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Article Citation - WoS: 28Search for a Heavy Bottom-Like Quark in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev(Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, GülerA search for pair-produced bottom-like quarks in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV is conducted with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The decay b' -> tW is considered in this search. The b'(b) over bar' tW-(t) over barW(+) process can be identified by the distinctive signature of trileptons and same-sign dileptons. With a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34 pb(-1), no excess above the standard model background predictions is observed and a b' quark with a mass between 255 and 361 GeV/c(2) is excluded at the 95% confidence level. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 21Measurement of the Ratio of the 3-Jet To 2-Jet Cross Sections in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev(Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, GülerA measurement of the ratio of the inclusive 3-jet to 2-jet cross sections as a function of the total jet transverse momentum. HT, in the range 0.2 < H-T < 2.5 TeV is presented. The data have been collected at a proton-proton centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1). Comparisons are made between the data and the predictions of different QCD-based Monte Carlo models for multijet production. All models considered in this study are consistent with the data for H-T > 0.5 TeV. This measurement extends to an H-T range that has not been explored before. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 33Search for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Using Multilepton Signatures in Pp Collisions at Root S=7 Tev(Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karapınar, GülerA search for physics beyond the standard model in events with at least three leptons and any number of jets is presented. The data sample corresponds to 35 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. A number of exclusive multileptonic channels are investigated and standard model backgrounds are suppressed by requiring sufficient missing transverse energy, invariant mass inconsistent with that of the Z boson, or high jet activity. Control samples in data are used to ascertain the robustness of background evaluation techniques and to minimise the reliance on simulation. The observations are consistent with background expectations. These results constrain previously unexplored regions of supersymmetric parameter space. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Higgsed Stueckelberg Vector and Higgs Quadratic Divergence(Elsevier Ltd., 2015) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Karahan, Canan Nurhan; Korutlu, BesteHere we show that, a hidden vector field whose gauge invariance is ensured by a Stueckelberg scalar and whose mass is spontaneously generated by the Standard Model Higgs field contributes to quadratic divergences in the Higgs boson mass squared, and even leads to its cancellation at one-loop when Higgs coupling to gauge field is fine-tuned. In contrast to mechanisms based on hidden scalars where a complete cancellation cannot be achieved, stabilization here is complete in that the hidden vector and the accompanying Stueckelberg scalar are both free from quadratic divergences at one-loop. This stability, deriving from hidden exact gauge invariance, can have important implications for modeling dark phenomena like dark matter, dark energy, dark photon and neutrino masses. The hidden fields can be produced at the LHC.Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 14Dark Matter From Conformal Sectors(Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Frank, Mariana; Korutlu, BesteWe show that a conformal-invariant dark sector, interacting conformally with the Standard Model (SM) fields through the Higgs portal, provides a viable framework where cold dark matter (CDM) and invisible Higgs decays can be addressed concurrently. Conformal symmetry naturally subsumes the ℤ2 symmetry needed for stability of the CDM. It also guarantees that the weaker the couplings of the dark sector fields to the SM Higgs field, the smaller the masses they acquire through electroweak breaking. The model comfortably satisfies the bounds from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Planck Space Telescope (PLANCK 2013).Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 16Effects of Curvature-Higgs Coupling on Electroweak Fine-Tuning(Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Demir, Durmuş AliIt is shown that nonminimal coupling between the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field and spacetime curvature, present already at the renormalizable level, can be fine-tuned to stabilize the electroweak scale against power-law ultraviolet divergences. The nonminimal coupling acts as an extrinsic stabilizer with no effect on the loop structure of the SM, if gravity is classical. This novel fine-tuning scheme, which could also be interpreted within Sakharov's induced gravity approach, works neatly in extensions of the SM involving additional Higgs fields or singlet scalars.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 8Tunneling in Polymer Quantization and the Quantum Zeno Effect(Elsevier Ltd., 2014) Demir, Durmuş Ali; Sargın, OzanAs an application of the polymer quantization scheme, in this work we investigate the one-dimensional quantum mechanical tunneling phenomenon from the perspective of polymer representation of a non-relativistic point particle and derive the transmission and reflection coefficients. Since any tunneling phenomenon inevitably evokes a tunneling time, we attempt an analytical calculation of tunneling times by defining an operator well suited in discrete spatial geometry. The results that we come up with hint at appearance of the Quantum Zeno Effect in polymer framework.Article Citation - WoS: 154Citation - Scopus: 154Higgs-Palatini Inflation and Unitarity(Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Bauer, Florian; Demir, Durmuş AliIn the Higgs inflation scenario the Higgs field is strongly coupled to the Ricci scalar in order to drive primordial inflation. However, in its original form in pure metric formulation of gravity, the ultraviolet (UV) cutoff of the Higgs interactions and the Hubble rate are of the same magnitude, and this makes the whole inflationary evolution dependent of the unknown UV completion of the Higgs sector. This problem, the unitarity violation, plagues the Higgs inflation scenario. In this Letter we show that, in the Palatini formulation of gravitation, Higgs inflation does not suffer from unitarity violation since the UV cutoff lies parametrically much higher than the Hubble rate so that unknown UV physics does not disrupt the inflationary dynamics. Higgs-Palatini inflation, as we call it, is, therefore, UV-safe, minimal and endowed with predictive power.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 16Stress-Energy Connection and Cosmological Constant Problem(Elsevier Ltd., 2011) Demir, Durmuş AliWe study gravitational properties of vacuum energy by erecting a geometry on the stress-energy tensor of vacuum, matter and radiation. Postulating that the gravitational effects of matter and radiation can be formulated by an appropriate modification of the spacetime connection, we obtain varied geometrodynamical equations which properly comprise the usual gravitational field equations with, however, Planck-suppressed, non-local, higher-dimensional additional terms. The prime novelty brought about by the formalism is that, the vacuum energy does act not as the cosmological constant but as the source of the gravitational constant. The formalism thus deafens the cosmological constant problem by channeling vacuum energy to gravitational constant. Nevertheless, quantum gravitational effects, if any, restore the problem via the graviton and graviton-matter loops, and the mechanism proposed here falls short of taming such contributions to cosmological constant.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Tevatron Higgs Mass Bounds: Projecting U(1)' Models To Lhc Domain(Elsevier Ltd., 2010) Sert, Hale; Cincioğlu, Elif; Demir, Durmuş Ali; Solmaz, LeventWe study Higgs boson masses in supersymmetric models with an extra U(1) symmetry to be called U(1)′. Such extra gauge symmetries are urged by the Μ problem of the MSSM, and they also arise frequently in low-energy supersymmetric models stemming from GUTs and strings.We analyze mass of the lightest Higgs boson and various other particle masses and couplings by taking into account the LEP bounds as well as the recent bounds from Tevatron experiments. We find that the Μ-problem motivated generic low-energy U(1)′ model yields Higgs masses as large as ~200 GeV and violate the Tevatron bounds for certain ranges of parameters. We analyze correlations among various model parameters, and determine excluded regions by both scanning the parameter space and by examining certain likely parameter values. We also make educated projections for LHC measurements in light of the Tevatron restrictions on the parameter space.We further analyze certain benchmark models stemming from E(6) breaking, and find that they elevate Higgs boson mass into Tevatron's forbidden band when U(1)′ gauge coupling takes larger values than the one corresponding to one-step GUT breaking. © 2010 Elsevier B.V.