Modern Physics Letters A

We review non-Standard Model Higgs signatures which are missed in standard analyses by both ATLAS and CMS and show how the strong bounds by recent measurements can be relaxed in strongly-interacting theories. We also review strategies how to measure or constrain exotic Higgs decay at the LHC and a future linear collider.

We study electroweak baryogenesis within the framework of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. This model has shown characteristics of a strong first-order electroweak phase transition, which is conducive to baryogenesis in the early Universe. In the T-parity symmetric theory, there are two gauge sectors, viz., the T-even and the T-odd ones. We observe that the effect of the T-parity symmetric interactions between the T-odd and the T-even gauge bosons on gauge-Higgs energy functional is quite small, so that these two sectors can be taken to be independent. The T-even gauge bosons behave like the Standard Model gauge bosons, whereas the T-odd ones are instrumental in stabilizing the Higgs mass. For the T-odd gauge bosons in the symmetric and asymmetric phases and for the T-even gauge bosons in the asymmetric phase, we obtain, using the formalism of Arnold and McLerran, very small values of the ratio (Baryon number violation rate/Universe expansion rate). We observe that this result, in conjunction with the scenario of inverse phase transition in the present work and the value of the ratio obtained from the lattice result of sphaleron transition rate in the symmetric phase, can provide us with a plausible baryogenesis scenario.

In this paper, we use momentum sum rule to compute the fractions of momentum carried by quarks and gluons in a self-similarity based model of proton. Comparison of the results with the prediction of QCD asymptotics is also made.

In this paper, we perform an systematic study of the radiative transitions among the bottomonium states using the heavy quarkonium effective Lagrangians, and make predictions for the ratios among the radiative decay widths of a special multiplet to another multiplet. The predictions can be confronted with the experimental data in the future.

The present work analyses the consequences of the gravitomagnetic effect of the Earth upon a bosonic gas in which the corresponding atoms have a nonvanishing orbital angular momentum. Concerning the ground state of the Bogoliubov space of this system we deduce the consequences, on the pressure and on the speed of sound, of the gravitomagnetic effect. We prove that the effect on a single atom is very small, but we also show that for some thermodynamical properties the consequences scale as a nontrivial function of the number of particles.

Quite recently it was shown that torsion induces interactions among leptons that are identical to the weak interactions of leptons of the Weinberg Standard Model, if it is in terms of leptonic bound states that the bosonic sector is built; here we obtain the partially conserved axial currents showing that they are the same of the Standard Model, if the composite mediators have specific mass relationships: we show that their masses are indeed the measured ones, if reasonable approximations are taken.

We report on the exact computation of the S³ partition function of U(N)_k × U(N)_-k ABJM theory for k = 1, N = 1, …, 19. The result is a polynomial in π^-1 with rational coefficients. As an application of our results, we numerically determine the coefficient of the membrane 1-instanton correction to the partition function.

This paper attempts to connect two new gravitational mechanisms: the Verlinde's holographic model of gravity and the modification of inertia resulting from a Hubble-scale Casimir effect (MiHsC) of McCulloch. First we give a short survey about how the holographic scenario can give the correct dynamics of the universe. The introduction of a two-holographic screens one comparable to the Hubble horizon and a second screen that takes into account the contribution of all the matter between the test particle and the observer gives directly the modified Friedmann acceleration equation for the dynamical evolution of the universe. Improvements of this equation using the quantum corrections will realize the inflation at high energy scales and the late-time acceleration (i.e. the accelerated expansion of the universe nowadays) obviating the dark energy. From both models we can derive a version of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) observed in the dynamics of the astronomical objects obviating the dark matter and explaining other astronomical anomalies. A first connection between both theories is given at the end of the paper.