In this talk, I will discuss about the phenomenology of the composite Higgs models at the LHC and future lepton colliders. Spin-1 resonances and the top partners are the smoking gun of the composite Higgs models, their strong interactions will play an important role in the searching for the resonances and cascade decay channels can be important. I will discuss about their prospectives at the...
We discuss the implications of the recent discovery of CP violation in charm decays at LHCb, and the question if it is physics beyond the Standard Model. Furthermore, we show in which modes to search for charm CP violation next and present U-spin sum rules for CP asymmetries of charmed baryon decays.
Dark matter annihilation to a two-body final state is difficult to probe for many models because the dominate annihilation channel is velocity suppressed. The inclusion of gauge boson radiation in these models creates a three-body final state that lifts the suppression, allowing for a velocity-independent cross section that can dominate. This inclusion provides a means to investigate these...
A review of the recent measurements of the SM Higgs couplings and properties will be given, covering both ATLAS and CMS. Whilst it is an overview talk, the speaker can choose a couple of subjects to develop in more details.
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for strong supersymmetric particle production. The results target a variety of gluino and squark production channels with decays to hadronic final states. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at center of mass energy 13 TeV during the LHC Run 2.
In composite Higgs models, relating the many parameters of the low-energy effective theory to the fundamental UV parameters requires dealing with the underlying non-perturbative interactions responsible for compositeness. Lattice field theory calculations allow this connection to be made numerically, giving significant model constraints. I will present several results from a detailed lattice...
Decay modes with two oppositely charged leptons of different flavor correspond to lepton flavor violating (LFV) decays and are essentially forbidden in the Standard Model (SM) because they can occur only through lepton mixing. Decay modes with two leptons of the same charge are lepton-number violating (LNV) decays and are forbidden in the SM. Hence, decays of the form $D^0 \to hh'll’$ provide...
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for strong supersymmetric particle production. The results target a variety of gluino and squark production channels with decays to final states with one or more leptons. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at center of mass energy 13 TeV during the LHC Run 2.
The status of HH searches at the LHC will be presented, covering both resonant and non-resonant searches. This is an overview talk. However results on some selected topics will be presented with more details,
The MSSM provides a natural dark matter candidate and an explanation for the 3.5 sigma discrepancy between experimental measurements of the muon's anomalous magnetic moment and Standard Model predictions. By utilizing Monte Carlo Markov Chains, we reconstruct the probability distribution characterize phenomenologically-motivated and theoretically-sound MSSM configurations that satisfy limits...
The ATLAS experiment has performed accurate measurements of mixing and CP violation in the neutral B mesons, and also of rare processes happening in electroweak FCNC-suppressed neutral B-mesons decays.
This talk will focus on the latest results from ATLAS, such as rare processes: B^0_s → mu mu and B^0 → mu mu, and CPV in Bs to J/psi phi.
We will present the current results of our analyses of SUSY-QCD corrections to dark
matter annihilation cross-section in pMSSM scenarios with a light scalar quark of the third generation. Such scenarios are extremely appealing as they have not yet been ruled out by LHC searches and at the same time the lightest Higgs mass in these scenarios is predicted to be consistent with the measured...
Searches for new resonances in di-boson final states (VV, VH, HH, where V = W, Z) with the CMS detector are presented. The results are based on the large dataset collected during Run 2 of the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analyses are optimised for high sensitivity over a large range in resonance mass. Jet substructure techniques are used to identify hadronic decays of...
The full Run-2 ATLAS results on searches for resonant production of vector (W,Z) are presented, comprising 140fb-1 of data. Searches for such diboson resonances have been performed in final states with different numbers of leptons and jets where new jet substructure techniques to disentangle the hadronic decay products in highly boosted configuration are being used.
I will talk about a double Higgs production via gluon fusion in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework where effects from new physics are parametrized by local operators.
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are are exceptionally clean targets for searches for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Here, I will discuss a general, model-independent formalism for determining bounds on the production of photons from dark matter annihilation in dSphs. This formalism is applicable to any set of assumptions about dark matter particle physics or astrophysics. As an...
We report resent flavor physics results, using pp collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, including the observation of two excited Bc states, the study of the B->J/Psi Lambda p decay, and a search for charged lepton flavor violating decays tau->3mu. The first analysis is based on an event sample corresponding to a luminosity of 143 fb^-1 at sqrt(s)=13 TeV. The Bc excited...
Despite the absence of experimental evidence, weak-scale supersymmetry remains one of the best motivated and studied Standard Model extensions. This talk summarizes recent ATLAS results on inclusive searches for supersymmetric squarks of the first two generations and gluinos. It covers both R-parity conserving models that predict dark matter candidates and R-parity violating models that...
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for supersymmetric stop and sbottom production. A variety of final state decays are considered with an emphasis on targeting difficult to reach kinematic regions. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at center of mass energy 13 TeV during the LHC Run 2.
The discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) motivates searches for physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) in channels involving coupling to the Higgs boson. A search for a massive resonance decaying into a standard model Higgs boson (h) and a W or Z boson or two a standard model Higgs bosons is performed. The results of a search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair...
X-ray observations of clusters and galaxies have detected an unexplained X-ray emission line around 3.5 keV. This line has been the subject of many recent works due to its potential explanation as due to decaying dark matter. In particular, sterile neutrinos with a mass of 7 keV and mixing angles of $\sim10^{-10}$ provide a good fit to the data. I discuss recent work in which we exploit the...
The precise study of the properties of Higgs boson offers a unique and crucial opportunity to probe Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) indirectly. One important example of such property is the Higgs trilinear coupling, which determines the shape of the Higgs potential and in turn the nature of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT). It has been known for some time that, in a variety of...
Multiple space-borne cosmic ray detectors have detected line-like features in the electron and positron spectra. Most recently, the DAMPE collaboration reported the existence of such a feature at 1.4 TeV, sparking interest in a potential dark matter origin. Such quasi-monochromatic features, virtually free of any astrophysical background, could be explained by the annihilation of dark matter...
Future Higgs factories can reach impressive precision on Higgs property measurements. In this talk, we explore its sensitivity to new physics models at the electron-positron colliders. In particular, we focus on Type-I and Type-II Two Higgs Double Models as illustrative examples. We perform a global fit to various Higgs search channels to obtain the 95 C.L. constraints on the model parameter...
We present results from searches for resonances with enhanced couplings to third generation quarks, based on proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by CMS. The signatures include single and pair production of vector-like quarks and heavy resonances decaying to third generation quarks. A wide range of final states, from multi-leptonic to entirely hadronic is...
Naturalness arguments for weak-scale supersymmetry favour supersymmetric partners of the third generation quarks with masses not too far from those of their Standard Model counterparts. Top or bottom squarks with masses less than or around one TeV can also give rise to direct pair production rates at the LHC that can be observed in the data sample recorded by the ATLAS detector. The talk...
Searches for Higgs bosons in different extensions of the Standard Model (SM) are presented. These include models with additional scalar singlets, doublets, or triplets, and generic searches for models with couplings modified with respect to the SM or for non-SM Higgs boson decay channels. Results are based on data collected by the ATLAS in 2015 and 2016 at the LHC.
Contrary to SUSY-based GUT models, the gauge couplings in non-SUSY models do not unify naturally. However, gauge coupling unification may still be achieved by intermediate symmetry breaking steps or new physics around the TeV scale. Motivated by this, we perform fits to an SO(10)-based GUT model with one-step symmetry breaking to the SM. Neutrino masses are generated by the type-I or type-II...
NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillations experiment designed to precisely measure the neutrino oscillation parameters. We do this by di- recting a beam of predominantly muon neutrinos from Fermilab towards northern Minnesota. The experiment consists of two functionally equiv- alent detectors each located 14.6 mrad off the central axis of Fermilab’s 700 kW NuMI neutrino beam, the world’s...
Non-abelian vector boson dark matter (DM), although not widely studied, offers very important phenomenological outcome. In this talk, we highlight some possibilities that can be accommodated in an $SU(2)$ extension of the the Standard Model (SM). One important feature of DM of such kind is realized via $t$-channel annihilation for relic abundance and $s$-channel direct search interaction,...
Supersymmetric models are some of the most popular and well-motivated extensions of the Standard Model, and hence they have been constrained by a vast array of different experimental searches. The diversity of experimental constraints, combined with a large number of parameters, makes the systematic study of SUSY models increasingly complicated and old-school parameter scans are insufficient....
In this work we study the intrinsic CPT violation in the neutrino oscillations phenomena produced by quantum decoherence as sub-leading effect. In the usual representation, we find that only fifteen elements of the decoherence matrix violate the CPT symmetry intrinsically. We find exact solutions for the CPT asymmetry function in vacuum . We define an observable $\mathcal{R}$ to make...
In this talk, I will show how to calculate the bound state formation cross section in this model. Unlike the usual calculations, "mono-pole" emission becomes significant, and the process emitting the longitudinal dark photon/Goldstone boson becomes very important in the annihilation processes. I will also show the numerical results.
Although SUSY is less natural than hoped, it is still able to explain several correlations beyond the standard model. A persistently appealing feature of supersymmetry is that it leads to gauge coupling unification, which suggests that the forces unify. For even minimal supersymmetric SU(5) unification, there are previously unexplored avenues. I will focus on the effect of pushing the...
The speaker is invited to select 2 or 3 topics amongst the most recent results on exotic Higgs bosons, that will be presented in details.
Studying the properties of Higgs boson becomes one important method to explore the physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). In this work, we present studies on the implications of the Higgs precision measurements at future Higgs Factories on the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). A multi-variable global fit to various Higgs search channels and also Higgs mass based on both the...
We propose an extension of the Standard Model gauge symmetry by the gauge group U(1)_T3R in order to address the Yukawa coupling hierarchy between the third generation fermions and the first two generation fermions of the SM. We assume that only the right-handed fermions of the first two generations are charged under the U(1)_T3R. In addition to the new dark gauge boson, we have a dark scalar...
We present a novel framework that provides an explanation to the long-standing excess of electronlike events in the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab. We suggest a new dark sector containing a dark neutrino and a dark gauge boson, both with masses between a few tens and a few hundreds of MeV. Dark neutrinos are produced via neutrino-nucleus scattering, followed by their decay to the dark gauge...
A spontaneously broken hidden U(1)_h gauge symmetry can explain both the dark matter stability and the observed relic abundance. In this framework, the light gauge boson can mediate the strong dark matter self-interaction, which addresses astrophysical observations that are hard to explain in collisionless cold dark matter. Motivated by flavoured grand unified theories, we introduce...
Supersymmetric models are subject both to direct constraints from collider searches and to indirect limits from electroweak observables such as the Higgs mass and flavor-changing processes. A minimal scenario consistent with current experimental data suggests a supersymmetric spectrum with a split sfermion sector. Such a spectrum can naturally be realized when partial compositeness is used to...
The discovery of a light sterile neutrino would have profound implications for particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. A number of anomalous neutrino measurements at short distances may be indicative of the active neutrinos mixing to at least one sterile flavor. A worldwide program, involving reactor, source, and accelerator-based experiments is currently underway and searching for...
The Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a very interesting paradigm beyond the Standard Model. However, in simple GUT models, there are still missing pieces, such as neutrino masses, cosmological inflation, and a dark matter candidate. In this talk, I will discuss simple GUT models in which these missing pieces are supplemented.
Multipartite dark sector has several motivations, one of the key issues being to evade stringent direct search bound. In this talk, we highlight some interesting phenomenological features of having two component dark matter models constituted of scalar-scalar or scalar-fermion dark matter, where the interaction between the dark matter components not only yields a larger available parameter...
Many BSM models, including SUSY, include extra scalars. A particularly well motivated model is the NMSSM and its corresponding 2HDM+S Higgs sector. I will discuss the challenges and opportunities presented for LHC searches due to the presence of such an extended Higgs sector.
We propose a simultaneous explanation of two recent anomalous observations at very different energy scales. The first one concerns hints of lepton flavor universality violation in rare B-meson decays, as observed by LHCb, and to some extent, by Belle and BaBar. The second anomaly is the observation made by the ANITA balloon experiment of two EeV upgoing air showers. Both these observations are...
Dynamical Dark Matter (DDM) is an alternative framework for dark-matter physics in which the dark sector consists of large ensembles of dark states which exhibit a broad range of masses and lifetimes. While some of the states in this ensemble must be sufficiently long-lived that they contribute to the dark-matter abundance at present time, other states in the ensemble may have far shorter...
Simple ways of implementing Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry to solve the strong CP problem in renormalizable SUSYSO(10) models with a minimal Yukawa sector is suggested. Realistic fermion mass generation requires that a second pair of Higgs doublets survive down to the PQ-scale. How unification of gauge couplings can be achieved in this context is demonstrated. Higgsino mediated proton decay rate...
The field of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) has grown immensely in recent years. In this talk I will provide an overview of the field, summarizing the running experiments, phenomenological implications and theoretical challenges. With the first detection made by COHERENT in 2017, the goal is now to make more precise measurements using a diverse set of target nuclei and...
We present a Grand Unified Theory where the usual $E_6$ gauge coupling unification is supplemented by a local $SU(2)_F \times U(1)_F$ family symmetry. We discuss its origin inspiring our model by an embedding into $E_8$ which can be seen as an unifying force. We argue that the presence of such a family symmetry has remarkable implications for both high-scale and low scale physics: First,...
The Randall-Sundrum models provide an appealing foundation to engineer BSM models, especially the ones which attempts to explain the small Higgs mass. The modulus field in these models (the "radion") should play a role in determining the value of the Higgs vacuum expectation value (VEV), and vice versa, as the Higgs VEV itself should backreact on the geometry. This would imply that the Higgs...
We explore the possibility that the relic abundance of dark matter is generated in a context where the inflaton is the only mediator between the visible and the hidden sectors of our universe. Due to the relatively large mass of the inflaton field suggested by large-field inflation scenarios, such a portal leads to an extremely feeble interaction between the dark sector and the Standard Model...
SUSY with weak scale soft breaking terms is highly motivated theoretically and is also supported by a variety of measured virtual effects. The question is: where are the sparticles and where are the WIMPs? A more nuanced view of naturalness can
reconcile TeV-scale soft terms and mh=125 GeV with naturalness but where now only the higgsinos need lie close to the weak scale while top-squarks may...
Neutrinos emitted nuclear reactors have played an important role for both discovery and measurement in the history of neutrino physics. The short baseline reactor neutrino experiments, Daya Bay, Double Chooz, and RENO, have brought neutrino physics into the precision era. The next generation medium baseline reactor neutrino experiments JUNO will explore the neutrino mass hierarchy and other...
