Little higgs models and T parity

Little Higgs models are an interesting extension of the Standard Model at the TeV scale. They provide a simple and attractive mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. We review one of the simplest models of this class, the Littlest Higgs model, and its extension with T parity. The model with T parity satisfies precision electroweak constraints without fine-tuning, contains an attractive dark matter candidate, and leads to interesting phenomenology at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).     

Early physics with ATLAS and CMS

The status of the CMS and ATLAS experiments is given, as it is end of 2007. A quick tour of possible new physics is presented.      

希格斯玻色子——物质质量起源的探索

2012年7月4日,欧洲核子中心大型强子对撞机上的ATLAS和CMS实验组联合宣布发现了一个标量粒子,其性质与标准模型理论预言的希格斯粒子初步吻合,随后被大量实验数据进一步证实。作为唯一的基本标量（自旋为零）粒子,希格斯粒子在标准模型中占据极其特殊的地位,因此,希格斯粒子相关性质的理论研究是理论粒子物理研究的热点。文章简要介绍了希格斯粒子物理的理论问题及其进展。     

New Electroweak Model Without a Higgs Particle

A new unified electroweak model is proposed in this paper. In this unified electroweak model, Higgsmechanism is not used, so no Higgs particle exists in the model. In order to keep the masses of intermediate gaugebosons non-zero, two sets of gauge fields will be introduced. In order to introduce symmetry breaking and to help tointroduce the masses of all fields, a vacuum potential is needed. Except for those terms concerning Higgs particle, thefundamental dynamical properties of this model are similar to those of the standard model. And in a proper limit, thismodel will approximately return to the standard model. The purpose of this paper is not to say that the Higgs particledoes not exist in Nature, it is only to prove that, without a Higgs particle, we can also set up a unified electroweak modelwhich is consistent with present experiments.     

LHC/ILC/cosmology interplay

There is a strong and growing interplay between particle physics and cosmology. In this talk, I discuss some aspects of this interplay concerning dark matter candidates put forth by theories beyond the standard model. In explaining the requirements for collider tests of such dark matter candidates, I focus in particular on the case of the lightest neutralino in the MSSM.     

Measuring Higgs CP properties through top quark production at a photon collider

We study resonant effects of heavy Higgs bosons on the top-pair production process at a photon linear collider. Observables which can be obtained by circular polarization of colliding photons and polarization measurement through the angular distribution of the top quark decays are useful not only for measuring the Higgs CP parity but also for resolving degeneracy of Higgs bosons.      

Charged Top-Pion Production at Hadron Colliders

We studied the charged top-pion in the topcolor assisted technicolor model （TC2）. If the charged top-pions are heavy, mπt 〉 mt ＋mb, they will decay mainly via the channel πt^＋ → tb. We also calculated the production of charged top-pion at the Tevatron and LHC. The cross section can reach to 100 fb at the Tevatron and dozens of pb at the LHC depending on the mass of the top-pion.     

Measuring hidden Higgs and strongly-interacting Higgs scenarios

Higgs couplings can be affected by physics beyond the Standard Model. We study modifications through interactions with a hidden sector and in specific composite Higgs models accessible at the LHC. Both scenarios give rise to congruent patterns of universal, or partially universal, shifts. In addition, Higgs decays to the hidden sector may lead to invisible decay modes which we also exploit. Experimental bounds on such potential modifications will measure the concordance of an observed Higgs boson with the Standard Model.     

The phase diagram of the Abelian lattice Higgs model. A review of rigorous results

We give a review (and some improvements) of the rigorous results on the phase structure of Abelian lattice Higgs models with gauge groups U(1) and . Emphasis is put on the relation between the Higgs mechanism (gauge-independent) and spontaneous symmetry breaking (gauge-dependent). We also discuss some nonperturbative effects due to Gribov copies in this context.This paper is based on an invited talk given by one of the authors (C.B.) at the conference on the Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions—Mathematical and Physical Aspects, Tebo, Czechoslovakia, September 1–6, 1986.     

Minimal violation of flavour and custodial symmetries in a vectophobic Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model

Tree-level accidental symmetries are known to play a fundamental role in the phenomenology of the Standard Model (SM) for electroweak interactions. So far, no significant deviations from the theory have been observed in precision, flavour and collider physics. Consequently, these global symmetries are expected to remain quite efficient in any attempt beyond the SM. Yet, they do not forbid rather unorthodox phenomena within the reach of current LHC experiments. This is illustrated with a vectophobic Two-Higgs-Doublet-Model (2HDM) where effects of a light, flavour-violating and custodian (pseudo)scalar might be observed in the _Bs→μ⁺μ⁻$B_s\to {\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decay rate and in the diphoton invariant mass spectrum at around 125 GeV.     

Challenging the Standard Model with the muon <Emphasis Type="Italic">g</Emphasis> − 2

The discrepancy between experiment and the Standard Model prediction of the muon g−2 is reviewed. The possibility to bridge it by hypothetical increases in the hadronic cross-section used to determine the leading hadronic contribution to the latter is analysed.      

Muon g-2 discrepancy： new physics or a relatively light Higgs？

After a brief review of the muon g-2 status, we discuss hypothetical errors in the Standard Model prediction that might explain the present discrepancy with the experimental value. None of them seems likely. In particular, a hypothetical increase of the hadroproduction cross section in low-energy e^＋e^- collisions could bridge the muon g-2 discrepancy, but it is shown to be unlikely in view of current experimental error estimates. If, nonetheless, this turns out to be the explanation of the discrepancy, then the 95% CL upper bound on the Higgs boson mass is reduced to about 135 GeV which, in conjunction with the experimental 114.4 GeV 95% CL lower bound, leaves a narrow window for the mass of this fundamental particle.     

近代物理系的高能物理研究现状

文章简要介绍了中国科学技术大学近代物理系的高能物理唯象理论和实验研究的发展现状,并总结了最近几年中取得的进展情况.     

TeV能区物理

文章简要介绍研究TeV能区物理的意义、重要性和当前国际上的发展形势,以及清华大学粒子物理理论组为发展TeV能区物理研究所做的工作和取得的成果.     

Partially composite two-Higgs doublet model

In the extra dimensional scenarios with gauge fields in the bulk, the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons can induce Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type attractive fourfermion interactions, which can break electroweak symmetry dynamically with accompanying composite Higgs fields. We consider a possibility that electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is triggered by both a fundamental Higgs and a composite Higgs arising in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism induced by a new strong dynamics. The resulting Higgs sector is a partially composite two-Higgs doublet model with specific boundary conditions on the coupling and mass parameters originating at a compositeness scale Λ. The phenomenology of this model is discussed including the collider phenomenology at LHC and ILC.