A bstract Run 2 LHC data show hints of a new resonance in the diphoton distribution at an
invariant mass of 750 GeV. We analyse the data in terms of a new boson, extracting …

A bstract Dark Matter could be a composite state of a confining sector with an approximate
scale symmetry. We consider the case where the associated pseudo-Goldstone boson, the …

We present a comprehensive study of the electroweak phase transition in composite Higgs
models, where the Higgs arises from a new, strongly-coupled sector which confines near the …

We constrain effective field theories by going beyond the familiar positivity bounds that
follow from unitarity, analyticity, and crossing symmetry of the scattering amplitudes. As …

A bstract Using the large-charge expansion, we prove a necessary condition for a CFT to
exhibit conformal symmetry breaking, under the assumption that a continuous global …

A bstract Models of large-field inflation based on axion-like fields with shift symmetries can
be simple and natural, and make a promising prediction of detectable primordial …

We study the electroweak phase transition within a 5D warped model including a scalar
potential with an exponential behavior, and strong back-reaction over the metric, in the …

We investigate the physics case for a dedicated trigger on a low mass, hadronic displaced
vertex at the high luminosity LHC, relying on the CMS phase II track trigger. We estimate the …

We study the nature of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in models where the Higgs
boson emerges as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of an approximate global symmetry …

We review and extend recent studies of dilaton effective field theory (dEFT) that provide a
framework for the description of the Higgs boson as a composite structure. We first describe …