Journal of High Energy Physics

List of Papers (Total 9,365)

A natural S 4 × SO(10) model of flavour

We propose a natural S 4 × SO(10) supersymmetric grand unified theory of flavour with an auxiliary ${\mathbb{Z}}_4^2\times {\mathbb{Z}}_4^R$ symmetry, based on small Higgs representations (nothing larger than an adjoint) and hence a type-I seesaw mechanism. The Yukawa structure of all fermions is determined by the hierarchical vacuum expectation values of three S 4 triplet ...

Perturbative contributions to Wilson loops in twisted lattice boxes and reduced models

We compute the perturbative expression of Wilson loops up to order g 4 for SU(N ) lattice gauge theories with Wilson action on a finite box with twisted boundary conditions. Our formulas are valid for any dimension and any irreducible twist. They contain as a special case that of the 4-dimensional Twisted Eguchi-Kawai model for a symmetric twist with flux k. Our results allow us to ...

Three-particle quantization condition in a finite volume: 2. General formalism and the analysis of data

We derive the three-body quantization condition in a finite volume using an effective field theory in the particle-dimer picture. Moreover, we consider the extraction of physical observables from the lattice spectrum using the quantization condition. To illustrate the general framework, we calculate the volume-dependent three-particle spectrum in a simple model both below and above ...

Operator dimensions from moduli

We consider the operator spectrum of a three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory with a moduli space of one complex dimension, such as the fixed point theory with three chiral superfields X, Y, Z and a superpotential W = XYZ. By using the existence of an effective theory on each branch of moduli space, we calculate the anomalous dimensions of certain ...

Analytic integrability for strings on η and λ deformed backgrounds

In this paper, based on simple analytic techniques, we explore the integrability conditions for classical stringy configurations defined over η as well as λ-deformed backgrounds. We perform our analysis considering classical string motions within various subsectors of the full target space geometry. It turns out that classical string configurations defined over η-deformed ...

Neutral kaon mixing beyond the Standard Model with n f = 2 + 1 chiral fermions. Part 2: non perturbative renormalisation of the ΔF = 2 four-quark operators

We compute the renormalisation factors (Z-matrices) of the ΔF = 2 four-quark operators needed for Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) kaon mixing. We work with n f = 2+1 flavours of Domain-Wall fermions whose chiral-flavour properties are essential to maintain a continuum-like mixing pattern. We introduce new RI-SMOM renormalisation schemes, which we argue are better behaved compared ...

Product group confinement in SUSY gauge theories

We propose a new set of s-confining theories with product gauge groups and no tree-level superpotential, based on a model with one antisymmetric matter field and four flavors of quarks. For each product group we find a set of gauge-invariant operators which satisfy the ’t Hooft anomaly matching conditions, and we identify the dynamically generated superpotential which reproduces ...

Asymptotic fragility, near AdS2 holography and $T\overline{T}$

We present the exact solution for the scattering problem in the flat space Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity coupled to an arbitrary quantum field theory. JT gravity results in a gravitational dressing of field theoretical scattering amplitudes. The exact expression for the dressed S-matrix was previously known as a solvable example of a novel UV asymptotic behavior, dubbed asymptotic ...

Witten diagrams for torus conformal blocks

We give a holographic description of global conformal blocks in two dimensional conformal field theory on the sphere and on the torus. We show that the conformal blocks for one-point functions on the torus can be written as Witten diagrams in thermal AdS. This is accomplished by deriving a general conformal Casimir equation for global conformal blocks, and showing that Witten ...

Corrections to holographic entanglement plateau

We investigate the robustness of the Araki-Lieb inequality in a two-dimensional (2D) conformal field theory (CFT) on torus. The inequality requires that ΔS = S(L) − |S(L − ℓ) − S(ℓ)| is nonnegative, where S(L) is the thermal entropy and S(L − ℓ), S(ℓ) are the entanglement entropies. Holographically there is an entanglement plateau in the BTZ black hole background, which means that ...

Higher order gravities and the Strong Equivalence Principle

We show that, in all metric theories of gravity with a general covariant action, gravity couples to the gravitational energy-momentum tensor in the same way it couples to the matter energy-momentum tensor order by order in the weak field approximation around flat spacetime. We discuss the relation of this property to the Strong Equivalence Principle. We also study the gauge ...

Quasinormal modes of Gauss-Bonnet-AdS black holes: towards holographic description of finite coupling

Here we shall show that there is no other instability for the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes, than the eikonal one and consider the features of the quasinormal spectrum in the stability sector in detail. The obtained quasinormal spectrum consists from the two essentially different types of modes: perturbative and non-perturbative in the Gauss-Bonnet coupling ...

A preferred mass range for primordial black hole formation and black holes as dark matter revisited

Bird et al. [1] and Sasaki et al. [2] have recently proposed the intriguing possibility that the black holes detected by LIGO could be all or part of the cosmological dark matter. This offers an alternative to WIMPs and axions, where dark matter could be comprised solely of Standard Model particles. The mass range lies within an observationally viable window and the predicted ...

Top-quark mass measurement in the all-hadronic $t\overline{t}$ decay channel at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

The top-quark mass is measured in the all-hadronic top-antitop quark decay channel using proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV with the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The data set used in the analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb−1. The large multi-jet background is modelled using a data-driven method. ...

Even spin $\mathcal{N}=4$ holography

A two-dimensional Sp(2N ) vector model with small $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal symmetry is formulated, and its chiral algebra is shown to be freely generated by super-primary fields of even conformal weight. This vector model is the large level limit of a coset theory with large $\mathcal{N}=4$, whose proposed AdS3 dual is a minimal Vasiliev higher spin theory with gauge ...

General relativity from causality

We study large families of theories of interacting spin 2 particles from the point of view of causality. Although it is often stated that there is a unique Lorentz invariant effective theory of massless spin 2, namely general relativity, other theories that utilize higher derivative interactions do in fact exist. These theories are distinct from general relativity, as they permit ...

Spread of entanglement in a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev chain

We study the spread of Rényi entropy between two halves of a Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) chain of Majorana fermions, prepared in a thermofield double (TFD) state. The SYK chain model is a model of chaotic many-body systems, which describes a one-dimensional lattice of Majorana fermions, with spatially local random quartic interaction. We find that for integer Rényi index n > 1, the ...