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Three Body Interactions, Angular Momentum and Black Hole Moduli Spaces
We investigate the dynamics of a pair of (4+1)-dimensional black holes in the
moduli approximation and with fixed angular momentum. We find that spinning
black holes at small separations are described by the de Alfaro, Fubini and
Furlan model. For more than two black holes, we find an explicit expression for
the three-body interactions in the moduli metric by associating them with the
one-loop three-point amplitude of a four-dimensional theory. We also
investigate the dynamics of a three black hole system in various
approximations.Comment: 20 pages, phyzz
Wilsonian Proof for Renormalizability of N=1/2 Supersymmetric Field Theories
We provide Wilsonian proof for renormalizability of four-dimensional quantum
field theories with supersymmetry. We argue that the
non-hermiticity inherent to these theories permits assigning noncanonical
scaling dimension both for the Grassman coordinates and superfields. This
reassignment can be done in such a way that the non(anti)commutativity
parameter is dimensionless, and then the rest of the proof ammounts to power
counting. The renormalizability is also stable against adding standard
four-dimensional soft-breaking terms to the theory. However, with the new
scaling dimension assignments, some of these terms are not just relevant
deformations of the theory but become marginal.Comment: 10 pages, no figure, v2: minor correctio
On the Numerical Evaluation of One-Loop Amplitudes: the Gluonic Case
We develop an algorithm of polynomial complexity for evaluating one-loop
amplitudes with an arbitrary number of external particles. The algorithm is
implemented in the Rocket program. Starting from particle vertices given by
Feynman rules, tree amplitudes are constructed using recursive relations. The
tree amplitudes are then used to build one-loop amplitudes using an integer
dimension on-shell cut method. As a first application we considered only three
and four gluon vertices calculating the pure gluonic one-loop amplitudes for
arbitrary external helicity or polarization states. We compare our numerical
results to analytical results in the literature, analyze the time behavior of
the algorithm and the accuracy of the results, and give explicit results for
fixed phase space points for up to twenty external gluons.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures; v2: references added, version accepted for
publicatio
Cash-on-hand in Developing Countries and the Value of Social Insurance: Evidence from Brazil
This paper first exploits a "bonus" policy providing low-income workers with cash grants in Brazil to study the effect of liquidity provision on unemployment outcomes. Based on a RD Design, I find that granting unemployed workers with a bonus equal to half of their previous monthly earnings decreases the probability of exiting unemployment within 8 weeks by around 0.65%. Second, by exploiting the UI potential duration schedule, I find that granting workers with an extra month of unemployment benefits decreases the same outcome by 1.9%. Then, theoretical results from Landais (2014) are used to combine these estimates and disentangle liquidity and moral hazard effects of UI. Based on these, I estimate the liquidity-to-moral hazard ratio in Brazil to be as large as 98%, similarly to values previously found in the US. It suggests that, contrary to common belief, providing UI in developing countries with large informal labor markets may yield substantial welfare gains
Closed-Form Decomposition of One-Loop Massive Amplitudes
We present formulas for the coefficients of 2-, 3-, 4- and 5-point master
integrals for one-loop massive amplitudes. The coefficients are derived from
unitarity cuts in D dimensions. The input parameters can be read off from any
unitarity-cut integrand, as assembled from tree-level expressions, after simple
algebraic manipulations. The formulas presented here are suitable for
analytical as well as numerical evaluation. Their validity is confirmed in two
known cases of helicity amplitudes contributing to gg -> gg and gg -> gH, where
the masses of the Higgs and the fermion circulating in the loop are kept as
free parameters.Comment: 37 page
Integrand reduction of one-loop scattering amplitudes through Laurent series expansion
We present a semi-analytic method for the integrand reduction of one-loop
amplitudes, based on the systematic application of the Laurent expansions to
the integrand-decomposition. In the asymptotic limit, the coefficients of the
master integrals are the solutions of a diagonal system of equations, properly
corrected by counterterms whose parametric form is konwn a priori. The Laurent
expansion of the integrand is implemented through polynomial division. The
extension of the integrand-reduction to the case of numerators with rank larger
than the number of propagators is discussed as well.Comment: v2: Published version: references and two appendices added. v3:
Eq.(6.11) corrected, Appendix B updated accordingl
Fermi-LAT Observations of the 2014 May-July outburst from 3C 454.3
A prominent outburst of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C~454.3 was observed
in 2014 June with the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. This outburst was
characterized by a three-stage light-curve pattern---plateau, flare and
post-flare---that occurred from 2014 May to July, in a similar pattern as
observed during the exceptional outburst in 2010 November. The highest flux of
the outburst reported in this paper occurred during 2014 June 7--29, showing a
multiple-peak structure in the light-curves. The average flux in these 22 days
was found to be ~ph~cm~s, with a spectral index, for a simple power law,
of . That made this outburst the first -ray
high state of 3C~454.3 ever to be detected by \emph{Fermi} with such a hard
spectrum over several days. The highest flux was recorded on 2014 June 15, in a
3 hr bin, at MJD 56823.5625, at a level of ~ph~cm~s. The rise time of one of the short
subflares was found to be ~s at MJD = 56827, when the flux
increased from 4 to 12 ~ph~cm~s. Several photons
above 20 GeV were collected during this outburst, including one at 45 GeV on
MJD 56827, constraining the -ray emission region to be located close to
the outer boundary of the broad-line region, leading to fast flux variability.Comment: Accepted for publication in {\sc the astrophysical journal}: 2016
July 12}; 15 pages, 7 figures, 6 table
Single Cut Integration
We present an analytic technique for evaluating single cuts for one-loop
integrands, where exactly one propagator is taken to be on shell. Our method
extends the double-cut integration formalism of one-loop amplitudes to the
single-cut case. We argue that single cuts give meaningful information about
amplitudes when taken at the integrand level. We discuss applications to the
computation of tadpole coefficients.Comment: v2: corrected typo in abstrac
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