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Salah Nasri

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Neutrino mass, scalar dark matter, and collider signatures in a radiative doublet-triplet model

We explore a radiative neutrino mass model based on the topology T4-3-i, which is a one-loop completion of the Weinberg operator. We focus on its T4-3-i-C1 realization, containing an inert scalar doublet, a real scalar triplet, a Majorana fermion triplet, and a Dirac singlet fermion. An exact $Z_2$ symmetry forbids the tree-level type-III term and stabilizes the lightest $Z_2$-odd particle, leaving the one-loop topology as the leading source of neutrino mass. The model accomodate a neutral {\it CP}-even scalar dark matter candidate and predicts a rank two neutrino mass matrix, and thus one neutrino is massless. A combined analysis incorporating theoretical and experimental constraints reveals viable solutions to both neutrino mass orderings, with the inverted ordering predicting larger values of $m_{ββ}$, $m_β$, and $\sum_i m_i$, thereby enhancing its testability through future beta-decay, neutrinoless double beta decay, and cosmological probes. Within the same viable parameter region, the observed dark matter relic abundance is accounted for by annihilation and coannihilation processes, while the electroweak triplet sector gives rise to prompt, displaced, or long-lived particle signatures, offering complementary collider probes to dark matter and low-energy searches.

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A Novel One-loop Model for Majorana Neutrino Mass and Dark Matter

We present the first complete field-theoretic realization of the finite one-loop T4-3-i topology for Majorana neutrino mass. Here, T4-3-i denotes a one-loop realization of the Weinberg operator in which a fermion links the two external lepton--Higgs pairs. If this fermion is a Majorana singlet or triplet, the same interactions generate a tree-level type-I or type-III seesaw contribution, respectively, so that the loop is not the leading source of neutrino mass. This lower-order contribution is removed by taking the mediator to be a Dirac fermion $N$, placing lepton-number violation in a separate Majorana fermion $ψ$ inside the loop, and imposing an exact $Z_2$ symmetry that keeps the new scalars inert and stabilizes the lightest odd state. We classify the allowed electroweak charge assignments and study the minimal singlet-doublet realization, denoted T4-3-i-B1, which contains one Dirac fermion, one Majorana fermion, an inert scalar doublet, and an inert scalar singlet. The resulting rank-two neutrino mass matrix predicts one massless neutrino. We confront both normal and inverted neutrino-mass orderings with neutrino-oscillation and cosmological data, charged-lepton flavor violation, including $μ-e$ conversion, electroweak precision observables, $h\toγγ$, theoretical consistency conditions, the relic abundance, and direct-detection limits. Both fermionic and scalar dark matter are viable. The fermionic candidate has only a loop-induced Higgs coupling and consequently a strongly suppressed spin-independent scattering rate, whereas the scalar candidate couples through a tree-level Higgs portal and can lie above the neutrino floor while remaining compatible with current limits. In both cases, coannihilation with inert scalars is essential for reproducing the observed relic abundance.

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Gravitational wave signatures of magnetized Ernst black hole

We investigate gravitational wave (GW) emission from periodic timelike orbits of a test particle around a magnetized Ernst black hole and the gravitational waveforms generated by their orbital dynamics. The bound geodesics are systematically classified using the zoom-whirl representation labeled with three integers $(z,w,v)$. Gravitational waveforms are computed within a numerical framework that combines exact geodesic motion with the quadrupole approximation, which is well-suited to extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). This analysis is particularly relevant for assessing the capability of future gravitational-wave observations to detect the effects of magnetic fields. Our results show that an intrinsic magnetic field imprints characteristic features on the GW signal, highlighting GW astronomy as a promising avenue for probing magnetized black hole spacetimes.

