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Stable bound states of asymmetric dark matter
The simplest renormalizable effective field theories with asymmetric dark matter bound states contain 
two additional gauge singlet fields, one being the dark matter and the other a mediator particle that the dark 
matter annihilates into. We examine the physics of one such model with a Dirac fermion as the dark matter 
and a real scalar mediator. For a range of parameters the Yukawa coupling of the dark matter to the mediator 
gives rise to stable asymmetric dark matter bound states. We derive properties of the bound states including 
nuggets formed from N ≫ 1 dark matter particles. We also consider the formation of bound states in the 
early Universe and direct detection of dark matter bound states. Many of our results also hold for symmetric 
dark matter.
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
30742433
Yukawa bound states of a large number of fermions
A bstractWe consider the bound state problem for a field theory that contains a Dirac fermion χ that Yukawa couples to a (light) scalar field ϕ. We are interested in bound states with a large number N of χ particles. A Fermi gas model is used to numerically determine the dependence of the radius R of these bound states on N and also the dependence of the binding energy on N. Since scalar interactions with relativistic χ’s are suppressed two regimes emerge. For modest values of N the state is composed of non-relativistic χ particles. In this regime as N increases R decreases. Eventually the core region becomes relativistic and the size of the state starts to increase as N increases. As a result, for fixed Yukawa coupling and χ mass, there is a minimum sized state that occurs roughly at the value of N where the core region first becomes relativistic. We also compute an elastic scattering form factor that can be relevant for direct detection if the dark matter is composed of such χ particles.
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.
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.
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.
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Free-field realization of the osp(2n/2n) current algebra
The osp(2n|2n) current algebra for a generic positive integer n at general level k is investigated. Its free-field representation and corresponding energy-momentum tensor are constructed. The associated screening currents of the first kind are also presented.
15207037
Global structure of curves from generalized unitarity cut of three-loop diagrams
A bstractThis paper studies the global structure of algebraic curves defined by generalized unitarity cut of four-dimensional three-loop diagrams with eleven propagators. The global structure is a topological invariant that is characterized by the geometric genus of the algebraic curve. We use the Riemann-Hurwitz formula to compute the geometric genus of algebraic curves with the help of techniques involving convex hull polytopes and numerical algebraic geometry. Some interesting properties of genus for arbitrary loop orders are also explored where computing the genus serves as an initial step for integral or integrand reduction of three-loop amplitudes via an algebraic geometric approach.
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A naturally light sterile neutrino in an asymmetric dark matter model
A bstractA recently proposed asymmetric mirror dark matter model where the mirror sector is connected with the visible one by a right-handed neutrino portal, is shown to lead naturally to a 3+1 active-sterile neutrino spectrum, if the portal consists only of two right-handed neutrinos. At tree level the model has four massless neutrino states, three (predominately) active and one sterile. The active neutrinos pick up tiny masses via the minimal radiative inverse seesaw mechanism at one-loop level. The loop effects also generate the large solar and atmospheric mixings, as well as the observed reactor mixing for certain ranges of parameters of the model. The dominant contribution to the sterile neutrino mass (~eV) arises from the gravitationally induced dimension-5 operators. Generating active-sterile mixing requires a two Higgs doublet extension of the standard model and a small mixing between the ordinary and mirror Higgs fields, which occurs naturally in mirror models.
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Phase Structure of Strange Matter in a Non-topological Soliton Model
A non-topological soliton model with strange quarks is suggested to investigate the phase structure of strange matter. The results are qualitatively in agreement with that obtained by MIT bag model provided the ratio of coupling constants of different quarks to soliton scalar field chi(sigma) = g(s sigma)/g(q sigma) larger than a critical value chi(c) similar to 0.86, but as chi(sigma) gets smaller than chi(c), the phase structure may change.
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Quantum Affine Lie-Algebras, Casimir Invariants, and Diagonalization of the Braid Generator
Let Uq(G) be an infinite‐dimensional quantum affine Lie algebra. A family of central elements or Casimir invariants are constructed and their eigenvalues computed in any integrable irreducible highest weight representation. These eigenvalue formulas are shown to be absolutely convergent when the deformation parameter q is such that ‖q‖≳1. It is proven that the universal R‐matrix R of Uq(G) satisfies the celebrated conjugation relation R°=TR with T the usual twist map. As applications, the braid generator is shown to be diagonalizable on arbitrary tensor product modules of integrable irreducible highest weight Uq(G)‐module and a spectral decomposition formula for the braid generator is obtained which is the generalization of Reshetikhin’s and Gould’s forms to the present affine case. Casimir invariants acting on a specified module are also constructed and their eigenvalues, again absolutely convergent for ‖q‖≳1, computed by means of the spectral decomposition formula.