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Zhen-Jun Xiao

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arXiv2015

Constraining dark matter in the LRTH model with latest LHC, XENON100 and LUX data

In the left-right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, the neutral $\hat{S}$ is a candidate for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). If its mass is lighter than half of the SM-like Higgs boson $h$, the new invisible decay $h \to \hat{S}\hat{S}$ will become open. In this paper, we examine the status of a light dark matter ($\hat{S}$) under current experimental constraints including the latest LHC Higgs data, the XENON100 and LUX limit on the dark matter scattering off the nucleon. The following observations have been obtained: (i) The current ATLAS (CMS) measurements of $R_{γγ}$ can exclude the invisible Higgs branching ratio ${\rm Br}_{\rm inv}$ larger than $34\%$ ($48\%$) at $2σ$ level; (ii) the Global fits to the latest LHC and Tevatron Higgs data provide a stronger constraint: ${\rm Br}_{\rm inv}< 20\%$ ($30\%$) at $2σ$ ($3σ$) level, which could be tested in the LHC experiments; (iii) for the spin-independent scattering cross section off the nucleon, the recent XENON100 (LUX) data can exclude the invisible decay rate larger than $50\%$ $(25\%)$; and (iv) the results of direct DM searches with LUX can give strong constraint on the viable parameter space of $\{g_{h\hat{S}\hat{S}}, m_{\hat{S}}\}$ in this LRTH model.

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arXiv2014

Charmless hadronic $B \to (f_1(1285),f_1(1420)) P$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach

We study 20 charmless hadronic $B \to f_1 P$ decays in the perturbative QCD(pQCD) formalism with $f_1$ representing axial-vector mesons $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ that result from a mixing of quark-flavor $f_{1q}$ and $f_{1s}$ states with the angle $ϕ_{f_1}$. The estimations of branching ratios and CP asymmetries of the considered $B \to f_1 P$ decays are presented in the pQCD approach with $ϕ_{f_1} \sim 24^\circ$ from recently measured $B_{d/s} \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ decays. It is found that (a) the tree(penguin) dominant $B^+ \to f_1 π^+(K^+)$ decays with large branching ratios[${\cal O}(10^{-6})$] and large direct CP violations(around 14% $\sim$ 28% in magnitude) simultaneously are believed to be clearly measurable at the LHCb and Belle II experiments; (b) the $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ and $B_s \to f_1 (η, η^{\prime})$ decays with nearly pure penguin contributions and safely negligible tree pollution also have large decay rates in the order of $10^{-6} \sim 10^{-5}$, which can be confronted with the experimental measurements in the near future; (c) as the alternative channels, the $B^+ \to f_1 (π^+, K^+)$ and $B_d \to f_1 K_S^0$ decays have the supplementary power in providing more effective constraints on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa weak phases $α$, $γ$, and $β$ correspondingly, which are explicitly analyzed through the large decay rates and the direct and mixing-induced CP asymmetries in the pQCD approach and are expected to be stringently examined by the measurements with high precision. The complete abstraction can be found in the paper.

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arXiv2014

The production and decay of the top partner $T$ in the left-right twin higgs model at the ILC and CLIC

The left-right twin Higgs model (LRTHM) predicts the existence of the top partner $T$. In this work, we make a systematic investigation for the single and pair production of this top partner $T$ through the processes: $e^{+}e^{-}\to t\ov{T} + T\bar{t}$ and $ T\ov{T}$, the neutral scalar (the SM-like Higgs boson $h$ or neutral pseudoscalar boson $ϕ^{0}$) associate productions $e^{+}e^{-}\to t\ov{T}h +T\bar{t}h$, $T\ov{T}h$, $t\ov{T}ϕ^{0}+T\bar{t}ϕ^{0}$ and $ T\ov{T}ϕ^{0}$. From the numerical evaluations for the production cross sections and relevant phenomenological analysis we find that (a) the production rates of these processes, in the reasonable parameter space, can reach the level of several or tens of fb; (b) for some cases, the peak value of the resonance production cross section can be enhanced significantly and reaches to the level of pb; (c) the subsequent decay of $T\to ϕ^{+}b \to t\bar{b}b$ may generate typical phenomenological features rather different from the signals from other new physics models beyond the standard model(SM); and (d) since the relevant SM background is generally not large, some signals of the top partner $T$ predicted by the LRTHM may be detectable in the future ILC and CLIC experiments.

