High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Authors and titles for December 2013

[301] arXiv:1312.5278 [pdf, other]

Title: Aspects of fine-tuning of the Higgs mass within finite field theories

Pierre Grange' (LUPM), Jean-Francois Mathiot (LPC-CLERMONT), Bruno Mutet (LPC-CLERMONT), Ernst Werner

Comments: 9 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1011.1740

Journal-ref: Physical Review D 88, 12 (2013) 125015

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[302] arXiv:1312.5281 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dark Z' Portal: Direct, Indirect and Collider Searches

Alexandre Alves, Stefano Profumo, Farinaldo S. Queiroz

Comments: 29 pages, 21 figures

Journal-ref: JHEP 1404 (2014) 063

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[303] arXiv:1312.5304 [pdf, other]

Title: Long-distance effects in charm mixing

Alexey A Petrov

Comments: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in the proceedings of The 6th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM 2013)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[304] arXiv:1312.5316 [pdf, other]

Title: Constraints on composite quark partners from Higgs searches

Thomas Flacke, Jeong Han Kim, Seung J. Lee, Sung Hak Lim

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, v2: Discussion on higher-dimensional operators included, additional bounds on 5 and 14 plet representations included, references added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[305] arXiv:1312.5318 [pdf, other]

Title: Decoupling of heavy sneutrinos in low-scale seesaw models

Manuel E. Krauss, Werner Porod, Florian Staub, Asmaa Abada, Avelino Vicente, Cédric Weiland

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes, appendix added; matches published version in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 90, 013008 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[306] arXiv:1312.5325 [pdf, other]

Title: Identifying dark matter interactions in monojet searches

Prateek Agrawal, Vikram Rentala

Comments: 24 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[307] arXiv:1312.5327 [pdf, other]

Title: Enhanced non-perturbative effects through the collinear anomaly

Thomas Becher, Guido Bell

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures. v2: Minor changes, references added. Journal version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 182002 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[308] arXiv:1312.5329 [pdf, other]

Title: Vector-like leptons: Higgs decays and collider phenomenology

Adam Falkowski, David M. Straub, Avelino Vicente

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[309] arXiv:1312.5330 [pdf, other]

Title: Fermionic UV completions of Composite Higgs models

Gabriele Ferretti, Denis Karateev

Comments: 15 pages, 4 tables; V2 Comments and references added. To appear in JHEP. V3 Coset of type $SU(4)\times SU(4)'/SU(4)_D$ added to the classification

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[310] arXiv:1312.5333 [pdf, other]

Title: Is There a Hidden Principle in the Higgs Boson Decay to Photons?

Alexandre Alves, E. Ramirez Barreto, A. G. Dias

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures. References added and a illustration with the 2HDM included

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[311] arXiv:1312.5335 [pdf, other]

Title: Novel Higgs Potentials from Gauge Mediation of Exact Scale Breaking

Steven Abel, Alberto Mariotti

Comments: V2: 18 pages, 7 figures, PRD version. Comments added concerning logarithmic terms, and nature of UV fixed points

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[312] arXiv:1312.5397 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantifying Comparisons of Threshold Resummations

George Sterman, Mao Zeng

Comments: 36 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: JHEP 05 (2014) 132

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[313] arXiv:1312.5406 [pdf, other]

Title: B-meson spectroscopy in heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory

A. Upadhyay, M. Batra

Comments: Proceedings of DAE symposium in nuclear physics,vol. 58, 2013

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[314] arXiv:1312.5407 [pdf, other]

Title: Focus Point Supersymmetry in Extended Gauge Mediation

Ran Ding, Tianjun Li, Florian Staub, Bin Zhu

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, references added

Journal-ref: JHEP 1403 (2014) 130

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[315] arXiv:1312.5416 [pdf, other]

Title: Fundamental Symmetry Tests with Nucleons, Nuclei, and Atoms: A Snowmass Report

Krishna Kumar, Zheng-Tian Lu, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

Comments: 48 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[316] arXiv:1312.5426 [pdf, other]

Title: Supersymmetric Fits after the Higgs Discovery and Implications for Model Building

John Ellis

Comments: 11 pages, 11 figures, invited article in a special edition of EPJC (European Journal of Physics C) on "Supersymmetry after the Higgs discovery"

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[317] arXiv:1312.5432 [pdf, other]

Title: Revisiting $1^{-+}$ and $0^{++}$ light hybrids from Monte-Carlo based QCD sum rules

Zhu-feng Zhang, Hong-ying Jin, T. G. Steele

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[318] arXiv:1312.5456 [pdf, other]

Title: QCD radiative corrections to the soft spectator contribution in the wide angle Compton scattering

N. Kivel, M. Vanderhaeghen

Comments: 28 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[319] arXiv:1312.5482 [pdf, other]

Title: How (non-) linear is the hydrodynamics of heavy ion collisions?

