# Journal of High Energy Physics

## List of Papers (Total 9,420)

#### Modified signals for supersymmetry in the NMSSM with a singlino-like LSP

In the framework of the NMSSM with a singlino-like LSP, we study quantitatively the impact of the additional bino → singlino cascade on the efficiencies in several search channels for supersymmetry of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Compared to the MSSM, the additional cascade reduces the missing transverse energy, but leads to additional jets or leptons. For the NMSSM benchmark ...

#### Multiplicities from black-hole formation in heavy-ion collisions

The formation of trapped surfaces in the head-on collision of shock waves in conformal and non-conformal backgrounds is investigated. The backgrounds include all interesting confining and non-confining backgrounds that may be relevant for QCD. Several transverse profiles of the shocks are investigated including distributions that fall-off as powers or exponentials. Different ways ...

#### Search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = {\text{7TeV}}$

A search for microscopic black holes in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb−1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2011. Events with large total transverse energy have been analyzed for the presence of multiple energetic jets, leptons, and photons, which are typical signals of ...

#### Direct CP violation in charm and flavor mixing beyond the SM

We analyze possible interpretations of the recent LHCb evidence for CP violation in D meson decays in terms of physics beyond the Standard Model. On general grounds, models in which the primary source of flavor violation is linked to the breaking of chiral symmetry (left-right flavor mixing) are natural candidates to explain this effect, via enhanced chromomagnetic operators. In ...

#### New physics models of direct CP violation in charm decays

In view of the recent LHCb measurement of ΔA CP, the difference between the time-integrated CP asymmetries in D → K + K − and D → π+π− decays, we perform a comparative study of the possible impact of New Physics degrees of freedom on the direct CP asymmetries in singly Cabibbo suppressed D meson decays. We systematically discuss scenarios with a minimal set of new degrees of ...

#### The 4D composite Higgs

We propose a four dimensional description of Composite Higgs Models which represents a complete framework for the physics of the Higgs as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson. Our setup captures all the relevant features of 5D models and more in general of composite Higgs models with partial compositeness. We focus on the minimal scenario where we include a single multiplet of resonances ...

#### 2d affine XY-spin model/4d gauge theory duality and deconfinement

We introduce a duality between two-dimensional XY-spin models with symmetry-breaking perturbations and certain four-dimensional SU(2) and SU(2)/${\mathbb{Z}_2}$ gauge theories, compactified on a small spatial circle ${\mathbb{R}^{{^{{{1},{2}}}}}}$ × ${\mathbb{S}^{{^{{1}}}}}$, and considered at temperatures near the deconfinement transition. In a Euclidean set up, the ...

We establish a relation between the refined Hopf link invariant and the S-matrix of the refined Chern-Simons theory. We show that the refined open string partition function corresponding to the Hopf link, calculated using the refined topological vertex, when expressed in the basis of Macdonald polynomials gives the S-matrix of the refined Chern-Simons theory.

#### Angular scaling in jets

We introduce a jet shape observable defined for an ensemble of jets in terms of two-particle angular correlations and a resolution parameter R. This quantity is infrared and collinear safe and can be interpreted as a scaling exponent for the angular distribution of mass inside the jet. For small R it is close to the value 2 as a consequence of the approximately scale invariant QCD ...

#### Search for ${\text{B}}_{\text{s}}^0$ → μ + μ − and B0 → μ + μ − decays

A search for the rare decays ${\text{B}}_{\text{s}}^0$ → μ + μ − and B0 → μ + μ − is performed in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = {7}\;{\text{TeV}}$, with a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 fb−1 collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In both decays, the number of events observed after all selection requirements is consistent with the expectation ...

#### Search for a Higgs boson in the decay channel H → ZZ(*) → q $\overline {\text{q}}$ ℓ − ℓ + in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = 7$ TeV

A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two Z bosons with subsequent decay into a final state containing two quark jets and two leptons, H → ZZ(*) → q$\overline {\text{q}}$ ℓ − ℓ + is presented. Results are based on data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt {s} = 7$ TeV, collected with the CMS detector ...

#### Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production

We present a fully consistent implementation of electroweak and strong radiative corrections to single W hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework, treating soft and collinear photon emissions on the same ground as coloured parton emissions. This framework can be easily extended to more complex electroweak processes. We describe how next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak ...

#### JIMWLK evolution in the Gaussian approximation

We demonstrate that the Balitsky-JIMWLK equations describing the high-energy evolution of the n-point functions of the Wilson lines (the QCD scattering amplitudes in the eikonal approximation) admit a controlled mean field approximation of the Gaussian type, for any value of the number of colors N c . This approximation is strictly correct in the weak scattering regime at ...

