Correction of the Littlest Higgs Model to Higgs Production Process e-γ→veW-H in e-γ Collisions

The littlest Higgs model is the most economical one among various little Higgs models. In the context of the littlest Higgs （LH） model, we study the process e-γ → veW^-H and calculate the contributions of the LH model to the cross section of this process. The results show that in most of the parameter spaces preferred by the electroweak precision data, the value of the relative correction is larger than 10%. Such correction to the process e-γ →veW^-H is large enough to be detected via e-γ collisions in the future high energy linear e^＋ e^- collider （ILC） experiment with the c.m. energy √s = 500 GeV and a yearly integrated luminosity ￡ = 100fb^-1, which will give an idea/way to test the model.     

Single Production of Heavy Top Quark from Three-Site Higgsless Model

We consider single production of the heavy top quark T predicted by the three-site Higgsless model in future high energy collider experiments, such as the high energy linear e＋ e- collider （ILC）, the linear-ring type ep collider （THERA）, and the CERN Large Hadron Collider （LHC）. Our numerical results show that the possible signals of the heavy top quark T might be detected via the subproeess qb → q＇T at the LHC.     

Single Production of Vector-Like Top Quark in the Littlest Higgs Model at TeV Energy e-γ Colliders

The existence of a new coloured vector-like heavy fermion T is a crucial prediction in little Higgs models, which play a key role in breaking the electroweak symmetry. The littlest Higgs model is the most economical one among various little Higgs models. In the context of the littlest Higgs model, we study single production of the new heavy vector-like quark and discuss the possibility of detecting this new particle in the future LC experiment. It is found thai, the production cross section is in the range of 1.7× 10^-3 - 30 fb at TeV energy electron-photon collider with √s- 3 TeV and a yearly integrated luminosity of ,￡ = 500 fb^-1.     

Littlest Higgs Model and Spin Correlation of Top Quark Production at High Energy Linear e^＋e^- Colliders

Based on the littlest Higgs model, we investigate the spin correlation of the top quark pair production via the process e^＋e^- →tt at the high energy linear e^＋e^- collider （ILC） with a centre-of-mass energy √S = 800 GeV. Our numerical results show that the gauge boson ZH generates very small corrections to the spin correlation observable C in all the parameter space allowed by the electroweak data. However, with reasonable values of the free parameters, the value of the relative correction parameter RBH = （CBH-CSM）/CSM can reach 10%, which might be detected in future ILC experiments.     

Production of Charged Higgs Bosons from Left-Right Twin Higgs Model at TeV Energy e-γ Colliders

The left-right twin Higgs （LRTH） model predicts the existence of three additional Higgs bosons： one neutral Higgs φo and a pair of charged Higgs bosons φ±. In this paper, we study two pair production processes of these new particles at the next generation eγ colliders, i.e., e-γ → e-φ＋φ- , and e-γ→vRφ-φ0. We find that the production cross section of the process e-γ → e-φ＋φ- are at the level of several tens fb, the production cross section of the process e-γ→vRφ-φ0 can reach 0.35 fb with the reasonable parameter values. As long as the charged Higgs bosons are not too heavy, we conclude that these processes might be used to test for the left-right twin Higgs model in future high-energy linear collider experiments.     

Single vector-like top partner production in the left-right twin Higgs model at TeV energy eγ colliders

The left-right twin Higgs model contains a new vector-like heavy top quark, which mixes with the SM-like top quark. In this work, we studied the single vector-like top partner production via process e^-γ→v_eTb at the International Linear Collider. We calculated the production cross section at tree level and displayed the relevant di erential distributions. The result shows that there will be 125 events produced each year with √s=2 TeV and the integrated luminosity L_int≈500 fb^-1, and the b-quark tagging and the relevant missing energy E/T cut will be helpful to detect this new e ect.     

Process e-γ→ e-H in Littlest Higgs Model

In the context of the littlest Higgs (LH) model, we estimate the production cross section of the process e-γ→ e-H in the future high-energy linear e e- collider (ILC) with the center-of-mass (CM) energy √S= 500 GeV. Our numerical results show that the contributions of the LH model to this process are very small in most of the parameter space allowed by the electroweak precision measurement data, and are very difficult to be detected in the future ILC experiments.     

