365 research outputs found
Topological Charge Fluctuations and Low-Lying Dirac Eigenmodes
We discuss the utility of low-lying Dirac eigenmodes for studying the nature
of topological charge fluctuations in QCD. The implications of previous results
using the local chirality histogram method are discussed, and the new results
using the overlap Dirac operator in Wilson gauge backgrounds at lattice
spacings ranging from a~0.04 fm to a~0.12 fm are reported. While the degree of
local chirality does not change appreciably closer to the continuum limit, we
find that the size and density of local structures responsible for chiral
peaking do change significantly. The resulting values are in disagreement with
the assumptions of the Instanton Liquid Model. We conclude that the
fluctuations of topological charge in the QCD vacuum are not locally quantized.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures, Lattice2001(confinement
Chiral Condensate in the Deconfined Phase of Quenched Gauge Theories
We compute the low lying spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator in the
deconfined phase of finite-temperature quenched gauge theory. It suggests the
existence of a chiral condensate which we confirm with a direct stochastic
estimate. We show that the part of the spectrum responsible for the chiral
condensate can be understood as arising from a dilute gas of instantons and
anti-instantons.Comment: Revtex, 16 pages, 3 postscript figure
Topological Structure of the QCD Vacuum Revealed by Overlap Fermions
Overlap fermions preserve a remnant of chiral symmetry on the lattice. They
are a powerful tool to investigate the topological structure of the vacuum of
Yang-Mills theory and full QCD. Recent results concerning the localization of
topological charge and the localization and local chirality of the overlap
eigenmodes are reported. The charge distribution is radically different, if a
spectral cut-off for the Dirac eigenmodes is applied. The density q(x) is
changing from the scale-a charge density (with full lattice resolution) to the
ultraviolet filtered charge density. The scale-a density, computed on the Linux
cluster of LRZ, has a singular, sign-coherent global structure of co-dimension
1 first described by the Kentucky group. We stress, however, the cluster
properties of the UV filtered topological density resembling the instanton
picture. The spectral cut-off can be mapped to a bosonic smearing procedure.
The UV filtered field strength reveals a high degree of (anti)selfduality at
"hot spots" of the action. The fermionic eigenmodes show a high degree of local
chirality. The lowest modes are seen to be localized in low-dimensional
space-time regions.Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, accepted to appear in the Proceedings of "HLRB,
KONWIHR and Linux-Cluster: Review, Results and Future Projects Workshop",
Leibniz Rechenzentrum Munich, December 200
Lattice gauge theory with baryons at strong coupling
We study the effective Hamiltonian for strong-coupling lattice QCD in the
case of non-zero baryon density. In leading order the effective Hamiltonian is
a generalized antiferromagnet. For naive fermions, the symmetry is U(4N_f) and
the spins belong to a representation that depends on the local baryon number.
Next-nearest-neighbor (nnn) terms in the Hamiltonian break the symmetry to
U(N_f) x U(N_f). We transform the quantum problem to a Euclidean sigma model
which we analyze in a 1/N_c expansion. In the vacuum sector we recover
spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry for the nearest-neighbor and nnn
theories. For non-zero baryon density we study the nearest-neighbor theory
only, and show that the pattern of spontaneous symmetry breaking depends on the
baryon density.Comment: 31 pages, 5 EPS figures. Corrected Eq. (6.1
Abnormal number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in the color-asymmetric 2SC phase of an NJL-type model
We consider an extended Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model including both (q \bar q)-
and (qq)-interactions with two light-quark flavors in the presence of a single
(quark density) chemical potential. In the color superconducting phase of the
quark matter the color SU(3) symmetry is spontaneously broken down to SU(2). If
the usual counting of Goldstone bosons would apply, five Nambu-Goldstone (NG)
bosons corresponding to the five broken color generators should appear in the
mass spectrum. Unlike that expectation, we find only three gapless diquark
excitations of quark matter. One of them is an SU(2)-singlet, the remaining two
form an SU(2)-(anti)doublet and have a quadratic dispersion law in the small
momentum limit. These results are in agreement with the Nielsen-Chadha theorem,
according to which NG-bosons in Lorentz-noninvariant systems, having a
quadratic dispersion law, must be counted differently. The origin of the
abnormal number of NG-bosons is shown to be related to a nonvanishing
expectation value of the color charge operator Q_8 reflecting the lack of color
neutrality of the ground state. Finally, by requiring color neutrality, two
massive diquarks are argued to become massless, resulting in a normal number of
five NG-bosons with usual linear dispersion laws.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, revtex
Search for a W' boson decaying to a bottom quark and a top quark in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
Results are presented from a search for a W' boson using a dataset
corresponding to 5.0 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected
during 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV.
