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Bertolez-Martinez, T.; Arguelles, C.; Esteban, I.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Martinez-Soler, I.; Salvado, J. |
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IceCube and the origin of ANITA-IV events |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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07 |
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7 |
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005 - 24pp |
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Cosmic Rays; Specific BSM Phenomenology |
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Recently, the ANITA collaboration announced the detection of new, unsettling upgoing Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) events. Understanding their origin is pressing to ensure success of the incoming UHE neutrino program. In this work, we study their internal consistency and the implications of the lack of similar events in IceCube. We introduce a generic, simple parametrization to study the compatibility between these two observatories in Standard Model-like and Beyond Standard Model scenarios: an incoming flux of particles that interact with Earth nucleons with cross section sigma, producing particle showers along with long-lived particles that decay with lifetime iota and generate a shower that explains ANITA observations. We find that the ANITA angular distribution imposes significant constraints, and when including null observations from IceCube only iota similar to 10(-3)-10(-2) s and sigma similar to 10(-33) -10(-32) cm(2) can explain the data. This hypothesis is testable with future IceCube data. Finally, we discuss a specific model that can realize this scenario. Our analysis highlights the importance of simultaneous observations by high-energy optical neutrino telescopes and new UHE radio detectors to uncover cosmogenic neutrinos or discover new physics. |
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[Bertolez-Martinez, Toni; Salvado, Jordi] Univ Barcelona, Dept Fis Quant & Astrofis, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain, Email: antoni.bertolez@fqa.ub.edu; |
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WOS:001021483800005 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5589 |
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Blennow, M.; Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Hernandez-Garcia, J.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Marcano, X.; Naredo-Tuero, D. |
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Bounds on lepton non-unitarity and heavy neutrino mixing |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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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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030 - 41pp |
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Electroweak Precision Physics; Neutrino Mixing; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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We present an updated and improved global fit analysis of current flavour and electroweak precision observables to derive bounds on unitarity deviations of the leptonic mixing matrix and on the mixing of heavy neutrinos with the active flavours. This new analysis is motivated by new and updated experimental results on key observables such as V-ud, the invisible decay width of the Z boson and the W boson mass. It also improves upon previous studies by considering the full correlations among the different observables and explicitly calibrating the test statistic, which may present significant deviations from a & chi;(2) distribution. The results are provided for three different Type-I seesaw scenarios: the minimal scenario with only two additional right-handed neutrinos, the next to minimal one with three extra neutrinos, and the most general one with an arbitrary number of heavy neutrinos that we parametrise via a generic deviation from a unitary leptonic mixing matrix. Additionally, we also analyze the case of generic deviations from unitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix, not necessarily induced by the presence of additional neutrinos. This last case relaxes some correlations among the parameters and is able to provide a better fit to the data. Nevertheless, inducing only leptonic unitarity deviations avoiding both the correlations implied by the right-handed neutrino extension as well as more strongly constrained operators is challenging and would imply significantly more complex UV completions. |
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[Blennow, Mattias] KTH Royal Inst Technol, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Sch Engn Sci, Dept Phys, Roslagstullsbacken 21, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden, Email: emb@kth.se; |
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WOS:001044930400003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; No, J.M.; Ota, T.; Rosauro-Alcaraz, S. |
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nu Electroweak baryogenesis: the scalar singlet strikes back |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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83 |
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8 |
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715 - 23pp |
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We perform a comprehensive scan of the parameter space of a general singlet scalar extension of the Standard Model to identify the regions which can lead to a strong first-order phase transition, as required by the electroweak baryogenesis mechanism. We find that taking into account bubble nucleation is a fundamental constraint on the parameter space and present a conservative and fast estimate for it so as to enable efficient parameter space scanning. The allowed regions turn out to be already significantly probed by constraints on the scalar mixing from Higgs signal strength measurements. We also consider the addition of new neutrino singlet fields with Yukawa couplings to both scalars and forming heavy (pseudo)-Dirac pairs, as in the linear or inverse Seesaw mechanisms for neutrino mass generation. We find that their inclusion does not alter the allowed parameter space from early universe phenomenology in a significant way. Conversely, there are allowed regions of the parameter space where the presence of the neutrino singlets would remarkably modify the collider phenomenology, yielding interesting new signatures in Higgs and singlet scalar decays. |
