified in previous work yields no added support for this correlation. While TXS.0506+056, a blazar and variable (nontransient) Fermi gamma-ray source, has recently been identified as the first source of high-energy neutrinos, the challenges in reconciling observations of the Fermi gamma-ray sky, the IceCube high-energy cosmic neutrinos, and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays using only blazars suggest a significant contribution by other source populations. Searches for transient sources of high-energy neutrinos thus remain interesting, with the potential for either neutrino clustering or multimessenger coincidence searches to lead to discovery of the first nu + gamma transients. |
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[Solares, H. A. Ayala; Cowen, D. F.; DeLaunay, J. J.; Keivani, A.; Mostafa, M.; Murase, K.; Turley, C. F.] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, 104 Davey Lab, University Pk, PA 16802 USA, Email: cft114@psu.edu |
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Alimena, J. et al; Hirsch, M.; Mamuzic, J.; Mitsou, V.A.; Santra, A. |
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Searching for long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider |
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2020 |
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Journal of Physics G |
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J. Phys. G |
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47 |
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9 |
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090501 - 226pp |
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beyond the Standard Model; long-lived particles; Large Hadron Collider; high-luminosity LHC; collider phenomenology; high-energy collider experiments |
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Particles beyond the Standard Model (SM) can generically have lifetimes that are long compared to SM particles at the weak scale. When produced at experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, these long-lived particles (LLPs) can decay far from the interaction vertex of the primary proton-proton collision. Such LLP signatures are distinct from those of promptly decaying particles that are targeted by the majority of searches for new physics at the LHC, often requiring customized techniques to identify, for example, significantly displaced decay vertices, tracks with atypical properties, and short track segments. Given their non-standard nature, a comprehensive overview of LLP signatures at the LHC is beneficial to ensure that possible avenues of the discovery of new physics are not overlooked. Here we report on the joint work of a community of theorists and experimentalists with the ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb experiments-as well as those working on dedicated experiments such as MoEDAL, milliQan, MATHUSLA, CODEX-b, and FASER-to survey the current state of LLP searches at the LHC, and to chart a path for the development of LLP searches into the future, both in the upcoming Run 3 and at the high-luminosity LHC. The work is organized around the current and future potential capabilities of LHC experiments to generally discover new LLPs, and takes a signature-based approach to surveying classes of models that give rise to LLPs rather than emphasizing any particular theory motivation. We develop a set of simplified models; assess the coverage of current searches; document known, often unexpected backgrounds; explore the capabilities of proposed detector upgrades; provide recommendations for the presentation of search results; and look towards the newest frontiers, namely high-multiplicity 'dark showers', highlighting opportunities for expanding the LHC reach for these signals. |
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[Alimena, Juliette; Hill, Christopher S.] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, 191 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210 USA, Email: juliette.alimena@cern.ch; |
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Cheng, L.; Eberhardt, O.; Murphy, C.W. |
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Novel theoretical constraints for color-octet scalar models |
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2019 |
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Chinese Physics C |
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Chin. Phys. C |
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43 |
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9 |
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beyond the Standard Model; extension of Higgs sector; EW symmetry breaking |
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We study the theoretical constraints on a model whose scalar sector contains one color octet and one or two color singlet SU(2)(L) doublets. To ensure unitarity of the theory, we constrain the parameters of the scalar potential for the first time at the next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. Moreover, we derive new conditions guaranteeing the stability of the potential. We employ the HEPfit package to extract viable parameter regions at the electroweak scale and test the stability of the renormalization group evolution up to the multi-TeV region. Furthermore, we set upper limits on the scalar mass splittings. All results are given for both cases with and without a second scalar color singlet. |
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[Cheng, Li] Inst Appl Phys & Computat Math, Beijing 100094, Peoples R China, Email: clmamuphy@sina.cn; |
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Feruglio, F.; Gherardi, V.; Romanino, A.; Titov, A. |
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Modular invariant dynamics and fermion mass hierarchies around tau = i |
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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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05 |
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5 |
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242 - 26pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Neutrino Physics; Supersymmetric Standard Model; Compactification and String Models |
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We discuss fermion mass hierarchies within modular invariant flavour models. We analyse the neighbourhood of the self-dual point tau = i, where modular invariant theories possess a residual Z(4) invariance. In this region the breaking of Z(4) can be fully described by the spurion epsilon approximate to tau – i, that flips its sign under Z(4). Degeneracies or vanishing eigenvalues of fermion mass matrices, forced by the Z(4) symmetry at tau = i, are removed by slightly deviating from the self-dual point. Relevant mass ratios are controlled by powers of vertical bar epsilon vertical bar. We present examples where this mechanism is a key ingredient to successfully implement an hierarchical spectrum in the lepton sector, even in the presence of a non-minimal Kahler potential. |
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[Feruglio, Ferruccio; Titov, Arsenii] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron G Galilei, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy, Email: feruglio@pd.infn.it; |
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