Denis Karateev, Zohar Komargodski, João Penedones, Biswajit Sahoo
{"title":"Trace anomalies and the graviton-dilaton amplitude","authors":"Denis Karateev, Zohar Komargodski, João Penedones, Biswajit Sahoo","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)067","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider 3+1 dimensional Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) coupled to the dilaton and the graviton. We show that the graviton-dilaton scattering amplitude receives a universal contribution which is helicity flipping and is proportional to ∆<i>c</i> − ∆<i>a</i> along any RG flow, where ∆<i>c</i> and ∆<i>a</i> are the differences of the UV and IR <i>c</i>- and <i>a</i>-trace anomalies respectively. This allows us to relate ∆<i>c</i> − ∆<i>a</i> to spinning massive states in the spectrum of the QFT. We test our predictions in two simple examples: in the theory of a massive free scalar and in the theory of a massive Dirac fermion (a more complicated example is provided in a companion paper [1]). We discuss possible applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)067.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600775","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}
Wick Haxton, Kenneth McElvain, Tony Menzo, Evan Rule, Jure Zupan
{"title":"Effective theory tower for μ → e conversion","authors":"Wick Haxton, Kenneth McElvain, Tony Menzo, Evan Rule, Jure Zupan","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)076","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present theoretical predictions for <i>μ</i> → <i>e</i> conversion rates using a tower of effective field theories connecting the UV to nuclear physics scales. The interactions in nuclei are described using a recently developed nonrelativistic effective theory (NRET) that organizes contributions according to bound nucleon and muon velocities, <span>( {overrightarrow{v}}_N )</span> and <span>( {overrightarrow{v}}_{mu } )</span>, with <span>( left|{overrightarrow{v}}_Nright| )</span> <i>></i> <span>( left|{overrightarrow{v}}_{mu}right| )</span>. To facilitate the top-down matching, we enlarge the set of Lorentz covariant nucleon-level interactions mapped onto the NRET operators to include those mediated by tensor interactions, in addition to the scalar and vector interactions already considered previously, and then match NRET nonperturbatively onto the Weak Effective Theory (WET). At the scale <i>μ</i> ≈ 2 GeV WET is formulated in terms of <i>u</i>, <i>d</i>, <i>s</i> quarks, gluons and photons as the light degrees of freedom, along with the flavor-violating leptonic current. We retain contributions from WET operators up to dimension 7, which requires the full set of 26 NRET operators. The results are encoded in the open-source Python- and Mathematica-based software suite MuonBridge, which we make available to the theoretical and experimental communities interested in <i>μ</i> → <i>e</i> conversion.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)076.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600778","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":"Confinement and screening via holographic Wilson loops","authors":"Mauro Giliberti, Ali Fatemiabhari, Carlos Nunez","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)068","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the holographic dual to a family of <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 1 SCFTs in four dimensions, deformed by a VEV leading to a gapped system. We calculate Wilson loops in this system containing adjoint, bifundamental, and fundamental matter. We calculate the quark-antiquark energy <i>E</i> in terms of their separation <i>L</i>, finding an approximate analytic expression for <i>E</i>(<i>L</i>). This expression shows the transition between conformal, confining, and screened behaviors. Interesting phenomenology is discussed in a variety of examples. The tool used is the minimization of the F1 string action, for which the code used is made publicly available.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)068.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600774","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":"Pseudoentropy sum rule by analytical continuation of the superposition parameter","authors":"Wu-zhong Guo, Yao-zong Jiang, Jin Xu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)069","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)069","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we establish a sum rule that connects the pseudoentropy and entanglement entropy of the superposition state. Through analytical continuation of the superposition parameter, we demonstrate that the transition matrix and density matrix of the superposition state can be treated in a unified manner. Within this framework, we naturally derive sum rules for the (reduced) transition matrix, pseudo-Rényi entropy, and pseudoentropy. Furthermore, we demonstrate the close relationship between the sum rule for pseudoentropy and the singularity structure of the entropy function for the superposition state after analytical continuation. We also explore potential applications of the sum rule, including its relevance to understanding the gravity dual of non-Hermitian transition matrices and establishing upper bounds for the absolute value of pseudoentropy.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)069.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600773","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":"Field theory for superconducting branes and generalized particle-vortex duality","authors":"Kiyoharu Kawana","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)066","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)066","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We propose a field theory of closed <i>p</i>-brane <i>C</i><sub><i>p</i></sub> interacting with a (<i>p</i> + 1)-form gauge field <i>A</i><sub><i>p</i>+1</sub>. This is a generalization of the Ginzburg-Landau theory (Abelian-Higgs model) for superconducting particles to higher-dimensional superconducting branes. A higher-form gauge invariant action is constructed by utilizing the Area derivative, which is a higher-dimensional generalization of the ordinary derivative. We find that the fundamental phenomena of superconductivity, such as the Meisser effect, topological defects, topological order, are naturally extended in the brane-field theory. We explicitly construct a topologically non-trivial static configuration that is characterized by the first homotopy group. Then, we calculate the low-energy effective theory in the presence of the topological defect and find that it is described by a BF-type topological field theory coupled with the world-volume of the topological defect. We also discuss a potential duality between the superconducting brane-field model and a brane-field model with a global U(1) higher-form symmetry as a generalization of the Particle-Vortex duality.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)066.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600776","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}
Osama Karkout, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Marieke Postma, Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi, Jorinde van de Vis, Tristan du Pree
