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MoEDAL Collaboration (Acharya, B. et al); Bernabeu, J.; Garcia, C.; Mamuzic, J.; Mitsou, V.A.; Ruiz de Austri, R.; Santra, A.; Vento, V.; Vives, O. |

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Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 2.11 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC |
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2018 |
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Physics Letters B |
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Phys. Lett. B |
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782 |
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We update our previous search for trapped magnetic monopoles in LHC Run 2 using nearly six times more integrated luminosity and including additional models for the interpretation of the data. The MoEDAL forward trapping detector, comprising 222 kg of aluminium samples, was exposed to 2.11 fb(-1) of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions near the LHCb interaction point and analysed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges equal to the Dirac charge or above are excluded in all samples. The results are interpreted in Drell-Yan production models for monopoles with spins 0, 1/2 and 1: in addition to standard point-like couplings, we also consider couplings with momentum-dependent form factors. The search provides the best current laboratory constraints for monopoles with magnetic charges ranging from two to five times the Dirac charge. |
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[Acharya, B.; Alexandre, J.; Baines, S.; Ellis, J. R.; Fairbairn, M.; Mavromatos, N. E.; Sakellariadou, M.; Sarkar, S.] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, Theoret Particle & Phys Cosmol Grp, London, England, Email: philippe.mermod@cern.ch |
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Kaneko, S.; Saito, H.; Sato, J.; Shimomura, T.; Vives, O.; Yamanaka, M. |

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Correlation between flavor-violating decay of long-lived slepton and tau in the coannihilation scenario with the seesaw mechanism |
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2011 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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83 |
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11 |
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We investigate flavor violating decays of the long-lived lightest slepton and the tau lepton in the coannihilation region of the minimal supersymmetric standard model with a seesaw mechanism to generate neutrino masses. We consider a situation where the mass difference between the lightest neutralino, as the lightest supersymmetric particle, and the lightest slepton, as the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle, is smaller than the mass of tau lepton. In this situation, the lifetime of the lightest slepton is very long and it is determined by lepton flavor violating (LFV) couplings because the slepton mainly consists of the lighter stau and the flavor conserving 2-body decay is kinematically forbidden. We show that the lifetime can change many orders of magnitude by varying the Yukawa couplings entering the seesaw mechanism. We also show that the branching ratios of LFV tau decays are strongly correlated with the lightest slepton lifetime. Therefore the branching ratios of LFV tau decays can be determined or constrained by measuring the slepton lifetime at the LHC experiment. |
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[Kaneko, Satoru] Juntendo Univ, Grad Sch Med, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1138421, Japan, Email: satoru@cftp.ist.utl.pt |
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Boubekeur, L.; Dodelson, S.; Vives, O. |

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Cold positrons from decaying dark matter |
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2012 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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86 |
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10 |
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Many models of dark matter contain more than one new particle beyond those in the Standard Model. Often, heavier particles decay into the lightest dark matter particle as the Universe evolves. Here, we explore the possibilities which arise if one of the products in a (heavy particle) -> (dark matter) decay is a positron, and the lifetime is shorter than the age of the Universe. The positrons cool down by scattering off the cosmic microwave background and eventually annihilate when they fall into Galactic potential wells. The resulting 511 keV flux not only places constraints on this class of models, but might even be consistent with that observed by the INTEGRAL satellite. |
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[Boubekeur, Lotfi; Vives, Oscar] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Barenboim, G.; Bosch, C.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Vives, O. |

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Improved tau-lepton tools for Higgs boson hunting |
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2014 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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90 |
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015003 - 14pp |
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In this work, we use the results from Higgs searches in the gamma gamma and tau tau decay channels at LHC and indirect bounds as BR (B -> X-s gamma) to constrain the parameter space of a generic minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) Higgs sector. In particular, we include the latest CMS results that look for additional Higgs states with masses up to 1 TeV. We show that the tau tau channel is the best and most accurate tool in the hunt for new Higgs states beyond the standard model. We obtain that present experimental results rule out additional neutral Higgs bosons in a generic MSSM below 300 GeV for any value of tan beta and, for instance, values of tan beta above 30 are only possible for Higgs masses above 600 GeV. ATLAS stored data have the potential to render this bound obsolete in the near future. |
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[Barenboim, G.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Barenboim, G.; Bosch, C.; Lee, J.S.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Vives, O. |

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Flavor-changing Higgs boson decays into bottom and strange quarks in supersymmetric models |
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2015 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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92 |
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In this work, we explore the flavor-changing decays H-i -> bs in a general supersymmetric scenario. In these models the flavor-changing decays arise at loop level, but-because they originate from a dimension-four operator-they do not decouple and may provide a first sign of new physics for heavy masses beyond the reach of colliders. In the framework of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, we find that the largest branching ratio of the lightest Higgs (H-1) is O(10(-6)) after imposing present experimental constraints, while heavy Higgs states may still present branching ratios O(10(-3)). In a more general supersymmetric scenario, where additional Higgs states may modify the Higgs mixings, the branching ratio BR(H-1 -> bs) can reach values O(10(-4)), while heavy Higgses still remain at O(10(-3)). Although these values are clearly out of reach for the LHC, a full study in a linear collider environment could be worth pursuing. |
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[Barenboim, G.; Bosch, C.; Lopez-Ibanez, M. L.; Vives, O.] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: Gabriela.Barenboim@uv.es; |
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Das, D.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Jay Perez, M.; Vives, O. |

