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We present an analysis of the lepton-flavor violating decay of the Higgs boson mediated by an ultralight gauge boson, $\chi$. Our analysis matches a model generating the lepton flavor-violating interaction $\bar{\ell}_i\ell_j\chi$ at tree level with an effective field theory, safeguarding the $\chi$-boson mass as it tends to zero. By utilizing the upper bounds on $H\to\ell_i \bar\ell_j$ decays from CMS and ATLAS Collaborations, we establish an indirect upper limit on the nonstandard decay $H\to\ell_i \bar\ell_j\chi$. The analysis encompasses various observables such as the lepton energy spectrum, Dalitz plot distribution, and Lepton Charge and Forward-Backward Asymmetries., Comment: 18 pages, 8 figures

The effects of $CP$-violation on the reported result by the LHC $\mu^{Z\gamma}=2.2\pm 0.7$ for the $H\rightarrow Z\gamma$ signal strength are studied in new physics models, where bounds on the real and absorptive parts of the $CP$-violating form factor $h_3^{Z\gamma}$ are obtained, which are found to be less than 1.02 GeV. The leading order SM contributions to the $H\rightarrow Z\gamma$ decay are also revisited, whereas contributions to the $CP$-violating form factor $h_3^{Z\gamma}$ from FCNC complex couplings mediated by the $Z$ and $H$ bosons are reported. Using the current bounds on such a couplings, where for these related to the Higgs boson are calculated to be or order $10^{-1}$. We find that the FCNC contribution to $h_3^{Z\gamma}$ with top and charm quarks in the loop is of order $10^{-6}$. A generic model with new quarks is also studied. It is found a parameter space, which agrees with the $H\rightarrow\gamma\gamma$ decay and the new $\mu^{Z\gamma}$ LHC result., Comment: Work in preparation to be submitted

Using mass-radius-composition models, small planets ($\mathrm{R}\lesssim 2 \mathrm{R_\oplus}$) are typically classified into three types: iron-rich, nominally Earth-like, and those with solid/liquid water and/or atmosphere. These classes are generally expected to be variations within a compositional continuum. Recently, however, Luque & Pall\'e observed that potentially Earth-like planets around M dwarfs are separated from a lower-density population by a density gap. Meanwhile, the results of Adibekyan et al. hint that iron-rich planets around FGK stars are also a distinct population. It therefore remains unclear whether small planets represent a continuum or multiple distinct populations. Differentiating the nature of these populations will help constrain potential formation mechanisms. We present the RhoPop software for identifying small-planet populations. RhoPop employs mixture models in a hierarchical framework and a nested sampler for parameter and evidence estimates. Using RhoPop, we confirm the two populations of Luque & Pall\'e with $>4\sigma$ significance. The intrinsic scatter in the Earth-like subpopulation is roughly half that expected based on stellar abundance variations in local FGK stars, perhaps implying M dwarfs have a smaller spread in the major rock-building elements (Fe, Mg, Si) than FGK stars. We apply RhoPop to the Adibekyan et al. sample and find no evidence of more than one population. We estimate the sample size required to resolve a population of planets with Mercury-like compositions from those with Earth-like compositions for various mass-radius precisions. Only 16 planets are needed when $\sigma_{M_p} = 5\%$ and $\sigma_{R_p} = 1\%$. At $\sigma_{M_p} = 10\%$ and $\sigma_{R_p} = 2.5\%$, however, over 154 planets are needed, an order of magnitude increase., Comment: Published in PSJ

In view of both the latest LHCb measurement of $R_{K^{(*)}}$ and the new $2.8\sigma$ deviation reported by Belle II on $B^{+}\to K^{+}\nu\bar{\nu}$ decays, we present a fit to the $B$ meson anomalies for various one and two dimensional hypothesis including complex Wilson coefficients. We show in a model-independent way that the generic non-universal $U(1)^{\prime}$ extensions of the SM, without flavour violation, fail to simultaneously fit those observables and corroborate that they can modify $\mathrm{BR}(B^{+}\to K^{+}\nu\bar{\nu})$ up to only a $10\%$. In view of this deficit, we propose a new way in which those models can accommodate the data at tree level by introducing lepton flavour violating couplings and non-diagonal elements of the charged lepton mixing matrix, with implications in future charged lepton flavour violation searches., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, charged lepton flavour violating constraints added, new citations included

