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Bloch, I.M.; Caputo, A.; Essig, R.; Redigolo, D.; Sholapurkar, M.; Volansky, T. |
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Exploring new physics with O(keV) electron recoils in direct detection experiments |
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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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01 |
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1 |
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178 - 63pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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Motivated by the recent XENON1T results, we explore various new physics models that can be discovered through searches for electron recoils in O(keV)-threshold direct-detection experiments. First, we consider the absorption of axion-like particles, dark photons, and scalars, either as dark matter relics or being produced directly in the Sun. In the latter case, we find that keV mass bosons produced in the Sun provide an adequate fit to the data but are excluded by stellar cooling constraints. We address this tension by introducing a novel Chameleon-like axion model, which can explain the excess while evading the stellar bounds. We find that absorption of bosonic dark matter provides a viable explanation for the excess only if the dark matter is a dark photon or an axion. In the latter case, photophobic axion couplings are necessary to avoid X-ray constraints. Second, we analyze models of dark matter-electron scattering to determine which models might explain the excess. Standard scattering of dark matter with electrons is generically in conflict with data from lower-threshold experiments. Momentum-dependent interactions with a heavy mediator can fit the data with dark matter mass heavier than a GeV but are generically in tension with collider constraints. Next, we consider dark matter consisting of two (or more) states that have a small mass splitting. The exothermic (down)scattering of the heavier state to the lighter state can fit the data for keV mass splittings. Finally, we consider a subcomponent of dark matter that is accelerated by scattering off cosmic rays, finding that dark matter interacting though an O(100 keV)-mass mediator can fit the data. The cross sections required in this scenario are, however, typically challenged by complementary probes of the light mediator. Throughout our study, we implement an unbinned Monte Carlo analysis and use an improved energy reconstruction of the XENON1T events. |
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[Bloch, Itay M.; Volansky, Tomer] Tel Aviv Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel, Email: itay.bloch.m@gmail.com; |
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Villanueva-Domingo, P.; Villaescusa-Navarro, F. |
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Removing Astrophysics in 21 cm Maps with Neural Networks |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Astrophysical Journal |
Abbreviated Journal |
Astrophys. J. |
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907 |
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1 |
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44 - 14pp |
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Cosmology; Cold dark matter; Dark matter; Dark matter distribution; H I line emission; Intergalactic medium; Cosmological evolution; Convolutional neural networks; Large-scale structure of the universe |
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Measuring temperature fluctuations in the 21 cm signal from the epoch of reionization and the cosmic dawn is one of the most promising ways to study the universe at high redshifts. Unfortunately, the 21 cm signal is affected by both cosmology and astrophysics processes in a nontrivial manner. We run a suite of 1000 numerical simulations with different values of the main astrophysical parameters. From these simulations we produce tens of thousands of 21 cm maps at redshifts 10 <= z <= 20. We train a convolutional neural network to remove the effects of astrophysics from the 21 cm maps and output maps of the underlying matter field. We show that our model is able to generate 2D matter fields not only that resemble the true ones visually but whose statistical properties agree with the true ones within a few percent down to scales 2 Mpc(-1). We demonstrate that our neural network retains astrophysical information that can be used to constrain the value of the astrophysical parameters. Finally, we use saliency maps to try to understand which features of the 21 cm maps the network is using in order to determine the value of the astrophysical parameters. |
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[Villanueva-Domingo, Pablo] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular IFIC, CSIC, Apartado Correos 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain, Email: Pablo.Villanueva@ific.uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Ramirez-Uribe, S.; Hernandez-Pinto, R.J.; Rodrigo, G.; Sborlini, G.F.R.; Torres Bobadilla, W.J. |
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Universal opening of four-loop scattering amplitudes to trees |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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04 |
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4 |
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129 - 22pp |
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Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Perturbative QCD; Scattering Amplitudes |
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The perturbative approach to quantum field theories has made it possible to obtain incredibly accurate theoretical predictions in high-energy physics. Although various techniques have been developed to boost the efficiency of these calculations, some ingredients remain specially challenging. This is the case of multiloop scattering amplitudes that constitute a hard bottleneck to solve. In this paper, we delve into the application of a disruptive technique based on the loop-tree duality theorem, which is aimed at an efficient computation of such objects by opening the loops to nondisjoint trees. We study the multiloop topologies that first appear at four loops and assemble them in a clever and general expression, the (NMLT)-M-4 universal topology. This general expression enables to open any scattering amplitude of up to four loops, and also describes a subset of higher order configurations to all orders. These results confirm the conjecture of a factorized opening in terms of simpler known subtopologies, which also determines how the causal structure of the entire loop amplitude is characterized by the causal structure of its subtopologies. In addition, we confirm that the loop-tree duality representation of the (NMLT)-M-4 universal topology is manifestly free of noncausal thresholds, thus pointing towards a remarkably more stable numerical implementation of multiloop scattering amplitudes. |
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[Ramirez-Uribe, Selomit; Rodrigo, German; Sborlini, German F. R.; Bobadilla, William J. Torres] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cient, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: norma.selomit.ramirez@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000641467800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4787 |
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Archidiacono, M.; Gariazzo, S.; Giunti, C.; Hannestad, S.; Tram, T. |
