In this work, we explore an extension of the Standard Model designed to elucidate the fermion mass hierarchy, account for the dark matter relic abundance, and explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Beyond the Standard Model particle content, our model introduces additional scalars and fermions. Notably, the light active neutrinos and the first two generations of charged fermions acquire masses at the one-loop level. The model accommodates successful low-scale leptogenesis, permitting the mass of the decaying heavy right-handed neutrino to be as low as 10 TeV. We conduct a detailed analysis of the dark matter phenomenology and explore various interesting phenomenological implications. These include charged lepton flavor violation, muon and electron anomalous magnetic moments, constraints arising from electroweak precision observables, and implications for collider experiments.

In this work, we explore an extension of the Standard Model designed to elucidate the fermion mass hierarchy, account for the dark matter relic abundance, and explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Beyond the Standard Model particle content, our model introduces additional scalars and fermions. Notably, the light active neutrinos and the first two generations of charged fermions acquire masses at the one-loop level. The model accommodates successful low-scale leptogenesis, permitting the mass of the decaying heavy right-handed neutrino to be as low as 10 TeV. We conduct a detailed analysis of the dark matter phenomenology and explore various interesting phenomenological implications. These include charged lepton flavor violation, muon and electron anomalous magnetic moments, constraints arising from electroweak precision observables, and implications for collider experiments.

In recent years several models for financial high-frequency data have been proposed. One of the most known models for this type of applications is the ACM-ACD model. This model focuses on modelling the underlying joint distribution of both duration and price changes between consecutive transactions. However this model imposes distributional assumptions and its number of parameters increases rapidly (producing a complex and slow adjustment process). Therefore, we propose using two machine learning models, that will work sequentially, based on the ACM-ACD model. The results show a comparable performance, achieving a better performance in some cases. Also the proposal achieves a significatively more rapid convergence. The proposal is validated with a well-known financial data set.

I propose the first multiscalar singlet extension of the standard model (SM), which generates tree level top quark and exotic fermion masses as well as one and three loop level masses for charged fermions lighter than the top quark and for light active neutrinos, respectively, without invoking electrically charged scalar fields. That model, which is based on the S3 × Z8 discrete symmetry, successfully explains the observed SM fermion mass and mixing pattern. The charged exotic fermions induce one loop level masses for charged fermions lighter than the top quark. The Z8 charged scalar singlet χ generates the observed charged fermion mass and quark mixing pattern.

We propose a low scale renormalizable left-right symmetric theory that successfully explains the observed SM fermion mass hierarchy, the tiny values for the light active neutrino masses and is consistent with the lepton and baryon asymmetries of the Universe, the muon and electron anomalous magnetic moments as well as with the constraints arising from the meson oscillations. In the proposed model the top and exotic quarks obtain masses at tree level, whereas the masses of the bottom, charm and strange quarks, tau and muon leptons are generated from a tree level Universal Seesaw mechanism, thanks to their mixings with the charged exotic vector like fermions. The masses for the first generation SM charged fermions arise from a radiative seesaw mechanism at one loop level, mediated by charged vector like fermions and electrically neutral scalars. The light active neutrino masses are produced from a one-loop level inverse seesaw mechanism mediated by electrically neutral scalar singlets and right handed Majorana neutrinos. Our model is also consistent with the experimental constraints arising from the Higgs diphoton decay rate as well as with the constraints arising from charged lepton flavor violation. We also discuss the and heavy scalar production at a proton-proton collider.

The differential cross section of coherent photoproduction of heavy quarkonia on nuclear targets is calculated within the QCD color dipole formalism. The higher-twist nuclear shadowing corresponding to the ¯ 𝑄 ⁢𝑄 Fock component of the photon is calculated including the correlation between dipole orientation → 𝑟 and impact parameter of a collision → 𝑏 , which is related to the transverse momentum transfer via the Fourier transform. We also included the leading-twist gluon shadowing corresponding to higher Fock components of the photon containing gluons, which have specifically short coherence time, especially for multigluon components, even at very high energies. The contribution of such fluctuating gluonic dipole is calculated employing the path-integral technique. Our results are in good agreement with recent ALICE data on charmonium production in ultraperipheral nuclear collisions.

We propose a Majoron-like extension of the Standard Model with an extra global -symmetry where neutrino masses are generated through an inverse seesaw mechanism at the 1-loop level. In contrast to the tree-level inverse seesaw, our framework contains dark matter (DM) candidates stabilized by a residual -symmetry surviving spontaneous breaking of the -group. We explore the case in which the DM is a Majorana fermion. Furthermore, we provide parameter space regions allowed by current experimental constraints coming from the dark matter relic abundance, (in)direct detection, and charged lepton flavor violation.

