Minho Son

We present the report of the hadronic working group of the BOOST2010 workshop held at the University of Oxford in June 2010. The first part contains a review of the potential of hadronic decays of highly boosted particles as an aid for discovery at the LHC and a discussion of the status of tools developed to meet the challenge of reconstructing and isolating these topologies. In the second part, we present new results comparing the performance of jet grooming techniques and top tagging algorithm

This report of the BOOST2012 workshop presents the results of four working groups that studied key aspects of jet substructure. We discuss the potential of first-principle QCD calculations to yield a precise description of the substructure of jets and study the accuracy of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo tools. Limitations of the experiments’ ability to resolve substructure are evaluated, with a focus on the impact of additional (pile-up) proton proton collisions on jet substructure performance in

We perform a detailed study of double Higgs production via gluon fusion in the effective field theory (EFT) framework where effects from new physics (NP) are parametrized by local operators. Our analysis provides a perspective broader than the one followed in most of the previous analyses, where this process was merely considered as a way to extract the Higgs trilinear coupling. We focus on the $hh\ensuremath{\rightarrow}b\overline{b}\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ channel and perform a

We discuss how to perform consistent extractions of anomalous triple gauge couplings (aTGC) from electroweak boson pair production at the LHC in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). After recasting recent ATLAS and CMS searches in pp → W Z(W W ) → ℓ′νℓ+ℓ−(νℓ) channels, we find that: (a) working consistently at order Λ−2 in the SMEFT expansion the existing aTGC bounds from Higgs and LEP-2 data are not improved, (b) the strong limits quoted by the experimental collaborations are due

This report summarises the physics opportunities for the study of Higgs bosons and the dynamics of electroweak symmetry breaking at the 100 TeV pp collider.

We perform a detailed study of double Higgs production via gluon fusion in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework where effects from new physics are parametrized by local operators. Our analysis provides a perspective broader than the one followed in most of the previous analyses, where this process was merely considered as a way to extract the Higgs trilinear coupling. We focus on the $hh \to b\bar bγγ$ channel and perform a thorough simulation of signal and background at the 14 TeV LHC and

Fermionic third generation top partners are generic in composite Higgs models. They are likely to decay into third generation quarks and electroweak bosons. We propose a novel cut-and-count-style analysis in which we cross correlate the model-dependent single and model-independent pair production processes for the top partners ${X}_{5/3}$ and $B$. In the class of composite Higgs models we study, ${X}_{5/3}$ is very special as it is the lightest exotic fermion. A constraint on the mass of ${X}_{5

We extend the $SO(4,2)$ covariant lightcone embedding methods of four-dimensional CFTs to $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theory (SCFT). Manifest superconformal $SU(2,2|1)$ invariance is achieved by realizing 4D superconformal space as a surface embedded in the projective superspace spanned by certain complex chiral supermatrices. Because $SU(2,2|1)$ acts linearly on the ambient space, the constraints on correlators implied by superconformal Ward identities are automatically solved in this

A bstract We study the effective field theory sensitivity of an LHC analysis for the τν final state with an associated b -jet. To illustrate the improvement due to the b -tagging, we first recast the recent CMS analysis in the τν channel, using an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb − 1 at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> </mml:math> = 13 TeV, and provide limits on all the dimension-six effective operators which con

A bstract We perform lattice simulations to estimate the axion dark matter abundance radiated from the global cosmic strings in the post-inflationary scenario. The independent numerical confirmation on the recently observed logarithmic growth in both the number of strings per Hubble patch and the spectral index of the power law scaling for the axion spectrum is reported. These logarithmic scalings are checked against two different prescriptions for generating initial random field configurations,

In the presence of even minuscule baryonic $R$-parity violation (RPV), the stop can be the lightest superpartner and evade LHC searches because it decays into two jets. In order to cover this interesting possibility, we here consider new searches for RPV stops produced in gluino cascades. While typical searches for gluinos decaying to stops rely on same-sign dileptons, the RPV cascades usually have fewer hard leptons, less excess missing energy, and more jets than $R$-parity conserving cascades.

We perform the combined analysis of the double Higgs production via gluon fusion in the $b\overline{b}\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ and $b\overline{b}{\ensuremath{\tau}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\tau}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ decay channels at the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). To validate our analysis, we reproduce the ATLAS result of the $b\overline{b}\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ process including all contributions from fakes. For the $b\overline{b}{\ensuremath{\tau}}^{+}{\ensuremath{\tau

New TeV-scale physics processes at the LHC can produce Higgs bosons with substantive transverse Lorentz boost, such that the Higgs's decay products are nominally contained in a single jet. In the case of a light Higgs decaying predominantly to $b\overline{b}$, previous studies have shown that these Higgs jets can be identified by capitalizing on jet substructure techniques. In this work, we explore the possibility of also utilizing the subdominant but very distinctive decay $h\ensuremath{\righta

A bstract We study a class of 4-dimensional SU( N ) chiral gauge theories with fermions in the 2-index symmetric and antisymmetric representations and classify their infrared phases. The choice N = 4ℤ corresponds to gauging the fermion number and makes the theory purely bosonic. We examine the most general background fields of the centers of the gauge, non-abelian flavor, and U(1)-axial groups that can be consistently activated, thereby determine the faithful global continuous and discrete symme