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On the evaluation of a certain class of Feynman diagrams in x-space: Sunrise-type topologies at any loop order
2005
We review recently developed new powerful techniques to compute a class of Feynman diagrams at any loop order, known as sunrise-type diagrams. These sunrise-type topologies have many important applications in many different fields of physics and we believe it to be timely to discuss their evaluation from a unified point of view. The method is based on the analysis of the diagrams directly in configuration space which, in the case of the sunrise-type diagrams and diagrams related to them, leads to enormous simplifications as compared to the traditional evaluation of loops in momentum space. We present explicit formulae for their analytical evaluation for arbitrary mass configurations and arb…
Probing the Type I Seesaw mechanism with displaced vertices at the LHC
2015
The observation of Higgs decays into heavy neutrinos would be strong evidence for new physics associated to neutrino masses. In this work we propose a search for such decays within the Type I seesaw model in the few-GeV mass range via displaced vertices. Using 300 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, at 13 TeV, we explore the region of parameter space where such decays are measurable. We show that, after imposing pseudorapidity cuts, there still exists a region where the number of events is larger than $\mathcal{O}(10)$. We also find that conventional triggers can greatly limit the sensitivity of our signal, so we display several relevant kinematical distributions which might aid in the opti…
(g−2)e,μ in an extended inverse type-III seesaw model
2021
There has been a longstanding discrepancy between the experimental measurements of the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments and their predicted values in the Standard Model. This is particularly relevant in the case of the muon $g\ensuremath{-}2$, which has attracted a remarkable interest in the community after the long-awaited announcement of the first results by the Muon $g\ensuremath{-}2$ collaboration at Fermilab, which confirms a previous measurement by the E821 experiment at Brookhaven and enlarges the statistical significance of the discrepancy, now at $4.2\ensuremath{\sigma}$. In this paper we consider an extension of the inverse type-III seesaw with a pair of vectorlike lep…
A CMB search for the neutrino mass mechanism and its relation to the Hubble tension
2020
AbstractThe majoron, a pseudo-Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of global lepton number, is a generic feature of many models intended to explain the origin of the small neutrino masses. In this work, we investigate potential imprints in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) arising from massive majorons, should they thermalize with neutrinos after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis via inverse neutrino decays. We show that measurements of the CMB are currently sensitive to neutrino-majoron couplings as small as $$\lambda \sim 10^{-13}$$λ∼10-13, which if interpreted in the context of the type-I seesaw mechanism correspond to a lepton number symmetry breaking scale $$v_L \sim {\math…
Charged Higgs signals in tt¯H searches
2017
New scalars from an extended Higgs sector could have weak scale masses and still have escaped detection. In a type I two Higgs doublet model, for instance, even the charged Higgs can be lighter than the top quark. Because electroweak production of these scalars is modest, the greatest opportunity for their detection might come from rare top decays. For mass hierarchies of the type ${m}_{t}g{m}_{{H}^{+}}g{m}_{{A}^{0},{H}^{0}}$, the natural signal can arise from top quark pair production, followed by the decay chain $t\ensuremath{\rightarrow}b{H}^{+}$, ${H}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{W}^{+(*)}{\ensuremath{\phi}}^{0}$, ${\ensuremath{\phi}}^{0}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}b\overline{b},{\ensuremath…
On Weyl-electric and Weyl-magnetic spacetimes
2002
The concepts of purely electric and purely magnetic Weyl tensors are extended and the intrinsic characterization of the new wider classes is given. The solutions v to the equations W(v; v) = 0 or *W(v; v) = 0 are determined for every Petrov type, and the new electric or magnetic type I cases are studied in more detail.
Rainich theory for type D aligned Einstein–Maxwell solutions
2007
The original Rainich theory for the non-null Einstein-Maxwell solutions consists of a set of algebraic conditions and the Rainich (differential) equation. We show here that the subclass of type D aligned solutions can be characterized just by algebraic restrictions.
On the Weyl transverse frames in type I spacetimes
2004
We apply a covariant and generic procedure to obtain explicit expressions of the transverse frames that a type I spacetime admits in terms of an arbitrary initial frame. We also present a simple and general algorithm to obtain the Weyl scalars $\Psi_2^T$, $\Psi_0^T$ and $\Psi_4^T$ associated with these transverse frames. In both cases it is only necessary to choose a particular root of a cubic expression.
Hydrodynamic synchronization of pairs of puller type magnetotactic bacteria in a high frequency rotating magnetic field.
2019
Ensembles of magnetotactic bacteria are known to interact hydrodynamically and form swarms under the influence of external magnetic fields. We describe the synchronization of puller type magnetotactic bacteria in a rotating magnetic field by representing the bacteria as hydrodynamic force dipoles. Numerical simulations show that at moderate values of the hydrodynamic interaction parameter large ensembles of asynchronously rotating bacteria randomly eject propagating doublets of synchronized bacteria. We quantitatively analyze the dynamics of the doublets and show that an important role in the formation of these propagating structures is played by the parameters characterizing the possible t…
Semitoroidal detector configuration for large (well-type) Ge(Li) detectors
1972
Abstract A “semitoroidal” detector configuration intended for making large Ge(Li) detectors with approximately homogeneous electric fields is described in detail. Test measurements have been carried out with a relatively small semitoroidal detector. The performance of the semitoroidal detector having a volume of more than 150 cm 3 is discussed.