We perform spin-noise spectroscopy on an unpolarized $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ vapor in the spin-exchange-relaxation-free (SERF) regime. We observe noise spectral distributions that deviate strongly from Lorentzian models that accurately describe lower-density regimes. For example, at magnetic fields of $\sim 1 \mathrm{\mu T}$ and $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ densities $\gtrsim 1 \times 10^{14} \rm{atoms/cm^{3}}$ we observe an asymmetric spin-noise distribution in which the resonance line is depleted by about half its power, with the diverted power becoming a broad spectral component that could be mistaken for optical shot noise. The results are in good agreement with recent models accounting for correlations between the ground hyperfine states. We discuss implications for quantum sensing and absolute noise calibration in spin-squeezing and entanglement detection.

A model with fermion and scalar fields charged under a Peccei-Queen~(PQ) symmetry is proposed. The PQ charges are chosen in such a way that they can reproduce mass matrices with five texture zeros, {which can generate} the fermion masses, the CKM matrix, and the PMNS matrix of the Standard Model~(SM). To obtain this result, at least 4~Higgs doublets are needed. As we will see in the manuscript this is a highly non-trivial result since the texture zeros of the mass matrices impose a large number of restrictions. This model shows a route to understand the different scales of the SM by extending it with a multi-Higgs sector and an additional PQ symmetry. Since the PQ charges are not universal, the model presents flavor-changing neutral currents~(FCNC) at the tree level, a feature that constitutes the main source of restrictions on the parameter space. We report the allowed regions by lepton decays and compare them with those coming from the semileptonic decays $K^{\pm}\longrightarrow \pi \bar{\nu}\nu$. We also show the excluded regions and the projected bounds of future experiments for the axion-photon coupling as a function of the axion mass and compare it with the parameter space of our model., Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures

Context. Extragalactic surveys are a key tool for better understanding the evolution of galaxies. Both deep and wide-field surveys serve to provide a clearer emerging picture of the physical processes that take place in and around galaxies, and to identify which of these processes are the most important in shaping the properties of galaxies. Aims. The Lockman Spectroscopic Redshift Survey using Osiris (Lockman-SpReSO) aims to provide one of the most complete optical spectroscopic follow-ups of the far-infrared (FIR) sources detected by the \textit{Herschel} Space Observatory in the Lockman Hole (LH) field. The optical spectroscopic study of the FIR-selected galaxies supplies valuable information about the relation between fundamental FIR and optical parameters, including extinction, star formation rate, and gas metallicity. In this article, we introduce and provide an in-depth description of the Lockman-SpReSO project and of its early results. Methods. We selected FIR sources from \textit{Herschel} observations of the central 24 arcmin $\times$ 24 arcmin of the LH field with an optical counterpart up to 24.5 $R_{\rm C}$(AB). The sample comprises 956 \textit{Herschel} FIR sources, plus 188 additional interesting objects in the field. These are point X-ray sources, cataclysmic variable star candidates, high-velocity halo star candidates, radio sources, very red quasi-stellar objects, and optical counterparts of sub-millimetre galaxies. The faint component of the catalogue ($R_{\rm C}(\mathrm{AB})\geq20$) was observed using the OSIRIS instrument on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias in multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) mode. The bright component was observed using two multi-fibre spectrographs: the AF2-WYFFOS at the William Herschel Telescope and the HYDRA instrument at the WYIN telescope., Comment: 22 pages, 12 figures

We present an extension $U(1)_{X}$ to the Standard Model that reproduces the lepton mass structures determined by the experiments. In the charged sector, we introduced effective operators of dimension $n = 7$ to generate the mass of the electron, which is null at tree-level due to the $X$ charge. In the neutral sector, we added three sterile right-handed neutrinos and three Majorana neutrinos to generate the mass structure for the left-handed neutrinos, by the inverse seesaw mechanism. The model free parameters were fitted with the known mass eigenvalues $m_{e},\,m_{\mu},\,m_{\tau}$, and with the most recent results of a global analysis of the data from neutrino oscillation. From the adjustment of the free parameters, we obtained allowed regions for the Yukawa coupling set.