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Radiative Neutrino Mass in a Nonholomorphic $T'$ Modular Invariant Model

The T4-2-i topology provides a one-loop realization of Majorana neutrino mass and may be viewed as a radiative extension of the type-II seesaw, with a scalar triplet, two inert scalar doublets, and singlet fermions propagating in the loop. A central difficulty in realizing this topology lies in the simultaneous presence of tree-level type-I and type-II seesaw contributions arising from the same particle content. In addition, the stability of the dark-matter candidate typically requires the introduction of an ad hoc discrete symmetry. In this work, we revisit the T4-2-i topology within a nonholomorphic modular-invariant framework based on the double-cover group $T'$. The presence of both even- and odd-weight polyharmonic Maaß forms considerably enlarges the space of allowed modular structures, while the residual $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry associated with the vicinity of the fixed point $τ=i$ naturally stabilizes the lightest odd state. The modular assignments forbid the dangerous tree-level contributions, determine the flavor structure of the lepton sector, and allow both fermionic and scalar dark-matter candidates. We confront the model with neutrino-oscillation data, charged-lepton-flavor-violating bounds, electroweak precision observables, the Higgs diphoton signal strength, the observed dark-matter relic abundance, the cosmological bound on the sum of neutrino masses, and direct-detection limits. Focusing on the fermionic dark-matter candidate, in which the lightest odd state is the Majorana fermion $N_1$, we find that both normal and inverted neutrino mass orderings remain viable. In the allowed region, the relic abundance is largely controlled by coannihilation with the inert scalar partners, while the spin-independent direct-detection rate remains naturally suppressed because it arises only through a loop-generated Higgs portal.

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Radiative neutrino mass generation and dark matter through vectorlike leptons

This study presents a radiative three-loop model for neutrino mass generation, employing an asymmetric Yukawa coupling between two new scalar $SU(2)_L$ doublets and vectorlike lepton doublets. Dark matter candidates arise from one of the scalar doublets and contribute to neutrino mass generation through the mass splitting between its neutral components. The singly charged scalars are also essential for neutrino mass, with the charged states of the two doublets mixing with one another. A single generation of vectorlike leptons yields two nonzero neutrino masses as a consequence of the asymmetric Yukawa combinations entering the neutrino mass matrix. The model is tested against dark matter phenomenology, neutrino mass and mixing data, and the charged lepton flavor-violating process $μ\rightarrow e γ$, showing compatibility with current bounds and leading to experimentally accessible predictions.

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Dark-Portal Leptogenesis in a Non-Holomorphic Modular Scoto-Seesaw Model

This work explores the neutrino phenomenology of the scotoseesaw model under non-holomorphic $A_4$ modular flavor symmetry providing a non-SUSY framework for realization of the modular symmetry. To prevent mixing between the beyond standard model fields associated with the tree and loop-level neutrino mass contributions, we assign even and odd modular weights to these sectors, respectively. The physical allowed ranges of oscillation parameters are used to identify the viable region of modulus parameter $τ$ in its fundamental domain. With the complex modulus $τ$ serving as the unique source of CP violation (all other parameters are real) the framework realizes successful low-scale leptogenesis through CP-violating decays of the lightest right-handed neutrino into Standard Model leptons and the Higgs boson. The requisite CP asymmetry arises from one-loop diagrams involving dark-sector states, obviating the need for degenerate mass spectra and thereby circumventing the usual resonant leptogenesis mechanism. The observation of a long-lived charged particle ($η^{\pm}$) in collider experiments would offer compelling evidence for the inert scalar sector of the model and provide a crucial experimental hint on the dark-sector assisted generation of neutrino masses and leptogenesis.

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Boosting Sensitivity to $HH\to b\bar{b} γγ$ with Graph Neural Networks and XGBoost

In this paper, we explore the use of advanced machine learning (ML) techniques to enhance the sensitivity of double Higgs boson searches in the \( HH \to b\bar{b}γγ\) decay channel at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13.6 TeV. Two ML models are implemented and compared: a tree-based classifier using XGBoost, and a geometrical-based graph neural network classifier (GNN). We show that the geometrical model outperform the traditional XGBoost classifier improving the expected 95\% CL upper limit on the double Higgs boson production cross-section by 28\%. Our results are compared to the latest ATLAS experiment results, showing significant improvement of both upper limit and Higgs boson self-coupling ($κ_λ$) constraints.

