Study of new boson W_1~± in the Minimal Higgsless Model at the LHC

The Minimal Higgsless Model predicts the existence of new vector gauge boson W1± . By the process PP → W1± qq → W±Z0qq, Z0 → l+l-, W±→ qq (l=e,μ; q is hadronized to be jets), we study the sensitivity of searching for this possible vector gauge boson in the level of generator events of signal and backgrounds, then give integrated luminosity required to discover 5σ signal as a function of W1± mass. The generator for the signal PP→W1± qq→W±Z0qq at tree level is developed with the Minimal Higgsless Model and then interfaced with PYTHIA for the parton showers and hadronization. The backgrounds are produced with MadGraph and PYTHIA.     

Study of new boson W_1~± in the Minimal Higgsless Model at the LHC

The Minimal Higgsless Model predicts the existence of new vector gauge boson W1± . By the process PP → W1± qq → W±Z0qq, Z0 → l+l-, W±→ qq (l=e,μ; q is hadronized to be jets), we study the sensitivity of searching for this possible vector gauge boson in the level of generator events of signal and backgrounds, then give integrated luminosity required to discover 5σ signal as a function of W1± mass. The generator for the signal PP→W1± qq→W±Z0qq at tree level is developed with the Minimal Higgsless Model and th...     

Probing the Lightest New Gauge Boson BH in the Littlest Higgs Model via Processes γγ→ ff^- Bg at ILC

The neutral gauge boson BH with the mass of hundreds GeV is the lightest particle predicted by the littlest Higgs （LH） model, and such particle should be the first signal of the LH model at the planed ILC if it exists indeed. In this paper, we study some processes of the BH production associated with the fermion pair at the ILC, i.e., γγ→ ff^- BH. The studies show that the most promising processes to detect BH amongγγ→ ff^- BH are γγ→ l＇^＋l＇^-BH （l＇ = e,μ）, and they can produce the sufficient signals in most parameter space preferred by the electroweak precision data at the ILC. On the other hand, the signal produced via the certain BH decay modes is typical and such signal can be easily identified from the SM background. Therefore, BH, the lightest gauge boson in the LH model, would be detectable at the photon collider realized at the ILC.     

Rare Decay Process K→πvv^- in Three-Site Higgsless Model]

Rare decay processes K→πvv^- and KL→π^0vv^- are considered in the framework of three-site Higgsless model. The contributions of this new physics model to these two decay processes come from the new heavy gauge bosons and the correction terms for the couplings of the ordinary gauge bosons with fermions. Our numerical results show that the branching ratios of these two decay processes can be enhanced by 40% and 50% relative to those predicted by the standard model.     

Associated Production of Scalars and New Gauge Bosons from a Little Higgs Model at the LHC

The littlest Higgs model with T-parity （LHT model） predicts the existence of the T-odd scalars （Φ^±, Φ^0, and Φ^P）. We consider the production of these new particles associated with T-odd gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider （LHC）. It is found that the partonic process qq^1 →Φ^＋ BH can generate a number of the characteristic signal events with a charged lepton and large missing energy at the LHC.     

Note on Higgs Decay into Two Photons H → γγ

The Higgs decay H →γγ due to the virtual W-loop effect is revisited in the unitary gauge by using the symmetry-preserving and divergent-behavior-preserving loop regularization method,which is realized in the fourdimensional space-time without changing original theory.Though the one-loop amplitude of H →γγ is finite as the Higgs boson in the standard model has no direct interaction with the massless photons at tree level,it involves both tensor-type and scalar-type divergent integrals which can in general destroy the gauge invariance without imposing a proper regularization scheme to make them well-defined.As the loop regularization scheme can ensure the consistency conditions between the regularized tensor-type and scalar-type divergent irreducible loop integrals to preserve gauge invariance,we explicitly show the absence of decoupling in the limit M W /M H → 0 and obtain a result agreeing exactly with the earlier one in the literature.We then clarify the discrepancy of the earlier result from the recent one obtained by R.Gastmans,S.L.Wu and T.T.Wu.The advantage of calculation in the unitary gauge becomes manifest in that the non-decoupling arises from the longitudinal contribution of the W gauge boson.     

Signals of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity at eγ and ep collisions

The littlest Higgs model with T-parity predicts the existence of the neutral, weakly interacting, new gauge boson B_H, which can be seen as an attractive dark matter candidate. We study production of the new gauge boson B_H via eγ and ep collisions. We find that B_H can be abundantly produced via the subprocesses e^－γ→L^－B_H and γq→B_HQ, which might give rise to characteristic signals. Some discussions about the SM backgrounds for this kind of signals are also given.     

