High Energy Physics - Theory

Authors and titles for December 2014

[501] arXiv:1412.2729 (cross-list from hep-lat) [pdf, other]

Title: Full simulation of chiral Random Matrix Theory at non-zero chemical potential by Complex Langevin

A. Mollgaard, K. Splittorff

Comments: 16 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 036007 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[502] arXiv:1412.2734 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Off-Shell Supersymmetry

Chiu Man Ho, Nobuchika Okada

Comments: 15 pages, 2 figures, v4: version to appear in IJMPA

Journal-ref: Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 30, 1550194 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[503] arXiv:1412.2739 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A generalized equation of motion for gravity theories with non-minimal kinetic scalar couplings

Saugata Chatterjee

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[504] arXiv:1412.2750 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Radially stabilized inflating cosmic strings

Florian Niedermann, Robert Schneider

Comments: 20 pages, 12 figures, 1 table; v2: matches version published in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D91, 064010 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[505] arXiv:1412.2769 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Softened Gravity and the Extension of the Standard Model up to Infinite Energy

Gian F. Giudice, Gino Isidori, Alberto Salvio, Alessandro Strumia

Comments: 60 pages. Final version to appear on JHEP. v3: references added

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[506] arXiv:1412.2914 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A $\Lambda$CDM bounce scenario

Yi-Fu Cai, Edward Wilson-Ewing

Comments: 14 pages, 8 figures, v2: Discussion extended and references added

Journal-ref: JCAP03(2015)006

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[507] arXiv:1412.2968 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Hydrodynamic transport coefficients for the non-conformal quark-gluon plasma from holography

Stefano I. Finazzo, Romulo Rougemont, Hugo Marrochio, Jorge Noronha (Sao Paulo U.)

Comments: 47 pages, 13 figures, three appendices; references added; to appear in JHEP

Journal-ref: JHEP 1502 (2015) 051

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[508] arXiv:1412.2983 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Inflation and classical scale invariance

Antonio Racioppi

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IPA 2014 workshop, 18-22 August 2014 Queen Mary University of London

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[509] arXiv:1412.3041 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Connection between dark matter abundance and primordial tensor perturbations

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Anupam Mazumdar, Saleh Qutub

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures; submitted to the proceedings of the 9th SSC, University of Birmingham, UK

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the 9th Saudi Students Conference in the UK (2016), p. 99

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[510] arXiv:1412.3097 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Properties of Holographic Mesons on Dense Medium

Bum-Hoon Lee, Chanyong Park, Siyoung Nam

Comments: 18 pages, 8 Fig. numbers

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[511] arXiv:1412.3146 (cross-list from physics.gen-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Notes on the firewall paradox, complexity, and quantum theory

Karl-Georg Schlesinger

Comments: 31 pages; further references added

Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[512] arXiv:1412.3165 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Meson spectra of asymptotically free gauge theories from holography

Johanna Erdmenger, Nick Evans, Marc Scott

Comments: 30 pages, 19 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 085004 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[513] arXiv:1412.3171 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Intergalactic magnetic field spectra from diffuse gamma rays

Wenlei Chen, Borun D. Chowdhury, Francesc Ferrer, Hiroyuki Tashiro, Tanmay Vachaspati

Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[514] arXiv:1412.3249 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Renormalization, averaging, conservation laws and AdS (in)stability

Ben Craps, Oleg Evnin, Joris Vanhoof

Comments: v3: 28 pages, minor improvements, JHEP version

Journal-ref: JHEP 01 (2015) 108

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

[515] arXiv:1412.3286 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: A short overview of the "Topological recursion"

B. Eynard (IPHT)

Comments: 2nd version: misprints corrected, and small modification of the abstract

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[516] arXiv:1412.3346 (cross-list from quant-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Which is the Quantum Decay Law of Relativistic Particles?

