Symmetry, Collider Phenomenology and High Energy Physics

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".

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Dear Colleagues,

Recent experimental results, particularly those of the LHC, have completely transformed the status of particle physics and form the basis of future research directions. Believing that the Higgs boson discovery has completed our understanding of particle physics is too simplistic. On the contrary, much remains to be understood.  In fact, a new era, in which we have direct experimental information regarding the physics behind the breaking of electroweak (EW) symmetry, recently begun. This breaking plays a fundamental role in our understanding of particle physics and sits at the high-energy frontier, beyond which we expect to explore uncharted territories that raise deep conceptual concerns theoretically.

Prof. Dr. Kamal Benslama
Prof. Dr. Ketevi Assamagan
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Keywords

  • symmetry
  • collider
  • particle physics phenomenology
  • experimental high-energy physics
  • experimental particle physics
  • physics beyond the standard model
  • exotics physics
  • electroweak symmetry breaking
  • new physics

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New Light H± Discovery Channels at the LHC
by Abdesslam Arhrib, Rachid Benbrik, Mohamed Krab, Bouzid Manaut, Stefano Moretti, Yan Wang and Qi-Shu Yan
Symmetry 2021, 13(12), 2319; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13122319 - 04 Dec 2021
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A light charged Higgs boson has been searched for at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via top (anti)quark decay, i.e., tbH+, if kinematically allowed. In this contribution, we propose new channels for light charged Higgs boson searches via [...] Read more.
A light charged Higgs boson has been searched for at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) via top (anti)quark decay, i.e., tbH+, if kinematically allowed. In this contribution, we propose new channels for light charged Higgs boson searches via the pair productions ppH±h/A and ppH+H at the LHC in the context of the Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) Type-I. By focusing on a case where the heavy H state is the Standard Model (SM)-like one already observed, we investigate the production of the aforementioned charged Higgs bosons and their bosonic decay channels, namely, H±W±h and/or H±W±A. We demonstrate that such production and decay channels can yield substantial alternative discovery channels for H± bosons at the LHC. Finally, we propose eight benchmark points (BPs) to motivate the search for such signatures. Full article
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Using C++ to Calculate SO(10) Tensor Couplings
by Azadan Bhagwagar and Raza M. Syed
Symmetry 2021, 13(10), 1871; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13101871 - 04 Oct 2021
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Model building in SO(10), which is the leading grand unification framework, often involves large Higgs representations and their couplings. Explicit calculations of such couplings is a multi-step process that involves laborious calculations that are time consuming and error prone, [...] Read more.
Model building in SO(10), which is the leading grand unification framework, often involves large Higgs representations and their couplings. Explicit calculations of such couplings is a multi-step process that involves laborious calculations that are time consuming and error prone, an issue which only grows as the complexity of the coupling increases. Therefore, there exists an opportunity to leverage the abilities of computer software in order to algorithmically perform these calculations on demand. This paper outlines the details of such software, implemented in C++ using in-built libraries. The software is capable of accepting invariant couplings involving an arbitrary number of SO(10) Higgs tensors, each having up to five indices. The output is then produced in LaTeX, so that it is universally readable and sufficiently expressive. Through the use of this software, SO(10) coupling analysis can be performed in a way that minimizes calculation time, eliminates errors, and allows for experimentation with couplings that have not been computed before in the literature. Furthermore, this software can be expanded in the future to account for similar Higgs–Spinor coupling analysis, or extended to include further SO(N) invariant couplings. Full article
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