We present a study of the relationships and environmental dependencies between stellar mass, star formation rate, and gas metallicity for more than 700 galaxies in groups up to redshift 0.35 from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. To identify the main drivers, our sample was analyzed as a function of group-centric distance, projected galaxy number density, and stellar mass. By using control samples of more than 16000 star-forming field galaxies and volume limited samples, we find that the highest enhancement in SFR (0.3 dex) occurs in galaxies with the lowest local density. In contrast to previous work, our data show small enhancements of $\sim$0.1 dex in SFR for galaxies at the highest local densities or group-centric distances. Our data indicates quenching in SFR only for massive galaxies, suggesting that stellar mass might be the main driver of quenching processes for star forming galaxies. We can discard a morphological driven quenching, since the S\'ersic index distribution for group and control galaxies are similar. The gas metallicity does not vary drastically. It increases $\sim$0.08 dex for galaxies at the highest local densities, and decreases for galaxies at the highest group-centric distances, in agreement with previous work. Altogether, the local density, rather than group-centric distance, shows the stronger impact in enhancing both, the SFR and gas metallicity. We applied the same methodology to galaxies from the IllustrisTNG simulations, and although we were able to reproduce the general observational trends, the differences between group and control samples only partially agree with the observations, Comment: Accepted by MNRAS

Off-centered spots of the enhanced gas velocity dispersion, s, are revealed in some galaxies from the MaNGA survey. Aiming to clarify the origin of the spots of enhanced s, we examine the distributions of the surface brightness, the line-of-sight velocity, the oxygen abundance, the gas velocity dispersion, and the BPT spaxel classification in seven galaxies. We find that the enhanced s spots in six galaxies can be attributed to a (minor) interaction with a satellite. Three galaxies in our sample have a very close satellite. The spots of enhanced s in those galaxies are located at the edge of the galaxy close to the satellite. The spots of enhanced s in three other galaxies are related to bright spots in the photometric B band within the galaxy, which can be due to the projection of a satellite in the line of sight of the galaxy. The oxygen abundances in the spots in these three galaxies are reduced. This suggests that the low-metallicity gas from the satellite is mixed with the interstellar medium of the disk. The spectra of the spaxels within a spot are usually HII-region-like, suggesting that the interaction in those galaxies does not result in appreciable shocks. In contrast, the spot of the enhanced s in the galaxy M-8716-12703 is associated with an off-centered AGN-like radiation distribution. One can suggest that the spot of the enhanced s in the M-8716-12703 galaxy is different in origin, or that the characteristics of gas infall in this case differs from that in other galaxies., Comment: 25 pages, 22 figures, accepted to AA

We study the effect of optical polarization squeezing on the performance of a sensitive, quantum-noise-limited optically pumped magnetometer. We use Bell-Bloom (BB) optical pumping to excite a $^{87}$Rb vapor containing $8.2 \cdot 10^{12} \mathrm{atoms/cm^3}$ and Faraday rotation to detect spin precession. The sub-$\mathrm{pT}/\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ sensitivity is limited by spin projection noise (photon shot noise) at low (high) frequencies. Probe polarization squeezing both improves high-frequency sensitivity and increases measurement bandwidth, with no loss of sensitivity at any frequency, a direct demonstration of the evasion of measurement backaction noise. We provide a model for the quantum noise dynamics of the BB magnetometer, including spin projection noise, probe polarization noise, and measurement backaction effects. The theory shows how polarization squeezing reduces optical noise, while measurement backaction due to the accompanying ellipticity anti-squeezing is shunted into the unmeasured spin component. The method is compatible with high-density and multi-pass techniques that reach extreme sensitivity., Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures

