# Journal of High Energy Physics

## List of Papers (Total 11,609)

#### Searching for flavored gauge bosons

Abstract Standard Model may allow an extended gauge sector with anomaly-free flavored gauge symmetries, such as Li −Lj , Bi −Lj , and B −3Li, where i, j = 1, 2, 3 are flavor indices. We investigate phenomenological implications of the new flavored gauge boson Z′ in the above three classes of gauge symmetries. Focusing on the gauge boson mass above 5 GeV, we use the lepton...

#### Comparing elliptic and toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau threefolds at large Hodge numbers

Abstract We compare the sets of Calabi-Yau threefolds with large Hodge numbers that are constructed using toric hypersurface methods with those can be constructed as elliptic fibrations using Weierstrass model techniques motivated by F-theory. There is a close correspondence between the structure of “tops” in the toric polytope construction and Tate form tunings of Weierstrass...

#### Long strings and chiral primaries in the hybrid formalism

Abstract We revisit two related phenomena in AdS3 string theory backgrounds. At pure NS-NS flux, the spectrum contains a continuum of long strings which can escape to the boundary of AdS3 at a finite cost of energy. Related to this are certain gaps in the BPS spectrum one computes from the RNS worldsheet description. One expects that both these effects disappear when perturbing...

#### No particle production in two dimensions: recursion relations and multi-Regge limit

Abstract We introduce high-energy limits which allow us to derive recursion relations fixing the various couplings of Lagrangians of two-dimensional relativistic quantum field theories with no tree-level particle production in a very straightforward way. The sine-Gordon model, the Bullough-Dodd theory, Toda theories of various kinds and the U(N) non-linear sigma model can all be...

#### Attempts at vacuum counterexamples to cosmic censorship in AdS

Abstract We consider vacuum solutions of four dimensional general relativity with Λ < 0. We numerically construct stationary solutions that asymptotically approach a boundary metric with differential rotation. Smooth solutions only exist up to a critical rotation. We thus argue that increasing the differential rotation by a finite amount will cause the curvature to grow without...

#### Consistent truncation with dilatino condensation on nearly Kähler and Calabi-Yau manifolds

Abstract We construct a consistent four-scalar truncation of ten-dimensional IIA supergravity on nearly Kähler spaces in the presence of dilatino condensates. The truncation is universal, i.e. it does not depend on any detailed features of the compactification manifold other than its nearly Kähler property, and admits a smooth limit to a universal four-scalar consistent...

#### UV cancellations in gravity loop integrands

Abstract In this work we explore the properties of four-dimensional gravity integrands at large loop momenta. This analysis can not be done directly for the full off-shell integrand but only becomes well-defined on cuts that allow us to unambiguously specify labels for the loop variables. The ultraviolet region of scattering amplitudes originates from poles at infinity of the...

#### Integrable S matrix, mirror TBA and spectrum for the stringy AdS3 × S3 × S3 × S1 WZW model

Abstract We compute the tree-level bosonic S matrix in light-cone gauge for superstrings on pure-NSNS AdS3 × S3 × S3 × S1. We show that it is proportional to the identity and that it takes the same form as for AdS3 × S3 × T4 and for flat space. Based on this, we make a conjecture for the exact worldsheet S matrix and derive the mirror thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations...

#### Gravitational waves from a Pati-Salam phase transition

Abstract We analyse the gravitational wave and low energy signatures of a Pati-Salam phase transition. For a Pati-Salam scale of MPS ∼ 105 GeV, we find a stochastic power spectrum within reach of the next generation of ground-based interferometer experiments such as the Einstein Telescope, in parts of the parameter space. We study the lifetime of the proton in this model, as well...

#### A theory of reparameterizations for AdS3 gravity

Abstract We rewrite the Chern-Simons description of pure gravity on global AdS3 and on Euclidean BTZ black holes as a quantum field theory on the AdS boundary. The resulting theory is (two copies of) the path integral quantization of a certain coadjoint orbit of the Virasoro group, and it should be regarded as the quantum field theory of the boundary gravitons. This theory...

#### On the relation between the magnitude and exponent of OTOCs

Abstract We derive an identity relating the growth exponent of early-time OTOCs, the pre-exponential factor, and a third number called “branching time”. The latter is defined within the dynamical mean-field framework, namely, in terms of the retarded kernel. This identity can be used to calculate stringy effects in the SYK and similar models; we also explicitly define “strings...

#### Bootstrapping solutions of scattering equations

Abstract The scattering equations are a set of algebraic equations connecting the kinematic space of massless particles and the moduli space of Riemann spheres with marked points. We present an efficient method for solving the scattering equations based on the numerical algebraic geometry. The cornerstone of our method is the concept of the physical homotopy between different...

