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Radiative neutrino mass in 331 scheme
2014
We propose a new radiative mechanism for neutrino mass generation based on the 3-3-1 electroweak gauge group. Lepton number is a symmetry of the Yukawa sector but spontaneously broken in the gauge sector. As a result light Majorana masses arise from neutral gauge boson exchange at the one-loop level. In addition to the isosinglet neutrinos which may be produced at the LHC through the extended gauge boson "portals", the model contains new isosinglet quarks which can also lie at the TeV scale and provide a plethora of collider phenomena.
Relating quarks and leptons with the T7 flavour group
2015
In this letter we present a model for quarks and leptons based on T7 as flavour symmetry, predicting a canonical mass relation between charged leptons and down-type quarks proposed earlier. Neutrino masses are generated through a Type-I seesaw mechanism, with predicted correlations between the atmospheric mixing angle and neutrino masses. Compatibility with oscillation results lead to lower bounds for the lightest neutrino mass as well as for the neutrinoless double beta decay rates, even for normal neutrino mass hierarchy.
Geometrical volume effects in the computation of the slope of the isgur-wise function
1994
We use a method recently suggested for evaluating the slope of the Isgur-Wise function, at the zero-recoil point, on the lattice. The computations are performed in the quenched approximation to lattice QCD, on a $24^3 \times 48$ lattice at $\beta=6.2$, using an $O(a)$-improved action for the fermions. We have found unexpectedly large finite-volume effects in such a calculation. These volume corrections turned out to be purely geometrical and independent of the dynamics of the system. After the study of these effects on a smaller volume and for different quark masses, we give approximate expressions that account for them. Using these approximations we find $\xi^\prime(1)=-1.7 \pm 0.2$ and $\…
Non-perturbatively renormalised light quark masses from a lattice simulation with Nf=2
2006
Abstract We present results for the light quark masses obtained from a lattice QCD simulation with N f = 2 degenerate Wilson dynamical quark flavours. The sea quark masses of our lattice, of spacing a ≃ 0.06 fm , are relatively heavy, i.e., they cover the range corresponding to 0.60 ≲ M P / M V ≲ 0.75 . After implementing the non-perturbative RI-MOM method to renormalise quark masses, we obtain m ud MS ¯ ( 2 GeV ) = 4.3 ± 0.4 −0 +1.1 MeV , and m s MS ¯ ( 2 GeV ) = 101 ± 8 −0 +25 MeV , which are about 15% larger than they would be if renormalised perturbatively. In addition, we show that the above results are compatible with those obtained in a quenched simulation with a similar lattice.
New signatures of flavor violating Higgs couplings
2016
We explore several novel LHC signatures arising from quark or lepton flavor violating couplings in the Higgs sector, and we constrain such couplings using LHC data. Since the largest signals are possible in channels involving top quarks or tau leptons, we consider in particular the following flavor violating processes: (1) $pp \to thh$ (top plus di-Higgs final state) arising from a dimension six coupling of up-type quarks to three insertions of the Higgs field. We develop a search strategy for this final state and demonstrate that detection is possible at the high luminosity LHC if flavor violating top--up--Higgs couplings are not too far below the current limit. (2) $pp \to tH^0$, where $H…
Measurement of the electric charge of the top quark intt¯events
2014
We present a measurement of the electric charge of top quarks using t (t) over bar events produced in p (p) over bar collisions at the Tevatron. The analysis is based on fully reconstructed t (t) over bar pairs in lepton + jets final states. Using data corresponding to 5.3 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity, we exclude the hypothesis that the top quark has a charge of Q = -4/3e at a significance greater than 5 standard deviations. We also place an upper limit of 0.46 on the fraction of such quarks that can be present in an admixture with the standard model top quarks (Q = +2/3e) at a 95% confidence level.
On the rigidity of back-to-back top quark pairs in e^+e^- annihilation
1998
We consider the effect of gluon radiation on the energy of top/antitop quarks and on the anticollinearity of top-antitop quark pairs produced in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Our results are presented in terms of the $E_q$-dependence of the $t\bar tg$ cross section and the dependence on the cosine of the opening angle $\theta_{12}$ between top and antitop for a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{q^2}=500 GeV$. We then go on to determine mean values for the top quark's energy as well as its longitudinal and transverse projections, and for the deviation of $\sin\theta_{12}$ and $\cos\theta_{12}$ from the anticollinearity limits $\sin\theta_{12}=0$ and $\cos\theta_{12}=-1$. For a center of mass energy o…
Search for resonant top quark plus jet production intt¯+jetsevents with the ATLAS detector inppcollisions ats=7 TeV
2012
This paper presents a search for a new heavy particle produced in association with a top or antitop quark. Two models in which the new heavy particle is a color singlet or a color triplet are considered, decaying, respectively, to (t)over-barq or tq, leading to a resonance within the t(t)over-bar + jets signature. The full 2011 ATLAS pp collision data set from the LHC (4.7 fb(-1)) is used to search for t(t)over-bar events produced in association with jets, in which one of the W bosons from the top quarks decays leptonically and the other decays hadronically. The data are consistent with the Standard Model expectation, and a new particle with mass below 430 Gev for both W' boson and color tr…
Search for scalar top quark pair production in natural gauge mediated supersymmetry models with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at s=7 TeV
2012
The results of a search for pair production of the lighter scalar partners of top quarks () in 2.05 fb−1 of pp collisions at TeV using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC are reported. Scalar top quar ...
Gluon polarization ine+e−→tt¯G
1997
We calculate the linear polarization of gluons radiated off top quarks produced in e{sup +}e{sup {minus}} annihilations. For typical top quark pair production energies at the Next Linear Collider the degree of linear polarization remains close to its soft gluon value of 100{percent} over almost the whole energy spectrum of the gluon. The massive quark results are compared with the corresponding results for the massless quark case. {copyright} {ital 1997} {ital The American Physical Society}