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arXiv2011

An analysis of B_{d,s} mixing angles in presence of New Physics and an update of Bs -> K0* anti-K0*

We discuss a simple approach to measure the weak mixing angles phi_s and phi_d of the Bs and Bd systems in the presence of New Physics. We present a new expression that allows one to measure directly the New Physics mixing angles if New Physics contributes significantly to the mixing only. We apply the method to specific penguin-mediated B->PP, B->PV and B ->VV modes. We provide a very stringent and simple bound on the direct CP asymmetries of all these modes, the violation of which is a signal of New Physics in decay. Within the same theoretical framework, an updated prediction for the branching ratio of Bs->K0* anti-K0* is presented, which can be compared with a recent LHCb analysis.

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arXiv2011

The nucleon and Delta(1232) form factors at low momentum-transfer and small pion masses

An expansion of the electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon and Delta(1232) in small momentum transfer and pion mass is performed in a manifestly-covariant EFT framework consistent with chiral symmetry and analyticity. We present the expressions for the nucleon and Delta(1232) electromagnetic form factors, charge radii, and electromagnetic moments in the framework of SU(2) baryon chiral perturbation theory, with nucleon and Delta(1232)-isobar degrees of freedom, to next-to-leading order. Motivated by the results for the proton electric radius obtained from the muonic-hydrogen atom and electron-scattering process, we extract values for the second derivative of the electric form factor which is a genuine prediction of the p^3 BChPT. The chiral behavior of radii and moments is studied and compared to that obtained in the heavy-baryon framework and lattice QCD. The chiral behavior of Delta(1232)-isobar properties exhibits cusps and singularities at the threshold of Delta->pi N decay, and their physical significance is discussed.

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arXiv2012

Analysis of $B\to K^*_J (\to K π) μ^+μ^-$ in the higher kaon resonance region

We study the resonant contributions in the process $\bar{B}^0\to K^- π^+μ^+μ^-$ with the $K^-π^+$ invariant mass square $m_{Kπ}^2\in [1, 5] {\rm GeV}^2$. Width effects of the involved strange mesons, $K^*(1410), K_0^*(1430), K_2^*(1430), K^*(1680), K_3^*(1780)$ and $K_4^*(2045)$, are incorporated. In terms of the helicity amplitudes, we derive a compact form for the full angular distributions, through which the branching ratios, forward-backward asymmetries and polarizations are attained. We propose that the uncertainties in the $B\to K^*_J$ form factors can be pinned down by the measurements of a set of SU(3)-related processes. Using results from the large energy limit, we derive the dependence of branching fractions on the $m_{Kπ}$, and find that the $K^*_2(1430)$ resonance has a clear signature, in particular, in the transverse polarizations.

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arXiv2012

Constraints on Neutrino Velocities Revisited

With a minimally modified dispersion relation for neutrinos, we reconsider the constraints on superluminal neutrino velocities from bremsstrahlung effects in the laboratory frame. Employing both the direct calculation approach and the virtual Z-boson approach, we obtain the generic decay width and energy loss rate of a superluminal neutrino with general energy. The Cohen-Glashow's analytical results for neutrinos with a relatively low energy are confirmed in both approaches. We employ the survival probability instead of the terminal energy to assess whether a neutrino with a given energy is observable or not in the OPERA experiment. Moreover, using our general results we perform systematical analyses on the constraints arising from the Super-Kamiokande and IceCube experiments.

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arXiv2012

Heavy quark spin symmetry breaking in near-threshold $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ quarkonium-like resonances

A mixing of near-threshold quarkonium-like resonances with heavy meson-antimeson pairs results in an enhancement of heavy quark spin symmetry breaking, since the meson pairs are not eigenstates of the heavy quark spin. The decomposition of $P$-wave states of meson pairs in terms of the heavy-quark-pair spin states is considered in the channel with $J^{PC}=1^{--}$, which is directly produced in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Specific processes are suggested for experimental study of the effects of the mixing with heavy meson pairs and of the internal spin structure of bottomonium and charmonium resonances.

