The IceCube Neutrino Observatory - Contributions to ICRC 2015 Part III: Cosmic Rays

34th International Cosmic Ray Conference Proceedings of Science (2015)

Authors:

K Abraham, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, D Altmann, T Anderson, I Ansseau, M Archinger, C Arguelles, TC Arlen, J Auffenberg, X Bai, SW Barwick, V Baum, R Bay, JJ Beatty, JB Tjus, K-H Becker, E Beiser, S Benzvi, P Berghaus

Abstract:

Papers on cosmic rays submitted to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015, The Hague) by the IceCube Collaboration.

A couplet from flavored dark matter

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2015:8 (2015) 72

Authors:

Prateek Agrawal, Zackaria Chacko, Can Kilic, Christopher B Verhaaren

Fully Differential Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order.

Physical review letters 115:8 (2015) 082002

Authors:

Matteo Cacciari, Frédéric A Dreyer, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P Salam, Giulia Zanderighi

Abstract:

We calculate the fully differential next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) corrections to vector-boson fusion (VBF) Higgs boson production at proton colliders, in the limit in which there is no cross talk between the hadronic systems associated with the two protons. We achieve this using a new "projection-to-Born" method that combines an inclusive NNLO calculation in the structure-function approach and a suitably factorized next-to-leading-order VBF Higgs plus three-jet calculation, using appropriate Higgs plus two-parton counterevents. An earlier calculation of the fully inclusive cross section had found small NNLO corrections, at the 1% level. In contrast, the cross section after typical experimental VBF cuts receives NNLO contributions of about (5-6)%, while differential distributions show corrections of up to (10-12)% for some standard observables. The corrections are often outside the next-to-leading-order scale-uncertainty band.

Heterotic moduli stabilisation and non-supersymmetric vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics Springer Nature 2015:8 (2015) 20

Authors:

Andre Lukas, Zygmunt Lalak, Eirik E Svanes

Electroweak relaxation from finite temperature

ArXiv 1507.07525 (2015)