# Journal of High Energy Physics

## List of Papers (Total 9,322)

#### Quasi-normal modes from non-commutative matrix dynamics

We explore similarities between the process of relaxation in the BMN matrix model and the physics of black holes in AdS/CFT. Focusing on Dyson-fluid solutions of the matrix model, we perform numerical simulations of the real time dynamics of the system. By quenching the equilibrium distribution we study quasi-normal oscillations of scalar single trace observables, we isolate the ...

When a charged particle encircles around an Alice string, it changes the sign of the electric charge. In this paper we find a BPS-saturated Alice string in U(1)×SO(3) gauge theory with charged complex scalar fields belonging to the vector representation. After performing BPS completion we solve the BPS equations numerically. We further embed the Alice string into an $\mathcal{N} ... #### Duality twisted reductions of Double Field Theory of Type II strings We study duality twisted reductions of the Double Field Theory (DFT) of the RR sector of massless Type II theory, with twists belonging to the duality group Spin+(10, 10). We determine the action and the gauge algebra of the resulting theory and determine the conditions for consistency. In doing this, we work with the DFT action constructed by Hohm, Kwak and Zwiebach, which we ... #### Constraining fine tuning in composite Higgs models with partially composite leptons Minimal Composite Higgs Models (MCHM) have long provided a solution to the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model, yet suffer from various sources of fine tuning that are becoming increasingly problematic with the lack of new physics observations at the LHC. We develop a new fine tuning measure that accurately counts each contribution to fine tuning (single, double, triple, etc) ... #### Wilson lines in the MHV action The MHV action is the Yang-Mills action quantized on the light-front, where the two explicit physical gluonic degrees of freedom have been canonically transformed to a new set of fields. This transformation leads to the action with vertices being off-shell continuations of the MHV amplitudes. We show that the solution to the field transformation expressing one of the new fields in ... #### Combinatorial quantum gravity: geometry from random bits I propose a quantum gravity model in which geometric space emerges from random bits in a quantum phase transition driven by the combinatorial Ollivier-Ricci curvature and corresponding to the condensation of short cycles in random graphs. This quantum critical point defines quantum gravity non-perturbatively. In the ordered geometric phase at large distances the action reduces to ... #### Search for a heavy resonance decaying to a top quark and a vector-like top quark at \( \sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

A search is presented for massive spin-1 Z′ resonances decaying to a top quark and a heavy vector-like top quark partner T. The search is based on a 2.6 fb−1 sample of proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The analysis is optimized for final states in which the T quark decays to a W boson and a bottom quark. The focus is on all-jet final ...

#### Measurement of the $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ production cross section using events with one lepton and at least one jet in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV

A measurement of the $\mathrm{t}\overline{\mathrm{t}}$ production cross section at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV is presented using proton-proton collisions, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 fb−1, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Final states with one isolated charged lepton (electron or muon) and at least one jet are selected and categorized according to the ...

#### Super 0-brane action on the coset space of D(2, 1; α) supergroup

The super 0-brane action on the coset space of D(2, 1; α) supergroup is constructed which involves a set of parameters related by κ-symmetry. It describes a massive superparticle propagating near the horizon of the extreme Reissner-Nordström-AdS-dS black hole which is linked to the recently constructed D(2, 1; α)-superparticle [51] by a canonical transformation.

#### Displaced lepton flavour violating signatures of right-handed sneutrinos in U(1)′ supersymmetric models

We consider a U(1)′ extended supersymmetric model with a right-handed neutrino superfield which can generate light neutrino mass by Type I seesaw mechanism. The lighter superpartner of the right-handed neutrino could be the scalar dark matter. These right-handed sneutrinos can come from the decay of ${\tilde{Z}}^{\prime }$, superpartner of the extra gauge boson Z ′. Left-right ...

#### Complete random matrix classification of SYK models with $\mathcal{N}$ = 0, 1 and 2 supersymmetry

We present a complete symmetry classification of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model with $\mathcal{N}$ = 0, 1 and 2 supersymmetry (SUSY) on the basis of the Altland-Zirnbauer scheme in random matrix theory (RMT). For $\mathcal{N}$ = 0 and 1 we consider generic q-body interactions in the Hamiltonian and find RMT classes that were not present in earlier classifications of the ...

#### QCD corrections to massive color-octet vector boson pair production

This paper describes the calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to massive color-octet vector boson pair production at hadron colliders. As a concrete framework, a two-site coloron model with an internal parity is chosen, which can be regarded as an effective low-energy approximation of Kaluza-Klein gluon physics in universal extra dimensions. The ...

