セミナー 2016年

Teppei Kitahara, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Recent progress on CP violation in K to pi pi decays in the SM and SUSY solution

Seminar Room, Kenkyu-honkan 3F
Recent progress in the determination of hadronic matrix elements has revealed a tension between the measured value of epsilon’/epsilon, which quantifies direct CP-violation in K to pi pi decays, and the Standard-Model (SM) prediction. On the other hand, the standard analytic solution of the next-to-leading order (NLO) renormalization group (RG) evolution for the DeltaS = 1 Wilson coefficients suffers from several singularities. In the first part of this talk, we will introduce a singularity-free analytic solution of the RG evolution, and give a new prediction value of the epsilon’/epsilon in the SM at the NLO, which also implies the epsilon’ discrepancy. In the second part, we will show that it is possible to cure the epsilon’ discrepancy in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with squark masses above 3 TeV without overshooting epsilon. This solution exploits two features of supersymmetry, the possibility of large isospin-breaking contributions (enhancing epsilon’) and the Majorana nature of gluinos (permitting a suppression of epsilon). Our solution involves no fine-tuning of CP phases or other parameters.
This talk is based on
arXiv:1604.07400 and
arXiv:1607.06727.

Kaori Fuyuto, Saga Univ

Verifiability of electroweak baryogenesis in an extended Standard Model

Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F
We discuss verifiability of electroweak baryogenesis in an extended Standard Model, where an extra Higgs doublet, a real singlet and electroweak-interacting fermions are added. In the model, while the real singlet plays a role in having first order electroweak phase transition, a new CP-violating source is supplied by interactions between bubble walls and new fermions. It is shown that the parameter region for the successful BAU can be verified by Higgs physics and electric dipole moments of electron and nucleons in near future.

Kazuki Sakurai, Durham Univ.

Search for Sphalerons: LHC vs. IceCube

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
In a recent paper, Tye and Wong (TW) have argued that sphaleron-induced transitions in high-energy interactions should be enhanced compared to previous calculations, based on a construction of a Bloch wave function in the periodic sphaleron potential and the corresponding pass band structure. In this talk, I present our resent work studying future prospects of observing sphaleron transitions at high energy hadron colliders and IceCube, based on TW results. I first discuss the production rate and possible signatures of the sphaleron-induced processes at high energy hadron colliders. We recast the early ATLAS Run-2 search for microscopic black holes to constrain the rate of sphaleron transitions at 13 TeV LHC. In the second half of the talk, I will discuss the possibility of observing sphaleron transitions induced by cosmogenic neutrinos at IceCube. I calculate the sphaleron event rate at IceCube and discuss the signature of such events. Finally I compare the performance of the sphaleron searches at the LHC and IceCube and find complementarity of these experiments.

Wen Yin, Tohoku Univ.

Novel Approach to Fine-tuned Supersymmetric Standard Models, and the Explanation of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Dipole Moment Anomaly

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
I will propose an analyzing method for supersymmetric standard models with some amount of fine tuning. Applying this method to a non-universal Higgs masses model, I will show a new typical region and the explanation of the muon anomalous magnetic dipole moment (muon g-2) within its 1σ error. In particular, the explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly has been considered to be difficult in this model due to the heavy stop masses required by the measured SM Higgs boson mass and the condition of the universal sfermion mass at the GUT scale. [arXiv:1606.04953]
I will also propose a new simple set up of the MSSM, where at the GUT scale, only the Higgs sector is coupled with SUSY breaking. All the other sparticles obtain masses from the Higgs sector via RG running and superWeyl anomaly. The sfermion spectra are typical where the first two generation sfermions are as light as ~1TeV with anomaly induced gaugino masses, while the third ones, Higgsino and A-Higgs are heavier than O(10)TeV. I will discuss about the phenomenology of this set up, such as the explanation of the muon g-2 anomaly, the alleviation of gravitino/flavor problem and also other interesting possibilities.

Taro Kimura, Keio University

Boundary condition analysis of topological insulators

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
Study of topological insulators and superconductors (topological phases of matter) is currently an active research area in condensed-matter physics. One of the most important aspects of them is the renowned relation between bulk and edge states, called the bulk/edge correspondence. The edge state, localized at the material boundary, is sensitive to a boundary condition definitely, but how the boundary condition affects the edge state has not been studied in a systematic way so far. We tackle this problem with a minimal model of topological insulator, and show boundary condition dependence of the edge state, in particular, its energy spectrum and wavefunction behavior. We also argue how such a generic boundary condition is realized in lattice models. This talk is based on a collaboration with K. Hashimoto and X. Wu (Osaka): [arXiv:1509.04676], [arXiv:1602.05577] and work in progress.

