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On the Top Mass Reconstruction Using Leptons
I discuss the feasibility of measuring the top quark mass by the using of
final states with leptons and J/\psi at hadron colliders. I also investigate
the impact of matrix-element corrections to the HERWIG simulation of top
decays.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at the UK Phenomenology Workshop on
Collider Physics, Durham, U. K., 19-24 September 1999. Revised version with
updated result
Existence as Economy and as Charity
Antonio Caso, âLa existencia como economĂa y como caridadâ (1916). Translated with Jose G. Rodriguez Jr. as âExistence as Economy and as Charity,â in 20th Century Mexican Philosophy: Essential Readings, eds. Carlos Alberto SĂĄnchez and Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Primordial Nucleosynthesis: Accurate Predictions
A new accurate evaluation of primordial light nuclei abundances is presented.
The proton to neutron conversion rates have been corrected to take into account
radiative effects, finite nucleon mass, thermal and plasma corrections. The
theoretical uncertainty on 4He is so reduced to the order of 0.1%.Comment: 4 pages, Talk given at the International Workshop on Particles in
Astrophysics and Cosmology: From Theory to Observation, Valencia 199
Semileptonic and rare B meson decays into a light pseudoscalar meson
In the framework of a QCD relativistic potential model we evaluate the form
factors describing the exclusive decays B => \pi l nu and B => K l+ l-. The
present calculation extends a previous analysis of B meson decays into light
vector mesons. We find results in agreement with the data, when available, and
with the theoretical constraints imposed by the Callan-Treiman relation and the
infinite heavy quark mass limit.Comment: 11 pages LaTeX + 2 figure
Review of Recent Searches for Rare and Forbidden Dilepton Decays of Charmed Mesons
I briefly review the results of recent searches for flavor-changing neutral
current and lepton-flavor and lepton-number violating decays of D+, Ds, and D0
mesons (and their antiparticles) into modes containing muons and electrons. The
primary focus is the results from Fermilab charm hadroproduction experiment
E791. E791 examined 24 pi,l,l and K,l,l decay modes of D+ and Ds and l+l- decay
modes of D0. Limits presented by E791 for 22 rare and forbidden dilepton decays
of D mesons were more stringent than those obtained from previous searches, or
else were the first reported.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, uses psfig.sty and RevTeX, submitted to Modern
Physics Letters A, based on a Fermilab "Joint Theoretical and Experimental"
tal
On the miracle of the Coleman-Glashow and other baryon mass formulas
Due to a new measurement of the Xi(0) mass,the Coleman-Glashow formula for
the baryon octet e.m. masses (derived using unbroken SU(3) is satisfied to an
extraordinary level of precision.The same unexpected precision exists for the
Gell-Mann Okubo formula and for its octet-decuplet extension
(G.Morpurgo,Phys.Rev.Lett. 68(1992)139).We show that the old question "why do
they work so well?" is now answered by the general parameterization method.Comment: 12 pages,Late
Heavy Quark Lifetimes, Mixing and CP Violation
This paper emphasizes four topics that represent some of the year's
highlights in heavy quark physics. First of all, a review is given of charm
lifetime measurements and how they lead to better understanding of the
mechanisms of charm decay. Secondly, the CLEO collaboration's new search for
charm mixing is reported, which significantly extends the search for new
physics in that sector. Thirdly, important updates in Bs mixing are summarized,
which result in a new limit on the mass difference, and which further constrain
the unitarity triangle. Finally, the first efforts to measure CP violation in
the B system are discussed. Results are shown for the CDF and ALEPH
measurements of sin(2beta), as well as the CLEO branching fraction measurements
of B-->Kpi,pipi, which have implications for future measurements of alpha.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures. Talk given at the XIX International Symposium
on Lepton and Photon Interactions, Stanford University, August 9-14, 199
A priori mixing of mesons and the |Delta I|=1/2 rule in K\to\pi\pi
We consider the hypothesis of a priori mixings in the mass eigenstates of
mesons to obtain the |Delta I|=1/2 rule in K\to\pi\pi. The Hamiltonian
responsible for the transition is the strong interacting one. The experimental
data are described using the isospin symmetry relations between the strong
coupling constants
Energy barrier in the two-Higgs model
The electroweak model is extended by a second Higgs doublet and a numerical
investigation of static, finite energy classical solutions is performed. The
results indicate that for a large domain of the parameters of the Higgs
potential, the energy barrier between topologically distinct vacua of the
Lagrangian is constituted by a bisphaleron.Comment: 19 pages, including 4 eps figures, LaTex format, new results include
Particle Physics Probes Of Extra Spacetime Dimensions
The possibility that spacetime is extended beyond the familiar 3+1-dimensions
has intrigued physicists for a century. Indeed, the consequences of a
dimensionally richer spacetime would be profound. Recently, new theories with
higher dimensional spacetimes have been developed to resolve the hierarchy
problem in particle physics. These scenarios make distinct predictions which
allow for experiment to probe the existence of extra dimensions in new ways. We
review the conceptual framework of these scenarios, their implications in
collider and short-range gravity experiments, their astrophysical and
cosmological effects, as well as the constraints placed on these models from
present data.Comment: Submitted to Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 29 page
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