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Roaming form factors for the tricritical to critical Ising flow (2016)
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Horváth, D., Dorey, P., & Takács, G. (2016). Roaming form factors for the tricritical to critical Ising flow. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(7), Article 051. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282016%29051

We study the massless flows described by the staircase model introduced by Al.B. Zamolodchikov through the analytic continuation of the sinh-Gordon S-matrix, focusing on the renormalisation group flow from the tricritical to the critical Ising model.... Read More about Roaming form factors for the tricritical to critical Ising flow.

Implications of perturbative unitarity for scalar di-boson resonance searches at LHC (2017)
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Di Luzio, L., Kamenik, J. F., & Nardecchia, M. (2017). Implications of perturbative unitarity for scalar di-boson resonance searches at LHC. The European Physical Journal C, 77(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4594-2

We study the constraints implied by partial wave unitarity on new physics in the form of spin-zero di-boson resonances at LHC. We derive the scale where the effective description in terms of the SM supplemented by a single resonance is expected to br... Read More about Implications of perturbative unitarity for scalar di-boson resonance searches at LHC.

Recommendations on presenting LHC searches for missing transverse energy signals using simplified s-channel models of dark matter (2019)
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Boveia, A., Buchmueller, O., Busoni, G., D'Eramo, F., De Roeck, A., De Simone, A., …Zurek, K. (2020). Recommendations on presenting LHC searches for missing transverse energy signals using simplified s-channel models of dark matter. Physics of the Dark Universe, 27, Article 100365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2019.100365

This document summarises the proposal of the LHC Dark Matter Working Group on how to present LHC results on -channel simplified dark matter models and to compare them to direct (indirect) detection experiments.

Top-quark loop corrections in Z+jet and Z + 2 jet production (2017)
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Campbell, J. M., & Ellis, R. K. (2017). Top-quark loop corrections in Z+jet and Z + 2 jet production. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(01), Article 020. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282017%29020

The sophistication of current predictions for Z+jet production at hadron colliders necessitates a re-evaluation of any approximations inherent in the theoretical calculations. In this paper we address one such issue, the inclusion of mass effects in... Read More about Top-quark loop corrections in Z+jet and Z + 2 jet production.

Galilean Anomalies and Their Effect on Hydrodynamics (2016)
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Jain, A. (2016). Galilean Anomalies and Their Effect on Hydrodynamics. Physical Review D, D93(6), Article 065007. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.065007

We study flavor and gravitational anomalies in Galilean theories coupled to torsional Newton-Cartan backgrounds. We establish that the relativistic anomaly inflow mechanism with an appropriately modified anomaly polynomial can be used to generate the... Read More about Galilean Anomalies and Their Effect on Hydrodynamics.

Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: Closing the the mH±∼mt window (2017)
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Degrande, C., Frederix, R., Hirschi, V., Ubiali, M., Wiesemann, M., & Zaro, M. (2017). Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: Closing the the mH±∼mt window. Physics Letters B, 772, 87-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.037

We present predictions for the total cross section for the production of a charged Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range (mH±∼mt) at the LHC, focusing on a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Results are obtained at next-to-leading order (NLO) accu... Read More about Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: Closing the the mH±∼mt window.

Photo-production of a 750 GeV di-photon resonance mediated by Kaluza-Klein leptons in the loop (2016)
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Abel, S., & Khoze, V. V. (2016). Photo-production of a 750 GeV di-photon resonance mediated by Kaluza-Klein leptons in the loop. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(5), Article 063. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282016%29063

We consider the phenomenology of a 750 GeV resonance X which can be produced at the LHC by only photon fusion and subsequently decay into di-photons. We propose that the spin-zero state X is coupled to a heavy lepton that lives in the bulk of a highe... Read More about Photo-production of a 750 GeV di-photon resonance mediated by Kaluza-Klein leptons in the loop.

Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit (2017)
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Banks, E., Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., Griffin, T., & Melgar, L. (2017). Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(4), Article 045001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa51df

We consider black hole solutions of Einstein gravity that describe deformations of CFTs at finite temperature in which spatial translations have been broken explicitly. We focus on deformations that are periodic in the non-compact spatial directions,... Read More about Holographic thermal DC response in the hydrodynamic limit.

One-loop corrections to h → bb¯ and h → ττ¯ decays in the Standard Model dimension-6 EFT: four-fermion operators and the large-m t limit (2016)
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Gauld, R., Pecjak, B. D., & Scott, D. J. (2016). One-loop corrections to h → bb¯ and h → ττ¯ decays in the Standard Model dimension-6 EFT: four-fermion operators and the large-m t limit. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(5), Article 080. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282016%29080

We calculate a set of one-loop corrections to h → bb¯¯bb¯ and h → ττ¯¯¯ττ¯ decays in the dimension-6 Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). In particular, working in the limit of vanishing gauge couplings, we calculate directly in the broken... Read More about One-loop corrections to h → bb¯ and h → ττ¯ decays in the Standard Model dimension-6 EFT: four-fermion operators and the large-m t limit.

