Electroweak interaction

About: Electroweak interaction is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16333 publications have been published within this topic receiving 468927 citations. The topic is also known as: electroweak force.

Phenomenology of an $SU(2) \times SU(2) \times U(1)$ model with lepton-flavour non-universality

Abstract: We investigate a gauge extension of the Standard Model in light of the observed hints of lepton universality violation in $b \to c \ell u$ and $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays at BaBar, Belle and LHCb. The model consists of an extended gauge group $\mathrm{SU(2)}_{1} \times \mathrm{SU(2)}_{2} \times \mathrm{U(1)}_Y$ which breaks spontaneously around the TeV scale to the electroweak gauge group. Fermion mixing effects with vector-like fermions give rise to potentially large new physics contributions in flavour transitions mediated by $W^{\prime}$ and $Z^{\prime}$ bosons. This model can ease tensions in $B$-physics data while satisfying stringent bounds from flavour physics, tau decays, and electroweak precision data. Possible ways to test the proposed new physics scenario with upcoming experimental measurements are discussed. Among other predictions, the lepton flavour violating ratios $R_M$, with $M = K^*, \phi$, are found to be reduced with respect to the Standard Model expectation $R_M \simeq 1$.

General formulae for f1 --> f2 gamma

Abstract: At one-loop level the decay f1 --> f2 gamma, where f1 and f2 are two spin-1/2 particles with the same electric charge, is mediated by a boson B and a spin-1/2 fermion F. The boson B may have either spin 0 - interacting with the fermions through Dirac matrices 1 and gamma5 - or spin 1 - with V+A and V-A couplings to the fermions. I give general formulae for the one-loop electroweak amplitude of f1 --> f2 gamma in all these cases.

Testing sterile neutrino extensions of the Standard Model at future lepton colliders

Abstract: Extending the Standard Model (SM) with sterile (“right-handed”) neutrinos is one of the best motivated ways to account for the observed neutrino masses. We discuss the expected sensitivity of future lepton collider experiments for probing such extensions. An interesting testable scenario is given by “symmetry protected seesaw models”, which theoretically allow for sterile neutrino masses around the electroweak scale with up to order one mixings with the light (SM) neutrinos. In addition to indirect tests, e.g. via electroweak precision observables, sterile neutrinos with masses around the electroweak scale can also be probed by direct searches, e.g. via sterile neutrino decays at the Z pole, deviations from the SM cross section for four lepton final states at and beyond the WW threshold and via Higgs boson decays. We study the present bounds on sterile neutrino properties from LEP and LHC as well as the expected sensitivities of possible future lepton colliders such as ILC, CEPC and FCC-ee (TLEP).

ALPs effective field theory and collider signatures

Abstract: We study the leading effective interactions between the Standard Model fields and a generic singlet CP-odd (pseudo-) Goldstone boson. Two possible frameworks for electroweak symmetry breaking are considered: linear and non-linear. For the latter case, the basis of leading effective operators is determined and compared with that for the linear expansion. Associated phenomenological signals at colliders are explored for both scenarios, deriving new bounds and analyzing future prospects, including LHC and High Luminosity LHC sensitivities. Mono-Z, mono-W, W-photon plus missing energy and on-shell top final states are most promising signals expected in both frameworks. In addition, non-standard Higgs decays and mono-Higgs signatures are especially prominent and expected to be dominant in non-linear realisations.

Electroweak radiative corrections to the semihadronic decay rate of the tau lepton.

Abstract: The one-loop electroweak radiative correction to the decay rate of the {tau} lepton into a neutrino plus hadrons is calculated. The correction includes a large logarithm of {ital M}{sub {ital Z}}/{ital M}{sub {tau}} whose coefficient was calculated previously. The constant under the logarithm gives an additional electroweak correction of 0.1%. It is argued that modifications of this electroweak correction due to nonperturbative QCD effects are suppressed by powers of {ital M}{sub {tau}}.