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hep-ph2018★ 48 cited

The Path to Theoretical Luminosity Precision for the FCC-ee

S. Jadach, W. Płaczek, M. Skrzypek +2

The current status of the theoretical precision for the Bhabha luminometry is critically reviewed and pathways are outlined to the requirement targeted by the FCC-ee precision stud…

hep-ph2018★ 132 cited

All master integrals for three-jet production at NNLO

D. Chicherin, T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn +3

We evaluate analytically all previously unknown nonplanar master integrals for massless five-particle scattering at two loops, using the differential equations method. A canonical…

hep-ph2018★ 11 cited

Searching for dark matter in final states with two jets and missing transverse energy

Ulrich Haisch, Giacomo Polesello

We reemphasise the usefulness of angular correlations in LHC searches for missing transverse energy () signatures that involve jet pairs with large invar…

hep-ph2018★ 26 cited

Pole mass determination in presence of heavy particles

Henning Bahl

We investigate the determination of the Higgs-boson propagator poles in the MSSM. Based upon earlier works, we point out that in case of a large hierarchy between the electroweak s…

hep-ph2018★ 19 cited

Searching for production of dark matter in association with top quarks at the LHC

Ulrich Haisch, Giacomo Polesello

In the framework of spin-0 -channel dark matter (DM) simplified models, we reassess the sensitivity of future LHC runs to the production of DM in association with top quarks. We…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals

Stephan Jahn

We present updates on the development of pySecDec, a toolbox to numerically evaluate parameter integrals in the context of dimensional regularization. We discuss difficulties with…

hep-ph2018★ 25 cited

Tritium beta decay with additional emission of new light bosons

Giorgio Arcadi, Julian Heeck, Florian Heizmann +5

We consider tritium beta decay with additional emission of light pseudoscalar or vector bosons coupling to electrons or neutrinos. The electron energy spectrum for all cases is eva…

hep-ph2018★ 130 cited

A GPU compatible quasi-Monte Carlo integrator interfaced to pySecDec

S. Borowka, G. Heinrich, S. Jahn +3

The purely numerical evaluation of multi-loop integrals and amplitudes can be a viable alternative to analytic approaches, in particular in the presence of several mass scales, pro…

hep-ph2018★ 38 cited

Weighing the Solar Axion

Theopisti Dafni, Ciaran A. J. O'Hare, Biljana Lakić +7

Axion helioscopes search for solar axions and axion-like particles via inverse Primakoff conversion in strong laboratory magnets pointed at the Sun. While helioscopes can always me…

hep-ph2018★ 115 cited

Precision calculations in the MSSM Higgs-boson sector with FeynHiggs 2.14

Henning Bahl, Thomas Hahn, Sven Heinemeyer +4

We present an overview of the status and recent developments of FeynHiggs (current version: 2.14.3) since version 2.12.2. The main purpose of FeynHiggs is the calculation of the Hi…

hep-ph2018★ 32 cited

Supersymmetric Models in Light of Improved Higgs Mass Calculations

E. Bagnaschi, H. Bahl, J. Ellis +10

We discuss the parameter spaces of supersymmetry (SUSY) scenarios taking into account the improved Higgs-mass prediction provided by FeynHiggs 2.14.1. Among other improvements, thi…

hep-ph2018★ 18 cited

Neutrino mass from bremsstrahlung endpoint in coherent scattering on nuclei

Alexander Millar, Georg Raffelt, Leo Stodolsky +1

We calculate the coherent bremsstrahlung process off a nucleus with the aim of revealing the neutrino mass via the photon endpoint spectrum…

hep-ph2018★ 57 cited

Constraints on the quartic Higgs self-coupling from double-Higgs production at future hadron colliders

Wojciech Bizoń, Ulrich Haisch, Luca Rottoli

We study the indirect constraints on the quartic Higgs self-coupling that arise from double-Higgs production at future hadron colliders. To this purpose, we calculate the two-loop…

hep-ph2018★ 23 cited

Limits on Dark Matter Effective Field Theory Parameters with CRESST-II

G. Angloher, P. Bauer, A. Bento +42

CRESST is a direct dark matter search experiment, aiming for an observation of nuclear recoils induced by the interaction of dark matter particles with cryogenic scintillating calc…

hep-ph2018★ 66 cited

Normal-mode Analysis for Collective Neutrino Oscillations

Sagar Airen, Francesco Capozzi, Sovan Chakraborty +3

In an interacting neutrino gas, collective modes of flavor coherence emerge that can be propagating or unstable. We derive the general dispersion relation in the linear regime that…

hep-ph2018★ 81 cited

Analytic result for the nonplanar hexa-box integrals

D. Chicherin, T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn +3

In this paper, we analytically compute all master integrals for one of the two non-planar integral families for five-particle massless scattering at two loops. We first derive an i…

hep-ph2018★ 130 cited

DUNE as the Next-Generation Solar Neutrino Experiment

Francesco Capozzi, Shirley Weishi Li, Guanying Zhu +1

We show that the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), with significant but feasible new efforts, has the potential to deliver world-leading results in solar neutrinos. With…

hep-ph2018★ 114 cited

MSSM Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC: Benchmark Scenarios for Run 2 and Beyond

Emanuele Bagnaschi, Henning Bahl, Elina Fuchs +8

We propose six new benchmark scenarios for Higgs boson searches in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Our calculations follow the recommendations of the LHC Higgs Cross Sec…

hep-ph2018★ 106 cited

Collisional triggering of fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos

Francesco Capozzi, Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi +2

Fast flavor conversions of supernova neutrinos, possible near the neutrinosphere, depends on an interesting interplay of collisions and neutrino oscillations. Contrary to naive exp…

hep-ph2018★ 54 cited

Cosmic infrared background excess from axion-like particles and implications for multi-messenger observations of blazars

Oleg E. Kalashev, Alexander Kusenko, Edoardo Vitagliano

The first measurement of the diffuse background spectrum at 0.8-1.7 from the CIBER experiment has revealed a significant excess of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) ra…

hep-ph2018

Higher order and top mass effects in Higgs boson pair production beyond the Standard Model

Gerhard Buchalla, Alejandro Celis, Matteo Capozi +2

We discuss the interplay between NLO QCD corrections and anomalous couplings in Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion, within the framework of a non-linearly realised Effect…

hep-ph2018★ 151 cited

Pentagon functions for massless planar scattering amplitudes

T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn, N. A. Lo Presti

Loop amplitudes for massless five particle scattering processes contain Feynman integrals depending on the external momentum invariants: pentagon functions. We perform a detailed s…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Highest Energy Proton-Nucleus Cross Sections

Leo Stodolsky

The description of very high energy proton-proton cross sections in terms of a `black disc' with an `edge' allows of a simple generalization to highest energy proton-nucleus cross…

hep-ph2018

Top quark mass effects in HJ production at NLO

Matthias Kerner

We present predictions for gluon-fusion Higgs boson production in association with one jet at next-to-leading order in QCD. The calculation is performed retaining the full dependen…