Publications by Duccio Pappadopulo

Strong Higgs interactions at a linear collider

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Roberto Contino, Andrea Thamm

We study the impact of Higgs precision measurements at a high-energy and high-luminosity linear electron positron collider, such as CLIC or the ILC, on the parameter space of a strongly interacting Higgs boson. Some combination of anomalous couplings are a ...

Springer Nature2014

Heavy vector triplets: bridging theory and data

Andrea Wulzer, Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre, Andrea Thamm

We introduce a model-independent strategy to study narrow resonances which we apply to a heavy vector triplet of the Standard Model (SM) group for illustration. The method is based on a simplified phenomenological Lagrangian which reproduces a large class ...

Springer Nature2014

A minimally tuned composite Higgs model from an extra dimension

Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre, Andrea Thamm

We construct and study the 5D realization of a composite Higgs model with minimal tuning. The Higgs is a (pseudo-)Goldstone boson from the spontaneous breaking of a global SO(5) symmetry to an SO(4) subgroup. The peculiarity of our construction lies in the ...

Springer Nature2013

A naturally light dilaton

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Paolo Lodone, Lorenzo Vitale

Goldstone's theorem does not apply straightforwardly to the case of spontaneously broken scale invariance. We elucidate under what conditions a light scalar degree of freedom, identifiable with the dilaton, can naturally arise. Our construction can be cons ...

Springer Nature2013

On Partial Compositeness and the CP asymmetry in charm decays

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Luca Vecchi, Paolo Lodone, Boaz Keren Zur

Recently, the LHCb and CDF Collaborations reported the measure of an unexpectedly large direct CP asymmetry in D meson decays. In this paper we ask if new physics associated with Partial Compositeness could plausibly explain this result. We find that Compo ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Model Building and Phenomenology on the Eve of the LHC Revolution

Duccio Pappadopulo

The discovery of a new bosonic resonance, whose interactions are consistent with those of the Standard Model Higgs boson, have been reported by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. In this thesis we describe the theoretical reasons to consider the Standard Mo ...

EPFL2012

Operator product expansion convergence in conformal field theory

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Johnny Espin Pais

We clarify questions related to the convergence of the operator product expansion and conformal block decomposition in unitary conformal field theories (for any number of spacetime dimensions). In particular, we explain why these expansions are convergent ...

American Physical Society2012

Strong, weak and flavor scalar triplets for the CDF Wjj anomaly

Duccio Pappadopulo, Riccardo Torre

A model describing the 4.1 sigma Wjj anomaly observed by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron collider is introduced. It features new scalar particles which are charged both under the SU(3)(C) and the SU(2)(L) gauge groups and which couple to pairs of quarks ...

2012

T-parity, its problems and their solution

Alessandro Vichi, Duccio Pappadopulo

We point out a basic difficulty in the construction of little-Higgs models with T-parity which is overlooked by large part of the present literature. Almost all models proposed so far fail to achieve their goal: they either suffer from sizable electroweak ...

Springer Nature2011

On the effect of resonances in composite Higgs phenomenology

Riccardo Rattazzi, Duccio Pappadopulo, Roberto Contino

We consider a generic composite Higgs model based on the coset SO(5)= SO(4) and study its phenomenology beyond the leading low-energy effective lagrangian approximation. Our basic goal is to introduce in a controllable and simple way the lowest-lying, poss ...

Springer Nature2011