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Siannah Penaranda

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Flavour Anomalies: A comparative analysis using a machine learning algorithm

We present an analysis on flavour anomalies in semileptonic rare $B$-meson decays using an effective field theory approach and assuming that new physics affects only one generation in the interaction basis and non-universal mixing effects are generated by the rotation to the mass basis. A global fit to experimental data is performed, focusing on LFU ratios $R_{D^{(*)}}$ and $R_{J/ψ}$ and branching ratios that exhibit tensions with Standard Model predictions on $B \rightarrow K^{(*)} ν\barν$ decays. In our analysis, we use a Machine Learning Montecarlo algorithm, a framework that emulates the highly non-Gaussian structure of the likelihood landscape with minimal training cost. This method enables the generation of high-resolution confidence regions and detailed correlation analyses. By comparing three different scenarios, we show that the one that introduces only mixing between the second and third quark generations and no mixing in the lepton sector, as well as independent coefficients for the singlet and triplet four fermion effective operators, provides the best fit to the experimental data. A comparison with previous results is performed. We highlight the key strengths of the Machine Learning framework in our analysis.

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B-Meson Anomalies: Effective Field Theory Meets Machine Learning

Discrepancies between experimental measurements and Standard Model predictions in $B$-meson decays, especially in lepton flavor universality ratios like $R_{D^{(*)}}$, $R_{J/ψ}$ and branching ratios for processes like $B\to K^+ν\barν$, suggest possible new physics (NP). In this study, we use an effective field theory framework, assuming NP effects only affect a single generation in the interaction basis, leading to non-universal mixing when rotating to the mass basis. We perform a global fit to the current experimental data, exploring three scenarios characterized by different mixing patterns and constraints. Our analysis finds that the best fit involves mixing between the second and third quark generations, with no lepton sector mixing and independent coefficients for singlet and triplet four-fermion operators. To accurately capture the non-Gaussian nature of the resulting parameter distributions, we use a Machine Learning-based Monte Carlo algorithm, enabling the generation of representative samples that reflect the true underlying distributions. This work highlights the valuable role of Machine Learning in accurately modeling complex parameter distributions in particle physics analyses.

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Using Machine Learning techniques in phenomenological studies in flavour physics

An updated analysis of New Physics violating Lepton Flavour Universality, by using the Standard Model Effective Field Lagrangian with semileptonic dimension six operators at $Λ= 1\,\mathrm{TeV}$ is presented. We perform a global fit, by discussing the relevance of the mixing in the first generation. We use for the first time in this context a Montecarlo analysis to extract the confidence intervals and correlations between observables. Our results show that machine learning, made jointly with the SHAP values, constitute a suitable strategy to use in this kind of analysis.

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Anomalies in B mesons decays: A phenomenological approach

The experimental measurements on flavour physics, in tension with Standard Model predictions, exhibit large sources of Lepton Flavour Universality violation. We perform an analysis of the effects of the global fits on the Wilson coefficients assuming a model independent effective Hamiltonian approach, by including a set of different scenarios in which the New Physics contributions to the Wilson coefficients are present in one, two or three of the Wilson coefficients at a time. We compare the results of the global fit with respect to two cases: the Standard Model and the more general case in which New Physics modifies three independent Wilson coefficients. The last mentioned scenario is the favoured one for explaining the tension between Standard Model predictions and B-physics anomalies, but a specific more restricted scenario can provide similar goodness with a smaller set of free parameters. A discussion of the implications of our analysis in leptoquark models is included.

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Exploring B-physics anomalies at colliders

Several experimental measurements of $B$ meson decays, in tension with Standard Model predictions, exhibit large sources of Lepton Flavour Universality violation. We perform an analysis of the effects of the global fits to the Wilson coefficients assuming a model independent effective Hamiltonian approach, by including a proposal of different scenarios to include the New Physics contributions. Both the current fits at the LHC and the ILC projections are considered. We found that for a simultaneous analysis of predictions for the $R_{D^{(*)}}$ and $R_{K^{(*)}}$ observables, the scenarios with three non-universal Wilson coefficients are favoured.

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Anomalies in B mesons decays: Present status and future collider prospects

The experimental measurements on flavour physics, in tension with Standard Model predictions, exhibit large sources of Lepton Flavour Universality violation. This note summarises an analysis of the effects of the global fits to the Wilson coefficients assuming a model independent effective Hamiltonian approach, by including a proposal of different scenarios to include the New Physics contributions. Additionally, we include an overview of the impact of the future generation of colliders in the field of B-meson anomalies.

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Effective squark/chargino/neutralino couplings: MadGraph implementation

We have included the effective description of squark interactions with charginos/neutralinos in the MadGraph MSSM model. This effective description includes the effective Yukawa couplings, and another logarithmic term which encodes the supersymmetry-breaking. We have performed an extensive test of our implementation analyzing the results of the partial decay widths of squarks into charginos and neutralinos obtained by using FeynArts/FormCalc programs and the new model file in MadGraph. We present results for the cross-section of top-squark production decaying into charginos and neutralinos.

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Radiative corrections to the Higgs potential in the LH model

In this work we compute the radiative corrections to the Higgs mass and the Higgs quartic couplings coming from the Higgs sector itself and the scalar fields $ϕ$ in the Littlest Higgs (LH) model. The restrictions that the new contributions set on the parameter space of the models are also discussed. Finally this work, together with our three previous papers, complete our program addressed to compute the relevant contributions to the Higgs low-energy effective potential in the LH model and the analysis of their phenomenological consequences.

