# CERN Theory

2014-09-19
08:15
 Higgs production in association with bottom quarks / Wiesemann, M ; Frederix, R ; Frixione, S ; Hirschi, V ; Maltoni, F ; Torrielli, P We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. [...] arXiv:1409.5301 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-182 ; CP3-14-64 ; LPN14-114 ; MCNET-14-20 ; ZU-TH 33-14. - 2014. - 33 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-17
07:55
 $tt^*$ equations, localization and exact chiral rings in 4d N=2 SCFTs / Baggio, Marco ; Niarchos, Vasilis ; Papadodimas, Kyriakos We compute exact 2- and 3-point functions of chiral primaries in four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories, including all perturbative and instanton contributions. [...] arXiv:1409.4212 ; CCQCN-2014-38 ; CCTP-2014-15 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-173. - 2014. - 45 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-17
07:54
 Exact correlation functions in SU(2) N=2 superconformal QCD / Baggio, Marco ; Niarchos, Vasilis ; Papadodimas, Kyriakos We report an exact solution of 2- and 3-point functions of chiral primary fields in SU(2) N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory coupled to four hypermultiplets. [...] arXiv:1409.4217 ; CCTP-2014-18 ; CCQCN-2014-42 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-177. - 2014. - 5 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-17
07:53
 The Discovery of the Gluon / Ellis, John Soon after the postulation of quarks, it was suggested that they interact via gluons, but direct experimental evidence was lacking for over a decade. [...] arXiv:1409.4232 ; KCL-PH-TH-2014-36 ; LCTS-2014-35 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-178. - 2014. - 11 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-17
07:53
 Interplay and Characterization of Dark Matter Searches at Colliders and in Direct Detection Experiments / Malik, Sarah ; McCabe, Christopher ; Araujo, Henrique ; Buchmueller, Oliver ; De Roeck, Albert ; Dolan, Matthew J ; Ellis, John ; Fairbairn, Malcolm ; Landsberg, Greg ; Sumner, Timothy We present and discuss a concrete proposal for the consistent interpretation of Dark Matter searches at colliders and in direct detection experiments. [...] arXiv:1409.4075 ; KCL-PH-TH-2014-37 ; LCTS-2014-36 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-180. - 2014. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-17
07:52
 On holography for (pseudo-)conformal cosmology / Libanov, M ; Rubakov, V ; Sibiryakov, S We propose a holographic dual for (pseudo-)conformal cosmological scenario, with a scalar field that forms a moving domain wall in adS_5. [...] arXiv:1409.4363 ; INR-TH-2014-020 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-181. - 2014. - 6 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-10
07:36
 N=4 superconformal Ward identities for correlation functions / Belitsky, A V ; Hohenegger, S ; Korchemsky, G P ; Sokatchev, E In this paper we study the four-point correlation function of the energy-momentum supermultiplet in theories with N=4 superconformal symmetry in four dimensions. [...] arXiv:1409.2502 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-174 ; IPHT-T14-122 ; LAPTH-109-14. - 2014. - 41 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-10
07:35
 Ambient cosmology and spacetime singularities / Antoniadis, Ignatios ; Cotsakis, Spiros We present a new approach to the issues of spacetime singularities and cosmic censorship in general relativity. [...] arXiv:1409.2220 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-176. - 2014. - 17 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-08
07:25
 A Cheap Alternative to the Lattice? / Hogervorst, Matthijs (CERN ; Ecole Normale Superieure) ; Rychkov, Slava (CERN ; Ecole Normale Superieure ; UPMC, Paris (main)) ; van Rees, Balt C (CERN ; Ecole Normale Superieure) We show how to perform accurate, nonperturbative and controlled calculations in quantum field theory in d dimensions. [...] arXiv:1409.1581 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-155. - 2014. - 56 p. Preprint - Full text

2014-09-05
07:35
 Alpha- and Omega-Deformations from fluxes in M-Theory / Lambert, Neil (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math) ; Orlando, Domenico (Ecole Normale Superieure) ; Reffert, Susanne (CERN) We discuss an SL(2,R) family of deformed N=2 four-dimensional gauge theories which we derive from a flux background in M-theory. [...] arXiv:1409.1219 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-172 ; KCL-MTH-14-16. - 2014. - 25 p. Preprint - Full text