#### Berends-Giele currents in Bern-Carrasco-Johansson gauge for F3- and F4-deformed Yang-Mills amplitudes

Abstract We construct new representations of tree-level amplitudes in D-dimensional gauge theories with deformations via higher-mass-dimension operators α′F3 and α′2F4. Based on Berends-Giele recursions, the tensor structure of these amplitudes is compactly organized via off-shell currents. On the one hand, we present manifestly cyclic representations, where the complexity of the...

#### High-energy expansion of two-loop massive four-point diagrams

Abstract We apply the method of regions to the massive two-loop integrals appearing in the Higgs pair production cross section at the next-to-leading order, in the high energy limit. For the non-planar integrals, a subtle problem arises because of the indefinite sign of the second Symanzik polynomial. We solve this problem by performing an analytic continuation of the Mandelstam...

#### Charged rotating black holes in higher dimensions

Abstract We use a recent implementation of the large D expansion in order to construct the higher-dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole and also new charged rotating black bar solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell theory, all with rotation along a single plane. We describe the space of solutions, obtain their quasinormal modes, and study the appearance of instabilities as the horizons...

#### Fermion masses, mass-mixing and the almost commutative geometry of the Standard Model

Abstract We investigate whether the Standard Model, within the accuracy of current experimental measurements, satisfies the regularity in the form of Hodge duality condition introduced and studied in [9]. We show that the neutrino and quark mass-mixing and the difference of fermion masses are necessary for this property. We demonstrate that the current data supports this new...

#### Phase structure of the twisted SU(3)/U(1)2 flag sigma model on ℝ × S1

Abstract We investigate the phase structure of the compactified 2-dimensional nonlinear SU(3)/U(1)2 flag sigma model with respect to two θ-terms. Based on the circle compactification with the ℤ3-twisted boundary condition, which preserves an ’t Hooft anomaly of the original uncompactified theory, we perform the semiclassical analysis based on the dilute instanton gas...

#### Updating bounds on R-parity violating supersymmetry from meson oscillation data

Abstract We update the bounds on R-parity violating supersymmetry originating from meson oscillations in the B d/ s 0 and K0 systems. To this end, we explicitly calculate all corresponding contributions from R-parity violating operators at the one-loop level, thereby completing and correcting existing calculations. We apply our results to the derivation of bounds on R-parity...

#### Squashed toric manifolds and higher depth mock modular forms

Abstract Squashed toric sigma models are a class of sigma models whose target space is a toric manifold in which the torus fibration is squashed away from the fixed points so as to produce a neck-like region. The elliptic genera of squashed toric-Calabi-Yau manifolds are known to obey the modular transformation property of holomorphic Jacobi forms, but have an explicit non...

#### Spontaneous symmetry breaking from anyon condensation

Abstract In a physical system undergoing a continuous quantum phase transition, spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when certain symmetries of the Hamiltonian fail to be preserved in the ground state. In the traditional Landau theory, a symmetry group can break down to any subgroup. However, this no longer holds across a continuous phase transition driven by anyon condensation...

#### Argyres-Douglas theories, Painlevé II and quantum mechanics

Abstract We show in details that the all order genus expansion of the two-cut Hermitian cubic matrix model reproduces the perturbative expansion of the H1 Argyres-Douglas theory coupled to the Ω background. In the self-dual limit we use the Painlevé/gauge correspondence and we show that, after summing over all instanton sectors, the two-cut cubic matrix model computes the tau...

#### Binding complexity and multiparty entanglement

Abstract We introduce “binding complexity”, a new notion of circuit complexity which quantifies the difficulty of distributing entanglement among multiple parties, each consisting of many local degrees of freedom. We define binding complexity of a given state as the minimal number of quantum gates that must act between parties to prepare it. To illustrate the new notion we...

#### Deconstructing defects

Abstract We use the exact-deconstruction prescription to lift various squashed-S3 partition functions with supersymmetric-defect insertions to four-dimensional superconformal indices. Starting from three-dimensional circular-quiver theories with vortex-loop-operator insertions, we recover the index of four-dimensional theories in the presence of codimension-two surface defects...

#### Cayley graphs and complexity geometry

Abstract The basic idea of quantum complexity geometry is to endow the space of unitary matrices with a metric, engineered to make complex operators far from the identity, and simple operators near. By restricting our attention to a finite subgroup of the unitary group, we observe that this idea can be made rigorous: the complexity geometry becomes what is known as a Cayley graph...

#### Twisted compactifications of 3d $$\mathcal{N}$$ = 4 theories and conformal blocks

Abstract Three-dimensional $$\mathcal{N}$$ = 4 supersymmetric quantum field theories admit two topological twists, the Rozansky-Witten twist and its mirror. Either twist can be used to define a supersymmetric compactification on a Riemann surface and a corresponding space of supersymmetric ground states. These spaces of ground states can play an interesting role in the...