434 research outputs found
Constraints on the Bulk Standard Model in the Randall-Sundrum Scenario
We derive constraints on the Randall-Sundrum scenario with the standard model
fields in the bulk. These result from tree level effects associated with the
deformation of the zero mode wave-functions of the W and the Z once electroweak
symmetry is broken. Recently Cs\'{a}ki, Erlich and Terning pointed out that
this implies large contributions to electroweak oblique parameters. Here we
find that when fermions are allowed in the bulk the couplings of the and
the to zero-mode fermions are also affected. We perform a fit to
electroweak observables assuming universal bulk fermion masses and including
all effects and find constraints that are considerably stronger than for the
case with fermions localized in the low energy boundary. These put the lowest
Kaluza-Klein excitation out of reach of the Large Hadron Collider. We then
relax the universality assumption and study the effects of flavor violation in
the bulk and its possible signatures.Comment: 18 pages, 2 ps figure
Multiplicity distributions inside parton cascades developing in a medium
The explanation of the suppression of high-pT hadron yields at RHIC in terms
of jet-quenching implies that the multiplicity distributions of particles
inside a jet and jet-like particle correlations differ strongly in
nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC or at the LHC from those observed at e+e- or
hadron colliders. We present a framework for describing the medium-induced
modification, which has a direct interpretation in terms of a probabilistic
medium-modified parton cascade, and which treats leading and subleading partons
on an equal footing. We show that our approach can account for the strong
suppression of single inclusive hadron spectra measured in Au-Au collisions at
RHIC, and that this implies a characteristic distortion of the single inclusive
distribution of soft partons inside the jet. We determine, as a function of the
jet energy, to what extent the soft fragments within a jet can be measured
above some momentum cut.Comment: 5 pages, 4 eps-figures; talk given at Hot Quarks 2006, Villasimius
(Sardinia, Italy), May 15-20, 200
Classical and Quantum Integrable Systems in \wt{\gr{gl}}(2)^{+*} and Separation of Variables
Classical integrable Hamiltonian systems generated by elements of the Poisson
commuting ring of spectral invariants on rational coadjoint orbits of the loop
algebra \wt{\gr{gl}}^{+*}(2,{\bf R}) are integrated by separation of
variables in the Hamilton-Jacobi equation in hyperellipsoidal coordinates. The
canonically quantized systems are then shown to also be completely integrable
and separable within the same coordinates. Pairs of second class constraints
defining reduced phase spaces are implemented in the quantized systems by
choosing one constraint as an invariant, and interpreting the other as
determining a quotient (i.e., by treating one as a first class constraint and
the other as a gauge condition). Completely integrable, separable systems on
spheres and ellipsoids result, but those on ellipsoids require a further
modification of order \OO(\hbar^2) in the commuting invariants in order to
assure self-adjointness and to recover the Laplacian for the case of free
motion. For each case - in the ambient space , the sphere and the
ellipsoid - the Schr\"odinger equations are completely separated in
hyperellipsoidal coordinates, giving equations of generalized Lam\'e type.Comment: 28 page
Induced Gravity on Intersecting Branes
We establish Einstein-Hilbert gravity couplings in the effective action for
Intersecting Brane Worlds. The four-dimensional induced Planck mass is
determined by calculating graviton scattering amplitudes at one-loop in the
string perturbation expansion. We derive a general formula linking the induced
Planck mass for N=1 supersymmetric backgrounds directly to the string partition
function. We carry out the computation explicitly for simple examples,
obtaining analytic expressions.Comment: references added, minor changes to discussion of path integral
normalization on page
Jet hadrochemistry as a characteristics of jet quenching
Jets produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC are expected to be
strongly modified due to the interaction of the parton shower with the dense
QCD matter. Here, we point out that jet quenching can leave signatures not only
in the longitudinal and transverse jet energy and multiplicity distributions,
but also in the hadrochemical composition of the jet fragments. In particular,
we show that even in the absence of medium effects at or after hadronization,
the medium-modification of the parton shower can result in significant changes
in jet hadrochemistry. We discuss how jet hadrochemistry can be studied within
