Preheating and locked inflation: an analytic approach towards parametric resonance
We take an analytic approach towards the framework of parametric resonance and apply it on preheating and locked inflation. A two-scalar toy model is analytically solved for the λ2χ2 coupling for the homogenous modes. The effects of dynamic universe background and backreaction are taken into account. We show the average effect of parametric resonance to be that χ's amplitude doubles for each cycle of . Our framework partly solves the broad resonance for preheating scenario, showing two distinct stages of preheating and making the parameters of preheating analytically calculable. It is demonstrated for slowroll inflation models, preheating is terminated, if by backreaction, typically in the 5th e-fold. Under our framework, a possible inhomogeneity amplification effect is also found during preheating, which both may pose strong constraints on some inflationary models and may amplify tiny existing inhomogeneities to the desired scale. For demonstration, we show it rules out the backreaction end of preheating of the quadratic slowroll inflation model with mass m ~ 10−6. For locked inflation, parametric resonance is found to be inhibited if has more than one real component.

title: CMB dipole asymmetry from a fast roll phase
abstract: The observed CMB (cosmic microwave background) dipole asymmetry cannot be explained by a single field model of inflation - it inevitably requires more than one field where one of the fields is responsible for amplifying the super-Hubble fluctuations beyond the pivot scale. Furthermore the current constraints on fNL and τNL require that such an amplification cannot produce large non-Gaussianity. In this paper we propose a model to explain this dipole asymmetry from a spectator field, which is responsible for generating all the curvature perturbations, but has a temporary fast roll phase before the Hubble exit of the pivot scale. The current data prefers spectator scenario because it leaves no isocurvature perturbations. The spectator model will also satisfy the well-known constraints arising from quasars, and the quadrupole and octupole of the CMB.

title: Visible sector inflation and the right thermal history in light of Planck data
abstract: Inflation creates perturbations for the large scale structures in the universe, but it also dilutes everything. Therefore it is pertinent that the end of inflation must explain how to excite the Standard Model dof along with the dark matter. In this paper we will briefly discuss the role of visible sector inflaton candidates which are embedded within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) and discuss their merit on how well they match the current data from the Planck. Since the inflaton carries the Standard Model charges their decay naturally produces all the relevant dof with no dark/hidden sector radiation and no isocurvature fluctuations. We will first discuss a single supersymmetric flat direction model of inflation and demonstrate what parameter space is allowed by the Planck and the LHC. We will also consider where the perturbations are created by another light field which decays after inflation, known as a curvaton. The late decay of the curvaton can create observable non-Gaussianity. In the end we will discuss the role of a spectator field whose origin may not lie within the visible sector physics, but its sheer presence during inflation can still create all the perturbations responsible for the large scale structures including possible non-Gaussianity, while the inflaton is embedded within the visible sector which creates all the relevant matter including dark matter, but no dark radiation.

title: Higgs boson decays and production via gluon fusion at LHC in littlest Higgs models with T-parity
abstract: We study the Higgs boson decays and production via gluon fusion at the LHC as a probe of two typical littlest Higgs models which introduce a top quark partner with different (even and odd) T parity to cancel the Higgs mass quadratic divergence contributed by the top quark. For each model, we consider two different choices for the down-type quark Yukawa couplings. We first examine the branching ratios of the Higgs boson decays and then study the production via gluon fusion followed by the decay into two photons or two weak gauge bosons. We find that the predictions can be quite different for different models or different choices of down-type quark Yukawa couplings, and all these predictions can sizably deviate from the standard model predictions. So the Higgs boson processes at the LHC can be a sensitive probe for these littlest Higgs models.

title: Leading-order actions of Goldstino fields
abstract: This paper starts with a self-contained discussion of the so-called Akulov–Volkov action $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{AV}}$, which is traditionally taken to be the leading-order action of the Goldstino field. Explicit expressions for $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{AV}}$ and its chiral version $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{AV}}^{\mathrm{ch}}$ are presented. We then turn to the issue on how these actions are related to the leading-order action $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{NL}}$ proposed in the newly proposed constrained superfield formalism. We show that $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{NL}}$ may yield $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm {AV}}/\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{AV}}^{\mathrm{ch}}$ or a totally different action $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{KS}}$, depending on how the auxiliary field in the former is integrated out. However, $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{KS}}$ and $\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm {AV}}/\mathcal{S}_{\mathrm{AV}}^{\mathrm{ch}}$ always yield the same S-matrix elements, as one would have expected from general considerations in quantum field theory.

title: Partial wave analysis of ψ(2S) → $p\overline{p}η$
abstract: Using a sample of 1.06 x 10(8) psi(2) events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII, the decay psi(2S) -> p (p) over bar eta is studied. A partial wave analysis determines that the intermediate state N(1535) with a mass of 1524 +/- 5(-4)(+10) MeV/c(2) and a width of 130(-24-10)(+27+57) MeV/c(2) is dominant in the decay; the product branching fraction is determined to be B(psi(2S) -> N(1535)(p) over bar x B(N(1535) -> p eta + c.c. = 5.2 +/- 0.3(-1.2)(+3.2)) x 10(-5). Furthermore, the branching fraction of psi(2S) -> p (p) over bar eta is measured to be (6.4 +/- 0.2 +/- 0.6) x 10(-5). Here, the first error is statistical and the second is systematic.

title: Dark matter constraints on the left-right symmetric model with Z(2) symmetry
abstract: In the framework of the left-right symmetric model, we investigate an interesting scenario, in which the so-called vacuum expectation value (VEV)-seesaw problem can be naturally solved with Z(2) symmetry. In such a scenario, we find a pair of stable weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which may be the cold dark matter candidates. However, the WIMP-nucleon cross section is 3-5 orders of magnitude above the present upper bounds from the direct dark matter detection experiments for m similar to 10(2)-10(4) GeV. As a result, the relic number density of two stable particles has to be strongly suppressed to a very small level. Nevertheless, our analysis shows that this scenario cannot provide very large annihilation cross sections so as to give the desired relic abundance except for the resonance case. Only for the case if the rotation curves of disk galaxies are explained by the modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), the stable WIMPs could be as the candidates of cold dark matter.

title: Dielectron and diphoton channels in 2HDM
abstract: It was observed recently that [L. Randall, Mark B. Wise,  ], any particle in the Standard Model cannot decay to e + e − and γγ final states with comparably measurable branching ratios. This is also true for most extensions of the Standard Model, with the Randall–Sundrum model as an outstanding exception. In this Letter, we show that two-Higgs-Doublet-Models (2HDM) yield another possible exception if certain parameters are properly chosen. In addition, we have checked that this model survives the tests of low energy processes, including the anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment of leptons, lepton-flavor-violating decays μ − → e − γ and e − e + e − .