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Effective theories of flavor and the nonuniversal MSSM |
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2017 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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Flavor symmetries a la Froggatt-Nielsen provide a compelling way to explain the hierarchies of fermionic masses and mixing angles in the Yukawa sector. In supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Standard Model where the mediation of SUSY breaking occurs at scales larger than the breaking of flavor, this symmetry must be respected not only by the Yukawas of the superpotential but also by the soft-breaking masses and trilinear terms. In this work we show that contrary to naive expectations, even starting with completely flavor blind soft breaking in the full theory at high scales, the low-energy sfermion mass matrices and trilinear terms of the effective theory, obtained upon integrating out the heavy mediator fields, are strongly nonuniversal. We explore the phenomenology of these SUSY flavor models after the latest LHC searches for new physics. |
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[Das, Dipankar; Lopez-Ibanez, M. L.; Jay Perez, M.; Vives, Oscar] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, Email: dipankar.das@uv.es; |
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Bhattacharyya, G.; Das, D.; Jay Perez, M.; Saha, I.; Santamaria, A.; Vives, O. |

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Can measurements of 2HDM parameters provide hints for high scale supersymmetry? |
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2018 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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Two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDMs) arc minimal extensions of the Standard Model (SM) that may still be discovered at the LHC. The quartic couplings of their potentials can be determined from the measurement of the masses and branching ratios of their extended scalar sectors. We show that the evolution of these couplings through renormalization group equations can determine whether the observed 2HDM is a low energy manifestation of a more fundamental theory, as for instance, supersymmetry, which fixes the quartic couplings in terms of the gauge couplings. At leading order, the minimal supersymmetric extension of the SM (MSSM) dictates all the quartic couplings, which can be translated into a predictive structure for the scalar masses and mixings at the weak scale. Running these couplings to higher scales, one can check if they converge to their MSSM values, and more interestingly, whether one can infer the supersymmetry breaking scale. Although we study this question in the context of supersymmetry, this strategy could be applied to any theory whose ultraviolet completion unambiguously predicts all scalar quartic couplings. |
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[Bhattacharyya, Gautam] HBNI, Saha Inst Nucl Phys, 1-AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700064, India, Email: gautam.bhattacharyya@saha.ac.in; |
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Han, C.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Melis, A.; Vives, O.; Yang, J.M. |

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Anomaly-free leptophilic axionlike particle and its flavor violating tests |
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2021 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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103 |
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Motivated by the recent Xenon1T result, we study a leptophilic flavor-dependent anomaly-free axionlike particle (ALP) and its effects on charged-lepton flavor violation. We present two representative models. The first one considers that the ALP origins from the flavon that generates the charged-lepton masses. The second model assumes a larger flavor symmetry such that more general mixings in the charged-lepton are possible, while maintaining flavor-dependent ALP couplings. We find that a keV ALP explaining the Xenon1T result is still viable for lepton flavor violation and stellar cooling astrophysical limits. On the other hand, if the Xenon1T result is confirmed, future charged-lepton flavor violation measurements can be complementary to probe such a possibility. |
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[Han, C.] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Phys, Guangzhou 510275, Guangdong, Peoples R China, Email: hanchch@mail.sysu.edu.cn; |
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Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Melis, A.; Jay Perez, M.; Rahat, M.H.; Vives, O. |

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Constraining low-scale flavor models with (g-2)(mu) and lepton flavor violation |
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2022 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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105 |
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We present here two concrete examples of models where a sub-TeV scale breaking of their respective T-13 and A(5) flavor symmetries is able to account for the recently observed discrepancy in the muon anomalous magnetic moment, (g – 2)(mu). Similarities in the flavor structures of the charged-lepton Yukawa matrix and dipole matrix yielding (g – 2)(mu) give rise to strong constraints on low-scale flavor models when bounds from lepton flavor violation (LFV) are imposed. These constraints place stringent limits on the off- diagonal Yukawa structure, suggesting a mostly (quasi)diagonal texture for models with a low flavor breaking scale A(f). We argue that many of the popular flavor models in the literature designed to explain the fermion masses and mixings are not suitable for reproducing the observed discrepancy in (g – 2)(mu), which requires a delicate balance of maintaining a low flavor scale while simultaneously satisfying strong LFV constraints. |
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[Lopez-Ibanez, M. L.] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China, Email: maloi2@uv.es; |
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Hagedorn, C.; Lopez-Ibañez, M.L.; Jay Perez, M.; Hossain Rahat, M.; Vives, O. |

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Flavon vacuum alignment beyond SUSY |
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2024 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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110 |
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In flavor models the vacuum alignment of flavons is typically achieved via the F-terms of certain fields in the supersymmetric limit. We propose a method for preserving such alignments, up to a rescaling of the vacuum expectation values, even after softly breaking supersymmetry (and the flavor symmetry). This facilitates the vacuum alignment in models which are nonsupersymmetric at low energies. Examples of models with different flavor groups, namely, A4, T7, S4, and Delta & eth;27 & THORN;, are discussed. |
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[Hagedorn, Claudia; Rahat, Moinul Hossain; Vives, Oscar] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Inst Fic Corpuscular, C-Catedrat JoseBeltran 2, E-46980 Paterna, Spain, Email: claudia.hagedorn@ific.uv.es; |
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