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Collider Signals of Top Quark Flavor Violation from a Warped Extra Dimension
We study top quark flavor violation in the framework of a warped extra
dimension with the Standard Model (SM) fields propagating in the bulk. Such a
scenario provides solutions to both the Planck-weak hierarchy problem and the
flavor puzzle of the SM without inducing a flavor problem. We find that,
generically, tcZ couplings receive a huge enhancement, in particular the right
handed ones can be O(1%). This results in BR(t -> c Z) at or above the
sensitivity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). At the International Linear
Collider (ILC), single top production, via e^+ e^- -> t \bar c, can be a
striking signal for this scenario. In particular, it represents a physics topic
of critical importance that can be explored even with a relatively low energy
option, close to the tc threshold. At both the LHC and the ILC, angular
distributions can probe the above prediction of dominance of right-handed
couplings.Comment: 5 pages, references added, comment added regarding models with
custodial symmetry for Z -> b \bar
Warped Gravitons at the LHC and Beyond
We study the production and decay of Kaluza-Klein (KK) gravitons at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC), in the framework of a warped extra dimension in which
the Standard Model (SM) fields propagate. Such a scenario can provide solutions
to both the Planck-weak hierarchy problem and the flavor puzzle of the SM. In
this scenario, the production via annihilation and decays to the
conventional photon and lepton channels are highly suppressed. However, we show
that graviton production via gluon fusion followed by decay to longitudinal
can be significant; vector boson fusion is found to be a sub-dominant
production mode. In particular, the ``golden'' decay mode offers a
distinctive 4-lepton signal that could lead to the observation at the LHC with
300 fb (SLHC with 3 ab) of a KK graviton with a mass up to () TeV for the ratio of the AdS curvature to the Planck scale
modestly above unity. We argue that (contrary to the lore) such a size of the
curvature scale can still be within the regime of validity of the framework.
Upgrades beyond the SLHC luminosity are required to discover gravitons heavier
than TeV, as favored by the electroweak and flavor precision tests in
the simplest such models.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures. Minor modifications, reference adde
Modules as values in a persistent object store
Journal ArticleWe report on an object manager (OM) providing persistent implementations for C ++ classes. Our OM generalizes this problem to that of managing persistent modules, where the module concept is an abstract data type (ADT). This approach permits a powerful suite of module manipulation operations to be applied uniformly to modules of many provenances, including non-class based entities such as conventional object files, application libraries, and shared system libraries. OMOS, a generalized linker and loader, plays a central role in our OM. Class implementations are represented by OMOS modules, which in turn are constructed from OMOS meta-objects encapsulating linkage blueprints. We cleanly solve the problems of (i) logically (but not physically) including executable object files in our OM, (ii) reconciling class inheritance history and linkage history, and (iii) supporting alternative implementations of a class, for client interoperability or version control
The Opportunistic President: How US Presidents Determine Their Legislative Programs
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/112296/1/lsq12080.pd
pi-N charge exchange and pi(+)-pi(0) scattering at low energies
pi-N and pi-pi interactions near threshold are uniquely sensitive to the
chiral symmetry breaking part of the strong interaction. The pi-N sigma-term
value with its implications for nucleon quark structure and the recent
controversy concerning the size of the scalar quark condensate have renewed the
experimental interest in these two fundamental systems. We report new
differential cross sections for the reaction at 27.5 MeV
pion incident kinetic energy, measured between and
. Our results are in excellent agreement with the existing
comprehensive pi-N phase shift analysis. We also report on a Chew-Low analysis
of exclusive data at 260 MeV pion incident energy.Comment: Talk given by D. Pocanic at QULEN97, Osaka, 20-23 May 1997; 4 pages,
2 PostScript figures, writen in LaTeX 2e, uses packages "epsfig" and
"espcrc1
Holographic U(1)_A and String Creation
We analyze the resolution of the U(1)_A problem in the Sakai-Sugimoto
holographic dual of large N_c QCD at finite temperature. It has been shown that
in the confining phase the axial symmetry is broken at order 1/N_c, in
agreement with the ideas of Witten and Veneziano. We show that in the
deconfined phase the axial symmetry remains unbroken to all orders in 1/N_c. In
this case the breaking is due to instantons which are described by spacelike
D0-branes, in agreement with 'tHooft's resolution. The holographic dual of the
symmetry breaking fermion condensate is a state of spacelike strings between
the D0-brane and the flavor D8-branes, which result from a spacelike version of
the string creation effect. In the intermediate phase of deconfinement with
broken chiral symmetry the instanton gas approximation is possibly regulated in
the IR, which would imply an eta' mass-squared of order exp(-N_c).Comment: 18 pages, 19 figures, minor change
Holographic representation of local bulk operators
The Lorentzian AdS/CFT correspondence implies a map between local operators
in supergravity and non-local operators in the CFT. By explicit computation we
construct CFT operators which are dual to local bulk fields in the
semiclassical limit. The computation is done for general dimension in global,
Poincare and Rindler coordinates. We find that the CFT operators can be taken
to have compact support in a region of the complexified boundary whose size is
set by the bulk radial position. We show that at finite N the number of
independent commuting operators localized within a bulk volume saturates the
holographic bound.Comment: 36 pages, LaTeX, 4 eps figure
Constructing local bulk observables in interacting AdS/CFT
Local operators in the bulk of AdS can be represented as smeared operators in
the dual CFT. We show how to construct these bulk observables by requiring that
the bulk operators commute at spacelike separation. This extends our previous
work by taking interactions into account. Large-N factorization plays a key
role in the construction. We show diagrammatically how this procedure is
related to bulk Feynman diagrams.Comment: 41 pages, LaTeX. v2: reference correcte
Measurement of transparency ratios for protons from short-range correlated pairs
Nuclear transparency, Tp(A), is a measure of the average probability for a
struck proton to escape the nucleus without significant re-interaction.
Previously, nuclear transparencies were extructed for quasi-elastic A(e,e'p)
knockout of protons with momentum below the Fermi momentum, where the spectral
functions are well known. In this paper we extract a novel observable, the
transparency ratio, Tp(A)/T_p(12C), for knockout of high-missing-momentum
protons from the breakup of short range correlated pairs (2N-SRC) in Al, Fe and
Pb nuclei relative to C. The ratios were measured at momentum transfer Q^2 >
1.5 (GeV/c)^2 and x_B > 1.2 where the reaction is expected to be dominated by
electron scattering from 2N-SRC. The transparency ratios of the knocked-out
protons coming from 2N-SRC breakup are 20 - 30% lower than those of previous
results for low missing momentum. They agree with Glauber calculations and
agree with renormalization of the previously published transparencies as
proposed by recent theoretical investigations. The new transparencies scale as
A^-1/3, which is consistent with dominance of scattering from nucleons at the
nuclear surface.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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