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  • Angularity in Higgs boson decays via Hgg at NNLL' accuracy
    2025, 49(2): 023106-023106-21. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/ad94e0
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    We present improved predictions of a class of event-shape distributions called angularity for a contribution from an effective operator $ H\to gg $ in Higgs hadronic decay that suffers from large perturbative uncertainties. In the framework of the soft-collinear effective theory, logarithmic terms of the distribution are resummed at NNLL' accuracy, for which a two-loop constant of gluon-jet function for angularity is independently determined using a fit to the fixed-order distribution at the NLO corresponding to $ {\cal{O}}( \alpha_s^2) $ relative to the Born rate. Our determination has reasonable agreement with the value in a recently released thesis. In the fit, we use an asymptotic form with a fractional power conjectured from recoil corrections at one-loop order, and it improves the accuracy of determining positive values of the angularity parameter a. The resummed distribution is matched to the NLO fixed-order results to make our predictions valid at all angularity values. We also discuss the first and subtracted moments of angularity as a function of a that enable the extraction of information on leading and subleading nonperturbative corrections associated with gluons.
  • Noncommutativity and its role in constant-roll inflation models with non-minimal coupling constrained by swampland conjectures
    2025, 49(2): 025108-025108-18. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/ad93b7
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    In this paper, using Hamiltonian formalism, we obtain solutions for constant-roll inflation according to the noncommutativity and the non-minimal coupling field of the Lagrangian. We consider three different types of couplings: power-law, exponential, and logarithmic. Subsequently, by plotting some figures, we study the effects of these coupling in constant-roll inflation with noncommutative parameters. We identify and specify the permissible regions of each case of the swampland conjecture and determine the best model. We find that the exponential, logarithmic, and power-law couplings with $\theta>0$ agree with the dS swampland conjecture. These couplings provide similar results in both cases, some of which are compatible and some incompatible with the dS swampland conjectures. Moreover, $\theta>0$ is more compatible than $\theta<0$, and the consistency value in the second boundary condition is much higher than in the first. The order of better compatibility of couplings with the swampland conjecture is ranked as follows: exponential non-minimal coupling, logarithmic non-minimal coupling, and power-law non-minimal coupling. For each type of coupling, we calculate the values of the scalar spectral index $n_s$ and the tensor-to-scalar ratio r for two different potentials and compare them with the observational data from Planck 2018. We also determine the range of the free parameters $(a,b,q)$ of the further refining de Sitter swampland conjecture (FRDSSC) that make the model consistent with the conjecture. We find that the model satisfies the FRDSSC for all types of couplings and both potentials, with some constraints on the parameters.
  • p-wave mesons emitting weak decays of bottom mesons
    2025, 49(2): 023105-023105-13. doi: 10.1088/1674-1137/ad9893
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    This paper is the extension of our previous work entitled ''Searching a systematics for nonfactorizable contributions to $ {B^ - } $ and $ {\bar B^0} $ hadronic decays''. Obtaining the factorizable contributions from the spectator-quark model for $ {N_c} = 3, $ a systematics was identified among the isospin reduced amplitudes for the nonfactorizable terms among $ \bar B \to D\pi /{D^*}\pi /D\rho $ decay modes. This systematics enables us to derive a generic formula to help predict the branching fractions for $ {\bar B^0} - $ decays. Inspired by this observation, we extend our analysis to p-wave meson emitting decays of $ B - $meson $ \bar B \to PA/PT/PS, $ particularly $\bar B \to {a_1}D/\pi {D_1}/\pi D'_1/\pi {D_2}/\pi {D_0}$, which have similar isospin structures and make predictions for $ {\bar B^0} - $ decays, for which experimental measurements are not yet available.
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