the high-multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, LaTe
Strange particle production at RHIC in a single-freeze-out model
Strange particle ratios and pT-spectra are calculated in a thermal model with
single freeze-out, previously used successfully to describe non-strange
particle production at RHIC. The model and the recently released data for phi,
Lambda, anti-Lambda, and K*(892) are in very satisfactory agreement, showing
that the thermal approach can be used to describe the strangeness production at
RHIC.Comment: We have added the comparison of the model predictions to the newly
released Lambda and K*(892) pT-spectra from STA
Theory of Hysteresis Loop in Ferromagnets
We consider three mechanisms of hysteresis phenomena in alternating magnetic
field: the domain wall motion in a random medium, the nucleation and the
retardation of magnetization due to slow (critical) fluctuations. We construct
quantitative theory for all these processes. The hysteresis is characterized by
two dynamic threshold fields, by coercive field and by the so-called reversal
field. Their ratios to the static threshold field is shown to be function of
two dimensionless variables constituted from the frequency and amplitude of the
ac field as well as from some characteristics of the magnet. The area and the
shape of the hysteresis loop are found. We consider different limiting cases in
which power dependencies are valid. Numerical simulations show the domain wall
formation and propagation and confirm the main theoretical predictions. Theory
is compared with available experimental data.Comment: RevTex, 13 pages, 8 figures (PostScript), acknowledgements adde
Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration
Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were
recorded using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC). The comprehensive set of measurements from the first three years of
RHIC operation includes charged particle multiplicities, transverse energy,
yield ratios and spectra of identified hadrons in a wide range of transverse
momenta (p_T), elliptic flow, two-particle correlations, non-statistical
fluctuations, and suppression of particle production at high p_T. The results
are examined with an emphasis on implications for the formation of a new state
of dense matter. We find that the state of matter created at RHIC cannot be
described in terms of ordinary color neutral hadrons.Comment: 510 authors, 127 pages text, 56 figures, 1 tables, LaTeX. Submitted
to Nuclear Physics A as a regular article; v3 has minor changes in response
to referee comments. Plain text data tables for the points plotted in figures
for this and previous PHENIX publications are (or will be) publicly available
at http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/papers.htm
Test of CPT Symmetry and Quantum Mechanics with Experimental data from CPLEAR
We use fits to recent published CPLEAR data on neutral kaon decays to
and to constrain the CPT--violation parameters
appearing in a formulation of the neutral kaon system as an open
quantum-mechanical system. The obtained upper limits of the CPT--violation
parameters are approaching the range suggested by certain ideas concerning
quantum gravity.Comment: 9 pages of uuencoded postscript (includes 3 figures
Decoherence and CPT Violation in a Stringy Model of Space-Time Foam
I discuss a model inspired from the string/brane framework, in which our
Universe is represented as a three brane, propagating in a bulk space time
punctured by D0-brane (D-particle) defects. As the D3-brane world moves in the
bulk, the D-particles cross it, and from an effective observer on D3 the
situation looks like a ``space-time foam'' with the defects ``flashing'' on and
off (``D-particle foam''). The open strings, with their ends attached on the
brane, which represent matter in this scenario, can interact with the
D-particles on the D3-brane universe in a topologically non-trivial manner,
involving splitting and capture of the strings by the D0-brane defects. Such
processes are described by logarithmic conformal field theories on the
world-sheet. Physically, they result in effective decoherence of the string
matter on the D3 brane, and as a result, of CPT Violation, but of a type that
implies an ill-defined nature of the effective CPT operator. Due to electric
charge conservation, only electrically neutral (string) matter can exhibit such
interactions with the D-particle foam. This may have unique, experimentally
detectable, consequences for electrically-neutral entangled quantum matter
states on the brane world, in particular the modification of the pertinent EPR
Correlation of neutral mesons in a meson factory.Comment: 41 pages Latex, five eps figures incorporated. Uses special macro
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