Many new physics models with strongly interacting sectors predict a mass hierarchy between the lightest vector meson and the lightest pseudoscalar mesons. We examine the power of jet substructure tools to extend the 7 TeV LHC sensitivity to these new states for the case of QCD octet mesons, considering both two gluon and two b-jet decay modes for the pseudoscalar mesons. We develop both a simple dijet search using only the jet mass and a more sophisticated jet substructure analysis, both of which can discover the composite octets in a dijet-like signature. The reach depends on the mass hierarchy between the vector and pseudoscalar mesons. We find that for the pseudoscalar-to-vector meson mass ratio below approximately 0.2 the simple jet mass analysis provides the best discovery limit; for a ratio between 0.2 and the QCD-like value of 0.3, the sophisticated jet substructure analysis has the best discovery potential; for a ratio above approximately 0.3, the standard four-jet analysis is more suitable.
We study the hidden-charm pentaquark states $udsc\bar{c}$ with spins 1/2, 3/2, and 5/2 within the QCD sum-rule approach. First, we construct the currents for the particular configuration of pentaquark states that consist of the flavor singlet three-quark cluster $uds$ of spins 1/2 and 3/2 and the two-quark cluster $\bar cc$ of spin 1, where both clusters are in a color-octet state. From the QCD sum rules obtained by the operator product expansion up to dimension-10 condensates, the extracted masses for the pentaquark states $uds$-$\bar{c}c$ are about 4.6 GeV (5.6 GeV) for spin 1/2$^\pm$, about…
Within the framework of the generalized linear sigma model with glueballs recently proposed [1,2], we study the schematic spectroscopy of scalar and pseudoscalar mesons in the SU(3) flavor limit and explore their quark and glue contents. In this framework, for both scalars and pseudoscalars, the two octet physical states are admixtures of quark-antiquark and four-quark components, and the three singlet states contain quark-antiquark, four-quark and glue components. We identify the two scalar octets with $a_0(980)$ and $a_0(1450)$ and the two pseudoscalar octets with $π(137)$ and $π(1300)$. We …
LHC searches for heavy neutral Higgs bosons with a top jet substructure analysis
在一般双Higgs模型下，研究了重$CP$ -奇希格斯玻色子$A$和重$CP$ -偶希格斯玻色子$H$的LHC搜索.具体而言，我们考虑通过$b \bar b$或$t \bar t $相关的生产渠道的$A/H\to t \bar t $的衰减模式。在所谓的“排列极限”的两个希格斯偶线模型，这种衰变模式可以是最主要的一个。通过使用HEPTopTagger和多变量分析方法，我们给出了在高亮度LHC运行中通过这些通道对$CP$ -奇希格斯玻色子$A$和$CP$ -偶希格斯玻色子$H$的搜索灵敏度.
Dark matter substructure can contribute significantly to local dark matter searches and may provide a large uncertainty in the interpretation of those experiments. For direct detection experiments, sub-halos give rise to an additional dark matter component on top of the smooth dark matter distribution of the host halo. In the case of dark matter capture in the Sun, sub-halo encounters temporarily increase the number of captured particles. Even if the encounter happened in the past, the number of dark matter particles captured by the Sun can still be enhanced today compared to expectations from…
Data from the Gaia satellite show that the solar neighbourhood of the Milky Way's stellar halo is imprinted with substructure from several accretion events. Evidence of these events is found in "the Shards", stars clustering with high significance in both action space and metallicity. Stars in the Shards share a common origin, likely as ancient satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, so will be embedded in dark matter (DM) counterparts. These "Dark Shards" contain two substantial streams (S1 and S2), as well as several retrograde, prograde and lower energy substructures. The retrograde stream S1 …
Improving sensitivity of vectorlike top partner searches with jet substructure
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati（印度理工学院古瓦哈提分校）；Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata（印度科学教育研究所加尔各答分校）；Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Knowledge City, Sector 81, S. A. S. Nagar, Manauli PO 140306, Punjab, India（印度科学教育研究所旁遮普邦分校）；The Institute of Mathematical Sciences（数学科学研究所）
Dark matter substructure, such as primordial black holes (PBHs) and axion miniclusters, can induce phase shifts in pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) measurements due to gravitational effects. In order to gain a more realistic forecast for the detectability of such models of dark matter with PTAs, we propose a Bayesian inference framework to search for phase shifts generated by PBHs and perform the analysis on mock PTA data. For most PBH masses the constraints on the dark matter abundance agree with previous (frequentist) analyses (without mock data) to $\mathcal{O}(1)$ factors. This further motivate…
A number of recent applications of jet substructure, in particular searches for light new particles, require substructure observables that are decorrelated with the jet mass. In this paper we introduce the Convolved SubStructure (CSS) approach, which uses a theoretical understanding of the observable to decorrelate the complete shape of its distribution. This decorrelation is performed by convolution with a shape function whose parameters and mass dependence are derived analytically. We consider in detail the case of the $D_2$ observable and perform an illustrative case study using a search fo…