The question of the nature of dark matter has become increasingly puzzling as more experiments exclude larger portions of the favored WIMP parameter space. Previous theoretical work has suggested the existence of Lightly Ionizing Particles (LIPs) with charge e·f, where e is the electron charge and f < 1. At least a part of the dark matter could consist of these LIPs. We seek to utilize data...
Simple generalizations of well known BSM scenarios can lead to dramatic signals at colliders, providing interesting theoretical playgrounds and motivating new methods to isolate non-standard experimental signals. In this talk, I will consider warped extra-dimensional models with multiple branes in the IR and discuss the theoretical possibilities and related collider signals. The resulting...
Massive spin-2 particles cause trouble in 4D quantum field theory: not only are their tree-level matrix elements sometimes complicated, but some diagrams grow like ten powers of incoming energy! As a result, these theories violate unitarity even at small energy scales. However, massive spin-2 particles naturally appear when projecting nicely-behaved higher-dimensional models down to 4D. If...
Given the ongoing debate by Vafa et al on inflation and the swampland, I will discuss a multifield D-brane model of inflation consistent with observational bounds. We study the model, which was previously been done as a single field, by focusing on the multifield cosmological evolution of a probe D5 brane moving in both radial and angular directions in the Warped Resolved Conifold (WRC) throat...
Current models of antineutrino production in nuclear reactors predict absolute detection rates and energy spectra at odds with the existing body of direct reactor antineutrino measurements. If these discrepancies are taken seriously, then they must be indicative of a misunderstanding of neutrino production in nuclear reactor cores and/or the fundamental properties of neutrinos. New...
There is strong evidence that $\sim27\%$ of the energy density of our universe is composed of a dark matter component which has been inferred by observing its gravitational effects. Many well motivated models predict candidate particles with mass below 10 GeV which offer compelling solutions to the dark matter mystery but have yet to be experimentally detected. The Super Cryogenic Dark...
Charginos and neutralinos are typically the lightest new particles predicted by a wide range of supersymmetry models, and the lightest neutralino is a well motivated and studied candidate for dark matter in models with R-parity conservation. The talk presents recent results from searches for pair produced charginos and neutralinos in final states with leptons and missing transverse momentum....
There is no guarantee that the reductionist point of view championed by simple effective field theories is realized during inflation and the subsequent (p)reheating. In fact, many supersymmetric and string-inspired UV completions of inflation involve a myriad of fields with complicated interactions. This may lead to a random, chaotic evolution as a function of the initial conditions and values...
The evidence for dark matter is overwhelming, but its nature is unknown. Dark matter can be composed of the magnetic monopoles of a hidden sector, which acquire small coupling to the visible photon through kinetic mixing. When the hidden sector U(1) is broken, the monopoles confine, connected by a tube of magnetic flux. These flux tubes give rise to phase shifts in Aharanov-Bohm experiments. I...
The NEXT collaboration is developing a sequence of high pressure xenon gas time projection chambers with the aim of creating a ton-scale, very low background neutrinoless double beta decay search. Finding evidence of neutrinoless double beta decay would give insight into the origins of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe, the smallness of neutrino mass, and the symmetry structure...
The Belle II experiment is a substantial upgrade of the Belle detector and will operate at the SuperKEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+ e^-$ collider. The design luminosity of the machine is $8\times 10^{35}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ and the Belle II experiment aims to record 50 ab$^{-1}$ of data, a factor of 50 more than its predecessor. From February to July of this year, the machine has completed a...
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for supersymmetric electroweak gauge bosons and for direct production searches for supersymmetric lepton partners. A variety of electroweak production channels are considered with results presented for different final state decays. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector...
The existence of tiny neutrino masses and flavor mixings can be explained naturally in various seesaw models, many of which typically having additional Majorana type SM gauge singlet right handed neutrinos ($N$). If they are at around the electroweak scale and furnished with sizable mixings with light active neutrinos, they can be produced at high energy colliders such as LHC and ILC. A...
"Warm inflation is an interesting alternative implementation of a period of accelerated expansion and reheating in the early universe. It turns out to be easy to have a concurrent quasi-thermal radiation bath if energy is extracted from the rolling scalar field via friction. The benefits of warm inflation include automatic reheating at the end of inflation when the thermal bath begins to...
The features of the NA62 experiment at the CERN SPS – high-intensity setup, trigger-system flexibility, high-frequency tracking of beam particles, redundant particle identification, and ultra-high-efficiency photon vetoes – make NA62 particularly suitable to search for long-lived, weakly-coupled particles within Beyond the Standard Model physics, using kaon and pion decays as well as operating...
We study CPT and Lorentz violation in the tau-lepton sector of the Standard Model in the context of the Standard-Model Extension, described by a coefficient which is thus far unbounded by experiment. We show that any non-zero value of this coefficient implies that, for sufficiently large energies, standard-model fermions become unstable against decay due to the emission of a pair of...
Electroweak sectors of beyond the Standard Model theories can contain several new degrees of freedom that are lighter than the 125 GeV Higgs boson, and hidden to present LHC searches. One example is the Next-to-Minimanl Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) augmented with a Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry. In this talk we highlight many new signatures arising from this model that can be looked for...
An axion-like particle (ALP) offers a new direction in electroweak baryogenesis because the periodic nature enables it to trigger a strong first-order phase transition even if it is weakly coupled to the Higgs sector. This is essentially because the axion periodicity naturally allows the structure of phase transition to be insensitive to the axion decay constant that determines the strength of...
Many supersymmetry models feature gauginos and sleptons with masses less than a few hundred GeV. These can give rise to direct pair production rates at the LHC that can be observed in the data sample recorded by the ATLAS detector. The talk presents recent ATLAS results from searches for slepton pair production.
Current and future experiments aimed at making precision measurements of neutrino properties require better understanding of neutrino interactions with the nucleus to achieve their ultimate sensitivities. The NOvA (NuMI Off-axis $\nu_e$ Appearance) experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment designed to observe neutrinos in Fermilab's NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector)...
An analysis description language (ADL) is a human readable declarative language that unambiguously describes the contents of an analysis in a standard way, independent of any computing framework. Adopting ADLs would bring numerous benefits for the LHC experimental and phenomenological communities, in particular for beyond the standard model physics analyses, ranging from analysis preservation...
As we probe higher energy scales of potential new physics the boost of Standard Model particles can be extremely high. When these decay hadronically their decay products are boosted and therefore collimated such that they can be reconstructed a single large-radius jets with distinctive internal structure. The process of calibrating these jets will be described. Additionally innovative...
The Higgs boson was postulated as a key component of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics to explain the origin of mass. After 45 years of rigorous experimental searches, the Higgs boson was finally discovered on July 4th, 2012 at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery of the Higgs boson completes the SM and confirm one of its most mysterious predictions. The SM, although...
Neutrinos may be Dirac particles whose masses arise radiatively at one-loop, naturally explaining their small values. In this work we show that all the one-loop realizations of the dimension-five operator to effectively generate Dirac neutrino masses can be implemented by using a single local symmetry: $𝑈(1)_{𝐵−𝐿}$. Since this symmetry is anomalous, new chiral fermions, charged under $𝐵−𝐿$,...
