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Remarks on the Zeros of the Associated Legendre Functions with Integral Degree
We present some formulas for the computation of the zeros of the
integral-degree associated Legendre functions with respect to the order.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Validation of spallation neutron production and propagation within Geant4
Using simulations to understand backgrounds from muon-induced neutrons is
important in designing next-generation low-background underground experiments.
Validation of relevant physics within the Geant4 simulation package has been
completed by comparing to data from two recent experiments. Verification
focused on the production and propagation of neutrons at energies important to
underground experiments. Discrepancies were observed between experimental data
and the simulation. Techniques were explored to correct for these
discrepancies.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables, submitted to NIM A. 6 Aug 200
Partially composite two-Higgs doublet model
In the extra dimensional scenarios with gauge fields in the bulk, the
Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons can induce Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) type
attractive four-fermion interactions, which can break electroweak symmetry
dynamically with accompanying composite Higgs fields. We consider a possibility
that electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is triggered by both a fundamental
Higgs and a composite Higgs arising in a dynamical symmetry breaking mechanism
induced by a new strong dynamics. The resulting Higgs sector is a partially
composite two-Higgs doublet model with specific boundary conditions on the
coupling and mass parameters originating at a compositeness scale .
The phenomenology of this model is discussed including the collider
phenomenology at LHC and ILC.Comment: 20 pages, 7 figure
Study of Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays with perturbative QCD approach
The Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays are studied with the perturbative QCD
approach. It is found that form factors and branching ratios are sensitive to
the parameters w, v, f_J/psi and f_etac, where w and v are the parameters of
the charmonium wave functions for Coulomb potential and harmonic oscillator
potential, respectively, f_J/psi and f_etac are the decay constants of the
J/psi and etac mesons, respectively. The large branching ratios and the clear
signals of the final states make the Bc --> J/psi pi, etac pi decays to be the
prospective channels for measurements at the hadron collidersComment: 21 pages, revtex
Nuclear effects in at small in deep inelastic scattering on Li and He
We suggest to use polarized nuclear targets of Li and He to study
nuclear effects in the spin dependent structure functions .
These effects are expected to be enhanced by a factor of two as compared to the
unpolarized targets.
We predict a significant dependence at of due to nuclear shadowing and nuclear
enhancement. The effect of nuclear shadowing at is of an
order of 16% for and 10% for
. By imposing the requirement that
the Bjorken sum rule is satisfied we model the effect of enhancement.
We find the effect of enhancement at to be of an
order of for and
for , if enhancement
occupies the region (). We predict
a 2% effect in the difference of the scattering cross sections of deep
inelastic scattering of an unpolarized projectile off Li with =3/2
and =1/2. We also show explicitly that the many-nucleon description of
deep inelastic scattering off Li becomes invalid in the enhancement region
.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures, RevTe
Density-functional theory of quantum wires and dots in a strong magnetic field
We study the competition between the exchange and the direct Coulomb
interaction near the edge of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong
magnetic field using density-functional theory in a local approximation for the
exchange-energy functional. Exchange is shown to play a significant role in
reducing the spatial extent of the compressible edge channel regions obtained
from an electrostatic description. The transition from the incompressible edge
channels of the Hartree-Fock picture to the broad, compressible strips
predicted by electrostatics occurs within a narrow and experimentally
accessible range of confinement strengths.Comment: 24 pages latex and 10 postscript figures in self extracting fil
Colorless States in Perturbative QCD: Charmonium and Rapidity Gaps
We point out that an unorthodox way to describe the production of rapidity
gaps in deep inelastic scattering, recently proposed by Buchm\"uller and
Hebecker, suggests a description of the production of heavy quark bound states
which is in agreement with data. The approach questions the conventional
treatment of the color quantum number in perturbative QCD.Comment: 14 pages, plain Latex, 9 postscript figures included. Uses epsf.sty.
Postscript file of paper with figures also available at
http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-919.ps.Z or at
ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1995/madph-95-919.ps.
Final-State Phases in , and Decays
The final-state phases in , and decays
appear to follow a pattern similar to those in , , and decays. Each set of processes is characterized by
three charge states but only two independent amplitudes, so the amplitudes form
triangles in the complex plane. For the first two sets the triangles appear to
have non-zero area, while for the or decays the areas
of the triangles are consistent with zero. Following an earlier discussion of
this behavior for decays, a similar analysis is performed for B decays, and
the relative phases and magnitudes of contributing amplitudes are determined.
The significance of recent results on \ob \to D^{(*)0} \bar{K}^{(*)0} is
noted. Open theoretical and experimental questions are indicated.Comment: 16 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, to be submitted to Phys. Rev. D.
References added; comments on new experimental results and analysi
Final State Rescattering and Color-suppressed \bar B^0-> D^{(*)0} h^0 Decays
The color-suppressed \bar B^0-> D^{(*)0}\pi^0, D^{(*)0}\eta, D^0\omega decay
modes have just been observed for the first time. The rates are all larger than
expected, hinting at the presence of final state interactions. Considering \bar
B^0-> D^{(*)0}\pi^0 mode alone, an elastic D^{(*)}\pi -> D^{(*)}\pi
rescattering phase difference \delta \equiv \delta_{1/2} - \delta_{3/2} \sim
30^\circ would suffice, but the \bar B^0-> D^{(*)0}\eta, D^0\omega modes compel
one to extend the elastic formalism to SU(3) symmetry. We find that a universal
a_2/a_1=0.25 and two strong phase differences 20^\circ \sim \theta < \delta <
\delta^\prime \sim 50^\circ can describe both DP and D^*P modes rather well;
the large phase of order 50^\circ is needed to account for the strength of {\it
both} the D^{(*)0}\pi^0 and D^{(*)0}\eta modes. For DV modes, the nonet
symmetry reduces the number of physical phases to just one, giving better
predictive power. Two solutions are found. We predict the rates of the \bar
B^0-> D^{+}_s K^-, D^{*+}_s K^-, D^0\rho^0, D^+_s K^{*-} and D^0\phi modes, as
well as \bar B^0-> D^{0}\bar K^0, D^{*0}\bar K^0, D^{0}\bar K^{*0} modes. The
formalism may have implications for rates and CP asymmetries of charmless
modes.Comment: REVTeX4, 18 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
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