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Single Leptoquark Production at and Colliders
We consider single production of leptoquarks (LQ's) at and
colliders, for two values of the centre-of-mass energy,
GeV and 1 TeV. We find that LQ's which couple within the first
generation are observable for LQ masses almost up to the kinematic limit, both
at and colliders, for the LQ coupling strength equal to
. The cross sections for single production of - and
-generation LQ's at colliders are too small to be observable.
In collisions, on the other hand, -generation LQ's with
masses much larger than can be detected. However,
-generation LQ's can be seen at colliders only for
masses at most , making their observation more probable via the
pair production mechanism.Comment: plain TeX, 14 pages, 6 figures (not included but available on
request), some minor changes to the text, one reference added, figures and
conclusions unchanged, UdeM-LPN-TH-93-152, McGill-93/2
Superfluidity of metastable bulk glass para-hydrogen at low temperature
Molecular para-hydrogen has been proposed theoretically as a possible
candidate for superfluidity, but the eventual superfluid transition is hindered
by its crystallization. In this work, we study a metastable non crystalline
phase of bulk p-H2 by means of the Path Integral Monte Carlo method in order to
investigate at which temperature this system can support superfluidity. By
choosing accurately the initial configuration and using a non commensurate
simulation box, we have been able to frustrate the formation of the crystal in
the simulated system and to calculate the temperature dependence of the
one-body density matrix and of the superfluid fraction. We observe a transition
to a superfluid phase at temperatures around 1 K. The limit of zero temperature
is also studied using the diffusion Monte Carlo method. Results for the energy,
condensate fraction, and structure of the metastable liquid phase at T=0 are
reported and compared with the ones obtained for the stable solid phase.Comment: 10 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Nonperturbative Effects on T_c of Interacting Bose Gases in Power-Law Traps
The critical temperature T_c of an interacting Bose gas trapped in a general
power-law potential V(x)=\sum_i U_i|x_i|^{p_i} is calculated with the help of
variational perturbation theory. It is shown that the interaction-induced shift
in T_c fulfills the relation (T_c-T_c^0)/T_c^0= D_1(eta)a + D'(eta)a^{2 eta}+
O(a^2) with T_c^0 the critical temperature of the trapped ideal gas, a the
s-wave scattering length divided by the thermal wavelength at T_c, and
eta=1/2+\sum_i 1/p_i the potential-shape parameter. The terms D_1(eta)a and
D'(eta) a^{2 eta} describe the leading-order perturbative and nonperturbative
contributions to the critical temperature, respectively. This result
quantitatively shows how an increasingly inhomogeneous potential suppresses the
influence of critical fluctuations. The appearance of the a^{2 eta}
contribution is qualitatively explained in terms of the Ginzburg criterion.Comment: Author Information under
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/institution.html . Latest update of
paper (including all PS fonts) at
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/35
Physics at the Linear Collider
The physics at the planned colliders is discussed around three main
topics corresponding to different manifestations of symmetry breaking:
physics in the no Higgs scenario, studies of the properties of the Higgs and
precision tests of SUSY. A comparison with the LHC is made for all these cases.
The mode of the linear collider will also be reviewed.Comment: 31 pages, 12 figures. Invited talk given at the Fifth Workshop on
High Energy Physics Phenomenology, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and
Astrophysics, Pune, India, January 12 - 26, 199
Identifying the Higgs Boson in Electron--Photon Collisions
We analyze the production and detection of the Higgs boson in the next
generation of linear colliders operating in the mode. In
particular, we study the production mechanism , where one photon is generated via the laser
backscattering mechanism, while the other is radiated via the usual
bremsstrahlung process. We show that this is the most important mechanism for
Higgs boson production in a GeV collider for
M_H\raisebox{-.4ex}{\rlap{\sim}} \raisebox{.4ex}{>}140 GeV. We also study
the signals and backgrounds for detection of the Higgs in the different decay
channels, , , and , and suggest kinematical cuts to
improve the signature of an intermediate mass Higgs boson.Comment: (REVTEX 2.0, 12 pages and 9 figures available upon request, Preprint
MAD/PH/753
Damage tolerance of bio-inspired helicoidal composites under low velocity impact
It is well known that laminated composite materials are prone to impact damage caused by foreign objects and exhibit poor damage resistance in through the thickness direction. By drawing inspiration from naturally occurring impact resistant structures, such as dactyl clubs of mantis shrimp, enhanced damage tolerance and impact energy absorption can be achieved with traditional CFRP layers by creatively arranging them into bio-inspired configurations, called helicoidal or Bouligand structures. Through an extensive numerical analyses of low velocity impact (LVI) supported by the experimental results, a further insight into the possibilities that these structures can offer in terms of damage resistance was attained. By comparing the results of three square plates with different planar sizes, it was shown that the helicoidal layups are more effective at absorbing energy while minimising through the thickness failure than standard quasi-isotropic and cross-ply laminates. Although the helicoidal composites generally exhibited a higher degree of delamination in LVI tests, the standard lamination schemes displayed higher degree of perforation, which resulted in a reduced residual strength in the compression after impact (CAI) testing of a quasi-isotropic laminate compared to several helicoidal ones subjected to 40 J and 80 J impact energy. Furthermore, using advanced finite element analysis (FEA) code LS-DYNA® for simulating LVI and CAI events, it was revealed that the helicoidal arrangement endured the least amount of fibre damage.</p
ARPES kink is a "smoking gun" for the theory of high-Tc superconductors: dominance of the electron-phonon interaction with forward scattering peak
The ARPES spectra in high-Tc superconductors show four distinctive features
in the quasiparticle self-energy. All of them can be explained consistently by
the theory in which the electron phonon interaction (EPI) with the forward
scattering peak dominates over the Coulomb scattering. In particular, this
theory explains why there is no shift of the nodal kink at 70 meV in the
superconducting state, contrary to the clear shift of the anti-nodal
singularity at 40 meV. The theory predicts a ``knee''-like structure of the
imaginary part of the self-energy, which is phonon dominated for , and shows linear behavior for - due to the Coulomb scattering. Recent ARPES spectra give
that the EPI coupling constant is much larger than the Coulomb one. The
dip-hump structure in the spectral function comes out naturally from the
proposed theory.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
BCS pairing in fully repulsive fermion mixtures
We consider a mixture of two neutral cold Fermi gases with repulsive
interactions. We show that in some region of the parameter space of the system
the effective attraction between fermions of the same type can appear due to
the exchange of collective excitations. This leads to the formation of BCS
pairing in the case where bare inter-atomic interactions are repulsive
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