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Supersymmetric NLO QCD Corrections to Resonant Slepton Production and Signals at the Tevatron and the LHC
We compute the total cross section and the transverse momentum distribution
for single charged slepton and sneutrino production at hadronic colliders
including NLO supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric QCD corrections. The
supersymmetric QCD corrections can be substantial. We also resum the gluon
transverse momentum distribution and compare our results with two Monte Carlo
generators. We compute branching ratios of the supersymmetric decays of the
slepton and determine event rates for the like-sign dimuon final state at the
Tevatron and at the LHC.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, 8 figures, uses REVTex
Inclusive Photoproduction of D* Mesons with Massive Charm Quarks
We have calculated the next-to-leading order cross sections for the inclusive
production of D* mesons in gamma-p collisions at HERA in two approaches using
massive or massless charm quarks. The usual massive theory for the direct cross
section with charm quarks only in the final state was transformed into a
massive theory with MS-bar subtraction by subtracting the mass divergent and
additional finite terms calculated earlier in connection with the process
gamma+gamma -> D*+X. This theory approaches the massless theory with increasing
transverse momentum. The difference between the massive and the massless
approach with MS-bar subtraction is studied in detail in those kinematic
regions relevant for comparison with experimental data. With these results and
including the resolved cross section which is dominated by the part originating
from the charm in the photon, we compute the fully inclusive D* cross section
and compare it with preliminary data from the ZEUS collaboration at HERA. We
find on average good agreement.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures, figures modified to include statistical and
systematic experimental error
Multi-shell gold nanowires under compression
Deformation properties of multi-wall gold nanowires under compressive loading
are studied. Nanowires are simulated using a realistic many-body potential.
Simulations start from cylindrical fcc(111) structures at T=0 K. After
annealing cycles axial compression is applied on multi-shell nanowires for a
number of radii and lengths at T=300 K. Several types of deformation are found,
such as large buckling distortions and progressive crushing. Compressed
nanowires are found to recover their initial lengths and radii even after
severe structural deformations. However, in contrast to carbon nanotubes
irreversible local atomic rearrangements occur even under small compressions.Comment: 1 gif figure, 5 ps figure
Dependence of the BEC transition temperature on interaction strength: a perturbative analysis
We compute the critical temperature T_c of a weakly interacting uniform Bose
gas in the canonical ensemble, extending the criterion of condensation provided
by the counting statistics for the uniform ideal gas. Using ordinary
perturbation theory, we find in first order , where T_c^0 is the transition temperature of the corresponding
ideal Bose gas, a is the scattering length, and is the particle number
density.Comment: 14 pages (RevTeX
Charm-sea Contribution to High-p_T \psi Production at the Fermilab Tevatron
The direct production of at large transverse momentum, , at the Fermilab Tevatron is revisited. It is found that the
sea-quark initiated processes dominate in the high- region within the
framework of color-singlet model, which is not widely realized. We think this
finding is enlightening for further investigation on the charmonium production
mechanism.Comment: Conclusions not changed, to appear in J. of Phys.
The Structure of the Vortex Liquid at the Surface of a Layered Superconductor
A density-functional approach is used to calculate the inhomogeneous vortex
density distribution in the flux liquid phase at the planar surface of a
layered superconductor, where the external magnetic field is perpendicular to
the superconducting layers and parallel to the surface. The interactions with
image vortices are treated within a mean field approximation as a functional of
the vortex density. Near the freezing transition strong vortex density
fluctuations are found to persist far into the bulk liquid. We also calculate
the height of the Bean-Livingston surface barrier.Comment: 8 pages, RevTeX, 2 figure
Huge Transverse Magnetization in the Field-Induced Phase of the Antiferromagnetic Molecular Wheel CsFe8
The 1H-NMR spectrum and nuclear relaxation rate 1/T_1 in the
antiferromagnetic wheel CsFe8 were measured to characterize the previously
observed magnetic field-induced low-temperature phase around the level crossing
at 8 T. The data show that the phase is characterized by a huge staggered
transverse polarization of the electronic Fe spins, and the opening of a gap,
providing microscopic evidence for the interpretation of the phase as a
field-induced magneto-elastic instability.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, REVTEX4, to appear in PR
Next-to-leading order QCD calculations with parton showers II: soft singularities
Programs that calculate observables in quantum chromodynamics at
next-to-leading order typically generate events that consist of partons rather
than hadrons -- and just a few partons at that. These programs would be much
more useful if the few partons were turned into parton showers, which could be
given to one of the Monte Carlo event generators to produce hadron showers. In
a previous paper, we have seen how to generate parton showers related to the
final state collinear singularities of the perturbative calculation for the
example of e+ + e- --> 3 jets. This paper discusses the treatment of the soft
singularities.Comment: 26 pages with 5 figures. This version is close to the version to be
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