S. A. Alavi, C. Giunti

Comments: 5 pages; final version published in Europhys. Lett. 109 (2015) 60001

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)

[517] arXiv:1412.3383 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: New elliptic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation

D. Chicherin, S.E. Derkachov, V.P. Spiridonov

Comments: 34 pages, to appear in Commun. Math. Phys

Journal-ref: Commun. Math. Phys. 345 (2016) 507-543

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

[518] arXiv:1412.3434 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: The spectral dimension in 2D CDT gravity coupled to scalar fields

Jan Ambjørn, Andrzej Görlich, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Hongguang Zhang

Comments: 13 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[519] arXiv:1412.3443 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Towards holographic QCD: AdS/CFT, confinement deformation, and DIS at small-x

Richard Brower, Marko Djurić, Timothy Raben, Chung-I Tan

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Presented at the Rencontres de Moriond 2014: QCD and High Energy Interactions

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[520] arXiv:1412.3463 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: An Ultimate Target for Dark Matter Searches

Kfir Blum, Yanou Cui, Marc Kamionkowski

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 023528 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[521] arXiv:1412.3486 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Deconstruction, Holography and Emergent Supersymmetry

Yuichiro Nakai

Comments: 30 pages, 9 figures; v2: minor changes, references added, version published in JHEP

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[522] arXiv:1412.3494 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Multipole moments in scalar-tensor theory of gravity

George Pappas, Thomas P. Sotiriou

Comments: 12 pages, references added, accepted for publication as a Regular Article in Physical Review D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 044011 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[523] arXiv:1412.3524 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Preferred instantaneous vacuum for linear scalar fields in cosmological space-times

Ivan Agullo, William Nelson, Abhay Ashtekar

Comments: 19 pages, 4 figures. Section VI was expanded to include a discussion on semi-classical gravity. Version to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 064051

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[524] arXiv:1412.3534 (cross-list from cond-mat.stat-mech) [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement and the Sign Structure of Quantum States

Tarun Grover, Matthew P. A. Fisher

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[525] arXiv:1412.3539 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Stationary axisymmetric spacetimes with a conformally coupled scalar field

Marco Astorino

Comments: v2: 23 pages, published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 064066 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[526] arXiv:1412.3546 (cross-list from cond-mat.str-el) [pdf, other]

Title: Scaling of entanglement in $2+1$-dimensional scale-invariant field theories

Xiao Chen, Gil Young Cho, Thomas Faulkner, Eduardo Fradkin

Comments: Mildly revised version; 11 pages, 8 figures (one mildly edited figure) and 73 references (six new references)

Journal-ref: Journal of Statitistical Mechanics, Vol. 2015, P02010 (2015)

Subjects: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[527] arXiv:1412.3562 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Through Loop Quadratic Contributions

Dong Bai, Jian-Wei Cui, Yue-Liang Wu

Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, published version

Journal-ref: Physics Letters B746 (2015) 379

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[528] arXiv:1412.3564 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological constraints from the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski test: galaxy density gradient field

Xiao-Dong Li, Changbom Park, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Juhan Kim

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted by ApJ. A companion paper investigating redshift dependence of AP using two-point correlation function method will appear soon. We are working on the application of this method to BOSS data

Journal-ref: ApJ, 796, 137, 2014

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[529] arXiv:1412.3600 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Nearly scale-invariant power spectrum and quantum cosmological perturbations in the gravity's rainbow scenario

Sai Wang, Zhe Chang

Comments: 17 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted by the EPJC

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[530] arXiv:1412.3662 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Information Dynamics of Spacetime and Matter

Zeng-Bing Chen

Comments: 17 pages, no figure; improved version. Comments are welcome

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[531] arXiv:1412.3732 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of the speed of sound at large-N

Ivonne Zavala

Comments: 4 figures, 5 pages. References added. Typos corrected. Improved discussion. Version to appear in PRD

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 063005 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[532] arXiv:1412.3752 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Flux formulation of loop quantum gravity: Classical framework

Bianca Dittrich, Marc Geiller

Comments: 60 pages, 13 figures, published version

Journal-ref: Class. Quantum Grav. 32 (2015) 135016

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[533] arXiv:1412.3753 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of Classical Higgs Fields. III. Metric-affine gauge theory

G. Sardanashvily, A. Kurov

Comments: 15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1110.1176

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[534] arXiv:1412.3757 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Gravity Waves From Non-Minimal Quadratic Inflation

