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Probing Gravitational Dark Matter
So far all evidences of dark matter (DM) come from astrophysical and cosmological observations, due to gravitational interactions of the DM. It is possible that the true DM particle in the universe joins gravitational interactions only, but nothing else. Such a Gravitational DM (GDM) may act as a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP), which is conceptually simple and attractive. In this work, we explore this direction by constructing the simplest scalar GDM particle s . It is a Z 2 odd singlet under the standard model (SM) gauge group, and naturally joins the unique dimension-4 interaction with Ricci curvature, s 2 R , where s is the dimensionless nonminimal coupling. We demonstrate that this gravitational interaction s 2 R , together with Higgs-curvature nonminimal coupling term h H y HR , induces eective couplings between 2 and SM elds, and can account for the observed DM thermal relic abundance. We analyze the annihilation cross sections of GDM particles and derive the viable parameter space for realizing the DM thermal relic density. We further study the direct/indirect detections and the collider signatures of such a scalar GDM. These turn out to be highly predictive and testable.
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Technipion Limits from LHC Higgs Searches
LHC searches for the standard model Higgs Boson in di-photon or di-tau decay modes place strong constraints on the light top-pion state predicted in technicolor models that include colored technifermions. Compared with the standard Higgs Boson, the top-pions have an enhanced production rate (largely because the technipion decay constant is smaller than the weak scale) and also enhanced branching ratios into di-photon and di-tau final states (largely due to the suppression of WW decays of the technipions). These factors combine to make the technipions more visible in both channels than a standard model Higgs would be. Hence, the recent ATLAS and CMS searches for Higgs bosons exclude the presence of technipions with masses from 110 GeV to nearly twice the top-quark mass in technicolor models that (a) include colored technifermions (b) feature topcolor dynamics and (c) have technicolor groups with three or more technicolors. For certain models, the limits also apply out to higher technipion masses or down to the minimum number of technicolors. The limits may be softened somewhat in models where extended technicolor plays a significant role in producing the top quark's mass. Additional LHC data on di-tau and di-photon final states will be extremely valuable in further exploring technicolor parameter space.
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Technicolor in the LHC Era
LHC searches for the standard model Higgs Boson in \gamma\gamma\ or \tau\tau\ decay modes place strong constraints on the light technipion state predicted in technicolor models that include colored technifermions. Compared with the standard Higgs Boson, the technipions have an enhanced production rate (largely because the technipion decay constant is smaller than the weak scale) and also enhanced branching ratios into di-photon and di-tau final states (largely due to the suppression of WW decays of the technipions). Recent ATLAS and CMS searches for Higgs bosons exclude the presence of technipions with masses from 110 GeV to nearly 2m_t in technicolor models that (a) include colored technifermions (b) feature topcolor dynamics and (c) have technicolor groups with three or more technicolors (N_{TC} > 3).
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Gravitational Interaction of Higgs Boson and Weak Boson Scattering
With the LHC discovery of a 125 GeV Higgs-like boson, we study the gravitational interaction of the Higgs boson via the unique dimension-four operator involving the Higgs doublet and scalar curvature, xi HyHR, with nonminimal coupling xi. This Higgs portal term can be transformed away in the Einstein frame and induces gauge-invariant effective interactions in the Higgs sector. We study the weak boson scattering in the Einstein frame and explicitly demonstrate the longitudinal-Goldstone boson equivalence theorem in the presence of xi coupling. With these, we derive a perturbative unitarity bound on the Higgs gravitational coupling xi in the Einstein frame, which is stronger than that inferred from the LHC Higgs measurements. We further study xi -dependent weak boson scattering cross sections at the TeV scale and propose a new LHC probe of Higgs-gravity coupling xi via weak boson scattering experiments.
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Discovering Strong Top Dynamics at the LHC
We analyze the phenomenology of the top-pion and top-Higgs states in models with strong top dynamics, and translate the present LHC searches for the Standard Model Higgs into bounds on these scalar states. We explore the possibility that the new state at a mass of approximately 125 GeV observed at the LHC is consistent with a neutral pseudoscalar top-pion state. We demonstrate that a neutral pseudoscalar top-pion can generate the diphoton signal at the observed rate. However, the region of model parameter space where this is the case does not correspond to classic topcolorassisted technicolor scenarios with degenerate charged and neutral top-pions and a top-Higgs mass of order 2mt; rather, additional isospin violation would need to be present and the top dynamics would be more akin to that in top seesaw models. Moreover, the interpretation of the new state as a top-pion can be sustained only if the ZZ (four-lepton) and WW (two-lepton plus missing energy) signatures initially observed at the 3 level decline in signicance as additional data is accrued.
