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On Schwarzschild black holes in a D-dimensional noncommutative space

This work aims to implement the idea of noncommutativity in the subject of black holes. Its principal contents deal with a study of Schwarzschild black holes in a D-dimensional noncommutative space. Various aspects related to the non commutative extension are discussed and some non trivial results are derived.

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Higgs boson decay into 2 photons in the type~II Seesaw Model

We study the two photon decay channel of the Standard Model-like component of the CP-even Higgs bosons present in the type II Seesaw Model. The corresponding cross-section is found to be significantly enhanced in parts of the parameter space, due to the (doubly-)charged Higgs bosons' $(H^{\pm \pm})H^\pm$ virtual contributions, while all the other Higgs decay channels remain Standard Model(SM)-like. In other parts of the parameter space $H^{\pm \pm}$ (and $H^{\pm}$) interfere destructively, reducing the two photon branching ratio tremendously below the SM prediction. Such properties allow to account for any excess such as the one reported by ATLAS/CMS at $\approx 125$ GeV if confirmed by future data; if not, for the fact that a SM-like Higgs exclusion in the diphoton channel around 114-115 GeV as reported by ATLAS, does not contradict a SM-like Higgs at LEP(!), and at any rate, for the fact that ATLAS/CMS exclusion limits put stringent lower bounds on the $H^{\pm \pm}$ mass, particularly in the parameter space regions where the direct limits from same-sign leptonic decays of $H^{\pm \pm}$ do not apply.

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The Higgs Potential in the Type II Seesaw Model

We perform in the type II seesaw setting, a detailed study of the dynamical features of the corresponding general renormalizable doublet/triplet Higgs potential that depends on five dimensionless couplings and two mass parameters after spontaneous symmetry breaking, and highlight the implications for the Higgs phenomenology. In particular, we determine i) the complete set of tree-level unitarity constraints on the couplings of the potential and ii) the exact tree-level {\sl all directions} boundedness from below constraints on these couplings. When combined, these constraints delineate precisely the theoretically allowed parameter space domain within our perturbative approximation. Among the seven physical Higgs states of this model, the mass of the lighter (heavier) CP-even state h0 (H0) will always satisfy a theoretical upper (lower) bound that is reached for a critical value mu_c of mu (the mass parameter controlling triple couplings among the doublet/triplet Higgses). Saturating the unitarity bounds we find m_h0 < {\cal O}(0.7 - 1 TeV), while the upper bound for the remaining Higgses lies in the several tens of TeV. However, the actual masses can be much lighter. We identify two regimes corresponding to mu > mu_c and mu < mu_c. In the first regime the Higgs sector is typically very heavy and only h0 that becomes SM-like could be accessible to the LHC. In contrast, in the second regime, somewhat overlooked in the literature, most of the Higgs sector is light. In particular the heaviest state H0 becomes SM-like, the lighter states being the CP-odd Higgs, the (doubly) charged Higgses and a decoupled h0, possibly leading to a distinctive phenomenology at the colliders.

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On the dilaton and the axion potentials

We extend the Vecchia-Veneziano-Witten (VVW) model of QCD in the chiral limit and for large colour number $N_c$, by introducing an effective dilaton-gluon coupling from which we derive both the axion and dilaton potentials. Furthermore, using a string inspired model, we determine a new interquark potential as a perturbative series in terms of the interquark distance $r$. Our potential goes beyond Dick one obtained in [8] and shares the same features as the Bian-Huang-Shen potential $V_{BHS}$ which depends only on odd powers of $r$ [22].

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Heavy meson masses via Dick interquark potential

We study Dick quark-antiquark potential (up to a color factor) $V_D(r)={-α_s \over r} + gf \sqrt{N_c \over {2(N_c-1)}} \ln[exp(2mr)-1]$ in the heavy meson sector. This potential emerges from an effective dilaton-gluon coupling inspired from string theory and proves to be linearly rising at large distances which ensures quark confinement. The semi-relativistic wave equation which appears in the theory of relativistic quark-antiquark bound states is used. This equation is cast into a constituent second order Schrödinger-like equation with the inclusion of relativistic corrections up to order $(v/c)^{2}$ in the quark speeds. The resulting equation is solved for Dick potential via the Shifted-$l$ expansion technique (SLET). The obtained results show that the spin-averaged energy levels of heavy-mesons are well explained and agree with other potential models or QCD sum rules predictions. Moreover, as a by-product, our analysis assign to the dilaton a mass around 56.9 MeV lying within the range of many theoretical scenario of dilatonic mass.

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On the confining potential in 4d $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory with dilaton

Using the formal analogy between the Dick superstring inspired model of ref.[6] and the problem of building of Eguchi Hanson metric in 4d N=2 harmonic superspace (hs), we derive a general formula for the quark-quark interaction potential V(r) including the Dick confining potential. The interquark potential V(r) depends on the dilaton-gluon coupling and may be related to the parameterization of confinement by the quark and gluon vacuum condensates. It is also shown how the axion field may be incorporated in agreement with 10d type IIB superstring requirements. Others features are also discussed.

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More Insight into Heavy Quark Masses from QCD

Using the non-relativistic version of Borel sum rules, combined to the very accurate experimental information on the Charmonium and Upsilon spectra, we rigorously investigate the Euclidean mass of the Charm and Bottom quark. Our analysis is performed with an improved expansion of the heavy current correlator in the infinite heavy quark mass limit. The optimal results, which take into account the most recent world average values of the strong coupling constant, as well as a conservative range of the gluon condensate, are: m_c^Eucl=1.20+-0.034 GeV and m_b^Eucl=4.18+-0.037 GeV. Their conversions to the corresponding pole mass and running mass give respectively: M_c=1.49+-0.08 GeV, M_b=4.65+-0.06 GeV and m_c(m_c)=1.21+-0.08 GeV, m_b(m_b)=4.20+-0.06 GeV in good agreement with the most recent direct estimates.

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