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arXiv2012

Direct CP violation in two-body hadronic charmed meson decays

Motivated by the recent observation of CP violation in the charm sector by LHCb, we study direct CP asymmetries in the standard model (SM) for the singly Cabibbo-suppressed two-body hadronic decays of charmed mesons using the topological-diagram approach. In this approach, the magnitude and the phase of topological weak annihilation amplitudes which arise mainly from final-state rescattering can be extracted from the data. Consequently, direct CP asymmetry $a_{dir}^{\rm (tree)}$ at tree level can be reliably estimated. In general, it lies in the range $10^{-4}<a_{dir}^{\rm (tree)}<10^{-3}$. Short-distance QCD penguins and penguin annihilation are calculated using QCD factorization. Their effects are generally small, especially for $D\to VP$ modes. Since weak penguin annihilation receives long-distance contributions from the color-allowed tree amplitude followed by final-state rescattering, it is expected to give the dominant contribution to the direct CP violation in the decays $D^0\to K^+K^-$ and $D^0\to π^+π^-$ in which $a_{dir}^{\rm (tree)}$ is absent. The maximal $Δa_{CP}^{\rm dir}$, the direct CP asymmetry difference between the above-mentioned two modes, allowed in the SM is around -0.25%, more than $2σ$ away from the current world average of $-(0.645\pm 0.180)%$.

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arXiv2011

CP violating dimuon charge asymmetry in general left-right models

The recently measured charge asymmetry of like-sign dimuon events by the D0 collaboration at Tevatron shows the 3.9 σ deviation from the standard model prediction. In order to solve this mismatch, we investigate the right-handed current contributions to $B_s-\bar{B}_s$ and $B_d-\bar{B}_d$ mixings which are the major source of the like-sign dimuon events in $b \bar{b}$ production in general left-right models without imposing manifest or pseudo-manifest left-right symmetry. We find the allowed region of new physics parameters satisfying the current experimental data.

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arXiv2012

Heavy Higgs at Tevatron and LHC in Universal Extra Dimension Models

Universal Extra Dimension (UED) models tend to favor a distinctively heavier Higgs mass than in the Standard Model (SM) and its supersymmetric extensions when the Kaluza-Klein (KK) scale is not much higher than the electroweak one, which we call the weak scale UED, in order to cancel the KK top contributions to the T-parameter. Such a heavy Higgs, whose production through the gluon fusion process is enhanced by the KK top loops, is fairly model independent prediction of the weak scale UED models regardless of the brane-localized mass structure at the ultraviolet cutoff scale. We study its cleanest possible signature, the Higgs decay into a Z boson pair and subsequently into four electrons and/or muons, in which all the four-momenta of the final states can be measured and both the Z boson masses can be checked. We show that the weak scale UED model may account for the 2sigma excess of this event at ATLAS at the ZZ pair invariant mass around 250GeV, at which scale SM background is sufficiently small and the SM Higgs predicts too few events. We have also studied the Higgs mass 500GeV (and also 700GeV with \sqrt{s}=14TeV) and have found that we can observe significant resonance with the integrated luminosity 10fb^{-1} for six dimensional UED models.

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arXiv2011

Constraining the (Low-Energy) Type-I Seesaw

The type-I seesaw Lagrangian yields a non-generic set of active-sterile oscillation parameters - the neutrino mass eigenvalues and the physical elements of the full mixing matrix are entwined. For this reason one is able to, in principle, test the model by performing enough measurements which are sensitive to neutrino masses and lepton mixing. We point out that for light enough right-handed neutrino masses - less than 10 eV - next-generation short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments may be able to unambiguously rule out (or "rule in") the low energy seesaw as the Lagrangian that describes neutrino masses. These types of searches are already under consideration in order to address the many anomalies from accelerator neutrino experiments (LSND, MiniBooNe), reactor neutrino experiments (the "reactor anomaly") and others. In order to test the low-energy seesaw, it is crucial to explore different oscillation channels, including nu_e and nu_mu disappearance and nu_mu to nu_tau appearance.