Masazumi Honda, Weizmann Institute

How to resume perturbative series in supersymmetric gauge theories

Meeting room 1, kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
Perturbative series in quanum field theory is typically divergent.
There is a standard method to resum divergent series called Borel resummation.
While perturbative series in typical field theory is expected to be non-Borel summable,
it is important to ask when perturbative series is Borel summable and if it is non-Borel summable,
what is a correct way to resum the perturbative series.
In my talk I first discuss that we can prove Borel summability of perturbative series
in 4d N=2 and 5d N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories with Lagrangians for various observables.
It turns out that exact results in these theories can be obtained by  summing over the Borel resummations with every instanton number.
I also discuss perturbative series in general 3d N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons matter theory,
which is given by a power series expansion of inverse Chern-Simons levels.
We prove that the perturbative series are always Borel summable along imaginary axis.
It turns out that the Borel resummations along this direction are the same as exact results.
[PRL116,no.21,211601(2016) and arXiv:1604.08653]

Tomoya Kinugawa, ICRR, The University of Tokyo

Binary black hole remnants of First stars for the gravitational wave source

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
Using our population synthesis code, we found that the typical chirp mass of binary black holes (BH-BHs) whose origin is the first star (Pop III) is ~30Msun with the total mass of ~60Msun so that the inspiral chirp signal as well as quasi normal mode (QNM) of the merging black hole are interesting targets of LIGO,VIRGO and KAGRA (Kinugawa et al.2014 and 2016). The detection rate of the coalescing Pop III BH-BHs is ~ 180 events/yr (SFR_p/(10^{-2.5} Msun /yr/Mpc^3))*([f_b/(1+f_b)]/0.33)*Err_sys in our standard model where SFR_p, f_b and Err_sys are the peak value of the Pop III star formation rate, the binary fraction and the systematic error with Err_sys=1 for our standard model, respectively. Furthermore, We found that the chirp mass has a peak at ~30Msun in most of parameters and distribution functions (Kinugawa et al.2016). This result predicted the gravitational wave events like GW150914 and LIGO paper said ‘recently predicted BBH total masses agree astonishingly well with GW150914 and can have sufficiently long merger times to occur in the nearby universe (Kinugawa et al. 2014)’ (Abbot et al. ApJL 818,22 (2016)). Nakano, Tanaka & Nakamura 2015 show that if S/N of QNM is larger than 35, we can confirm or refute the General Relativity more than 5 sigma level. In our standard model, the detection rate of Pop III BH-BHs whose S/N is larger than 35 is 3.2 events/yr (SFR_p/(10^{-2.5}Msun/yr/Mpc^3))*([f_b/(1+f_b)]/0.33)* Err_sys. Thus, there is a good chance to check whether GR is correct or not in the strong gravity region and to check indirectly the existence of Pop III massive stars by gravitational wave.

Takahiro Tanaka, Kyoto University

Gravitational waves as a new probe of physics

Seminar room, Kenkyu honkan 3F, slides (kek.jp only)
There was a first direct detection of gravitational waves last year. This informed us of the dawn of the era of gravitational wave physics. The perspective of future observation became definitely brighter than before. Although the well-known guaranteed source of gravitational waves, binary neutron star merger, has not been detected, it will be soon or later detected as the world-wide network of gravitational wave detection develops. Furthermore, the possibility of early realization of future space mission might be increasing. I’d like to give some perspective on gravitational physics and discuss the challenging issues that requires theoretical study.

Yuko Urakawa, Nagoya University

Recent progress on infrared issues in inflationary universe

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F
It has been known that a naive computation of loop corrections in inflationary universe gives rise to a pathologically large enhancement of the infrared (IR) contributions. In this talk, I will overview the recent progress on the IR issues during inflation. In particular, for the adiabatic and tensor perturbations, we can show that the IR pathology goes away, as far as we preserve the invariance under the large gauge transformations, which diverge at the spatial infinity. I also show a couple of other consequence of the invariance under the large gauge transformation; 1) the consistency relations, which connect (n+1)-point functions with one soft leg and n-point functions 2) the conservation of the curvature perturbation at large scales in the presence of the radiative corrections of heavy fields.

Kazuya Yonekura, IPMU

Gauge interactions and topological phases of matter

Meeting room 1, Kenkyu honkan 1F, slides (kek.jp only)
We initiate the study of the effects of strong gauge interactions on the properties of the topological phases of matter.
In particular, we discuss fermionic systems with three spatial dimensions, protected by time reversal symmetry.
We first derive a sufficient condition for the introduction of a dynamical Yang-Mills field to preserve the topological phase of matter,
and then show how the massless pions capture in the infrared the topological properties of the fermions in the ultraviolet.
Finally, we show how the S-duality of N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with Nf=4  flavors can be used to show the
mod 16 behavior of topological superconductors.
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