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Effective field theory of the two Higgs doublet model

We revisit the effective field theory of the two Higgs doublet model at tree level. The introduction of a novel basis in the UV theory allows us to derive matching coefficients in the effective description that resum important contributions from the Higgs ...

Springer Nature2023

Exact quantum conformal symmetry, its spontaneous breakdown, and gravitational Weyl anomaly

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Anna Tokareva

The classical Lagrangian of the Standard Model enjoys the symmetry of the full conformal group if the mass of the Higgs boson is put to zero. This is a hint that conformal symmetry may play a fundamental role in the ultimate theory describing nature. The o ...

American Physical Society2023

Hilbert series, the Higgs mechanism, and HEFT

Brian Quinn Henning

We expand Hilbert series technologies in effective field theory for the inclusion of massive particles, enabling, among other things, the enumeration of operator bases for non-linearly realized gauge theories. We find that the Higgs mechanism is manifest a ...

Springer Nature2023

Sleptonic SUSY: from UV framework to IR phenomenology

Majid Ekhterachian

We study an attractive scenario, "Sleptonic SUSY", which reconciles the 125 GeV Higgs scalar and the non-observation of superpartners thus far with potentially pivotal roles for slepton phenomenology: providing viable ongoing targets for LHC discovery, inc ...

Springer Nature2022

Linearized supergravity with a dynamical preferred frame

Sergey Sibiryakov

We study supersymmetric extension of the Einstein-aether gravitational model where local Lorentz invariance is broken down to the subgroup of spatial rotations by a vacuum expectation value of a timelike vector field called aether. Embedding aether into a ...

Springer Nature2021

Measurement of the W gamma Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s=13 TeV and Constraints on Effective Field Theory Coefficients

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Jian Wang, Chao Wang, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Matthias Wolf, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Paolo Ronchese, Hua Zhang, Leonardo Cristella, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Peter Hansen, Tao Huang, David Vannerom, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Davide Di Croce, Kun Shi, Wei Shi, Abhisek Datta, Wei Sun, Jian Zhao, Thomas Berger, Federica Legger, Doohyun Kim, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dilaton-assisted generation of the Fermi scale from the Planck scale

Andrey Shkerin

In scale-invariant theories of gravity the Planck mass M-p, which appears due to spontaneous symmetry breaking, can be the only scale at the classical level. It was argued that the second scale can be generated by a quantum nonperturbative gravitational ef ...

American Physical Society2019

Gravity, scale invariance and the hierarchy problem

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Andrey Shkerin

Combining the quantum scale invariance with the absence of new degrees of freedom above the electroweak scale leads to stability of the latter against perturbative quantum corrections. Nevertheless, the hierarchy between the weak and the Planck scales rema ...

Springer Nature2018

Euclidean classical solutions in quantum field theory and gravity: Higgs vacuum metastability and the hierarchy problem

Andrey Shkerin

The thesis is dedicated to two groups of questions arising in modern particle physics and cosmology. The first group concerns with the problem of stability of the electroweak (EW) vacuum in different environments. Due to its phenomenological significance, ...

EPFL2018

Conformal symmetry: Towards the link between the Fermi and the Planck scales

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Andrey Shkerin

If the mass of the Higgs boson is put to zero, the classical Lagrangian of the Standard Model (SM) becomes conformally invariant (CI). Taking into account quantum non-perturbative QCD effects violating CI leads to electroweak symmetry breaking with the sca ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Poincaré, Scale and Conformal Symmetries : Gauge Perspective and Cosmological Ramifications

Georgios Karananas

Symmetries are omnipresent and play a fundamental role in the description of Nature. Thanks to them, we have at our disposal nontrivial selection rules that dictate how a theory should be constructed. This thesis, which is naturally divided into two parts, ...

EPFL2016

Towards the measurement of photon polarisation in the decay B⁺ → K⁺ π⁻ π⁺ γ

This thesis presents a study of the flavour-changing neutral-current radiative B+ to K+pi-pi+gamma decay performed using 3 fb-1 of data collected with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at 7 and 8 TeV centre-of-mass energies. The study of radiat ...

EPFL2016

Higgs inflation and vacuum stability

Javier Rubio

Inflation is nowadays a well-established paradigm consistent with all the observations. The precise nature of the inflaton is however unknown and its role could be played by any candidate able to imitate a scalar condensate in the slow-roll regime. The dis ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Conductivity in organic semiconductors hybridized with the vacuum field

Francesco Stellacci

Much effort over the past decades has been focused on improving carrier mobility in organic thin-film transistors by optimizing the organization of the material or the device architecture. Here we take a different path to solving this problem, by injecting ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Vices and virtues of Higgs effective field theories at large energy

Francesco Riva, Da Liu

We study constraints on new physics from Higgs production at the LHC in the context of an effective field theory (EFT), focusing on Higgs searches in HV (V = W, Z) associated production which are particularly sensitive to the high-energy behavior of certai ...

American Physical Society2015

Measurement of the CP-violating phase phi(s) in (B)over-bar(s)(0) -> J / psi pi(+)pi(-) decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Raluca Anca Muresan, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Jian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Cédric Potterat, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Ilya Komarov, Bastien Luca Muster, Maria Vieites Diaz, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Songmei Wu, , , , , , , , ,

Initial or final values for semiclassical evolutions in the Weyl–Wigner representation

David Eduardo Zambrano Ramirez

Initial value representations are constructed to avoid the search for trajectories that are only defined in semiclassical approximations by their boundary conditions. We show how to incorporate these procedures within the full Weyl representation, so that ...

2013

On the effective operators for Dark Matter annihilations

Alexander Monin, Andrea De Simone, Andrea Thamm

We consider effective operators describing Dark Matter (DM) interactions with Standard Model fermions. In the non-relativistic limit of the DM field, the operators can be organized according to their mass dimension and their velocity behaviour, i.e. whethe ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Measurement of the CP violating phase phi(s) in (B)over-bar(s)(0) -> J/psi f(0)(980)

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Michel De Cian, Christophe Salzmann, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Jian Wang, Anne Keune, Yi Zhang, Vincent Fave, Lei Zhang, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Vladislav Balagura, Cédric Potterat, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Albert Puig Navarro, Christophe Bauer, Neal Gauvin, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco,

Measurement of the CP-violating phase phi(s) in (B)over-bar(s)(0) -> J/psi pi(+)pi(-) decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Christoph Frei, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Michel De Cian, Christophe Salzmann, Raluca Anca Muresan, Johan Luisier, Jian Wang, Anne Keune, Yi Zhang, Vincent Fave, Lei Zhang, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Cédric Potterat, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Albert Puig Navarro, Christophe Bauer, Neal Gauvin, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, ,