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arXiv2011

Top quark pair production in association with a jet: QCD corrections and jet radiation in top quark decays

We consider top quark pair production in association with a hard jet through next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Top quark decays are treated in the narrow width approximation and spin correlations are retained throughout the computation. We include hard jet radiation by top quark decay products and explore their importance for basic kinematic distributions at the Tevatron and the LHC. Our results suggest that QCD corrections and jet radiation in decays can lead to significant changes in shapes of basic distributions and, therefore, need to be included for the description of ttbar+jet production. We compare the shape of the transverse momentum distribution of a top quark pair recently measured by the D0 collaboration with the result of our computation and find reasonable agreement.

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arXiv2012

Study of η-η' mixing from radiative decay processes

We perform a thorough analysis of the VPγ(γ*) and Pγγ(γ*) decays in the resonance chiral theory, where V stand for the vector resonances ρ, K*, ω, ϕ, P stand for π, K, η, η' and γ* subsequently decays into lepton pairs. Upon imposing QCD short-distance constraints on resonance couplings, the ω-> πγ(γ*), ρ-> πγ(γ*), K^{*0} -> K^0γprocesses only depend on one free parameter and π-> γγ(γ*) can be completely predicted. The four mixing parameters of the η-η' system, i.e. two mixing angles \theta8, \theta0 and two decay constants F8, F0, are determined from radiative decays involving ηor η'. The higher order low energy constants of the pseudo-Goldstone Lagrangian in the chiral anomaly sector are predicted by integrating out heavy resonances. We also predict the decay widths of ρ-> πe^+ e^-, η' -> γe^+ e^- and ϕ-> ημ^+ μ^-, which can be compared with the future measurement in these channels.

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arXiv2012

Gauge Kinetic Mixing in the $E_6$SSM

The $E_6$SSM extension of the MSSM allows for the solution of many of the difficulties that are usually encountered within conventional SUSY breaking scenarios, e.g., the $μ$ problem, the imposition of R-parity 'by hand', the generation of light neutrino masses and obtaining a light Higgs boson with a mass as large as $\sim$ 125 GeV as suggested by recent LHC measurements. In addressing these problems, such a scenario predicts the existence of additional singlet and vector-like superfields beyond those in the MSSM as well as possibly two new neutral gauge bosons near the TeV scale. In this paper the phenomenological implications of simultaneous gauge kinetic mixing between the usual Standard Model (SM) hypercharge gauge field and both these new neutral gauge fields present in the $E_6$SSM scenario is explored. To this end a large class of specific toy models realizing this type of kinetic mixing is examined. In particular, we demonstrate that a significant suppression (or enhancement) of the expected event rate for $Z'$ production in the dilepton channel at the LHC is not likely to occur in this scenario due to gauge kinetic mixing.

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arXiv2011

W' and Z' limits for Minimal Walking Technicolor

We interpret the recent data on non-observation of Z'- and W'-bosons, reported by CMS, within Minimal Walking Technicolor models and use them to constrain the couplings and spectrum of the theory. We provide the reach for both exclusion and possible observation for the LHC with 5 fb^-1 at 7 TeV in the centre of mass energy, and 100 fb^-1 at 13 TeV.

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arXiv2011

Amplitudes for the analysis of the decay $J/ψ\to K^{+} K^{-} π^0$

We construct an analytical model for two channel, two-body scattering amplitudes, and then apply it in the description of the three-body $J/ψ\to K^+K^-π^0$ decay. In the construction of the partial wave amplitudes, we combine the low energy resonance region with the Regge asymptotic behavior determined from direct two-body production. We find that resonance production in the $Kπ$ channel in $J/ψ$ decays seems to differ from that observed in direct $Kπ$ production, while the mass distribution in the $K\bar K$ channel may be compatible.

