118866595
Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing and b → s Transitions: Testing Lopsided SO(10) Flavor Structure in B physics
We point out that the correlation between the large atmospheric neutrino mixing and the b! s transition, if exists, comes from the lopsided flavor structure in SO(10) grand unification theory. We suggest testing the correlation by studying the deviation of SKS and S�'KS from the standard model predictions along with the constraints fromMBS and b! s in a realistic SO(10) model with lopsided flavor structure. We find a specific correlation between SKS and S�'KS that is intrinsic to the lopsided structure and discuss how to confirm or rule out this flavor pattern by the more accurate measurements of these CP violation quantities in B decay. The standard model (SM), although has passed many precision experimental tests, still has a number of out- standing problems which beg for a more fundamental the- ory. In terms of phenomenology, there are many places to test the more fundamental theory and, quite often, it is not one piece of phenomenology but a specific pattern of many pieces of phenomenology that fulfils this job. Neutrino oscillation clearly indicates the beyond SM physics in that it violates the accidental symmetry Le,µ,� of SM lepton flavor. Moreover, the tiny neutrino masses can be most naturally explained by the seesaw mech- anism (1), indicating the Majorana nature of neutrinos that leads to violation of another accidental symmetry B − L of SM at a very high scale close to the grand unification theory (GUT) scale. For this reason, study- ing neutrino oscillation in the GUT framework becomes particularly interesting. In SO(10) GUT, quarks and leptons are unified into a single 16 multiplet, yet experimental data shows that the 2-3 (generation) mixing is dramatically different in the quark and lepton sectors. While the quark mixing an- gle θ CKM is around 0.04, the lepton mixing angle θ PMNS (atmospheric mixing angle) is quite large and could be a maximum of π/4. This difference can be rather naturally explained by the lopsidedness in the 2-3 sector of mass matrices of down-type quarks and charged leptons:
19788205
CP-violating phenomenology of flavor conserving two Higgs doublet models
We analyze the constraints on CP-violating, flavor conserving two Higgs doublet models implied by measurements of Higgs boson properties at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and by the nonobservation of permanent electric dipole moments (EDMs) of molecules, atoms, and neutrons. We find that the LHC and EDM constraints are largely complementary, with the LHC studies constraining the mixing between the neutral CP-even states and the EDMs probing the effect of mixing between the CP-even and CP-odd scalars. Presently, the most stringent constraints are implied by the nonobservation of the ThO molecule EDM signal. Future improvements in the sensitivity of neutron and diamagnetic atom EDM searches could yield competitive or even more severe constraints. We analyze the quantitative impact of hadronic and nuclear theory uncertainties on the interpretation of the latter systems and conclude that these uncertainties cloud the impact of projected improvements in the corresponding experimental sensitivities.
41782509
Direct detection of baryogenesis mechanism from squark decays at LHC
We investigate the feasibility of directly detecting a generation mechanism of the cosmic baryon asymmetry by repeating the same particle physics process inside the LHC. We propose a framework with R-parity and CP violating squark decays responsible for baryogenesis, which can be embedded in supersymmetric models and is partly motivated by naturalness. We argue that the baryon number generation here is closely related to lepton charge asymmetry on the resonance. We emphasize the importance of the single charged lepton plus multijet channel in the absence of significant missing energy in search of such a scenario.
11648919
Complementarity of LHC and EDMs for exploring Higgs CP violation
A bstractWe analyze the constraints on a CP-violating, flavor conserving, two Higgs doublet model from the measurements of Higgs properties and from the search for heavy Higgs bosons at LHC, and show that the stronger limits typically come from the heavy Higgs search channels. The limits on CP violation arising from the Higgs sector measurements are complementary to those from EDM measurements. Combining all current constraints from low energy to colliders, we set generic upper bounds on the CP violating angle which parametrizes the CP odd component in the 126 GeV Higgs boson.
119264744
Effective angular momentum operators in NRQED and matching at one-loop order
We derive the effective angular momentum operator to 1/m2 and one-loop order in non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). In both dimensional and three-momentum-cutoff regularization schemes, we obtain the non-relativistic expansion for the spin and orbital angular momentum operators of the electron and photon, respectively. Our result is useful in precision calculations of the angular momentum properties for nonrelativistic QED bound states, such as atom systems.
