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29 Jun 2017-Nature
TL;DR: An angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is used to demonstrate the existence of a triply degenerate point in the electronic structure of crystalline molybdenum phosphide, which opens up a way of exploring the new physics of unconventional fermions in condensed-matter systems.
Abstract: In quantum field theory, Lorentz invariance leads to three types of fermion-Dirac, Weyl and Majorana. Although the existence of Weyl and Majorana fermions as elementary particles in high-energy physics is debated, all three types of fermion have been proposed to exist as low-energy, long-wavelength quasiparticle excitations in condensed-matter systems. The existence of Dirac and Weyl fermions in condensed-matter systems has been confirmed experimentally, and that of Majorana fermions is supported by various experiments. However, in condensed-matter systems, fermions in crystals are constrained by the symmetries of the 230 crystal space groups rather than by Lorentz invariance, giving rise to the possibility of finding other types of fermionic excitation that have no counterparts in high-energy physics. Here we use angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to demonstrate the existence of a triply degenerate point in the electronic structure of crystalline molybdenum phosphide. Quasiparticle excitations near a triply degenerate point are three-component fermions, beyond the conventional Dirac-Weyl-Majorana classification, which attributes Dirac and Weyl fermions to four- and two-fold degenerate points, respectively. We also observe pairs of Weyl points in the bulk electronic structure of the crystal that coexist with the three-component fermions. This material thus represents a platform for studying the interplay between different types of fermions. Our experimental discovery opens up a way of exploring the new physics of unconventional fermions in condensed-matter systems.

352 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms which involves the synergy between atomic experiments and three different theoretical areas, i.e. particle, nuclear and atomic, is reviewed.
Abstract: The current status of electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms which involves the synergy between atomic experiments and three different theoretical areas, i.e. particle, nuclear and atomic, is reviewed. Various models of particle physics that predict CP violation, which is necessary for the existence of such electric dipole moments, are presented. These include the standard model of particle physics and various extensions of it. Effective hadron level combined charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) symmetry violating interactions are derived taking into consideration different ways in which a nucleon interacts with other nucleons as well as with electrons. Nuclear structure calculations of the CP-odd nuclear Schiff moment are discussed using the shell model and other theoretical approaches. Results of the calculations of atomic electric dipole moments due to the interaction of the nuclear Schiff moment with the electrons and the P and time-reversal (T) symmetry violating tensor-pseudotensor electron-nucleus are elucidated using different relativistic many-body theories. The principles of the measurement of the electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms are outlined. Upper limits for the nuclear Schiff moment and tensor-pseudotensor coupling constant are obtained combining the results of atomic experiments and relativistic many-body theories. The coefficients for the different sources of CP violation have been estimated at the elementary particle level for all the diamagnetic atoms of current experimental interest and their implications for physics beyond the standard model is discussed. Possible improvements of the current results of the measurements as well as quantum chromodynamics, nuclear and atomic calculations are suggested.

146 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the first spin-independent dark matter particle-nucleon cross section for masses between 140 and 500 MeV/c ≥ 1.5 eV.
Abstract: Models for light dark matter particles with masses below 1 GeV/c $$^2$$ are a natural and well-motivated alternative to so-far unobserved weakly interacting massive particles. Gram-scale cryogenic calorimeters provide the required detector performance to detect these particles and extend the direct dark matter search program of CRESST. A prototype 0.5 g sapphire detector developed for the $$ u $$ -cleus experiment has achieved an energy threshold of $$E_{th}=(19.7\pm 0.9)$$ eV. This is one order of magnitude lower than for previous devices and independent of the type of particle interaction. The result presented here is obtained in a setup above ground without significant shielding against ambient and cosmogenic radiation. Although operated in a high-background environment, the detector probes a new range of light-mass dark matter particles previously not accessible by direct searches. We report the first limit on the spin-independent dark matter particle-nucleon cross section for masses between 140 and 500 MeV/c $$^2$$ .

146 citations


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08 Sep 2017-Science
TL;DR: This approach using precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed-matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces may well come first from small-scale experiments of this type.
Abstract: The field of particle physics is in a peculiar state. The standard model of particle theory successfully describes every fundamental particle and force observed in laboratories, yet fails to explain properties of the universe such as the existence of dark matter, the amount of dark energy, and the preponderance of matter over antimatter. Huge experiments, of increasing scale and cost, continue to search for new particles and forces that might explain these phenomena. However, these frontiers also are explored in certain smaller, laboratory-scale “tabletop” experiments. This approach uses precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed-matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces. Discoveries in fundamental physics may well come first from small-scale experiments of this type.