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Nonholomorphic $A_4$ modular invariance for fermion masses and mixing in SU(5) GUT

Addressing the fermion flavor structures using modular invariance is a challenging task in the framework of quark-lepton unification. Building on recent applications of modular symmetry in non-supersymmetric models, we propose the first renormalizable $SU(5)$ grand unified theory incorporating level 3 nonholomorphic modular symmetry, $Γ_3 \simeq A_4$. This framework constrains Yukawa couplings to polyharmonic Maaß forms, significantly reducing the number of free parameters while enhancing the predictive power of the models. We present a comprehensive analysis of fermion masses and mixing while tackling key GUT queries such as gauge coupling unification and proton decay. Beyond the minimal $SU(5)$ framework, the Higgs sector incorporates the $45_H$ dimensional Higgs field crucial in differentiating the masses of down quarks and charged leptons, and the fermion sector is extended with three right-handed neutrinos enabling neutrino masses via the type-I seesaw mechanism. We analyze two benchmark models with distinct modular weight and $A_4$ charge assignments. The predicted effective Majorana mass $m_{ββ}$ values align with current neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments, and the effective neutrino mass $m_β$ is within the reach of future beta decay searches. The predicted sum of neutrino masses, $\sum m_i$, satisfies the upper bound set by recent cosmological observations. The gauge coupling unification is achieved through a light scalar triplet $ϕ_3 \sim (3,3,-1/3)$ and a scalar octet $ϕ_5 \sim (8,2,1/2)$ belonging to the $45_H$ Higgs, while proton decay constraints require a highly suppressed Yukawa couplings.

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Fermion Masses and Mixing in Pati-Salam Unification with $S_3$ Modular Symmetry

Modular invariance has recently paved new promising directions in flavor model building. Motivated by this development, we present in this work the first implementation of the $S_3$ modular symmetry within the Pati-Salam unification framework, addressing the flavor structure of quarks and leptons. Assigning left- and right-handed matter fields as $S_3$ doublets or singlets, we propose three benchmark models that achieve compelling fits to sixteen observables including charged fermion mass ratios and flavor mixing parameters. Light neutrino masses arise via the type-I seesaw mechanism, and neutrino oscillation parameters are explored in light of the latest NuFIT-6.0 results. All models favor a normal neutrino mass ordering, with the atmospheric mixing angle lie in the lower octant. For models I and III, the effective Majorana mass $m_{ββ}$ is within the reach of upcoming neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments, while it is too small to be detected in model II. Predicted leptonic CP-violating phases, the sum of active neutrino masses, and Majorana phases span wide but distinctive ranges, enabling future experiments to test and differentiate the proposed models.

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Doubly-charged scalars of the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model at Muon Colliders

We investigate the prospects of probing the doubly-charged scalars of the minimal Left-Right Symmetric model (MLRSM) at a muon collider. We assess its capability by studying the production of doubly-charged scalars and their subsequent decay into four charged lepton final states containing the same-charge lepton pairs. We find that the channels with same-charge electron and muon pairs, i.e., ($e^{\pm}e^{\pm}μ^{\mp}μ^{\mp}$ and its charge conjugated pairs), have the largest sensitivity due to the lowest Standard Model background. Besides, we show that the possibility of using fully polarized initial muon beams in the muon collider can enhance the detection sensitivity of doubly-charged scalars of the MLRSM. Furthermore, we show that one can put exclusion limits on the magnitudes of triplet Yukawa couplings that are directly related to the neutrino sector of the MLRSM for the mass range $1.1-5$ TeV of the doubly-charged scalars.

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Probing Zee-Babu states at Muon Colliders

The Zee-Babu model is a minimal realization of radiative neutrino mass generation mechanism at the two-loop level. We study the phenomenology of this model at future multi-TeV muon colliders. After imposing all theoretical and low-energy experimental constraints on the model parameters, we find that the Zee-Babu states are expected not to reside below the TeV scale, making it challenging to probe them at the LHC. We first analyze the production rates for various channels, including multi singly-charged and/or doubly-charged scalars at muon colliders. For concreteness, we study several benchmark points that satisfy neutrino oscillation data and other constraints and find that most channels have large production rates. We then analyze the discovery reach of the model using two specific channels: the pair production of singly- and doubly-charged scalars. For the phenomenologically viable scenarios considered in this study, charged scalars with masses up to ${\cal O}(3$--$4)$ TeV can be probed for the center-of-mass energy of $10$ TeV and total luminosity of $10~{\rm ab}^{-1}$.

