RECENT RESULTS FROM ARGUS

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (07) ◽  
pp. 573-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
HENNING SCHRÖDER
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Storage Ring ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Fundamental Constants ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
B Decays ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Yukawa Sector

Using the ARGUS detector at the e+e− storage ring DORIS II at DESY new results on beauty and τ physics have been obtained. In particular, new measurements on fundamental constants in the Yukawa sector of the Standard Model are presented. These comprise measurements of CKM matrix elements from the study of B decays as well as determinations of properties of the τ lepton and its neutrino vτ. From semileptonic B decays ARGUS finds |Vcb|=0.050±0.008±0.007 and from [Formula: see text] mixing |Vtd|= 0.007±0.002. An analysis of the decay type τ−→π−π−π+ντ yields a τ mass of mτ=(1776.3±2.4±1.4) MeV/c2. This result also leads to an improvement of the upper limit on the [Formula: see text] at the 95% confidence level.

scholarly journals Search for π0 decays to invisible particles

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Cortina Gil ◽  
◽  
A. Kleimenova ◽  
E. Minucci ◽  
S. Padolski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Branching Ratio ◽  
Standard Model Higgs Boson ◽  
Scalar Mixing ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Model Independent

Abstract The NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS reports a study of a sample of 4 × 109 tagged π0 mesons from K+ → π+π0(γ), searching for the decay of the π0 to invisible particles. No signal is observed in excess of the expected background fluctuations. An upper limit of 4.4 × 10−9 is set on the branching ratio at 90% confidence level, improving on previous results by a factor of 60. This result can also be interpreted as a model- independent upper limit on the branching ratio for the decay K+ → π+X, where X is a particle escaping detection with mass in the range 0.110–0.155 GeV/c2 and rest lifetime greater than 100 ps. Model-dependent upper limits are obtained assuming X to be an axion-like particle with dominant fermion couplings or a dark scalar mixing with the Standard Model Higgs boson.

scholarly journals Search for dark photons in Higgs boson production via vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Sirunyan ◽  
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A. Tumasyan ◽  
W. Adam ◽  
T. Bergauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Branching Fraction ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Higgs Boson Mass ◽  
Vector Boson Fusion ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract A search is presented for a Higgs boson that is produced via vector boson fusion and that decays to an undetected particle and an isolated photon. The search is performed by the CMS collaboration at the LHC, using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 fb−1, recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016–2018. No significant excess of events above the expectation from the standard model background is found. The results are interpreted in the context of a theoretical model in which the undetected particle is a massless dark photon. An upper limit is set on the product of the cross section for production via vector boson fusion and the branching fraction for such a Higgs boson decay, as a function of the Higgs boson mass. For a Higgs boson mass of 125 GeV, assuming the standard model production rates, the observed (expected) 95% confidence level upper limit on the branching fraction is 3.5 (2.8)%. This is the first search for such decays in the vector boson fusion channel. Combination with a previous search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a Z boson results in an observed (expected) upper limit on the branching fraction of 2.9 (2.1)% at 95% confidence level.

scholarly journals A REVIEW OF THE MAGNITUDES OF THE CKM MATRIX ELEMENTS

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (31) ◽  
pp. 4945-4958 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCESCA DI LODOVICO
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Ckm Matrix Elements

Flavour mixing is described within the Standard Model by the Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements. With the increasingly higher statistics collected by many experiments, the matrix elements are measured with improved precision, allowing for more stringent tests of the Standard Model. In this paper, a review of the current status of the absolute values of the CKM matrix elements is presented, with particular attention to the latest measurements.

scholarly journals DALITZ ANALYSES: A TOOL FOR PHYSICS WITHIN AND BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (27) ◽  
pp. 5503-5512 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. PENNINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Strong Coupling Regime ◽  
Hadronic Decays ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Final States ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Final State ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Final State Interactions

Dalitz analyses are introduced as the method for studying hadronic decays. An accurate description of hadron final states is critical not only to an understanding of the strong coupling regime of QCD, but also to the precision extraction of CKM matrix elements. The relation of such final state interactions to scattering processes is discussed.

scholarly journals Positivity bounds on Minimal Flavor Violation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Quentin Bonnefoy ◽  
Emanuele Gendy ◽  
Christophe Grojean
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Minimal Flavor Violation ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
Yukawa Couplings ◽  
Flavor Violation ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Yukawa Sector

Abstract From general analyticity and unitarity requirements on the UV theory, positivity bounds on the Wilson coefficients of the dimension-8 operators composed of 4 fermions and two derivatives appearing in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory have been derived recently. We explore the fate of these bounds in the context of models endowed with a Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV) structure, models in which the flavor structure of higher dimensional operators is inherited from the one already contained in the Yukawa sector of the Standard Model Lagrangian. Our goal is to check whether the general positivity bounds translate onto bounds on the Yukawa coefficients and/or on elements of the CKM matrix. MFV fixes the coefficients of dimension-8 operators up to some multiplicative flavor-blind factors and we find that, in the most generic setup, the freedom left by those unspecified coefficients is enough as not to constrain the parameters of the renormalizable Yukawa sector. On the contrary, the latter shape the allowed region for the former. Requiring said overall coefficients to take natural $$ \mathcal{O}(1) $$ O 1 values could give rise to bounds on the Yukawa couplings. Remarkably, at leading order in an expansion in powers of the Yukawa matrices, no bounds on the CKM entries can be retrieved.