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arXiv2014

Semileptonic decays $B_c^+\to D^{(*)}_{(s)}(l^+ν,l^+l^-,ν\barν)$ in the perturbative QCD approach

In this paper we study the semileptonic decays of $B_c^+\to D^{(*)}_{(s)}(l^+ν_l,l^+l^-,ν\barν)$ (here $l$ stands for $e$, $μ$, or $τ$). After evaluating the $B_c^+ \to (D_{(s)},D^*_{(s)})$ transition form factors $F_{0,+,T}(q^2)$ and $V(q^2), A_{0,1,2}(q^2), T_{1,2,3}(q^2)$ by employing the perturbative QCD factorization approach, we calculate the branching ratios for all these semileptonic decays. Our predictions for the values of the $B_c^+ \to D_{(s)}$ and $B_c^+ \to D^*_{(s)}$ transition form factors are consistent with those obtained by using other methods. The branching ratios of the decay modes with $\barνν$ are almost an order of magnitude larger than the corresponding decays with $l^+l^-$ after the summation over the three neutrino generations. The branching ratios for the decays with $b\to d$ transitions are much smaller than those decays with the $b\to s$ transitions, due to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa suppression. We define ratios $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$ for the branching ratios with the $τ$ lepton versus $μ$, $e$ lepton final states to cancel the uncertainties of the form factors, which could possibly be tested in the near future.

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arXiv2014

Penguin-dominated $B \to ϕK_1(1270)$ and $ϕK_1(1400)$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach

We investigate the CP-averaged branching ratios, the polarization fractions, the relative phases, and the CP-violating asymmetries of the penguin-dominated $B \to ϕK_1(1270) $ and $ ϕK_1(1400)$ decays in the perturbative QCD(pQCD) approach, where $K_1(1270)$ and $K_1(1400)$ are believed to be the mixtures of two distinct types of axial-vector $K_{1A}(^3P_1)$ and $K_{1B}(^1P_1)$ states with different behavior, however, their mixing angle $θ_{K_1}$ is still a hot and controversial topic presently. By numerical evaluations with two different mixing angles $θ_{K_1} \sim 33^\circ$ and $58^\circ$ and phenomenological analysis, we find that: (a) the pQCD predictions for the branching ratio, the longitudinal polarization fraction and the direct CP violation of $B^\pm \to ϕK_1(1270)^\pm$ decay with the smaller angle $33^\circ$ are in good agreement with the currently available data; (b) though the central values significantly exceed the available upper limit, both pQCD predictions of $Br(B^\pm \to ϕK_1(1400)^\pm)$ with two different mixing angles are consistent with that obtained in QCD factorization and with the preliminary data in 2$σ$ errors. These results and other relevant predictions for the considered decays will be further tested by the LHCb and the forthcoming Super-B experiments; (c) the weak annihilation contributions can play an important role in $B \to ϕK_1(1270)$ and $ϕK_1(1400)$ decays; (d) these pQCD predictions combined with the future precision measurements can examine the reliability of the factorization approach employed here, but also explore the complicated QCD dynamics and mixing angle $θ_{K_1}$ of the axial-vector $K_1(1270)$ and $K_1(1400)$ system.

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arXiv2014

$\bar{B}^0_s \to (π^0 η^{()}, η^{()}η^{(*)})$ decays and the effects of next-to-leading order contributions in the perturbative QCD approach

In this paper, we calculate the branching ratios and CP violating asymmetries of the five $\bar{B}^0_s \to (π^0η^{(*)},η^{(*)}η^{(*)})$ decays, by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach and with the inclusion of all currently known next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions. We find that (a) the NLO contributions can provide about 100% enhancements to the LO pQCD predictions for the decay rates of $\bar{B}_s^0 \to ηη^\prime$ and $η^\prime η^\prime$ decays, but result in small changes to $Br(\bar{B}_s \to π^0 η^{(*)})$ and $Br(\bar{B}_s \to ηη)$; (b) the newly known NLO twist-2 and twist-3 contributions to the relevant form factors can provide about 10% enhancements to the decay rates of the considered decays; (c) for $\bar{B}_s \to π^0 η^{(*)}$ decays, their direct CP-violating asymmetries $\cala_f^{dir}$ could be enhanced significantly by the inclusion of the NLO contributions; and (d) the pQCD predictions for $Br(\bar{B}_s \to ηη^{(*)})$ and $Br(\bar{B}_s \to η^\prime η^\prime)$ can be as large as $4\times 10^{-5}$, which may be measurable at LHCb or the forthcoming super-B experiments.

