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B-physics: new states, rare decays and branching ratios in CDF
We present results and prospects for searches for rare B and D meson decays
with final state dimuons, including B_s\to\mu\mu, B_d\to\mu\mu, and D\to\mu\mu.
Upper limits on the branching fractions are compared to previous CDF
measurements, recent results from the B factories and theoretical expectations.
We also report on new measurements of production and decay properties of the
X(3872) particle, discovered in 2003 by the Belle Collaboration. New results on
the measurement of the relative branching fraction for the Cabibbo suppressed
decay B^+\to J/\psi\pi^+ Br(B^+\to J/\psi\pi^+)/Br(B^+\to J/\psi K^+) are
presented too. The presented results are based on the analyses of 70 to 220
pb^-1 of data collected by the CDF II detector in p\bar p collisions at
\sqrt{s} = 1.96 GeV at Fermilab Tevatron.Comment: Presented at the 6th International Conference on Hyperons, Charm &
Beauty Hadrons (BEACH04), Chicago, IL, June 27 - July 03 2004. 5 page
Chaotic Electron Motion in Superlattices. Quantum-Classical Correspondence of the Structure of Eigenstates and LDOS
We investigate the classical-quantum correspondence for particle motion in a
superlattice in the form of a 2D channel with periodic modulated boundaries.
Its classical dynamics undergoes the generic transition to chaos of Hamiltonian
systems as the amplitude of the modulation is increased. We show that for
strong chaotic motion, the classical counterpart of the structure of
eigenstates (SES) in energy space reveals an excellent agreement with the
quantum one. This correspondence allows us to understand important features of
the SES in terms of classical trajectories. We also show that for typical 2D
modulated waveguides there exist, at any energy range, extremely localized
eigenstates (in energy) which are practically unperturbed by the modulation.
These states contribute to the strong fluctuations around the classical SES.
The approach to the classical limit is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Track Extrapolation and Distribution for the CDF-II Trigger System
The CDF-II experiment is a multipurpose detector designed to study a wide
range of processes observed in the high energy proton-antiproton collisions
produced by the Fermilab Tevatron. With event rates greater than 1MHz, the
CDF-II trigger system is crucial for selecting interesting events for
subsequent analysis. This document provides an overview of the Track
Extrapolation System (XTRP), a component of the CDF-II trigger system. The XTRP
is a fully digital system that is utilized in the track-based selection of high
momentum lepton and heavy flavor signatures. The design of the XTRP system
includes five different custom boards utilizing discrete and FPGA technology
residing in a single VME crate. We describe the design, construction,
commissioning and operation of this system.Comment: 34 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Nucl.Inst.Meth.
Spherical CR Dehn Surgery
Consider a three dimensional cusped spherical manifold and
suppose that the holonomy representation of can be deformed in such
a way that the peripheral holonomy is generated by a non-parabolic element. We
prove that, in this case, there is a spherical structure on some
Dehn surgeries of . The result is very similar to R. Schwartz's spherical
Dehn surgery theorem, but has weaker hypotheses and does not give
the unifomizability of the structure. We apply our theorem in the case of the
Deraux-Falbel structure on the Figure Eight knot complement and obtain
spherical structures on all Dehn surgeries of slope for
small enough.Comment: 27 page
On-surface radiation condition for multiple scattering of waves
The formulation of the on-surface radiation condition (OSRC) is extended to
handle wave scattering problems in the presence of multiple obstacles. The new
multiple-OSRC simultaneously accounts for the outgoing behavior of the wave
fields, as well as, the multiple wave reflections between the obstacles. Like
boundary integral equations (BIE), this method leads to a reduction in
dimensionality (from volume to surface) of the discretization region. However,
as opposed to BIE, the proposed technique leads to boundary integral equations
with smooth kernels. Hence, these Fredholm integral equations can be handled
accurately and robustly with standard numerical approaches without the need to
remove singularities. Moreover, under weak scattering conditions, this approach
renders a convergent iterative method which bypasses the need to solve single
scattering problems at each iteration.
Inherited from the original OSRC, the proposed multiple-OSRC is generally a
crude approximate method. If accuracy is not satisfactory, this approach may
serve as a good initial guess or as an inexpensive pre-conditioner for Krylov
iterative solutions of BIE
Recovery of the absorption coefficient in radiative transport from a single measurement
In this paper, we investigate the recovery of the absorption coefficient from
boundary data assuming that the region of interest is illuminated at an initial
time. We consider a sufficiently strong and isotropic, but otherwise unknown
initial state of radiation. This work is part of an effort to reconstruct
optical properties using unknown illumination embedded in the unknown medium.
We break the problem into two steps. First, in a linear framework, we seek
the simultaneous recovery of a forcing term of the form (with known) and an isotropic initial condition using
the single measurement induced by these data. Based on exact boundary
controllability, we derive a system of equations for the unknown terms and
. The system is shown to be Fredholm if satisfies a certain
positivity condition. We show that for generic term and weakly
absorbing media, this linear inverse problem is uniquely solvable with a
stability estimate. In the second step, we use the stability results from the
linear problem to address the nonlinearity in the recovery of a weak absorbing
coefficient. We obtain a locally Lipschitz stability estimate
Asymptotic Expansion and the LG/(Fano, General Type) Correspondence
The celebrated LG/CY correspondence asserts that the Gromov-Witten theory of
a Calabi-Yau (CY) hypersurface in weighted projective space is equivalent to
its corresponding FJRW-theory (LG) via analytic continuation. It is well known
that this correspondence fails in non-Calabi-Yau cases. The main obstruction is
a collapsing or dimensional reduction of the state space of the Landau-Ginzburg
model in the Fano case, and a similar collapsing of the state space of
Gromov-Witten theory in the general type case. We state and prove a modified
version of the cohomological correspondence that describes this collapsing
phenomenon at the level of state spaces. This result confirms a physical
conjecture of Witten-Hori-Vafa. The main purpose of this article is to provide
a quantum explanation for the collapsing phenomenon. A key observation is that
the corresponding Picard-Fuchs equation develops irregular singularities
precisely at the points where the collapsing occurs. Our main idea is to
replace analytic continuation with asymptotic expansion in this non-Calabi-Yau
setting. The main result of this article is that the reduction in rank of the
Gromov-Witten I-function due to power series asymptotic expansions matches
precisely the dimensional reduction of the corresponding state space.
Furthermore, asymptotic expansion under a different asymptotic sequence yields
a different I-function which can be considered as the mathematical counterpart
to the additional "massive vacua" of physics.Comment: 47 pages, 3 figure
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