A search for sub-GeV dark matter production mediated by a new vector boson A′, called dark photon, is performed by the NA64 experiment in missing energy events from 100 GeV electron interactions in an active beam dump at the CERN SPS. From the analysis of the data collected in the years 2016, 2017, and 2018 with 2.84×1011 electrons on target no evidence of such a process has been found. The most stringent constraints on the A′ mixing strength with photons and the parameter space for the scalar and fermionic dark matter in the mass range ≲0.2 GeV are derived, thus demonstrating the power of the active beam dump approach for the dark matter search.

The beam-spin asymmetry, , for the reaction γ d → pn has been measured using the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) for six photon-energy bins, between 1.1 and 2.3 GeV, and proton angles in the center-of-mass frame, θc.m., between 25◦ and 160◦. These are the first measurements of beam-spin asymmetries at θc.m. = 90◦ for photon-beam energies above 1.6 GeV, and the first measurements for angles other than θc.m. = 90◦. The angular and energy dependence of is expected to aid in the development of QCD-based models to understand the mechanisms of deuteron photodisintegration in the transition region between hadronic and partonic degrees of freedom, where both effective field theories and perturbative QCD cannot make reliable predictions.

In this paper we explore the use of the cluster analysis in segmentation problems, that is, identifying image points with an indication of the region or class they belong to. The proposed algorithm uses the well known agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis algorithm in order to form clusters of pixels, but modified so as to cope with the high dimensionality of the problem. The results of different stages of the algorithm are saved, thus retaining a collection of segmented images ordered by degree of segmentation. This allows the user to view the whole collection and choose the one that suits him best for his particular application.

In this paper we present a method to detect edges in images. The method consists of using a 3x3 pixel mask to scan the image, moving it from left to right and from top to bottom, one pixel at a time. Each time it is placed on the image, an agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis is applied to the eight outer pixels. When there is more than one cluster, it means that window is on an edge, and the central pixel is marked as an edge point. After scanning all the image, we obtain a new image showing the marked pixels around the existing edges of the image. Then a thinning algorithm is applied so that the edges are well defined. The method results to be particularly efficient when the image is contaminated. In those cases, a previous restoration method is applied.

We analyze the recently discovered phenomena in elastic proton–proton scattering at the LHC, challenging the standard Regge-pole theory: the low-|t| “break” (departure from the exponential behavior of the diffraction cone), the accelerating rise with energy of the forward slope B(s, t = 0), absence of secondary dips and bumps on the cone, and the role of the odderon in the forward phase of the amplitude, ρ(13 TeV) = 0.1 ± 0.01 and, especially, its contribution at the dip region, measured recently by TOTEM. Relative contributions from different components to the scattering amplitude are evaluated from the fitted model.

The differential cross section dσ/dq2 of diffractive electroproduction of heavy quarkonia on protons is a sensitive study tool for the interaction dynamics within the dipole representation. Knowledge of the transverse momentum transfer q⃗ provides a unique opportunity to identify the reaction plane, due to a strong correlation between the directions of q⃗ and impact parameter b⃗ . On top of that, the elastic dipole-proton amplitude is subject to a strong correlation between b⃗ and dipole orientation r⃗ . Most of models for b-dependent dipole cross section either completely miss this information, or make unjustified assumptions. We perform calculations basing on a realistic model for r⃗ -b⃗ correlation, which significantly affect the q-dependence of the cross section, in particular the ratio of ψ′(2S) to J/ψ yields. We rely on realistic potential models for the heavy quarkonium wave function, and the Lorentz-boosted Schrödinger equation. Good agreement with data on q-dependent diffractive electroproduction of heavy quarkonia is achieved.

We investigate propagation characteristics for wireless channels, applicable to Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) and relay-based networks with lamppost-height nodes at 5.5 GHz. We compare our empirical results with a variety of models that have been proposed for system simulation. Our work is based on an extensive measurement campaign in an urban environment, where we simultaneously measured base-relay, relay-mobile and base-mobile links. This simultaneity allows us to conclude that low-height relay nodes offer a minor path-loss advantage over the base-user link. Moreover, within the range of relay heights that we measured of 2.8 and 4.7 m, we observed no signi?cant gain associated with choosing the higher relay placement. Our results however also show that the base-relay link is quite stable over time and thus will lend itself to multi-antenna techniques requiring a small overhead in channel state information feedback. Our results add to the empirical data that the standards models are based on, providing path-loss results obtained simultaneously for all links of an urban relay-based system.