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arXiv2014

The perturbative QCD factorization of $ργ^{\star} \to π$

In this paper, we firstly varify that the factorization hypothesis is valid for the exclusive process $ργ^{\star} \to π$ at the next-to-leading order (NLO) with the collinear factorization approach, and then extend this proof to the case of the $k_T$ factorization approach. We particularly show that at the NLO level, the soft divergences in the full quark level calculation could be canceled completely as for the $πγ^{\star} \to π$ process where only the pseudoscalar $π$ meson involved, and the remaining collinear divergences can be absorbed into the NLO hadron wave functions. The full amplitudes can be factorized as the convolution of the NLO wave functions and the infrared-finite hard kernels with these factorization approaches. We also write out the NLO meson distribution amplitudes in the form of nonlocal matrix elements.

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arXiv2014

The two-body hadronic decays of $B_c$ meson in the perturbative QCD approach: A short review

Along with the running of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) located at CERN in November 2009, a large number of data samples of $B_c$ meson have been collected and some hadronic $B_c$ decay modes have been measured by the LHC experiments. In view of the special and important roles of $B_c$ meson decays playing in the heavy flavor sector, we here give a short review on the status of two body hadronic decays $B_c \to M_1 M_2$ at both experimental and theoretical aspects. For the theoretical progresses, specifically, we will show lots of theoretical studies on two body hadronic $B_c$ decays involving pseudoscalar, vector, scalar, axial-vector, even tensor meson(s) in the final states by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach. We will present a general analysis about the two-body hadronic decays of the heavy $B_c$ meson and also provide some expectations for the future developments.

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arXiv2014

The semileptonic decays of $B/B_s$ meson in the perturbative QCD approach: A short review

In this short review, we present the current status about the theoretical and experimental studies for some important semileptonic decays of $B/B_s$ mesons. We firstly gave a brief introduction for the experimental measurements for $B/B_s \to P (l^+l^-, l^-\barν_l, ν\barν)$ decays, the BaBar's $R(D)$ and $R(D^*)$ anomaly, the $P_5^\prime$ deviation for $B^0 \to K^{*0} μ^+ μ^-$ decay. We then made a careful discussion about the evaluations for the relevant form factors in the light-cone QCD sum rule (LCSRs), the heavy quark effective theory, and the perturbative QCD factorization approach. By using the form factors calculated in the perturbative (pQCD) approach, we then calculate and show the pQCD predictions for the decay rates of many semileptonic decays of $B/B_s$ mesons. We also made careful phenomenological analysis for these pQCD predictions and found, in general, the following points: (a) For all the considered $B/B_s$ semileptonic decays, the next-to-leading order (NLO) pQCD predictions for their decay rates agree well with the data and those from other different theoretical methods; (b) For $R(D)$ and $R(D^*)$, the pQCD predictions agree very well with the data, the BaBar's anomaly of $R(D^{(*)})$ are therefore explained successfully in the standard model by employing the pQCD approach; and (c) We defined several new ratios $R_D^{l,τ}$ and $R_{D_s}^{l,τ}$, they may be more sensitive to the QCD dynamics which controls the $B/B_s \to (D^{(*)},D_s^{(*)})$ transitions than the old ratios, we therefore strongly suggest LHCb and the forthcoming Super-B experiments to measure these new ratios.

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arXiv2014

$B\to ππ$ decays and effects of the next-to-leading order contributions

In this paper we perform a systematic study for the three $B \to (π^+π^-,π^+π^0,π^0π^0)$ decays in the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach with the inclusion of all currently known next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions from various sources. We found that (a) for the CP-averaged decay rates $Br(B^0\to π^+π^-)$ and $Br(B^+\to π^+π^0)$, the NLO pQCD predictions agree with the data within one standard dviation; (b) for $Br(B^0\to π^0π^0)$, however, although the NLO contributions can provide a $\sim 100\%$ enhancement to the leading order (LO) result, it is still not large enough to interpret the data; (c) for the CP-violating asymmetries of $B^0\to π^+π^-$ decay, the central values of the NLO PQCD predictions agree with the data; and (d) we also examined the relative strength of the LO and NLO contributions from different sources.