Production of the new gauge boson BH via e－ collision in the littlest Higgs model

The lightest new gauge boson B_H with mass of hundreds GeV is predicted in the littlest Higgs model. B_H should be accessible in the planned ILC and the observation of such particle can strongly support the littlest Higgs model. The realization of γγ and e^－γ collisions would open a wider window to probe B_H. In this paper, we study the new gauge boson B_H production processes e－γ→e－γ     

Search for W' signal in single top quark production at the LHC

Heavy charged gauge bosons are proposed in some theories beyond the standard model. We explore the discovery potential for W →tb with top quark semi-leptonic decay at the LHC. We concentrate on the new physics signal search with the deviation from the standard model prediction if the resonance peak of W cannot be observed directly. Signal events with two jets plus one charged lepton and missing energy are simulated, together with the dominant standard model backgrounds. In this paper, it is found that suitable cuts on the kinematic observables can effectively suppress the standard model backgrounds, so that it is possible to search for a W signal at the LHC if its mass is less than 6.6 Te V.     

Searches for Dark Matter via Mono-W Production in Inert Doublet Model at the LHC

The Inert Doublet Model(IDM) is one of the many beyond Standard Model scenarios with an extended scalar sector, which provide a suitable dark matter particle candidate. Dark matter associated visible particle production at high energy colliders provides a unique way to determine the microscopic properties of the dark matter particle. In this paper, we investigate that the mono-W + missing transverse energy production at the Large Hadron Collider(LHC),where W boson decay to a lepton and a neutrino. We perform the analysis for the signal of mono-W production in the IDM and the Standard Model(SM) backgrounds, and the optimized criteria employing suitable cuts are chosen in kinematic variables to maximize signal significance. We also investigate the discovery potential in several benchmark scenarios at the 14 TeV LHC. When the light Z_2 odd scalar higgs of mass is about 65 GeV, charged Higgs is in the mass range from 120 GeV to 250 GeV, it provides the best possibility with a signal significance of about 3σ at an integrated luminosity of about 3000 fb~(-1).     

The B-L+xY Model and the Higgs-strahlung Processes at a Collider

The gauge extension of the standard model with the U(1)_(B-L+xY) symmetry predicts the existence of a light gauge boson Z' with small couplings to ordinary fermions. We discuss its contributions to the muon anomalous magnetic moment a_μ. Taking account of the constraints on the relevant free parameters, we further calculate the contributions of the light gauge boson Z' to the Higgs-strahlung processes e~+e~-→ ZH and e~+e~-→ Z'H.     

What can a heavy U(1)_(B-L) Z' boson do to the muon(g-2)_μ anomaly and to a new Higgs boson mass?

The minimal U(1)_(B-L) extension of the Standard Model(B-L-SM) offers an explanation for neutrino mass generation via a seesaw mechanism;it also offers two new physics states,namely an extra Higgs boson and a new Z' gauge boson.The emergence of a second Higgs particle as well as a new Z' gauge boson,both linked to the breaking of a local U(1)_(B-L) symmetry,makes the B-L-SM rather constrained by direct searches in Large Hadron Collider(LHC) experiments.We investigate the phenomenological status of the B-L-SM by confronting the new physics predictions with the LHC and electroweak precision data.Taking into account the current bounds from direct LHC searches,we demonstrate that the prediction for the muon(g-2)_μ anomaly in the B-L-SM yields at most a contribution of approximately 8.9 × 10~(-12),which represents a tension of 3.28 standard deviations,with the current1σ uncertainty,by means of a Z' boson if its mass is in the range of 6.3 to 6.5 TeV,within the reach of future LHC runs.This means that the B-L-SM,with heavy yet allowed Z' boson mass range,in practice,does not resolve the tension between the observed anomaly in the muon(g-2)_μ and the theoretical prediction in the Standard Model.Such a heavy Z' boson also implies that the minimal value for the new Higgs mass is of the order of 400 GeV.     

Associted Production of Z Boson and a Pair of New Quarks at LHC

The associated production of Z boson and a pair of new quarks at the Large Hadron Collider （LHC） is studied. The cross sections for both sequential fermions and vector-like fermions are presented. It is found that for sequential fermions the cross sections can reach 1 - 10^2 /b for heavy quark mass mQ from 1000 GeV to 200 GeV. For vector-like quarks, the cross sections are suppressed by mixing parameter sin OL. Focusing on process pp → b＇b＇, we investigate the possibility of detecting the 6l 4- 2j signal. For a b＇ with light mass and a large branching ratio of b＇ → bZ, it is found that only several signal events （ parton level ） can be produced with 1000 fb^-1 integrated luminosity. Although the signal events are rare, all the final states are produced centrally and multi lepton final states are clear at hadron collider, which could be easily detected.     

