Novel ideas about emergent vacua

Arguments for special emergent vacua which generate fermion and weak boson masses are outlined. Limitations and consequences of the concept are discussed. If confirmed the Australian dipole would give strong support to such a picture. Preliminary support from recent DZero and CDF data is discussed and predictions for LHC are presented.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, The interpretation of new experimental results is expanded to include the preliminary CDF boso

Hadronic photon interactions at high energies

A simple phenomenological introduction to the physics of multi-pomeron exchange amplitudes in connection with the Abramovski-Gribov-Kancheli (AGK) cutting rules is given. The AGK cutting rules are applied to obtain qualitative and quantitative predictions on multiparticle production at high energies. On this basis, particle production in hadron-hadron scattering, photoproduction, and in particular the transition to deep-inelastic scattering is discussed.Comment: LaTeX, 6 pages, 6 ps-figs, sprocl.sty, talk given by R. Engel at "XXVI International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics" held in Faro, Portugal, September 199

d-Au and p-p collisions at RHIC and the multichain Monte Carlo Dpmjet-III

In this paper we compare systematically the two-component Dual Parton Model (DPM) event generator Dpmjet-III to d-Au and p-p data from RHIC. In this process we are able to improve the model. The need for fusion of chains and a recalibration of the model to obtain collision scaling in h-A and d-A collisions was found already in previous comparisons. Here, comparing to transverse momentum distributions of identified charged hadrons we find also the need to modify the transverse momentum distributions in the decay of hadronic strings, the basic building blocks of the model on soft hadronic collisions.Comment: 8 pages, 13 figures, Based on a contribution to a workshop "QCD at Cosmic Energies, Erice, Italie, Aug.29 to Sept.5 200

W(infty)-Covariance of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal Quantization

The differential structure of operator bases used in various forms of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal (WWGM) quantization is analyzed and a derivative-based approach, alternative to the conventional integral-based one is developed. Thus the fundamental quantum relations follow in a simpler and unified manner. An explicit formula for the ordered products of the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra is obtained. The W(infty) -covariance of the WWGM-quantization in its most general form is established. It is shown that the group action of W(infty) that is realized in the classical phase space induces on bases operators in the corresponding Hilbert space a similarity transformation generated by the corresponding quantum W(infty) which provides a projective representation of the former $W_{\infty}$. Explicit expressions for the algebra generators in the classical phase space and in the Hilbert space are given. It is made manifest that this W(infty)-covariance of the WWGM-quantization is a genuine property of the operator bases.Comment: 14 pages, Latex file. No figures. To apear in J. Math. Phy

Wigner Oscillators, Twisted Hopf Algebras and Second Quantization

By correctly identifying the role of central extension in the centrally extended Heisenberg algebra h, we show that it is indeed possible to construct a Hopf algebraic structure on the corresponding enveloping algebra U(h) and eventually deform it through Drinfeld twist. This Hopf algebraic structure and its deformed version U^F(h) are shown to be induced from a more fundamental Hopf algebra obtained from the Schroedinger field/oscillator algebra and its deformed version, provided that the fields/oscillators are regarded as odd-elements of the super-algebra osp(1|2n). We also discuss the possible implications in the context of quantum statistics.Comment: 23 page

Antibaryon to Baryon Production Ratios in Pb-Pb and p-p collision at LHC energies of the DPMJET-III Monte Carlo

A sizable component of stopped baryons is predicted for pp and P bP b collisions at LHC. Based on an analysis of RHIC data within framework of our multichain Monte Carlo DPMJET-III the LHC predictions are presented.Comment: Presented at "Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC: last call for predictions", Geneva Switzerland, May 14th-June 8t

RHIC data and the multichain Monte Carlo DPMJET-II

Using data from RHIC we are able to systematically improve the two-component Dual Parton Model (DPM) event generator DPMJET-III. Introducing percolation parametrized as fusion of chains the model describes multiplicities and pseudorapidity distributions in nucleus-nucleus collisions at all centralities. Guided by the d-Au data from RHIC we recalibrate the model to obtain collision scaling in h-A and d-A collisions.Comment: 8 pages, Based on a poster submitted to the 17th International Conference on Ultra Relativistic Nucleus Nucleus Collisions, Jan. 11-17, Oakland,California US