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hep-ph2018★ 3 cited

The Spinless Relativistic Hellmann Problem

Wolfgang Lucha, Franz F. Schöberl

We compile some easily deducible information on the discrete eigenvalue spectra of spinless Salpeter equations encompassing, besides a relativistic kinetic term, interactions which…

hep-ph2018★ 55 cited

Cosmological beam dump: constraints on dark scalars mixed with the Higgs boson

Anthony Fradette, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler +1

Precision cosmology provides a sensitive probe of extremely weakly coupled states due to thermal freeze-in production, with subsequent decays impacting physics during well-tested c…

hep-ph2018★ 3 cited

Correlation between the decays in the MSSM with quark flavour violation

H. Eberl, K. Hidaka, E. Ginina

We study the loop-induced decays and in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with quark flavour violation (QFV), identifying with…

hep-ph2018★ 99 cited

SModelS v1.2: long-lived particles, combination of signal regions, and other novelties

Federico Ambrogi, Juhi Dutta, Jan Heisig +8

SModelS is an automatised tool enabling the fast interpretation of simplified model results from the LHC within any model of new physics respecting a symmetry. With…

hep-ph2018★ 62 cited

Light dark states with electromagnetic form factors

Xiaoyong Chu, Josef Pradler, Lukas Semmelrock

New particles that are electrically neutral but couple to the electromagnetic current via higher-dimensional operators and that are sufficiently light, at or below the GeV-mass…

hep-ph2018★ 29 cited

Neutrinoless Double- Decay with Nonstandard Majoron Emission

Ricardo Cepedello, Frank F. Deppisch, Lorena González +2

We present a novel mode of neutrinoless double beta decay with emission of a light Majoron-like scalar particle phi. We assume it couples via an effective seven-dimensional operato…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Strong Isospin Breaking in the Decay Constants of Heavy-Light Mesons from Local-Duality QCD Sum Rules

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula

We explore, by a rather peculiar limit of QCD sum rules subject to a Borel transformation (realized by allowing the related Borel mass parameter to approach infinity), how the smal…

hep-ph2018★ 18 cited

Are there narrow flavor-exotic tetraquarks in large- QCD?

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

A salient feature shared by all tetraquark candidates observed in experiment is the absence of flavor-exotic states of the type , with four different quark flavor…

hep-ph2018

Open-Flavour Mesons from the Angle of Bethe, Dyson, Salpeter, Schwinger, et al

Thomas Hilger, María Gómez-Rocha, Andreas Krassnigg +1

Recently, we completed a comprehensive investigation of a huge part of the entire meson spectrum by considering both quarkonia and open-flavour mesons by means of a single common f…

hep-ph2018★ 69 cited

Velocity Dependence from Resonant Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, Hitoshi Murayama

The dark matter density distribution in small-scale astrophysical objects may indicate that dark matter is self-interacting, while observations from clusters of galaxies suggest th…

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★ 20 cited

The Simplified Likelihood Framework

Andy Buckley, Matthew Citron, Sylvain Fichet +3

We discuss the simplified likelihood framework as a systematic approximation scheme for experimental likelihoods such as those originating from LHC experiments. We develop the simp…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Strong Isospin Breaking in Heavy-Meson Decay Constants: Employing Borelized QCD Sum Rules in Local-Duality Limit

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Silvano Simula

Applying the QCD sum-rule machinery in the so-called local-duality shape to heavy-light mesons reveals that, as a consequence of the non-zero mass gap between up and down quarks, t…

hep-ph2018★ 8 cited

Exotic Tetraquark Mesons in Large- Limit: an Unexpected Great Surprise

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

Two-ordinary-meson scattering in large- QCD implies consistency criteria for intermediate-tetraquark contributions. Their fulfilment at -leading order constrains the natu…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Long-distance QCD effects in FCNC decays

Anastasiia Kozachuk, Dmitri Melikhov, Nikolai Nikitin

This presentation reviews the main results of our recent work [A.K., D.M., N.N., Phys. Rev. D97, 053007 (2018)] on rare radiative leptonic decays and $B_{d,s}\t…

hep-ph2018★ 1 cited

Compact Exotic Tetraquark Mesons in Large- QCD

Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian

We embark on systematic explorations of the behaviour of tetraquark mesons (colour-singlet bound states of two quarks and two antiquarks) in the (idealized) limit of a large number…

hep-ph2018

Global Dyson-Schwinger-Bethe-Salpeter Approach to Mesons with Open Flavour

Thomas Hilger, María Gómez-Rocha, Andreas Krassnigg +1

Exploiting an interplay of the Bethe-Salpeter equation enabling us to regard mesons as bound states of quark and antiquark and the Dyson-Schwinger equation controlling the dressed…

hep-ph2018

Simplified Bethe-Salpeter Description of Basic Pseudoscalar-Meson Features

Wolfgang Lucha

We assess a description of pseudoscalar mesons as pseudo-Goldstone bosons by its compatibility with some Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner-type relation.

hep-ph2018★ 74 cited

Sterile Neutrinos with Secret Interactions -- Cosmological Discord?

Xiaoyong Chu, Basudeb Dasgupta, Mona Dentler +2

Several long-standing anomalies from short-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments -- most recently corroborated by new data from MiniBooNE -- have led to the hypothesis that ext…

hep-ph2018★ 15 cited

Revisiting nonfactorizable charm-loop effects in exclusive FCNC -decays

Anastasiia Kozachuk, Dmitri Melikhov

We revisit the calculation of nonfactorizable corrections induced by charm-quark loops in exclusive FCNC -decays. For the sake of clarity, we make use of a field theory with sca…

hep-ph2018★ 17 cited

Core formation from self-heating dark matter

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely

Cosmological simulations of the CDM model suggest that the dark matter halos of dwarf galaxies are denser in their center than what observational data of such galaxies imply. In…

hep-ph2018★ 149 cited

New Physics in the Rayleigh-Jeans Tail of the CMB

Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Joshua T. Ruderman +1

We show that despite stringent constraints on the shape of the main part of the CMB spectrum, there is considerable room for its modification within its Rayleigh-Jeans (RJ) end, $ω…

hep-ph2018★ 45 cited

Model-independent comparison of annual modulation and total rate with direct detection experiments

Felix Kahlhoefer, Florian Reindl, Karoline Schäffner +2

The relative sensitivity of different direct detection experiments depends sensitively on the astrophysical distribution and particle physics nature of dark matter, prohibiting a m…