On the duality in CPT-even Lorentz-breaking theories
We generalize the duality between self-dual and Maxwell–Chern–Simons theories for the case of a CPT-even Lorentz-breaking extension of these theories. The duality is shown using the gauge embedding procedure, both in free and coupled cases, and with the master action approach. The physical spectra of both Lorentz-breaking theories are studied. The massive poles are shown to coincide and to respect the requirements for unitarity and causality at tree level. The extra massless poles which are present in the dualized model are shown to be nondynamical.

title: Lorentz violation and the proper-time method
abstract: In this Letter, we apply the proper-time method to generate the Lorentz-violating Chern–Simons terms in the four-dimensional Yang–Mills and non-linearized gravity theories. It is shown that the coefficient of the induced Chern–Simons term is finite but regularization dependent.

title: Free energy of Lorentz-violating QED at high temperature
abstract: In this paper we study the one- and two-loop contribution to the free energy in QED with Lorentz symmetry breaking introduced via constant CPT-even Lorentz-breaking parameters at the high temperature limit. We find the impact of the Lorentz-violating term for the free energy and carry out a numerical estimation for the Lorentz-breaking parameter.

title: Horava-Lifshitz-like extensions of supersymmetric theories
abstract: Within the superfield approach, we formulate two different extensions of the Wess-Zumino model and super-QED with Horava-Lifshitz-like additive terms, discuss their quantum properties and calculate lower contributions to the effective action. In the case of the gauge theory, the one-loop effective potential turns out to be gauge independent.

title: Effective potential for a SUSY Lee–Wick model: The Wess–Zumino case
abstract: Using a superfield generalization of the tadpole method, we study the one-loop effective potential for a Wess–Zumino model modified by a higher derivative term, inspired by the Lee–Wick model. The one-loop Kahlerian potential is also obtained by other methods and compared with the effective potential.

title: Equivalence between supersymmetric self-dual and Maxwell–Chern–Simons models coupled to a matter spinor superfield
abstract: We study the duality of the supersymmetric self-dual and Maxwell–Chern–Simons theories coupled to a fermionic matter superfield, using a master action. This approach evades the difficulties inherent to the quartic couplings that appear when matter is represented by a scalar superfield. The price is that the spinorial matter superfield represents a unusual supersymmetric multiplet, whose main physical properties we also discuss.

title: Dipenguin-like contributions to D0 - anti-D0 mixing
abstract: We show that because of the milder GIM suppression, the four-quark dipenguin operator contributes to the short distance piece of the D^0-\bar D^0 mixing amplitude at the same order of magnitude as the box diagram. In addition, we put an upper bound \Delta m_D^{LDR} \leq 5 \times \Delta m_D^{box} on a long-distance resonant contribution induced by the penguin mixing.

title: Searching for dark matter at LHC with Mono-Higgs production
abstract: We consider LHC searches for dark matter in the mono-Higgs channel using the tools of effective field theory. This channel takes unique advantage of the presence of SU(2)L breaking in those operators to avoid the need for any initial-state radiation, usually necessary to tag the production of invisible particles. We find that sensitivities to parameters describing dark matter interactions with standard model particles are comparable to those from monojet searches for a subset of the usually-considered operators, and we present for the first time bounds from collider searches on operators which couple DM to only the Higgs field or its covariant derivatives.

title: Lifetime difference in Bs mixing: Standard Model and beyond
abstract: We present a calculation of 1 / m b 2 corrections to the lifetime differences of B s mesons Δ Γ B s in the heavy-quark expansion. We find that they are small to significantly affect Δ Γ B s and present the result for lifetime difference including non-perturbative 1 / m b and 1 / m b 2 corrections. We also analyze the generic Δ B = 1 New Physics contributions to Δ Γ B s and provide several examples.

title: Eta-prime production in B decays: Standard model versus new physics

title: Mixing and CP-violation in charm
abstract: The motivation most often cited in searches for D 0 − D 0 ¯ mixing and CP-violation in charm system lies with the possibility of observing a signal from new physics which dominates that from the Standard Model. We review recent theoretical predictions and experimental constraints on D 0 − D 0 ¯ mixing parameters. We also discuss the current status of searches for CP-violation in charmed meson transitions, as well as some recent theoretical ideas.