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Lepton number violation in a little Higgs model
The Standard Model (SM) has been remarkably successful in explaining experimental data upto the highest energies available at present. The precision electroweak data suggests that the Higgs boson remains light [1], mH < 219 GeV at 95% CL, upto the Planck’s scale. In SM, the Higgs boson however, gets quadratically divergent contribution to its mass and requires fine tuning of parameters which are sensitive to new physics that may be present at scales much higher than electroweak scale. Fine tuning and naturalness requires this new physics to be at the TeV scale. Supersymmetry (SUSY) provides a particularly elegant solution to the Hierarchy problem where quadratic divergences in Higgs mass are canceled between contributions of SM particles and their superpartners. This has the desired effect of stabilizing the electro-weak scale. In Technicolor theories, the hierarchy problem is deferred by introducing new dynamics at a scale not too much above electroweak scale. Theories of large extra dimensions resolve the hierarchy problem by lowering the Planck’s scale and modifying quantum gravity at the TeV scale. Phenomenological consequences of these theories have been studied in the literature and constraints obtained [2]. Recently there has been a proposal to consider Higgs fields as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of a Global symmetry which is spontaneously broken at some high scale [3]. The Higgs fields acquire mass through electroweak symmetry breaking triggered by radiative corrections leading to Coleman-Weinberg type of potential. Since the Higgs is protected by approximate global symmetry, it remains light and the quadratic divergent contributions to its mass are canceled by the contributions of heavy gauge bosons and a heavy Fermionic state that are introduced in the model. The Littlest Higgs (LH) [3, 4, 5] model is a minimal model of this class which accomplishes this task to one loop order within a minimal matter content. The LH model consists of an SU(5) non-linear sigma model which is spontaneously broken to its subgroup SO(5) by vacuum expectation value (VEV) of order f. The gauged group [SU(2) � U(1)] 2 is broken at the same time to its diagonal electroweak SM sub
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HIGH-ORDER LOW-ENERGY THEOREMS FOR NUCLEON COMPTON SCATTERING.
The well-known zero- and first-order (in photon energy) low-energy theorems for nucleon Compton scattering have recently been derived by Abarbanel and Goldberger using only the physical helicity amplitudes for the process and exploiting their kinematical singularities and zeros. We use this approach to study higher-order terms in photon energy and find the result, not entirely new, that four of the six independent helicity amplitudes are determined in second order by the mass, charge, and magnetic moment of the nucleon. Therefore, these parameters together with two structure-dependent constants, which can be interpreted approximately as electric and magnetic polarizabilities, completely determine the Compton scattering to second order in energy. Similar simplifications occurring in the structure of higher-order terms in energy are also discussed. The kinematical singularity structure of helicity amplitudes is a manifestation of Lorentz invariance. We claim to have fully exploited the requirements of Lorentz invariance and therefore to have derived the complete set of low-energy theorems for this process.
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Supersymmetric effects in B(s) ---> l+ l- gamma decays
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Neutral-current cross sections for double-pion production by neutrinos
We have derived expressions for the differential cross sections for two-pion production by the neutral current in a neutrino-induced hadron reaction. We assume a general V, A form of the neutral current with arbitrary admixture of isotopic scalar and vector parts and utilize the algebra of currents and the PCAC (partial conservation of the axial-vector current) hypothesis to obtain the amplitude for ..nu.. + N ..-->.. ..nu.. + N + ..pi.. + ..pi... Two different cases have been studied: (i) Both the outgoing pions are at threshold. (ii) They are produced via the formation of N*. The results are useful to examine the structure of the neutral current.
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Comment on "New interaction for the enhancement of the Delta I=1/2 amplitude in weak decays"
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Relativistic oscillator in a Bethe-Salpeter model: Nonexistence of discrete bound states
We investigate the solutions of the covariant Bethe-Salpeter equation for bound states of a scalar quark-antiquark system with an effective confining kernel which in coordinate four-space behaves as ${R}^{2}$. Using a suitable set of new variables we separate the equation into one-dimensional equations and study the eigenvalue problem. We find that the covariant bound-state Bethe-Salpeter equation with the above kernel possesses only a continuous spectrum.
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Brane inflation: A field theory approach in background supergravity
We propose a model of inflation in the framework of brane cosmology driven by background supergravity. Starting from bulk supergravity we construct the inflaton potential on the brane and employ it to investigate for the consequences to inflationary paradigm. To this end, we derive the expressions for the important parameters in brane inflation, which are somewhat different from their counterparts in standard cosmology, using the one loop radiative corrected potential. We further estimate the observable parameters and find them to fit well with recent observational data. We have studied extensively reheating phenomenology, which explains the thermal history of the universe and leptogenesis through the production of thermal gravitino pertaining to the particle physics phenomenology of the early universe.
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Collider constraints on Gauss-Bonnet coupling in warped geometry model
In this paper the requirement of a warp solution in an Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet 5D warped geometry is shown to fix the signature of Gauss-Bonnet coupling ($\alpha_{5}$). Further, imposing the phenomenological constraints, obtained from the recently observed Higgs like scalar mass as well as $\mu$ parameter of the decay channels ${H}_{0}\rightarrow\gamma\gamma,\tau{\bar \tau}$ explored in ATLAS and CMS detectors, we obtain a stringent bound on $\alpha_{5}$ within $(4.8 - 5.1)\times 10^{-7}$.
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An accurate bound on tensor-to-scalar ratio and the scale of inflation
Abstract In this paper we provide an accurate bound on primordial gravitational waves, i.e. tensor-to-scalar ratio ( r ) for a general class of single-field models of inflation where inflation occurs always below the Planck scale, and the field displacement during inflation remains sub-Planckian. If inflation has to make connection with the real particle physics framework then it must be explained within an effective field theory description where it can be trustable below the UV cut-off of the scale of gravity. We provide an analytical estimation and estimate the largest possible r , i.e. r ⩽ 0.12 , for the field displacement less than the Planck cut-off.
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A step toward exploring the features of Gravidilaton sector in Randall–Sundrum scenario via lightest Kaluza–Klein graviton mass
In this paper we study the role of the 5D Gauss–Bonnet corrections and two-loop higher genus contribution to the gravity action in type IIB string theory inspired low energy supergravity theory in the light of gravidilatonic interactions on the lightest Kaluza–Klein graviton mass spectrum. From the latest constraints on the lightest Kaluza–Klein graviton mass as obtained from the ATLAS dilepton search in 7 TeV proton–proton collision experiments, we have shown that due to the presence of Gauss–Bonnet and string loop corrections, the warping solution in an $$\mathbf{AdS_{5}}$$AdS5 bulk is quite distinct from the Randall–Sundrum scenario. We discuss the constraints on the model parameters to fit with the present ATLAS data.
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Large non-Gaussianities from DBI Galileon and resolution of sensitivity problem
We have studied primordial non-Gaussian features through bispectrum and trispectrum analysis from a model of potential driven DBI Galileon inflation originating from background supergravity and Gauss-Bonnet terms.We have explicitly shown the violation of the widely accepted Maldacena theorem and standard Suyama-Yamaguchi relation in squeezed limit configuration which leads to the resolution of the well-known sensitivity problem between the non-Gaussian parameters ($f_{NL},\tau_{NL},g_{NL}$) and tensor to scalar ratio($r$). Our analysis thus overcomes a generic drawback of the wide class of DBI inflationary models which was, of late, facing tension from observational ground.Hence large primordial non-Gaussianities can be obtained even from single field DBI Galileon and hence these class of models can be directly confronted with the forthcoming results of PLANCK.