Mia West's Outputs (3)

Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart (2025)
Journal Article
Alonso, R., Dimakou, D., & West, M. (2025). Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart. Physics Letters B, 863, Article 139354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2025.139354

The gauge group of strong and electroweak interactions in Nature could be any of the four that share the same Lie algebra, SU(3)c×SU(2)L×U(1)Y/Zp≡Gp with Zp={Z6,Z3,Z2,Z1}. Each of these cases allows in its spectrum for the matter fields of the SM but... Read More about Fractional-charge hadrons and leptons to tell the Standard Model group apart.

Walls, bubbles and doom — the cosmology of HEFT (2024)
Journal Article
Alonso, R., Criado, J., Houtz, R., & West, M. (2024). Walls, bubbles and doom — the cosmology of HEFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(5), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282024%29049

As experiment charts new territory at the electroweak scale, the enterprise to characterise all possible theories becomes all the more necessary. In the absence of new particles, this ambitious enterprise is attainable and has led to the Higgs Effect... Read More about Walls, bubbles and doom — the cosmology of HEFT.

Roads to the Standard Model (2022)
Journal Article
Alonso, R., & West, M. (2022). Roads to the Standard Model. Physical Review D, 105(9), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.105.096028

Experimental measurements point at the Standard Model (SM) as the theory of electroweak symmetry breaking, but as we close in on our characterization the question arises of what limits in theory space lead to the SM. The class of theories with this p... Read More about Roads to the Standard Model.