A new era in particle physics is being spurred on by new data from the Large Hadron Collider. Non-vanishing neutrino masses represent firm observational evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. An extension ...A new era in particle physics is being spurred on by new data from the Large Hadron Collider. Non-vanishing neutrino masses represent firm observational evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. An extension of the latter, based on a SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y × U(1)B-L symmetry, incorporating an established Baryon minus Lepton number invariance, is proposed as a viable and testable solution to the neutrino mass problem. We argue that LHC data will probe all the new content of this model: heavy neutrinos, an extra gauge boson emerging from spontaneous breaking of the additional gauge group at the TeV scale, onset by a new heavier Higgs boson, also visible at the CERN proton-proton collider. An even more exciting version of this model is the one exploiting Supersymmetry: firstly, it incurporates all its well-known benefits;secondly, it alleviates the flaws of its more minimal realisations. Finally, this model provides a credible cold Dark Matter candidate, the lightest sneutrino, detectable in both underground and collider experiments.展开更多
We study the prospects of probing the anomalous tHq(q=u,c)couplings via SS2L or 3L signatures at the High Luminosity(HL-LHC)run of the 14 Te V CERN collider.We focus on signals of the tH associated production followed...We study the prospects of probing the anomalous tHq(q=u,c)couplings via SS2L or 3L signatures at the High Luminosity(HL-LHC)run of the 14 Te V CERN collider.We focus on signals of the tH associated production followed by the decay modes t→b?^+ν_?and H→W W~*,and ■ production followed by the decay modes t→b?^+ν_?and■where?=e,μ.Based on two types of H→W W~*decay topologies,one assuming the semileptonic decay mode H→W W~*→?^+νjj and the other the fully leptonic decay mode■,we perform a full simulation for signals and backgrounds.It is shown that,at the future HL-LHC,the branching ratio Br(t→uh)(Br(t→ch))can be probed to 1.17(1.56)×10^(-3)for the same-sign di-lepton channel,and to7.1×10^(-4)(1.39×10^(-3))for the 3L channel at 3σsensitivity.展开更多
文摘A new era in particle physics is being spurred on by new data from the Large Hadron Collider. Non-vanishing neutrino masses represent firm observational evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. An extension of the latter, based on a SU(3)C × SU(2)L × U(1)Y × U(1)B-L symmetry, incorporating an established Baryon minus Lepton number invariance, is proposed as a viable and testable solution to the neutrino mass problem. We argue that LHC data will probe all the new content of this model: heavy neutrinos, an extra gauge boson emerging from spontaneous breaking of the additional gauge group at the TeV scale, onset by a new heavier Higgs boson, also visible at the CERN proton-proton collider. An even more exciting version of this model is the one exploiting Supersymmetry: firstly, it incurporates all its well-known benefits;secondly, it alleviates the flaws of its more minimal realisations. Finally, this model provides a credible cold Dark Matter candidate, the lightest sneutrino, detectable in both underground and collider experiments.
基金Supported by the Foundation of Henan Institute of Science and Technology(2016ZD01)the China Scholarship Council(201708410324)supported in part by the NExT Institute and the STFC CG(ST/L000296/1)
文摘We study the prospects of probing the anomalous tHq(q=u,c)couplings via SS2L or 3L signatures at the High Luminosity(HL-LHC)run of the 14 Te V CERN collider.We focus on signals of the tH associated production followed by the decay modes t→b?^+ν_?and H→W W~*,and ■ production followed by the decay modes t→b?^+ν_?and■where?=e,μ.Based on two types of H→W W~*decay topologies,one assuming the semileptonic decay mode H→W W~*→?^+νjj and the other the fully leptonic decay mode■,we perform a full simulation for signals and backgrounds.It is shown that,at the future HL-LHC,the branching ratio Br(t→uh)(Br(t→ch))can be probed to 1.17(1.56)×10^(-3)for the same-sign di-lepton channel,and to7.1×10^(-4)(1.39×10^(-3))for the 3L channel at 3σsensitivity.