119306471
Inert Doublet Dark Matter and Mirror/Extra Families after Xenon100
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia(Dated: May 31, 2011)It was shown recently that mirror fermions, naturally present in a number of directions for newphysics, seem to require an inert scalar doublet in order to pass the electroweak precision tests.This provides a further motivation for considering the inert doublet as a dark matter candidate.Moreover, the presence of extra families enhances the Standard Model Higgs-nucleon coupling, whichhas crucial impact on the Higgs and dark matter searches. We study the limits on the inert darkmatter mass in view of recent Xenon100 data. We nd that the mass of the inert dark mattermust lie in a very narrow window 75 1GeV while the Higgs must weigh more than 400GeV. Forthe sake of completeness we discuss the cases with fewer extra families, where the possibility ofa light Higgs boson opens up, enlarging the dark matter mass window to
119308558
Vacuum stability and Higgs diphoton decay rate in the Zee-Babu model
A bstractAlthough recent Higgs data from ATLAS and CMS are compatible with a Standard Model (SM) signal at 2σ level, both experiments see indications for an excess in the diphoton decay channel, which points to new physics beyond the SM. Given such a low Higgs mass mH ~ 125 GeV, another sign indicating the existence of new physics beyond the SM is the vacuum stability problem, i.e., the SM Higgs quartic coupling may run to negative values at a scale below the Planck scale. In this paper, we study the vacuum stability and enhanced Higgs diphoton decay rate in the Zee-Babu model, which was used to generate tiny Majorana neutrino masses at two-loop level. We find that it is rather difficult to find overlapping regions allowed by the vacuum stability and diphoton enhancement constraints. As a consequence, it is almost inevitable to introduce new ingredients into the model, in order to resolve these two issues simultaneously.
118387796
Majorana neutrino mass matrices with three texture zeros and the sterile neutrino
As a consequence of the LSND anomaly and other hints of an eV scale sterile neutrino from particle physics and cosmology, the neutrino sector of the standard model of particle physics has to be extended and the smallest extension is the (3+1) model, i.e. three active neutrinos plus one sterile one. In this work we study the neutrino mass matrix $M_\nu$ with three texture zeros in the (3+1) model, assuming all the neutrino states are of Majorana type. With the mass hierarchy between the active and sterile neutrinos as well as the smallness of the reactor neutrino mixing and active-sterile mixing, the analytical expressions can be greatly simplified. We systematically examine all the 120 texture zeros, via both analytical and numerical analysis, and find that the 100 textures with zeros in the fourth column and row of $M_\nu$ can hardly be compatible with experiments whereas 19 of the other 20 are feasible. We can foresee that the active neutrino masses are required to be around 0.01 eV and the next generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments are promising to test these textures. Many other phenomenologically meaningful predictions are also obtained. All the CP conserving (3+1) textures with three zeros are excluded by experiments.
119300744
TeV scale universal seesaw, vacuum stability and heavy Higgs
A bstractWe discuss the issue of vacuum stability of standard model by embedding it within the TeV scale left-right universal seesaw model (called SLRM in the text). This model has only two coupling parameters (λ1, λ2) in the Higgs potential and only two physical neutral Higgs bosons (h, H). We explore the range of values for (λ1, λ2) for which the light Higgs boson mass Mh = 126 GeV and the vacuum is stable for all values of the Higgs fields. Combining with the further requirement that the scalar self couplings remain perturbative till typical GUT scales of order 1016 GeV, we find (i) an upper and lower limit on the second Higgs (H) mass to be within the range: 0.4 ≤ $ \frac{{{M_H}}}{{{v_R}}} $ ≤ 0.7, where the vR is the parity breaking scale and (ii) that the heavy vector-like top, bottom and τ partner fermions (P3, N3, E3) mass have an upper bound $ {M_{{{P_3},}}}_{{{N_3},{E_3}}}\leq {v_R} $. We discuss some phenomenological aspects of the model pertaining to LHC.
119239259
Petrov type I condition and dual fluid dynamics
A bstractRecently Lysov and Strominger [arXiv:1104.5502] showed that imposing Petrov type I condition on a (p + 1)-dimensional timelike hypersurface embedded in a (p + 2)-dimensional vacuum Einstein gravity reduces the degrees of freedom in the extrinsic curvature of the hypersurface to that of a fluid on the hypersurface, and that the leading-order Einstein constraint equations in terms of the mean curvature of the embedding give the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations of the dual fluid. In this paper we show that the non-relativistic fluid dual to vacuum Einstein gravity does not satisfy the Petrov type I condition at next order, unless additional constraint such as the irrotational condition is added. In addition, we show that this procedure can be inversed to derive the non-relativistic hydrodynamics with higher order corrections through imposing the Petrov type I condition, and that some second order transport coefficients can be extracted, but the dual “Petrov type I fluid” does not match the dual fluid constructed from the geometry of vacuum Einstein gravity in the non-relativistic limit. We discuss the procedure both on the finite cutoff surface via the non-relativistic hydrodynamic expansion and on the highly accelerated surface via the near horizon expansion.
1264030
Elliptic Gaudin models and elliptic KZ equations
The Gaudin models based on the face-type elliptic quantum groups and the XYZ Gaudin models are studied. The Gaudin model Hamiltonians are constructed and are diagonalized by using the algebraic Bethe ansatz method. The corresponding face-type Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov equations and their solutions are given.