Rafael's publications

Thesis and Book Chapters:

• Contribution to the Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector, LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group, CERN–2017–002-M, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2227475
• PhD dissertation, Study of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector for the LHC. This dissertation has obtained the Springer Theses Award. The full version can be found in Springer. The original version can be found in the UCM E-Prints
• Master dissertation, Condensation of bosons with several degrees of freedom, 2013. It can be found in the UCM E-Prints

Software repositories:

• MaMuPaXS, Massless Multi-Particle Cross Section, MaMuPaXS v1, GitHub repository
• Quantumfdtd v3, Paralelized Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Solver, Quantumfdtd v3, GitHub repository

Per-Reviewed articles:

• TUMQCD Collaboration, Static energy in (2+1+1)-flavor lattice QCD: Scale setting and charm effects, 1-Apr-2023, Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 7, 074503, arXiv:2206.03156
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Domènec Espriu, Seeking for resonances in unitarized one-loop graviton-graviton scattering, 15-Feb-2023, Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 4, 044073, arXiv:2207.06070
• J. A. R. Cembranos, R. L. Delgado, H. Villarrubia-Rojo, LHC constraints on hidden gravitons, 24-Jan-2022, JHEP 01 (2022) 129, arXiv:2108.00930
• Rafael L. Delgado, Sebastian Steinbeißer, Michael Strickland, Johannes H. Weber, The Relativistic Schrödinger Equation through FFTW3: An Extension of quantumfdtd, 07-Dec-2021, Comput.Phys.Commun. 272 (2022) 108250, arXiv:2006.16935 [hep-ph]
• R.L. Delgado, C. Garcia-Garcia, M.J. Herrero, Dynamical vector resonances from the EChL in VBS at the LHC: the WW case, 12-Nov-2019, JHEP 1911(2019)065, arXiv:1907.11957 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Miguel Espada, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Ivan Leon Merino, Collider production of electroweak resonances from γγ states, 05-Nov-2018, JHEP 1811 (2018) 010, arXiv:1710.07548 [hep-ph]
• R.L. Delgado, A. Dobado, D. Espriu, C. Garcia-Garcia, M.J. Herrero, X. Marcano, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, Production of vector resonances at the LHC via WZ-scattering: a unitarized EChL analysis, 16-Nov-2017, JHEP 1711 (2017) 098, arXiv:1707.04580 [hep-ph]
• Andrés Castillo, Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Top-antitop production from W_L⁺W_L^- and Z_LZ_L scattering under a strongly-interacting symmetry-breaking sector, 1-Jul-2017, Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.7, 436, arXiv:1607.01158 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Coupling WW, ZZ unitarized amplitudes to γγ in the TeV region, 20-Sep-2016, Eur.Phys.J. C77 (2017) no.4, 205, arXiv:1609.06206 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Possible new resonance from W_LW_L-hh interchannel coupling, 2015, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015) 221803, arXiv:1408.1193 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Unitarity, analyticity, dispersion relations and resonances in strongly interacting W_LW_L, Z_LZ_L and hh scattering, 2015, Physical Review D 91 (2015) 075017, arXiv:1502.04841 [hep-ph]
• R.L. Delgado, A. Dobado, M.J. Herrero, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, One-loop γγ→W_L⁺W_L^- and γγ→Z_LZ_L from the Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian with a light Higgs-like scalar, 2014, JHEP 1407 (2014) 149, arXiv:1404.2866 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado and Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, One-loop W_LW_L and Z_LZ_L scattering from the Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian with a light Higgs-like scalar, 2013, JHEP 1402 (2014) 121, arXiv:1311.5993 [hep-ph]
• R. L. Delgado, A. Dobado and F. J. Llanes-Estrada, Light "Higgs", yet strong interactions, 2013, J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 41 025002 (2014), arXiv:1308.1629 [hep-ph], Hightlights of 2014
• J. A. R. Cembranos, R. L. Delgado and A. Dobado, Brane-Worlds at the LHC: Branons and , KK-gravitons, 2013, Phys. Rev. D, 88, 075021, arXiv:1306.4900 [hep-ph]
• Delgado, R. L., Hidalgo-Duque, C., and Llanes-Estrada, F. J. 2012, Few-Body Systems, 246, arXiv:1106.2462 [hep-ph]
• Delgado, R. L., Bargueño, P., and Sols, F., Two-step condensation of the charged Bose gas,  2012, Phys. Rev. E, 86, 031102, arXiv:1207.2093 [cond-mat.quant-gas]

Proceedings:

• Sebastian Steinbeißer, Nora Brambilla, Rafael L. Delgado, Andreas S. Kronfeld, Viljami Leino, Peter Petreczky, Antonio Vairo, Johannes Heinrich Weber, The static energy in 2+1+1-flavor QCD, arXiv:2111.02288, proceedings of the 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE2021, 26th-30th July, 2021
• Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Alexandre Salas-Bernardez, Rafael L. Delgado, Resonances in unitarized HEFT at the LHC, arXiv:1910.12823 [hep-ph], proceedings of the 2019 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2019)
• Rafael L. Delgado, A. Dobado, D. Espriu, C. Garcia-Garcia, M.J. Herrero, X. Marcano, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, Collider phenomenology of vector resonances in WZ scattering processes, PoS Confinement2018 (2019) 220, arXiv:1811.08720 [hep-ph]
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Unitarized HEFT for strongly interacting longitudinal electroweak gauge bosons with resonances, PoS LHCP2018 (2018) 004, arXiv:1808.04413 [hep-ph], proceedings of the Sixth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics conference LHCP 2018. June 3rd - 9th 2018.
• R.L. Delgado, A. Dobado, D. Espriu, C. Garcia-Garcia, M.J. Herrero, X. Marcano, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, Resonant pp→W⁺Zjj events at the LHC from a unitarized study of the EChL, arXiv:1805.04870 [hep-ph], proceedings of the Moriond 2018 EW session, 10-17 Mar 2018. La Thuile, Italy.
• Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado,  Electroweak resonances in HEFT, PoS EPS-HEP2017 (2017) 314, arXiv:1709.10491 [hep-ph], Contribution to the EPS conference on High Energy Physics, Venice, Italy, 5th-12th July 2017.
• Rafael L. Delgado, Coupling of tt and γγ with a strongly interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector, EPJ Web Conf. 137 (2017) 10001, arXiv:1611.01544 [hep-ph], proceedings of the 12th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement XII), 28 Aug - 04 Sep 2016. Thessaloniki, Greece
• Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Domenec Espriu, Comparing mesons and W_LW_L TeV-resonances, Bled Workshops Phys. 16 (2015) no.1, 20-26, arXiv:1510.03761 [hep-ph], proceedings of the Mini-Workshop Bled 2015: Exploring Hadron Resonances. Bled, Slovenia (05-11 July 2015)
• Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Resonances in W_LW_L, Z_LZ_L and hh scattering from dispersive analysis of the non-linear Electroweak+Higgs Effective Theory, PoS EPS-HEP2015 (2015) 173, arXiv:1509.04725 [hep-ph], proceedings of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics, Vienna, Austria (22–29 July 2015)
• Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Antonio Dobado, Rafael L. Delgado, Describing 2-TeV scale W_LW_L resonances with Unitarized Effective Theory, Bled Workshops Phys. 16 (2015) no.2, 78-86, arXiv:1509.00441[hep-ph], proceedings of the XVIIIth workshop "What Comes Beyond the Standard Models?", Bled, Slovenia (July 11th-19th 2015)
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, A Strongly Interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector with a Higgs-like light scalar, AIP Conf.Proc. 1701 (2016) 090003, arXiv:1412.3277 [hep-ph], proceedings of the XIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (8-12 September, 2014)
• R.L. Delgado, A. Dobado, M.J. Herrero, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, Electroweak chiral Lagrangian with a light Higgs and γγ→Z_LZ_L,W_L⁺W_L^- scattering at one loop, Nucl.Part.Phys.Proc. 273-275 (2016) 703-709, arXiv:1411.1940 [hep-ph], proceedings of the ICHEP2014, Valencia, Spain (July 2-9, 2014)
• Rafael L. Delgado, Antonio Dobado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Strongly interacting W_LW_L,Z_LZ_L and hh from unitarized one-loop computations, 2014, Nucl.Part.Phys.Proc. 273-275 (2016) 2436-2438, arXiv:1410.3984 [hep-ph], proceedings of the ICHEP2014, Valencia, Spain (July 2-9, 2014)
• R.L. Delgado, A. Dobado, M.J. Herrero, J.J. Sanz-Cillero, Electroweak Chiral Lagrangians and γγ→Z_LZ_L,W_L⁺W_L^- at One Loop, 2014, Proceedings,  arXiv:1409.3983 [hep-ph], proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics - LCHP 2014, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A (June 2-7, 2014)
• Antonio Dobado (contact author), Rafael L. Delgado, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Strongly Interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector with a Higgs-like light scalar, 2014, AIP Conf.Proc. 1606 (2014) 151-158, arXiv:1402.0666 [hep-ph], delivered at the II Russian-Spanish Congress "Particle and Nuclear Physics at all Scales and Cosmology" Institute of Cosmos Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, October 1-4, 2013.