Recently it has been demonstrated that QCD corrections are numerically important for short-range mechanisms (SRM) of neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) mediated by heavy particle exchange. This is due to the effect of color mismatch for certain effective operators, which leads to mixing between different operators with vastly different nuclear matrix elements (NMEs). In this note we analyze the QCD corrections for long-range mechanisms (LRM), due to diagrams with light-neutrino exchange between a Standard Model (V-A)×(V-A) and a beyond the SM lepton number violating vertex. We argue that in contrast to the SRM in the LRM case, there is no operator mixing from color-mismatched operators. This is due to a combined effect of the nuclear short-range correlations and color invariance. As a result, the QCD corrections to the LRM amount to an effect no more than 60%, depending on the operator in question. Although less crucial, taken into account QCD running makes theoretical predictions for 0νββ-decay more robust also for LRM diagrams. We derive the current experimental constraints on the Wilson coefficients for all LRM effective operators.

Exclusive photoproduction cross sections have been measured for the process γp → pπ0[e+e−(γ )] with the Dalitz decay final state using tagged photon energies in the range of Eγ = 1.275–5.425 GeV. The complete angular distribution of the final state π0, for the entire photon energy range up to large values of t and u, has been measured for the first time. The data obtained show that the cross section dσ/dt, at mid to large angles, decreases with energy as s−6.89±0.26. This is in agreement with the perturbative QCD quark counting rule prediction of s−7. Paradoxically, the size of angular distribution of measured cross sections is greatly underestimated by the QCD-based generalized parton distribution mechanism at highest available invariant energy s = 11 GeV2 . At the same time, the Regge-exchange-based models for π0 photoproduction are more consistent with experimental data.

We study an extended 2 Higgs doublet model (2HDM) in which the Standard Model (SM) Yukawa interactions are forbidden due to a global Uð1Þ0 symmetry, but may arise via mixing with vectorlike families. In this model, the hierarchical structure of Yukawa couplings of quarks and leptons in the SM arises from the heavy masses of the fourth and fifth vectorlike families. Within this model, we consider various nonstandard contributions to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments. We first consider the W exchange at one-loop level, consistent with the μ → eγ constraint, and show that it yields a negligible contribution to both electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments. We then consider Higgs scalar exchange, together with vectorlike leptons, at one-loop level and show that it is possible to have nonstandard contributions to the electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments within the 1σ constraint of certain experiments. We present some benchmark points for both the muon and the electron anomalies, together with some numerical scans around these points, which indicate the mass regions of the Higgs scalars of the 2HDM in this scenario.

We propose a viable theory based on the SU(3)C×SU(3)L×U(1)X gauge group supplemented by the S4 discrete group together with other various symmetries, whose spontaneous breaking gives rise to the current SM fermion mass and mixing hierarchy. In the proposed theory the small light active neutrino masses are generated from a linear seesaw mechanism mediated by three Majorana neutrinos. The model is capable of reproducing the experimental values of the physical observables of both quark and lepton sectors. Our model is predictive in the quark sector having 9 effective parameters that allow to successfully reproduce the four CKM parameters and the six Standard Model (SM) quark masses. In the SM quark sector, there is particular scenario, motivated by naturalness arguments, which allows a good fit for its ten observables, with only six effective parameters. We also study the single heavy scalar production via gluon fusion mechanism at proton-proton collider. Our model is also consistent with the experimental constraints arising from the Higgs diphoton decay rate.

We perform numerical comparison of the fragmentation mechanism of charmonium production (g g → c c¯ followed by c → ψ c) with the full leading order calculation (g g → ψ c c¯ at O(α4 s )). We conclude that the nonfragmentation contributions remain important up to J/ψ transverse momenta about as large as 40 GeV, thus making questionable the applicability of the fragmentation approximation at smaller transverse momenta.

AbstractWe consider the production of hadrons containing two charmed quarks in pp and ee collisions. We perform a numerical comparison of the fragmentation approach with the full calculation at $${{{\mathcal {O}}}}(\alpha _s^4)$$ O ( α s 4 ) . We conclude that the non-fragmentation contributions remain important up to transverse momenta as large as about 40 GeV, thus making questionable the applicability of the fragmentation approximation at smaller transverse momenta.