The role of beam polarization for radiative neutralino production at the ILC

We analyze the impact of electron and positron beam polarization on radiative neutralino production at the international linear collider (ILC). We focus on three different mSUGRA scenarios in turn at the Higgs strahlung threshold, the top pair production threshold, and at 500 GeV. In these scenarios at the corresponding , radiative neutralino production is the only supersymmetric production mechanism that is kinematically allowed. The heavier neutralinos and charginos as well as the sleptons, squarks and gluinos are too heavy to be pair produced. We calculate the signal cross section and also the standard model background from radiative neutrino production. For our scenarios, we obtain significances larger than 10 and signal to background ratios between 2% and 5%, if we have electron beam polarization –0.8 and positron beam polarization –0.3. If we have electron beam polarization of , then the signal is observable with but both the significance and the signal to background ratio are significantly improved for .     

Applying the <Emphasis FontCategory="NonProportional">POWHEG</Emphasis> method to top-pair production and decays at the ILC

We study the effects of gluon radiation in top-pair production and their decays for e ⁺ e ⁻ annihilation at the ILC. To achieve this we apply the POWHEG method and interface our results to the Monte Carlo event generator . We consider a centre-of-mass energy of GeV and compare decay correlations and bottom-quark and -antiquark distributions before hadronisation.     

NLO event generation for chargino production at the ILC

We present a Monte Carlo event generator for simulating chargino pair production at the International Linear Collider (ILC) at next-to-leading order in the electroweak couplings. By properly resumming photons in the soft and collinear regions, we avoid negative event weights, so the program can simulate physical (unweighted) event samples. Photons are explicitly generated throughout the range where they can be experimentally resolved. Inspecting the dependence on the cutoffs separating the soft and collinear regions, we evaluate the systematic errors due to soft and collinear approximations. In the resummation approach, the residual uncertainty can be brought down to the per-mil level, coinciding with the expected statistical uncertainty at the ILC. PACS 12.15.Lk; 13.40.Ks; 13.66.Hk; 14.80.Ly     

On top-pair hadro-production at next-to-next-to-leading order

We study the QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to the cross section for the hadronic pair-production of top quarks. We present new results in the high-energy limit using the well-known framework of _kt$k_t$-factorization. We combine these findings with the known threshold corrections and present improved approximate NNLO results over the full kinematic range. This approach is employed to quantify the residual theoretical uncertainty of the approximate NNLO results which amounts to about 4% for the Tevatron and 5% for the LHC cross section predictions. Our analytic results in the high-energy limit will provide an important check on future computations of the complete NNLO cross sections.     

Measurement of CP asymmetries in neutralino production at the ILC

We study the prospects to measure the CP-sensitive triple-product asymmetries in neutralino production \(e^{+} e^{-} \to\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{i}\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1}\) and subsequent leptonic two-body decays \(\tilde{\chi}^{0}_{i} \to \tilde{\ell}_{R} \ell\), \(\tilde{\ell}_{R} \to \tilde{\chi}^{0}_{1} \ell\), for ?=e,μ, within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We include a full detector simulation of the International Large Detector for the International Linear Collider. The simulation was performed at a center-of-mass energy of \(\sqrt{s}=500\) GeV, including the relevant Standard Model background processes, a realistic beam energy spectrum, beam backgrounds and a beam polarization of 80% and ?60% for the electron and positron beams, respectively. In order to effectively disentangle different signal samples and reduce SM and SUSY backgrounds we apply a method of kinematic reconstruction. Assuming an integrated luminosity of 500 fb^?1 collected by the experiment and the performance of the current ILD detector, we arrive at a relative measurement accuracy of 10% for the CP-sensitive asymmetry in our scenario. We demonstrate that our method of signal selection using kinematic reconstruction can be applied to a broad class of scenarios and it allows disentangling processes with similar kinematic properties.     