In natural GUT, most of problems in SUSY GUT can be solved under natural assumption in which all interactions including higher dimensional interactions
are introduced with O(1) coefficients. Interestingly, small deviation from
the complete natural GUT makes spontaneous SUSY breaking possible. We study the possibility that axino becomes the LSP in this scenario.
We review the predictions of the favored SUSY parameter spaces. They are based on fits to all relevant experimental data. The implications of these predictions for the HL-LHC and ILC/CLIC are discussed.
From particle identification to the discovery of the Higgs boson, neural network algorithms have become an increasingly important tool for data analysis at the Large Hadron Collider. We present a novel approach to event and particle identification, called end-to-end deep learning, that combines deep learning image classification algorithms with low-level detector representation. Using two...
We will discuss baryogenesis via a gaugino portal, the supersymmetric counterpart to the widely studied kinetic mixing portal, to a hidden sector. We will examine this mechanism within various scenarios, including freeze-in or freeze-out of the hidden sector gaugino, as well as extended frameworks where the hidden sector contains a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter...
Precise measurements of the standard model parameters by the LEP has shown that supersymmetry realizes precise coupling unification. We introduce a non-supersymmetric scheme of coupling unification via the Higgs parity and show how precise unification is realized. We discuss the prediction on the proton decay rate and the importance of the precise measurement of the standard model parameters....
In this talk, we present measurements of jet substructure quantities and jet fragmentation properties using data collected by the CMS and ATLAS experiment. These measurements are significant not only for probing a new regime of QCD at a hadron collider, but also for improving the understanding of the internal properties of jets that are used in SUSY searches.
Despite the vast literature on first order Electroweak Phase Transitions (EWPT), which can provide the necessary conditions for generating the Baryon Asymmetry in the Universe, fermion-induced EWPTs still remain a rather uncharted territory. In this talk, we consider a simple fermionic extension of the Standard Model (SM) involving one $ SU(2)_L$ doublet and two singlet Vector-Like Leptons...
We present the predictions for the properties of DM based on LHC searches and all other relevant constraints. This is done in Supersymmetric models as well as in Simplified Models.
In the MSSM extended by a complete vectorlike family, precise top, bottom and tau Yukawa coupling unification can be achieved assuming SUSY threshold corrections which are typical for comparable superpartner masses. Furthermore, the unification is possible with a large unified coupling, implying that all three fermion masses can be simultaneously close to their IR fixed points. Assuming...
I will discuss how late universe dark matter decays to a massive and a massless daughter particles can relieve the tension between measurements of the Hubble parameter in the local universe and at the CMB.
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We assess the sensitivity of the LHC, its high energy upgrade, and a prospective 100 TeV hadronic collider to the Dirac Yukawa coupling of the heavy neutrinos in left-right symmetric models (LRSMs). We focus specifically on the trilepton final state in regions of parameter space yielding prompt decays of the right-handed gauge bosons (WR) and neutrinos (NR). In the minimal LRSM, the...
The proposed link between quantum entanglement and the
apparent thermalization in particle production at the Large
Hadron Collider (Rev. D 98, 054007 (2018)) will be presented.
The large amount of collected data at 13 TeV center of mass
energy in proton-proton collisions has enabled this initial
systematic study of the relationship between Quantum Information
Science and particle...
Searches for long-lived particles have garnered increased attention in recent years, demanding the development of more complex Monte Carlo simulation methods. The ATLAS experiment has recently updated its infrastructure for the generation, simulation, and in-flight decays of R-hadrons, some of the most complex long-lived SUSY states to model. In this talk, the tools and configuration that are...
AEACuS is a software package for the computation of collider event statistics and the application of event selection cuts. It interfaces with the LHCO format output of the popular detector simulation packages Delphes. A compact and powerful card file syntax unambiguously separates reusable user instructions from the code library. Support for most event discriminants employed by ATLAS and...
In models of radiative neutrino neutrino masses, new scalar bosons that generate the masses can also induce significant nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI). In this talk I will present our results of a comprehensive analysis of NSI in such models. Diagonal NSIs of orderr several percent are found to be possible, esepcially in the Zee model that utilizes charged scalars. Tests of this...
We have developed a cosmological model by allowing the speed of light c, gravitational constant G and cosmological constant Λ in the Einstein filed equation to vary in time, and solved them for Robertson-Walker metric. Assuming the universe is flat and matter dominant at present, we obtain a simple model that can fit the supernovae 1a data with a single parameter almost as well as the standard...
The presence of a non-baryonic dark matter component in the Universe is inferred from the observation of its gravitational interaction. If dark matter interacts weakly with the Standard Model it would be produced at the LHC, escaping the detector and leaving a large missing transverse momentum as their signature. The ATLAS detector has developed a broad and systematic search program for dark...
we first briefly review the recent progress in the calculation of the MSSM Higgs-boson masses. The new and improved calculations are then applied to several GUT-based and low-energy scenarios. The impact of the improved Higgs-boson mass calculation on the preferred parameter space(s) is analyzed.
The lepton flavor symmetries of the Standard Model are clearly broken in neutrino oscillations, yet we have not observed any charged-lepton flavor violation. I will review the connection between neutrino masses and flavor violation in some popular models and highlight the importance and complementarity of different experimental search channels.
The Twin Higgs mechanism can address the naturalness problem without introducing partner particles that are produced at colliders with a large cross section. Only the scalar modes and optionally the twin hypercharge gauge boson have direct couplings to the Standard Model states and are therefore the first modes that can be accessed at colliders. We comment on measurements that can be performed...
The electroweak penguin B decay process b → s l+ l- is a flavour changing neutral current process, and is sensitive to New Physics because of the possible contribution
of the heavy particles in the loop. Recently, Belle and LHCb obtained interesting results, where the lepton flavor universality violation effects might be seen.
We report our new measurement of R(K) and R(K*), the branching...
Flavour, SUSY and GUTs are some of the best motivated BSM symmetries, although it is hard to make them work together consistently. It is shown how through Extra Dimensions we can greatly simplify the flavour alignment process. We show different mechanisms to obtain the flavour symmetries and highly predictive flavon alignments, such as CSD3 and the TBM, through different orbifolds.
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for supersymmetric particle production with tau leptons in the final state. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at center of mass energy 13 TeV during the LHC Run 2.
Searches for dark matter in various final states with invisible particles recoiling against standard model particles are presented. Various topologies and kinematic variables are explored, as well as jet substructure as a means of tagging heavy bosons. The focus of the talk is on the recent CMS results obtained using data collected in the LHC run 2.
We present an ultraviolet extension of the Twin Higgs in which the radial mode of twin symmetry breaking is itself a pseudo-goldstone boson. This “turtle” structure raises the scale of new colored particles in exchange for additional states in the Higgs sector, making multiple Higgs-like scalars the definitive signature of naturalness in this context. We explore the parametrics and...
Several models of the dark sector beyond the minimal Weakly Interacting Massive Particle paradigm are accessible at current and upcoming neutrino experiments. I present two well-motivated models to which the experiments at Fermilab are sensitive: boosted dark matter and the Higgs portal. Several regions of hadronically interacting boosted dark matter parameter space will be accessible to...
The addition of right-handed neutrino fields to the SM field content provides a minimal and viable solution to account for the observed neutrino masses and lepton mixing. Remarkably, the very same extension contains all the necessary ingredients to account for the observed BAU as well. In this talk I will focus on the possibility that the right-handed neutrinos have masses below the EW scale,...