We study a non-universal $U(1)_{X}$ extension of the Standard Model with an extended scalar sector of two doublets and one singlet plus three additional exotic quarks and two exotic charged leptons on the fermionic sector. In order to obtain the observed fermion mass hierarchy, an additional $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ discrete symmetry is imposed, where the heaviest fermions acquire their masses from three different scales determined by two Higgs doublets and one singlet, whereas the lightest fermions obtain their masses from effective operators up to dimension seven. From chiral anomalies cancellation, the model also includes heavy right-handed neutrinos which get massive via an inverse see-saw mechanism, reproducing the observed mass differences for the active neutrinos. We analyze phenomenological consequences of the model in view of the so-called flavour anomalies, namely the latest measurement made by Fermilab of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon $g-2$, and additionally, the fit to semi-leptonic $B$ meson decays made by different flavour groups, dominated mainly by the LHCb 2020 data. We obtain that the model can explain the former at the $1\sigma$ level by means of contributions coming from charged $W^{+}$ bosons interacting with exotic Majorana neutrinos at one-loop level, with the $Z'$ boson contribution itself coming from the $U(1)_X$ symmetry being negligible. However, we find that the model is able to accommodate the $b\to s\ell^{+}\ell^{-}$ transitions associated to the $B$ meson anomalies only at the $2\sigma$ level via tree-level $Z'$ boson exchange, while simultaneously respecting various constraints from the recent $R_{K^{(*)}}$ measurements made by the LHCb, neutrino trident production and $B-\bar B$ oscillations., Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, 5 tables. B meson analysis extended and updated, major changes to introduction and overall structure of the paper

We consider the Lorentz-violating extended QED involving all nonminimal dimension-5 additive CPT-odd terms. For this theory, we investigate the possibility of generating the Carroll-Field-Jackiw (CFJ) term of the first order in any of these nonminimal couplings. This term is demonstrated to vanish in certain regularization schemes. We also study the question of higher-derivative divergent contributions and demonstrate that they can be eliminated by considering a given proportionality between the coefficients., Comment: 13 pages, version accepted to European Physical Journal C

A non-universal anomaly free $U(1)_{X}$ extension to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, consisting of four scalar doublets, four scalar singlets and additional quark and lepton singlets including right-handed and Majorana neutrinos, is used to determine the contributions to the electron and muon Electric Dipole Moment. The additional CP violation sources come from the lepton sector, where neutrino masses are explained by an Inverse Seesaw Mechanism and the CP violating phase of the PMNS matrix generates complex interactions that involves exotic neutrino and sneutrino mass eigenstates. Such contributions are studied at one and two-loop level by considering the associated Barr-Zee diagrams and their supersymmetric counterpart. At one-loop level, it is found that the Electric Dipole Moment fixes a relationship between chargino and sneutrino masses depending on which particles have a mass bellow $10^{6}$ GeV. At two loop level, contributions are comparable to the one-loop contributions but the integrals diverge in some cases, yielding additional restrictions such as no degenerate sneutrino masses and they should be heavier than chargino masses., Comment: 32 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables

In this paper, we apply the functional integral methodology to induce the Carroll-Field-Jackiw (CFJ) term in Horava-Lifshitz $z=3$ CPT-violating QED, where Lorentz and CPT breaking for fermion and photon sectors is introduced, and show that the CFJ term is finite but undetermined., Comment: 12 pages, version accepted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. A

A non-universal $U(1)_{X}$ extension to the Standard Model composed of two scalar doublets and two scalar singlets together with three additional quark singlets and two lepton singlets and three generations of right-handed and Majorana neutrinos is made to explain lepton mass hierarchy, neutrino masses via inverse seesaw mechanism and muon anomalous magnetic moment in an anomaly free framework. In the present model, exotic and Standard Model particles acquire mass thanks to vacuum expectation values at different scales, yet the electron and the lightest neutrino are tree level massless but massive at one-loop level. By considering a numerical exploration and under the constraint of the Higgs mass, neutrino mass differences and PMNS matrix, it is found that only contributions due to exotic neutrinos interacting with charged scalars are relevant to muon $g-2$, though they are negative. Thus, the SUSY extension is considered and it is found that muon $g-2$ can be explained by allowing $U(1)_{X}$ vacuum expectation values to lie in the TeV scale thanks to SUSY soft-breaking interactions for at least $\sim 10^{5}$ GeV masses. Thus, the contribution due to exotic neutrinos interacting with $W$ gauge bosons is positive and no longer negligible which added to all other contributions might explain the anomaly., Comment: 42 pages, 26 figures, 3 tables

