6,155 research outputs found
LHC physics: the first one--two year(s)
We discuss the strategy to commission the LHC experiments and understand
standard physics at sqrt{s}=14TeV before data taking starts and in the early
phases of the LHC operation. In particular, we review the various steps needed
to understand and calibrate the ATLAS and CMS detectors, from construction
quality checks, to beam tests, to cosmics runs, to first collisions. We also
review the preparation and tuning of Monte Carlo tools, and present a few
examples of physics goals for integrated luminosities of up to a few inverse
fb.Comment: Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Workshop on the physics of Atlas and
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Neutrino masses and baryogenesis in SO(10) unified theories
We report on some phenomenological implications of a class of unified models
based on SO(10) gauge group, with intermediate symmetry group containing
SU(2)_R. Interesting predictions for neutrino masses are discussed, which are
relevant both for solar neutrino and dark matter problems, as well as a model
for the formation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe required by
primordial nucleosynthesis.Comment: Latex 16 pages, 1 ps figure. Appeared in Proceedings of seventh
International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes, Venezia February 27 - March 1
1996, Editor M. Baldo Ceoli
Production of a Higgs pseudoscalar plus two jets in hadronic collisions
We consider the production of a Higgs pseudoscalar accompanied by two jets in
hadronic collisions. We work in the limit that the top quark is much heavier
than the Higgs pseudoscalar and use an effective Lagrangian for the
interactions of gluons with the pseudoscalar. We compute the amplitudes
involving: 1) four gluons and the pseudoscalar, 2) two quarks, two gluons and
the pseudoscalar and 3) four quarks and the pseudoscalar. We find that the
pseudoscalar amplitudes are nearly identical to those for the scalar case, the
only differences being the overall size and the relative signs between terms.
We present numerical cross sections for proton-proton collisions with
center-of-mass energy 14 TeV.Comment: 12 pages, LaTeX, 4 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Mirror Fermions in Noncommutative Geometry
In a recent paper we pointed out the presence of extra fermionic degrees of
freedom in a chiral gauge theory based on Connes Noncommutative Geometry. Here
we propose a mechanism which provides a high mass to these mirror states, so
that they decouple from low energy physics.Comment: 7 pages, LaTe
How to Integrate Divergent Integrals: a Pure Numerical Approach to Complex Loop Calculations
Loop calculations involve the evaluation of divergent integrals.
Usually [1] one computes them in a number of dimensions different than four
where the integral is convergent and then one performs the analytical
continuation and considers the Laurent expansion in powers of epsilon =n-4. In
this paper we discuss a method to extract directly all coefficients of this
expansion by means of concrete and well defined integrals in a five dimensional
space. We by-pass the formal and symbolic procedure of analytic continuation;
instead we can numerically compute the integrals to extract directly both the
coefficient of the pole 1/epsilon and the finite part.Comment: 13 pages, 1 Postscript figur
Inflationary Cosmology from Noncommutative Geometry
In the framework of the Connes-Lott model based on noncommutative geometry,
the basic features of a gauge theory in the presence of gravity are reviewed,
in order to show the possible physical relevance of this scheme for
inflationary cosmology. These models naturally contain at least two scalar
fields, interacting with each other whenever more than one fermion generation
is assumed. In this paper we propose to investigate the behaviour of these two
fields (one of which represents the distance between the copies of a
two-sheeted space-time) in the early stages of the universe evolution. In
particular the simplest abelian model, which preserves the main characteristics
of more complicate gauge theories, is considered and the corresponding
inflationary dynamics is studied. We find that a chaotic inflation is naturally
favoured, leading to a field configuration in which no symmetry breaking occurs
and the final distance between the two sheets of space-time is smaller the
greater the number of -fold in each sheet.Comment: 29 pages, plain Latex, + 2 figures as uuencoded postscript files,
substantially revised version to appear in the Int. Jour. Mod. Phys.
Generalized Gluon Currents and Applications in QCD
We consider the process containing two quark lines and an arbitrary number of
gluons in a spinor helicity framework. A current with two off-shell gluons
appears in the amplitude. We first study this modified gluon current using
recursion relations. The recursion relation for the modified gluon current is
solved for the case of like-helicity gluons. We apply the modified gluon
current to compute the amplitude for in the like-helicity gluon case.Comment: 80 pages, 2 figures (appended in pictex), CLNS 91/112
Constraints on Unified Gauge Theories from Noncommutative Geometry
The Connes and Lott reformulation of the strong and electroweak model
represents a promising application of noncommutative geometry. In this scheme
the Higgs field naturally appears in the theory as a particular `gauge boson',
connected to the discrete internal space, and its quartic potential, fixed by
the model, is not vanishing only when more than one fermion generation is
present. Moreover, the exact hypercharge assignments and relations among the
masses of particles have been obtained. This paper analyzes the possibility of
extensions of this model to larger unified gauge groups. Noncommutative
geometry imposes very stringent constraints on the possible theories, and
remarkably, the analysis seems to suggest that no larger gauge groups are
compatible with the noncommutative structure, unless one enlarges the fermionic
degrees of freedom, namely the number of particles.Comment: 18 pages, Plain LaTeX, no figure
Top-quark charge asymmetry and polarization in production at the LHC
We study the charge asymmetry between the and quark at the LHC,
when they are produced in association with a boson. Though sizably reducing
the cross section with respect to the inclusive production, requiring a
boson in the final state has two important implications. First, at leading
order in QCD, production can only occur via
annihilation. As a result, the asymmetry between the and generated
at NLO in QCD is significantly larger than that of inclusive
production, which is dominated by gluon fusion. Second, the top quarks tend to
inherit the polarization of the initial-state quarks as induced by the
-boson emission. Hence, the decay products of the top quarks display a
sizable asymmetry already at the leading order in QCD. We study the relevant
distributions and their uncertainties in the standard model, compare them to
those obtained in a simple axigluon model and discuss prospects for
measurements at the LHC and beyond.Comment: 11 pages (with figures), version accepted by PLB for publicatio
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