Indications for lepton flavour universality violation in the mode B -> D(*) tau nu have been of interest and can be a hint for the New Physics effect.
We report a new measurement on R(D) and R(D*), branching ratio of B -> D(*) tau nu over B -> D(*) l nu where l = e, mu, using semi-leptonic tag method.
We also report our new measurement on B -> mu nu, which is also sensitive to New...
Mirror sectors -- hidden sectors that are approximate copies of the Standard Model -- are a generic prediction of many models, notably the Mirror Twin Higgs model. Such models can have a rich cosmology and many interesting detection signatures beyond the realm of colliders. In this talk, I will focus on the possibility that mirror matter can form stars which undergo mirror nuclear fusion in...
The search for weak-scale SUSY is one of the highest physics priorities for the current and future LHC runs. The high luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) is expected to deliver proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass-energy of 14 TeV, with an integrated luminosity of around 3000 fb-1. The large dataset expected at the end of HL-LHC offers an unprecedented discovery potential for...
Some interpretations of $R_{D^{(*)}}$ anomaly in $B$ meson decay using leptoquark models can also generate top quark decays through flavor changing neutral current (FCNC). In this work we focus on two leptoquarks, i.e. scalar $S_1$ and vector $U_1$ which are both singlet under the $SU(2)_L$ gauge group in the Standard Model (SM). We investigate their implications on top FCNC decays $t\to c...
We explore the physics potential of using precision timing information at the LHC in searches for long-lived particles (LLPs). In comparison with the light Standard Model particles, the decay products of massive LLPs arrive at detectors with time delays around nanosecond scale. We propose new strategies to take advantage of this time delay feature by using initial state radiation to timestamp...
Millicharged particles (mCPs) are theoretical particles with fractional electric charge, which could constitute part of the dark matter present in the Universe and can naturally arise in dark sectors with U(1)' gauge symmetries. We report the latest constraints to the parameter space of mCPs using data from ArgoNeuT, a 0.24 ton Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC), with a novel...
Heavy neutral leptons are part of many extensions of the Standard Model, in particular seesaw models that can explain the light neutrino masses and mixing. Many search strategy have been proposed, either via the direct production of the new heavy neutral leptons or via their indirect effects in processes like lepton flavour violation. We will discuss a direct search strategy at hadron...
The proposed 100 TeV pp collider (FCC-hh) is designed to collect a total luminosity of 20/ab providing an un-precedented discovery opportunity for physics beyond the Standard Model. This presentation focuses on the
prospects for discovering supersymmetry at the future circular proton-proton collider.
The $R_{D^{(*)}}$ anomalies are among the longest-standing and most statistically significant hints of physics beyond the Standard Model. In this talk, we investigate future measurements at Belle II that can be used to tell apart the various new physics scenarios for these anomalies. We show that Belle II can use a number of $\tau$ asymmetry observables (forward-backward asymmetry and...
There are many models beyond the standard model which include electroweakly interacting massive particles (EWIMPs), often in the context of the dark matter. We study the indirect search of EWIMPs using a precise measurement of the lepton pair production cross sections at future 100 TeV hadron colliders. It is revealed that this search strategy is suitable in particular for Higgsino and that...
We explore how the observed characteristics of neutrino masses —small mass scale, mild hierarchy, large mixing angles— can be explained in a simple extension of the standard model, where lepton number is broken at the Planck-scale.
While the correct mass scale for the light neutrinos is naturally explained in this model without the need for a new scale in the theory, the mild hierarchy can be...
The CMS detector explores a wide range of non-standard signatures including displaced and delayed particles, which allow to explore various models from supersymmetry and beyond standard models. Newly set limits on long-lived exotic particles will be presented. These results are obtained with data recorded in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV in Run 2 of the LHC.
The Clockwork (CW) mechanism can explain the smallness of neutrino masses without introducing unnaturally small input parameters. We study the simplest CW neutrino model, the "uniform" clockwork, as well as a broader class of "generalized" clockwork models. We derive constraints on such models from lepton-flavor violating processes, as well as precision electroweak fits. These constraints...
Many supersymmetric scenarios feature final states with non-standard final state objects. The production of massive sparticles can lead to the production of boosted top quarks or vector bosons, high-pt b-jets. At the same time, transitions between nearly mass-degenerate sparticles can challenge the standard reconstruction because of the presence of very soft leptons or jets (including the...
Various theories beyond the Standard Model predict unique signatures which are difficult to reconstruct and for which estimating the background rates is also a challenge. Signatures from displaced decays anywhere from the inner detector to the muon spectrometer, as well as those of new particles with fractional or multiple value of the charge of the electron or high mass stable charged...
We study the global structure of vacua of heterotic strings compactified on orbifolds T^4/Z_N in the presence of heterotic 5-branes. Gauge symmetry breaking associated with orbifold is described by instantons in the field theory. Phase transition between small instantons and heterotic 5-branes provides top-down, stringy account to the spectrum and modular invariance condition. Also it takes us...
We consider a model of decaying axino-like particle dark matter with lifetime around the age of the universe. Its late decay to gravitino plus axion-like particle can solve small scale problems. We will also show a distinct signature of the axion-like particle from the axino-like particle decay.
High-multiplicity all-hadronic final states are an important, but difficult final state for searching for physics beyond the Standard Model. A powerful search method is to look for large jets with accidental substructure due to multiple hard partons falling within a single jet. One way for estimating the background in this search is to exploit an approximate factorization in quantum...
The correct quark and charged lepton mass matrices along with a nearly correct CKM matrix may be naturally accomodated in a Pati-Salam model constructed from intersecting D6 branes on a $T^6/(Z_2 \times Z_2)$ orientifold. Furthermore, near-tribimaximal mixing for neutrinos may arise naturally due to the structure of the Yukawa matrices in the model. Consistency with the quark and charged...
I will discuss the precision determination of the MSbar parameters of the Standard Model and their relation to observable quantities such as the top, Higgs, Z, and W pole masses at full 2-loop order with higher-order QCD effects. I describe a new computer program SMDR, which incorporates all of the known higher loop order effects. The program includes, for the first time, the relation of the...
It is known that de Sitter solutions in supergravity require supersymmetry breaking. I will present a new construction that allows the inclusion of the goldstino into supergravity, based on applying the Stueckelberg trick to a novel superfield formulation of unimodular supergravity. I will show the existence of de Sitter solutions and also the connection to the Volkov-Akulov model in the flat...
We show that both the baryon asymmetry of the universe and dark matter (DM) can be accounted for by the dynamics of a single axion-like field. In this scenario, the observed baryon asymmetry is produced through spontaneous baryogenesis—driven by the early evolution of the axion—while its late-time coherent oscillations explain the observed DM abundance. Typically, spontaneous baryogenesis via...
Particle physics models with Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaking as a consequence of supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking are attractive in that they solve the strong CP problem with a SUSY DFSZ-like axion, link the SUSY breaking and PQ breaking intermediate mass scales and can resolve the SUSY $\mu$ problem with a naturalness-required weak scale $\mu$ term whilst soft SUSY breaking terms inhabit the...
Neutrino masses and the existence of non-baryonic Dark Matter (DM) are together with the Baryon asymmetry in the Universe three evidences that the Standard Model is not the final theory to describe our nature. In this talk I intend to give a brief review of models to generate neutrino masses. I will in particular discuss scenarios where the generation of neutrino masses is linked to the...