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Domain Walls in the $A_4$ Flavored NMSSM

In this work, we study the phenomenology of neutrinos and the formation of cosmic domain walls in the NMSSM extended by an $A_4 \times Z_3$ flavor symmetry. Neutrino masses result from the type I seesaw mechanism using only two flavon fields and the NMSSM singlet $\mathcal{S}$ while their mixing is of Trimaximal mixing form. We perform our phenomenological study in the normal mass hierarchy where we find that observables like $m_{ββ}$, $m_β$, and $\sum_i m_i$ can be tested by future experiments. Due to the difference between the $A_4$ subgroups that undergo spontaneous breaking in both the charged lepton and neutrino sectors, the resulting domain walls in each sector exhibit distinct structures. We delve into the details of the breaking patterns within these two sectors, and we introduce a nuanced geometric representation for them. To tackle the domain wall problem, we explore a well-established method involving the explicit breaking of the flavor symmetry. This is achieved through the introduction of Planck-suppressed operators induced by supergravity.

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Cosmological domain walls from the breaking of $\mathbf{S_4}$ flavor symmetry

In this work, we delve into the often-overlooked cosmological implications of spontaneous breaking of non-Abelian discrete groups, specifically focusing on the formation of domain walls in the case of $S_{4}$ flavor symmetry. In particular, we investigate three interesting breaking patterns of the $S_4$ group and study the structure of the domain walls in the broken phase for three possible residual symmetries. The presentation of domain walls in the case of multiple vacua is usually complicated, which therefore implies that most of the analyzes only approximate their presentation. Here, we propose a subtle way to represent the $S_{4}$ domain wall networks by presenting the vacua in each breaking pattern as vectors with their components corresponding to their coordinates in the flavon space. Then, through the properties of the obtained vectors, we find that the domain wall networks can be represented by Platonic or Archimedean solids where the vertices represent the degenerate vacua while the edges correspond to the domain walls that separate them. As an illustration, we propose a type-II seesaw model that is based on the $S_{4}$ flavor symmetry, and study its phenomenological implications on the neutrino sector. To solve the domain wall problem within this toy model, we consider an approach based on high-dimensional effective operators induced by gravity that explicitly break the structure of the induced vacua favoring one vacuum over the others.

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Boosting dark matter searches at muon colliders with Machine Learning: the mono-Higgs channel as a case study

The search for dark-matter (DM) candidates at high-energy colliders is one of the most promising avenues to understand the nature of this elusive component of the universe. Several searches at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have strongly constrained a wide range of simplified models. The combination of the bounds from the LHC with direct-detection experiments exclude the most minimal scalar singlet DM model. To address this, Lepton portal DM models are suitable candidates where DM is predominantly produced at lepton colliders since the DM candidate only interacts with the lepton sector through a mediator that carries a lepton number. In this work, we analyse the production of DM pairs in association with a Higgs boson decaying into two bottom quarks at future muon colliders in the framework of the minimal lepton portal DM model. It is found that the usual cut-based analysis methods fail to probe heavy DM masses for both the resolved (where the decay products of the Higgs boson can be resolved as two well-separated small-$R$ jets) and the merged (where the Higgs boson is clustered as one large-$R$ jet). We have then built a search strategy based on Boosted-Decision Trees (BDTs). We have optimised the hyperparameters of the BDT model to both have a high signal-to-background ratio and to avoid overtraining effects. We have found very important enhancements of the signal significance with respect to the cut-based analysis by factors of $8$--$50$ depending on the regime (resolved or merged) and the benchmark points. Using this BDT model on a one-dimensional parameter space scan we found that future muon colliders with $\sqrt{s}=3$ TeV and ${\cal L} = 1~{\rm ab}^{-1}$ can exclude DM masses up to $1$ TeV at the $95\%$ CL.

