scholarly journals Exploring new possibilities to discover a light pseudo-scalar at LHCb

2022 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diogo Buarque Franzosi ◽  
Giacomo Cacciapaglia ◽  
Xabier Cid Vidal ◽  
Gabriele Ferretti ◽  
Thomas Flacke ◽  
...  

AbstractWe study the possibility of observing a light pseudo-scalar a at LHCb. We target the mass region $$2.5\,\mathrm{GeV}\lesssim m_a\lesssim 60\,\mathrm{GeV}$$ 2.5 GeV ≲ m a ≲ 60 GeV and various decay channels, some of which have never been considered before: muon pairs, tau pairs, D meson pairs, and di-photon. We interpret the results in the context of models of 4D Composite Higgs and Partial Compositeness in particular.

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Chia Cheng ◽  
Yi Chung

Abstract Composite Higgs models provide an attractive solution to the hierarchy problem. However, many realistic models suffer from tuning problems in the Higgs potential. There are often large contributions from the UV dynamics of the composite resonances to the Higgs potential, and tuning between the quadratic term and the quartic term is required to separate the electroweak breaking scale and the compositeness scale. We consider a composite Higgs model based on the SU(6)/Sp(6) coset, where an enhanced symmetry on the fermion resonances can minimize the Higgs quadratic term. Moreover, a Higgs quartic term from the collective symmetry breaking of the little Higgs mechanism can be realized by the partial compositeness couplings between elementary Standard Model fermions and the composite operators, without introducing new elementary fields beyond the Standard Model and the composite sector. The model contains two Higgs doublets, as well as several additional pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. To avoid tuning, the extra Higgs bosons are expected to be relatively light and may be probed in the future LHC runs. The deviations of the Higgs couplings and the weak gauge boson couplings also provide important tests as they are expected to be close to the current limits in this model.


2018 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Varvara Batozskaya

The measurement of the mixing-induced CP-violating phase ϕs in the B0s - B0s system is one of the key goals of the LHCb experiment. It has been measured at the LHCb collaboration exploiting the Run I data set and using several decay channels. In particular, the most recent Run I result has been obtained analyzing B0s → J/ψK+K- candidates in the mass region above the ϕ(1020) resonance. Despite the large improvements in the sensitivity of ϕs during the last decade, the precision is still limited by the available statistics.


2022 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 08002
Author(s):  
Gabriele Ferretti

I review attempts to construct models of partial compositeness from strongly coupled gauge theories. A few minimal assumptions allow one to isolate a small number of representative models. After presenting the main idea, I discuss a recent proposal to detect a light pseudo-scalar, predicted in all these models, at the LHCb detector.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 5997-6010
Author(s):  
Zhen-Jun Xiao ◽  
Wenjuan Zou

By employing the QCD factorization approach, we calculated the new physics contributions to the two-body charmless hadronic decays B → M1M2 (Mi refers to light pseudo-scalar or vector light mesons) in the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model. In this talk we present the major numerical results and phenomenological discussions about these eighty decay channels.


Author(s):  
Florian Goertz

AbstractWe review lepton flavor physics and corresponding observables in the composite Higgs framework with partial compositeness, considering ‘UV complete’ setups as well as effective and holographic approaches. This includes anarchic flavor setups, scenarios with flavor symmetries, and minimal incarnations of the see-saw mechanism that naturally predict non-negligible lepton compositeness. We focus on lepton flavor violating processes, dipole moments, and on probes of lepton flavor universality, all providing stringent tests of partial compositeness. We discuss the expected size of effects in the different approaches to lepton flavor, which will be useful to understand how a composite lepton sector could look like, given up-to-date experimental constraints.


Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 751
Author(s):  
Luciano Maiani ◽  
Antonio Davide Polosa ◽  
Verónica Riquer

The charmonium-like exotic states Y(4230) and the less known Y(4320), produced in e+e− collisions, are sources of positive parity exotic hadrons in association with photons or pseudoscalar mesons. We analyze the radiative and pion decay channels in the compact tetraquark scheme, with a method that proves to work equally well in the most studied D∗→γ/π+D decays. The decay of the vector Y into a pion and a Zc state requires a flip of charge conjugation and isospin that is described appropriately in the formalism used. Rates are found to depend on the fifth power of pion momentum, which would make the final states πZc(4020) strongly suppressed with respect to πZc(3900). The agreement with BES III data would be improved considering the πZc(4020) events to be fed by the tail of the Y(4320) resonance under the Y(4230). These results should renovate the interest in further clarifying the emerging experimental picture in this mass region.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Waqas Ahmed ◽  
Shabbar Raza ◽  
Qaisar Shafi ◽  
Cem Salih Un ◽  
Bin Zhu

Abstract We consider a class of SUSY models in which the MSSM gauge group is supplemented with a gauged U(1)B−L symmetry and a global U(1)R symmetry. This extension introduces only electrically neutral states, and the new SUSY partners effectively double the number of states in the neutralino sector that now includes a blino (from B − L) and singlino from a gauge singlet superfield. If the DM density is saturated by a LSP neutralino, the model yields quite a rich phenomenology depending on the DM composition. The LSP relic density constraint provides a lower bound on the stop and gluino masses of about 3 TeV and 4 TeV respectively, which is testable in the near future collider experiments such as HL-LHC. The chargino mass lies between 0.24 TeV and about 2.0 TeV, which can be tested based on the allowed decay channels. We also find $$ {m}_{\tilde{\tau}1}\gtrsim $$ m τ ˜ 1 ≳ 500 GeV, and $$ {m}_{\tilde{e}},{m}_{\tilde{\mu}},{m}_{{\tilde{v}}^{S,P}}\gtrsim $$ m e ˜ , m μ ˜ , m v ˜ S , P ≳ 1 TeV. We identify chargino-neutralino coannihilation processes in the mass region 0.24 TeV $$ \lesssim {m}_{{\tilde{\upchi}}_1^0}\approx {m}_{{\tilde{\upchi}}_1^{\pm }}\lesssim $$ ≲ m χ ˜ 1 0 ≈ m χ ˜ 1 ± ≲ 1.5 TeV, and also coannihilation processes involving stau, selectron, smuon and sneutrinos for masses around 1 TeV. In addition, A2 resonance solutions are found around 1 TeV, and H2 and H3 resonance solutions are also shown around 0.5 TeV and 1 TeV . Some of the A2 resonance solutions with tan β ≳ 20 may be tested by the A/H → τ+τ− LHC searches.. While the relic density constraint excludes the bino-like DM, it is still possible to realize higgsino, singlino and blino-like DM for various mass scales. We show that all these solutions will be tested in future direct detection experiments such as LUX-Zeplin and Xenon-nT.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Cacciapaglia ◽  
Martin Rosenlyst

Abstract We present a composite scotogenic model for neutrino masses, which are generated via loops of ℤ2-odd composite scalars. We consider three different approaches to the couplings of the neutrinos (including three right-handed singlets) and the composite sector: ETC-like four-fermion interactions, fundamental partial compositeness and fermion partial compositeness. In all cases, the model can feature sizeable couplings and remain viable with respect to various experimental constraints if the three ℤ2-odd right-handed neutrinos have masses between the TeV and the Planck scales. Additionally, the lightest ℤ2-odd composite scalar may play the role of Dark Matter, either via thermal freeze-out or as an asymmetric relic. This mechanism can be featured in a variety of models based on vacuum misalignment. For concreteness, we demonstrate it in a composite two-Higgs scheme based on the coset SU(6)/Sp(6).


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 1940011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Chala ◽  
Ramona Gröber ◽  
Michael Spannowsky

We review the interplay between collider searches for vector-like quarks and dark matter direct detection experiments in composite Higgs models. With focus on a future 100 TeV collider, we also extend previous analyses to improve the reach for heavy quarks in the low mass region.


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