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arXiv2014

Axial-vector $f_1(1285)-f_1(1420)$ mixing and $B_s \to J/ψ(f_1(1285), f_1(1420))$ decays

Inspired by the very recent LHCb measurements of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and the good agreement between the perturbative QCD predictions and the data for many $B \to J/ψV$ decays, we here investigate the $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ decays for the first time by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) approach, in which the $1^3P_1$ states $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ are believed to be the mixture of flavor singlet $f_1$ and octet $f_8$ or of quark-flavor states $f_{1q}$ and $f_{1s}$. We show that the pQCD predictions for the branching ratio of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ agree well with the data within errors for the mixing angle $θ_{^3P_1} \approx 20^\circ (ϕ_{^3P_1} \approx 15^\circ)$ between $f_1 (f_{1q})$ and $f_8 (f_{1s})$ states. Furthermore, the branching ratio of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ and the large transverse polarization fractions in these two considered channels are also predicted and will be tested by the LHC and the forthcoming Super-B factory experiments. Based on the decay rates of $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1285)$ and $B_s \to J/ψf_1(1420)$ decay modes predicted in the pQCD approach, the extracted mixing angle between $f_1(1285)$ and $f_1(1420)$ is basically consistent with currently available experimental measurements and lattice QCD analysis within still large theoretical errors.

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arXiv2014

The NLO twist-3 contributions to $B \to π$ form factors in $k_{T}$ factorization

In this paper, we calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) twist-3 contribution to the form factors of $B \to π$ transitions by employing the $k_{T}$ factorization theorem. All the infrared divergences regulated by the logarithms $\ln(k_{iT}^{2})$ cancel between those from the quark diagrams and from the effective diagrams for the initial $B$ meson wave function and the final pion meson wave function. An infrared finite NLO hard kernel is therefore obtained, which confirms the application of the $k_{T}$ factorization theorem to $B$ meson semileptonic decays at twist-3 level. From our analytical and numerical evaluations, we find that the NLO twist-3 contributions to the form factors $f^{+,0}(q^2)$ of $B \to π$ transition are similar in size, but have an opposite sign with the NLO twist-2 contribution, which leads to a large cancelation between these two NLO parts. For the case of $f^+(0)$, for example, the $24\%$ NLO twist-2 enhancement to the full LO prediction is largely canceled by the negative ( about $-17\%$ ) NLO twist-3 contribution, leaving a small and stable $7\%$ enhancement to the full LO prediction in the whole range of $0\leq q^2\leq 12$ GeV$^2$. At the full NLO level, the perturbative QCD prediction is $F^{B \to π}(0)=0.269^{+0.054}_{-0.050}$. We also studied the possible effects on the pQCD predictions when different sets of the B meson and pion distribution amplitudes are used in the numerical evaluation.

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arXiv2014

$\bar{B}^0_s \to Kπ,KK$ decays and effects of the next-to-leading order contribution

By employing the perturbative QCD(pQCD) factorization approach, we calculate the branching ratios and CP violating asymmetries of the four $\bar{B}_s^0 \to Kπ$ and $K K $ decays, with the inclusion of all known next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions. We find numerically that (a) the NLO contribution can interfere with the LO part constructively or destructively for different decay modes; (b) the NLO contribution leads to a $22\%$ decrease for $Br(\bar{B}^0_s \to K^+ π^-)$, but $\sim 50\%$ enhancements to other three considered $\bar{B}_s$ decays, and therefore play an important role in interpreting the measured values of the branching ratios; and (c) for both $\bar{B}_s^0 \to K^+ π^-$ and $\bar{B}_s^0 \to K^+K^- $ decays, the NLO pQCD predictions for the direct and mixing induced CP-violating asymmetries agree very well with the measured values in both the sign and the magnitude.

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arXiv2014

Left-right twin Higgs model confronted with the latest LHC Higgs data

Motivated by the latest LHC Higgs data, we calculate the new physics contributions to the Higgs decay channels of $h\to γγ, Zγ, ττ, WW^*$ and $ ZZ^*$ in the left-right twin Higgs (LRTH) model, induced by the loops involving the heavy T-quark, the $W_H$ and $ϕ^\pm$ bosons appeared in the LRTH model. We find that (a) for a SM-like Higgs boson around 125.5 GeV, the signal rates normalized to the corresponding standard model (SM) predictions are always suppressed when new physics contributions are taken into account and approach the SM predictions for a large scalar parameter $f$; and (b) the LRTH prediction for $R_{γγ}$ agree well with the CMS measurement $R_{γγ}=0.77\pm 0.27$ at $1σ$ level, but differ with the ATLAS result. The forthcoming precision measurement of the diphoton signal at the LHC can be a sensitive probe for the LRTH model.

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arXiv2014

The NLO twist-3 contribution to the pion electromagnetic form factors in $k_{T}$ factorization

In this paper, by employing the $k_{T}$ factorization theorem, we calculate firstly the next-to-leading-order (NLO) twist-3 contributions to the pion electromagnetic form factors in the $πγ^* \to π$ process. From the analytical and numerical calculations we find the following points: (a) For the leading order (LO) twist-2, twist-3 and the NLO twist-2 contributions, our results agree very well with those obtained in previous works; (b) We extract out two factors $F^{(1)}_{\rm T3}(x_i,t,Q^2)$ and $\ov{F}^{(1)}_{\rm T3}(x_i,t,Q^2)$, which describe directly the NLO twist-3 contributions to the pion electromagnetic form factors $F^+(Q^2)$; (c) The NLO twist-3 contribution is negative in sign and cancel partially with the NLO twist-2 part, the total NLO contribution can therefore provide a roughly $\pm 20\%$ corrections to the total LO contribution in the considered ranges of $Q^2$; and (d) The theoretical predictions for $Q^2 F^+(Q^2)$ in the low-$Q^2$ region agree well with currently available data, this agreement can be improved by the inclusion of the NLO contributions.

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arXiv2014

Semileptonic decays $B \to D^{(*)} lν$ in the perturbative QCD factorization approach

In this paper, we study the $B \to D^{(*)} l^- \barν_{\rm l}$ semileptonic decays and calculate the branching ratios ${\cal B}(B \to D^{(*)} l^- \barν_{\rm l})$ and the ratios $R(D^{(*)})$ and $R_{\rm D}^{\rm l,τ}$ by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach. We find that (a) for $R(D)$ and $R(D^*)$ ratios, the pQCD predictions are $R(D)=0.430^{+0.021}_{-0.026}$, $R(D^*)=0.301 \pm 0.013$ and agree well with BaBar's measurements of $R(D^{(*)})$; (b) for the newly defined $R_{\rm D}^{\rm l}$ and $R_{\rm D}^{\rm τ}$ ratios, the pQCD predictions are $R_{\rm D}^{\rm l} = 0.450^{+0.064}_{-0.051}$ and $R_{\rm D}^{\rm τ} =0.642^{+0.081}_{-0.070}$, which may be more sensitive to the QCD dynamics of the considered semileptonic decays than $R(D^{(*)})$ and should be tested by experimental measurements.

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arXiv2013

$B \to K \etap$ decays in the SM with fourth generation fermions

By employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach, we calculate the new physics contributions to the four $B \to K \etap$ decays in the Standard Model (SM) with a fourth generation of fermions (SM4), induced by the loop diagrams involving $\tp$ quark. Within the considered parameter space of the SM4 we find that (a) the next-to-leading order (NLO) pQCD predictions for the branching ratios and CP-violating asymmetries in both the SM and SM4 generally agree with the data within one standard deviation; (b) for $Br(B \to K η)$, the inclusion of the fourth generation contributions can improve the agreement between the theoretical predictions and the data effectively; (c) for $Br(B \to K \etar)$, however, the decrease due to $\tp$ loops is disfavored by the data; and (d) the new physics corrections to the CP-violating asymmetries of the considered decays are about 10% only.

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arXiv2013

Study of $\bar{B}_s^0 \to (D_s^+,D_s^{*+}) l^-\barν_l$ decays in the pQCD factorization approach

The $\bar{B}_s^0 \to D_s^{(*)+} l^- \barν_l$ semileptonic decays were calculated in the framework of the standard model (SM) by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach. We defined four ratios of the branching ratios of the considered decays $R(D_s^{(*)})$ and $R_{D_s}^{l,τ}$. From the numerical results and phenomenological analysis we found that: (a) The pQCD predictions for the branching ratios $Br(\bar{B}_s^0 \to D_s^{(*)+} l^-\barν_l)$ generally agree well with the previous theoretical predictions; (b) For the four ratios, the pQCD predictions are $R(D_s)= 0.392 \pm 0.022$, $R(D_s^{*})= 0.302\pm 0.011$, $R_{D_{s}}^l=0.448^{+0.058}_{-0.041}$ and $R_{D_{s}}^τ=0.582^{+0.071}_{-0.045}$, which show a very good $SU(3)_F$ flavor symmetry with the corresponding ratios for $B\to D^{(*)} l^- \barν_l$ decays; and (c) we strongly suggest the measurements of the new ratios $R(D_s^{(*)})$ and $R_{D_{s}}^{l,τ}$ in the forthcoming Super-B experiments.

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