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.     

Lepton Flavor Violating Decays τ → μM in the 331 Model

Considering the experimental constraints on the free parameters of the 331 model with a leptonic sector consistent of five triplets, we investigate the lepton flavor violation(LFV) tau decays τ→μM with M = P and V,where P and V denote a pseudoscalar meson(π, η or η′) and a vector meson(ρ0, ω or φ), respectively. We find that the contributions of the 331 model to the LFV decays τ→μM mainly come from the new neutral gauge boson Z′. The 331 model considered in this paper can not make the values of the branching ratio Br(τ→μM) approach the corresponding experimental upper limits.     

H→γγ: a comment on the indeterminacy of non-gauge-invariant integrals

We reanalyze the recent computation of the amplitude of the Higgs boson decay into two photons presented by Gastmans et al. [1, 2]. The reasons for why this result cannot be the correct one have been discussed in some recent papers. We address here the general issue of the indeterminacy of integrals with four-dimensional gauge-breaking regulators and to which extent it might eventually be solved by imposing physical constraints. Imposing gauge invariance as the last step upon Rξ-gauge calculations with four-dimensional gauge-breaking regulators, allows us to recover the well known H→γγ result. However we show that in the particular case of the unitary gauge, the indeterminacy cannot be tackled in the same way. The combination of the unitary gauge with a cutoff regularization scheme turns out to be non-predictive.     

Expected H →μ+μ-measurement precision with e+e-→Z(q■)H production at the CEPC

A search for the dimuon decay of the Standard Model Higgs boson is performed using Monte Carlo simulated events to mimic data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.6 ab^-1 collected with the Circular Electron-Positron Collider detector in e⁺e^-collisions at■GeV.This study investigates thee⁺e^-→ZH,Z→q■,H→μ⁺μ^-process,and the expected significance considering only the statistical uncertainty in the data for a backgro...     

Discriminating the HTM and MLRSM models in collider studies via doubly charged Higgs boson pair production and the subsequent leptonic decays

We present a case study for the doubly charged Higgs boson H~(±±) pair production in e~+e~-and pp colliders with their subsequent decays to four charged leptons.We consider the Higgs Triplet Model(HTM),which is not restricted by the custodial symmetry,and the Minimal Left-Right Symmetric Model(MLRSM).These models include scalar triplets with different complexities of scalar potentials and,because of experimental restrictions,completely different scales of non-standard triplet vacuum expectation values.In both models,a doubly charged Higgs boson H~(±±) can acquire a mass of hundreds of gigaelectronvolts,which can be probed at the HL-LHC,future e~+e~-,and hadron colliders.We take into account a comprehensive set of constraints on the parameters of both models coming from neutrino oscillations,LHC,e~+e~-,and low-energy lepton flavor violating data and assume the same mass of H~(±±).Our finding is that the H~(±±) pair production in lepton and hadron colliders is comparable in both models,though more pronounced in the MLRSM.We show that the decay branching ratios can be different within both models,leading to distinguishable four-lepton signals,and that the strongest are 4μ events yielded by the MLRSM.Typically,we find that the MLRSM signals are one order of magnitude larger those in the HTM.For example,the pp→ 4μMLRSM signal for 1 TeV H~(±±) mass results in a clearly detectable significance of S■11 for the HL-LHC and S■290 for the FCC-hh.Finally,we provide quantitative predictions for the dilepton invariant mass distributions and lepton separations,which help to identify non-standard signals.     

Probing new physics in dimension-8 neutral gauge couplings at e~+e~- colliders

Neutral triple gauge couplings(nTGCs)are absent in the standard model effective theory up to dimension-6 operators,but could arise from dimension-8 effective operators.In this work,we study the pure gauge operators of dimension-8 that contribute to nTGCs and are independent of the dimension-8 operator involving the Higgs doublet.We show that the pure gauge operators generate both ZγZ^*and Zγγ^*vertices with rapid energy dependence∝E^5,which can be probed sensitively via the reaction e^+e^-→Zγ.We demonstrate that measuring the nTGCs via the reaction e^+e^-→Zγfollowed by Z→qq decays can probe the new physics scales of dimension-8 pure gauge operators up to the range(1-5)TeV at the CEPC,FCC-ee and ILC colliders with s~(1/2)=(0.25-1)TeV,and up to the range(10-16)TeV at CLIC with s~(1/2)=(3-5)TeV,assuming in each case an integrated luminosity of 5 ab~(-1).We compare these sensitivities with the corresponding probes of the dimension-8 nTGC operators involving Higgs doublets and the dimension-8 fermionic contact operators that contribute to the e^+e^-Zγvertex.