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.

THE ONE-PARAMETER MODEL AT LHC

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (02) ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
JAMES MAXIN ◽  
VAN E. MAYES ◽  
D. V. NANOPOULOS
Keyword(s):  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Susy Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Brane Model ◽  
String Compactifications ◽  
The One ◽  
Breaking Scale

No-scale supergravity is a framework where it is possible to naturally explain radiative electroweak symmetry breaking and correlate it with the effective SUSY breaking scale. Many string compactifications have a classical no-scale structure, resulting in a one-parameter model (OPM) for the supersymmetry breaking soft terms, which results in a highly constrained subset of mSUGRA. We investigate the allowed supersymmetry parameter space for a generic one-parameter model taking into account the most recent experimental constraints. We also survey the possible signatures which may be observable at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Finally, we compare collider signatures of OPM to those from a model with non-universal soft terms, in particular those of an intersecting D6-brane model.

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.

COLOR-SEXTET QUARK PRODUCTIONS AT HADRON COLLIDERS

1992 ◽  
Vol 07 (12) ◽  
pp. 2679-2693 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIDEKAZU TANAKA ◽  
ISAMU WATANABE
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Production Cross ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Hadron Colliders ◽  
Dynamical Mechanism

Production cross-sections of color-sextet quarks at hadron colliders are estimated in various energies and the results are compared with cross-sections of the conventional top quark productions. Particular attentions are paid for a model recently proposed in Ref. 2 in order to explain the dynamical mechanism of the electroweak symmetry breaking. The model may be tested at SSC and LHC if the sextet quarks dominantly decay semileptonically through effective fourfermion interactions, or if the sextet quarks have long enough lifetime to reach the detectors.

scholarly journals LANDSCAPE IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENDED HIGGS MODELS

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (22) ◽  
pp. 3509-3523 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. CLAVELLI
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Higgs Sector ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Degenerate Electron ◽  
Points Of View

From several points of view, it is strongly suggested that the current universe is unstable and will ultimately decay to one that is exactly supersymmetric (SUSY). The possibility that atoms and molecules form in this future universe requires that the degenerate electron/selectron mass is non-zero and hence that electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) survives the phase transition to exact SUSY. However, the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and several of its extensions have no EWSB in the SUSY limit. Among the extended Higgs models that have been discussed, one stands out in this regard. The Higgs sector that is revealed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will therefore have implications for the future universe. We also address the question as to whether the transition to the exact SUSY phase with EWSB is exothermic.

scholarly journals VARIOUS MODELS MIMICKING THE SM HIGGS BOSON

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (28) ◽  
pp. 1230030 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNG CHANG ◽  
KINGMAN CHEUNG ◽  
PO-YAN TSENG ◽  
TZU-CHIANG YUAN
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Vector Boson ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Production Mechanism ◽  
The Standard Model

The new particle around 125 GeV observed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is almost consistent with the standard model (SM) Higgs boson, except that the diphoton decay mode may be excessive. We summarize a number of possibilities. While at the LHC the dominant production mechanism for the Higgs boson of SM and some other extensions is via the gluon fusion process, the alternative vector-boson fusion (VBF) is more sensitive to electroweak symmetry breaking. Using the well-known dijet-tagging technique to single out the VBF mechanism, we investigate potential of VBF to discriminate a number of models suggested to give an enhanced inclusive diphoton production rate.

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR NEW PHYSICS AT FUTURE ACCELERATORS

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 5184-5192 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICCARDO BARBIERI
Keyword(s):  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Linear Collider ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
The Status

I overview the status of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking problem, paying special attention to the possible signals of new physics at the Large Hadron Collider (and at a Linear Collider).

scholarly journals PROSPECTS FOR HIGGS BOSON SEARCHES AT THE LHC

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (32) ◽  
pp. 5093-5115 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARL JAKOBS ◽  
MARKUS SCHUMACHER
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Large Hadron Collider ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Hadron Collider ◽  
Mass Range ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Higgs Bosons ◽  
Standard Model Higgs Boson ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Cern Large Hadron Collider

The investigation of the dynamics responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking is one of the prime tasks of experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The experiments ATLAS and CMS have been designed to be able to discover a Standard Model Higgs boson over the full mass range as well as Higgs bosons in extended models. In this paper, the prospects for Higgs boson searches at the LHC are reviewed. In addition, the potential for the measurement of Higgs boson parameters is discussed.

scholarly journals TWO COMPOSITE HIGGS DOUBLETS: IS IT THE LOW ENERGY LIMIT OF A NATURAL STRONG ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING SECTOR?

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (06) ◽  
pp. 423-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALFONSO R. ZERWEKH
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Top Quark ◽  
Gluon Fusion ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Electroweak Symmetry ◽  
Associated Production ◽  
Composite Higgs ◽  
Main Production ◽  
Model Scheme

In this paper, we propose an effective model scheme that describes the electroweak symmetry breaking sector by means of composite Higgs-like scalars, following the ideas of Minimal Walking Technicolor (MWT). We argue that, because of the general failure of Extended Technicolor (ETC) to explain the mass of the top quark, it is necessary to introduce two composite Higgs bosons: one of them originated by a MWT–ETC sector and the other produced by a Topcolor sector. We focus on the phenomenological differences between the light composite Higgs present in our model and the fundamental Higgs boson predicted by the Standard Model and their production at the LHC. We show that in this scheme the main production channel of the lighter Higgs boson is the associated production with a gauge boson and WW fusion but not the gluon–gluon fusion channel which is substantially suppressed.

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