138 citations


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Halina Abramowicz1, Angel Abusleme2, K. Afanaciev3, N. Alipour Tehrani4, Csaba Balázs5, Yan Benhammou1, M. Benoit6, B. Bilki7, J. J. Blaising8, Mark Boland9, M. Boronat10, O. Borysov1, I. Božović-Jelisavčić11, M. Buckland12, S. Bugiel13, Philip Burrows14, Tessa Charles5, W. Daniluk15, D. Dannheim4, R. Dasgupta13, M. Demarteau7, M. A. Diaz Gutierrez2, G. Eigen16, K. Elsener4, U. Felzmann9, Miroslaw Firlej13, E. Firu, Tomasz Fiutowski13, Jose Luis Fuster10, Michelle Gabriel17, F. Gaede4, I. García10, V. Ghenescu, Jerry Goldstein18, S. Green19, C. Grefe4, M. Hauschild4, C. M. Hawkes20, D. Hynds4, Marek Idzik13, G. Kačarević11, J. Kalinowski21, S. Kananov1, W. Klempt4, M. Kopec13, Maria Krawczyk21, B. Krupa15, Marcin Kucharczyk15, Szymon Kulis4, Tomas Lastovicka22, T. Lesiak15, Aharon Levy1, I. Levy1, L. Linssen4, Strahinja Lukić11, Alexander Maier4, V. Makarenko3, John Marshall19, V. J. Martin23, K. Mei19, G. Milutinović-Dumbelović11, Jakub Moron13, A. Moszczynski15, D. Moya24, R.M. Münker4, A. Münnich4, Alexandra Neagu, Nikiforos Nikiforou4, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos20, Andreas Nürnberg4, Mila Pandurovic11, B. Pawlik15, E. Perez Codina4, Ivan Peric25, Marko Petrič4, F. Pitters4, Stephane Poss4, T. Preda, D. Protopopescu26, Roger Rassool9, S. Redford4, Jose Repond7, Aidan Robson26, Philipp Roloff4, Eduardo Ros10, O. Rosenblat1, A. Ruiz-Jimeno24, Andre Sailer4, D. Schlatter4, Daniel Schulte4, Nikolai Shumeiko3, Eva Sicking4, Frank Simon17, Rosa Simoniello4, P. Sopicki15, S. Stapnes4, R. Ström4, Jan Strube4, K.P. Świentek13, M. Szalay17, Michal Tesař17, M. A. Thomson19, J. Trenado27, Ulrik I. Uggerhøj28, N. van der Kolk17, E. van der Kraaij16, M. Vicente Barreto Pinto6, Ivan Vila24, M. Vogel Gonzalez2, Marcel Vos10, J. H. Vossebeld12, M. F. Watson20, Nigel Watson20, Matthias Artur Weber4, H. Weerts7, James D. Wells29, L. Weuste17, A. Winter20, T. Wojtoń15, L. Xia7, B. Xu19, A.F. Żarnecki21, L. Zawiejski15, I. S. Zgura 
TL;DR: Detailed studies of the precision achievable with Higgs measurements at CLIC are presented and the interpretation of these measurements in a global fit are described.
Abstract: The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is an option for a future [Formula: see text] collider operating at centre-of-mass energies up to [Formula: see text], providing sensitivity to a wide range of new physics phenomena and precision physics measurements at the energy frontier. This paper is the first comprehensive presentation of the Higgs physics reach of CLIC operating at three energy stages: [Formula: see text], 1.4 and [Formula: see text]. The initial stage of operation allows the study of Higgs boson production in Higgsstrahlung ([Formula: see text]) and [Formula: see text]-fusion ([Formula: see text]), resulting in precise measurements of the production cross sections, the Higgs total decay width [Formula: see text], and model-independent determinations of the Higgs couplings. Operation at [Formula: see text] provides high-statistics samples of Higgs bosons produced through [Formula: see text]-fusion, enabling tight constraints on the Higgs boson couplings. Studies of the rarer processes [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] allow measurements of the top Yukawa coupling and the Higgs boson self-coupling. This paper presents detailed studies of the precision achievable with Higgs measurements at CLIC and describes the interpretation of these measurements in a global fit.