Constantinos Pallis, Qaisar Shafi

Comments: Final version

Journal-ref: JCAP03(2015)023

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[535] arXiv:1412.3764 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Grand Unification and Subcritical Hybrid Inflation

Wilfried Buchmuller, Koji Ishiwata

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, published version, a few typos are corrected

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 081302 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[536] arXiv:1412.3796 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Baryon Acoustic Peak and the Squeezed Limit Bispectrum

Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Marko Simonović, Matias Zaldarriaga

Comments: 2 pages

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[537] arXiv:1412.3808 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Self-gravitating field configurations: The role of the energy-momentum trace

Shahar Hod

Comments: 11 pages

Journal-ref: Physics Letters B 739, 383 (2014)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[538] arXiv:1412.3811 (cross-list from hep-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability

Fedor Bezrukov, Javier Rubio, Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Comments: 20 pages, 23 figures, published version, added clarifications and references, new appendix, corrected typos

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 083512 (2015)

Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[539] arXiv:1412.3873 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: A c=1 phase transition in two-dimensional CDT/Horava-Lifshitz gravity?

Jan Ambjørn, Andrzej Görlich, Jerzy Jurkiewicz, Hongguang Zhang

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[540] arXiv:1412.3950 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Holography from quantum cosmology

M. Rashki, S. Jalalzadeh

Comments: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91 (2015) 023501

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[541] arXiv:1412.3977 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Cosmological particle creation in a hadronic fluid

Neven Bilic, Dijana Tolic

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, revised to match the version published in Phys. Rev. D., section IIB rewritten, section IIIC expanded, discussion on adiabaticity expanded and clarified, three references added, results unchanged

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 104025 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[542] arXiv:1412.4073 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Testing the tensor-vector-scalar Theory with the latest cosmological observations

Xiao-dong Xu, Bin Wang, Pengjie Zhang

Comments: 23 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 083505 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[543] arXiv:1412.4091 (cross-list from astro-ph.CO) [pdf, other]

Title: Early dark energy and its interaction with dark matter

Bo-Yu Pu, Xiao-Dong Xu, Bin Wang, Elcio Abdalla

Comments: 23 pages, 18 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 92, 123537 (2015)

Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[544] arXiv:1412.4094 (cross-list from physics.hist-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: The Standard Model of Particle Physics

Tom W.B. Kibble

Comments: Text of an invited talk at 25 Anniversary Meeting of Academia Europaea, September 2013. 7 pp. To be published in European Journal

Subjects: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[545] arXiv:1412.4189 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Instability of Black Holes with a Gauss-Bonnet Term

Wha-Keun Ahn, Bogeun Gwak, Bum-Hoon Lee, Wonwoo Lee

Comments: 20 pages, 10 figures, published version in EPJC

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. C75, no. 8, 372 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[546] arXiv:1412.4191 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Topological phases: isomorphism, homotopy and $K$-theory

Guo Chuan Thiang

Comments: 14 pages, revised with new references

Journal-ref: Int. J. Geom. Methods Mod. Phys. 12 1550098 (2015)

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[547] arXiv:1412.4220 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Analog Systems for Gravity Duals

S. Hossenfelder

Comments: replaced with published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 91, 124064 (2015)

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[548] arXiv:1412.4250 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: Ultra-high energy collisions in static space-times: single versus multi-black hole cases

O. B. Zaslavskii

Comments: 18 pages. Essentially expanded, presentation improved. To appear in GRG

Journal-ref: Gen. Rel. and Gravitation 47 (2015) 50

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[549] arXiv:1412.4256 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, other]

Title: String-Inspired Infinite-Derivative Theories of Gravity: A Brief Overview

Tirthabir Biswas, Spyridon Talaganis

Comments: 22 pages. Accepted review article in "New trends in theory of gravity," Mod. Phys. Lett. A, v2: very minor changes

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 30, Nos. 3 & 4 (2015) 1540009

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[550] arXiv:1412.4335 (cross-list from math-ph) [pdf, other]

Title: Do New Quantum Statistics Exist in Nature?

T.D. Palev

Comments: 12 pages; in: Proceedings of the 32 International Workshop on Nuclear Theory, Rila Mountains, Bulgaria - in press

Subjects: Mathematical Physics (math-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)