A light (GeV mass) long-lived (cτ around dozens of millimeters) CP-odd scalar can be readily predicted in new physics models. In this work we investigate the Higgs decay into such a light scalar plus a Z-boson and take the aligned two-Higgs-doublet model (2HDM) as an example. This light long-lived scalar, with the dominant decay to tau leptons, will fly over a distance from the production point and present a displaced vertex in an Inner Detector of a generally purposed experiment like ATLAS or CMS. In our study we focus on the LHC experiment and perform Monte Carlo simulations for the signal and backgrounds. We demonstrate some benchmark points for the aligned 2HDM and find the signal to be detectable when the luminosity is accumulated to 300 fb −1. So our study suggests an experimental search for this process in the ongoing LHC.

China

Lianyou Shan

Lei Wang

Jin Yang

Rui Zhu

Probing a light long-lived pseudo-scalar from Higgs decay via displaced taus at the LHC

We investigate fermionic dark matter interactions with standard model particles from an additional   $ {{U}}(1)_{{X}} $   gauge symmetry, assuming kinetic mixing between the   $ {{U}}(1)_{{X}} $   and   $ {{U}}(1)_{{X}} $   gauge fields as well as a nonzero   $ {{U}}(1)_{{X}} $   charge of the Higgs doublet. To ensure gauge-invariant Yukawa interactions and the cancellation of gauge anomalies, standard model fermions are assigned Y-sequential   $ {{U}}(1)_{{X}} $   charges proportional to the Higgs charge. Although the Higgs charge should be small owing to collider constraints, it is useful to decrease the effective cross section of dark matter scattering off nucleons by two orders of magnitude to easily evade direct detection bounds. After performing numerical scans in the parameter space, we find that the introduction of the Higgs charge can also enhance the dark matter relic density by at least two orders of magnitude. In the case where the resonance effect is important for dark matter freeze-out, when the observed relic density and direct detection constraints are tangled, the Higgs charge can expand physical windows to some extent by relieving the tension between the relic density and direct detection.

Zhao-Huan Yu

Dark matter interactions from an extra (1) gauge symmetry with kinetic mixing and Higgs charge  

The discovery of the Higgs boson with its mass around 125 GeV by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations marked the beginning of a new era in high energy physics. The Higgs boson will be the subject of extensive studies of the ongoing LHC program. At the same time, lepton collider based Higgs factories have been proposed as a possible next step beyond the LHC, with its main goal to precisely measure the properties of the Higgs boson and probe potential new physics associated with the Higgs boson. The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) is one of such proposed Higgs factories. The CEPC is an e+e− circular collider proposed by and to be hosted in China. Located in a tunnel of approximately 100 km in circumference, it will operate at a center-of-mass energy of 240 GeV as the Higgs factory. In this paper, we present the first estimates on the precision of the Higgs boson property measurements achievable at the CEPC and discuss implications of these measurements.
				

United States

Fenfen An

Yu Bai

Chunhui Chen

Xin Chen

Zhenxing Chen

Joao Guimaraes da Costa

Zhenwei Cui

Yaquan Fang

Chengdong Fu

Jun Gao

United Kingdom

Yanyan Gao

Yuanning Gao

Japan

Shaofeng Ge

Germany

Jiayin Gu

Fangyi Guo

Jun Guo

Tao Han

Shuang Han

Hongjian He

Xianke He

Taiwan

Xiaogang He

Jifeng Hu

Shih-Chieh Hsu

Shan Jin

Maoqiang Jing

Susmita Jyotishmati

Kiuchi Ryuta

Chia-Ming Kuo

Peizhu Lai

Boyang Li

Congqiao Li

Gang Li

Haifeng Li

Liang Li

Shu Li

Tong Li

Qiang Li

Hao Liang

Zhijun Liang

Libo Liao

Bo Liu

Jianbei Liu

Hong Kong

Tao Liu

Zhen Liu

Xinchou Lou

Lianliang Ma

South Africa

Bruce Mellado

Xin Mo

Serbia

Mila Pandurovic

Jianming Qian

South Korea

Zhuoni Qian

Nikolaos Rompotis

Manqi Ruan

Alex Schuy

Jingyuan Shi

Xin Shi

Shufang Su

Dayong Wang

Jin Wang

Liantao Wang

Yifang Wang

Yuqian Wei

Yue Xu

Haijun Yang

Ying Yang

Weiming Yao

Dan Yu

Kaili Zhang

Zhaoru Zhang

Mingrui Zhao

Xianghu Zhao

Ning Zhou

Precision Higgs physics at the CEPC Supported by the National Key Program for S&T Researh and Development (2016YFA0400400); CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics; Yifang Wang’s Science Studio of the Ten Thousand Talents Project; the CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams (H751S018S5); IHEP Innovation Grant (Y4545170Y2); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (XQYZDY-SSW-SLH002); Chinese Academy of Science Special Grant for Large Scientific Project (113111KYSB20170005); the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11675202); the Hundred Talent Programs of Chinese Academy of Science (Y3515540U1); the National 1000 Talents Program of China; Fermi Research Alliance, LLC (DE-AC02-07CH11359); the NSF(PHY1620074) ; by the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics (MCFP); Tsinghua University Initiative Scientiﬁc Research Program; and the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission project(Z181100004218003)

