119286848
Mini little Higgs and dark matter
Abstract We construct a little Higgs model with the most minimal extension of the standard model gauge group by an extra U ( 1 ) gauge symmetry. For specific charge assignments of scalars, an approximate U ( 3 ) global symmetry appears in the cutoff-squared scalar mass terms generated from gauge bosons at one-loop level. Hence, the Higgs boson, identified as a pseudo-Goldstone boson of the broken global symmetry, has its mass radiatively protected up to scales of 5–10 TeV. In this model, a Z 2 symmetry, ensuring the two U ( 1 ) gauge groups to be identical, also makes the extra massive neutral gauge boson stable and a viable dark matter candidate with a promising prospect of direct detection.
119109221
A toolkit of the stop search via the chargino decay
A bstractThe top squark (stop) may dominantly decay to a bottom quark and a chargino if the mass difference between the stop and the lightest neutralino is comparable or less than the top quark mass. Such a moderately compressed spectrum is a challenging scenario for the stop search at the Large Hadron Collider, because it is difficult to separate the signals from the top and anti-top background. In this paper we focus on the di-leptonic decay channel, and consider many kinematic variables as possible discriminators. These include several MT2 variables and new “compatible-masses” variables which fully utilize all kinematic information of the background. We use several sample spectra with different characteristics to study the efficiencies of these variables in distinguishing the signal from the background. The finding is that different combinations of variables or strategies should be used for different spectra to maximally enhance the signal significance and expand the reach of the stop search in this scenario. The new variables that we proposed in this paper are also useful for other new physics searches with di-leptonic top and anti-top events as the dominant background.
118985590
SU(3) family gauge symmetry and the axion
We analyze the structure of a recently proposed effective field theory (EFT) for the generation of quark and lepton mass ratios and mixing angles, based on the spontaneous breaking of an SU(3) family gauge symmetry at a high scale F. We classify the Yukawa operators necessary to seed the masses, making use of the continuous global symmetries that they preserve. One global U(1), in addition to baryon number and electroweak hypercharge, remains unbroken after the inclusion of all operators required by standard model fermion phenomenology. An associated vacuum symmetry insures the vanishing of the first-family quark and charged-lepton masses in the absence of the family gauge interaction. If this U(1) symmetry is taken to be exact in the EFT, broken explicitly by only the QCD-induced anomaly, and if the breaking scale F is taken to lie in the range 10{sup 9}-10{sup 12} GeV, then the associated Nambu-Goldstone boson is a potential QCD axion.
119113952
Stop the top background of the stop search
A bstractThe main background for the supersymmetric stop direct production search comes from Standard Model $ t\overline t $ events. For the single-lepton search channel, we introduce a few kinematic variables to further suppress this background by focusing on its dileptonic and semileptonic topologies. All are defined to have end points in the background, but not signal distributions. They can substantially improve the stop signal significance and mass reach when combined with traditional kinematic variables such as the total missing transverse energy. Among them, our variable $ M_{{T2}}^W $ hasthebestoverallperformancebecause it uses all available kinematic information, including the on-shell mass of both W’s. We see 20 %-30 % improvement on the discovery significance and estimate that the 8 TeV LHC run with 20 fb−1 of data would be able to reach an exclusion limit of 650-700 GeV for direct stop production, as long as the stop decays dominantly to the top quark and a light stable neutralino. Most of the mass range required for the supersymmetric solution of the naturalness problem in the standard scenario can be covered.
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Reach the bottom line of the sbottom search
A bstractWe propose a new search strategy for directly-produced sbottoms at the LHC with a small mass splitting between the sbottom and its decayed stable neutralino. Our search strategy is based on boosting sbottoms through an energetic initial state radiation jet. In the final state, we require a large missing transverse energy and one or two b-jets besides the initial state radiation jet. We also define a few kinematic variables to further increase the discovery reach. For the case that the sbottom mainly decays into the bottom quark and the stable neutralino, we have found that even for a mass splitting as small as 10 GeV sbottoms with masses up to around 400 GeV can be excluded at the 95 % confidence level with 20 inverse femtobarn data at the 8 TeV LHC.
119056460
Neutrinos and SU(3) family gauge symmetry
We include the standard model (SM) leptons in a recently proposed framework for the generation of quark mass ratios and Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) mixing angles from a SU(3) family gauge interaction. The set of SM singlet scalar fields describing the spontaneous breaking is the same as employed for the quark sector. The imposition at tree level of the experimentally correct Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) mixing matrix, in the form of a tri-bi maximal structure, fixes several of the otherwise free parameters and renders the model predictive. The normal hierarchy among the neutrino masses emerges from this scheme.
119384648
The Performance of CRTNT Fluorescence Light Detector for Sub-EeV Cosmic Ray Observation
Cosmic Ray Tau Neutrino Telescopes (CRTNT) using for sub-EeV cosmic ray measurement is discussed. Performances of a stereoscope configuration with a tower of those telescopes plus two side-triggers are studied. This is done by using a detailed detector simulation driven by Corsika. Detector aperture as a function of shower energy above 10^17 eV is calculated. Event rate of about 20k per year for the second knee measurement is estimated. Event rate for cross calibration with detectors working on higher energy range is also estimated. Different configurations of the detectors are tried for optimization.
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Search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=8~$$s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector
Results of a search for new phenomena in final states with an energetic jet and large missing transverse momentum are reported. The search uses 20.3 fb$${}^{-1}$$-1 of $$\sqrt{s}=8$$s=8 TeV data collected in 2012 with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events are required to have at least one jet with $$p_{\mathrm {T}}> 120$$pT>120 GeV and no leptons. Nine signal regions are considered with increasing missing transverse momentum requirements between $$E_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {miss}}>150$$ETmiss>150 GeV and $$E_{\mathrm {T}}^{\mathrm {miss}}> 700$$ETmiss>700 GeV. Good agreement is observed between the number of events in data and Standard Model expectations. The results are translated into exclusion limits on models with either large extra spatial dimensions, pair production of weakly interacting dark matter candidates, or production of very light gravitinos in a gauge-mediated supersymmetric model. In addition, limits on the production of an invisibly decaying Higgs-like boson leading to similar topologies in the final state are presented.