{"title":"Triple Higgs boson production and electroweak phase transition in the two-real-singlet model","authors":"Osama Karkout, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Marieke Postma, Gilberto Tetlalmatzi-Xolocotzi, Jorinde van de Vis, Tristan du Pree","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)077","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The production of three Higgs bosons at hadron colliders can be enhanced by a double-resonant effect in the ℤ<sub>2</sub>-symmetric two-real-singlet extension of the Standard Model, making it potentially observable in future LHC runs. The production rate is maximized for large scalar couplings, which prompts us to carefully reconsider the perturbativity constraints on the theory. This leads us to construct a new set of 140 benchmark points that have a triple Higgs boson production cross-section at least 100 times larger than the SM value.</p><p>Furthermore, we study the dynamics of the electroweak phase transition, both analytically at leading order, and numerically without the high-temperature expansion. Both analyses indicate that a first-order phase transition is incompatible with the requirement that both singlets have a non-zero vev in the present-day vacuum, as required by doubly-enhanced triple Higgs boson production. Allowing instead one of the singlets to remain at zero field value opens up the possibility of a first-order phase transition, while di-Higgs boson production can still be enhanced by a (single) resonance.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)077.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142636682","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":"New integrable RG flows with parafermions","authors":"Changrim Ahn, Zoltan Bajnok","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)078","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We consider irrelevant deformations of massless RSOS scattering theories by an infinite number of higher [<span>( Toverline{T} )</span>]<sub><i>s</i></sub> operators which introduce extra non-trivial CDD factors between left-movers and right-movers. It is shown that the resulting theories can be UV complete after bypassing typical Hagedorn-like singularities if the coefficients of the deformations are fine-tuned. By classifying all integrable cases, we have discovered a new UV complete QFT associated to the <span>( {mathcal{M}}_p )</span> (<i>p</i> ≥ 3) minimal CFT based on the integrable structure of the RSOS scattering theory. This new theory is the massless ℤ<sub><i>p−</i>1</sub> parafermionic sinh-Gordon (PShG) model with a self-dual coupling constant. This correspondence is confirmed by showing that the scale-dependent vacuum energies computed by the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz derived from the <i>S</i>-matrices match those from the quantization conditions for the PShG models using the reflection amplitudes.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)078.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600730","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":"Wilson line-based action for gluodynamics at the loop level","authors":"Hiren Kakkad, Piotr Kotko, Anna Stasto","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)073","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We develop quantum corrections to the Wilson line-based action which we recently derived through a transformation that eliminates triple gluon vertices from the Yang-Mills action on the light-cone. The action efficiently computes high multiplicity tree-level split-helicity amplitudes with the number of diagrams following the Delannoy number series. However, the absence of the triple gluon vertices results in missing loop contributions. To remedy this, we develop two equivalent approaches using the one-loop effective action method to systematically incorporate loop contributions to our action. In one approach there are solely Yang-Mills vertices in the loop whereas the other uses the interaction vertices of our action along with the kernels of the solution of our transformation in the loop. In addition to demonstrating the equivalence of both approaches, we validated the quantum completeness of the former by computing all 4-point one-loop amplitudes which could not be previously computed. Both of our approaches are easily extendable to develop quantum corrections to other reformulations of the Yang-Mills theory obtained via non-linear classical field transformations eliminating interaction vertices.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)073.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600771","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}
Guangzhou Guo, Peng Wang, Tianshu Wu, Haitang Yang
{"title":"Stationary scalar clouds around Kerr-Newman black holes","authors":"Guangzhou Guo, Peng Wang, Tianshu Wu, Haitang Yang","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)065","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates scalar clouds around Kerr-Newman black holes within the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model. Tachyonic instabilities are identified as the driving mechanism for scalar cloud formation. Employing the spectral method, we numerically compute wave functions and parameter space existence domains for both fundamental and excited scalar cloud modes. Our analysis demonstrates that black hole spin imposes an upper limit on the existence of scalar clouds, with excited modes requiring stronger tachyonic instabilities for their formation. These findings lay the groundwork for exploring the nonlinear dynamics and astrophysical implications of scalar clouds.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)065.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600777","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}
Joshua Newey, John Terning, Christopher B. Verhaaren
{"title":"Schwinger vs Coleman: Magnetic charge renormalization","authors":"Joshua Newey, John Terning, Christopher B. Verhaaren","doi":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)075","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP11(2024)075","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The kinetic mixing of two U(1) gauge theories can result in a massless photon that has perturbative couplings to both electric and magnetic charges. This framework can be used to perturbatively calculate in a quantum field theory with both kinds of charge. Here we reexamine the running of the magnetic charge, where the calculations of Schwinger and Coleman sharply disagree. We calculate the running of both electric and magnetic couplings and show that the disagreement between Schwinger and Coleman is due to an incomplete summation of topological terms in the perturbation series. We present a momentum space prescription for calculating the loop corrections in which the topological terms can be systematically separated for resummation. Somewhat in the spirit of modern amplitude methods we avoid using a vector potential and use the field strength itself, thereby trading gauge redundancy for the geometric redundancy of Stokes surfaces. The resulting running of the couplings demonstrates that Dirac charge quantization is independent of renormalization scale, as Coleman predicted. As a simple application we also bound the parameter space of magnetically charged states through the experimental measurement of the running of electromagnetic coupling.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2024 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)075.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600779","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}