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Sterile neutrino self-interactions: H-0 tension and short-baseline anomalies |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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12 |
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12 |
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029 - 20pp |
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cosmological neutrinos; cosmological parameters from CMBR; particle physics – cosmology connection; physics of the early universe |
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Sterile neutrinos with a mass in the eV range have been invoked as a possible explanation of a variety of short baseline (SBL) neutrino oscillation anomalies. However, if one considers neutrino oscillations between active and sterile neutrinos, such neutrinos would have been fully thermalised in the early universe, and would be therefore in strong conflict with cosmological bounds. In this study we first update cosmological bounds on the mass and energy density of eV-scale sterile neutrinos. We then perform an updated study of a previously proposed model in which the sterile neutrino couples to a new light pseudoscalar degree of freedom. Consistently with previous analyses, we find that the model provides a good fit to all cosmological data and allows the high value of H-0 measured in the local universe to be consistent with measurements of the cosmic microwave background. However, new high l polarisation data constrain the sterile neutrino mass to be less than approximately 1 eV in this scenario. Finally, we combine the cosmological bounds on the pseudoscalar model with a Bayesian inference analysis of SBL data and conclude that only a sterile mass in narrow ranges around 1 eV remains consistent with both cosmology and SBL data. |
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[Archidiacono, Maria] Univ Milan, Via G Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy, Email: maria.archidiacono@unimi.it; |
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1475-7516 |
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WOS:000609105900015 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4688 |
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Aguilera-Verdugo, J.J.; Hernandez-Pinto, R.J.; Rodrigo, G.; Sborlini, G.F.R.; Torres Bobadilla, W.J. |
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Causal representation of multi-loop Feynman integrands within the loop-tree duality |
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Journal Article |
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2021 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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01 |
Issue |
1 |
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69 - 26pp |
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Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Perturbative QCD; Scattering Amplitudes |
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The numerical evaluation of multi-loop scattering amplitudes in the Feynman representation usually requires to deal with both physical (causal) and unphysical (non-causal) singularities. The loop-tree duality (LTD) offers a powerful framework to easily characterise and distinguish these two types of singularities, and then simplify analytically the underling expressions. In this paper, we work explicitly on the dual representation of multi-loop Feynman integrals generated from three parent topologies, which we refer to as Maximal, Next-to-Maximal and Next-to-Next-to-Maximal loop topologies. In particular, we aim at expressing these dual contributions, independently of the number of loops and internal configurations, in terms of causal propagators only. Thus, providing very compact and causal integrand representations to all orders. In order to do so, we reconstruct their analytic expressions from numerical evaluation over finite fields. This procedure implicitly cancels out all unphysical singularities. We also interpret the result in terms of entangled causal thresholds. In view of the simple structure of the dual expressions, we integrate them numerically up to four loops in integer space-time dimensions, taking advantage of their smooth behaviour at integrand level. |
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[Jesus Aguilera-Verdugo, J.; Rodrigo, German; Sborlini, German F. R.; Torres Bobadilla, William J.] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, CSIC, Parc Cientif, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: jesus.aguilera@ific.uv.es; |
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WOS:000609437600001 |
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yes |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4697 |
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Coloma, P.; Esteban, I.; Gonzalez-Garcia, M.C.; Menendez, J. |
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Determining the nuclear neutron distribution from Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering: current results and future prospects |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Journal of High Energy Physics |
Abbreviated Journal |
J. High Energy Phys. |
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08 |
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8 |
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030 - 22pp |
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Neutrino Physics; Effective Field Theories |
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Coherent Elastic neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE nu NS), a process recently measured for the first time at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source, is directly sensitive to the weak form factor of the nucleus. The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction, will generate the most intense pulsed neutrino flux suitable for the detection of CE nu NS. In this paper we quantify its potential to determine the root mean square radius of the point-neutron distribution, for a variety of target nuclei and a suite of detectors. To put our results in context we also derive, for the first time, a constraint on this parameter from the analysis of the energy and timing data of the CsI detector at the COHERENT experiment. |
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[Coloma, Pilar] Univ Valencia, Inst Fis Corpuscular, Edificio Inst Invest, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: pilar.coloma@ift.csic.es; |
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WOS:000561296500001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4502 |
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Beltran Jimenez, J.; de Andres, D.; Delhom, A. |
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Anisotropic deformations in a class of projectively-invariant metric-affine theories of gravity |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Classical and Quantum Gravity |
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Class. Quantum Gravity |
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37 |
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22 |
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225013 - 25pp |
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alternative theories of gravity; metric-affine gravity; anisotropic solutions |
