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hep-ph2026

Unitarity limits on HH production from VBF mediated channels

A. Dobado, D. Domenech, M. Herrero +1

In this work we study the unitarity constraints on double Higgs production from Vector Boson Fusion mediated channels, specifically in scattering, whe…

hep-ph2022

How relevant are top loops in VBS at the LHC?

Carlos Quezada-Calonge, Antonio Dobado, Juan José Sanz-Cillero

We present the contributions to the imaginary part of the elastic scattering from top and bottom quark one-loop diagrams. The computation is performed within the context o…

hep-ph2022

On the relevance of fermion loops for scattering

Carlos Quezada-Calonge, Antonio Dobado, Juan José Sanz-Cillero

We study the one-loop corrections to Vector Boson Scattering (in particular elastic scattering) within the framework of effective theories. Re-scattering via intermediate…

hep-ph2021

Importance of fermion loops in elastic scattering

Antonio Dobado, Carlos Quezada-Calonge, Juan José Sanz-Cillero

We test the assumption that fermion-loop corrections to high energy scattering are negligible when compared to the boson-loop ones. Indeed, we find that, if the couplings…

hep-ph2020

Top quark loop corrections to scattering in EChL

Antonio Dobado, Carlos Quezada-Calonge, Juan José Sanz-Cillero

We calculate fermion-loop corrections to high energy scattering in the context of a Strongly Interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector (EWSBS) using Higgs Effective…

hep-ph2019★ 25 cited

Strongly coupled theories beyond the Standard Model

Antonio Dobado, Domènec Espriu

This article presents a number of technical tools and results that may be instrumental to discern the nature of the Higgs particle. In scenarios where an additional strongly intera…

hep-ph2019

Resonances in unitarized HEFT at the LHC

Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Alexandre Salas-Bernardez +1

Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) is deployed to study elastic vector-boson scattering at the high LHC energies. The interaction is strong over most of the parameter space, with…

hep-ph2019★ 11 cited

Triggering the QCD phase transition through the Unruh effect: chiral symmetry restoration for uniformly accelerated observers

Adrián Casado-Turrión, Antonio Dobado

In this work we study the chiral phase transition as observed by an accelerating observer taking into account the Unruh effect. We use Chiral Perturbation Theory at leading order a…

hep-ph2018

Unitarized HEFT for strongly interacting longitudinal electroweak gauge bosons with resonances

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Higgs Effective Field Theory can be used to study vector-boson elastic scattering at the high energies relevant for the LHC. For most of the parameter space, the scattering is stro…

hep-ph2018

Resonant events at the LHC from a unitarized study of the EChL

R. L. Delgado, A. Dobado, D. Espriu +4

We present a study of the production of vector resonances at the LHC via vector boson scattering and explore the sensitivities to these resonances for expected LHC luminosit…

hep-ph2017★ 9 cited

Resonant production of Wh and Zh at the LHC

Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Juan J. Sanz-Cillero

We examine the production of Wh and Zh pairs at the LHC in the context of a Strongly Interacting Symmetry Breaking Sector of the Standard Model. Our description is based on a non-l…

hep-ph2017

Collider phenomenology of HEFT and new Wh and Zh resonances

Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Juan J. Sanz-Cillero

We report computations of the production cross-section of longitudinal electroweak and Higgs boson pairs within Effective Field Theory for the Electroweak sector (including the Hig…

hep-ph2017★ 7 cited

Collider production of Electroweak resonances from photon-photon states

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Miguel Espada +2

We estimate production cross sections for 2-body resonances of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking sector (in and rescattering) from scattering. We employ unit…

hep-ph2017★ 26 cited

Production of vector resonances at the LHC via WZ-scattering: a unitarized EChL analysis

R. L. Delgado, A. Dobado, D. Espriu +4

In the present work we study the production of vector resonances at the LHC by means of the vector boson scattering and explore the sensitivities to these resonances fo…

hep-ph2016★ 15 cited

Coupling WW, ZZ unitarized amplitudes to in the TeV region

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

We define and calculate helicity partial-wave amplitudes for processes linking the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector (EWSBS) to , employing (to NLO) the Higgs-EFT (HEFT) ext…

hep-ph2016★ 13 cited

Top-antitop production from and scattering under a strongly-interacting symmetry-breaking sector

Andrés Castillo, Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado +1

By using a Non-linear Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian, including the Higgs, coupled to heavy quarks, and the Equivalence Theorem, we compute (in the regime $M_t^2/v^2\ll\sqrt{s}M_t/v…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

Comparing mesons and W_L W_L TeV-resonances

Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada +1

Tantalizing LHC hints suggest that resonances of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector might exist at the TeV scale. We recall a few key meson-meson resonances in the GeV region…

hep-ph2015★ 2 cited

Resonances in W_L W_L, Z_L Z_L and hh scattering from dispersive analysis of the non-linear Electroweak+Higgs Effective Theory

Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

If new resonances of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector (longitudinal-gauge and Higgs) bosons are found in the 1-3 TeV region, the right tool to assess their properties and c…

hep-ph2015★ 1 cited

Describing 2-TeV scale W_L W_L resonances with Unitarized Effective Theory

Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado

The LHC is now exploring the 1-3 TeV scale where resonances of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector might exist. If so, Unitarized Effective Theory can be used to describe the…

hep-ph2015★ 14 cited

Production cross section estimates for strongly-interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector resonances at particle colliders

Antonio Dobado, Feng-Kun Guo, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

We are exploring a generic strongly-interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector (EWSBS) with the low-energy effectie field theory for the four experimentally known particles (…

hep-ph2015★ 42 cited

Unitarity, analyticity, dispersion relations and resonances in strongly interacting , and scattering

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

If the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector turns out to be strongly interacting, the actively investigated effective theory for longitudinal gauge bosons plus Higgs can be efficie…

hep-ph2014

A Strongly Interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector with a Higgs-like light scalar

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

The apparent finding of a 125 GeV light Higgs boson would close the minimal Standard Model (SM), that is weakly interacting. This is an exceptional feature not generally true if ne…

hep-ph2014★ 1 cited

Electroweak chiral Lagrangian with a light Higgs and scattering at one loop

R. L. Delgado, A. Dobado, M. J. Herrero +1

In these proceedings we provide a brief summary of the findings of a previous article where we have studied the photon-photon scattering into longitudinal weak bosons within the co…

hep-ph2014

Strongly interacting and from unitarized one-loop computations

Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada

Recently, a new boson h has been discovered at the LHC which, so far, is compatible with the properties of the SM Higgs. However, the SM is not the most general low-energy dynamics…