# Journal of High Energy Physics

## List of Papers (Total 10,632)

#### Comments on large-N volume independence

We study aspects of the large-N volume independence on $${\mathbb{R}^3} \times {L^\Gamma }$$, where L Γ is a Γ-site lattice for Yang-Mills theory with adjoint Wilson-fermions. We find the critical number of lattice sites above which the center-symmetry analysis on L Γ agrees with the one on the continuum S 1. For Wilson parameter set to one and Γ≥2, the two analyses agree. One...

#### Scattering amplitudes and BCFW recursion in twistor space

Twistor ideas have led to a number of recent advances in our understanding of scattering amplitudes. Much of this work has been indirect, determining the twistor space support of scattering amplitudes by examining the amplitudes in momentum space. In this paper, we construct the actual twistor scattering amplitudes themselves. We show that the recursion relations of Britto...

#### Extremal black holes, nilpotent orbits and the true fake superpotential

Dimensional reduction along time offers a powerful way to study stationary solutions of 4D symmetric supergravity models via group-theoretical methods. We apply this approach systematically to extremal, BPS and non-BPS, spherically symmetric black holes, and obtain their “fake superpotential” W. The latter provides first order equations for the radial problem, governs the mass...

#### Constructing all-order corrections to multi-jet rates

We discuss the universal behaviour of scattering cross sections in the limit of infinite rapidity separation between all produced particles, and illustrate the behaviour explicitly for the production of n jets, W + n jets, Z + n jets for n = 2, 3, 4, and for H + 2, 3 jets. We give a set of rules for constructing scattering cross sections, which are exact in the given limit, and...

#### Aspects of flavour and supersymmetry in F-theory GUTs

We study the constraints of supersymmetry on flavour in recently proposed models of F-theory GUTs. We relate the topologically twisted theory to the canonical presentation of eight-dimensional super Yang-Mills and provide a dictionary between the two. We describe the constraints on Yukawa couplings implied by holomorphy of the superpotential in the effective 4-dimensional...

#### D-brane inspired fermion mass textures

In this paper, the issues of the quark mass hierarchies and the Cabbibo Kobayashi Maskawa mixing are analyzed in a class of intersecting D-brane configurations with Standard Model gauge symmetry. The relevant mass matrices are constructed taking into account the constraints imposed by extra abelian symmetries and anomaly cancelation conditions. Possible mass generating mechanisms...

#### Fine tuning in general gauge mediation

We study the fine-tuning problem in the context of general gauge mediation. Numerical analyses toward for relaxing fine-tuning are presented. We analyse the problem in typical three cases of the messenger scale, that is, GUT (2 × 1016 GeV), intermediate (1010 GeV), and relatively low energy (106 GeV) scales. In each messenger scale, the parameter space reducing the degree of...

#### The nuts and bolts of Einstein-Maxwell solutions

We find new non-supersymmetric solutions of five-dimensional ungauged supergravity coupled to two vector multiplets. The solutions are regular, horizonless and have the same asymptotic charges as non-extremal charged black holes. An essential ingredient in our construction is a four-dimensional Euclidean base which is a solution to Einstein-Maxwell equations. We construct...

#### Froggatt-Nielsen models from E 8 in F-theory GUTs

This paper studies F-theory SU(5) GUT models where the three generations of the standard model come from three different curves. All the matter is taken to come from curves intersecting at a point of enhanced E 8 gauge symmetry. Giving a vev to some of the GUT singlets naturally implements a Froggatt-Nielsen approach to flavour structure. A scan is performed over all possible...

#### Loop and surface operators in $$\mathcal{N} = 2$$ gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry

Recently, a duality between Liouville theory and four dimensional $$\mathcal{N} = 2$$ gauge theory has been uncovered by some of the authors. We consider the role of extended objects in gauge theory, surface operators and line operators, under this correspondence. We map such objects to specific operators in Liouville theory. We employ this connection to compute the expectation...

#### Y-system and quasi-classical strings

Recently Kazakov, Vieira and the author conjectured the Y-system set of equations describing the planar spectrum of AdS/CFT. In this paper we solve the Y-system equations in the strong coupling scaling limit. We show that the quasi-classical spectrum of string moving inside AdS 3 × S 1 matches precisely with the prediction of the Y-system. Thus the Y-system, unlike the asymptotic...

#### Dark force detection in low energy e-p collisions

We study the prospects for detecting a light boson X with mass m X ≾ 100 MeV at a low energy electron-proton collider. We focus on the case where X dominantly decays to e + e − as motivated by recent “dark force” models. In order to evade direct and indirect constraints, X must have small couplings to the standard model (α X ≾ 10−8) and a sufficiently large mass (m X ≳ 10 MeV...