#### Intrinsic non-commutativity of closed string theory

We show that the proper interpretation of the cocycle operators appearing in the physical vertex operators of compactified strings is that the closed string target is noncommutative. We track down the appearance of this non-commutativity to the Polyakov action of the flat closed string in the presence of translational monodromies (i.e., windings). In view of the unexpected nature ...

#### Interface contributions to topological entanglement in abelian Chern-Simons theory

We study the entanglement entropy between (possibly distinct) topological phases across an interface using an Abelian Chern-Simons description with topological boundary conditions (TBCs) at the interface. From a microscopic point of view, these TBCs correspond to turning on particular gapping interactions between the edge modes across the interface. However, in studying ...

#### Maximally rotating waves in AdS and on spheres

We study the cubic wave equation in AdS d+1 (and a closely related cubic wave equation on S 3) in a weakly nonlinear regime. Via time-averaging, these systems are accurately described by simplified infinite-dimensional quartic Hamiltonian systems, whose structure is mandated by the fully resonant spectrum of linearized perturbations. The maximally rotating sector, comprising only ...

#### On the importance of electroweak corrections for B anomalies

The growing experimental indication of Lepton Flavour Universality Violation (LFUV) both in charged- and neutral-current semileptonic B-decays, has triggered many theoretical interpretations of such non-standard phenomena. Focusing on popular scenarios where the explanation of these anomalies requires New Physics at the TeV scale, we emphasise the importance of including ...

#### Comments on the random Thirring model

The Thirring model with random couplings is a translationally invariant generalisation of the SYK model to 1+1 dimensions, which is tractable in the large N limit. We compute its two point function, at large distances, for any strength of the random coupling. For a given realisation, the couplings contain both irrelevant and relevant marginal operators, but statistically, in the ...

#### The light asymptotic limit of conformal blocks in $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Liouville field theory

Analytic expressions for the two dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ SLFT blocks in the light semi-classical limit are found for both Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors. The calculations are done by using the duality between SU(2) $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-symmetric gauge theories living on R 4 /Z 2 space and two dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Liouville field theory. It is shown ...

#### Tree-level correlations in the strong field regime

We consider the correlation function of an arbitrary number of local observables in quantum field theory, in situations where the field amplitude is large. Using a quasi-classical approximation (valid for a highly occupied initial mixed state, or for a coherent initial state if the classical dynamics has instabilities), we show that at tree level these correlations are dominated by ...

#### On irregular singularity wave functions and superconformal indices

We generalize, in a manifestly Weyl-invariant way, our previous expressions for irregular singularity wave functions in two-dimensional SU(2) q-deformed Yang-Mills theory to SU(N). As an application, we give closed-form expressions for the Schur indices of all (A N − 1 , A N (n − 1)−1) Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs), thus completing the computation of ...

#### On three-dimensional quiver gauge theories of type B

We study three-dimensional supersymmetric quiver gauge theories with a nonsimply laced global symmetry primarily focusing on framed affine B N quiver theories. Using a supersymmetric partition function on a three sphere, and its transformation under S-duality, we study the three-dimensional ADHM quiver for SO(2N + 1) instantons with a half-integer Chern-Simons coupling. The theory ...

#### Higgs boson plus dijets: higher order corrections

The gluon fusion component of Higgs-boson production in association with dijets is of particular interest because it both (a) allows for a study of the CP-structure of the Higgs-boson couplings to gluons, and (b) provides a background to the otherwise clean study of Higgs-boson production through vector-boson fusion. The degree to which this background can be controlled, and the ...

#### The static hard-loop gluon propagator to all orders in anisotropy

We calculate the (semi-)static hard-loop self-energy and propagator using the Keldysh formalism in a momentum-space anisotropic quark-gluon plasma. The static retarded, advanced, and Feynman (symmetric) self-energies and propagators are calculated to all orders in the momentum-space anisotropy parameter ξ. For the retarded and advanced self-energies/propagators, we present a ...

#### Modular inflation observables and j-inflation phenomenology

Modular inflation is the restriction to two fields of automorphic inflation, a general group based framework for multifield scalar field theories with curved target spaces, which can be parametrized by the comoving curvature perturbation ℛ and the isocurvature perturbation tensor S IJ . This paper describes the dynamics and observables of these per-turbations and considers in some ...

#### A new twist on the geometry of gravitational plane waves

The geometry of twisted null geodesic congruences in gravitational plane wave spacetimes is explored, with special focus on homogeneous plane waves. The rôle of twist in the relation of the Rosen coordinates adapted to a null congruence with the fundamental Brinkmann coordinates is explained and a generalised form of the Rosen metric describing a gravitational plane wave is ...