Precision Jet Substructure of Boosted Boson Decays with Energy Correlators
Massachusetts Institute of Technology（麻省理工学院）；SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University（斯坦福大学斯坦福直线加速器中心）；Yale University（耶鲁大学）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）
Strongly coupled models at the TeV scale often predict one or more neutral spin-one resonances (Z') which have appreciable branching fractions to electroweak bosons, namely the Higgs and longitudinal W and Z. These resonances are usually believed to have multi-TeV mass due to electroweak precision constraints, placing them on the edge of LHC discovery reach. Searching for them is made particularly challenging because hadronically decaying electroweak bosons produced at such high energy will appear very similar to QCD jets. In this work we revisit the possibility of discovering these resonances…
Searches for dark matter subhaloes with wide-field Cherenkov telescope surveys
在暗物质晕中存在子结构是冷暗物质范例的不可避免的结果。这些天体的间接信号已经用宇宙射线和伽马射线进行了广泛的研究。乍看起来，切伦科夫望远镜似乎不太适合这样的搜索，因为它们的视场很小，天空中可能的暗物质子结构位置也很随机。然而，只要有足够长的曝光时间和足够的观测策略，这种实验技术非常好的灵敏度使我们能够约束粒子暗物质模型。我们在这里面对HESS实验的灵敏度图，该实验是从他们的银河扫描调查到最先进的宇宙学N体模拟Via Lactea II建立的。我们在10^-24 - 10 ^-23 cm ^3 s ^-1水平上得到了湮灭截面的竞争约束。结果外推到未来的切伦科夫望远镜阵列，在银河平面调查和更广泛的河外调查的情况下。在后一种情况下，它表明，切伦科夫望远镜阵列的灵敏度将足以达到最自然的粒子暗物质模型。
Supersymmetry with hadronic R-parity violation in which the lightest neutralino decays into three quarks is still weakly constrained. This work aims to further improve the current search for this scenario by the boosted decision tree method with additional information from jet substructure. In particular, we find a deep neural network turns out to perform well in characterizing the neutralino jet substructure. We first construct a Convolutional Neutral Network (CNN) which is capable of tagging the neutralino jet in any signal process by using the idea of jet image. When applied to pure jet sam…
我提出了一个新的计划标记助推重味喷流称为“$μ_x$标记”和它的应用TeV尺度物理超越标准模型。使用介子从B强子衰变定义一个特定的组合“x”的角度信息，和射流子结构变量，我们确定一个干净的（$ε_{\mathrm{fake}}/ε_b\sim 1/100$）良好的效率（$ε_b = 14\%$）标签。我证明了这个新方案的有用性，显示了发现疏脂$Z^\prime\to b\bar b$和$tH^\pm\to t t b$的范围。
We propose a novel method in that quark-gluon tagging of the jets emitted as initial state radiation (ISR) can boost searches of invisible Higgs from gluon fusion processes against irreducible electroweak vector boson productions. While quark ISR typically takes up a dominant portion than gluon in the background processes mainly by frequent quark-gluon initiated hard scatterings at the LHC, gluon ISR portion in the gluon fusion can be significantly larger in the central region of detector. Focusing on invisible Higgs searches using jet substructure variables capturing the new features, we demo…
Exploiting the substructure of jets observed at the LHC to better understand and interpret the experimental data has recently been a very active area of research. In this thesis we study the substructure of high-p$_T$ QCD jets, which form a background to many new physics searches. In particular, we explore in detail the perturbative distributions of a certain class of observables known as non-global jet shapes. More specifically, we identify and present state-of-the-art calculations, both at fixed-order and to all-orders in the perturbative expansion, of a set of large logarithms known as non-…
We address the modeling dependence of jet taggers built using the method of Mass Unspecific Supervised Tagging, by using two different parton showering and hadronisation schemes. We find that the modeling dependence of the results - estimated by using different schemes in the design of the taggers and applying them to the same type of data - is rather small, even if the jet substructure varies significantly between the two schemes. These results add great value to the use of generic supervised taggers for new physics searches.
Simple extensions of the Standard Model (SM) with additional Right Handed Neutrinos (RHNs) can elegantly explain the existence of small neutrino masses and their flavor mixings. Collider searches for sterile neutrinos are being actively pursued currently. Heavy RHNs may dominantly decay into $W^\pm l^\pm$ after being produced at the LHC. In this paper, we consider collider signatures of heavy pseudo-Dirac neutrinos in the context of inverse seesaw scenario, with a sizable mixing with the SM neutrinos under two different flavor structures, viz., Flavor Diagonal (FD) and Flavor Non-Diagonal (FND…
We present a detailed study of the interactions among scalar and pseudoscalar mesons and glueballs within the framework of the generalized linear sigma model in the SU(3) flavor limit. The basis of our approach is to develop a global understanding of light scalar and pseudoscalar mesons (up to around 2 GeV) and thereby explore the underlying mixings among composite quark matter fields and glueballs. The chiral sector of the Lagrangian is formulated in terms of two chiral nonets representing quark-antiquarks and tetraquarks (in the leading order, this sector contains terms with eight or fewer n…
