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We investigate the prospects of probing weak-scale higgsinos through electroweak precision measurements at a future $e^+ e^-$ collider. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, higgsinos mix with winos and binos after electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Natsumi Nagata , Genta Osaki

We consider a model of dark photon which appears as a result of the successive symmetry breaking SU(2)$\,\to\,$U(1)$\,\to \mathbb{Z}_2$, where various types of topological defects appear in the dark sector. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Akifumi Chitose , Masahiro Ibe

We study the interaction between photons, dark photons, and axions at future lepton colliders, focusing on single-photon events with missing energy as the experimental signature. We find that future facilities such as the ILC, CEPC, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Chuan-Ren Chen , Yuan-Feng Hsieh , Van Que Tran

We present a complete study of the vacuum structure of Top Quark Seesaw models of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, including bottom quark mass generation. Such models emerge naturally from extra dimensions. We perform a systematic gap…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong-Jian He , Christopher T. Hill , T. Tait

We consider the consequences of a neutral dark-matter particle with a nonzero electric and/or magnetic dipole moment. Theoretical constraints, as well as constraints from direct searches, precision tests of the standard model, the cosmic…

The ultralight dark photon is one of intriguing dark matter candidates. The interaction between the visible photon and dark photon is introduced by the gauge kinetic mixing between the field strength tensors of the Abelian gauge groups in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-26 Chang-Jie Dai , Tong Li , Rui-Jia Zhang

We discuss some cosmological implications of extensions of the Standard Model with hidden sector scalars coupled to the Higgs boson. We put special emphasis on the conformal case, in which the electroweak symmetry is broken radiatively with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 J. R. Espinosa , T. Konstandin , J. M. No , M. Quiros

The status of precision electroweak measurements as of summer 2002 is reviewed. The recent results on the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and on neutrino-nucleon scattering are discussed. Precision results on the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin W. Grunewald

We present results from electroweak precision measurements at CDF. These include the measurement of the Z boson rapidity distribution using di-electron events, the W boson charge asymmetry measurement in the electron-neutrino decay and the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Oliver Stelzer-Chilton

Precision electroweak data allow one to test the standard model, constrain its parameters, and search for the effects of some kinds of new physics. The results of the most recent data from LEP, SLC, and elsewhere are described, as are their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Langacker

By coupling to both the Higgs and electroweak gauge sectors, an axion can generate the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe via electroweak baryogenesis when the axion decay constant lies within the range of approximately $10^5$ and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-11 Kwang Sik Jeong , Ju Hyeong Kang , Shota Nakagawa

We discuss the experimental and theoretical uncertainties on precision electroweak observables and their relationship to the indirect constraints on the Higgs-boson mass, $\MH$, in the Standard Model (SM). The critical experimental…

In this work we investigate several phenomenological and technical aspects related to electroweak (EW) corrections at a high-energy muon collider, focusing on direct production processes (no VBF configurations). We study in detail the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Yang Ma , Davide Pagani , Marco Zaro

We review in some detail the QCD corrections to the measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry of heavy quarks in the $\mathrm{e^+e^-\rightarrow Q\overline{Q}(g)}$ process at the Z pole. We show that the size of these corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-03 Juan Alcaraz Maestre

We study electroweak Sudakov effects in single W, Z and gamma production at large transverse momentum using Soft Collinear Effective Theory. We present a factorized form of the cross section near the partonic threshold with both QCD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 Thomas Becher , Xavier Garcia i Tormo

We enumerate various effective couplings that contribute to the mixings between an exotic vector boson $Z^{\prime}$ and the neutral electroweak vector bosons. The miscellaneous mixing patterns can be evaluated perturbatively. The effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Chengfeng Cai , Dayun Qiu , Yi-Lei Tang , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao Zhang

We study the potential impact on the electroweak (EW) fits due to the tensions between the current determinations of the hadronic vacuum polarisation (HVP) contributions to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon ($a_\mu$), based on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Bogdan Malaescu , Matthias Schott

We present the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak (EW) corrections to the top quark pair production associated with a hard photon at the current and future hadron colliders. The dependence of the leading order (LO) and NLO EW corrected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-17 Peng-Fei Duan , Yu Zhang , Yong Wang , Mao Song , Gang Li

We present a search for the e+e- decay of a hypothetical dark photon, also names U vector boson, in inclusive dielectron spectra measured by HADES in the p (3.5 GeV) + p, Nb reactions, as well as the Ar (1.756 GeV/u) + KCl reaction. An…

Photon-tagged correlations may be useful to determine how the dense partonic medium produced in heavy-ion collisions affects the fragmentation of high-energy quarks and gluons into a leading hadron. In these proceedings, I discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Francois Arleo