The W' boson is modeled as a heavy W boson, but different scenarios for the
couplings to fermions are considered, involving both left-handed and
right-handed chiral projections of the fermions, as well as an arbitrary
mixture of the two. The search is performed in the decay channel W' to t b,
leading to a final state signature with a single lepton (e, mu), missing
transverse energy, and jets, at least one of which is tagged as a b-jet. A W'
boson that couples to fermions with the same coupling constant as the W, but to
the right-handed rather than left-handed chiral projections, is excluded for
masses below 1.85 TeV at the 95% confidence level. For the first time using LHC
data, constraints on the W' gauge coupling for a set of left- and right-handed
coupling combinations have been placed. These results represent a significant
improvement over previously published limits.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters B. Replaced with version publishe
Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying into two photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
A search for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons is described. The
analysis is performed using a dataset recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC
from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, which corresponds to an
integrated luminosity of 4.8 inverse femtobarns. Limits are set on the cross
section of the standard model Higgs boson decaying to two photons. The expected
exclusion limit at 95% confidence level is between 1.4 and 2.4 times the
standard model cross section in the mass range between 110 and 150 GeV. The
analysis of the data excludes, at 95% confidence level, the standard model
Higgs boson decaying into two photons in the mass range 128 to 132 GeV. The
largest excess of events above the expected standard model background is
observed for a Higgs boson mass hypothesis of 124 GeV with a local significance
of 3.1 sigma. The global significance of observing an excess with a local
significance greater than 3.1 sigma anywhere in the search range 110-150 GeV is
estimated to be 1.8 sigma. More data are required to ascertain the origin of
this excess.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters
Measurement of the Lambda(b) cross section and the anti-Lambda(b) to Lambda(b) ratio with Lambda(b) to J/Psi Lambda decays in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The Lambda(b) differential production cross section and the cross section
ratio anti-Lambda(b)/Lambda(b) are measured as functions of transverse momentum
pt(Lambda(b)) and rapidity abs(y(Lambda(b))) in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7
TeV using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The measurements are
based on Lambda(b) decays reconstructed in the exclusive final state J/Psi
Lambda, with the subsequent decays J/Psi to an opposite-sign muon pair and
Lambda to proton pion, using a data sample corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 1.9 inverse femtobarns. The product of the cross section times
the branching ratio for Lambda(b) to J/Psi Lambda versus pt(Lambda(b)) falls
faster than that of b mesons. The measured value of the cross section times the
branching ratio for pt(Lambda(b)) > 10 GeV and abs(y(Lambda(b))) < 2.0 is 1.06
+/- 0.06 +/- 0.12 nb, and the integrated cross section ratio for
anti-Lambda(b)/Lambda(b) is 1.02 +/- 0.07 +/- 0.09, where the uncertainties are
statistical and systematic, respectively.Comment: Submitted to Physics Letters
Search for new physics in events with opposite-sign leptons, jets, and missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
A search is presented for physics beyond the standard model (BSM) in final
states with a pair of opposite-sign isolated leptons accompanied by jets and
missing transverse energy. The search uses LHC data recorded at a
center-of-mass energy sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the CMS detector, corresponding to
an integrated luminosity of approximately 5 inverse femtobarns. Two
complementary search strategies are employed. The first probes models with a
specific dilepton production mechanism that leads to a characteristic kinematic
edge in the dilepton mass distribution. The second strategy probes models of
dilepton production with heavy, colored objects that decay to final states
including invisible particles, leading to very large hadronic activity and
missing transverse energy. No evidence for an event yield in excess of the
standard model expectations is found. Upper limits on the BSM contributions to
the signal regions are deduced from the results, which are used to exclude a
region of the parameter space of the constrained minimal supersymmetric
extension of the standard model. Additional information related to detector
efficiencies and response is provided to allow testing specific models of BSM
physics not considered in this paper.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO
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