21,214 research outputs found
Gluon mass and freezing of the QCD coupling
Infrared finite solutions for the gluon propagator of pure QCD are obtained
from the gauge-invariant non-linear Schwinger-Dyson equation formulated in the
Feynman gauge of the background field method. These solutions may be fitted
using a massive propagator, with the special characteristic that the effective
mass employed drops asymptotically as the inverse square of the momentum
transfer, in agreement with general operator-product expansion arguments. Due
to the presence of the dynamical gluon mass the strong effective charge
extracted from these solutions freezes at a finite value, giving rise to an
infrared fixed point for QCD.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, based on talk given at the 2007 Europhysics
Conference on High Energy Physics, Manchester, 19-25 Jul
Single top polarisation as a window to new physics
We discuss the effect of heavy new physics, parameterised in terms of
four-fermion operators, in the polarisation of single top (anti-)quarks in the
-channel process at the LHC. It is found that for operators involving a
right-handed top quark field the relative effect on the longitudinal
polarisation is twice larger than the relative effect on the total cross
section. This enhanced dependence on possible four-fermion contributions makes
the polarisation measurements specially interesting, in particular at high
momenta.Comment: LaTeX 10 pages. v2: comments and references added, journal versio
Top effective operators at the ILC
We investigate the effect of top trilinear operators in t tbar production at
the ILC. We find that the sensitivity to these operators largely surpasses the
one achievable by the LHC either in neutral or charged current processes,
allowing to probe new physics scales up to 4.5 TeV for a centre of mass energy
of 500 GeV. We show how the use of beam polarisation and an eventual energy
upgrade to 1 TeV allow to disentangle all effective operator contributions to
the Ztt and gamma tt vertices.Comment: LaTeX 13 pages. Typos corrected. Final version in JHE
Top effective operators at the ILC
We investigate the effect of top trilinear operators in t tbar production at
the ILC. We find that the sensitivity to these operators largely surpasses the
one achievable by the LHC either in neutral or charged current processes,
allowing to probe new physics scales up to 4.5 TeV for a centre of mass energy
of 500 GeV. We show how the use of beam polarisation and an eventual energy
upgrade to 1 TeV allow to disentangle all effective operator contributions to
the Ztt and gamma tt vertices.Comment: LaTeX 13 pages. Typos corrected. Final version in JHE
The effect of electromagnetic properties of neutrinos on the photon-neutrino decoupling temperature
We examine the impact of electromagnetic properties of neutrinos on the
annihilation of relic neutrinos with ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos for the
process. For this process, photon-neutrino
decoupling temperature is calculated via effective lagrangian model beyond the
standard model. We find that photon-neutrino decoupling temperature can be
importantly reduced below the QCD phase transition with the model independent
analysis defining electromagnetic properties of neutrinos.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, published versio
Recent studies of top quark properties and decays at hadron colliders
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle. Observed for the
first time in 1995 at the Tevatron by the CDF and D0 experiments, it has become
object of several studies aimed at fully characterize its properties and
decays. Precise determinations of top quark characteristics verify the internal
consistency of the standard model and are sensitive to new physics phenomena.
With the advent of the large top quark production rates generated at the LHC,
top quark studies have reached unprecedented statistical precision. This review
summarizes the recent measurements of top quark properties and studies of its
decays performed at the LHC and Tevatron.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, Presented at Flavor Physics and CP
Violation (FPCP 2012), Hefei, China, May 21-25, 201
Magnus Expansion and Three-Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
We present a semi-analytical derivation of the survival probability of solar
neutrinos in the three generation scheme, based on the Magnus approximation of
the evolution operator of a three level system, and assuming a mass hierarchy
among neutrino mass eigenstates. We have used an exponential profile for the
solar electron density in our approximation. The different interesting density
regions that appear throughout the propagation are analyzed. Finally, some
comments on the allowed regions in the solar neutrino parameter space are
addressed.Comment: RevTex4 style, 5 pages including 5 figures. Presented at Mexican
School of Astrophysics 2002, Guanajuato, Mexico, 31 Jul - 7 Aug 2002. Final
version to appear in the Proceedings of IX Mexican Workshop on Particles and
Fields Physics Beyond the Standard Model, Colima Col. Mexico, November 17-22,
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