分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-08
摘要: Motivated by the recent observation of the high energy electron and positron excesses in cosmic ray by PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS, we suggest an anomaly-free scenario for the universal extra dimension that localizes the standard model quarks and splits the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein (KK) quarks from KK leptons. When the SM quarks are "well localized" at the boundaries, the most stringent bound of the model (1/R > 510 GeV) comes from the resonance search for the Tevatron dijet channels. Even at the early stage of LHC, one can discover the second KK gluon for masses up to 4 TeV.
分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-08
摘要: We explicitly show that split-universal extra dimension (split-UED), a recently suggested extension of universal extra dimension (UED) model, can nicely explain recent anomalies in cosmic-ray positrons and electrons observed by PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS. Kaluza-Klein (KK)dark matters mainly annihilate into leptons because the hadronic branching fraction is highly suppressed by large KK quark masses and the antiproton flux agrees very well with the observation where no excess is found. The flux of cosmic gamma-rays from pion decay is also highly suppressed and hardly detected in low energy region (E-gamma less than or similar to 20GeV). Collider signatures of colored KK particles at the LHC, especially q(1)q(1) production, are studied in detail. Due to the large split in masses of KK quarks and other particles, hard p(T) jets and missing E-T are generated, which make it possible to suppress the standard model background and discover the signals.
分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-05
摘要: We propose a gauged Ud(1)(H) horizontal symmetry around a TeV scale that is a subgroup of a SU(3)(H) horizontal gauge symmetry broken at O(10(14)) GeV. The breaking generates right-handed Majorana neutrino masses through a SU(3)(H) sextet scalar. A particular Majorana right-handed neutrino mass matrix explicitly determines the remnant U(1)(H) at low energy which only couples to b - s and mu - tau in the gauge eigenstate. The dangerous K - (K) over bar, D - (D) over bar mixing and B-s -> mu(+) mu(-) are kept to be safe because the relevant couplings are suppressed through high powers of small mixing angles in the fermion rotation matrix. Our analysis which applies to the general case shows that the Tevatron di-muon anomaly can be explained through the B-s and B-d mixing while keeping all the other experimental constraints within 90% C.L. For the B meson decay, the B-s -> mu(+/-) tau(-/+) is the leading leptonic decay channel which is several orders of magnitude below current experimental bounds.
分类: 物理学 >> 基本粒子与场物理学 提交时间: 2016-07-05
摘要: 5D UED is not automatically minimally flavor violating. This is due to flavor asymmetric counter-terms required on the branes. Additionally, there are likely to be higher dimensional operators which directly contribute to flavor observables. We document a mostly unsuccessful attempt at utilizing localization in a flat extra dimension to resolve these flavor constraints while maintaining KK-parity as a good quantum number. It is unsuccessful insofar as we seem to be forced to add brane operators in such a way as to precisely mimic the effects of a double throat warped extra dimension. In the course of our efforts, we encounter and present solutions to a problem common to many extra dimensional models in which fields are "doubly localized:" ultra-light modes. Under scrutiny, this issue seems tied to an intrinsic tension between maintaining Kaluza-Klein parity and resolving mass hierarchies via localization.