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hep-ph2015★ 15 cited

Exclusive Radiative Z-Boson Decays to Mesons with Flavor-Singlet Components

Stefan Alte, Matthias Koenig, Matthias Neubert

We present a detailed study of the exclusive radiative decays employing the QCD factorization approach. We derive a factorization formula for the decay amplitud…

hep-ph2015★ 152 cited

The Minimal Model of a Diphoton Resonance: Production without Gluon Couplings

Csaba Csaki, Jay Hubisz, John Terning

We consider the phenomenology of a resonance that couples to photons but not gluons, and estimate its production rate at the LHC from photon-photon fusion in elastic pp scattering…

hep-ph2015★ 195 cited

Elastically Decoupling Dark Matter

Eric Kuflik, Maxim Perelstein, Nicolas Rey-Le Lorier +1

We present a novel dark matter candidate, an Elastically Decoupling Relic (ELDER), which is a cold thermal relic whose present abundance is determined by the cross-section of its e…

hep-ph2015★ 45 cited

The Flavor of the Composite Twin Higgs

Csaba Csaki, Michael Geller, Ofri Telem +1

The assumption of anarchic quark flavor puts serious stress on composite Higgs models: flavor bounds imply a tuning of a few per-mille (at best) in the Higgs potential. Composite t…

hep-ph2015★ 170 cited

SIMP Spectroscopy

Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, Hitoshi Murayama

We study the interactions between strongly interacting massive particle dark matter and the Standard Model via a massive vector boson that is kinetically mixed with the hypercharge…

hep-ph2015★ 81 cited

Flavor Anomalies, the Diphoton Excess and a Dark Matter Candidate

Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert

We argue that the diphoton excess recently reported by ATLAS and CMS can be explained, along with several anomalies seen in the flavor sector, in models where a Standard-Model sing…

hep-ph2015★ 25 cited

Potential of a singlet scalar enhanced Standard Model

Swagata Ghosh, Anirban Kundu, Shamayita Ray

We investigate the parameter space of the Standard Model enhanced by a gauge singlet real scalar . Taking into account all the theoretical and experimental constraints, we show…

hep-ph2015★ 3 cited

Rare Z Decays and Neutrino Flavor Universality

Gauthier Durieux, Yuval Grossman, Matthias König +2

We study rare four-body decays of the Z-boson involving at least one neutrino and one charged lepton. Large destructive interferences make these decays very sensitive to the Z coup…

hep-ph2015★ 19 cited

Heavy-Flavor-Conserving Hadronic Weak Decays of Heavy Baryons

Hai-Yang Cheng, Chi-Yee Cheung, Guey-Lin Lin +3

More than two decades ago, we studied heavy-flavor-conserving weak decays of heavy baryons within the framework that incorporates both heavy-quark and chiral symmetries. In view of…

hep-ph2015★ 54 cited

Alternatives to an Elementary Higgs

Csaba Csaki, Christophe Grojean, John Terning

We review strongly coupled and extra dimensional models of electroweak symmetry breaking. Models examined include warped extra dimensions, bulk Higgs, "little" Higgs, dilaton Higgs…

hep-ph2015★ 16 cited

A 2 TeV , Supersymmetry, and the Higgs Mass

Jack H Collins, Wee Hao Ng

A recent ATLAS search for diboson resonances and a CMS search for resonances which both show excesses with significance around 3 sigma have generated interest in g…

hep-ph2015★ 16 cited

The Quantum Critical Higgs

Brando Bellazzini, Csaba Csáki, Jay Hubisz +3

The appearance of the light Higgs boson at the LHC is difficult to explain, particularly in light of naturalness arguments in quantum field theory. However light scalars can appear…

hep-ph2015★ 83 cited

Strong tW Scattering at the LHC

Jeff Asaf Dror, Marco Farina, Ennio Salvioni +1

Deviations of the top electroweak couplings from their Standard Model values imply that certain amplitudes for the scattering of third generation fermions and longitudinally polari…

hep-ph2015★ 476 cited

One Leptoquark to Rule Them All: A Minimal Explanation for , and

Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert

We show that by adding a single new scalar particle to the Standard Model, a TeV-scale leptoquark with the quantum numbers of a right-handed down quark, one can explain in a natura…

hep-ph2015★ 35 cited

Higher-Order QCD Predictions for Dark Matter Production in Mono- Searches at the LHC

Matthias Neubert, Jian Wang, Cen Zhang

We present theoretical predictions for mono- production in the search for dark matter in Run-II at the LHC, including next-to-leading order QCD corrections and parton-shower eff…

hep-ph2015★ 39 cited

Stop-Catalyzed Baryogenesis Beyond the MSSM

Andrey Katz, Maxim Perelstein, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf +1

Non-minimal supersymmetric models that predict a tree-level Higgs mass above the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) bound are well motivated by naturalness considerations…

hep-ph2015★ 8 cited

Impact of Warped Extra Dimensions on the Dipole Coefficients in Transitions

Raoul Malm, Matthias Neubert, Christoph Schmell

We calculate the electro- and chromomagnetic dipole coefficients and in the context of the minimal Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a Higgs sector loc…

hep-ph2015★ 134 cited

An Effective Field Theory for Jet Processes

Thomas Becher, Matthias Neubert, Lorena Rothen +1

Processes involving narrow jets receive perturbative corrections enhanced by logarithms of the jet opening angle and the ratio of the energies inside and outside the jets. Analyzin…

hep-ph2015★ 55 cited

Probing CP violation systematically in differential distributions

Gauthier Durieux, Yuval Grossman

We revisit the topic of triple-product asymmetries which probe CP violation through differential distributions. We construct distributions with well-defined discrete symmetry prope…

hep-ph2015★ 5 cited

Mixed Stops and the ATLAS on-Z Excess

Jack H. Collins, Jeff Asaf Dror, Marco Farina

The ATLAS experiment has recently observed a 3-sigma excess in a channel with a leptonically decaying Z, jets, and ETmiss. It is tantalizing to interpret the signal as the first si…

hep-ph2015★ 53 cited

Searching for Displaced Higgs Decays

Csaba Csaki, Eric Kuflik, Salvator Lombardo +1

We study a simplified model of the SM Higgs boson decaying to a degenerate pair of scalars which travel a macroscopic distance before decaying to SM particles. This is the leading…

hep-ph2015★ 2 cited

Flavour, Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and Dark Matter: state of the art and future prospects

Giulia Ricciardi, Alexandre Arbey, Enrico Bertuzzo +12

With the discovery of the Higgs boson the Standard Model has become a complete and comprehensive theory, which has been verified with unparalleled precision and in principle might…

hep-ph2015★ 11 cited

Sneutrino Higgs models explain lepton non-universality in CMS excesses

Joshua Berger, Jeff Asaf Dror, Wee Hao Ng

Recent searches for first-generation leptoquarks and heavy right-handed bosons have seen excesses in final states with electrons and jets. A bizarre property of these excesse…

hep-ph2015★ 42 cited

Odd Top Partners at the LHC

Archana Anandakrishnan, Jack H. Collins, Marco Farina +2

LHC searches for fermionic top partners focus on three decay topologies: , , and . However, top partners may carry new conserved quantum numbers that…