We present the recently developed benchmark scenarios for MSSM Higgs-boson searches at the LHC. They take into account the recently improved Higgs-boson mass calculations as well as the latest data from direct Higgs-boson searches and measurements of the 125 GeV Higgs boson. The different phenomenology of these scenarios is highlighted.
We introduce a potentially powerful new method of searching for new physics at the LHC, using autoencoders and unsupervised deep learning. The key idea of the autoencoder is that it learns to map "normal" events back to themselves, but fails to reconstruct "anomalous" events that it has never encountered before. The reconstruction error can then be used as an anomaly threshold. We demonstrate...
Missing transverse momentum (MET) plays an essential role in many searches for Supersymmetry. However, increasing pile-up and other detector miss-measurements mean that separating signal events from those with no real missing transverse momentum can not always be trivial. The recent improvements in the reconstruction of the MET at the ATLAS experiment will be detailed including the use of...
We present the prospects of direct and indirect heavy SUSY Higgs boson searches for the HL-LHC and the ILC. They are based on the new set of benchmarks scenarios recently developed for SUSY Higgs-boson searches at the LHC.
One of the outstanding problems in theoretical physics is the cosmological constant problem. In the context of supersymmetry, the origin of supersymmetry breaking remains a mystery. We present a self-contained no-scale supergravity model which incorporates the Starobinsky-like inflation, an adjustable supersymmetry breaking scale $\mathcal{O}(10^{3})$ GeV, and a small positive cosmological...
The problem of moduli stabilisation and inflation are discussed in type IIB/F-theory. Considering a configuration of three intersecting D7 branes with fluxes, it is shown that higher loop effects induce logarithmic corrections to the K\"ahler potential which can stabilise the K\"ahler moduli. When a new Fayet-Iliopoulos term is included, it is also possible to generate the required number...
We discuss a ∼ 3 σ signal (local) in the light Higgs-boson search in the diphoton decay mode at ∼ 96 GeV as reported by CMS, together with a ∼ 2 σ excess (local) in the b ̄b final state at LEP in the same mass range. We interpret this possible signal as a Higgs boson in the 2 Higgs Doublet Model with an additional real Higgs singlet (N2HDM). We find that the lightest Higgs boson of the N2HDM...
Lepton number has a deep connection with the neutrino mass generation. A new minimal anomaly-free gauged $U(1)_l$ lepton-number model, with four exotic chiral leptons, is studied. Motivated by phenomenology, we discuss a simplified case which has the universal Yukawa couplings. It agrees with all the experimental constraints and predicts $m_e, m_\mu \ll m_\tau$, and the latter is of the...
I will discuss an intriguing observation that the values of all the couplings in the standard model except those related to first two generations can be understood from the IR fixed point structure of renormalization group equations in the minimal supersymmetric model extended by one complete vectorlike family with the scale of new physics in a multi-TeV range.
The observed rapid cooling of the neutron star (NS) located at the center of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) can be explained in the minimal NS cooling scenario. This consequence may be changed if there exists an extra cooling source, such as axion emission. In this work, we study the Cas A NS cooling in the presence of axion emission, taking account of the temperature evolution in...
The Milky Way halo is the brightest source of dark matter annihilation on the sky. Indeed, the potential strength of the Galactic dark matter signal can supersede that expected from dwarf galaxies and galaxy groups even in regions away from the Inner Galaxy. We present the results of a search for dark matter annihilation in the smooth Milky Way halo for $|b| > 20^\circ$ and $r < 50^\circ$...
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The presence of new neutrino-quark interactions can enhance, deplete or distort the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) event rate. The new interactions can involve CP violating phases that can potentially affect these features. Assuming vector light mediators we study the effects of CP violation on the CEvNS process, and for that aim we consider the COHERENT...
String compactifications with stabilised moduli and flat directions make it possible to
constrain the theory using phenomenological constraints or data. The base geometry
typically has many, analytically intractible, moduli fields and flux quanta that
characterise the kind of physics which could be explained. Numerical moduli stabilisation will facilitate the connection of Calabi-Yau data,...
A comprehensive set of measurements of top quark pair and single top quark production in association with EWK bosons (W, Z or ɣ) is presented. The results are compared to theory predictions and re-interpreted as searches for new physics inducing deviations from the standard model predictions. The status of the search for four top quark production, to which the LHC experiments are starting to...
Suppressed SUSY is a mechanism for generating a realistic model based on SUSY, but without spontaneous or explicit breaking of SUSY. It arises from a canonical transformation, which preserves the BRST Master Equation of Supergravity, coupled to, for example, SU(5) Grand Unified Supersymmetric Gauge Theory with Matter. The canonical transformation preserves the Master Equation, but the...
Associated production of top anti-top quark pairs along with a Higgs boson is an important Standard Model process. The top-Yukawa coupling can be directly measured from this process. Being the heaviest of the Standard Model particles, the coupling of top quark to the Higgs field is expected to be large. Any significant deviation in the rate of this process from the Standard Model expectation...
The T-576 experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory was designed to make the first direct measurement of a coherent radio reflection (`radar') off the particle shower produced by an electron beam (>10 GeV/particle; 10^9 electrons per bunch) directed into a high-density polyethylene target. This beam is approximately equivalent to the shower produced by an EeV energy neutrino...
In recent years, significant experimental indications that point towards Lepton Flavor Universality violating effects in B-decays, involving $b \to c \tau \nu$ and $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ have been accumulated. A possible New Physics explanation can be sought within the framework of R-parity violating Supersymmetry, which contains the necessary ingredients to explain the anomalies via both...
I present constraints derived in a consistent and conservative way on the Wilson coefficients of the SMEFT from dilepton data at Tevatron and the LHC, and present the calculation of loop-level matching needed to utilize flavor data to constrain flavor-blind SMEFT effects. These are important new sources of constraint that will ultimately feed in to a global analysis of generic,...
With the lack of experimental evidence for weak-scale SUSY in simple scenarios, focus is shifting to strengthening exclusion limits on many models. One of the simplest mechanisms has been by the introduction of multi-bin fits in analyses. However, these pose a difficult problem for phenomenologists wanting to test their models: insufficient information is made available to fully evaluate the...
Measurements of top quark properties using data collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiment at 13 TeV are presented. Among them, latest results on top mass, ttbar spin correlations and charge asymmetries will be discussed.
We studied $b\to s\mu^+\mu^-$ transitions and possible correlations with the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon ($a_\mu$) within two-Higgs-doublet models with generic Yukawa couplings, including the possibility of right-handed neutrinos. We performed the matching on the relevant effective Hamiltonian and calculated the leading one-loop effects for $b\to s\ell\ell^{(\prime)}$, $b\to...
In fermionic dark matter (DM) models with pseudoscalar mediators, the tree-level amplitude for the DM-nucleon elastic scattering is suppressed by the momentum transfer in the non-relativistic limit. However, it is not suppressed at the loop level, and thus the loop corrections are essential to discuss the sensitivities of the direct detection experiments for the model prediction. In...
Results from the CMS and ATLAS experiments are presented for searches for supersymmetric electroweak gauge bosons. Small mass splittings between electroweak states known as a compressed spectrum present unique experimental challenges. This talk describes the new techniques utilized by CMS and ATLAS to address such difficult scenarios. The searches use proton-proton collision data with...