#### A global view on the search for de Sitter vacua in (Type IIA) string theory

The search for classically stable Type IIA de Sitter vacua typically starts with an ansatz that gives Anti-de Sitter supersymmetric vacua and then raises the cosmological constant by modifying the compactification. As one raises the cosmological constant, the couplings typically destabilize the classically stable vacuum, so the probability that this approach will lead to a ...

#### The effective field theory of multifield inflation

We generalize the Effective Field Theory of Inflation to include additional light scalar degrees of freedom that are in their vacuum at the time the modes of interest are crossing the horizon. In order to make the scalars light in a natural way we consider the case where they are the Goldstone bosons of a global symmetry group or are partially protected by an approximate ...

#### Gauged double field theory

We find necessary and sufficient conditions for gauge invariance of the action of Double Field Theory (DFT) as well as closure of the algebra of gauge symmetries. The so-called weak and strong constraints are sufficient to satisfy them, but not necessary. We then analyze compactifications of DFT on twisted double tori satisfying the consistency conditions. The effective theory is a ...

#### An analytic initial-state parton shower

We present a new algorithm for an analytic parton shower. While the algorithm for the final-state shower has been known in the literature, the construction of an initialstate shower along these lines is new. The aim is to have a parton shower algorithm for which the full analytic form of the probability distribution for all branchings is known. For these parton shower algorithms it ...

#### Jet dipolarity: top tagging with color flow

A new jet observable, dipolarity, is introduced that can distinguish whether a pair of subjets arises from a color singlet source. This observable is incorporated into the HEPTopTagger and is shown to improve discrimination between top jets and QCD jets for moderate to high p T .

#### Model-independent constraints on new physics in b → s transitions

We provide a comprehensive model-independent analysis of rare decays involving the b → s transition to put constraints on dimension-six ΔF = 1 effective operators. The constraints are derived from all the available up-to-date experimental data from the B-factories, CDF and LHCb. The implications and future prospects for observables in b → sℓ + ℓ − and b → $s\nu \overline \nu$ ...

#### Limits of minimal models and continuous orbifolds

The λ = 0 ’t Hooft limit of the 2d ${\mathcal{W}_N}$ minimal models is shown to be equivalent to the singlet sector of a free boson theory, thus paralleling exactly the structure of the free theory in the Klebanov-Polyakov proposal. In 2d, the singlet sector does not describe a consistent theory by itself since the corresponding partition function is not modular invariant. ...

#### Enhanced Higgs mediated lepton flavour violating processes in the supersymmetric inverse seesaw model

We study the impact of the inverse seesaw mechanism on several low-energy flavour violating observables such as τ → μμμ in the context of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. As a consequence of the inverse seesaw, the contributions of the right-handed sneutrinos significantly enhance the Higgs-mediated penguin diagrams. We find that different flavour violating branching ...

#### Combining high-scale inflation with low-energy SUSY

We propose a general scenario for moduli stabilization where low-energy supersymmetry can be accommodated with a high scale of inflation. The key ingredient is that the stabilization of the modulus field during and after inflation is not associated with a single, common scale, but relies on two different mechanisms. We illustrate this general scenario in a simple example, where ...

#### Loop equations and topological recursion for the arbitrary-β two-matrix model

We write the loop equations for the β two-matrix model, and we propose a topological recursion algorithm to solve them, order by order in a small parameter. We find that to leading order, the spectral curve is a “quantum” spectral curve, i.e. it is given by a differential operator (instead of an algebraic equation for the hermitian case). Here, we study the case where that quantum ...

#### Moulting Black Holes

We find a family of novel supersymmetric phases of the D1-D5 CFT, which in certain ranges of charges have more entropy than all known ensembles. We also find bulk BPS configurations that exist in the same range of parameters as these phases, and have more entropy than a BMPV black hole; they can be thought of as coming from a BMPV black hole shedding a “hair” condensate outside of ...

#### On BPS bounds in D = 4 N = 2 gauged supergravity II: general matter couplings and black hole masses

We continue the analysis of BPS bounds started in [1], extending it to the full class of N = 2 gauged supergravity theories with arbitrary vector and hypermultiplets. We derive the general form of the asymptotic charges for asymptotically flat (M4), anti-de Sitter (AdS4), and magnetic anti-de Sitter (mAdS4) spacetimes. Some particular examples from black hole physics are given to ...