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Gravitational waves from metastable cosmic strings in Pati-Salam model in light of new pulsar timing array data

A series of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) recently observed gravitational waves at the nanohertz frequencies. Motivated by this remarkable result, we present a novel class of Pati-Salam models that give rise to a network of metastable cosmic strings, offering a plausible explanation for the observed PTA data. Besides, we introduce a hybrid inflationary scenario to eliminate magnetic monopoles that arise during the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Pati-Salam gauge group to the Standard Model. The resulting scalar spectral index is compatible with Planck data, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio is anticipated to be extremely small. Moreover, we incorporate a non-thermal leptogenesis to generate the required baryon asymmetry in our framework. Finally, the gravitational wave spectra generated by the metastable cosmic strings not only correspond to signals observed in recent PTAs, including NANOGrav, but are also within the exploration capacity of both present and future ground-based and space-based experiments.

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Quantum simulation of quantum mechanical system with spatial noncommutativity

Quantum simulation has become a promising avenue of research that allows one to simulate and gain insight into the models of High Energy Physics whose experimental realizations are either complicated or inaccessible with current technology. We demonstrate the quantum simulation of such a model, a quantum mechanical system with spatial noncommutativity, which is inspired by the works in Noncommutative Geometry and Noncommutative Field theory for a universal quantum computer. We use the novel group theoretical formalism to map the Hamiltonian of such a noncommutative quantum system into the ordinary quantum mechanical Hamiltonian and then carry out the quantum simulation using the Trotter-Suzuki product formula. Furthermore, we distinguish the impact of the noncommutativity parameter on the quantum simulation, especially on the Trotter error, and point out how its sizable value affects the simulation.

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Lepton portal dark matter at muon colliders: Total rates and generic features for phenomenologically viable scenarios

Lepton portal dark matter (DM) models are a class of models where the DM candidates solely couple to charged leptons through a mediator carrying a lepton number. These models are very interesting since they avoid constraints from direct detection experiments even for coupling of order ${\cal O}(1)$, they have small annihilation cross sections, and can be probed efficiently at lepton colliders. In this work, we consider a minimal lepton portal DM model which consists of extending the SM with two $SU(2)_L$ singlets: a charged scalar singlet and an electrically neutral right-handed fermion. We systematically study the production mechanisms of DM at multi-TeV muon colliders. After considering all the possible theoretical and experimental constraints and studying the phenomenology of lepton flavour violation and DM in the muon-philic scenario, we analyse the production rates of 54 channels (26 channels for prompt DM production and 28 channels for charged scalar production) at multi-TeV muon colliders. Finally, we discuss the possible collider signatures of some channels and the corresponding backgrounds. We find that at least 9 channels for DM production can be very efficient in testing DM with masses up to about $1$ TeV.

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LHC Run-3, $b-τ$ Yukawa Unification and Dark Matter Implications in SUSY 4-2-2 model

We revisit the bottom and $τ$ Yukawa coupling unification in supersymmetric $4$-$2$-$2$ model and present for the first time the sbottom-neutralino co-annihilation scenario consistent with the bottom and $τ$ Yukawa coupling unification. In addition, we show gluino-neutralino, stop-neutralino, stau-neutralino, chargino-neutralino, and A-resonance scenario and show that all such solutions are consistent with existing experimental collider constraints, Planck2018 dark matter relic density bounds as well as direct and indirect bounds on neutralino-nucleons scattering cross sections. We show that in sbottom-neutralino co-annihilation scenario, the sbottom mass is about 2 TeV whereas in the case of gluino-neutralino, stop-neutralino, the gluino mass can be between 1 TeV to 3 TeV and stop mass in the range of 1 TeV to 3.5 TeV. {Moreover, in the case of co-annihilation scenario, the stau and chargino masses can be as heavy as 3.5 TeV,} while the A-resonance solutions are in the range of 0.5 TeV to 3.5 TeV. We anticipate that some part of the parameter space will be accessible in the supersymmetry searches at LHC Run-3 and beyond.

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