Single Production of Charged Gauge Boson WH^- from Left-Right Twin Higgs Model in Association with Top Quark at LHC

The twin Higgs mechanism has recently been proposed to solve the little hierarchy problem. In the context of the left-right twin Higgs （LRTH） model, we discuss single production of the new charged gauge boson WH^- , which is predicted by the left-right twin Higgs model, in association with top quark at the CERN Large Hadron Collider （LHC）. It is found that, for a typical nonzero value of mass mixing parameter M = 150 GeV in the LRTH model, the production cross section is in the range of 3 ×10^-2 - 6.07×10^3 fb at the LHC. As long as the WH^- is not too heavy, the possible signatures of the heavy charged gauge boson might be detected at the LHC experiments.     

Single Production of Charged Top-Pions at High Energy Linear e+e- Colliders

The dominant decay modes of charged top-pions (π±t ) are tb or ~b. We consider the single production ofcharged top-pions in association with a top quark via e+ e- annihilation and calculate the production cross section of theprocesses e+ e- → t-bπ+ (tb-π-) at the leading order. We find that it can reach 1.2 fb with reasonable parameter values.The charged top-pions may be detected via the channel tbπ± in the future high energy e+ e- colliders.     

Flavor Changing Top Quark Decay and Bottom-Strange Production in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity

Flavor changing effects on the processes t → ch, e+e- → bs, e+e-→ bsh and pp → bs in the LHT model are investigated in this paper. We calculate the one-loop level contributions from the T-parity odd mirror fermions and gauge bosons. The results show that the top quark rare decay t → ch in the LHT model can be significantly enhanced relative to that in the SM. The bs production at linear colliders in the LHT model can enhance the SM cross section a lot and reach 0.1 fb in some parameter space allowed in the experiment. But the heavy gauge boson and mirror fermion loops have small contribution to the processes pp → bs and e+e-→ bsh. So the LHT effect on e+e-→ bs might be detected at future linear colliders, while it is too small to be seen for the e+e-→ bsh and pp → bs processes at future linear colliders and LHC.     

The single neutral top-higgs production at LHC and ILC in the Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor Model

In this paper, we study the single neutral top-higgs (h0t) production processes at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC). At the LHC, the production rates of processes pp→Z(W)h0t are too small to detect h0t . However, with the reasonable parameter values, the cross sections can reach the level of 102 fb for qq→qqh0t process and 103 fb for top quark associated production process pp→th0t+X, respectively. At the ILC, we study the single top-higgs production processes e-γ→νeW-h0t and γγ→W+W-h0t in e-γ and γγ collisions. It is found that the production cross sections can reach the level of a few fb with reasonable parameter values. Furthermore, such processes with the flavor-changing decay mode h0t→tc might provide typical signatures to detected the top-higgs. Therefore, it is hopeful to find the signal of top-higgs at the LHC and ILC experiments via theses processes and test the TC2 model directly.     

Energy Loss of Charm Quark Observed via Dimuon Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at √snn = 5.5 TeV

Based on the HVQMNR model of heavy flavour production and the BDMPS approach on parton energy loss, we have investigated the energy loss effect of charm quark on （di）muon spectra in forward rapidity region covered by ALICE forward muon spectrometer in Pb＋Pb collisions at c.m. energy √snn= 5.5 TeV. Results show that （di）muon spectra are very sensitive to the charm quark energy loss and can provide valuable information on the energy loss of heavy flavours.     

Associated Production of a Photon with Dark Matter Pair at the ILC within the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity

Within the context of the Littlest Higgs model with T -parity, the heavy photon (AH) is supposed to be an ideal dark matter (DM) candidate. One direct proof of validity of the model is to produce the heavy photon at collider. In this paper, we investigate the associated production of a photon with heavy photon pair at the planned international e+e- linear collider (ILC),i.e., e+e-→ AHAHγ and show the distributions of the transverse momenta of the photon. The numerical results indicate that the heavy photon production rate could reach several fb at the low mass parameter space and the characteristic signal is a single high energetic photon and missing energy, carried by the heavy photons. All in all, it can be a good chance to observe the heavy photon via this process with the high yearly luminosity of the ILC.     

