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Single top quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron
We present a calculation of the single top quark cross section for
proton-antiproton interactions with sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron
collider. We examine the effects of top mass, parton distribution functions,
QCD scale, and collision energy, on each of the component production
mechanisms, and study the kinematic distributions for standard model
electroweak production. At the upgraded Tevatron with sqrt(s) = 2.0 TeV and
high luminosity, it will be possible to test the nature of the Wtb coupling
using single top production. We estimate the sensitivity to measure the single
top cross section, and thus to directly measure V_tb and the top quark partial
width. We show what happens to the V_tb measurement when an anomalous (V+A)
component is added to the Wtb coupling, and how the top quark polarization
affects the kinematic distributions.Comment: 31 pages including 11 figure
W+2jets production at Tevatron -- VECBOS and CompHEP comparison
Results of calculation of all subprocesses in proton-antiproton collisions
which contribute to the W+2jets final state are presented at Tevatron energy.
The calculation has been carried out by means of the CompHEP software package.
A detail comparison with VECBOS generator results for cross sections and
various distributions shows an agreement at the level of Monte-Carlo accuracy.
Therefore the additional independent check of VECBOS generator has been done.
In complement to the VECBOS generator a new generator based on CompHEP allows
to study individual subprocesses like or . The last
point is important, for instance, for study part of the background
for single top or Standard Model Higgs signal at Tevatron.Comment: 8 pages including 4 figures as a gzipped postscript fil
Charged-Lepton-Flavour Violation in Kaon Decays in Supersymmetric Theories
We discuss rare kaon decays that violate charged-lepton flavour conservation
in supersymmetric theories with and without R parity, in view of possible
experiments using an intense proton source as envisaged for a neutrino factory.
In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, such decays are generated by box
diagrams involving charginos and neutralinos, but the limits from \mu -> e
\gamma, \mu-e conversion and \Delta m_K constrain the branching ratios to
challengingly small values. However, this is no longer the case in R-violating
theories, where such decays may occur at tree level at rates close to the
present experimental limits. Within this framework, we obtain bounds on
products of LL\bar{E} and LQ\bar{D} operators from the experimental upper
limits on K^0 -> \mu^\pm e^\mp and K^{\pm,0} -> \pi^{\pm,0} \mu^\pm e^\mp
decays. We also note the possibility of like-sign lepton decays K^\pm ->
\pi^\mp \ell^\pm \ell^\pm in the presence of non-zero \tilde{b}_L-\tilde{b}_R
mixing. We conclude that rare kaon decays violating charged-lepton flavour
conservation could be an interesting signature of R violation.Comment: 25 pages, 6 figures, Prepared for the Kaon Physics Working Group as
part of the ECFA/CERN study of Neutrino Factory & Muon Storage Rings At CERN.
Referencies added, constraints update
as a discovery tool for bosons at the LHC
The Forward-Backward Asymmetry (AFB) in physics is commonly only
perceived as the observable which possibly allows one to interpret a
signal by distinguishing different models of such (heavy) spin-1 bosons. In
this article, we examine the potential of AFB in setting bounds on or even
discovering a at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and show that it
might be a powerful tool for this purpose. We analyze two different scenarios:
s with a narrow and wide width, respectively. We find that in both
cases AFB can complement the cross section in accessing signals.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.0267
Vector, Axial, Tensor and Pseudoscalar Vacuum Susceptibilities
Using a recently developed three-point formalism within the method of QCD Sum
Rules we determine the vacuum susceptibilities needed in the two-point
formalism for the coupling of axial, vector, tensor and pseudoscalar currents
to hadrons. All susceptibilities are determined by the space-time scale of
condensates, which is estimated from data for deep inelastic scattering on
nucleons
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