B. B. Brandt, G. Endrődi, J. J. Hernández Hernández, G. Markó
{"title":"Impact of extreme magnetic fields on the QCD topological susceptibility in the vicinity of the crossover region","authors":"B. B. Brandt, G. Endrődi, J. J. Hernández Hernández, G. Markó","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)228","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)228","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the first determination of the topological susceptibility from lattice QCD in the presence of strong background magnetic fields. Our simulations employ 2+1 flavours of stout-improved staggered quarks with physical masses and cover a broad range of temperatures and magnetic field values. The results are extrapolated to the continuum limit using four different lattice spacings and an eigenvalue reweighting technique to reduce discretisation errors. For low temperatures, our calculations show an enhancement of the topological susceptibility due to the magnetic field, compatible with predictions from chiral perturbation theory. At high temperatures, we observe the impact of inverse magnetic catalysis on the susceptibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)228.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Gehrmann, Johannes Henn, Petr Jakubčík, Jungwon Lim, Cesare Carlo Mella, Nikolaos Syrrakos, Lorenzo Tancredi, William J. Torres Bobadilla
{"title":"Graded transcendental functions: an application to four-point amplitudes with one off-shell leg","authors":"Thomas Gehrmann, Johannes Henn, Petr Jakubčík, Jungwon Lim, Cesare Carlo Mella, Nikolaos Syrrakos, Lorenzo Tancredi, William J. Torres Bobadilla","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)215","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)215","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Several recent works have demonstrated the powerful algebraic simplifications that can be achieved for scattering amplitudes through a systematic grading of transcendental quantities. We develop these concepts to construct a minimal basis of functions tailored to a scattering amplitude in a general way. Starting with formal solutions for all master integral topologies, we organise the appearing functions by properties such as their symbol alphabet or letter adjacency. We rotate the basis such that functions with spurious features appear in the least possible number of basis elements. Since their coefficients must vanish for physical quantities, this approach avoids complex cancellations. As a first application, we evaluate all integral topologies relevant to the three-loop <i>Hggg</i> and <span>( Hgqoverline{q} )</span> amplitudes in the leading-colour approximation and heavy-top limit. We describe the derivation of canonical differential equation systems and present a method for fixing boundary conditions without the need for a full functional representation. Using multiple numerical reductions, we test the maximal transcendentality conjecture for Hggg and identify a new letter which appears in functions of weight 4 and 5. In addition, we provide the first direct analytic computation of a three-point form factor of the operator Tr(<i>ϕ</i><sup>2</sup>) in planar <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 sYM and find agreement with numerical and bootstrapped results.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)215.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ivan Esteban, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni, Ivan Martinez-Soler, João Paulo Pinheiro, Thomas Schwetz
{"title":"NuFit-6.0: updated global analysis of three-flavor neutrino oscillations","authors":"Ivan Esteban, M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Michele Maltoni, Ivan Martinez-Soler, João Paulo Pinheiro, Thomas Schwetz","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)216","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)216","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present an updated global analysis of neutrino oscillation data as of September 2024. The parameters <i>θ</i><sub>12</sub>, <i>θ</i><sub>13</sub>, <span>( Delta {m}_{21}^2 )</span>, and <span>( mid Delta {m}_{3ell}^2mid )</span> (<i>ℓ</i> = 1<i>,</i> 2) are well-determined with relative precision at 3<i>σ</i> of about 13%, 8%, 15%, and 6%, respectively. The third mixing angle <i>θ</i><sub>23</sub> still suffers from the octant ambiguity, with no clear indication of whether it is larger or smaller than 45<sup><i>°</i></sup>. The determination of the leptonic CP phase <i>δ</i><sub>CP</sub> depends on the neutrino mass ordering: for normal ordering the global fit is consistent with CP conservation within 1<i>σ</i>, whereas for inverted ordering CP-violating values of <i>δ</i><sub>CP</sub> around 270<i>°</i> are favored against CP conservation at more than 3<i>.</i>6<i>σ</i>. While the present data has in principle 2<i>.</i>5–3<i>σ</i> sensitivity to the neutrino mass ordering, there are different tendencies in the global data that reduce the discrimination power: T2K and NOvA appearance data individually favor normal ordering, but they are more consistent with each other for inverted ordering. Conversely, the joint determination of <span>( mid Delta {m}_{3ell}^2mid )</span> from global disappearance data prefers normal ordering. Altogether, the global fit including long-baseline, reactor and IceCube atmospheric data results into an almost equally good fit for both orderings. Only when the <i>χ</i><sup>2</sup> table for atmospheric neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande is added to our <i>χ</i><sup>2</sup>, the global fit prefers normal ordering with ∆<i>χ</i><sup>2</sup> = 6<i>.</i>1. We provide also updated ranges and correlations for the effective parameters sensitive to the absolute neutrino mass from <i>β</i>-decay, neutrinoless double-beta decay, and cosmology.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)216.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Riccardo Ciccone, Fabiana De Cesare, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Marco Serone
