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Xiao-Dong Ma

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arXiv2016

Charged Lepton Flavor-violating Transitions in Color Octet Model

We study charged lepton flavor-violating (LFV) transitions in the color octet model that generates neutrino mass and lepton mixing at one loop. By taking into account neutrino oscillation data and assuming octet particles of TeV scale mass, we examine the feasibility to detect these transitions in current and future experiments. We find that for general values of parameters the branching ratios for LFV decays of the Higgs and $Z$ bosons are far below current and even future experimental bounds. For LFV transitions of the muon, the present bounds can be satisfied generally, while future sensitivities could distinguish between the singlet and triplet color-octet fermions. The triplet case could be ruled out by future $μ-e$ conversion in nuclei, and for the singlet case the conversion and the decays $μ\to 3e,~eγ$ play complementary roles in excluding relatively low mass regions of the octet particles.

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arXiv2016

Renormalization Group Evolution of Dimension-seven Baryon- and Lepton-number-violating Operators

We study dimension-seven operators in standard model effective field theory. These operators are classified into two sets, one violating lepton number but preserving baryon number ($ΔL=\pm 2$, $ΔB=0$) and the other violating both but preserving their sum ($-ΔL=ΔB=\pm 1$). It has been found in the previous literature that there are respectively 13 and 7 such independent operators. We show that one operator is redundant in each set so that the complete list contains only 12 and 6 operators respectively. We accomplish this by using standard model equations of motion and various Fierz identities. We calculate the one-loop anomalous dimension matrix for the 6 operators in the second set, and illustrate its possible phenomenological implications by working out renormalization group running of the Wilson coefficients that could contribute to the type of proton decays with $-ΔL=ΔB=\pm 1$, such as $p\toνπ^+$.

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arXiv2016

Interpretation of 750 GeV Diphoton Excess at LHC in Singlet Extension of Color-octet Neutrino Mass Model

We propose that the possible 750 GeV diphoton excess can be explained in the color-octet neutrino mass model extended with a scalar singlet $Φ$. The model generally contains $N_s$ species of color-octet, electroweak doublet scalars $S$ and $N_f$ species of color-octet, electroweak triplet $χ$ or singlet $ρ$ fermions. While both scalars and fermions contribute to the production of $Φ$ through gluon fusion, only the charged members induce the diphoton decay of $Φ$. The diphoton rate can be significantly enhanced due to interference between the scalar and fermion loops. We show that the diphoton cross section can be from 3 to 10 fb for O(TeV) color-octet particles while evading all current LHC limits.

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