New Physics as a Background to Precision Measurements of Standard Model Radiative Corrections

Author(s):  
C. Verzegnassi
Author(s):  
Martino Borsato ◽  
Xabier Cid-Vidal ◽  
Yuhsin Tsai ◽  
Carlos Vázquez Sierra ◽  
Jose Francisco Zurita ◽  
...  

Abstract In this paper, we describe the potential of the LHCb experiment to detect Stealth physics. This refers to dynamics beyond the Standard Model that would elude searches that focus on energetic objects or precision measurements of known processes. Stealth signatures include long-lived particles and light resonances that are produced very rarely or together with overwhelming backgrounds. We will discuss why LHCb is equipped to discover this kind of physics at the Large Hadron Collider and provide examples of well-motivated theoretical models that can be probed with great detail at the experiment.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Tomalak ◽  
Pedro Machado ◽  
Vishvas Pandey ◽  
Ryan Plestid

Abstract We calculate coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering cross sections on spin-0 nuclei (e.g. 40Ar and 28Si) at energies below 100 MeV within the Standard Model and account for all effects of permille size. We provide a complete error budget including uncertainties at nuclear, nucleon, hadronic, and quark levels separately as well as perturbative error. Our calculation starts from the four-fermion effective field theory to explicitly separate heavy-particle mediated corrections (which are absorbed by Wilson coefficients) from light-particle contributions. Electrons and muons running in loops introduce a non- trivial dependence on the momentum transfer due to their relatively light masses. These same loops, and those mediated by tau leptons, break the flavor universality because of mass-dependent electromagnetic radiative corrections. Nuclear physics uncertainties significantly cancel in flavor asymmetries resulting in subpercent relative errors. We find that for low neutrino energies, the cross section can be predicted with a relative precision that is competitive with neutrino-electron scattering. We highlight potentially useful applications of such a precise cross section prediction ranging from precision tests of the Standard Model, to searches for new physics and to the monitoring of nuclear reactors.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Bresó-Pla ◽  
Adam Falkowski ◽  
Martín González-Alonso

Abstract We study the forward-backward asymmetry AFB in pp → ℓ+ℓ− at the Z peak within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We find that this observable provides per mille level constraints on the vertex corrections of the Z boson to quarks, which close a flat direction in the electroweak precision SMEFT fit. Moreover, we show that current AFB data is precise enough so that its inclusion in the fit improves significantly LEP bounds even in simple New Physics setups. This demonstrates that the LHC can compete with and complement LEP when it comes to precision measurements of the Z boson properties.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Chen ◽  
Tao Han ◽  
Shuailong Li ◽  
Shufang Su ◽  
Wei Su ◽  
...  

Abstract We explore the extent to which future precision measurements of the Standard Model (SM) observables at the proposed Z-factories and Higgs factories may have impacts on new physics beyond the Standard Model, as illustrated by studying the Type-I Two-Higgs-doublet model (Type-I 2HDM). We include the contributions from the heavy Higgs bosons at the tree-level and at the one-loop level in a full model-parameter space. While only small tan β region is strongly constrained at tree level, the large tan β region gets constrained at loop level due to tan β enhanced tri-Higgs couplings. We perform a multiple variable χ2 fit with non-alignment and non-degenerate masses. We find that the allowed parameter ranges could be tightly constrained by the future Higgs precision measurements, especially for small and large values of tan β. Indirect limits on the masses of heavy Higgs bosons can be obtained, which can be complementary to the direct searches of the heavy Higgs bosons at hadron colliders. We also find that the expected accuracies at the Z-pole and at a Higgs factory are quite complementary in constraining mass splittings of heavy Higgs bosons. The typical results are | cos(β − α)| < 0.05, |∆mΦ| < 200 GeV, and tan β ≳ 0.3. The reaches from CEPC, Fcc-ee and ILC are also compared, for both Higgs and Z-pole precision measurements. Comparing to the Type-II 2HDM, the 95% C.L. allowed range of cos(β − α) is larger, especially for large values of tan β.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Falkowski ◽  
Martín González-Alonso ◽  
Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic

Abstract Precision measurements in allowed nuclear beta decays and neutron decay are reviewed and analyzed both within the Standard Model and looking for new physics. The analysis incorporates the most recent experimental and theoretical developments. The results are interpreted in terms of Wilson coefficients describing the effective interactions between leptons and nucleons (or quarks) that are responsible for beta decay. New global fits are performed incorporating a comprehensive list of precision measurements in neutron decay, superallowed 0+→ 0+ transitions, and other nuclear decays that include, for the first time, data from mirror beta transitions. The results confirm the V-A character of the interaction and translate into updated values for Vud and gA at the 10−4 level. We also place new stringent limits on exotic couplings involving left-handed and right-handed neutrinos, which benefit significantly from the inclusion of mirror decays in the analysis.


2000 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Glenzinski ◽  
Ulrich Heintz

▪ Abstract  The standard model of electroweak interactions has had great success in describing the observed data over the past three decades. The precision of experimental measurements affords tests of the standard model at the quantum loop level beyond leading order. Despite this success, it is important to continue confronting experimental measurements with the standard model's predictions because any deviation would signal new physics. As a fundamental parameter of the standard model, the mass of the W boson, MW, is of particular importance. Aside from being an important test of the model itself, a precision measurement of MW can be used to constrain the mass of the Higgs boson, MH. In this article, we review the principal experimental techniques for determining MW and discuss their combination into a single precision MW measurement. We conclude by briefly discussing future prospects for precision measurements of the W boson mass.


2018 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Teppei Kitahara

The first result of the lattice simulation and improved perturbative calculations have pointed to a discrepancy between data on ε′k/εk and the standard-model (SM) prediction. Several new physics (NP) models can explain this discrepancy, and such NP models are likely to predict deviations of ℬ(K → πvv) from the SM predictions, which can be probed precisely in the near future by NA62 and KOTO experiments. We present correlations between ε′k/εk and ℬ(K → πvv) in two types of NP scenarios: a box dominated scenario and a Z-penguin dominated one. It is shown that different correlations are predicted and the future precision measurements of K → πvv can distinguish both scenarios.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 1940012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Chen ◽  
Jiayin Gu ◽  
Tao Han ◽  
Honglei Li ◽  
Zhen Liu ◽  
...  

Studying the properties of the Higgs boson can be an important window to explore the physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this work, we present studies on the implications of the Higgs precision measurements at future Higgs Factories. We perform a global fit to various Higgs search channels to obtain the 95% C.L. constraints on the model parameter spaces of two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) and Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). In the 2HDM, we analyze tree-level effects as well as one-loop contributions from the heavy Higgs bosons. The strong constraints on [Formula: see text], heavy Higgs masses and their mass splitting are complementary to direct search of the LHC as well as possible future [Formula: see text] pole precision measurements. For the MSSM, we study both the Higgs couplings and mass precisions. The constraints on the CP-odd Higgs mass [Formula: see text] and stop mass scale [Formula: see text] can be complementary to the direct search of HL-LHC. We also compare the sensitivity of various future Higgs factories, namely, Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Future Circular Collider (FCC)-ee and International Linear Collider (ILC).


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (17) ◽  
pp. 3473-3493 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. LARIOS ◽  
R. MARTÍNEZ ◽  
M. A. PÉREZ

We survey the flavor-changing neutral couplings (FCNC) of the top quark predicted by some extensions of the Standard Model: THDM, SUSY, Left–Right symmetric, TC2, 331, and models with extra quarks. Since the expected sensitivity of the LHC and ILC for the tcV (V = γ, g, Z) and tcH couplings is of order of a few percent, we emphasize the importance of any new physics effect that gives a prediction for these FCNC couplings within this limit. We also review the constraints imposed on these couplings from low-energy precision measurements.


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