{"title":"Exploring confinement in Anti-de Sitter space","authors":"Riccardo Ciccone, Fabiana De Cesare, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Marco Serone","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)218","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)218","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study Yang-Mills theory on four dimensional Anti-de Sitter space. The Dirichlet boundary condition cannot exist at arbitrarily large radius because it would give rise to colored asymptotic states in flat space. As observed in [1] this implies a deconfinement-confinement transition as the radius is increased. We gather hints on the nature of this transition using perturbation theory. We compute the anomalous dimensions of the lightest scalar operators in the boundary theory, which are negative for the singlet and positive for non-trivial representations. We also compute the correction to the coefficient <i>C</i><sub><i>J</i></sub> and we estimate that the singlet operator reaches marginality before the value of the coupling at which <i>C</i><sub><i>J</i></sub> = 0. These results favor the scenario of merger and annihilation as the most promising candidate for the transition. For the Neumann boundary condition, the lightest scalar operator is found to have a positive anomalous dimension, in agreement with the idea that this boundary condition extrapolates smoothly to flat space. The perturbative calculations are made possible by a drastic simplification of the gauge field propagator in Fried-Yennie gauge. We also derive a general result for the leading-order anomalous dimension of the displacement operator for a generic perturbation in Anti-de Sitter, showing that it is related to the beta function of bulk couplings.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)218.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraining the UV with the electroweak effective action","authors":"Iberê Kuntz, Amanda Malagi","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)210","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)210","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By considering an arbitrary bare action describing BSM physics, we use the Barvinsky-Vilkovisky resummation to obtain the most general non-local electroweak effective action at second order in the field strength. We also include the contribution of the functional measure to the effective action, which is found to modify the Higgs potential by shifting its vacuum value. The resulting effective action provides one-loop corrections to the <i>W</i> and <i>Z</i> boson masses, ultimately leading to the most general expression for the <i>ρ</i> parameter at one-loop. The functional measure plays a pivotal role as it allows the parameterization of <i>ρ</i> in inverse powers of the scale of new physics, while containing non-local form factors. The comparison of <i>ρ</i> with the latest data leads to several constraints on the UV particle spectra of BSM models.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)210.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142912777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen F. King, George K. Leontaris, Luca Marsili, Ye-Ling Zhou
{"title":"Leptogenesis in realistic flipped SU(5)","authors":"Stephen F. King, George K. Leontaris, Luca Marsili, Ye-Ling Zhou","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)211","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)211","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study thermal leptogenesis in realistic supersymmetric flipped SU(5) × U(1) unification. As up-type quarks and neutrinos are arranged in the same multiplets, they exhibit strong correlations, and it is commonly believed that the masses of right-handed (RH) neutrinos are too hierarchical to fit the low-energy neutrino data. This pattern generally predicts a lightest RH neutrino too light to yield successful leptogenesis, with any lepton-antilepton asymmetry generated from heavier neutrinos being washed out unless special flavour structures are assumed. We propose a different scenario in which the lightest two RH neutrinos <i>N</i><sub>1</sub> and <i>N</i><sub>2</sub> have nearby masses of order 10<sup>9</sup> GeV, with thermal leptogenesis arising non-resonantly from both <i>N</i><sub>1</sub> and <i>N</i><sub>2</sub>. We show that this pattern is consistent with all data on fermion masses and mixing and predicts the lightest physical left-handed neutrino mass to be smaller than about 10<sup>−7</sup> eV. The Dirac phase, which does not take the maximal CP-violating value, plays an important role in leptogenesis.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)211.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of dRGT ghost-free massive gravity in spherical symmetry","authors":"Emma Albertini, Jan Kożuszek, Toby Wiseman","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)204","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)204","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We focus on dRGT massive gravity in spherical symmetry in the limit of small graviton mass. Firstly we examine the minimal model. This does not exhibit a Vainshtein mechanism in spherical symmetry, but one may still ask what happens for spherical dynamics. We show that there are no regular time-dependent spherically symmetric solutions unless the matter has sufficiently large pressure. For matter that does not satisfy this, such as non-relativistic matter, any Cauchy slice of such a solution must necessarily have a point where the metric becomes singular. Only a weak assumption on the asymptotics is made. We then consider the next-to-minimal model. This has been argued to have a good Vainshtein mechanism in spherical symmetry, and hence be phenomenologically viable, provided the relative sign of the minimal and next-to-minimal mass terms is the same, and we restrict attention to this case. We find that regular behaviour requires the matter at the origin of symmetry to have positive pressure — in particular a massive scalar field fails to satisfy this condition. Furthermore it restricts non-relativistic matter so that the pressure is bounded from below in terms of the density and graviton mass in a manner that is at odds with a reasonable phenomenology. This suggests that realistic phenomenology will either require a resolution of singularities, or will require dynamics beyond the non-generic setting of spherical symmetry.