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Among the general class of metric-affine theories of gravity, there is a special class conformed by those endowed with a projective symmetry. Perhaps the simplest manner to realise this symmetry is by constructing the action in terms of the symmetric part of the Ricci tensor. In these theories, the connection can be solved algebraically in terms of a metric that relates to the spacetime metric by means of the so-called deformation matrix that is given in terms of the matter fields. In most phenomenological applications, this deformation matrix is assumed to inherit the symmetries of the matter sector so that in the presence of an isotropic energy-momentum tensor, it respects isotropy. In this work we discuss this condition and, in particular, we show how the deformation matrix can be anisotropic even in the presence of isotropic sources due to the non-linear nature of the equations. Remarkably, we find that Eddington-inspired-Born-Infeld (EiBI) theories do not admit anisotropic deformations, but more general theories do. However, we find that the anisotropic branches of solutions are generally prone to a pathological physical behaviour. |
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[Jimenez, Jose Beltran] Univ Salamanca, Dept Fis Fundamental, E-37008 Salamanca, Spain, Email: jose.beltran@usal.es; |
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WOS:000580878200001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4576 |
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Huang, J.W.; Madden, A.; Racco, D.; Reig, M. |
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Maximal axion misalignment from a minimal model |
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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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10 |
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10 |
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143 - 39pp |
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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM |
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The QCD axion is one of the best motivated dark matter candidates. The misalignment mechanism is well known to produce an abundance of the QCD axion consistent with dark matter for an axion decay constant of order 10(12) GeV. For a smaller decay constant, the QCD axion, with Peccei-Quinn symmetry broken during inflation, makes up only a fraction of dark matter unless the axion field starts oscillating very close to the top of its potential, in a scenario called “large-misalignment”. In this scenario, QCD axion dark matter with a small axion decay constant is partially comprised of very dense structures. We present a simple dynamical model realising the large-misalignment mechanism. During inflation, the axion classically rolls down its potential approaching its minimum. After inflation, the Universe reheats to a high temperature and a modulus (real scalar field) changes the sign of its minimum dynamically, which changes the sign of the mass of a vector-like fermion charged under QCD. As a result, the minimum of the axion potential during inflation becomes the maximum of the potential after the Universe has cooled through the QCD phase transition and the axion starts oscillating. In this model, we can produce QCD axion dark matter with a decay constant as low as 6 x 10(9) GeV and an axion mass up to 1 meV. We also summarise the phenomenological implications of this mechanism for dark matter experiments and colliders. |
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[Huang, Junwu; Madden, Amalia; Racco, Davide] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, 31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada, Email: jhuang@perimeterinstitute.ca; |
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WOS:000586368800006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4592 |
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Centelles Chulia, S.; Doring, C.; Rodejohann, W.; Saldana-Salazar, U.J. |
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Natural axion model from flavour |
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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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09 |
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9 |
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137 - 29pp |
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Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Beyond Standard Model; Global Symmetries; Higgs Physics |
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We explore a common symmetrical origin for two long standing problems in particle physics: the strong CP and the fermion mass hierarchy problems. The Peccei-Quinn mechanism solves the former one with an anomalous global U(1)(PQ) symmetry. Here we investigate how this U(1)(PQ) could at the same time explain the fermion mass hierarchy. We work in the context of a four-Higgs-doublet model which explains all quark and charged fermion masses with natural, i.e. order 1, Yukawa couplings. Moreover, the axion of the model constitutes a viable dark matter candidate and neutrino masses are incorporated via the standard type-I seesaw mechanism. A simple extension of the model allows for Dirac neutrinos. |
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[Centelles Chulia, Salvador] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fis Corpuscular, AHEP Grp, Parc Cientif Paterna,C Catedrat Jose Beltran 2, E-46980 Valencia, Spain, Email: salcen@ific.uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Angles-Castillo, A.; Bañuls, M.C.; Perez, A.; De Vega, I. |
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Prethermalization of quantum systems interacting with non-equilibrium environments |
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2020 |
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New Journal of Physics |
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New J. Phys. |
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22 |
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8 |
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083067 - 17pp |
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open quantum systems; prethermalization; master equations |
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The usual paradigm of open quantum systems falls short when the environment is actually coupled to additional fields or components that drive it out of equilibrium. Here we explore the simplest such scenario, by considering a two level system coupled to a first thermal reservoir that in turn couples to a second thermal bath at a different temperature. We derive a master equation description for the system and show that, in this situation, the dynamics can be especially rich. In particular, we observe prethermalization, a transitory phenomenon in which the system initially approaches thermal equilibrium with respect to the first reservoir, but after a longer time converges to the thermal state dictated by the temperature of the second environment. Using analytical arguments and numerical simulations, we analyze the occurrence of this phenomenon, and how it depends on temperatures and coupling strengths. The phenomenology gets even richer if the system is placed between two such non-equilibrium environments. In this case, the energy current through the system may exhibit transient features and even switch direction, before the system eventually reaches a non-equilibrium steady state. |
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[Angles-Castillo, Andreu; Perez, Armando] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: banulsm@mpq.mpg.de |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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