624 research outputs found
Constraining heavy colored resonances from top-antitop quark events
Recent measurements of the top quark charge asymmetry at Tevatron disfavor
the existence of flavor universal axigluons and colorons at 2 sigmas. In this
letter we explore the possibility to reconcile the data with these models and
use the charge asymmetry and the invariant mass distribution of top-antitop
quark pair events to constrain the mass and couplings of massive color-octet
gauge bosons decaying to top quarks.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. References added, final version to appear in
Phys.Rev.
Low energy Yukawa input parameters for Yukawa coupling Unification
I make a short review of the most recent determinations of the quark masses
and run them to the energy scale.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX, talk given at the International Workshop on
Elementary Particle Physics: Present and Future, June 5 to 9, 1995, Valencia,
Spain. To appear in the Proceedings, World Scientific. Uses sprocl.st
Massive color-octet bosons and the charge asymmetries of top quarks at hadron colliders
Several models predict the existence of heavy colored resonances decaying to
top quarks in the TeV energy range that might be discovered at the LHC. In some
of those models, moreover, a sizable charge asymmetry of top versus antitop
quarks might be generated. The detection of these exotic resonances, however,
requires selecting data samples where the top and the antitop quarks are highly
boosted, which is experimentally very challenging. We asses that the
measurement of the top quark charge asymmetry at the LHC is very sensitive to
the existence of excited states of the gluon with axial-vector couplings to
quarks. We use a toy model with general flavour independent couplings, and show
that a signal can be detected with relatively not too energetic top and antitop
quarks. We also compare the results with the asymmetry predicted by QCD, and
show that its highest statistical significance is achieved with data samples of
top-antitop quark pairs of low invariant masses.Comment: 20 page
Top Quarks, Axigluons and Charge Asymmetries at Hadron Colliders
Axigluons are colored heavy neutral gauge boson that couple to quarks through
an axial vector current and the same strong coupling as gluons. The most
important model-independent manifestation of axigluons is the generation of a
forward--backward asymmetry in top-antitop quark production at
collisions which originates from the charge asymmetry. We update our previous
analysis for the inclusive QCD induced forward--backward asymmetry and define a
new observable which is more sensitive to the effect than the forward--backward
asymmetry. Furthermore, we find a lower limit of 1.2 TeV at 90% C.L. on the
axigluon mass from recent measurements of the asymmetry at Tevatron. Also at
LHC, the charge asymmetry is sizable in suitably selected samples. We evaluate
this asymmetry in the central region for different selection cuts and show
that, like at Tevatron, the charge asymmetry can probe larger values of the
axigluon mass than the dijet mass distribution.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
Multigluonic scattering amplitudes of heavy quarks
We consider heavy quark and antiquark off-shell spinorial currents with emission of an arbitrary number of gluons of positive helicity. From this results we calculate the corresponding on-shell scattering amplitude and the quark-antiquark vector current. Then, we show that in the heavy top quark effective theory the holomorfic component of the Higgs -> q (q) over tilde + n-gluon amplitude vanish for helicity conserving configurations
Radiative return at NLO and the measurement of the hadronic cross-section
The measurement of the hadronic cross-section in e+e− annihilation at high luminosity factories using the radiative return method is motivated and discussed. A Monte Carlo generator which simulates the radiative process e+e−→γ+hadrons at the next-to-leading order accuracy is presented. The analysis is then extended to the description of events with hard photons radiated at very small angle
Asymptotic expansions through the loop-tree duality
First results towards a general method for asymptotic expansions of Feynman
amplitudes in the loop-tree duality (LTD) formalism are presented. The
asymptotic expansion takes place at integrand-level in the Euclidean space of
the loop three-momentum, where the hierarchies among internal and external
scales are well-defined. Additionally, the UV behaviour of the individual
contributions to the asymptotic expansion emerges only in the first terms of
the expansion and is renormalized locally in four space-time dimensions. These
two properties represent an advantage over the method of Expansion by Regions
(EbR). We explore different approaches in different kinematical limits, and
derive general guidelines with several benchmark examples.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figure
Características morfológicas y sedimentarias de la playa artificial de Poniente (Gijón. Asturias). Evolución 1995-2004
La playa arenosa de Poniente, construida como una playa confinada entre diques artificiales, ha evolucionado como una playa reflejante, caracterizada por el desarrollo de una barra supramareal en los 2/3 centrales de la playa y un frente inter-supraniareal de cierta pendiente, suavizado hacia los extremos laterales, el occidental más protegido. Asimismo, los vientos del NE y NO han generado campos de dunas en ambos extremos de la playa, disminuyendo el espacio original a medida que el oleaje ha removilizado las áreas más interna
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