133 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, Gell-Mann and Zweig proposed that the known mesons were $q \bar q$ and baryons $qqq$ with quarks known at the time $u$ ("up"), $d$ ("down"), and $s$ ("strange") having charges (2/3, 1/3,-1/3, 1/2, 1 /3, 2/3), and they showed that mesons such as $qq q \barq$ would also have integral charges.
Abstract: Why do we see certain types of strongly interacting elementary particles and not others? This question was posed over 50 years ago in the context of the quark model M Gell-Mann and G Zweig proposed that the known mesons were $q \bar q$ and baryons $qqq$, with quarks known at the time $u$ ("up"), $d$ ("down"), and $s$ ("strange") having charges (2/3,-1/3,-1/3) Mesons and baryons would then have integral charges Mesons such as $qq \bar q \bar q$ and baryons such as $qqqq \bar q$ would also have integral charges Why weren't they seen? They have now been seen, but only with additional heavy quarks and under conditions which tell us a lot about the strong interactions and how they manifest themselves The present article describes recent progress in our understanding of such "exotic" mesons and baryons

130 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the current situation and discuss possible search strategies for charged scalars, in non-supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC.
Abstract: The goal of this report is to summarize the current situation and discuss possible search strategies for charged scalars, in non-supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model at the LHC. Such scalars appear in Multi-Higgs-Doublet models, in particular in the popular Two-Higgs-Doublet model, allowing for charged and additional neutral Higgs bosons. These models have the attractive property that electroweak precision observables are automatically in agreement with the Standard Model at the tree level. For the most popular version of this framework, Model II, a discovery of a charged Higgs boson remains challenging, since the parameter space is becoming very constrained, and the QCD background is very high. We also briefly comment on models with dark matter which constrain the corresponding charged scalars that occur in these models. The stakes of a possible discovery of an extended scalar sector are very high, and these searches should be pursued in all conceivable channels, at the LHC and at future colliders.

119 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms which involves the synergy between atomic experiments and three different theoretical areas -- particle, nuclear and atomic is reviewed.
Abstract: The current status of electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms which involves the synergy between atomic experiments and three different theoretical areas -- particle, nuclear and atomic is reviewed. Various models of particle physics that predict CP violation, which is necessary for the existence of such electric dipole moments, are presented. These include the standard model of particle physics and various extensions of it. Effective hadron level combined charge conjugation (C) and parity (P) symmetry violating interactions are derived taking into consideration different ways in which a nucleon interacts with other nucleons as well as with electrons. Nuclear structure calculations of the CP-odd nuclear Schiff moment are discussed using the shell model and other theoretical approaches. Results of the calculations of atomic electric dipole moments due to the interaction of the nuclear Schiff moment with the electrons and the P and time-reversal (T) symmetry violating tensor-pseudotensor electron-nucleus are elucidated using different relativistic many-body theories. The principles of the measurement of the electric dipole moments of diamagnetic atoms are outlined. Upper limits for the nuclear Schiff moment and tensor-pseudotensor coupling constant are obtained combining the results of atomic experiments and relativistic many-body theories. The coefficients for the different sources of CP violation have been estimated at the elementary particle level for all the diamagnetic atoms of current experimental interest and their implications for physics beyond the standard model is discussed. Possible improvements of the current results of the measurements as well as quantum chromodynamics, nuclear and atomic calculations are suggested.

119 citations


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Morad Aaboud, Georges Aad1, Brad Abbott2, Ovsat Abdinov3  +2947 moreInstitutions (222)
TL;DR: In this article, a search for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into a b (b) over bar pair when produced in association with a W or Z boson is performed with the ATLAS detector.
Abstract: A search for the decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson into a b (b) over bar pair when produced in association with a W or Z boson is performed with the ATLAS detector. The analysed data, corresp ...

99 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the Higgs force between nuclei and their bound electrons, which is poorly constrained, might induce effects that are larger than the current experimental sensitivities, and new interactions between the electron and the neutrons, mediated via light new degrees of freedom, may lead to measurable nonlinearities in a King plot comparison between isotope shifts of two different transitions.
Abstract: We propose a novel approach to probe new fundamental interactions using isotope shift spectroscopy in atomic clock transitions. As a concrete toy example we focus on the Higgs boson couplings to the building blocks of matter: the electron and the up and down quarks. We show that the attractive Higgs force between nuclei and their bound electrons, which is poorly constrained, might induce effects that are larger than the current experimental sensitivities. More generically, we discuss how new interactions between the electron and the neutrons, mediated via light new degrees of freedom, may lead to measurable nonlinearities in a King plot comparison between isotope shifts of two different transitions. Given state-of-the-art accuracy in frequency comparison, isotope shifts have the potential to be measured with sub-Hz accuracy, thus potentially enabling the improvement of current limits on new fundamental interactions. A candidate atomic system for this measurement requires two different clock transitions and four zero nuclear spin isotopes. We identify several systems that satisfy this requirement and also briefly discuss existing measurements. We consider the size of the effect related to the Higgs force and the requirements for it to produce an observable signal.

