# Journal of High Energy Physics

## List of Papers (Total 10,605)

#### A dark matter candidate from Lorentz invariance in 6D

We study the unique 6 dimensional orbifold with chiral fermions where a stable dark matter candidate is present due to Lorentz invariance on the orbifold, with no additional discrete symmetries imposed by hand. We propose a model of Universal Extra Dimensions where a scalar photon of few hundred GeV is a good candidate for dark matter. The spectrum of the model is characteristic...

#### Open worldsheets for holographic interfaces

Type IIB supergravity admits Janus and multi-Janus solutions with eight unbroken supersymmetries that are locally asymptotic to AdS 3 × S 3 × M 4 (where M 4 is either T 4 or K 3). These solutions are dual to two or more CFTs defined on half-planes which share a common line interface. Their geometry consists of an AdS 2 × S 2 × M 4 fibration over a simply connected Riemann surface...

#### Effective potential and warp factor dynamics

We define an effective potential describing all massless and massive modes in the supergravity limit of string/M theory compactification which is valid off-shell, i.e. without imposing the equations of motion. If we neglect the warp factor, it is unbounded below, as is the case for the action in Euclidean quantum gravity. By study of the constraint which determines the warp...

#### Interpreting multiple dualities conjectured from superconformal index identities

We consider field theory side of new multiple Seiberg dualities conjectured within superconformal index matching approach. We study the case of SU(2) supersymmetric QCD and find that the numerous conjectured duals are different faces of handful of master theories. These different faces are inequivalent to each other in a very peculiar sense. Some master theories are fully known...

#### Integrability and the AdS 3/CFT 2 correspondence

We investigate the AdS 3/CFT 2 correspondence for theories with 16 supercharges using the integrability approach. We construct Green-Schwarz actions for Type IIB strings on AdS 3 × S 3× M 4 where M 4 = T 4 or S 3 × S 1 using the coset approach. These actions are based on a $${\mathbb{Z}_4}$$ automorphism of the super-coset D(2, 1; α) × D(2, 1; α)/SO(1, 2) × SO(3)×SO(3). The...

#### The Grassmannian origin of dual superconformal invariance

A dual formulation of the S Matrix for $$\mathcal {N}$$ = 4 SYM has recently been presented, where all leading singularities of n-particle Nk−2MHV amplitudes are given as an integral over the Grassmannian G(k, n), with cyclic symmetry, parity and superconformal invariance manifest. In this short note we show that the dual superconformal invariance of this object is also...

#### Events with an isolated lepton and missing transverse momentum and measurement of W production at HERA

A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in e ± p collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in the period 1994–2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb−1. The observed event yields are in good overall agreement with the Standard Model prediction, which is...

#### A bound on the superpotential

We prove a general bound on the superpotential in theories with broken supersymmetry and broken R-symmetry, |〈W〉| < $$\frac{1}{2}$$ f a F, where f a and F are the R-axion and Goldstino decay constants, respectively. The bound holds for weakly coupled as well as strongly coupled theories, thereby providing an exact result in theories with broken supersymmetry. We briefly discuss...

#### The temperature and entropy of CFT on time-dependent backgrounds

We express the AdS-Schwarzschild black-hole configuration in coordinates such that the boundary metric is of the FLRW type. We review how this construction can be used in order to calculate the stress-energy tensor of the dual CFT on the FLRW background. We deduce the temperature and entropy of the CFT, which are related to the temperature and entropy of the black hole. We find...

#### Matrix models for the black hole information paradox

We study various matrix models with a charge-charge interaction as toy models of the gauge dual of the AdS black hole. These models show a continuous spectrum and power-law decay of correlators at late time and infinite N, implying information loss in this limit. At finite N, the spectrum is discrete and correlators have recurrences, so there is no information loss. We study...

#### Gravity with de Sitter and unitary tangent groups

Einstein Gravity can be formulated as a gauge theory with the tangent space respecting the Lorentz symmetry. In this paper we show that the dimension of the tangent space can be larger than the dimension of the manifold and by requiring the invariance of the theory with respect to 5d Lorentz group (de Sitter group) Einstein theory is reproduced unambiguously. The other...

#### No chiral truncation of quantum log gravity?

At the classical level, chiral gravity may be constructed as a consistent truncation of a larger theory called log gravity by requiring that left-moving charges vanish. In turn, log gravity is the limit of topologically massive gravity (TMG) at a special value of the coupling (the chiral point). We study the situation at the level of linearized quantum fields, focussing on a...

#### Unraveling $$\mathcal {L}_{n, k}$$ : grassmannian kinematics

It was recently proposed that the leading singularities of the S-Matrix of $$\mathcal N$$ = 4 super Yang-Mills theory arise as the residues of a contour integral over a Grassmannian manifold, with space-time locality encoded through residue theorems generalizing Cauchy’s theorem to more than one variable. We provide a method to identify the residue corresponding to any leading...

