The strong coupling: a theoretical perspective

Chapter in From My Vast Repertoire ..., WORLD SCIENTIFIC (2018) 101-121

The strong coupling: a theoretical perspective

Chapter in From My Vast Repertoire ..., World Scientific Publishing (2018) 101-121

Theory Vision talk at LHCP2018

(2018)

Vector boson scattering: Recent experimental and theory developments

Rev.Phys. 3 (2018) 44-63

Authors:

CF Anders, A Ballestrero, J Balz, R Bellan, B Biedermann, C Bittrich, S Braß, I Brivio, LS Bruni, J Butterworth, M Cacciari, A Cardini, C Charlot, V Ciulli, R Covarelli, J Cuevas, A Denner, L Di Ciaccio, S Dittmaier, S Duric, S Farrington, P Ferrari, P Ferreira Silva, L Finco, D Giljanović, N Glover, R Gomez-Ambrosio, G Gomez-Ceballos, G Gonella, P Govoni, C Goy, P Gras, C Grojean, E Gross, M Grossi, M Grunewald, L Helary, M Herndon, T Herrmann, A Hinzmann, F Iltzsche, B Jäger, X Janssen, H Jung, A Karlberg, O Kepka, B Kersevan, M Klute, M Kobel, I Koletsou, K Kordas, T Lampen, JGE Lauwers, D Lelas, P Lenzi, Q Li, K Lipka, K Lohwasser, K Long, N Lorenzo Martinez, E Maina, F Maltoni, J Manjarres, C Mariotti, O Mattelaer, MU Mozer, M Mulders, J Novak, C Oleari, A Paganoni, M Pellen, G Pelliccioli, C Petridou, P Pigard, M Pleier, G Polesello, K Potamianos, D Price, I Puljak, M Rauch, D Rebuzzi, J Reuter, F Riva, V Rothe, L Russo, R Salerno, D Sampsonidou, L Sangalli, E Sauvan, M Schumacher, C Schwan, M Sekulla, M Selvaggi, F Siegert, M Slawinska, H Snoek, P Sommer, F Spanò, M Spannowsky, P Stienemeier, J Strandberg, M Szleper, A Sznajder, S Tkaczyk, S Todt, M Trott, S Tzamarias, B Van Eijk, A Vicini, M Voutilainen, E Vryonidou, G Zanderighi, M Zaro, D Zeppenfeld

Abstract:

This document summarises the talks and discussions happened during the VBSCan Split17 workshop, the first general meeting of the VBSCan COST Action network. This collaboration is aiming at a consistent and coordinated study of vector-boson scattering from the phenomenological and experimental point of view, for the best exploitation of the data that will be delivered by existing and future particle colliders.

Spinorial flux tubes in SO(N) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Verlag 2018:11 (2018) 132

Abstract:

We investigate whether one can observe in SO(3) and SO(4) (lattice) gauge theories the presence of spinorial flux tubes, i.e. ones that correspond to the fundamental representation of SU(2); and similarly for SO(6) and SU(4). We do so by calculating the finite volume dependence of the Jp = 2+ glueball in 2 + 1 dimensions, using lattice simulations. We show how this provides strong evidence that these SO(N) gauge theories contain states that are composed of (conjugate) pairs of winding spinorial flux tubes, i.e. ones that are in the (anti)fundamental of the corresponding SU(N′) gauge theories. Moreover, these two flux tubes can be arbitrarily far apart. This is so despite the fact that the fields that are available in the SO(N) lattice field theories do not appear to allow us to construct operators that project onto single spinorial flux tubes.