95 citations


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TL;DR: A search for heavy pseudoscalar (A) and scalar (H) Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark pair (tt[over ¯]) has been performed with proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[s]=8 TeV.
Abstract: A search for heavy pseudoscalar (A) and scalar (H) Higgs bosons decaying into a top quark pair (tt[over ¯]) has been performed with 20.3 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy sqrt[s]=8 TeV. Interference effects between the signal process and standard model tt[over ¯] production, which are expected to distort the signal shape from a single peak to a peak-dip structure, are taken into account. No significant deviation from the standard model prediction is observed in the tt[over ¯] invariant mass spectrum in final states with an electron or muon, large missing transverse momentum, and at least four jets. The results are interpreted within the context of a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Exclusion limits on the signal strength are derived as a function of the mass m_{A/H} and the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs fields, tanβ, for m_{A/H}>500 GeV.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the possibility that the Higgs boson arises as a composite state of a fundamental confining dynamics, together with the dark matter, and found preferred masses between 500 GeV to a few TeV.
Abstract: We investigate the possibility that Dark Matter arises as a composite state of a fundamental confining dynamics, together with the Higgs boson. We focus on the minimal SU(4)×SU(4)/SU(4) model which has both a Dark Matter and a Higgs candidates arising as pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. At the same time, a simple underlying gauge-fermion theory can be defined providing an existence proof of, and useful constraints on, the effective field theory description. We focus on the parameter space where the Dark Matter candidate is mostly a gauge singlet. We present a complete calculation of its relic abundance and find preferred masses between 500 GeV to a few TeV. Direct Dark Matter detection already probes part of the parameter space, ruling out masses above 1 TeV, while Indirect Detection is relevant only if non-thermal production is assumed. The prospects for detection of the odd composite scalars at the LHC are also established.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated predictions on triple Higgs boson couplings with radiative corrections in the model with an additional real singlet scalar field, where the second physical scalar state (H ) appears in addition to the Higgs Boson ( h ) with the mass 125 GeV.

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TL;DR: Topological Lifshitz transitions involve many types of topological structures in momentum and frequency-momentum spaces: Fermi surfaces, Dirac lines and Weyl points as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Topological Lifshitz transitions involve many types of topological structures in momentum and frequency-momentum spaces: Fermi surfaces, Dirac lines, Dirac and Weyl points, etc. Each of these structures has their own topological invariant ($N_1$, $N_2$, $N_3$, $\tilde N_3$, etc.), which supports the stability of a given topological structure. The topology of the shape of Fermi surfaces and Dirac lines, as well as the interconnection of the objects of different dimensions, lead to numerous classes of Lifshitz transitions. The consequences of Lifshitz transitions are important in different areas of physics. The singularities emerging at the transition may enhance the transition temperature to superconductivity; the Lifshitz transition can be in the origin of the small masses of elementary particles in our Universe; the black hole horizon serves as the surface of Lifshitz transition between the vacua with type-I and type-II Weyl points; etc.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the unique signature of the Higgs sector and propose a strategy to extract the hhVV quartic coupling and provide model-independent constraints on theories where EWSB is driven by new strong interactions.
Abstract: The production of pairs of Higgs bosons at hadron colliders provides unique information on the Higgs sector and on the mechanism underlying electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). Most studies have concentrated on the gluon-fusion production mode which has the largest cross section. However, despite its small production rate, the vector-boson fusion channel can also be relevant since even small modifications of the Higgs couplings to vector bosons induce a striking increase of the cross section as a function of the invariant mass of the Higgs boson pair. In this work we exploit this unique signature to propose a strategy to extract the hhVV quartic coupling and provide model-independent constraints on theories where EWSB is driven by new strong interactions. We take advantage of the higher signal yield of the $$b\bar{b} b\bar{b}$$ final state and make extensive use of jet-substructure techniques to reconstruct signal events with a boosted topology, characteristic of large partonic energies, where each Higgs boson decays to a single collimated jet. Our results demonstrate that the hhVV coupling can be measured with 45% (20%) precision at the LHC for $$\mathscr {L}=300$$ (3000) fb $$^{-1}$$ , while a 1% precision can be achieved at a 100 TeV collider.

