1. Bottom-up approach within the electroweak effective theory: Constraining heavy resonances
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Antonio Pich, I. Rosell, Juan José Sanz-Cillero, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Generalitat Valenciana, UCH. Departamento de Matemáticas, Física y Ciencias Tecnológicas, and Producción Científica UCH 2020
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Particle physics ,Photon ,Physics beyond the Standard Model ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Materia - Propiedades ,01 natural sciences ,Colisiones (Física nuclear) ,Computer Science::Digital Libraries ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Collisions (Nuclear physics) ,0103 physical sciences ,Effective field theory ,Partículas (Física nuclear) ,Symmetry breaking ,Electromagnetismo ,010306 general physics ,Particles (Nuclear physics) ,Physics ,Matter - Properties ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Electroweak interaction ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,Resonance ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Higgs boson ,Mass gap - Abstract
The LHC has confirmed the existence of a mass gap between the known particles and possible new states. Effective field theory is then the appropriate tool to search for low-energy signals of physics beyond the Standard Model. We adopt the general formalism of the electroweak effective theory, with a non-linear realization of the electroweak symmetry breaking, where the Higgs is a singlet with independent couplings. At higher energies we consider a generic resonance Lagrangian which follows the above-mentioned non-linear realization and couples the light particles to bosonic heavy resonances with $J^P=0^\pm$ and $J^P=1^\pm$. Integrating out the resonances and assuming a proper short-distance behavior, it is possible to determine or to constrain most of the bosonic low-energy constants in terms of resonance masses. Therefore, the current experimental bounds on these bosonic low-energy constants allow us to constrain the resonance masses above the TeV scale, by following a typical bottom-up approach, i.e., the fit of the low-energy constants to precise experimental data enables us to learn about the high-energy scales, the underlying theory behind the Standard Model., Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures. Version published at PRD with minor changes. New references have been added
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- 2020