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Diagnosing degenerate Higgs bosons at 125 GeV.
We develop diagnostic tools that would provide incontrovertible evidence for the presence of more than one Higgs boson near 125 GeV in the LHC data.
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Extending two-Higgs-doublet models by a singlet scalar field — The case for dark matter
A bstractWe extend the two-Higgs doublet models of Type I and Type II by adding a real gauge-singlet scalar S dark matter candidate (2HDMS models). We impose theoretical constraints deriving from perturbativity, stability, unitarity and correct electroweak symmetry breaking and require that the lightest CP-even Higgs, h, fit the LHC data for the ∼ 125.5 GeV state at the 68% C.L. after including existing constraints from LEP and B physics and LHC limits on the heavier Higgs bosons. We find that these models are easily consistent with the LUX and SuperCDMS limits on dark-matter-Nucleon scattering and the observed Ωh2 for S masses above about 55 GeV. At lower mS, the situation is more delicate. For points with mS in the 6-25 GeV range corresponding to the CDMS II and CRESST-II positive signal ranges, the dark-matter-Nucleon cross sections predicted by the Type I and Type II models more or less automatically fall within the 95%–99% C.L. signal region boundaries. Were it not for the LUX and SuperCDMS limits, which exclude all (almost all) such points in the case of Type I (Type II), this would be a success for the 2HDMS models. In fact, in the case of Type II there are a few points with 5.5 GeV ≲ mS ≲ 6.2 GeV that survive the LUX and SuperCDMS limits and fall within the CDMS II 99% C.L. signal region. Possibilities for dark matter to be isospin-violating in this 2HDMS context are also examined.
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Probing top charm associated production at the LHC in the R parity violating MSSM
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Influence of gauge boson mass on the staggered spin susceptibility
Based on the study of the linear response of the fermion propagator in the presence of an external scalar field, we calculate the staggered spin susceptibility in the low-energy limit in the framework of the Dyson-Schwinger approach. We analyze the effect of a finite gauge boson mass on the staggered spin susceptibility in both the Nambu phase and the Wigner phase. It is found that the gauge boson mass suppresses the staggered spin susceptibility in the Wigner phase. In addition, we try to give an explanation for why the antiferromagnetic spin correlation increases when the doping is lowered.
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Search for the electron electric dipole moment
Extensions to the Standard Model (SM) typically include new heavy particles and new mechanisms for CP violation. These underlying phenomena can give rise to electric dipole moments of the electron and other particles. Tabletop‐scale experiments used to search for these effects are described. Present experiments are already sensitive to new physics at the TeV scale, and new methods could extend this range dramatically. Such experiments could be among the first to show evidence for physics beyond the SM.
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A model study of quark-number susceptibility at finite chemical potential and temperature
Abstract In this Letter, we try to give a direct method for calculating the quark-number susceptibility (QNS) at finite chemical potential and temperature. In our approach the QNS is given by a formula which solely involves G [ μ , T ] ( p → , ω n ) (the dressed quark propagator at finite chemical potential μ and temperature T). From this the QNS at finite chemical potential and temperature is calculated in the framework of rainbow-ladder approximation of the Dyson–Schwinger approach using the meromorphic quark propagator proposed in [M.S. Bhagwat, M.A. Pichowsky, P.C. Tandy, Phys. Rev. D 67 (2003) 054019]. It is found that the QNS χ ( μ , T ) has a singularity when μ comes close to a critical value μ 0 , and the susceptibility as a function of T becomes discontinuous at some values of T when μ is near μ 0 . At high temperature the QNS approaches the ideal quark gas result, while at very small temperature ( T 40 MeV ) the susceptibility equals zero. For all values of μ we studied, the susceptibility shows a rapid increase near T = 120 – 140 MeV , which could be regarded as the signal of a crossover.
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INFLUENCE OF A UNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELD ON DYNAMICAL CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING IN QED3
We study dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (DCSB) in an effective QED3 theory of d-wave high temperature cuprate superconductors under a uniform magnetic field. At zero temperature, the external magnetic field induces a mixed state by generating vortices in the condensate of charged holons. The growing magnetic field suppresses the superfluid density and thus reduces the gauge field mass which is opened via the Anderson–Higgs mechanism. By numerically solving the Dyson–Schwinger gap equation, we show that the massless fermions acquires a dynamical gap through DCSB mechanism when the magnetic field strength H is above a critical value Hc and the fermion flavors N is below a critical value Nc. Further, it is found that both Nc and the dynamical fermion gap increase as the magnetic field H grows. It is expected that our result can be tested in phenomena in high temperature cuprate superconductors.