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Morad Aaboud1, Georges Aad1, Brad Abbott1, Jalal Abdallah1  +2842 moreInstitutions (35)
TL;DR: In this paper, a search for dark matter pair production in association with a Higgs boson decaying to a pair of bottom quarks is presented, using 3.2 fb−1 of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively evaluate renormalized Higgs boson couplings at one-loop level in nonminimal Higgs models such as the Higgs singlet model (HSM) and the four types of two Higgs doublet models (THDMs) with a softly broken ${Z}_{2}$ symmetry.
Abstract: We comprehensively evaluate renormalized Higgs boson couplings at one-loop level in nonminimal Higgs models such as the Higgs singlet model (HSM) and the four types of two Higgs doublet models (THDMs) with a softly broken ${Z}_{2}$ symmetry The renormalization calculation is performed in the on-shell scheme improved by using the pinch technique to eliminate the gauge dependence in the renormalized couplings We first review the pinch technique for scalar boson two-point functions in the standard model (SM), the HSM and the THDMs We then discuss the difference in the results of the renormalized Higgs boson couplings between the improved on-shell scheme and the ordinal one with a gauge dependence appearing in mixing parameters of scalar bosons Finally, we widely investigate how we can identify the HSM and the THDMs focusing on the pattern of deviations in the renormalized Higgs boson couplings from predictions in the SM

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TL;DR: In this paper, the Higgs mass in renormalisable supersymmetric models with complex parameters is calculated at the two-loop level using the public codes SARAH and SPheno.
Abstract: We discuss the automatised calculation of the Higgs mass in renormalisable supersymmetric models with complex parameters at the two-loop level. Our setup is based on the public codes SARAH and SPheno, which can now compute the two-loop corrections to masses of all neutral scalars in such theories. The generic ansatz for these calculations and the handling of the ‘Goldstone Boson catastrophe’ is described. It is shown that we find perfect agreement with other existing two-loop calculations performed in the $$\overline{\mathrm {DR}}$$ scheme. We also use the functionality to derive results for the MSSM and NMSSM not available before: the Higgs mass in the constrained version of the complex MSSM and the impact of CP phases in the two-loop corrections beyond $$O(\alpha _s \alpha _t)$$ for the scale-invariant NMSSM are briefly analysed.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the parametric structure of twin Higgs (TH) theories and assess the gain in fine tuning which they enable compared to extensions of the standard model with colored top partners.
Abstract: We analyze the parametric structure of twin Higgs (TH) theories and assess the gain in fine tuning which they enable compared to extensions of the standard model with colored top partners. Estimates show that, at least in the simplest realizations of the TH idea, the separation between the mass of new colored particles and the electroweak scale is controlled by the coupling strength of the underlying UV theory, and that a parametric gain is achieved only for strongly-coupled dynamics. Motivated by this consideration we focus on one of these simple realizations, namely composite TH theories, and study how well such constructions can reproduce electroweak precision data. The most important effect of the twin states is found to be the infrared contribution to the Higgs quartic coupling, while direct corrections to electroweak observables are subleading and negligible. We perform a careful fit to the electroweak data including the leading-logarithmic corrections to the Higgs quartic up to three loops. Our analysis shows that agreement with electroweak precision tests can be achieved with only a moderate amount of tuning, in the range 5%--10%, in theories where colored states have mass of order 3--5 TeV and are thus out of reach of the LHC. For these levels of tuning, larger masses are excluded by a perturbativity bound, which makes these theories possibly discoverable, hence falsifiable, at a future 100 TeV collider.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a novel approach to extract model-independent constraints on the triple and quartic Higgs self-coupling by investigating triple Higgs-boson hadroproduction at a center-of-mass energy of 100 TeV.

