We study the new $Z'$ boson as a portal for the production of Higgs bosons $h_0$ and $H_0$ predicted by the Bestest Little Higgs Model through Higgs-strahlung processes $\mu^+\mu^- \to (Z, Z') \to Zh_0, ZH_0$ . We focus on the resonant and nonresonant effects of the $Zh_0, ZH_0$ signals. In our analysis, we consider the center-of-mass energies of $\sqrt{s}=3, 4, 6, 10, 30$ TeV and integrated luminosities of ${\cal{L}}=2, 4, 6, 10, 30$ ${ {\rm{ab}}^{-1}}$ projected for a future muon collider. The possibility of performing precision measurements for Higgs bosons $h_0$ and $H_0$ is very promising for the future muon collider. Furthermore, our results may be useful to the High Energy Physics community. Complementarily, we generate and provide the Feynman rules necessary for studying processes $\mu^+\mu^- \to (Z, Z') \to Zh_0, ZH_0$ .

J.M. Martínez-Martínez

A. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

E. Cruz-Albaro

M.A. Hernández-Ruíz

New $\textit{Z}$' boson of the bestest little Higgs model as a portal to signatures of Higgs bosons $\textit{h}$ $_{0}$ and $\textit{H}$ $_{0}$ at the future muon collider

We investigate the expected precision of the reconstructed neutrino direction using a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>ν</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>μ</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></math>-argon quasielasticlike event topology with one muon and one proton in the final state and the reconstruction capabilities of the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber. This direction is of importance in the context of DUNE sub-GeV atmospheric oscillation studies. MicroBooNE allows for a data-driven quantification of this resolution by investigating the deviation of the reconstructed muon-proton system orientation with respect to the well-known direction of neutrinos originating from the Booster Neutrino Beam with an exposure of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>1.3</mn><mo>×</mo><msup><mn>10</mn><mn>21</mn></msup></math> protons on target. Using simulation studies, we derive the expected sub-GeV DUNE atmospheric-neutrino reconstructed simulated spectrum by developing a reweighting scheme as a function of the true neutrino energy. We further report flux-integrated single- and double-differential cross section measurements of charged-current <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>μ</mi></msub></math> quasielasticlike scattering on argon as a function of the muon-proton system angle using the full MicroBooNE data sets. We also demonstrate the sensitivity of these results to nuclear effects and final state hadronic reinteraction modeling.

United States

P. Abratenko

D. Andrade Aldana

United Kingdom

L. Arellano

J. Asaadi

Israel

A. Ashkenazi

S. Balasubramanian

B. Baller

A. Barnard

G. Barr

D. Barrow

J. Barrow

V. Basque

J. Bateman

O. Benevides Rodrigues

S. Berkman

A. Bhat

M. Bhattacharya

M. Bishai

A. Blake

B. Bogart

T. Bolton

M.B. Brunetti

L. Camilleri

D. Caratelli

F. Cavanna

G. Cerati

A. Chappell

Y. Chen

J.M. Conrad

M. Convery

L. Cooper-Troendle

Spain

J.I. Crespo-Anadón

R. Cross

M. Del Tutto

S.R. Dennis

P. Detje

Switzerland

R. Diurba

Z. Djurcic

K. Duffy

S. Dytman

B. Eberly

P. Englezos

A. Ereditato

J.J. Evans

C. Fang

W. Foreman

B.T. Fleming

D. Franco

A.P. Furmanski

F. Gao

D. Garcia-Gamez

S. Gardiner

G. Ge

S. Gollapinni

E. Gramellini

P. Green

H. Greenlee

L. Gu

W. Gu

R. Guenette

P. Guzowski

L. Hagaman

M.D. Handley

O. Hen

C. Hilgenberg

G.A. Horton-Smith

A. Hussain

B. Irwin

M.S. Ismail

C. James

China

X. Ji

J.H. Jo

R.A. Johnson

D. Kalra

G. Karagiorgi

W. Ketchum

M. Kirby

T. Kobilarcik

N. Lane

J.Y. Li

Y. Li

K. Lin

B.R. Littlejohn

L. Liu

W.C. Louis

X. Luo

P. Machado

T. Mahmud

C. Mariani

J. Marshall

N. Martinez

D.A. Martinez Caicedo

S. Martynenko

A. Mastbaum

I. Mawby

N. McConkey

L. Mellet

J. Mendez

J. Micallef

A. Mogan

First study of neutrino angle reconstruction using quasielasticlike interactions in MicroBooNE

A series of vector charmonium(like) states, accompanied by a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>K</mi></math> meson, have been observed in the decays of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>B</mi></mrow></math> meson. These processes are color-suppressed at the quark level, as inferred from topological diagram analysis. In this work, we calculate the branching fractions of the decays <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>B</mi><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi>ψ</mi><mi>K</mi></math>, where <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi></math> denotes the charmonium(like) states <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>1</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mi>S</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>4040</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3770</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>4160</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>. Our analysis incorporates both short-distance (naive factorization approach) and long-distance (final-state interactions) contributions. Within reasonable parameters, our results align with experimental data except for the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>ψ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>4160</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>, suggesting its possible exotic nature. Furthermore, we find that long-distance contributions dominate these decay processes, highlighting the crucial role of final-state interactions in the productions of charmonium(like) states in <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>B</mi></math> decays.