#### Hamiltonian dynamics and the hidden symmetries of the AdS 5 × S 5 superstring

We construct the Lax connection of the Green-Schwarz superstring in AdS 5 × S 5 within the Hamiltonian formalism and obtain precisely that used in 0810.4136. It differs in a crucial way from the Bena-Polchinski-Roiban connection by terms proportional to the Hamiltonian constraints. These extra terms ensure firstly that the integrals of motion are all first class and secondly that...

#### Witten index in supersymmetric 3d theories revisited

We have performed a direct calculation of Witten index I in $$\mathcal{N} = 1,2,3$$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills Chern-Simons (SYMCS) 3d theories. We do it in the framework of Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approach by putting the system into a small spatial box and studying the effective Hamiltonian depending on the zero field harmonics. At the tree level, our results coincide with the...

#### Towards a non-abelian electric-magnetic symmetry: the skeleton group

We propose an electric-magnetic symmetry group in non-abelian gauge theory, which we call the skeleton group. We work in the context of non-abelian unbroken gauge symmetry, and provide evidence for our proposal by relating the representation theory of the skeleton group to the labelling and fusion rules of charge sectors. We show that the labels of electric, magnetic and dyonic...

#### Heterotic resolved conifolds with torsion, from supergravity to CFT

We obtain a family of heterotic supergravity backgrounds describing warped non-Kähler conifolds with three-form flux and an Abelian gauge bundle, preserving $$\mathcal{N}$$ = 1 supersymmetry in four dimensions. At large distance from the singularity the usual Ricci- at conifold is recovered. By performing a ℤ2 orbifold of the T 1,1 base, the conifold singularity can be blown-up...

#### Kahler moduli inflation revisited

We perform a detailed numerical analysis of inflationary solutions in Kahler moduli of type IIB flux compactifications. We show that there are inflationary solutions even when all the fields play an important role in the overall shape of the scalar potential. Moreover, there exists a direction of attraction for the inflationary trajectories that correspond to the constant volume...

#### Toric Lego: a method for modular model building

Within the context of local type IIB models arising from branes at toric Calabi-Yau singularities, we present a systematic way of joining any number of desired sectors into a consistent theory. The different sectors interact via massive messengers with masses controlled by tunable parameters. We apply this method to a toy model of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM...

#### Heavy-light mesons in the ϵ-regime

We study the finite-size scaling of heavy-light mesons in the static limit. We compute two-point functions of chiral current densities as well as pseudoscalar densities in the ϵ-regime of heavy meson Chiral Perturbation Theory (HMChPT). As expected, finite volume dependence turns out to be significant in this regime and can be predicted in the effective theory in terms of the...

#### DBI analysis of generalised permutation branes

We investigate D-branes on the product G×G of two group manifolds described as Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten models. When the levels of the two groups coincide, it is well known that there exist permutation D-branes which are twisted by the automorphism exchanging the two factors. When the levels are different, the D-brane charge group demands that there should be generalisations of...

#### Strong dark matter constraints on GMSB models

We reconsider the dark matter problem in supersymmetric models with gauge mediated supersymmetry breaking, with and without R-parity breaking. In these classes of models, a light gravitino forms the dark matter. Consistency with the experimental data, in particular the dark matter abundance and the small-scale power spectrum, requires additional entropy production after the...

#### Radiative corrections to the neutral-current Drell-Yan process in the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension

An adequate description of the neutral-current Drell-Yan process at the Tevatron and the LHC, in particular, requires the inclusion of electroweak radiative corrections. We extend earlier work in this direction in various ways. First, we define and numerically compare different methods to describe the Z-boson resonance including next-to-leading order electroweak corrections...

#### Canonical analysis of algebraic string actions

We investigate the canonical aspects of the algebraic first order formulation of strings introduced two decades ago by Balachandran and collaborators. We slightly enlarge the Lagrangian framework and show the existence of a self-dual formulation and of an Immirzi-type parameter reminiscent of four-dimensional first order gravity. We perform a full Hamiltonian analysis of the self...

#### Measuring slepton masses and mixings at the LHC

Flavor physics may help us understand theories beyond the standard model. In the context of supersymmetry, if we can measure the masses and mixings of sleptons and squarks, we may learn something about supersymmetry and supersymmetry breaking. Here we consider a hybrid gauge-gravity supersymmetric model in which the observed masses and mixings of the standard model leptons are...

#### Feynman rules for the rational part of the electroweak 1-loop amplitudes

We present the complete set of Feynman rules producing the rational terms of kind R2 needed to perform any 1-loop calculation in the Electroweak Standard Model. Our results are given both in the ’t Hooft-Veltman and in the Four Dimensional Helicity regularization schemes. We also verified, by using both the ’t Hooft-Feynman gauge and the Background Field Method, a huge set of...