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Effective description of squark interactions

We propose an effective description of squark interactions with charginos/neutralinos. We recompute the strong corrections to squark partial decay widths, and compare the full one-loop computation with the effective description. The effective description includes the effective Yukawa couplings, and another logarithmic term which encodes the supersymmetry-breaking. The proposed effective couplings reproduce correctly the radiative-corrected partial decay widths of the squark decays into charginos and neutralinos in all relevant regions of the parameter space.

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Towards the effective potential of the Littlest Higgs model

We compute the relevant parameters of the combined Higgs and ϕscalar effective potential in the Littlest Higgs (LH) model. These parameters are obtained as the sum of two kind of contributions. The first one is the one-loop radiative corrections coming from fermions and gauge bosons. The second one is obtained at the tree level from the higher order effective operators needed for the ultraviolet completion of the model. Finally we analyze the restrictions that the requirement of reproducing the standard electroweak symmetry breaking of the SM set on the LH model parameters.

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The Higgs effective potential in the Littlest Higgs model at the one-loop level

In this work we compute the contributions to the Higgs effective potential coming from the fermion and gauge boson sectors at the one-loop level in the context of the SU(5)/SO(5) Littlest Higgs (LH) model using a cutoff Lambda and including all finite parts. We consider both, the (SU(2)xU(1))_{1} x (SU(2)xU(1))_{2} and the (SU(2)xU(1))_{1} x (SU(2)xU(1)) gauge group versions of the LH model. We also show that the Goldstone bosons present in the model do not contribute to the effective potential at the one-loop level. Finally, by neglecting the contribution of higher dimensional operators, we discuss the restrictions that the new one-loop contributions set on the parameter space of the LH model and the need to include higher loop corrections to the Higgs potential.

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On the electroweak symmetry breaking in the Littlest Higgs model

In the SU(5)/SO(5) little Higgs models radiative corrections give rise to the SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y symmetry breaking. In this work we start a program for a detailed determination of the relevant terms of the Higgs effective potential by computing the contribution of the b, t and T quarks at the one-loop level, as an starting point for higher-loops computation. In spite of the fact that some two-loop level contributions are well known to be important, we use our preliminary one-loop result to illustrate that, by demanding the effective potential to reproduce exactly the Standard Model Higgs potential, and in particular the relation m_H^2= 2 lambda v^2= 2 mu^2, it will be possible to set new constraints on the parameter space of the Littlest Higgs model when the computation of all the relevant contributions to the Higgs effective potential is completed.

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Single top-quark production by direct supersymmetric flavor-changing neutral-current interactions at the LHC

Production of (electrically neutral) heavy-quark pairs, such as t{\bar c} and {\bar t}c, is extremely suppressed in the SM. In supersymmetric (SUSY) theories, such as the MSSM, the number of these events can be significantly enhanced thanks (mainly) to the FCNC couplings of gluinos. We compute the efficiency of this mechanism for FCNC production of heavy quarks at the LHC. We find that σ(pp\to t\bar{c}+\bar{t}c) can reach 1 pb, and therefore one can expect up to 10^{5} events per 100 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity (with no counterpart in the SM). Their detection would be instant evidence of new physics, and could be a strong indication of underlying SUSY dynamics.

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Quantum corrections to the MSSM h^0 b b-bar vertex: Decoupling limit

We consider the leading one-loop Yukawa-coupling corrections to the h^0 b b-bar coupling at O(m_t^2)in the MSSM in the decoupling limit. The decoupling behavior of the corrections from the various MSSM sectors is analyzed in the case of having some or all of the supersymmetric mass parameters and/or the CP-odd Higgs mass large as compared to the electroweak scale.

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MW and sin^2θ_eff in Split SUSY: present and future expectations

We analyse the precision electroweak observables MW and sin^2θ_eff and their correlations in the recently proposed Split SUSY model. We compare the results with the Standard Model and Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model predictions, and with present and future experimental accuracies. Present experimental accuracies in (MW, sin^2θ_eff) do not allow constraints to be placed on the Split SUSY parameter space. We find that the shifts in (MW, sin^2θ_eff) induced by Split SUSY can be larger than the anticipated accuracy of the GigaZ option of the International Linear Collider, and that the most sensitive observable is sin^2θ_eff. These large shifts are possible also for large chargino masses in scenarios with small tan(β) =~ 1.

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Some results on the distinction of Higgs boson models

We present results on the analysis of the ratio of branching ratios $R=BR(H->b\bar{b})/BR(H->τ^+τ^-)$ of Higgs boson decays as a discriminant quantity between supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric models. A detailed analysis in the effective Lagrangian approach shows how one could discriminate between models at the Large Hadron Collider and the $e^+e^-$ Linear Collider at 500 GeV center of mass energy.

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Decoupling behaviour of O(m_t^4) corrections to the h^0 self-couplings

The decoupling behaviour of the leading one-loop Yukawa-coupling contributions of O(m_t^4) to the lightest MSSM Higgs boson self-couplings, when the top-squarks are heavy as compared to the electroweak scale, are discussed. As shown analytically and numerically, the large corrections can almost completely be absorbed into the h^0-boson mass and therefore, the h^0 self-couplings remain similar to the coupling of the SM Higgs boson for a heavy top-squark sector.

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Quantum effects to the Higgs boson self-couplings in the SM and in the MSSM

We show that the effects of heavy Higgs particles and heavy top-squarks in the one-loop self-couplings of the lightest CP-even MSSM Higgs boson decouple from the low energy theory when the self-couplings are expressed in terms of the Higgs boson mass M_h0. Our conclusion is that the h^0 self-interactions become very close to those of the SM Higgs boson and, therefore, MSSM quantum effects could only be revealed by very high precision experiments.

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