Many theories beyond the Standard Model predict new phenomena which decay to jets. Such final states are of particular interest at the LHC since new phenomena produced in parton collisions are likely to produce final states with (at least) two partons. This talk presents the latest 13 TeV ATLAS and CMS results, covering exclusive searches for dijet and dibjet resonances along with searches...
Latest results on inclusive and differential top quark pair and single top quark production cross sections are presented using proton-proton collision data collected by CMS and ATLAS. The differential cross sections are measured as a function of various kinematic observables of the top quarks and the jets and leptons of the event final state. The results are confronted with precise theory...
The presence of extra Yukawa couplings, in particular $\rho_{\tau\mu}$ and $\rho_{tu}$, can enhance $B \to \mu\bar\nu$ rate but leave $B \to \tau\bar\nu$ unchanged, thereby their ratio can deviate from the value common to the Standard Model and two Higgs doublet model type II. With recent hint of enhancement in $B \to \mu\bar\nu$ using full Belle data,the Belle II experiment could probe this...
We discuss prospects of searching for decays of heavy Higgs bosons into electroweak superpartners at the high luminosity LHC. In addition to the kinematic handles offered by the presence of a resonant particle in the production chain, heavy Higgs decays can be the dominant production mode of these superpartners, making it possible to extend coverage to otherwise inaccessible regions of the...
An exact spacetime parity replicates the $SU(2) \times U(1)$ electroweak interaction, the Higgs boson $H$, and the matter of the Standard Model. This "Higgs Parity" and the mirror electroweak symmetry are spontaneously broken at scale $v' = \langle{H'}\rangle \gg \langle{H}\rangle$, yielding the Standard Model below $v'$ with a quartic coupling that essentially vanishes at $v'$:...
Most of the methods to measure the top quark mass suffer from the jet energy scaling issue in achieving better precision. As a way to get around this issue, the study of B-hadron observables is motivated. While they do not involve such an issue, understanding underlying hadronization models is a key to achieve ~0.5% precision or better. In this presentation, I discuss the impact of the...
Many particles predicted by theories beyond the Standard Model, including for example new heavy vector bosons, decay into final states which contain high-pt leptons and possibly other objects such as missing transverse energy or jets. Searches for new physics models with these signatures are performed using the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. The talk will focus on the most recent...
Recent hints for lepton-flavor non-universality in $B$-meson decays can be interpreted as hints for the existence of leptoquarks. We show that scalar leptoquarks unavoidably arise in grand unified theories, using the well-known Pati--Salam model as an example. These GUT-motivated leptoquarks can have a number of appealing features including automatic absence of proton decay, purely chiral...
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for supersymmetric particle production with Higgs bosons in the final state. Strong and electroweak production are considered in a variety of Higgs decay channels. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded by the CMS detector at center of mass energy 13 TeV during the LHC Run 2.
Top quark production can probe physics beyond the SM in different ways. Some processes, and especially certain angular correlations, are sensitive to the existence of anomalous top quark couplings. In the SM, flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNC) are forbidden at tree level and are strongly suppressed in loop corrections. Several extensions of the SM incorporate significantly enhanced FCNC...
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) is expected to deliver an integrated luminosity of up to 3000 fb-1. The very high instantaneous luminosity will lead to about 200 proton-proton collisions per bunch crossing (“pileup”) superimposed to each event of interest, therefore providing extremely challenging experimental conditions. The sensitivity to find new physics Beyond the...
We show that the well known Georgi-Machacek (GM) model can be realized as a limit of the recently constructed Supersymmetric Custodial Higgs Triplet Model (SCTM) which in general contains a significantly more complex scalar spectrum. We dub this limit as the Supersymmetric GM (SGM) model, which gives a weakly coupled origin for the GM model at the electroweak scale. We derive a mapping between...
The LHCb experiment has recently reported evidence of deviation from the Standard Model from B decays. The experimental data also suggests that there can be a $q^2$ dependence in $R_K^*$. In this talk, I will address the q^2 dependence in two possible scenarios. The first scenario is that the $q^2$ dependence is actually due to hadronic effects. The hadronic effects are kinematically...
The LAr technology has strong potential to push the sensitivity for WIMP detection several orders of magnitude beyond current levels. The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC) will pursue a sequence of future detectors to follow this potential. The immediate objective is the DarkSide-20k two-phase detector, currently under construction at LNGS. DarkSide-20k will have ultra-low...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been successfully delivering proton-proton collision data at the unprecedented center of mass energy of 13 TeV.
An upgrade is planned to increase the instantaneous luminosity delivered by the LHC in what is called HL-LHC, aiming to deliver a total of about 3000/fb of data to the ATLAS detector at a center of mass energy of 14 TeV. To cope with the expected...
I will discuss the di-Higgs production via gluon fusion within the context of Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). The calculation is based on the analytical expression of the leading order Feynman amplitudes (which includes both quark and squark loops), and therefore, both off-shell effects and interference between resonant...
The twin Higgs scenario protects the Higgs mass from large quantum corrections through symmetry partners without standard model (SM) color charge.The particles belong to a "twin" sector, related to the SM by a discrete exchange symmetry. The gauge symmetries in each sector forbid all but a few renormalizable connections between the sectors. Vectors portals, either through twin particles or...
Dark matter (DM) self-interactions affect the gravitational capture of DM in the Sun and Earth differently as a simple consequence of the differing kinematics of collisions within the two potential wells: the dominant effect of self-interactions in the Sun is to provide an additional channel for capture, while the dominant effect in the Earth is to eject previously captured DM. I will discuss...
In the quest of obtaining models with U(1) symmetries singlets with charges higher than 4 there is no systematic prescription from the point of view of F-theory. Following early work, where we worked out Sen's weak coupling limit for a family of F-theory standard models we now are able to systematically construct higher U(1) charge models in type IIB applying matrix factorization techniques,...
Experiments at the LHC have not yet seen any direct signs of superpartners.
Many authors have suggested mechanisms that reduce the SUSY reach of the
LHC from its canonical expectation. After a lightning review of these, I will
reexamine the fine-tuning arguments that led to these canonical expectations
and argue that the non-appearance of superpartners may not be at odds with
SUSY...
The MEG experiment took data at the Paul Scherrer Institut in the years 2009-2013 and published the most stringent limit on the charged lepton flavor violating decay $\mu \rightarrow e\gamma$: BR($\mu \rightarrow e\gamma$) $<4.2 \times 10^{-13}$ @90% C.L.
The MEG detector has been upgraded in order to reach a sensitivity of $5 \times 10^{-14}$, which corresponds to an improvement of one...
Material should contain inclusive DY production of Z and W, which includes A-FB, angular coefficient, M_W, W helicity, and V+jets measurements including heavy-flavour (W+c, W+b, Z+b, Z+c). The speaker can choose to concentrate more on 2 or 3 recent results.
We show that the rate for di-Higgs production at the LHC can be enhanced by a factor as large as 25 compared to the Standard Model value in the two Higgs doublet model, while being consistent with the known properties of the observed Higgs boson $h$. There are correlated modifications in $t\overline{t}h$ and resonant $Zh$ production rates, which can serve as tests of this model. Our...
The observed flattening of rotation curves is usually considered strong evidence for the existence of dark matter on galactic scales. However, observations such as the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation and the Radial Acceleration Relation, suggest that the observed dynamics in galaxies are strongly correlated with the distribution of baryonic matter. Because they are challenging to explain in the...