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)204.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142925711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the classical limit of the (sub)n-leading soft graviton theorems in D = 4 without deflection","authors":"Samim Akhtar","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)207","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tree-level gravitational amplitudes satisfy an infinite hierarchy of soft factorization theorems. The existence of these theorems has been recently linked with the existence of an infinite tower of asymptotic symmetries. In this paper, we analyze the relevance of the soft graviton theorems beyond sub-leading order in the context of classical gravitational scattering in four dimensions. More in detail, we show that the infinite impact parameter limit of the late-time gravitational field emitted during a classical scattering can be derived using these factorization theorems. The classical field obtained in this (infinite impact parameter) regime has an expansion in the frequency of the detector where the modes scale as <i>ω</i><sup><i>n</i></sup> log <i>ω</i> with a vanishing memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)207.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Afiq Anuar, Anke Biekötter, Thomas Biekötter, Alexander Grohsjean, Sven Heinemeyer, Laurids Jeppe, Christian Schwanenberger, Georg Weiglein
{"title":"ALP-ine quests at the LHC: hunting axion-like particles via peaks and dips in ( toverline{t} ) production","authors":"Afiq Anuar, Anke Biekötter, Thomas Biekötter, Alexander Grohsjean, Sven Heinemeyer, Laurids Jeppe, Christian Schwanenberger, Georg Weiglein","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)197","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present an analysis of the sensitivity of current and future LHC searches for new spin-0 particles in top–anti-top-quark <span>( left(toverline{t}right) )</span> final states, focusing on generic axion-like particles (ALPs) that are coupled to top quarks and gluons. As a first step, we derive new limits on the effective ALP Lagrangian in terms of the Wilson coefficients <i>c</i><sub><i>t</i></sub> and <span>( {c}_{overset{sim }{G}} )</span> based on the results of the CMS search using 35<i>.</i>9 fb<sup><i>−</i>1</sup> of data, collected at <span>( sqrt{s} )</span> = 13 TeV. We then investigate how the production of an ALP with generic couplings to gluons and top quarks can be distinguished from the production of a pseudoscalar which couples to gluons exclusively via a top-quark loop. To this end, we make use of the invariant <span>( toverline{t} )</span> mass distribution and angular correlations that are sensitive to the <span>( toverline{t} )</span> spin correlation. Using a mass of 400 GeV as an example, we find that already the data collected during Run 2 and Run 3 of the LHC provides an interesting sensitivity to the underlying nature of a possible new particle. We also analyze the prospects for data anticipated to be collected during the high-luminosity phase of the LHC. Finally, we compare the limits obtained from the <span>( toverline{t} )</span> searches to existing experimental bounds from LHC searches for narrow di-photon resonances, from measurements of the production of four top quarks, and from global analyses of ALP–SMEFT interference effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)197.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Changha Choi, Jaume Gomis, Raquel Izquierdo García
{"title":"Surface operators and exact holography","authors":"Changha Choi, Jaume Gomis, Raquel Izquierdo García","doi":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)195","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP12(2024)195","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Surface operators are nonlocal probes of gauge theories capable of distinguishing phases that are not discernible by the classic Wilson-’t Hooft criterion. We prove that the correlation function of a surface operator with a chiral primary operator in <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 super Yang-Mills is a finite polynomial in the Yang-Mills coupling constant. Surprisingly, in spite of these observables receiving nontrivial quantum corrections, we find that these correlation functions are exactly captured in the ’t Hooft limit by supergravity in asymptotically <i>AdS</i><sub>5</sub> × <i>S</i><sup>5</sup> [1] ! We also calculate exactly the surface operator vacuum expectation value and the correlator of a surface operator with 1/8-BPS Wilson loops using supersymmetric localization. We demonstrate that these correlation functions in <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 SYM realize in a nontrivial fashion the conjectured action of <i>S</i>-duality. Finally, we perturbatively quantize <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 4 SYM around the surface operator singularity and identify the Feynman diagrams that, when summed over, reproduce the exact result obtained by localization.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP12(2024)195.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}