Fundamental Interactions and their experimental implications (IFIE)

1. Fundamental Interactions andtheir experimental implications (IFIE) FPA2008-02878 I.P. Francisco José Botella Olcina IFIC andDepartment of Theoretical Physics University of Valencia (and CSIC) Presentation: José Bernabéu Alberola Madrid, 26 May 2008.

2. Group Members • Postdocs and Sabbatical (6): • Gustavo Branco • Arlene C. Aguilar(1/2) • Francisco Campanario • Paride Paradisi • Nikolaos Petropoulos • Takashi Shimomura • Ph D students (3): • María C. Espinoza • Joel Jones • Pedro Moreno STAFF and R&C (9): • Gabriela Barenboim • José Bernabéu • José M. Bordes • Francisco J. Botella • Joannis Papavassiliou • José A. Peñarrocha • Miguel A. Sanchis-Lozano • Jorge Vidal (1/2) • Oscar M. Vives

3. Group Members Collaborators from other centers • Mª Carmen Bañuls (Bernabeu,..) • Daniele Binosi (Papavassiliou,..) • J. Carlos D’Olivo (Vidal,…) • Ulrich Ellwanger (Sanchis) • Joseph Lykken (Barenboim) • Antonio Masiero (Vives) • Nick Mavromatos (Bernabeu,..) • Miguel R. Nebot Gomez (Botella,..) • Sergio Palomares (Barenboim,..) • Massimo Passera (Papavassiliou,..) • Serguey T. Petcov (Bernabeu,...) • Karl Schilcher (Peñarrocha)

4. History and Generalities I • Phenomenological Project with a broad spectrum of research areas. • At every moment it has been adapted to the evolution of Fundamental Physics. • Examples of past contributions: • Rb at the LEP era. • Measurement of ε’/ε at Φ Factory. • Bounds on Tau weak dipole moments at LEP from genuine observables. • Physics reach at neutrino factories. • CPT violation in neutrino physics (Minos implications). • CP violation and FCNC in SUSY ( Kaons versus B’s ). • Dynamical models for Dark Energy. • c and b quark masses (PDG). • Observability of Neutrino Charge Radius (PDG). • High Intensity Monochromatic Neutrino Beams from EC.

5. History and Generalities II • Previous Projects: • ............... • AEN 93-0234 ( José Bernabéu ) (1993-1996). • AEN 96-1718 ( José Bernabéu ) (1996-1999). • AEN 99-0692 ( José Bernabéu ) (1999-2002). • FPA 2002-0612 ( Francisco J. Botella ) (2002-2005) • FPA 2005-01678 ( Francisco J. Botella ) (2005-2008). • Ongoing collaborations: Lisbon, Montreal, FNAL, Rutherford, Mainz, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, London, Trieste, CERN, Padova, Roma. • PhD. Thesis: Luis G. Cabral (2000), Mª Carmen Bañuls (2000), José L. Doménech (2001), Daniele Binosi (2002), Sergio Palomares (2003), Joseph F. Oliver (2004), Miguel Nebot (2005), Francisco Campanario (2005), Ezequiel Alvarez (2006).

6. History and Generalities III • Former postdocs: G.A. González-Sprinberg, M. Tung, M. Raidal, D. Comelli, E. Roulet, J.P. Silva, D. Tommmasini, A. Akhoundof, L. Lenson, S. Wolf, L. Mornas, D. Gómez Dumm, Wei Zheng Tao, Massimo Passera, Nesterenko, Valentina Porreti. • Visitors: Boris Kayser, Chris Quigg, Gustavo Branco, Cecilia Jarlskog, F.Scheck, C.S. Lim, C. García-Canal, A. Pilaftsis, Margarida Rebelo, Ferrucio Feruglio, K. Schilcher, Nick Mavromatos, Teung Tsun Tsou, Hong Mo Chan, C.P. Yuan, Christian Poeselt, Nick Kidonakis, Olga Mena,

7. Physics Goals: 5 Research Areas • Flavourdynamics and CP Violation • Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics • QCD and Hadronic Physics • Gauge Field Theories, Higgs Bosons and • Form Factors • Supersymmetry and Beyond the SM for Fundamental Physics and Cosmology

8. Flavourdynamics and CP Violation • Tests of CKM and its extensions, including data on Bs and D0 mixing. • CPT violation in K and B systems, due to Quantum Gravity (or other): the ω effect. • Implications of flavour models for K and B mesons in precision physics facilities. • Implications of flavour models for LHC physics. • CP violation in the D0 system. Botella, Barenboim, Benabéu, Nebot, Vives, Papavassiliou, Branco, Shimomura, Jones, Mavromatos, Masiero, Posdoc(1)