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Albert M. Sirunyan, Armen Tumasyan, Wolfgang Adam1, Federico Ambrogi1  +2282 moreInstitutions (200)
TL;DR: Upper limits at 95% confidence level on the production cross section are presented in a region of mass-coupling phase space previously unexplored at the LHC, where the region below 140 GeV has not been explored by any previous experiments.
Abstract: A search for low mass narrow vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs is presented The analysis is based on data collected in 2017 with the CMS detector at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 411 fb-1 The results of this analysis are combined with those of an earlier analysis based on data collected at the same collision energy in 2016, corresponding to 359 fb-1 Signal candidates will be recoiling against initial state radiation and are identified as energetic, large-radius jets with two pronged substructure The invariant jet mass spectrum is probed for a potential narrow peaking signal over a smoothly falling background No evidence for such resonances is observed within the mass range of 50–450 GeV Upper limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the coupling of narrow resonances to quarks, as a function of the resonance mass For masses between 50 and 300 GeV these are the most sensitive limits to date This analysis extends the earlier search to a mass range of 300–450 GeV, which is probed for the first time with jet substructure techniques

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare several Higgs sectors featuring 3 CP-even neutral Higgs bosons that are also motivated by their simplicity and their ability to solve some of the flaws of the SM.
Abstract: Beyond the Standard Model (SM) extensions usually include extended Higgs sectors. Models with singlet or doublet fields are the simplest ones that are compatible with the ρ parameter constraint. The discovery of new non-SM Higgs bosons and the identification of the underlying model requires dedicated Higgs properties analyses. In this paper, we compare several Higgs sectors featuring 3 CP-even neutral Higgs bosons that are also motivated by their simplicity and their ability to solve some of the flaws of the SM. They are: the SM extended by a complex singlet field (CxSM), the singlet extension of the 2-Higgs-Doublet Model (N2HDM), and the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric SM extension (NMSSM). In addition, we analyse the CP-violating 2-Higgs-Doublet Model (C2HDM), which provides 3 neutral Higgs bosons with a pseudoscalar admixture. This allows us to compare the effects of singlet and pseudoscalar admixtures. Through dedicated scans of the allowed parameter space of the models, we analyse the phenomenologically viable scenarios from the view point of the SM-like Higgs boson and of the signal rates of the non-SM-like Higgs bosons to be found. In particular, we analyse the effect of singlet/pseudoscalar admixture, and the potential to differentiate these models in the near future. This is supported by a study of couplings sums of the Higgs bosons to massive gauge bosons and to fermions, where we identify features that allow us to distinguish the models, in particular when only part of the Higgs spectrum is discovered. Our results can be taken as guidelines for future LHC data analyses, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, to identify specific benchmark points aimed at revealing the underlying model.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the computer code RECOLA2 along with the first NLO electroweak corrections to Higgs production in vector-boson fusion and updated results for Higgs strahlung in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model.
Abstract: We present the computer code RECOLA2 along with the first NLO electroweak corrections to Higgs production in vector-boson fusion and updated results for Higgs strahlung in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model A fully automated procedure for the generation of tree-level and one-loop matrix elements in general models, including renormalization, is presented We discuss the application of the Background-Field Method to the extended models Numerical results for NLO electroweak cross sections are presented for different renormalization schemes in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and the Higgs-Singlet extension of the Standard Model Finally, we present distributions for the production of a heavy Higgs boson

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compute next-to-leading-order predictions for vector-like-quark pair production and single production in association with jets, with a weak or with a Higgs boson in a general new physics setup.
Abstract: Vector-like quarks are featured by a wealth of beyond the Standard Model theories and are consequently an important goal of many LHC searches for new physics. Those searches, as well as most related phenomenological studies, however, rely on predictions evaluated at the leading-order accuracy in QCD and consider well-defined simplified benchmark scenarios. Adopting an effective bottom-up approach, we compute next-to-leading-order predictions for vector-like-quark pair production and single production in association with jets, with a weak or with a Higgs boson in a general new physics setup. We additionally compute vector-like-quark contributions to the production of a pair of Standard Model bosons at the same level of accuracy. For all processes under consideration, we focus both on total cross sections and on differential distributions, most these calculations being performed for the first time in our field. As a result, our work paves the way to precise extraction of experimental limits on vector-like quarks thanks to an accurate control of the shapes of the relevant observables and emphasise the extra handles that could be provided by novel vector-like-quark probes never envisaged so far.

