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Higgs gravitational interaction, weak boson scattering, and Higgs inflation in Jordan and Einstein frames
We study gravitational interaction of Higgs boson through the unique dimension-4 operator xi(HHR)-H-dagger, with H the Higgs doublet and R the Ricci scalar curvature. We analyze the effect of this dimensionless nonminimal coupling xi on weak gauge boson scattering in both Jordan and Einstein frames. We explicitly establish the longitudinal-Goldstone equivalence theorem with nonzero xi coupling in both frames, and analyze the unitarity constraints. We study the xi-induced weak boson scattering cross sections at O(1 30) TeV scales, and propose to probe the Higgs-gravity coupling via weak boson scattering experiments at the LHC (14 TeV) and the next generation pp colliders (50 100 TeV). We further extend our study to Higgs inflation, and quantitatively derive the perturbative unitarity bounds via coupled channel analysis, under large field background at the inflation scale. We analyze the unitarity constraints on the parameter space in both the conventional Higgs inflation and the improved models in light of the recent BICEP2 data.
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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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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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Strongly First-Order Electroweak Phase Transition and Classical Scale Invariance
In this work, we examine the possibility of realizing a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition within the minimal classically scale invariant extension of the standard model (SM), previously proposed and analyzed as a potential solution to the hierarchy problem. By introducing one complex singlet scalar and three right-handed Majorana neutrinos, the scenario was successfully capable of achieving a radiative breaking of the electroweak symmetry (Coleman-Weinberg Mechanism), inducing non-zero masses for the SM neutrinos (seesaw mechanism), presenting a pseudoscalar dark matter candidate, and predicting the existence of a second $CP$-even boson in addition to the 125 GeV scalar. We construct the full finite-temperature one-loop effective potential of the model, including the resummed thermal daisy loops, and demonstrate that finite-temperature effects induce a first-order electroweak phase transition. Requiring the thermally-driven first-order phase transition to be sufficiently strong further constrains the model's parameter space; in particular, an $\mathcal O(0.01)$ fraction of the dark matter in the universe may be simultaneously accommodated with a strongly first-order electroweak phase transition. Moreover, such a phase transition disfavors right-handed Majorana neutrino masses above several hundreds of GeV, confines the pseudoscalar dark matter masses to $\sim 1$-2 TeV, predicts the mass of the second $CP$-even scalar to be $\sim 100$-300 GeV, and requires the mixing angle between the $CP$-even components of the SM doublet and the complex singlet to lie within the range $0.2 \lesssim \sin\omega \lesssim 0.4$. The obtained results are displayed in comprehensive exclusion plots, identifying the viable regions of the parameter space. Many of these predictions lie within the reach of the next LHC run.
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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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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.
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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.
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Running Spectral Index from Noncommutativty
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Analytic quantum critical points from holography
We find exact, analytic solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field in the background of the extremal Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS_5 black hole. The Green's function near a quantum critical point for a strongly coupled system can be extracted holographically from an exact solution for the scalar at zero frequency (\omega), but arbitrary momentum (k), mass, and charge. By examining the Green's function near \omega=0, there are two types of instability: the first one is triggered by a zero mode, and gives a hybridized critical point; the second one is triggered by the instability of the IR geometry, and gives a bifurcating critical point. The two types of instability can happen at the same time, and give a mixed critical point. Without tuning an extra parameter, only the second type of instability can happen at k=0. At the critical point with the superfluid velocity, the scalar can develop either type of instability, depending on the parameters. The zero mode can also be obtained by tuning a double trace deformation. The phase diagrams can be analytically drawn.
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The spin of holographic electrons at nonzero density and temperature
A bstractWe study the Green’s function of a gauge invariant fermionic operator in a strongly coupled field theory at nonzero temperature and density using a dual gravity description. The gravity model contains a charged black hole in four dimensional anti-de Sitter space and probe charged fermions. In particular, we consider the effects of the spin of these probe fermions on the properties of the Green’s function. There exists a spin-orbit coupling between the spin of an electron and the electric field of a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. On the field theory side, this coupling leads to a Rashba like dispersion relation. We also study the effects of spin on the damping term in the dispersion relation by considering how the spin affects the placement of the fermionic quasinormal modes in the complex frequency plane in a WKB limit. An appendix contains some exact solutions of the Dirac equation in terms of Heun polynomials.
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Tunnelling Effect and Hawking Radiation from a Vaidya Black Hole
In this paper, we extend Parikh’ work to the non-stationary black hole. As an example of the non-stationary black hole, we study the tunnelling effect and Hawking radiation from a Vaidya black hole whose Bondi mass is identical to its mass parameter. We view Hawking radiation as a tunnelling process across the event horizon and calculate the tunnelling probability. We find that the result is different from Parikh’s work because drH dv is the function of Bondi mass m (v). PACS number(s): 04.70.Dy