scholarly journals Multi-track displaced vertices at B-factories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mason Acevedo ◽  
Albany Blackburn ◽  
Nikita Blinov ◽  
Brian Shuve ◽  
Mavis Stone
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Higgs Bosons ◽  
Approximate Symmetries ◽  
Low Background ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Displaced Vertex ◽  
Theory Framework

Abstract We propose a program at B-factories of inclusive, multi-track displaced vertex searches, which are expected to be low background and give excellent sensitivity to non-minimal hidden sectors. Multi-particle hidden sectors often include long-lived particles (LLPs) which result from approximate symmetries, and we classify the possible decays of GeV-scale LLPs in an effective field theory framework. Considering several LLP production modes, including dark photons and dark Higgs bosons, we study the sensitivity of LLP searches with different number of displaced vertices per event and track requirements per displaced vertex, showing that inclusive searches can have sensitivity to a large range of hidden sector models that are otherwise unconstrained by current or planned searches.

scholarly journals Vacuum Constraints for Realistic Strongly Coupled Heterotic M-Theories

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 723
Author(s):  
Burt Ovrut
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Vector Bundle ◽  
Domain Wall ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Anomaly Cancellation ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
M Theory ◽  
Bulk Space

The compactification from the 11-dimensional Horava-Witten orbifold to 5-dimensional heterotic M-theory on a Schoen Calabi-Yau threefold is reviewed, as is the specific S U ( 4 ) vector bundle leading to the “heterotic standard model” in the observable sector. A generic formalism for a consistent hidden sector gauge bundle, within the context of strongly coupled heterotic M-theory, is presented. Anomaly cancellation and the associated bulk space 5-branes are discussed in this context. The further compactification to a 4-dimensional effective field theory on a linearized BPS double domain wall is then presented to order κ 11 4 / 3 . Specifically, the generic constraints required for anomaly cancellation and by the linearized domain wall solution, restrictions imposed by the vanishing of the D-terms and, finally, the constraints imposed by the necessity for positive, perturbative squared gauge couplings to this order are presented in detail.

scholarly journals NON-ABELIAN FLAT DIRECTIONS IN A MINIMAL SUPERSTRING STANDARD MODEL

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (18) ◽  
pp. 1191-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. CLEAVER ◽  
D. V. NANOPOULOS ◽  
J. W. WALKER ◽  
A. E. FARAGGI
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Heterotic String ◽  
Charged Matter ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
Abelian Fields ◽  
String Models

Recently, by studying exact flat directions of non-Abelian singlet fields, we demonstrated the existence of free fermionic heterotic-string models in which the SU (3)C× SU (2)L×U(1)Y-charged matter spectrum reduces to that of the MSSM in the effective field theory. In this letter we generalize the analysis to include vevs of non-Abelian fields. We find MSSM-producing, exact non-Abelian flat directions, which are the first such examples in the literature. We examine the possibility that hidden sector condensates lift the flat directions.

scholarly journals Three and four harmonically trapped particles in an effective-field-theory framework

2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rotureau ◽  
I. Stetcu ◽  
B. R. Barrett ◽  
M. C. Birse ◽  
U. van Kolck
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Trapped Particles ◽  
Theory Framework

scholarly journals Probing the nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix at the CEPC

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (33) ◽  
pp. 1644006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Antusch ◽  
Oliver Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Neutrino Masses ◽  
Performance Parameters ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mixing Matrix ◽  
Theory Framework

The nonunitarity of the leptonic mixing matrix is a generic signal of new physics aiming at the generation of the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the Minimal Unitarity Violation (MUV) scheme, an effective field theory framework which represents the class of extensions of the Standard Model (SM) by heavy neutral leptons, and discuss the present bounds on the nonunitarity parameters as well as estimates for the sensitivity of the CEPC, based on the performance parameters from the preCDR.

scholarly journals Long-lived sterile neutrinos at the LHC in effective field theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordy de Vries ◽  
Herbert K. Dreiner ◽  
Julian Y. Günther ◽  
Zeren Simon Wang ◽  
Guanghui Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Neutrino Mixing ◽  
Weak Current ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
Target Experiment ◽  
Displaced Vertex

Abstract We study the prospects of a displaced-vertex search of sterile neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the framework of the neutrino-extended Standard Model Effective Field Theory (νSMEFT). The production and decay of sterile neutrinos can proceed via the standard active-sterile neutrino mixing in the weak current, as well as through higher-dimensional operators arising from decoupled new physics. If sterile neutrinos are long-lived, their decay can lead to displaced vertices which can be reconstructed. We investigate the search sensitivities for the ATLAS/CMS detector, the future far-detector experiments: AL3X, ANUBIS, CODEX-b, FASER, MATHUSLA, and MoEDAL-MAPP, and at the proposed fixed-target experiment SHiP. We study scenarios where sterile neutrinos are predominantly produced via rare charm and bottom mesons decays through minimal mixing and/or dimension-six operators in the νSMEFT Lagrangian. We perform simulations to determine the potential reach of high-luminosity LHC experiments in probing the EFT operators, finding that these experiments are very competitive with other searches.

scholarly journals Effective field theory for hydrodynamics without boosts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jácome Armas ◽  
Akash Jain
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Effective Field Theory ◽  
Fluid Velocity ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Covariant Formulation ◽  
Diffusion Mode ◽  
Sound Modes ◽  
Shear Modes ◽  
Theory Framework

We formulate the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory of hydrodynamics without boost symmetry. This includes a spacetime covariant formulation of classical hydrodynamics without boosts with an additional conserved particle/charge current coupled to Aristotelian background sources. We find that, up to first order in derivatives, the theory is characterised by the thermodynamic equation of state and a total of 29 independent transport coefficients, in particular, 3 hydrostatic, 9 non-hydrostatic non-dissipative, and 17 dissipative. Furthermore, we study the spectrum of linearised fluctuations around anisotropic equilibrium states with non-vanishing fluid velocity. This analysis reveals a pair of sound modes that propagate at different speeds along and opposite to the fluid flow, one charge diffusion mode, and two distinct shear modes along and perpendicular to the fluid velocity. We present these results in a new hydrodynamic frame that is linearly stable irrespective of the boost symmetry in place. This provides a unified covariant stable approach for simultaneously treating Lorentzian, Galilean, and Lifshitz fluids within an effective field theory framework and sets the stage for future studies of non-relativistic intertwined patterns of symmetry breaking.

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