620 research outputs found
On Possible Light-Torsion Mixing in Background Magnetic Field
The interaction of the light with propagating axial torsion fields in the
presence of an external magnetic field has been investigated. Axial torsion
fields appearing in higher derivative quantum gravity possess two states, with
spin one and zero, with different masses. The torsion field with spin-0 state
is a ghost that can be removed if its mass is infinite. We investigate the
possibility when the light mixes with the torsion fields resulting in the
effect of vacuum birefringence and dichroism. The expressions for ellipticity
and the rotation of light polarization axis depending on the coupling constant
and the external magnetic field have been obtained.Comment: 12 pages, title changed, shortened journal version, accepted in
Eur.Phys.J.
Leptoquark Single and Pair production at LHC with CalcHEP/CompHEP in the complete model
We study combined leptoquark (LQ) single and pair production at LHC at the
level of detector simulation. A set of kinematical cuts has been worked out to
maximize significance for combined signal events.
It was shown that combination of signatures from LQ single and pair
production not only significantly increases the LHC reach, but also allows us
to give the correct signal interpretation. In particular, it was found that the
LHC has potential to discover LQ with a mass up to 1.2 TeV and 1.5 TeV for the
case of scalar and vector LQ, respectively, and LQ single production
contributes 30-50% to the total signal rate for LQ-l-q coupling, taken equal to
the electromagnetic coupling.
This work is based on implementation of the most general form of scalar and
vector LQ interactions with quarks and gluons into CalcHEP/CompHEP packages.
This implementation, which authors made publicly available, was one the most
important aspects of the study.Comment: LaTeX, 27 pages, 15 figure
and couplings in QCD
We calculate the and couplings using QCD sum rules on the
light-cone. In this approach, the large-distance dynamics is incorporated in a
set of pion wave functions. We take into account two-particle and
three-particle wave functions of twist 2, 3 and 4. The resulting values of the
coupling constants are and .
From this we predict the partial width \Gamma (D^{*+} \ra D^0 \pi^+ )=32 \pm
5~ keV . We also discuss the soft-pion limit of the sum rules which is
equivalent to the external axial field approach employed in earlier
calculations. Furthermore, using and the pole
dominance model for the B \ra \pi and D\ra \pi semileptonic form factors
is compared with the direct calculation of these form factors in the same
framework of light-cone sum rules.Comment: 27 pages (LATEX) +3 figures enclosed as .uu file MPI-PhT/94-62 ,
CEBAF-TH-94-22, LMU 15/9
QCD Calculation of the Form Factors
We calculate the form factors for the heavy-to-light transitions
by means of QCD sum rules using and light-cone
wave functions. Higher twist contributions as well as gluonic corrections are
taken into account. The sensitivity to the shape of the leading-twist wave
functions and effects of SU(3)-breaking are discussed. The results are compared
with quark model predictions and with the results from QCD sum rules for
three-point correlators.Comment: 13 pages +5 figures available upon request , LaTeX , CERN-TH.6880/93,
MPI-Ph/93-32, LMU-07/9
Ambiguities in the partial-wave analysis of pseudoscalar-meson photoproduction
Ambiguities in pseudoscalar-meson photoproduction, arising from incomplete
experimental data, have analogs in pion-nucleon scattering. Amplitude
ambiguities have important implications for the problems of amplitude
extraction and resonance identification in partial-wave analysis. The effect of
these ambiguities on observables is described. We compare our results with
those found in earlier studies.Comment: 12 pages of text. No figure
Discovery and Measurement of Sleptons, Binos, and Winos with a Z'
Extensions of the MSSM could significantly alter its phenomenology at the
LHC. We study the case in which the MSSM is extended by an additional U(1)
gauge symmetry, which is spontaneously broken at a few TeV. The production
cross-section of sleptons is enhanced over that of the MSSM by the process
, so the discovery potential for
sleptons is greatly increased. The flavor and charge information in the
resulting decay, , provides a useful handle on
the identity of the LSP. With the help of the additional kinematical constraint
of an on-shell Z', we implement a novel method to measure all of the
superpartner masses involved in this channel. For certain final states with two
invisible particles, one can construct kinematic observables bounded above by
parent particle masses. We demonstrate how output from one such observable,
