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In addition to the three long-standing anomalies seen in the muon g − 2, RK(∗), and RD(∗) observables by various independent experiments, the CDF collaboration has found another significant one in the W boson mass. These anomalies might be intertwined at a fundamental level and have a single new physics explanation. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of whether these anomalies can be explained in a model of a weak-singlet S1 and a weak-triplet S3 scalar leptoquarks. We find that with an appropriate flavour ansatz and mass mixing between the S1 and S3 leptoquarks through a Higgs portal, the model can explain the four anomalies simultaneously while being consistent with potential spoilsport observables like R νν K(∗) .

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The U(1) extensions of the Standard Model contain a heavy neutral gauge boson Z 0 . If leptophobic, the boson can evade the stringent bounds from the dilepton resonance searches. In these extensions, righthanded neutrinos NR are also well-motivated by the gauge-anomaly cancellation and light-neutrino mass generation via seesaw mechanisms. The coexistence of a leptophobic Z 0 and the right-handed neutrinos opens up a new possibility of searching for these particles simultaneously through the production of Z 0 at the LHC and its decay to a NR pair. We study this process in an inverse seesaw set-up where the heavy neutrinos are pseudo-Dirac in nature. Hence, in our case, the NR pair produce only opposite-sign lepton pairs, as opposed to the Majorana-type neutrinos, which can produce both the same and the oppositesign lepton pairs. In particular, the signature we study involves a same-flavour-opposite-sign lepton pair plus hadronically-decaying boosted W bosons. Our analysis shows that the High Luminosity LHC can discover a TeV-scale leptophobic Z 0 decaying via NR pair for a wide range of available parameters in our model. Considerable parameter regions beyond the reach of the future dijet resonance searches can be probed through our channel.

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TeV-scale vector-like quarks (VLQs) are an essential ingredient of many new physics models. Because of their vectorlike nature, they do not contribute to the gauge anomalies and are less restricted than their chiral counterparts by the current experimental data. Ones that couple with the thirdgeneration quarks (top and bottom partners, we shall collectively refer to them as top partners) appear in composite Higgs models with a partially-composite top quark [1– 6], extra-dimensional models [7–11], Little-Higgs models [12–15], etc. However, in the last few years, an extensive direct search program at the LHC has gradually tightened the mass bounds on these quarks. For top partners like the T quark (with electromagnetic charge 2/3) or the B quark (with charge −1/3), the current exclusion limit stands as high as ∼ 1.5 TeV [16–20]. The direct VLQ searches generally assume that they decay exclusively to Standard Model (SM) particles, i.e., to a third-generation quark and a heavy vector-boson or a Higgs. However, this assumption need not hold in general, especially if one looks beyond the minimal models where the top partners can have new decay modes. For example, a top partner can decay to another heavy quark or a new boson [11, 21–43]. A possibility that has attracted some interest in the current literature is that a vector-like top partner decays to a new spinless state singlet under the SM gauge group [i.e., (1, 1, 0) under SU(3)c×SU(2)L ×U(1)Y ] and a third-generation quark. The singlet state could be

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A TeV scale leptoquark (LQ) is one of the promising explanations of the recent anomalies in the semileptonic decays of 퐵 mesons. Among the various LQs, the vector U1 is capable of explaining the anomalies in both 푅퐷(∗) and 푅퐾 (∗) observables. We use the current LHC data to put bounds on the parameter space of U1 relevant for the anomalies. Precise bounds are drawn by recasting the latest 휏휏 and 휇휇 searches by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. We find that it is imperative to include the resonant production modes for obtaining limits in the low mass regions. For higher mass points, the non-resonant production modes play a dominant role.

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Extensive searches to probe the particle nature of dark matter (DM) have been going on for some decades now but, so far, no conclusive evidence has been found. Among various options, the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) remains one of the prime possibilities as candidates for DM near the TeV scale. Taking a phenomenological view, such null results may be explained for a generic WIMP in a Higgs-portal scenario if we allow the light-quark Yukawa couplings to assume non-Standard Model (non-SM)-like values. This follows from a cancellation among different terms in the DM-nucleon scattering which can, in turn, lead to a vanishingly small direct-detection cross section. It might also lead to isospin violation in the DM-nucleon scattering. Such non-SM values of light-quark Yukawa couplings may be probed in the high luminosity run of the LHC.