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[Fernandez-Martinez, E.; No, J. M.; Ota, T.] Univ Autonoma Madrid, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, IFT UAM, Madrid 28049, Spain, Email: rosauro@ijclab.in2p3.fr |
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WOS:001045200700003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5609 |
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Fernandez-Martinez, E.; Gonzalez-Lopez, M.; Hernandez-Garcia, J.; Hostert, M.; Lopez-Pavon, J. |
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Effective portals to heavy neutral leptons |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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09 |
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9 |
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001 - 45pp |
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Neutrino Interactions; Non-Standard Neutrino Properties; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos |
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The existence of right-handed neutrinos, or heavy neutral leptons (HNLs), is strongly motivated by the observation of neutrino masses and mixing. The mass of these new particles could lie below the electroweak scale, making them accessible to lowenergy laboratory experiments. Additional new physics at high energies can mediate new interactions between the Standard Model particles and HNLs, and is most conveniently parametrized by the neutrino Standard Model Effective Field Theory, or nu SMEFT for short. In this work, we consider the dimension six nu SMEFT operators involving one HNL field in the mass range of O(1) MeV < MN < O(100) GeV. By recasting existing experimental limits on the production and decay of new light particles, we constrain the Wilson coefficients and new physics scale of each operator as a function of the HNL mass. |
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[Fernandez-Martinez, Enrique; Gonzalez-Lopez, Manuel] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor, Campus Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain, Email: enrique.fernandez-martinez@uam.es; |
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WOS:001067715500003 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5697 |
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Sandner, S.; Hernandez, P.; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Rius, N. |
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Predicting the baryon asymmetry with degenerate right-handed neutrinos |
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Journal Article |
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2023 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
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J. High Energy Phys. |
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11 |
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11 |
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153 - 37pp |
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Baryo-and Leptogenesis; Sterile or Heavy Neutrinos; Early Universe Particle Physics |
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We consider the generation of a baryon asymmetry in an extension of the Standard Model with two singlet Majorana fermions that are degenerate above the electroweak phase transition. The model can explain neutrino masses as well as the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry, for masses of the heavy singlets below the electroweak scale. The only physical CP violating phases in the model are those in the PMNS mixing matrix, i.e. the Dirac phase and a Majorana phase that enter light neutrino observables. We present an accurate analytic approximation for the baryon asymmetry in terms of CP flavour invariants, and derive the correlations with neutrino observables. We demonstrate that the measurement of CP violation in neutrino oscillations as well as the mixings of the heavy neutral leptons with the electron, muon and tau flavours suffice to pin down the matter-antimatter asymmetry from laboratory measurements. |
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[Sandner, S.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest,Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, Paterna 46980, Spain, Email: stefan.sandner@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:001111979900002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Antel, C. et al; Lopez-Pavon, J.; Sandner, S.; Urrea, S. |
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Feebly-interacting particles: FIPs 2022 Workshop Report |
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2023 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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83 |
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12 |
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1122 - 266pp |
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Particle physics today faces the challenge of explaining the mystery of dark matter, the origin of matter over anti-matter in the Universe, the origin of the neutrino masses, the apparent fine-tuning of the electro-weak scale, and many other aspects of fundamental physics. Perhaps the most striking frontier to emerge in the search for answers involves new physics at mass scales comparable to familiar matter, below the GeV-scale, or even radically below, down to sub-eV scales, and with very feeble interaction strength. New theoretical ideas to address dark matter and other fundamental questions predict such feebly interacting particles (FIPs) at these scales, and indeed, existing data provide numerous hints for such possibility. A vibrant experimental program to discover such physics is under way, guided by a systematic theoretical approach firmly grounded on the underlying principles of the Standard Model. This document represents the report of the FIPs 2022 workshop, held at CERN between the 17 and 21 October 2022 and aims to give an overview of these efforts, their motivations, and the decadal goals that animate the community involved in the search for FIPs. |
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[Antel, C.] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, Geneva, Switzerland, Email: MGiannotti@barry.edu; |
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