#### NLO QCD corrections to $${\text{t}}\overline {\text{t}} {\text{b}}\overline {\text{b}}$$ production at the LHC: 2. Full hadronic results

We present predictions for $${\text{t}}\overline {\text{t}} {\text{b}}\overline {\text{b}}$$ production at the LHC in next-to-leading order QCD. The precise description of this background process is a prerequisite to observe associated $${\text{t}}\overline {\text{t}} {\text{H}}$$ production in the $${\text{H}} \to {\text{b}}\overline {\text{b}}$$ decay channel and to...

#### Gluon-initiated production of a Kaluza-Klein gluon in a bulk Randall-Sundrum model

In the Bulk Randall-Sundrum model, the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the gauge bosons are the primary signatures. In particular, the search for the Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitation of the gluon at hadron colliders is of great importance in testing this model. At the leading order in QCD, the production of this KK-gluon proceeds only via $$q\bar q$$-initial states. We study the...

#### Inflation with non-minimal gravitational couplings in supergravity

We explore in the supergravity context the possibility that a Higgs scalar may drive inflation via a non-minimal coupling to gravity characterised by a large dimensionless coupling constant. We find that this scenario is not compatible with the MSSM, but that adding a singlet field (NMSSM, or a variant thereof) can very naturally give rise to slow-roll inflation. The inflaton is...

#### A duality for the S matrix

We propose a dual formulation for the S Matrix of $$\mathcal N$$ = 4 SYM. The dual provides a basis for the “leading singularities” of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory, which are sharply defined, IR safe data that uniquely determine the full amplitudes at tree level and 1-loop, and are conjectured to do so at all loop orders. The scattering amplitude...

#### Non-universal minimal Z′ models: present bounds and early LHC reach

We consider non-universal ‘minimal’ Z′ models, whose additional U(1) charge is a non-anomalous linear combination of the weak hypercharge Y, the baryon number B and the partial lepton numbers (L e , L μ, L τ), with no exotic fermions beyond three standard families with right-handed neutrinos. We show that the observed pattern of neutrino masses and mixing can be fully reproduced...

#### Half-BPS solutions locally asymptotic to AdS 3 × S 3 and interface conformal field theories

Type IIB superstring theory has AdS 3 × S 3 × M 4 (where the manifold M 4 is either K 3 or T 4) solutions which preserve sixteen supersymmetries. In this paper we consider half-BPS solutions which are locally asymptotic to AdS 3 × S 3 × M 4 and preserve eight of the sixteen supersymmetries. We reduce the BPS equations and the Bianchi identity for the self-dual five-form field to...

#### A supermatrix model for $$\mathcal{N}$$ = 6 super Chern-Simons-matter theory

We construct the Wilson loop operator of $$\mathcal{N}$$ = 6 super Chern-Simons-matter which is invariant under half of the supercharges of the theory and is dual to the simplest macroscopic open string in AdS 4 ×ℂℙ3. The Wilson loop couples, in addition to the gauge and scalar fields of the theory, also to the fermions in the bi-fundamental representation of the U(N) × U(M...

#### From weak coupling to spinning strings

We identify the gauge theory dual of a spinning string of minimal energy with spins S 1, S 2 on AdS 5 and charge J on S 5. For this purpose we focus on a certain set of local operators with two different types of covariant derivatives acting on complex scalar fields. We analyse the corresponding nested Bethe equations for the ground states in the limit of large spins. The...

#### Mapping 6D $$\mathcal{N} = 1$$ supergravities to F-theory

We develop a systematic framework for realizing general anomaly-free chiral 6D supergravity theories in F-theory. We focus on 6D (1, 0) models with one tensor multiplet whose gauge group is a product of simple factors (modulo a finite abelian group) with matter in arbitrary representations. Such theories can be decomposed into blocks associated with the simple factors in the...

#### String theory as a diffusing system

Recent results on the effective non-local dynamics of the tachyon mode of open string field theory (OSFT) show that approximate solutions can be constructed which obey the diffusion equation. We argue that this structure is inherited from the full theory, where it admits a universal formulation. In fact, all known exact OSFT solutions are superpositions of diffusing surface...

#### Nonequilibrium dynamics in noncommutative spacetime

We study the effects of spacetime noncommutativity on the nonequilibrium dynamics of particles in a thermal bath. We show that the noncommutative thermal bath does not suffer from any further IR/UV mixing problem in the sense that all the finite-temperature non-planar quantities are free from infrared singularities. We also point out that the combined effect of finite temperature...

#### Cardy & Kerr

The Kerr/CFT correspondence employs the Cardy formula to compute the entropy of the left moving CFT states. This computation, which correctly reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the four-dimensional extremal Kerr black hole, is performed in a regime where the temperature is of order unity rather than in a high-temperature regime. We show that the comparison of the...