In the present paper, the exact solutions of spherically symmetrical Einstein field equations describing wormholes supported by phantom energy that violates the null energy condition from Shan–Chen background fluid are obtained. We have considered the important case of the model parameter ψ≈1 , which corresponds to the “saturation effect”, and this regime corresponds to an effective form of “asymptotic freedom” for the fluids, but occurring at cosmological rather than subnuclear scales. Then we investigate the allowed range for the values of the model parameters g and ω when the spacetime metrics describe wormholes and discuss the possible singularities of the solutions, finding that the obtained spacetimes are geodesically complete. Furthermore, we construct two traversable wormholes through matching our obtained interior solutions to the exterior Schwarzschild solutions and analyze the traversablities of the wormholes. Finally, we consider the case of anisotropic pressure and discover that the transverse pressure also crosses the phantom divide -1 with the growth of the wormhole dimension, and it tends to be the same as the radial pressure with the growth of the wormhole radius.

Deng Wang

Xin-He Meng

Wormholes supported by phantom energy from Shan–Chen cosmological fluids

The prompt and non-prompt production cross-sections for ψ (2S) mesons are measured using 2.1 fb −1 of pp collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The measurement exploits the ψ (2S) → J/ψ (→ μ + μ − ) π + π − decay mode, and probes ψ (2S) mesons with transverse momenta in the range 10 ≤ p T &lt; 100 GeV and rapidity | y | &lt; 2 . 0. The results are compared to other measurements of ψ (2S) production at the LHC and to various theoretical models for prompt and non-prompt quarkonium production.

France

Georges Aad

Brad Abbott

Jalal Abdallah

Samah Abdel Khalek

Azerbaijan

Ovsat Abdinov

Netherlands

Rosemarie Aben

Babak Abi

Maris Abolins

Canada

Ossama AbouZeid

Israel

Halina Abramowicz

Henso Abreu

CERN

Ricardo Abreu

Sweden

Yiming Abulaiti

Bobby Samir Acharya

Poland

Leszek Adamczyk

David Adams

Jahred Adelman

Stefanie Adomeit

Tim Adye

Montenegro

Tatjana Agatonovic-Jovin

Spain

Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra

Switzerland

Marco Agustoni

Steven Ahlen

Faig Ahmadov

Italy

Giulio Aielli

Henrik Akerstedt

Torsten Paul Ake Åkesson

Ginga Akimoto

Russia

Andrei Akimov

Gian Luigi Alberghi

Justin Albert

Solveig Albrand

Argentina

Maria Josefina Alconada Verzini

Martin Aleksa

Igor Aleksandrov

Romania

Calin Alexa

Gideon Alexander

Gauthier Alexandre

Greece

Theodoros Alexopoulos

Muhammad Alhroob

Gianluca Alimonti

Lion Alio

John Alison

Benedict Allbrooke

Lee John Allison

Phillip Allport

John Almond

Alberto Aloisio

Denmark

Alejandro Alonso

Francisco Alonso

Cristiano Alpigiani

Andrew David Altheimer

Barbara Alvarez Gonzalez

Mariagrazia Alviggi

Katsuya Amako

Brazil

Yara Amaral Coutinho

Christoph Amelung

Dante Amidei

Portugal

Susana Patricia Amor Dos Santos

Antonio Amorim

Simone Amoroso

Nir Amram

Glenn Amundsen

Christos Anastopoulos

Lucian Stefan Ancu

Nansi Andari

Timothy Andeen

Christoph Falk Anders

Gabriel Anders

Kelby Anderson

Attilio Andreazza

George Victor Andrei

Xabier Anduaga

Stylianos Angelidakis

Ivan Angelozzi

Philipp Anger

Aaron Angerami

Francis Anghinolfi

Alexey Anisenkov

Nuno Anjos

Alberto Annovi

Ariadni Antonaki

Mario Antonelli

Alexey Antonov

Measurement of the production cross-section of ψ (2S) → J/ψ (→ μ + μ − ) π + π − in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 7 TeV at ATLAS