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arXiv2012

Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson Using a Matrix Element Technique at CDF in p-bar{p} Collisions at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV

This paper presents a search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a $W$ boson using events recorded by the CDF experiment in a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 fb-1. The search is performed using a matrix element technique in which the signal and background hypotheses are used to create a powerful discriminator. The discriminant output distributions for signal and background are fit to the observed events using a binned likelihood approach to search for the Higgs boson signal. We find no evidence for a Higgs boson, and 95% confidence level (C.L.) upper limits are set on the Higgs boson production rate. The observed limits range from 3.5 to 37.6 relative to the standard model expectation for Higgs boson masses between 100 and 150 GeV. The 95% C.L. expected limit is estimated from the median of an ensemble of simulated experiments and varies between 2.9 and 32.7 relative to the production rate predicted by the standard model over the Higgs boson mass range studied.

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arXiv2011

Measurement of the CP-Violating Phase beta_s in B0s -> J/Psi Phi Decays with the CDF II Detector

We present a measurement of the \CP-violating parameter \betas using approximately 6500 $\BsJpsiPhi$ decays reconstructed with the CDF\,II detector in a sample of $p\bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV corresponding to 5.2 fb$^{-1}$ integrated luminosity produced by the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab. We find the \CP-violating phase to be within the range $\betas \in [0.02, 0.52] \cup [1.08, 1.55]$ at 68% confidence level where the coverage property of the quoted interval is guaranteed using a frequentist statistical analysis. This result is in agreement with the standard model expectation at the level of about one Gaussian standard deviation. We consider the inclusion of a potential $S$-wave contribution to the $\Bs\to J/ψK^+K^-$ final state which is found to be negligible over the mass interval $1.009 < m(K^+K^-)<1.028 \gevcc$. Assuming the standard model prediction for the \CP-violating phase \betas, we find the \Bs decay width difference to be $\deltaG = 0.075 \pm 0.035\,\textrm{(stat)} \pm 0.006\,\textrm{(syst)} \ps$. We also present the most precise measurements of the \Bs mean lifetime $τ(\Bs) = 1.529 \pm 0.025\,\textrm{(stat)} \pm 0.012\,\textrm{(syst)}$ ps, the polarization fractions $|A_0(0)|^2 = 0.524 \pm 0.013\,\textrm{(stat)} \pm 0.015\,\textrm{(syst)}$ and $|A_{\parallel}(0)|^2 = 0.231 \pm 0.014\,\textrm{(stat)} \pm 0.015\,\textrm{(syst)}$, as well as the strong phase $δ_{\perp}= 2.95 \pm 0.64\,\textrm{(stat)} \pm 0.07\,\textrm{(syst)} \textrm{rad}$. In addition, we report an alternative Bayesian analysis that gives results consistent with the frequentist approach.

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arXiv2012

Low-energy neutrino-electron scattering as a Standard Model probe: the potential of LENA as case study

Several proposals for studying neutrinos with large detectors are currently under discussion. We suggest that they could provide a precise measurement of the electroweak mixing angle as well as a probe for new physics, such as non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI), and the electroweak gauge structure. We illustrate this explicitly for the case of the LENA proposal, either with an artificial radioactive source or by using the solar neutrino flux.

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arXiv2012

Next-to-leading-order corrections to $B \to π$ form factors in $k_T$ factorization

We calculate next-to-leading-order (NLO) corrections to the $B\toπ$ transition form factors at leading twist in the $k_T$ factorization theorem. Light partons off-shell by $k_T^2$ are considered in the quark diagrams, in the effective diagrams for the $B$ meson wave function defined with the effective heavy-quark field, and in the effective diagrams for the pion wave function. It is explicitly demonstrated that the infrared logarithms $\ln k_T^2$ cancel between the above sets of diagrams, as deriving the $k_T$-dependent NLO hard kernel from their difference. The infrared finiteness of the hard kernel confirms the application of the $k_T$ factorization theorem to $B$ meson semileptonic decays. The NLO pion wave function is identical to those constructed from the pion transition and electromagnetic form factors, consistent with its universality. Choosing the renormalization and factorization scales lower than the $B$ meson mass, the NLO corrections are under control: they amount only up to 30% of the form factors at large recoil of the pion, when varying models for the meson wave functions.

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