9. New Physics models, with spontaneous CP violation and real CKM are excluded. We had already some hints from CP violation in the Bs mixing sector prior to the recent and exciting D0 measurement. • F.J. Botella, G.C. Branco, M. Nebot and M.N. Rebelo. • hep-ph/0502133 and hep-ph/06080100  D0

10. Neutrino and Astroparticle Physics • Leptogenesis and its relation with models for neutrino masses • Dark matter detection and SUSY breaking through the conformal anomaly • Physics potential of neutrino beams produced by EC • Entanglement between the nuclear recoil and nu-mixing in EC ? • Interaction between neutrinos and photons in a magnetic field • Determination of the PMNS matrix and the neutrino mass hierarchy from matter effects Barenboim, Botella, Bernabeu, Vives, Shimomura, Espinoza, Palomares, Petcov, Bilenky, D’Olivo, Posdoc (2)

11. Monocromatic Neutrino Beam. J. B., J.Burguet-Castell, C. Espinoza, M. Lindroos. Based on nuclei that decay fast through electron capture

12. QCD and Hadronic Physics • Nonperturbative behavior of gluon and ghost propagators from the study of gauge-invariantly truncated Schwinger-Dyson equations. Comparison with recent lattice results. • Schwinger-Dyson equations for finite temperature • Light quark masses and couplings from finite-energy sum rules • QCD corrections at NLO for the WWW production at LHC • Wilson Coefficients at NNLO with HQET-QCD, for heavy quark transitions. Papavassiliou, Bordes, Peñarrocha, Campanario, Aguilar, Petropoulos, Binosi, Schilcher, Bañuls, Posdoc(3)

13. J. Papavassiliou and D. Binosi have been asked to write a Physics Report on “The Pinch Technique” and a monograph of Cambridge University Press. The developed methodology allows for the first time a gauge invariant treatment of the Schwinger-Dyson equations that, together with the lattice approach, are the unique tools to study the non-perturbative properties of QCD. This research allows to make the interplay between both approaches. A. C. Aguilar, D. Binosi, J. Papavassilou

14. Gauge Field Theories, Higgs Bosons and Form Factors • Effects of a light Higgs in lepton universality breaking, invisible decays of heavy quarkonium and dark matter. • Gauge invariant definition of the electroweak form factors of the Tau. Their measurement at a Super-B factory. Search for New Physics and comparison with the g-2 of the muon. • Mixing of CP-odd and CP-even Higgs bosons (MSSM) from genuine observables at the LHC. • Effects of the magnetic form factors in the top-quark decays at LHC. • Effects of a chromoelectric dipole moment in the production and decay of top quarks at LHC. Bernabeu, Papavassiliou, Sanchis, Campanario, Passera, Binosi, Ellwanger, Posdoc(2 y 3)

15. In hep-ph/0707:2496 . Importance of polarization for the study of New Physics in the Tau sector. • The document summarizing the New Physics case for the proposed SuperB facility is internationally identified as “Valencia Document”, now in hands of the IRC.

16. Supersymmetry and beyond the SM for Fundamental Physics and Cosmology • LHC phenomenology of Standard Model extensions. • SUSY models for CP-mixing and electroweak dipole moments. • Superheavy particles and energy density of the Universe. • Generation of cosmological perturbations in dynamical models of dark energy. • Production of baryon number asymmetry during the electroweak phase transition in dynamical models of dark energy. Vives, Bernabeu, Botella, Barenboim, Branco, Paradisi, Jones, Passera, Nebot, Mavromatos, Lykken, Massiero, Postdoc (1)

17. Light charged Higgs at the beginning of the LHC era? G. Barenboim, P. Paradisi, O. Vives, E. Lunghi, W. Porod • Positive answer viable iff tan β large CMSSM NUHM • In the red region, the H+ mediation to B  τν leads to a rate • within the experimental range.

18. Budget

19. Budget (Contracts) • 3 Postdoctoral Positions for: • Flavour Physics in the quark and/or lepton sector. • Supersymmetry and/or cosmological applications. • QCD and other Gauge Theories • They will reinforce the work more directly related with the Physics at LHC, the Super Bfactories and the High IntensityNeutrino Beams.

20. To conclude, • In the LHC era, our understanding of Fundamental Physics is going to change and new questions will arise, with crucial implications for the Primordial Universe. • Complementarity with precision Flavour Physics, CP-violation and Neutrino Properties has to be investigated. Our Project is prepared for attacking all these new problems with the Strategy of a strong collaboration between Theory and Experiment

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