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TL;DR: McDaniel et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a tool called RX-DMFIT, which can calculate the expected secondary emission from DM annihilation using a wide range of customizable astrophysical and particle parameters including the diffusion of charged particles, relevant radiative energy losses, and magnetic field modelling.
Abstract: Author(s): McDaniel, A; Jeltema, T; Profumo, S; Storm, E | Abstract: Dark matter (DM) particles are predicted by several well motivated models to yield Standard Model particles through self-annihilation that can potentially be detected by astrophysical observations. In particular, the production of charged particles from DM annihilation in astrophysical systems that contain magnetic fields yields radio emission through synchrotron radiation and X-ray emission through inverse Compton scattering of ambient photons. We introduce RX-DMFIT, a tool used for calculating the expected secondary emission from DM annihilation. RX-DMFIT includes a wide range of customizable astrophysical and particle parameters and incorporates important astrophysics including the diffusion of charged particles, relevant radiative energy losses, and magnetic field modelling. We demonstrate the use and versatility of RX-DMFIT by analyzing the potential radio and X-ray signals for a variety of DM particle models and astrophysical environments including galaxy clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies and normal galaxies. We then apply RX-DMFIT to a concrete example using Segue I radio data to place constraints for a range of assumed DM annihilation channels. For WIMP models with $M_{\chi} \leq 100$ GeV and assuming weak diffusion, we find that the the leptonic $\mu^+\mu^-$ and $\tau^+\tau^-$ final states provide the strongest constraints, placing limits on the DM particle cross-section well below the thermal relic cross-section, while even for the $b\bar{b}$ channel we find limits close to the thermal relic cross-section. Our analysis shows that radio emission provides a highly competitive avenue for dark matter searches.


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TL;DR: In this article, the potential of Higgs boson production associated with a photon at the LHC to probe the new physics effects in the framework of the standard model effective field theory was examined.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the consequences of exotic invisible Higgs decays in di-Higgs production were investigated, and a search sensitive to such invisible decays was proposed for probing invisible branching ratios of order 10% during the LHC's high-luminosity run, which can become crucial to establish the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model at collider energies.
Abstract: Observation of Higgs pair production is an important long term objective of the LHC physics program as it will shed light on the scalar potential of the Higgs field and the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking. While numerous studies have examined the impact of new physics on di-Higgs production, little attention has been given to the well-motivated possibility of exotic Higgs decays in this channel. Here we investigate the consequences of exotic invisible Higgs decays in di-Higgs production. We outline a search sensitive to such invisible decays in the $b\overline{b}+{\overline{)E}}_{T}$ channel. We demonstrate that probing invisible branching ratios of order 10% during the LHC's high-luminosity run will be challenging, but in resonance enhanced di-Higgs production, this final state can become crucial to establish the existence of physics beyond the Standard Model at collider energies. We also briefly discuss the outlook for other exotic Higgs decay modes and the potential to observe such exotic decays in the di-Higgs channel.

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TL;DR: The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions was reported using proton lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon nucleon center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s[NN]) = 8.16 TeV as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The first observation of top quark production in proton-nucleus collisions is reported using proton-lead data collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s[NN]) = 8.16 TeV. The measurement is performed using events with exactly one isolated electron or muon and at least four jets. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 174 inverse nanobarns. The significance of the tt-bar signal against the background-only hypothesis is above five standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma[tt-bar] = 45 +/- 8 nb, consistent with predictions from perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

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TL;DR: In this article, a general cancellation mechanism was proposed for the theoretical predictions of the electron electric dipole moments (EDM), quark chromo-EDMs, and Weinberg operators.
Abstract: The interpretation of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe necessitates the $CP$ violation beyond the Standard Model (SM). We present a general cancellation mechanism in the theoretical predictions of the electron electric dipole moments (EDM), quark chromo-EDMs, and Weinberg operators. A relative large $CP$ violation in the Higgs sector is allowed by the current electron EDM constraint released by the ACME collaboration in 2013, and the recent $^{199}\mathrm{Hg}$ EDM experiment. The cancellation mechanism can be induced by the mass splitting of heavy Higgs bosons around $\ensuremath{\sim}\mathcal{O}(0.1--1)\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{GeV}$, and the extent of the mass degeneracy determines the magnitude of the $CP$-violating phase. We explicate this point by investigating the $CP$-violating two-Higgs-doublet model and the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. The cancellation mechanism is general when there are $CP$ violation and mixing in the Higgs sector of new physics models. The $CP$-violating phases in this scenario can be excluded or detected by the projected $^{225}\mathrm{Ra}$ EDM experiments with precision reaching $\ensuremath{\sim}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}28}\text{ }\text{ }e\ifmmode\cdot\else\textperiodcentered\fi{}\mathrm{cm}$, as well as the future colliders.