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Entanglement is a fascinating feature, typical and ubiquitous to the science of quantum information and computation. Over the last few decades, we have seen entanglement, or more precisely bipartite entanglement, playing an unparalleled role in various quantum information-theoretic tasks [1–3]. Multipartite entanglement comes with an even richer structure and a whole new set of features providing information processing advantages in quantum communication, simulation, or metrology. It is therefore essential to construct methods to identify genuinely multipartite entangled states [4–6]. However, detecting entanglement of an arbitrary quantum state is a problem of significant complexity [7, 8]. Thus, witnessing entanglement by using versatile experimentally feasible tools [9–18] is a challenging task. In the case of multipartite entanglement, the challenge enhances significantly and demands greater interest from the scientific community. In this paper, we propose a protocol to detect multipartite entanglement by utilizing the well-known phenomenon of non-Markovianity in open quantum systems [19, 20] and the theory of positive maps. The positive maps that are not completely positive can detect bipartite entanglement quite effectively, Partial Transposition [21] being a well-known example. Unfortunately, this technique cannot be directly extended to the case of multipartite entanglement, where diverse separability structures complicate the detection problem. Although semi-definite programming can be used to construct witnesses to certify genuine multipartite entangle

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In the left-right symmetric models, a heavy charged gauge boson can decay to a lepton and a right-handed neutrino (RHN). If the neutrino masses are generated through the standard type-I seesaw mechanism, the Yukawa couplings controlling two-body decays of the RHN become very small. As a result, the RHN decays to another lepton and a pair of jets via an off-shell . This is the basis of the Keung-Senjanovi'{c} (KS) process, which was originally proposed as a probe of lepton number violation at the LHC. However, if a different mechanism like the inverse seesaw generates the neutrino masses, a TeV-scale RHN can have large Yukawa couplings and hence, dominantly decay to a lepton and a boson, leading to a kinematically different process from the KS one. We investigate the prospect of this unexplored process as a probe of the inverse seesaw mechanism in the left-right symmetric models at the HL-LHC. Our signal arises from the Drell-Yan production of a and leads to two high- same-flavour-opposite-sign leptons and a boosted -like fatjet in the final state. We find that a sequential with mass up to ~TeV along with a TeV-scale RHN can be discovered at the HL-LHC.

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Recently leptoquarks (LQs) are receiving a lot of attention in the literature. Since they connect the quark and the lepton sectors of the Standard Model (SM), their phenomenology is interesting in general. However, the recent attention is mainly due to their ability to explain the long-standing anomalies observed in B-meson decays and the muon anomalous magnetic moment measurements (see, e.g., [1–34] for a few recent studies). Generally, the models explaining the anomalies contain LQs that couple with the third-generation quarks and leptons. This gives additional motivation to search for such LQs (commonly known as the third-generation LQs in the literature) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Various strategies have already been applied in the searches for third-generation LQs at the LHC [

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Search strategies for the third-generation leptoquarks (LQs) are distinct from other LQ searches, especially when they decay to a top quark and a τ lepton. We investigate the cases of all TeV-scale scalar and vector LQs that decay to either a top-tau pair (charge-1/3 and 5/3 LQs) or a top-neutrino pair (charge2/3 LQs). One can then use the boosted top (which can be tagged efficiently using jet-substructure techniques) and high-pT τ leptons to search for these LQs. We consider two search channels with either one or two taus along with at least one hadronically decaying boosted top quark. We estimate the high luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) search prospects of these LQs by considering both symmetric and asymmetric pair and single production processes. Our selection criteria are optimised to retain events from both pair and single production processes. The combined signal has better prospects than the traditional searches. We include new three-body single production processes to enhance the single production contributions to the combined signal. We identify the interference effect that appears in the dominant single production channel of charge-1/3 scalar LQ (S 1/3 ). This interference is constructive if S 1/3 is weak-triplet and destructive, for a singlet one. As a result, their LHC prospects differ appreciably

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The U1 leptoquark (LQ) is known to be a suitable candidate for explaining the semileptonic B-decay anomalies. We derive precise limits on its parameter space relevant for the anomalies from the current LHC high-pT dilepton data. We consider an exhaustive list of possible B-anomalies-motivated simple scenarios with one or two new couplings that can also be used as templates for obtaining bounds on more complicated scenarios. To obtain precise limits, we systematically consider all possible U1 production processes that can contribute to the dilepton searches including the resonant pair and single productions, nonresonant t-channel U1 exchange, as well as its large interference with the Standard Model background. We demonstrate how the inclusion of generally ignored resonant productions and signal-background interference contributions in the dilepton signal can lead to stringent exclusion limits. We point out new search channels of U1 that can act as unique tests of the flavour-motivated models. The template scenarios can also be used for future U1 searches at the LHC. We compare the LHC limits with other relevant flavor bounds and find that a TeV-scale U1 can accommodate both RD(∗) and RK(∗) anomalies while satisfying all the bounds.