m_T2, can become input to a second, increasing the number of measurements one
can make with a single decay chain. The method presented here represents a new
class of observables which could have a much wider range of applicability.Comment: 20 pages, 15 figures; v2 references added and minor change
Top Quark Spin Polarization in ep Collision
We discuss the degree of spin polarization of single top quarks produced via
fusion process in collision at TESLA+HERAp and CLIC+LHC energies
and 5.3 TeV. For subprocess we show that
the top quark spin is completely polarized when the spin basis is chosen in the
direction of the incoming positron beam in the rest frame of top quark. A
description on how to combine the cross sections of and
processes is given. -beam direction is
taken to be the favorite top quark spin decomposition axis in its rest frame
and it is found to be comparable with the ones in collision. It is argued
that theoretical simplicity and experimental clearness are the advantage of
collision.Comment: Revised version of Phys. Rev. D69 (2004)03401
Prospects for heavy supersymmetric charged Higgs boson searches at hadron colliders
We investigate the production of a heavy charged Higgs boson at hadron
colliders within the context of the MSSM. A detailed study is performed for all
important production modes and basic background processes for the
t\bar{t}b\bar{b} signature. In our analysis we include effects of initial and
final state showering, hadronization, and principal detector effects. For the
signal production rate we include the leading SUSY quantum effects at high
\tan\beta>~ mt/mb. Based on the obtained efficiencies for the signal and
background we estimate the discovery and exclusion mass limits of the charged
Higgs boson at high values of \tan\beta. At the upgraded Tevatron the discovery
of a heavy charged Higgs boson (MH^+ >~ 200 GeV) is impossible for the
tree-level cross-section values. However, if QCD and SUSY effects happen to
reinforce mutually, there are indeed regions of the MSSM parameter space which
could provide 3\sigma evidence and, at best, 5\sigma charged Higgs boson
discovery at the Tevatron for masses M_H^+<~ 300 GeV and M_H^+<~ 250 GeV,
respectively, even assuming squark and gluino masses in the (500-1000) GeV
range. On the other hand, at the LHC one can discover a H^+ as heavy as 1 TeV
at the canonical confidence level of 5\sigma; or else exclude its existence at
95% C.L. up to masses ~ 1.5 TeV. Again the presence of SUSY quantum effects can
be very important here as they may shift the LHC limits by a few hundred GeV.Comment: Latex2e, 44 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables, uses JHEP3.sty, axodraw.sty.
Comments added. Discussion on QCD factors clarified. Added discussion on
uncertainties. Change of presentation of Tables 4 and 5 and Fig.6. Results
and conclusions unchanged. Version accepted in JHE
Top Background Extrapolation for H -> WW Searches at the LHC
A leading order (LO) analysis is presented that demonstrates that key top
backgrounds to H -> W^+W^- -> l^\pm l^\mp \sla{p}_T decays in weak boson fusion
(WBF) and gluon fusion (GF) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider can be
extrapolated from experimental data with an accuracy of order 5% to 10%. If LO
scale variation is accepted as proxy for the theoretical error, parton level
results indicate that the tt~j background to the H -> WW search in WBF can be
determined with a theoretical error of about 5%, while the tt~ background to
the H -> WW search in GF can be determined with a theoretical error of better
than 1%. Uncertainties in the parton distribution functions contribute an
estimated 3% to 10% to the total error.Comment: 17 pages, 9 tables, 4 figures; LO caveat emphasized, version to be
published in Phys. Rev.
Ioffe-time distributions instead of parton momentum distributions in description of deep inelastic scattering
We argue that parton distributions in coordinate space provide a more natural
object for nonperturbative methods compared to the usual momentum distributions
in which the physics of different longitudinal distances is being mixed. To
illustrate the advantages of the coordinate space formulation, we calculate the
coordinate space distributions for valence quarks in the proton using the QCD
sum rule approach. A remarkable agreement is found between the calculated and
the experimentally measured u-quark distribution up to light-cone distances
of order fm in the proton rest frame.
The calculation for valence d quarks gives much worse results; the reasons for
this discrepancy are discussed.Comment: 24 pages plus 13 pages with figures, requires epsf.sty, revised
version to appear in Phys.Rev.
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