Stefan Floerchinger, Urs Achim Wiedemann, Andrea Beraudo, Luca Del Zanna, Gabriele Inghirami, Valentina Rolando

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[320] arXiv:1312.5493 [pdf, other]

Title: Global analysis of generalized parton distributions -- collider kinematics --

Tobias Lautenschlager, Dieter Mueller, A. Schaefer

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[321] arXiv:1312.5495 [pdf, other]

Title: Gluon condensates from the Hamiltonian formalism

Vladimir Prochazka, Roman Zwicky

Comments: 13pp

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47 395402 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[322] arXiv:1312.5497 [pdf, other]

Title: The initial stages of heavy-ion collisions in the Color Glass Condensate framework

Francois Gelis

Comments: 16 pages, invited review by Pramana J of physics

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[323] arXiv:1312.5500 [pdf, other]

Title: On Vector Dominance

V. A. Petrov

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[324] arXiv:1312.5536 [pdf, other]

Title: Geometrical aspects of jet quenching in JEWEL

Korinna C. Zapp

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

Journal-ref: Physics Letters B, Volume 735, 30 July 2014, Pages 157-163

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[325] arXiv:1312.5571 [pdf, other]

Title: Interim recommendations for the evaluation of Higgs production cross sections and branching ratios at the LHC in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

R. Harlander, M. Mühlleitner, J. Rathsman, M. Spira, O. Stål

Comments: 30 pages, 1 figure. Several tables with numerical results for cross sections and branching ratios in reference scenarios

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[326] arXiv:1312.5588 [pdf, other]

Title: Gluon field fluctuations in nuclear collisions: Multiplicity and eccentricity distributions

Bjoern Schenke, Prithwish Tribedy, Raju Venugopalan

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures, submitted to the Special Issue of Nuclear Physics A: Proceedings of the IS2013 Conference, September 8-14 2013, Illa da Toxa - Galicia (Spain)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[327] arXiv:1312.5603 [pdf, other]

Title: Some Remarks on Non-Planar Diagrams

Krzysztof Bielas, Ievgen Dubovyk, Janusz Gluza, Tord Riemann

Comments: Presented by K. Bielas at the International Conference of Theoretical Physics "Matter To The Deepest", Ustron 2013

Journal-ref: Acta Phys.Polon. B44 (2013) 11, 2249-2255

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[328] arXiv:1312.5605 [pdf, other]

Title: Heavy Quark Fragmenting Jet Functions

Christian W. Bauer, Emanuele Mereghetti

Comments: 48 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[329] arXiv:1312.5608 [pdf, other]

Title: NNLO QCD corrections to dijet production at hadron colliders

James Currie, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder, Thomas Gehrmann, E.W.N. Glover, Joao Pires

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, proceedings for the 11th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology) (RADCOR 2013)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[330] arXiv:1312.5614 [pdf, other]

Title: Impact of a four-zero Yukawa texture on $h\to \gamma \gamma$ and $\gamma Z$ in the framework of the Two Higgs Doublet Model Type III

A. Cordero-Cid, J. Hernandez-Sanchez, C.G. Honorato, S. Moretti, M.A. Perez, A. Rosado

Comments: 26 pages, 13 figures. Version accepted for publication in JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[331] arXiv:1312.5621 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the nature of $Y(4260)$ and $Z_c(3900)$ in the isospin violating process $Y(4260) \to J/\psi \eta \pi^0$

Xiao-Gang Wu, Christoph Hanhart, Qian Wang, Qiang Zhao

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[332] arXiv:1312.5624 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Power Counting in Effective Field Theories

Gerhard Buchalla, Oscar Cata, Claudius Krause

Comments: 14 pages, no figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[333] arXiv:1312.5664 [pdf, other]

Title: Supersymmetry with a pNGB Higgs and Partial Compositeness

David Marzocca, Alberto Parolini, Marco Serone

Comments: 26 pages, 3 figures. Version to appear in JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP 1403 (2014) 099

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[334] arXiv:1312.5666 [pdf, other]

Title: NLO QCD corrections to WWbb production and top quark observables

Johannes Schlenk, Gudrun Heinrich, Jan Winter

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the 11th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (RADCOR 2013), September 2013, Lumley Castle Hotel, Durham, UK; References updated

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[335] arXiv:1312.5672 [pdf, other]

Title: Higgs Physics

John Ellis

Comments: 52 pages, 45 figures, Lectures presented at the ESHEP 2013 School of High-Energy Physics, to appear as part of the proceedings in a CERN Yellow Report