Qi-Wei Yuan

Qi Wu

Ming-Zhu Liu

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>B</mi></math>-meson decays to vector charmoniumlike states and a <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>K</mi></math> meson: The role of final-state interactions

We discuss the low-energy properties of binary superfluids with density-dependent interactions. Adding an intraspecies coupling that induces an explicit soft symmetry breaking, we determine the background pressure, and we show that the low-energy spectrum consists of a massless Nambu-Goldstone boson and a massive (pseudo) Nambu-Goldstone boson. When the background velocities of the two superfluids are transonic, the system is characterized by two distinct acoustic horizons: the hydrodynamic analog of the black hole event horizon. The Hawking-like emission occurring at these horizons produces an effective friction on the fluids. We compute the viscosity-to-entropy ratios close to the two acoustic horizons, finding that the emission of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons violates the bound conjectured by Kovtun, Son, and Starinet.

Italy

Silvia Trabucco

Luca Lepori

Maria Luisa Chiofalo

Massimo Mannarelli

Binary superfluids: Low-energy properties and dissipative processes from spontaneous emission of massive phonons

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) determination of the vector and axial-vector form factors that describe the charm-baryon semileptonic decays <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><msup><mo>ℓ</mo><mo>+</mo></msup><msub><mi>ν</mi><mo>ℓ</mo></msub></math>. The calculation uses a domain-wall action for the up, down, and strange quarks, and an anisotropic clover action for the charm quark. We use four ensembles of gauge-field configurations generated by the RBC and UKQCD collaborations, with lattice spacings between 0.111 and 0.073 fm and pion masses ranging from 420 to 230 MeV. We present Standard Model predictions for the decay rates and branching fractions of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mn>0</mn></msubsup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>−</mo></msubsup><msup><mo>ℓ</mo><mo>+</mo></msup><msub><mi>ν</mi><mo>ℓ</mo></msub></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mo>+</mo></msubsup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mn>0</mn></msubsup><msup><mo>ℓ</mo><mo>+</mo></msup><msub><mi>ν</mi><mo>ℓ</mo></msub></math> for <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mo>ℓ</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>e</mi></math>, <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>μ</mi></mrow></math>. In particular, we obtain <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">Γ</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msubsup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup><msup><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msup><msub><mrow><mi>ν</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow></msub><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>/</mo><mo stretchy="false">|</mo><msub><mrow><mi>V</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi><mi>s</mi></mrow></msub><msup><mrow><mo stretchy="false">|</mo></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup><mo>=</mo><mn>0.2515</mn><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>73</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mtext> </mtext><mtext> </mtext><msup><mrow><mi>ps</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mn>0</mn></msubsup><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><msup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mo>−</mo></msup><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>+</mo></msup><msub><mi>ν</mi><mi>e</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>=</mo><mn>3.58</mn><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>12</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>%</mo></math>. These values are higher than those predicted by a previous lattice calculation and substantially higher than the experimentally measured values, but consistent with expectations from approximate <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>S</mi><mi>U</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> flavor symmetry.

Callum Farrell

Stefan Meinel

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi></msub><mo stretchy="false">→</mo><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi></math> form factors from lattice QCD with domain-wall quarks: A new piece in the puzzle of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msubsup><mi mathvariant="normal">Ξ</mi><mi>c</mi><mn>0</mn></msubsup></math> decay rates

In this work, we investigate in a quantitative way how much radiative corrections to the matter potential for neutrino oscillations can impact the sensitivity to neutrino mass ordering in long-baseline accelerator experiments. Using numerical simulations for the future experiment DUNE, we find that the statistical significance for excluding the incorrect mass ordering can be enhanced by about <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>0.4</mn><mi>σ</mi></math> if a one-loop correction of 2.0%—based on the Fermi coupling constant <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><msub><mi>G</mi><mi>μ</mi></msub></math> derived from measurements of muon lifetime—is included. The radiative corrections at one-loop level lead to resolving the neutrino mass ordering at <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mn>5</mn><mi>σ</mi></math> confidence level 4–9 days earlier than at tree level. In contrast, the sensitivity to leptonic <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi></math> violation in DUNE is essentially unchanged. Finally, we emphasize that one-loop corrections should be incorporated into analyses of future neutrino oscillation data in a consistent and systematic manner.