Supersymmetric models present a wide variety of signatures that might be accessible at the LHC. In some cases supersymmetric particles may acquire finite lifetimes, and once produced in collisions, their direct trajectories or decay products can be observed as highly distinctive signatures with relatively small backgrounds. In recent years, the capability of the ATLAS experiment to search for...
Double gauge boson production is one of the most important processes under study at the LHC. Of particular importance is the measurement of the trilinear electroweak gauge boson coupling, which sheds light on the gauge structure of the Standard Model. We study the impact of anomalous gauge boson and fermion couplings on the production of W+W− pairs at the LHC and how these couplings affect...
Dark matter (DM) substructure is expected to exist over a large range of scales in our Galaxy. Its properties, such as its spatial distribution and abundance at different mass scales, can strongly correlate with the underlying particle physics properties of dark matter. Inferring DM substructure properties can thus hold the key to pinning down the particle nature of DM. In this talk, I will...
LHC searches for extended Higgs sectors have so far focused on scenarios that conserve flavor i.e. the additional Higgs bosons couple to fermions in a flavor diagonal way and the signatures of the additional Higgs bosons dominantly involve third generation fermions. Much of the the focus of LHC searches have been on Type I and Type II two Higgs doublet models (2HDMs). However, there may exist...
Results from the CMS experiment are presented for searches for supersymmetric particle production in decays channels with long-lived particles. Long-lived final states can arise in many SUSY scenarios resulting in a diverse array of striking signatures. Results are presented here from several such scenarios. The searches use proton-proton collision data with luminosity up to 137 fb-1 recorded...
Motivated by the absence of new physics signals at LHC and dark matter direct detections, we study new approaches to explore the dark matter and baryogenesis by SKA-like and LISA-like experiments.
Electroweak-interacting massive particles (EWIMPs) exist in a broad class of new physics models beyond the Standard Model. The EWIMP generally affects the LHC signatures through quantum corrections even without direct productions. By measuring the Standard Model processes precisely, we can indirectly probe the EWIMPs. In this talk, we discuss the current constraint and future prospect of the...
In this talk, I overview prospects for New Physics searches offered by recently suggested family-nonuniversal Three-Higgs Doublet models such as those based upon U(1), U(1)xU(1), U(1)xZ_2 and CP4 family symmetries. Implications of these scenarios for explanation of fermion mass and mixing hierarchies as well as the observed flavour anomalies are outlined.
We investigate a class of models where the supergravity model with the standard model gauge group is extended by a hidden sector $U(1)_X$ gauge group and where the lightest supersymmetric particle is the neutralino in the hidden sector. We investigate this possibility in a class of models where the stau is the lightest supersymmetric particle in the MSSM sector and the next-to-lightest...
I will discuss tests of the weak gravity conjecture in the presence of supersymmetry breaking, performed in the framework of type I string theory with supersymmetry broken by compactification (à la Scherk-Schwarz). Such a (perturbative string theory) setting allows for the presence of runaway potentials (here for the compactification radius), which is the only possibility if one accepts the...
The Standard Model (SM) is extended by introducing a complete vector-like fourth family and a vector-like U(1)' gauge symmetry. This model can explain experimental values of the muon anomalous magnetic moment and anomalies for $b \to s \mu^+ \mu^-$ processes simultaneously without conflicting with the other observations, e.g. lepton flavor violating processes, CKM matrix, neutral meson...
We derive the electroweak (EW) collinear splitting functions up to single logs. We first derive the splitting functions in the unbroken limit, and then we systematically incorporate effects of EW symmetry breaking (EWSB), by imposing a particularly convenient gauge choice (dubbed “Goldstone Equivalence Gauge”) that disentangles the effects of Goldstone bosons and gauge fields in the presence...
R-parity violation introduces many viable signatures to the search for supersymmetry at the LHC. The decay of supersymmetric particles can produce leptons or jets, while removing the missing transverse momentum signal common to traditional supersymmetry searches. The talk presents recent results from searches of supersymmetry in these unusual signatures of R-parity violation
with the ATLAS and...
The production of Higgs $(h)$ in association with a $Z$ boson from the neutral beyond the Standard Model (SM) gauge boson such as $Z^\prime$. We consider a scenario where the SM is extended by a general $U(1)_X$ group. The charges can be constrained by solving the anomaly free conditions. The $U(1)_X$ charge sector can be expressed in terms of charges of the Higgs and the BSM scalar such as...
We explore the Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER) scenario in a general context where $3 \rightarrow 2$ annihilations play an important role in determining the late-time abundance of dark matter (DM), whether the dark sector coupling is strong or weak (the Not-Forbidden Dark Matter, or NFDM, scenario). In the conventional weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) paradigm the thermal relic...
Machine-learning assisted jet substructure tagging techniques have the potential to significantly improve searches for new particles and Standard Model measurements in hadronic final states. Techniques with simple analytic forms are particularly useful for establishing robustness and gaining physical insight. We will look at a method that applies machine learning to identify the amount of...
Vector-boson fusion and vector-boson scattering processes are studied using the data collected by the ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC.
Supersymmetry was proposed to be the underlying physics of the flavor puzzle. The charged lepton mass hierarchy was naturally understood. The model is predictive. CP violation in the lepton sector, and other aspects of neutrino physics, are studied. In addition to the sneutrino vacuum expectation values (VEVs), the heavy vector-like triplet also contributes to neutrino masses. Phases of the...
Broad resonances are generic predictions of many BSMs. But their discovery is expected to be challenging at the LHC and future collider experiments. It is because traditional resonance searches are based on the invariant mass distribution that will not be sharp enough for a broad resonance.
We used the deep neural network to develop a method to discover broad resonances at collider...
The production of multiple electroweak bosons at the LHC constitutes a stringent test of the electroweak sector and provide a model-independent means to search for new physics at the TeV scale. Constraining the multiboson production through direct measurements also allows to constraint such backgrounds in SUSY searches.
I will discuss a few questions connecting dark matter and primordial black holes: are they THE dark matter? If so, how can we tell? Did LIGO detect primordial black holes? Do light black holes stop evaporating around the Planck scale? If so, are they detectable? Did primordial black holes generate the dark matter and/or the baryon asymmetry?
What can we learn about the Dark Matter frontier with Gravitational-Wave (GW) observations at LIGO and future detectors?
We first introduce a new GW observable — GW Fringe — that allows LIGO alone to probe compact dark matter such as primordial black holes or dark stars. Furthermore, by augmenting LIGO with mid-frequency detectors, one can also probe various other dark matter kinds via yet...
Many extensions of the Standard Model include the possibility of light new particles, such as axions or dark matter candidates. These scenarios can be probed using the large data sets collected by B-factories, complementing measurements performed at the LHC. The BABAR collaboration has conducted an extensive program to search for axions in B decays, self-interacting or non-miminal dark forces,...
The null results of the LHC searches have put strong bounds on new physics scenario such as supersymmetry (SUSY). With the latest values of top quark mass and strong coupling, we study the upper bounds on the sfermion masses in Split SUSY from the observed Higgs boson mass and electroweak (EW) vacuum stability. To be consistent with the observed Higgs mass, we find that the largest value of...
We apply techniques from Bayesian generative statistical modeling to uncover hidden features in jet substructure observables that discriminate between different a priori unknown underlying short distance physical processes in multi-jet events. In particular, we use a mixed membership model known as Latent Dirichlet Allocation to build a data-driven unsupervised top-quark tagger and ttbar event...