Top Quark Decay t → cb-↑b in Topcolor-Assisted Technicolor Models

The topcolor-assisted technicolor （TC2） model predicts the existence of the top-pions and the CP-even top-Higgs with large flavor-changing couplings to the top quark, which at tree-level can mediate the top quark three-body decay t → cb-↑b. We study this decay, show the dependence of the decay rate on the relevant TC2 parameters and compare the results with the predictions in the minimal supersymmetric model. We find that the decay rate in the TC2 model is much larger than that in the minimal supersymmetric model if the new particles are not too heavy. However, in consideration of the ODF and the LEP experiment limits, the top-pion mass is greater than 340 GeV in a more realistic parameter space, so the decay width of the channel t → cb-↑b intermediated by top-pions will be depressed greatly and difficult to be detected at the future collider. Thus, to observe this channel at the future collider, considering the top-higgs contribution may be the possible way when the masses of the top-pions and the top-higgs are not degenerate.     

SU（3） Simple Group Model and New Z＇ Properties in Future Linear Colliders

In the SU（3） simple group model, the new neutral gauge boson Z＇ couples to pairs of SM fermions with couplings fixed in terms of the SM gauge couplings and depending only on the choice of the fermion embedding. In this paper, we calculate the contributions of this new particle to the processes e^＋e^-→l^＋l^-, bb^-, and cc^- and study the possibility of detecting this new particle via these processes in the future high-energy linear e^＋e^- collider（LC） experiments with √s= 500 GeV and ￡int= 340 fb^-1. We find that the new gauge boson Z＇ is most sensitive to the process e^＋e^-→b^＋b^-. As long as Mz,≤2 TeV , the absolute values of the relative correction parameter are larger than 5%. We calculate the forward-backward asymmetries and left-right asymmetries for the process e^＋e^-→c^＋c^-, with both the universal and anomaly-free fermion embeddings. Bounds on Z＇ masses are also estimated within 95% confidence level.     

Higgs and Single Top Associated Production at the LHC in the Left-Right Twin Higgs Model

In the framework of the left-right twin Higgs(LRTH) model, we study the Higgs boson and single top quark associated production at the LHC. We investigate the processes pp → thj, pp → thˉb and pp → th W at the 8(14) Te V LHC and find that the production cross sections of the three processes can be enhanced at different levels. Among them,the production cross section of the process pp → thˉb is enhanced significantly due to the contribution of the new particles predicted by the LRTH model.     

Littlest Higgs model with T-parity and single top production in ep collisions

Based on calculating the contributions of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity （called LHT model） to the anomalous top coupling tqγ （q = u or c）, we consider single top production via the t-channel partonic process eq→et in ep collisions. Our numerical results show that the production cross section in the LHT model can be significantly enhanced relative to that in the standard model （SM）.     

Associated production of a neutral top-Higgs with a heavy-quark pair in the γγ collisions at ILC

We have studied the associated production processes of a neutral top-Higgs in the topcolor assisted technicolor model with a pair of heavy quarks in γγ collisions at the International Linear Collider （ILC）. We find that the cross section for ttht in γγ collisions is at the level of a few fb with the c.m. energy √s=1000 GeV, which is consistent with the results of the cross section of ttH in the standard model and the cross section of tth in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. It should be clear that hundreds of to thousands of ht per year can be produced at the ILC. This process of γγ→ttht is really interesting in testing the standard model and searching the signs of technicolor.     

Process e^-у→ e^-H in Littlest Higgs Model

In the context of the littlest Higgs （LH） model, we estimate the production cross section of the process e^-у→ e^-H in the future high-energy linear e^＋e^- collider （ILC） with the center-of-mass （CM） energy √S = 500 GeV. Our numerical results show that the contributions of the LH model Co this process are very small in most of the parameter space allowed by the electroweak precision measurement data, and are very diffcult to be detected in the future ILC experiments.     

Associated production of a neutral top-Higgs with a heavy-quark pair in the γγ collisions at ILC

We have studied the associated production processes of a neutral top-Higgs in the topcolor assisted technicolor model with a pair of heavy quarks in γγ collisions at the International Linear Collider (ILC). We find that the cross section for ttht in γγ collisions is at the level of a few fb with the c.m. energy √s=1000 GeV, which is consistent with the results of the cross section of ttH in the standard model and the cross section of tth in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. It should be clear that hundreds of to thousands of ht per year can be produced at the ILC. This process of γγ→ttht is really interesting in testing the standard model and searching the signs of technicolor.