On the one-loop effective potential in the higher-derivative four-dimensional chiral superfield theory with a nonconventional kinetic term
We explicitly calculate the one-loop effective potential for a higher-derivative four-dimensional chiral superfield theory with a nonconventional kinetic term. We consider the cases of minimal and nonminimal general Lagrangians. In particular, we find that in the minimal case the divergent part of the one-loop effective potential vanishes by reason of the chirality.

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: 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: Complete low-energy effective action in N=4 SYM: A Direct N=2 supergraph calculation
abstract: Using the covariant N=2 harmonic supergraph techniques we calculate the one-loop low-energy effective action of N=4 super-Yang–Mills theory in Coulomb branch with gauge group SU(2) spontaneously broken down to U(1). The full dependence of the low-energy effective action on both the hypermultiplet and gauge fields is determined. The direct quantum calculation confirms the correctness of the exact N=4 SYM low-energy effective action derived in hep-th/0111062 on the purely algebraic ground by invoking a hidden N=2 supersymmetry which completes the manifest N=2 one to N=4. Our results provide an exhaustive solution to the problem of finding out the exact completely N=4 supersymmetric low-energy effective action for the theory under consideration.

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

title: Neutrinos in a left-right model with a horizontal symmetry
abstract: We analyze the lepton sector of a left-right model based on the gauge group SU(2){sub L}xSU(2){sub R}xU(1), concentrating mainly on neutrino properties. Using the seesaw mechanism and a horizontal symmetry, we keep the right-handed symmetry breaking scale relatively low, while simultaneously satisfying phenomenological constraints on the light neutrino masses. We take the right-handed scale to be of order 10's of TeV and perform a full numerical analysis of the model's parameter space, subject to experimental constraints on neutrino masses and mixings. The numerical procedure yields results for the right-handed neutrino masses and mixings and the various CP-violating phases. We also discuss phenomenological applications of the model to neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton-flavor-violating decays (including decays such as {tau}{yields}3{mu}) and leptogenesis.

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: 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 super-WIMPs in leptonic heavy meson decays
abstract: We study constraints on the models of bosonic super-weakly interacting particle (super-WIMP) dark matter (DM) with DM masses m X ∼ O ( 1 – 100 ) keV from leptonic decays M → l ν ¯ l + X , where M = B ± , D ± , D s ± is a heavy meson state. We focus on two cases where X denotes either a light pseudoscalar (axion-like), or a light vector state that couples to the standard model (SM) through kinetic mixing. We note that for a small DM mass these decays are separately sensitive to DM couplings to quarks, but not its mass.