Jihong Huang

Sweden

Tommy Ohlsson

Sampsa Vihonen

Shun Zhou

Effects of the matter potential at one-loop level on neutrino oscillations in long-baseline experiments

It is demonstrated that two-photon exchange (TPE) corrections to the cross-section of unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering generate azimuthal-dependent terms and the corresponding <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mo stretchy="false">⟨</mo><mrow><mi>cos</mi><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mi>n</mi><mi>ϕ</mi><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></mrow><mo stretchy="false">⟩</mo></math> moments. A quark-diquark model of a nucleon was used in the calculations along with a soft-photon approximation. The infrared divergences in the intermediate steps of calculation are regularized with the fictitious photon mass that cancels out in the final result when the soft-photon bremsstrahlung process and interference terms are added. The calculations employ the Mathematica looptools package to evaluate the loop integrals. TPE corrections are analyzed in the kinematics of planned experiments at Jefferson Lab.

Stinson Lee

Andrei Afanasev

Soft-photon contribution into two-photon exchange corrections for azimuthal asymmetries of SIDIS

Two variants of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>7</mn></math> superconformal mechanics with manifest <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>7</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="fraktur">su</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo><mo>×</mo><mi mathvariant="fraktur">su</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>R</mi></math>-symmetries possessing exceptional <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>G</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> dynamical symmetry are presented. To construct these <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>G</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> theories, we developed two new versions of covariant embedding of the exceptional <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><msub><mrow><mi mathvariant="fraktur">g</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math> algebra into the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>7</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></math> algebra and then the embedding of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>7</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> into <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>8</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math>. As a result, two <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>8</mn></math> superconformal mechanics with the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi>O</mi><mi>S</mi><mi>p</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>8</mn><mo stretchy="false">|</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></math> and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mrow><mi mathvariant="fraktur">F</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>4</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow></math> superconformal algebras and <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>7</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>G</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> superconformal mechanics were constructed in a uniform way. The constants of the octonion multiplication play a key role in the construction of superconformal mechanics with manifest <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="fraktur">so</mi><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>7</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></math> symmetry.

JINR

Russia

Sergey Krivonos

Armenia

Armen Nersessian

Two faces of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi mathvariant="script">N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>7</mn></math>, 8 superconformal mechanics

This paper presents a new $$\tau $$ -lepton reconstruction and identification procedure at the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider, which leads to significantly improved performance in the case of physics processes where a highly boosted pair of $$\tau $$ -leptons is produced and one $$\tau $$ -lepton decays into a muon and two neutrinos ( $$\tau _\mathrm {\mu }$$ ), and the other decays into hadrons and one neutrino ( $$\tau _\textrm{had}$$ ). By removing the muon information from the signals used for reconstruction and identification of the $$\tau _\textrm{had}$$ candidate in the boosted pair, the efficiency is raised to the level expected for an isolated $$\tau _\textrm{had}$$ . The new procedure is validated by selecting a sample of highly boosted $$Z\rightarrow \tau _\mathrm {\mu }\tau _\textrm{had}$$ candidates from the data sample of 140 $$\textrm{fb}^{-1}$$ of proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector. Good agreement is found between data and simulation predictions in both the $$Z\rightarrow \tau _\mathrm {\mu }\tau _\textrm{had}$$ signal region and in a background validation region. The results presented in this paper demonstrate the effectiveness of the $$\tau _\textrm{had}$$ reconstruction with muon removal in enhancing the signal sensitivity of the boosted $$\tau _\mathrm {\mu }\tau _\textrm{had}$$ channel at the ATLAS detector.

France

G. Aad

Norway

E. Aakvaag

B. Abbott

United Arab Emirates

S. Abdelhameed

Germany

K. Abeling

N.J. Abicht

S.H. Abidi

M. Aboelela

Morocco

A. Aboulhorma

H. Abramowicz

Y. Abulaiti

B.S. Acharya

A. Ackermann

C. Bourdarios

Poland

L. Adamczyk

S. Addepalli

M. Addison

J. Adelman

Türkiye

A. Adiguzel

T. Adye

A. Affolder

Y. Afik

M. Agaras

A. Aggarwal

Romania

C. Agheorghiesei

Azerbaijan

F. Ahmadov

S. Ahuja

X. Ai

G. Aielli

A. Aikot

M. Tamlihat

B. Aitbenchikh

M. Akbiyik

T. Åkesson

A. Akimov

Japan

D. Akiyama

N. Akolkar

S. Aktas

G. Alberghi

Canada

J. Albert

P. Albicocco

Improved reconstruction of highly boosted $$\tau $$ -lepton pairs in the $$\tau \tau \rightarrow (\mu \nu _{\mu }\nu _{\tau })(\text {hadrons}+\nu _{\tau })$$ decay channels with the ATLAS detector