Parton-shower matching systematics in vector-boson-fusion WW production (2017)
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Rauch, M., & Plätzer, S. (2017). Parton-shower matching systematics in vector-boson-fusion WW production. The European Physical Journal C, 77(5), Article 293. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4860-3

We perform a detailed analysis of next-to-leading order plus parton-shower matching in vector-boson-fusion WW production including leptonic decays. The study is performed in the Herwig 7 framework interfaced to VBFNLO 3, using the angular-ordered and... Read More about Parton-shower matching systematics in vector-boson-fusion WW production.

On the surface of superfluids (2017)
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Armas, J., Bhattacharya, J., Jain, A., & Kundu, N. (2017). On the surface of superfluids. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(6), Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282017%29090

Developing on a recent work on localized bubbles of ordinary relativistic fluids, we study the comparatively richer leading order surface physics of relativistic superfluids, coupled to an arbitrary stationary background metric and gauge field in 3 +... Read More about On the surface of superfluids.

Resurgence in η-deformed Principal Chiral Models (2016)
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Demulder, S., Dorigoni, D., & Thompson, D. (2016). Resurgence in η-deformed Principal Chiral Models. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(07), Article 088. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282016%29088

We study the SU(2) Principal Chiral Model (PCM) in the presence of an integrable η-deformation. We put the theory on R×S1R×S1 with twisted boundary conditions and then reduce the circle to obtain an effective quantum mechanics associated with the Whi... Read More about Resurgence in η-deformed Principal Chiral Models.

Integrable (2k)-Dimensional Hitchin Equations (2016)
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Ward, R. (2016). Integrable (2k)-Dimensional Hitchin Equations. Letters in Mathematical Physics, 106(7), 951-958. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-016-0849-3

This letter describes a completely integrable system of Yang–Mills–Higgs equations which generalizes the Hitchin equations on a Riemann surface to arbitrary k-dimensional complex manifolds. The system arises as a dimensional reduction of a set of int... Read More about Integrable (2k)-Dimensional Hitchin Equations.

VBS W±W±H production at the HL-LHC and a 100 TeV pp-collider (2017)
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Englert, C., Li, Q., Spannowsky, M., Wang, M., & Wang, L. (2017). VBS W±W±H production at the HL-LHC and a 100 TeV pp-collider. International Journal of Modern Physics A, 32(18), Article 1750106. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217751x17501068

W±W±H production at hadron colliders through vector boson scattering is a so far unconsidered process, which leads to a clean signature of two same-sign charged leptons and two widely separated jets. This process is sensitive to the HHH and WWHH coup... Read More about VBS W±W±H production at the HL-LHC and a 100 TeV pp-collider.

On the ultimate precision of meson mixing observables (2016)
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Jubb, T., Kirk, M., & Lenz, A. (2017). On the ultimate precision of meson mixing observables. Nuclear Physics B, 915, 431-453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2016.12.020

Meson mixing is considered to be an ideal testing ground for new physics searches. Experimental precision has greatly increased over the recent years, exceeding in several cases the theoretical precision. A possible limit in the theoretical accuracy... Read More about On the ultimate precision of meson mixing observables.

Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches (2016)
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Bozorgnia, N., Calore, F., Schaller, M., Lovell, M., Bertone, G., Frenk, C., …Theuns, T. (2016). Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(5), Article 024. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/05/024

We study the implications of galaxy formation on dark matter direct detection using high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies simulated within the EAGLE and APOSTLE projects. We identify Milky Way analogues that satisfy obse... Read More about Simulated Milky Way analogues: implications for dark matter direct searches.

Null fluids: a new viewpoint of Galilean fluids (2016)
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Banerjee, N., Dutta, S., & Jain, A. (2016). Null fluids: a new viewpoint of Galilean fluids. Physical Review D, 93(10), Article 105020. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.105020

current up to anomalies. We construct a relativistic system, which we call a null fluid and show that it is in one-to-one correspondence with a Galilean fluid living in one lower dimension. The correspondence is based on light cone reduction, which i... Read More about Null fluids: a new viewpoint of Galilean fluids.

Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment (2016)
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collaboration, A. (2016). Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(11), Article 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282016%29110

Inclusive four-jet events produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7s=7 TeV are analysed for the presence of hard double-parton scattering using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 37.3 pb−1, collected with... Read More about Study of hard double-parton scattering in four-jet events in pp collisions at sqrt{s}=7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment.