scholarly journals FCC-ee: physics motivations

2022 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophe Grojean

AbstractLearning from the first twelve years of LHC running, this essay offers a brief journey through the FCC-ee physics programme from refined precision measurements to probes of new physics, highlighting some of the commentaries between the different runs of FCC-ee at various energies as well as the synergies between the two FCC-ee and FCC-hh collider stages.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Heurtier ◽  
Hao-Lin Li ◽  
Huayang Song ◽  
Shufang Su ◽  
Wei Su ◽  
...  

AbstractThe Higgs sector in neutral naturalness models provides a portal to the hidden sectors, and thus measurements of Higgs couplings at current and future colliders play a central role in constraining the parameter space of the model. We investigate a class of neutral naturalness models, in which the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Goldstone boson from the universal SO(N)/SO(N −1) coset structure. Integrating out the radial mode from the spontaneous global symmetry breaking, we obtain various dimension-six operators in the Standard Model effective field theory, and calculate the low energy Higgs effective potential with radiative corrections included. We perform aχ2fit to the Higgs coupling precision measurements at current and future colliders and show that the new physics scale could be explored up to 2.3 (2.4) TeV without (with) the Higgs invisible decay channels at future Higgs factories. The limits are comparable to the indirect constraints obtained via electroweak precision measurements.


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860001
Author(s):  
J. P. Ochoa-Ricoux

Nuclear reactors provide an excellent environment for studying neutrinos and continue to play a critical role in unveiling the secrets of these elusive particles. A rich experimental program with reactor antineutrinos is currently ongoing, and leads the way in precision measurements of several oscillation parameters and in searching for new physics, such as the existence of light sterile neutrinos. Ongoing experiments have also been able to measure the flux and spectral shape of reactor antineutrinos with unprecedented statistics and as a function of core fuel evolution, uncovering anomalies that will lead to new physics and/or to an improved understanding of antineutrino emission from nuclear reactors. The future looks bright, with an aggressive program of next generation reactor neutrino experiments that will go after some of the biggest open questions in the field. This includes the JUNO experiment, the largest liquid scintillator detector ever constructed which will push the limits of this detection technology.


2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 1860028
Author(s):  
Wojciech Krzemien

The most recent results from the KLOE experiment are presented, covering: the measurement of the running fine-structure constant [Formula: see text], the Dalitz plot measurement of [Formula: see text], the search of a U boson, tests of discrete symmetries and quantum coherence. The KLOE-2 Collaboration will take data until mid 2018 aiming to collect 5 fb1 increasing the data set, in order to produce new precision measurements and continue studies of fundamental symmetries and New Physics.


1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (26) ◽  
pp. 3803-3815 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZENRŌ HIOKI

Several different effects in electroweak quantum corrections are explored separately through the latest data on the weak-boson masses. The leading-log approximation, the improved-Born approximation and the nondecoupling top-quark effects are studied without depending on the recent CDF data about mt, and the results are given in a form independent, of the Higgs mass. On the other hand, the bosonic and the nondecoupling Higgs effects are examined by fully taking account of those CDF data. It is emphasized that future precision measurements of MW and mt are considerably significant not only for further studies of the electroweak theory at higher confidence level but also for new-physics searches beyond it.


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.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (06) ◽  
pp. 1541004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh V. Kotwal ◽  
Heidi Schellman ◽  
Jadranka Sekaric

We summarize an extensive Tevatron (1984–2011) electroweak physics program that involves a variety of W and Z boson precision measurements. The relevance of these studies using single and associated gauge boson production to our understanding of the electroweak sector, quantum chromodynamics and searches for new physics is emphasized. We discuss the importance of the W boson mass measurement, the W/Z boson distributions and asymmetries, and diboson studies. We highlight the recent Tevatron measurements and prospects for the final Tevatron measurements.


2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1591-1603
Author(s):  
AURELIO JUSTE

Ten years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider, we still know little about the top quark. Its large mass suggests it may play a key role in the mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (EWSB), or open a window of sensitivity to new physics related to EWSB and preferentially coupled to it. To determine whether this is the case, precision measurements of top quark properties are necessary. The high statistics samples being collected by the Tevatron experiments during Run II start to incisively probe the top quark sector. This report summarizes the experimental status of the top quark, focusing in particular on the recent measurements from the Tevatron Run II.


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.


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