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Higgs inflation from new Kähler potential
Abstract We introduce a new class of models of Higgs inflation using the superconformal approach to supergravity by modifying the Kahler geometry. Using the above-mentioned mechanism, we construct a phenomenological functional form of a new Kahler potential followed by construction of various types of models which are characterized by a superconformal symmetry breaking parameter χ . Depending on the numerical values of χ we classify the proposed models into three categories. Models with minimal coupling are identified by χ = ± 2 3 branch which are made up of shift symmetry preserving flat directions. We also propose various other models by introducing a non-minimal coupling of the inflaton field to gravity described by χ ≠ 2 3 branch. We employ all these proposed models to study the inflationary paradigm by estimating the major cosmological observables and confront them with recent observational data from WMAP9 along with other complementary data sets, as well as independently with PLANCK. We also mention an allowed range of non-minimal couplings and the Yukawa type of couplings appearing in the proposed models used for cosmological parameter estimation.
115768362
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 $(4.8 - 5.1)\times 10^{-7}$.
118378176
Brane inflation 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 by confronting with WMAP7 using CAMB. We also analyze the typical energy scale of brane inflation with our model, which resonates well with present estimates from cosmology and standard model of particle physics.
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Galileogenesis: A new cosmophenomenological zip code for reheating through R-parity violating coupling
In this paper we introduce an idea of leptogenesis scenario in higher derivative gravity induced DBI Galileon framework aka Galileog enesis in presence of one-loop R-parity violating couplings in the background of a low energy effective supergravity setup derived from higher dimensional string theory framework. We have studied extensively the detailed feature of reheating constraints and the cosmophenomenological consequences of thermal gravitino dark matter in light of PLANCK and PDG data. Finally, we have also established a direct cosmophenomenological connection among dark matter relic abundance, reheating temperature and tensor-to-scalar ratio in the context of DBI Galileon inflation.
119125522
Features of warped geometry in presence of Gauss-Bonnet coupling
A bstractWe study the role of the Gauss-Bonnet corrections and two loop higher genus contribution to the gravity action on the Kaluza-Klien modes and their interactions for different bulk fields which enable one to study various phenomenological implications of string loop corrected Gauss-Bonnet modified warped geometry model in one canvas. We have explicitly derived a phenomenological bound on the Gauss-Bonnet parameter so that the required Planck to TeV scale hierarchy can be achieved through the warp factor in the light of recently discovered Higgs like boson at 125GeV. Moreover due to the presence of small perturbative Gauss-Bonnet as well as string loop corrections we have shown that the warping solution can be obtained for both de-Sitter and anti-de-Sitter bulk which is quite distinct from Randall-Sundrum scenario. Finally we have evaluated various interactions among these bulk fields and determined the coupling parameters and the Kaluza-Klien mode masses which is crucial to understand the phenomenology of a string two loop corrected Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet warp geometry.
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Primordial blackholes and gravitational waves for an inflection-point model of inflation
Abstract In this article we provide a new closed relationship between cosmic abundance of primordial gravitational waves and primordial blackholes that originated from initial inflationary perturbations for inflection-point models of inflation where inflation occurs below the Planck scale. The current Planck constraint on tensor-to-scalar ratio, running of the spectral tilt, and from the abundance of dark matter content in the universe, we can deduce a strict bound on the current abundance of primordial blackholes to be within a range, 9.99712 × 10 − 3 Ω PBH h 2 9.99736 × 10 − 3 .
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Confinement in a Bethe-Salpeter model with logarithmic potential
We show that the covariant Bethe-Salpeter equation for two scalar quarks confined through a kernel of the form $K\ensuremath{\sim}{[{(p\ensuremath{-}{p}^{\ensuremath{'}})}^{2}]}^{\ensuremath{-}\frac{3}{2}}$ possesses a discrete spectrum: this kernel is a simple covariant generalization of the potential in configuration space proportional to $\mathrm{ln}r$. To investigate the spectrum, we adopt a new approximation scheme to convert the covariant Bethe-Salpeter equation into a three-dimensional one, the consistency of the scheme being checked by applying it to the Wick-Cutkosky equation for the covariant Coulomb problem and obtaining a Balmer-type formula. The spectrum as revealed by investigating the $S$-wave part of the resulting three-dimensional equation by semiclassical methods is essentially of the type obtained from the Schr\"odinger equation with a $\mathrm{ln}r$ potential; relativistic effects depress the energy levels.
15338380
Triviality Bound on Lightest Higgs Mass in NMSSM
We study the implication of triviality on Higgs sector in next to minimal su-persymmetric model (NMSSM) using variational field theory. It is shown that mass of the lightest Higgs boson in NMSSM has an upper bound ∼ 10 M W which is of the same order as that in standard model.
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Study of the flavor changing neutral current decay mode B ---> K gamma gamma
We study the neutral current flavour changing rare decay mode $B\to K \gamma \gamma $ within the framework of Standard Model, including the long distance contributions. It is found that these long distance contributions can larger than the short distance contribution.
10835594
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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Regge-Mueller analysis in the pionization region
Abstract We attempt to determine the sub-asymptotic terms in the pionization region of π ± -inclusive reactions by analysing the rapidity dependence of various cross-sections.