arXiv Journal 2021-01-19

• hep-th: 1 paper
• hep-ph: 4 papers
• quant-ph: 1 paper

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hep-th: 1 paper

Title: On a classical solution to the Abelian Higgs model [arXiv:2101.07729]

Abstract: A particular solution to the equations of motion of the Abelian Higgs model is given. The solution involves the Jacobi elliptic functions as well as the Heun functions.

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hep-ph: 4 papers

Title: 2020 Global reassessment of the neutrino oscillation picture [arXiv:2006.11237]

Abstract: We present an updated global fit of neutrino oscillation data in the simplest three-neutrino framework. In the present study we include up-to-date analyses from a number of experiments. Concerning the atmospheric and solar sectors, besides the data considered previously, we give updated analyses of IceCube DeepCore and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory data, respectively. We have also included the latest electron antineutrino data collected by the Daya Bay and RENO reactor experiments, and the long-baseline T2K and NOνA measurements, as reported in the Neutrino 2020 conference. All in all, these new analyses result in more accurate measurements of θ13, θ12, ∆m21 and |∆m231|. The best fit value for the atmospheric angle θ23 lies in the second octant, but first octant solutions remain allowed at ∼ 2.4σ. Regarding CP violation measurements, the preferred value of δ we obtain is 1.08π (1.58π) for normal (inverted) neutrino mass ordering. The global analysis still prefers normal neutrino mass ordering with 2.5σ statistical significance. This preference is milder than the one found in previous global analyses. These new results should be regarded as robust due to the agreement found between our Bayesian and frequentist approaches. Taking into account only oscillation data, there is a weak/moderate preference for the normal neutrino mass ordering of 2.00σ. While adding neutrinoless double beta decay from the latest Gerda, CUORE and KamLAND- Zen results barely modifies this picture, cosmological measurements raise the preference to 2.68σ within a conservative approach. A more aggressive data set combination of cosmological observations leads to a similar preference for normal with respect to inverted mass ordering, namely 2.70σ. This very same cosmological data set provides 2σ upper limits on the total neutrino mass corresponding to Σmν < 0.12 (0.15) eV in the normal (inverted) neutrino mass ordering scenario. The bounds on the neutrino mixing parameters and masses presented in this up-to-date global fit analysis include all currently available neutrino physics inputs.

Comments: Yes, it is a paper in the past. It should still be nice review, with the particular point of global fit, on the neutrino physics. Worth to read.

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Title: The Flavor of UV Physics [arXiv:2101.07273]

Abstract: New physics not far above the TeV scale should leave a pattern of virtual effects in observables at lower energies. What do these effects tell us about the flavor structure of a UV theory? Within the framework of Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), we resolve the flavor structure of the Wilson coefficients in a combined analysis of top- quark and B-physics observables. Our fit to LHC and b-factory measurements shows that combining top and bottom observables is crucial to pin down possible sources of flavor symmetry breaking from UV physics. Our analysis includes the full analytic expansion of SMEFT coefficients in Minimal Flavor Violation and a detailed study of SMEFT effects in b → s flavor transitions.

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Title: Axial UA(1) Anomaly: a New Mechanism to Generate Massless Bosons [arXiv:2101.06439]

Abstract: Prior to the establishment of QCD as the correct theory describing hadronic physics, it was realized that the essential ingredients of the hadronic world at low energies are chiral symmetry and its spontaneous breaking. Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a non-perturbative phenomenon and thanks to massive QCD simulations on the lattice we have at present a good understanding on the vacuum realization of the non-abelian chiral symmetry as a function of the physical temperature. As far as the U_A(1) anomaly is concerned, and especially in the high temperature phase, the current situation is however far from satisfactory. The first part of this article is devoted to review the present status of lattice calculations, in the high temperature phase of QCD, of quantities directly related to the U_A(1) axial anomaly. In the second part I will analyze some interesting physical implications of the U_A(1) anomaly, recently suggested, in systems where the non-abelian axial symmetry is fulfilled in the vacuum. More precisely I will argue that, if the U_A(1) symmetry remains effectively broken, the topological properties of the theory can be the basis of a mechanism, other than Goldstone’s theorem, to generate a rich spectrum of massless bosons at the chiral limit.

Comments: I should learn more on chiral symmetry.

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Title: On the mass difference between proton and neutron [arXiv:2003.13612]

Abstract: The Cottingham formula expresses the electromagnetic part of the mass of a particle in terms of the virtual Compton scattering amplitude. At large photon momenta, this amplitude is dominated by short distance singularities associated with operators of spin 0 and spin 2. In the difference between proton and neutron, chiral symmetry suppresses the spin 0 term. Although the angular integration removes the spin 2 singularities altogether, the various pieces occurring in the standard decomposition of the Cottingham formula do pick up such contributions. These approach asymp- totics extremely slowly because the relevant Wilson coefficients only fall off logarithmically. We rewrite the formula in such a way that the leading spin 2 contributions are avoided ab initio. Using a sum rule that follows from Reggeon dominance, the numerical evaluation of the e.m. part of the mass difference between proton and neutron yields mQED = 0.58 ± 0.16 MeV. The result indicates that the inelastic contributions are small compared to the elastic ones.

Comments: Maybe I won’t be able to understand this paper.

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quant-th: 1 paper

Title: The Generalized Uncertainty Principle [arXiv:2003.08705]

Abstract: The uncertainty principle lies at the heart of quantum physics, and is widely thought of as a fundamental limit on the measurement precisions of incompatible observables. Here we show that the traditional uncertainty relation in fact belongs to the leading order approximation of a generalized uncertainty relation. That is, the leading order linear dependence of observables gives the Heisenberg type of uncertainty relations, while higher order nonlinear dependence may reveal more different and interesting correlation properties. Applications of the generalized uncertainty relation and the high order nonlinear dependence between observables in quantum information science are also discussed.

Comments: Interesting