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[336] arXiv:1312.5683 [pdf, other]

Title: Unifying "soft" and "hard" diffractive exclusive vector meson production and deeply virtual Compton scattering

S. Fazio, R. Fiore, L. Jenkovszky, A. Salii

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 90, 016007 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[337] arXiv:1312.5695 [pdf, other]

Title: WIMPs and Un-Naturalness

Luca Vecchi

Comments: 25 pages plus Appendix, 3 figures. V2: reference added, discussion on pNGB Higgs mass corrected

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[338] arXiv:1312.5703 [pdf, other]

Title: Out-of-equilibrium Baryogenesis and SuperWIMP Dark Matter

Giorgio Arcadi, Laura Covi, Marco Nardecchia

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 095020 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[339] arXiv:1312.5718 [pdf, other]

Title: Hadrons on the worldline, holography, and Wilson flow

Dennis D. Dietrich

Comments: 6 pages, 1 figure. v2 corresponds to published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 086005 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[340] arXiv:1312.5719 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized two-point tree-level amplitude $jf \to j^{\, \prime} f^{\, \prime}$ in a magnetized medium (extended version)

A. V. Kuznetsov, D. A. Rumyantsev, D. M. Shlenev (Yaroslavl State (P.G. Demidov) University, Russia)

Comments: 37 pages, 1 eps figure, extended version of the paper submitted to Physical Review D; version 2: some misprints are corrected in Eqs. (29) - (72) and corresponding changes are made in Sec. 3 and 4; the gamma_5 matrix definition is specified, and general signs are changed correspondingly in the amplitudes PS, SP, AS, SA, PV, VP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[341] arXiv:1312.5720 [pdf, other]

Title: Sharpening $m_{T2}$ cusps: the mass determination of semi-invisibly decaying particles from a resonance

Lucian A. Harland-Lang, Chun-Hay Kom, Kazuki Sakurai, Marco Tonini

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, version 2 updated to JHEP 06 (2014) 175

Journal-ref: JHEP 06 (2014) 175

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[342] arXiv:1312.5730 [pdf, other]

Title: Flavor SU(3) and $\Lambda_b$ decays

Michael Gronau, Jonathan L. Rosner

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 037501 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[343] arXiv:1312.5731 [pdf, other]

Title: Higgs Decay into Two Photons at the Boundary of a Warped Extra Dimension

Juliane Hahn, Clara Hörner, Raoul Malm, Matthias Neubert, Kristiane Novotny, Christoph Schmell

Comments: 30 pages (plus appendices), 4 figures (V2: several improvements of the discussion, discussion of the lepton sector added, typos corrected, references added)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[344] arXiv:1312.5736 [pdf, other]

Title: Disentangling Higgs-Top Couplings in Associated Production

John Ellis, Dae Sung Hwang, Kazuki Sakurai, Michihisa Takeuchi

Comments: 19 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)

[345] arXiv:1312.5743 [pdf, other]

Title: Precise Estimates of the Higgs Mass in Heavy SUSY

Patrick Draper, Gabriel Lee, Carlos E.M. Wagner

Comments: 34 pages, 6 figures. Added acknowledgments in v2. Corrected typos from published version in PRD in v3

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 055023 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[346] arXiv:1312.5791 [pdf, other]

Title: Hidden-Strangeness Partners of X(3872)

Kunihiko Terasaki

Comments: 5 pages

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[347] arXiv:1312.5802 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars with Exotic Phases

Motoi Tachibana, Marco Ruggieri

Comments: 5 pages, no figures. Based on the talk in the International Conference "Baryons13" held at Glasgow in June 2013

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[348] arXiv:1312.5803 [pdf, other]

Title: The near threshold $\pi^- p \to \eta n$ reaction in an effective Lagrangian approach

Qi-Fang Lü, Xiao-Hao Liu, Ju-Jun Xie, De-Min Li

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, Accepted by Modern Physics Letters A

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[349] arXiv:1312.5811 [pdf, other]

Title: Second order theory of $(j,0)\oplus (0,j)$ single high spins as Lorentz tensors

E. G. Delgado-Acosta, M. Kirchbach

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[350] arXiv:1312.5849 [pdf, other]

Title: Two-pion low-energy contribution to the muon $g-2$ with improved precision from analyticity and unitarity

B.Ananthanarayan, Irinel Caprini, Diganta Das, I. Sentitemsu Imsong

Comments: 10 pages latex, using revtex, 5 figures; v2 corresponds to version to appear in Physical Review D; references added; discussions improved

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 89, 036007 (2014)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)