NNLL threshold resummation for top-pair and single-top production

I discuss threshold resummation at NNLL accuracy in the standard moment-space approach in perturbative QCD for top-pair and single-top production. For top quark pair production I present new approximate NNLO results for the total cross section and for the top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions at 8 TeV LHC energy. I discuss the accuracy of the soft-gluon approximation and show that the NLO and NNLO approximate results from resummation are practically indistinguishable from exact NLO and partial NNLO results. For single top production I present new approximate NNLO results for the total cross sections in all three channels at the LHC and also for the top quark transverse momentum distributions in t-channel production and in top-quark associated production with a W boson. For both \(t\bar t\) and single-top production the agreement of theoretical results with LHC and Tevatron data is excellent.     

ILC上Z玻色子与荷电top-pion对联合产生过程的研究

在国际直线对撞机(ILC)上顶色辅助的人工色(TC2)模型下对Z玻色子与荷电top-pion对联合产生过程e⁺e^- → Zπ_t⁺π_t^-进行了研究. 计算了过程e⁺e^- → Zπ_t⁺π_t^-的产生截面, 发现在TC2模型所允许的参数空间范围之内该过程的截面最大可达到1 fb. 考虑到荷电top-pion的主要的衰变模式π_t⁺ → tb, 发现该截面在ILC能产生很可观的事例数.     

Scalar top quarks production in polarized photon-photon collisions at ILC

We study pair production of scalar top quarks (stop, \(\tilde t_1\)) in polarized photon-photon collisions with the subsequent decay of the top squarks into b quarks and charginos \(\tilde t_1 \to b\tilde \chi _1^ \pm\). We simulate this process by using PYTHIA6.4 for an electron beam energy \(2E_{beam}^e = \sqrt {s_{ee} } = 1000 GeV\). The energy spectrum of back-scattered photons is generated by CIRCE2 program. A set of criteria for physical variables is proposed which leads to a good separation of stop signal events from top quark pair production, being the main background. These criteria allow us to reconstruct the mass of the top squark, provided that the neutralino mass is known.     

Dark-matter pair production at the ILC in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity

In the littlest Higgs model with T-parity, the heavy photon (A_H) is supposed to be a possible dark matter (DM) candidate. The direct proof of the validity of this model is to produce the heavy photon at an accelerator. In this paper, we study the production rate of e~+ e~- → AH AH at the international e~+ e~- linear collider (ILC) in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity, and show the distributions of the transverse momenta of A H . The numerical results indicate that the heavy photon production rate could reach the 10~-1 fb level at some parameter space, so this could be a good chance to observe the heavy photon via the pair production process with high luminosity at the ILC (500 fb~-1). We know that DM is composed of weakly interacting massive particles, so the interactions with standard model particles are weak. How to detect heavy photons at a collider and distinguish them from other DM candidates are discussed in the final section of the paper.     

Sneutrino identification in lepton pair production at ILC with polarized beams

Numerous non-standard dynamics are described by contact-like effective interactions that can manifest themselves in electron–positron collisions only through deviations of the observables (cross sections, asymmetries) from the Standard Model predictions. If such a deviation were observed, it would be important to identify the actual source among the possible non-standard interactions as many different new physics scenarios may lead to very similar experimental signatures. We study the possibility of uniquely identifying the indirect effects of s-channel sneutrino exchange, as predicted by supersymmetric theories with R  -parity violation, against other new physics scenarios in high-energy e⁺e⁻$e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilation into lepton pairs at the International Linear Collider. These competitive models are interactions based on gravity in large and in TeV-scale extra dimensions, anomalous gauge couplings, Z^′$Z^{\prime }$ vector bosons and compositeness-inspired four-fermion contact interactions. To evaluate the identification reach on sneutrino exchange, we use as basic observable a double polarization asymmetry, that is particularly suitable to directly test for such s-channel sneutrino exchange effects in the data analysis. The availability of both beams being polarized plays a crucial rôle in identifying the new physics scenario.     

