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On the sensitivity of the inclusive distributions in parton jets to the coherence effects in QCD gluon cascades
The KNO multiplicity distributions and properties of two-particle correlations in QCD jets are considered in the framework of the perturbative approach accounting for effects of the coherence in the soft gluon bremsstrahlung.
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Heavy charged H bosons in the case of a nonstandard Higgs sector
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QCD generators for LEP
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Proton opacity in the light of LHC diffractive data
We show that collider data on elastic pp (and $p\bar{p}$) scattering, including the LHC TOTEM data at 7 TeV, can be well described by a 3-channel eikonal model with only one Pomeron, with parameters that are naturally linked to the perturbative QCD (BFKL) framework. The proton opacity, determined in this way, is then used to account for sizeable absorptive effects. We study the recent measurements of dσ/dΔη made by the ATLAS collaboration, where they select events with large rapidity gaps Δη. We demonstrate that the absorptive corrections noticeably change both the value and the Δη dependence of the cross section. We find that our parameter-free calculation is in agreement with these ATLAS data.
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Portrait characteristics of QCD jets
In the framework of the perturbation-theory approach to the description of multihadron production in hard processes we analyze the portrait characteristics of jets (the energy and the multiplicity distribution in an isolated jet) and their influence on each other (drag effects, the azimuthal asymmetry of the jet in an aggregate). In contrast to the common but theoretically unjustified procedure of analyzing multijet events, we develop a consistent approach based on inclusive and calorimetric characteristics.
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Multiple Hadron Production in Parton {QCD} Jets
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Constraining Dark Sectors at Colliders: Beyond the Effective Theory Approach
We outline and investigate a set of benchmark simplified models with the aim of providing a minimal simple framework for an interpretation of the existing and forthcoming searches of dark matter particles at the LHC. The simplified models we consider provide microscopic QFT descriptions of interactions between the Standard Model partons and the dark sector particles mediated by the four basic types of messenger fields: scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axial-vector. Our benchmark models are characterized by four to five parameters, including the mediator mass and width, the dark matter mass and the effective coupling(s). In the gluon fusion production channel we resolve the top quark in the loop and compute full top-mass effects for scalar and pseudoscalar messengers. We show the LHC limits and reach at 8 and 14 TeV for models with all four messenger types. We also outline the complementarity of direct detection, indirect detection and LHC bounds for dark matter searches. Finally, we investigate the effects which arise from extending the simplified model to include potential new physics contributions in production. Using the scalar mediator as an example, we study the impact of heavy new physics loops which interfere with the top-mediated loops. Our computations are performed within the mcfm framework, and we provide fully flexible public Monte Carlo implementation.
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A Brief history of the stringy instanton
The arcane ADHM construction of Yang-Mills instantons can be very naturally understood in the framework of D-brane dynamics in string theory. In this point-of-view, the mysterious auxiliary symmetry of the ADHM construction arises as a gauge symmetry and the instantons are modified at short distances where string effects become important. By decoupling the stringy effects, one can recover all the instanton formalism, including the all-important volume form on the instanton moduli space. We describe applications of the instanton calculus to the AdS/CFT correspondence and higher derivative terms in the D3-brane effective action. In these applications, there is an interesting relation between instanton partition functions, the Euler characteristic of instanton moduli space and modular symmetry. We also describe how it is now possible to do multi-instanton calculations in gauge theory and we resolve an old puzzle involving the gluino condensate in supersymmetric QCD.
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On Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential and magnetic monopoles in supersymmetric QCD
Certain exact results in supersymmetric gauge theories are generated by non-perturbative effects different from instantons. In supersymmetric QCD with N colours and NF fundamental flavours we examine the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg (ADS) superpotential using controlled semi-classical analysis. We show how for NF< N ? 1 the ADS superpotential arises from monopole contributions to the path integral of the supersymmetric gauge theory compactified on 3 ? S1. These are the monopole effects leading to gaugino condensation and confinement of the low-energy SU(N?NF) supersymmetric gauge theory.
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Multiparticle Higgs and vector boson amplitudes at threshold
A bstractIn a spontaneously broken gauge theory we consider (sub)-processes in which one virtual intermediate state (it can be a Higgs or a gauge field) produces many on-shell Higgses and massive vector bosons. In the kinematic regime where all final states are produced on their mass threshold, we show how to compute iteratively all tree-level amplitudes A1→n+m$$ {\mathcal{A}}_{1\to n+ m} $$ involving an arbitrary number n of Higgs bosons and m of longitudinal vector bosons in the final state, and list the amplitudes coefficients for up to n=32 and m=32. Wefindthattheseamplitudesexhibitfactorialgrowthnotonlyinthenumberof scalar fields, but also in the number of longitudinal gauge fields, A1→n+m$$ {\mathcal{A}}_{1\to n+ m} $$ ~ n! m!. This growth is not expected to disappear at loop-level in the fixed-order perturbation theory. We conclude that at energies accessible at the next generation of hadron colliders, such as the 50-100 TeV FCC, where s^$$ \sqrt{\widehat{s}} $$ is sufficient to produce ≫1/αW of W, Z and H, perturbation theory breaks down when applied to the multiparticle electroweak production, at least near the kinematic multiparticle mass threshold where the electroweak gauge-Higgs sector becomes strongly coupled.
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ADHM and D-instantons in orbifold AdS/CFT duality
We consider ADHM instantons in product group gauge theories that arise from D3-branes located at points in the orbifold R6/Zp. At finite N we argue that the ADHM construction and collective coordinate integration measure can be deduced from the dynamics of D-instantons in the D3-brane background. For the large-N conformal field theories of this type, we compute a saddle-point approximation of the ADHM integration measure and show that it is proportional to the partition function of D-instantons in the dual AdS5×S5/Zp background, in agreement with the orbifold AdS/CFT correspondence. Matching the expected behaviour of D-instantons, we find that when S5/Zp is smooth a saddle-point solution only exists in the sector where the instanton charges in each gauge group factor are the same. However, when S5/Zp is singular, the instanton charges at large N need not be the same and the space of saddle-point solutions has a number of distinct branches which represent the possible fractionations of D-instantons at the singularity. For the theories with a type 0B dual the saddle-point solutions manifest two types of D-instantons.