118390911
Hadron collider production of massive color-octet vector bosons at next-to-leading order
This paper completes the study of the next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to massive color-octet vector boson production at the LHC and Tevatron. The massive color-octet vector bosons are generically referred to as colorons. Building on our previous calculation of quark-initiated coloron production at next-to-leading order, we use the pinch technique to investigate coloron production via gluon fusion. We demonstrate that this one-loop production amplitude is finite and find that its numerical contribution to coloron production is typically 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the contribution from quark annihilation. Coloron production via gluon fusion is therefore relevant only if the colorons are (nearly) fermiophobic. We then present extensive plots and tables of our full results for next-to-leading-order coloron production at the Tevatron and the LHC.
119368144
DARK VISCOUS FLUID DESCRIBED BY A UNIFIED EQUATION OF STATE IN COSMOLOGY
We generalize the ΛCDM model by introducing a unified EOS to describe the Universe contents modeled as dark viscous fluid, motivated by the fact that a single constant equation of state (EOS) p = -p0 (p0 > 0) reproduces the ΛCDM model exactly. This EOS describes the perfect fluid term, the dissipative effect, and the cosmological constant in a unique framework and the Friedmann equations can be analytically solved. Especially, we find a relation between the EOS parameter and the renormalizable condition of a scalar field. We develop a completely numerical method to perform a χ2 minimization to constrain the parameters in a cosmological model directly from the Friedmann equations, and employ the SNe data with the parameter $\mathcal{A}$ measured from the SDSS data to constrain our model. The result indicates that the dissipative effect is rather small in the late-time Universe.
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Analysis to the entangled states from an extended Chaplygin gas model
With considerations of the recently released WMAP year three and supernova legacy survey (SNLS) data set analysis that favors models similar to the $% \Lambda CDM$ model by possibly mild fluctuations around the vacuum energy or the cosmological constant, we extend the original Chaplygin Gas model (ECG) via modifying the Chaplygin Gas equation of state by two parameters to describe an entangled mixture state from an available matter and the rest component (which can take the cosmological constant or dark energy as in the current cosmic stage, or `curvature-like' term, or radiation component in the early epoch, as various phases) coexistence. At low redshifts, the connection of the ECG model and the Born-infeld field is set up. As paradigms, we use the data coming from the recently released SNLS for the first year and also the famous 157 type Ia supernova (Ia SNe) gold dataset to constrain the model parameters. The restricted results demonstrate clearly how large the entangled degree or the ratio between the energy density parameters of the two entangled phases being. The fact that the ECG models are consistent with the observations of Ia SNe is obtained through the redshift-luminosity distance diagram, hence the ECG can be regarded possible candidates for mimicking the current speed-up expansion of our universe.
119057266
Equation of State for Neutralino Star as a Form of Cold Dark Matter
In order to study the structure of neutralino star and dark galaxy, we consider dynamical interactions due to boson-exchange in the neutralino matter. Taking into account interactions of neutralinos with bosons, we derive the equation of state (EOS) of neutralino stars in terms of the relativistic mean field approach. Then we apply the resulting EOS to investigate properties of the neutralino star such as its density profile and mass limit. For example, if the neutralino mass is around 1 TeV, the Oppenheimer mass limit of the neutralino star is obtained as $6.06\times 10^{-7}M_\odot$, and the corresponding radius is about 7.8 mm. Actually, due to an increasing annihilation rate as indicated by our calculation, this dense state can never be realized in practice. Our results also show that the low density neutralino star may be a possible aggregation of the cold dark matter.
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Analytic fermionic Green’s functions from holography
We find exact, analytic solutions of the Dirac equation for a charged, massless fermion in the background of a charged, dilatonic black hole in AdS_5. The black hole descends from type IIB supergravity, where it describes D3-branes with equal angular momenta in two of the three independent planes of rotation orthogonal to the world-volume. The Green's function near the Fermi surface for a strongly coupled fermionic system can be extracted holographically from an exact solution of the Dirac equation at zero frequency but nonzero momentum. There can be several Fermi momenta, and they take the form k_F=q-n-1/2 (in units of the chemical potential), where q is the charge of the spinor, and n is a non-negative integer that labels the Fermi surfaces. Much as for holographic Fermi surfaces based on the Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS_5 solution, the dispersion relation of the excitations near the Fermi surface is determined by the geometry close to the horizon, and one can obtain Fermi liquid, marginal Fermi liquid, and non-Fermi liquid behaviors depending on the value of k_F.
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Spin-Rotation Coupling in the Teleparallelism Description in High Speed Rotation System
The spin-rotation coupling can be described by the torsion axial-vector and teleparallelism of general relativity. In a large scale distance, with a high rotating velocity, the tangent velocity will exceed the velocity of light. To overcome that difficulty, we choose a nonuniform and position-dependent angular velocity, e.g. $\Omega(\rho)=\frac{\Omega}{\sqrt[K]{1+(\Omega\rho/C)^{K}}}$. Based on this choice, we find that the tangent velocity will be less than the speed of light at infinity and never be meaningless. Moreover, the new rotation-spin coupling is derived. And in the case of K=2, it will be consistent with the previous result with the constant angular velocity.