ILC activity at JINR

JINR is an active participant in the massive new international project ILC. JINR physicists are taking part in several fields of activity in the International Linear Collider (ILC), such as work on the photo injector prototype, the design and construction of cryomodules, laser metrology, cryodiagnostics, etc. The Joint Institute is one of the potential candidates for hosting the ILC, near Dubna, Russia. The status and progress of the above topics are discussed in the report. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

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.     

Electroweak radiative corrections to $$W^+W^-\gamma $$ production at the ILC

We consider holographic superconductors in a rotating black string spacetime. In view of the mandatory introduction of the \(A_\varphi \) component of the vector potential we are left with three equations to be solved. Their solutions show that the rotation parameter \(a\) influences the critical temperature \(T_\mathrm{c}\) and the conductivity \(\sigma \) in a simple but non-trivial way.     

Diphoton plus Z production at the ILC at \mathcal{O}(\alpha ^4)

In this paper, we consider a system of gravitating bodies in Kaluza–Klein models with toroidal compactification of the extra dimensions. To simulate the astrophysical objects (e.g., our Sun and pulsars) with energy density much greater than the pressure, we assume that these bodies are pressureless in the external space, i.e., the space we inhabit. At the same time, they may have nonzero parameters $\omega _{({\bar{\alpha }} -3)} \, ({\bar{\alpha }} =4,\ldots , D)$ in the equations of state in the extra dimensions. We construct the Lagrange function of this many-body system for any value of $\Sigma =\sum _{{\bar{\alpha }}} \omega _{({\bar{\alpha }} -3)}$ . Moreover, the gravitational tests (PPN parameters, perihelion and periastron advances) require a negligible deviation from the latent soliton value $\Sigma =-(D-3)/2$ . However, the presence of pressure/tension in the internal space results necessarily in the smearing of the gravitating masses over the internal space and in the absence of KK modes. This looks very unnatural from the point of view of quantum physics.     

Studying very light gravitino at the ILC

A collider signal with a stable gravitino of O(10) eV mass at the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiment is investigated. Such a light gravitino is generally predicted in the low-scale gauge mediation scenario of the supersymmetry breaking. We particularly focus on the case that the next lightest supersymmetric particle is stau, which eventually decays into a gravitino and a τ-lepton. With such a small gravitino mass, the lifetime of the stau is ¹⁰−15-¹⁰−11 s, and the produced stau decays before reaching the first layer of the inner detector of the ILC. It is shown, however, that the lifetime can be determined from the distribution of the impact parameter, which is obtained by observing charged tracks caused by decay products of the τ-lepton. This measurement also enables us to estimate the mass of the gravitino and determine the scale of the supersymmetry breaking. Based on a simulation study, we found that the lifetime can be measured when it is longer than ∼¹⁰−14 s and the stau mass is about 100 GeV.     

ILC上e~+e~-对撞产生t~+t~-夸克对

本文结合国际直线对撞机(ILC)的实验讨论了e+e-湮灭产生t+t-对过程.在具体计算过程中,本文采用一种新的计算方式,即"混合链图传播子"修正下的反应截面,首先对QED中Dyson链图传播子理论在电弱统一标准模型(WS)中做了推广,获得WS中的光子、中间玻色子混合链图传播子,进而计算了γ,Z0混合链图修正下e+e-→t+t-反应总截面σchain,并与单圈修正下的总截面σloop和最低阶总截面σ0做了对比分析,发现在国际直线对撞机对撞能区,σchain对σloop和σ0的修正很大.此外,作者还结合国际直线对撞机的对撞亮度,讨论了每年可在ILC上产生t+t-对的事例数.     

Pair production of right-handed neutrinos in the left-right twin Higgs model at ILC and LHC

In the framework of the left-right twin Higgs model, we study pair production of the right-handed neutrinos at the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Our numerical results show that the production cross section of the process e+e→N N is at the level of several tens fb at the ILC. However, the resonance production cross section can be significantly enhanced to the order of pb. The pair production cross section for the right-handed neutrinos is the level of several h...