THE "TOP PRIORITY" AT THE LHC

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (25) ◽  
pp. 4107-4124 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAO HAN
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Particle ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Top Quarks ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Great Accuracy ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
The Standard Model

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) will be a top-quark factory. With 80 million pairs of top quarks and an additional 34 million single tops produced annually at the designed high luminosity, the properties of this particle will be studied to a great accuracy. The fact that the top quark is the heaviest elementary particle in the Standard Model with a mass right at the electroweak scale makes it tempting to contemplate its role in electroweak symmetry breaking, as well as its potential as a window to unknown new physics at the TeV scale. We summarize the expectations for top-quark physics at the LHC, and outline new physics scenarios in which the top quark is crucially involved.

TOP QUARK PHYSICS, AN EXPERIMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (18) ◽  
pp. 1330027 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMANUELA BARBERIS
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Particle ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Hadron Colliders ◽  
Physics Program

An experimental review of the current status of the top quark physics program at hadron colliders is presented. Since the discovery of the top quark at the Fermilab Tevatron collider in 1995, its production and the decay have been studied with an extraordinary level of sophistication both at the Tevatron and at the Large Hadron Collider. The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with possible unique connections to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.

scholarly journals TOP QUARK PHYSICS AT THE TEVATRON

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (08) ◽  
pp. 1330013 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRÉDÉRIC DÉLIOT ◽  
YVONNE PETERS ◽  
VERONICA SORIN
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Top Quarks ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Beyond The Standard Model ◽  
Proton Antiproton ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Decay Properties ◽  
Large Program ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
New Phenomena

The heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, was discovered in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron proton–antiproton collider at Fermilab. Since its discovery, a large program was set in motion by the CDF and D0 collaborations to characterize the production and decay properties of top quarks, and investigate their potential for searches of new phenomena beyond the standard model. During the past 20 years, new methods were developed and implemented to improve the measurements and searches for new physics in the top quark sector. This paper reviews the achievements and results obtained through studies of the top quark at the Tevatron.

TOP QUARK MASS IN THE CONDENSATE MODEL AND THE POSSIBILITY OF COLORED BOSONS

1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (26) ◽  
pp. 2465-2470 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANIRBAN KUNDU ◽  
TRIPTESH DE ◽  
BINAYAK DUTTA-ROY
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Quark Mass ◽  
Quark Condensate ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Top Quark Mass ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
Composite Bosons ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Renormalization Group Approach

The dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking of the Standard Model triggered by a top quark condensate (induced by an effective strong interaction, associated with a highenergy scale, of the form [Formula: see text]) usually requires an embarrassingly large top quark mass. A suggestion that this problem could be avoided through the introduction of an additional interaction [Formula: see text] (where [Formula: see text] are SU(3)c generators á la Okubo) is analyzed using the renormalization group approach. The mass of the top quark and the concomitant emergence of colored composite bosons is discussed.

scholarly journals Fermion mass hierarchy in grand gauge-Higgs unification

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhito Maru ◽  
Yoshiki Yatagai
Keyword(s):  
Top Quark ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Boson Mass ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Mass Hierarchy ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Fermion Masses ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Mass Terms ◽  
The One

Abstract Grand gauge-Higgs unification of 5D $SU(6)$ gauge theory on an orbifold $S^1/Z_2$ is discussed. The Standard Model (SM) fermions are introduced on one of the boundaries and some massive bulk fields are also introduced so that they couple to the SM fermions through the mass terms on the boundary. Integrating out the bulk fields generates SM fermion masses with exponentially small bulk mass dependences. The SM fermion masses except for the top quark are shown to be reproduced by mild tuning of the bulk masses. The one-loop Higgs potential is calculated and it is shown that electroweak symmetry breaking occurs by introducing additional bulk fields. The Higgs boson mass is also computed.

Links between flavor and electroweak symmetry breaking

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (21) ◽  
pp. 1444007
Author(s):  
George Wei-Shu Hou
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Scale Invariance ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Fermion Mass ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Mass Generation ◽  
Gap Equation ◽  
The Standard Model

Fermion mass generation in the standard model was invented by Weinberg, while it is an old notion that strong Yukawa coupling could be the agent of electroweak symmetry breaking. Observation of the 126 GeV boson has crashed the prospects for such a heavy chiral quark doublet Q. However, the dilaton possibility can only be ruled out by confirming vector boson fusion with Run 2 data at the LHC, which starts only in 2015. We recast the [Formula: see text] condensation scenario as Fermi–Yang model v2.0. A Gap Equation has been constructed, with numerical solution demonstrating dynamical mQ generation; scale invariance of this equation may be consistent with a dilaton. Other consequences to be checked are [Formula: see text] "annihilation stars," and enhanced Bd →μ+μ-, KL →π0νν, and possibly sin ϕs. If verified in Nature, the Agent of BEH mechanism would differ from current perception, the 126 GeV boson would be the first New Physics at the LHC, and we would have enough CP violation for baryogenesis.