scholarly journals B FACTORY CONSTRAINTS ON ISOSINGLET DOWN QUARK MIXING, AND PREDICTIONS FOR OTHER CP-VIOLATING EXPERIMENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 2253-2262 ◽  
Author(s):  
DENNIS SILVERMAN
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Quark Model ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
Quark Contribution ◽  
Down Quark ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Multiple Regions ◽  
B Factory

In the main part of this paper we project forward to having B factory determinations of sin (2β) and sin (2α), for which we take several values. First, we use a joint χ2 analysis of CKM experiments to constrain CKM matrix elements in the standard model, and experiments on the angles a, β and γ, and on xs and null CP asymmetries. Then we invoke mixing to a new isosinglet down quark (as in E6) which induces FCNC’s that allow a Z0 mediated contribution to [Formula: see text] mixing and which brings in new phases. We then repeat the χ2 analysis, now including experimental constraints from FCNC’s as well, finding much larger ranges of prediction for the B factory. We then add projected B factory results on sin (2β) and sin (2α) and repeat both analyses. In (ρ, η) and (xs, sin (γ)) plots for the extra isosinglet down quark model, we find multiple regions that will require experiments on sin (γ) and/or xs to decide between, and possibly to effectively bound out the extra down quark contribution.

scholarly journals Search for dark matter in association with an energetic photon in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Aad ◽  
◽  
B. Abbott ◽  
D. C. Abbott ◽  
A. Abed Abud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Transverse Momentum ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Confidence Level ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Missing Transverse Momentum ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract A search for dark matter is conducted in final states containing a photon and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV. The data, collected during 2015–2018 by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. No deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model are observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits between 2.45 fb and 0.5 fb are set on the visible cross section for contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model, in different ranges of the missing transverse momentum. The results are interpreted as 95% confidence-level limits in models where weakly interacting dark-matter candidates are pair-produced via an s-channel axial-vector or vector mediator. Dark-matter candidates with masses up to 415 (580) GeV are excluded for axial-vector (vector) mediators, while the maximum excluded mass of the mediator is 1460 (1470) GeV. In addition, the results are expressed in terms of 95% confidence-level limits on the parameters of a model with an axion-like particle produced in association with a photon, and are used to constrain the coupling gaZγ of an axion-like particle to the electroweak gauge bosons.

scholarly journals K → μ+μ− as a clean probe of short-distance physics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avital Dery ◽  
Mitrajyoti Ghosh ◽  
Yuval Grossman ◽  
Stefan Schacht
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Element ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Short Distance ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Final States ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract The K → μ+μ− decay is often considered to be uninformative of fundamental theory parameters since the decay is polluted by long-distance hadronic effects. We demonstrate that, using very mild assumptions and utilizing time-dependent interference effects, ℬ(KS → μ+μ−)ℓ=0 can be experimentally determined without the need to separate the ℓ = 0 and ℓ = 1 final states. This quantity is very clean theoretically and can be used to test the Standard Model. In particular, it can be used to extract the CKM matrix element combination $$ \mid {V}_{ts}{V}_{td}\sin \left(\beta +{\beta}_s\right)\mid \approx \mid {A}^2{\lambda}^5\overline{\eta}\mid $$ ∣ V ts V td sin β + β s ∣ ≈ ∣ A 2 λ 5 η ¯ ∣ with hadronic uncertainties below 1%.

scholarly journals THE DUALIZED STANDARD MODEL AND ITS APPLICATIONS — AN INTERIM REPORT

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 2173-2203 ◽  
Author(s):  
HONG-MO CHAN ◽  
SHEUNG TSUN TSOU
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Matrix Elements ◽  
Ckm Matrix ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Perturbative Method ◽  
Ckm Matrix Elements ◽  
Physical Consequences

Based on a non-Abelian generalization of electric–magnetic duality, the Dualized Standard Model (DSM) suggests a natural explanation for exactly three generations of fermions as the "dual colour" [Formula: see text] symmetry broken in a particular manner. The resulting scheme then offers on the one hand a fermion mass hierarchy and a perturbative method for calculating the mass and mixing parameters of the Standard Model fermions, and on the other hand testable predictions for new phenomena ranging from rare meson decays to ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Calculations to one-loop order gives, at the cost of adjusting only three real parameters, values for the following quantities all (except one) in very good agreement with experiment: the quark CKM matrix elements ‖Vrs‖, the lepton CKM matrix elements ‖Urs‖, and the second generation masses mc, ms, mμ. This means, in particular, that it gives near maximal mixing Uμ3 between νμ and ντ as observed by SuperKamiokande, Kamiokande and Soudan, while keeping small the corresponding quark angles Vcb, Vts. In addition, the scheme gives (i) rough order-of-magnitude estimates for the masses of the lowest generation, (ii) predictions for low energy FCNC effects such as KL→ eμ, and (iii) a possible explanation for the long-standing puzzle of air showers beyond the GZK cut-off. All these together, however, still represent but a portion of the possible physical consequences derivable from the DSM scheme, the majority of which are yet to be explored.

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