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First results from DAMA/LIBRA
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Results of the DAMA experiment at LNGS
DAMA is searching for rare processes by developing and using several kinds of radiopure scintillators: in particular, NaI(Tl), liquid Xenon and CaF2(Eu). Here more recent results are summarized with particular attention to the investigation of the WIMP annual modulation signature.
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Physics and astrophysics with dark matter particles
The DAMA/Nal set-up has investigated the annual modulation signature over seven annual cycles achieving 6.3 σ C.L. model independent evidence for the presence of a Dark Matter particle component in the galactic halo. Some of the Physics and Astrophysics topics which can be addressed by DAMA/LIBRA are also introduced
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DARK MATTER INVESTIGATIONS
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A Telescope to Detect VHE Gamma Ray Sources
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Searching for signals from the dark universe by DAMA at Gran Sasso
The DAMA set-ups are running deep underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory of the I.N.F.N.. Results on various rare event searches have been achieved. In particular, the results obtained in the investigation of the WIMP annual modulation signature obtained in four annual cycles (total statistics: 57986 kg . day) are summarized.
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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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Probing Higgs bosons with large bottom Yukawa coupling at hadron colliders
The small mass of the bottom quark, relative to its weak isospin partner, the top quark, makes the bottom an effective probe of new physics in Higgs and top sectors. We study the Higgs boson production associated with bottom quarks, p{bar p}/pp{r_arrow}{phi}b{bar b}{r_arrow}b{bar b}b{bar b}, at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC. We find that strong and model-independent constraints on the size of the {phi}-b-{bar b} coupling can be obtained for a wide range of Higgs boson masses. Their implications for the composite Higgs models with strong dynamics associated with the third family quarks (such as the top-quark condensate or top-color models with naturally large bottom Yukawa couplings), and for the supersymmetric models with large tan{beta}, are analyzed. We conclude that the Tevatron and the LHC can put stringent bounds on these models, if the {phi}b{bar b} signal is not found. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
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Vector Bosons Signals of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
We study the physics potential of the 8 TeV LHC to discover signals of extended gauge models or extra dimensional models whose low energy behavior is well represented by an SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) electroweak gauge structure. We find that with a combined integrated luminosity of 40 fb^(-1), the first new Kaluza-Klein mode of the W gauge boson can be discovered up to a mass of about 400 GeV, when produced in association with a Z boson.
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The Structure of electroweak corrections due to extended gauge symmetries
This paper studies models with extended electroweak gauge sectors of the form SU(2) x SU(2) x U(1) x [SU(2) or U(1)]. We establish the general behavior of corrections to precision electroweak observables in this class of theories and connect our results to previous work on specific models whose electroweak sectors are special cases of our extended group.
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Unitarity in Higher Dimensions and Gauge Unification
Unitarity of the 4d standard model is ensured by the conventional Higgs mechanism with a fundamental spin-0 Higgs boson, responsible for gauge boson mass-generations. On the contrary Kaluza-Klein (KK) compactification of extra spatial dimensions can geometrically realize the gauge boson mass generation without invoking a fundamental Higgs scalar. We reveal that massive gauge boson scattering in the compactified theories is unitary at low energies, and the unitarity violation is {\it delayed} to the intrinsic ultraviolet (UV) scale of the higher dimensional gauge theory. We demonstrate that this is a generic consequence of the ``geometric Higgs mechanism'' (GHM), manifested via Kaluza-Klein equivalence theorem (KK-ET). We further show that the presence of many gauge KK states below the UV cutoff scale imposes strong bounds on the highest KK level (N_KK). Applying these bounds to higher-dimensional SUSY GUTs implies that only a small number of KK states can be used to accelerate gauge coupling unification, and suggests that the GUT scale in the 5d minimal SUSY SU(5) is above 10^{14} GeV.