An anomaly free non-universal $U(1)_{X}$ extension to the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is proposed, where additional two $SU(2)$ doublet superfields and four singlet superfields complement the scalar sector of the model. The fermion sector is extended by considering additional superfields containing three quark singlets, two charged lepton singlet superfields and six neutral leptons. A tree-level massless electron is found so radiative corrections are considered to match the mass spectrum with both SUSY and non-SUSY contributions. Likewise, a massless neutrino is found and analytic expressions for massive mass eigenstates are obtained via inverse-seesaw mechanism, which implies a known neutrino mass spectrum for both normal and inverse ordering. Lastly, a numerical fitting of the model parameters to the PMNS matrix is done., Comment: 26 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables

A Peccei-Quinn~(PQ) symmetry is proposed in order to generate in the Standard Model~(SM) quark sector a realistic mass matrix ansatz with five texture-zeros. Limiting our analysis to Hermitian mass matrices, we show that this requires a minimum of 4 Higgs doublets. This model allows assigning values close to 1 for several Yukawa couplings, giving insight into the origin of the mass scales in the SM. Since the PQ charges are non-universal, the model features Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents~(FCNC) at the tree level. From the analytical expressions for the FCNC we report the allowed region in the parameter space obtained from the measurements of branching ratios of semileptonic meson decays., Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures

We study the $z=3$ Horava-Lifshitz QED with a CPT-breaking term, characterized by the axial vector $b_{\mu}$, and perform the one-loop calculations. Explicitly, we demonstrate that just as in the usual Lorentz-breaking QED, in our case, the Carroll-Field-Jackiw term is finite but ambiguous., Comment: 10 pages

The intermediate-mass pre-main sequence Herbig Ae/Be stars are key to understanding the differences in formation mechanisms between low- and high-mass stars. The study of the general properties of these objects is hampered by the fact that few and mostly serendipitously discovered sources are known. Our goal is to identify new Herbig Ae/Be candidates to create a homogeneous and well defined catalogue of these objects. We have applied machine learning techniques to 4,150,983 sources with data from Gaia DR2, 2MASS, WISE, and IPHAS or VPHAS+. Several observables were chosen to identify new Herbig Ae/Be candidates based on our current knowledge of this class, which is characterised by infrared excesses, photometric variabilities, and H$\alpha$ emission lines. Classical techniques are not efficient for identifying new Herbig Ae/Be stars mainly because of their similarity with classical Be stars, with which they share many characteristics. By focusing on disentangling these two types of objects, our algorithm has also identified new classical Be stars. We have obtained a large catalogue of 8470 new pre-main sequence candidates and another catalogue of 693 new classical Be candidates with a completeness of $78.8\pm1.4\%$ and $85.5\pm1.2\%$, respectively. Of the catalogue of pre-main sequence candidates, at least 1361 sources are potentially new Herbig Ae/Be candidates according to their position in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. In this study we present the methodology used, evaluate the quality of the catalogues, and perform an analysis of their flaws and biases. For this assessment, we make use of observables that have not been accounted for by the algorithm and hence are selection-independent, such as coordinates and parallax based distances. The catalogue of new Herbig Ae/Be stars that we present here increases the number of known objects of the class by an order of magnitude., Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Received 14 February 2020 / Accepted 27 April 2020 (18 pages, 9 figures)

We propose a non-universal $\mathrm{U}(1)_{X}$ gauge extension to the Standard Model (SM) and an additional Peccei-Quinn (PQ) global symmetry to study the mass hierarchy and strong CP problem. The scheme allows us to distinguish among fermion families and to generate the fermionic mass spectrum of particles of the SM. The symmetry breaking is performed by two scalar Higgs doublets and two scalar Higgs singlets, where one of these has the axion which turns out to be a candidate for Cold Dark Matter. The exotic sector is composed by one up-like $T$ and two down-like $J^{1,2}$ heavy quarks, two heavy charged leptons $E,\mathcal{E}$, one additional right-handed neutrino per family $\nu_{R}^{e,\mu,\tau}$, and an invisible axion $a$. In addition, the large energy scale associated to the breaking of the PQ-symmetry gives masses to the right-handed neutrinos in such a way that the active neutrinos acquire eV-mass values due to the see-saw mechanism. On the other hand, from the non-linear effective Lagrangian, the flavour changing of the down quarks and charged leptons with the axion are considered.