scholarly journals BOSONIC SEESAW AND A SOLUTION TO THE μ PROBLEM IN THE UNPARTICLE PHYSICS

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (09) ◽  
pp. 691-701
Author(s):  
TATSURU KIKUCHI
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Conformal Symmetry ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Effective Theory ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Hidden Sector ◽  
The Standard Model

Recently, conceptually new physics beyond the Standard Model has been proposed by Georgi, where a new physics sector becomes conformal and provides "unparticle" which couples to the Standard Model sector through higher dimensional operators in low energy effective theory. Among several possibilities, we focus on operators involving the unparticle and Higgs boson. Once the Higgs develops the vacuum expectation value (VEV), the conformal symmetry is broken and as a result, the mixing between the unparticle and the Higgs boson emerges. In the former part of this paper, we consider a natural realization of bosonic seesaw in the context of unparticle physics. In this framework, the negative mass squared or the electroweak symmetry breaking vacuum is achieved as a result of mass matrix diagonalization. So, the bosonic seesaw mechanism for the electroweak symmetry breaking can naturally be understood in the framework of unparticle physics. In the latter part of this paper, we consider the unparticle as a hidden sector of supersymmetry breaking, and give some phenomenological consequences of this scenario. The result shows that there is a possibility for the unparticle as a hidden sector in SUSY breaking sector, and can provide a solution to the μ problem in SUSY models.

scholarly journals ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING AND THE HIGGS BOSON: CONFRONTING THEORIES AT COLLIDERS

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (02) ◽  
pp. 1330004 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEKSANDR AZATOV ◽  
JAMISON GALLOWAY
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Experimental Tests ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Parameter Spaces ◽  
Decay Modes

In this review, we discuss methods of parsing direct information from collider experiments regarding the Higgs boson and describe simple ways in which experimental likelihoods can be consistently reconstructed and interfaced with model predictions in pertinent parameter spaces. We review prevalent scenarios for extending the electroweak symmetry breaking sector and emphasize their predictions for nonstandard Higgs phenomenology that could be observed in large hadron collider (LHC) data if naturalness is realized in particular ways. Specifically we identify how measurements of Higgs couplings can be used to imply the existence of new physics at particular scales within various contexts. The most dominant production and decay modes of the Higgs-like state observed in the early data sets have proven to be consistent with predictions of the Higgs boson of the Standard Model, though interesting directions in subdominant channels still exist and will require our careful attention in further experimental tests. Slightly anomalous rates in certain channels at the early LHC have spurred effort in model building and spectra analyses of particular theories, and we discuss these developments in some detail. Finally, we highlight some parameter spaces of interest in order to give examples of how the data surrounding the new state can most effectively be used to constrain specific models of weak scale physics.

scholarly journals TOP QUARK MEASUREMENTS

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1591-1603
Author(s):  
AURELIO JUSTE
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Large Mass ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Precision Measurements ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Tevatron Collider ◽  
Experimental Status ◽  
Quark Sector

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.

scholarly journals Is SMEFT enough?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Cohen ◽  
Nathaniel Craig ◽  
Xiaochuan Lu ◽  
Dave Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Independent Set ◽  
Higgs Doublet ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Effective Field ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Goldstone Bosons ◽  
The Standard Model

Abstract There are two canonical approaches to treating the Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory (EFT): Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), expressed in the electroweak symmetric phase utilizing the Higgs doublet, and Higgs EFT (HEFT), expressed in the broken phase utilizing the physical Higgs boson and an independent set of Goldstone bosons. HEFT encompasses SMEFT, so understanding whether SMEFT is sufficient motivates identifying UV theories that require HEFT as their low energy limit. This distinction is complicated by field redefinitions that obscure the naive differences between the two EFTs. By reformulating the question in a geometric language, we derive concrete criteria that can be used to distinguish SMEFT from HEFT independent of the chosen field basis. We highlight two cases where perturbative new physics must be matched onto HEFT: (i) the new particles derive all of their mass from electroweak symmetry breaking, and (ii) there are additional sources of electroweak symmetry breaking. Additionally, HEFT has a broader practical application: it can provide a more convergent parametrization when new physics lies near the weak scale. The ubiquity of models requiring HEFT suggests that SMEFT is not enough.

scholarly journals RECENT STUDIES OF TOP QUARK PROPERTIES AND DECAYS AT HADRON COLLIDERS

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (33) ◽  
pp. 1230036 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. CHIOCHIA
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Particle ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Hadron Colliders ◽  
Statistical Precision ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Top Quark Production ◽  
Quark Production ◽  
First Time

The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle. Observed for the first time in 1995 at the Tevatron by the CDF and D0 experiments, it has become object of several studies aimed to fully characterize its properties and decays. Precise determinations of top quark characteristics verify the internal consistency of the Standard Model (SM) and are sensitive to new physics phenomena. With the advent of the large top quark production rates generated at the LHC, top quark studies have reached unprecedented statistical precision. This review summarizes the recent measurements of top quark properties and studies of its decays performed at the LHC and Tevatron.

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