# CERN-TH

2014-03-07
04:28
 Gauged R-symmetry and de Sitter vacua in supergravity and string theory / Antoniadis, Ignatios ; Knoops, Rob A new class of metastable de Sitter vacua is presented and analyzed in N =1 supergravity and string theory with tunable (infinitesimally small) value of the cosmological constant. [...] arXiv:1403.1534 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-034. - 2014. - 25 p. Preprint

2014-03-05
05:20
 Coulomb branch Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood polynomials / Cremonesi, Stefano ; Hanany, Amihay ; Mekareeya, Noppadol ; Zaffaroni, Alberto There has been a recent progress in understanding the chiral ring of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal gauge theories by explicitly constructing an exact generating function (Hilbert series) counting BPS operators on the Coulomb branch. [...] arXiv:1403.0585 ; CERN-PH-TH-2013-278 ; IMPERIAL-TP-14-SC-01. - 2014. - 40 p. Preprint

2014-02-27
05:15
 Constraining neutron star matter with QCD / Kurkela, Aleksi ; Fraga, Eduardo S ; Schaffner-Bielich, Jurgen ; Vuorinen, Aleksi In recent years, there have been several successful attempts to constrain the equation of state of neutron star matter using input from low-energy nuclear physics and observational data. [...] arXiv:1402.6618 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-032 ; HIP-2014-02-TH. - 2014. - 9 p. Preprint

2014-02-26
04:34
 Benchmarks for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC / de Simone, Andrea ; Giudice, Gian Francesco ; Strumia, Alessandro We propose some scenarios to pursue dark matter searches at the LHC in a fairly model-independent way. [...] arXiv:1402.6287 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-008 ; SISSA 01-2014-FISI. - 2014. - 22 p. Preprint

2014-02-21
04:15
 Iwasawa nilpotency degree of non compact symmetric cosets in N-extended Supergravity / Cacciatori, Sergio Luigi ; Cerchiai, Bianca Letizia ; Ferrara, Sergio ; Marrani, Alessio We analyze the polynomial part of the Iwasawa realization of the coset representative of non compact symmetric Riemannian spaces. [...] arXiv:1402.5063 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-026. - 2014. - 40 p. Preprint

2014-02-21
04:15
 Saturation effects in forward-forward dijet production in p+Pb collisions / van Hameren, A ; Kotko, P ; Kutak, K ; Marquet, C ; Sapeta, S We study saturation effects in the production of forward dijets in proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, using the framework of High Energy Factorization. [...] arXiv:1402.5065 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-029 ; CPHT-RR005.0214 ; IFJPAN-IV-2014-2. - 2014. - 12 p. Preprint

2014-02-21
04:13
 Starobinsky-Like Inflation in Dilaton-Brane Cosmology / Ellis, John ; Mavromatos, Nick E ; Nanopoulos, Dimitri V We discuss how Starobinsky-like inflation may emerge from dilaton dynamics in brane cosmology scenarios based on string theory, in which our universe is represented as a three-brane. [...] arXiv:1402.5075 ; KCL-PH-TH-2014-06 ; LCTS-2014-07 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-028 ; ACT-1-14. - 2014. - 5 p. Preprint

2014-02-21
04:13
 UV-completing Ghost Inflation / Ivanov, Mikhail M ; Sibiryakov, Sergey We present a setup that provides a UV-completion of the ghost inflation model up to a scale which can be almost as high as the Planck mass. [...] arXiv:1402.4964 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-030 ; INR-TH-2014-003. - 2014. - 29 p. Preprint

2014-02-19
04:13
 Spontaneous Breaking of Scale Invariance in d=3 U(N) Model with Chern-Simons Gauge Field / Bardeen, William A ; Moshe, Moshe We study spontaneous breaking of scale invariance in the large N limit of three dimensional $U(N)_\kappa$ Chern-Simons theories coupled to a scalar field in the fundamental representation. [...] arXiv:1402.4196 ; CERN-PH-TH-2013-299 ; FERMILAB-PUB-13-552-T. - 2014. - 23 p. Preprint

2014-02-14
04:34
 Revisiting Radiation Patterns in $e^+e^-$ Collisions / Fischer, Nadine ; Gieseke, Stefan ; Plätzer, Simon ; Skands, Peter We propose four simple event-shape variables for semi-inclusive $e^+e^- \to 4$-jet events. [...] arXiv:1402.3186 ; CERN-PH-TH-2014-018 ; DESY-14-014 ; KA-TP-05-2014 ; MCNET-14-04. - 2014. - 27 p. Preprint